At BBC Worldwide Ltd, we are committed to protecting your privacy. We will keep the personal information you entrust to us safe and secure. We will not share your personal information with other people or businesses without your prior consent. We are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and will comply with the Act and related legislation.
We collect personal information on our customers in various ways, including: magazine subscriptions; orders for products by telephone, post, the internet or e-mail; readers’ offers; competition entry forms; or feedback, research or request forms.
From time to time, we may use your personal details for these main purposes:-
We may group together statistical information to understand more about our customers in order to improve our range of products and services and help manage our relationships with advertisers. When this is done, we only provide anonymous information and do not disclose personal details about any individuals.
To fulfil some of the above processes we may have to pass your information to other parts of the BBC group of companies which occasionally may be outside the European Union. They will, of course, treat your information with the same respect that we do.
In order to put our policy into practice, we follow seven guidelines:-
If you are under 18, you must have your parent or guardian's permission before you provide personal information to us. We do not wish to collect any personal information without this permission.
We do not wish to collect any personal information from children under 13. Where we find that a person is under 13, then we will immediately tell them not to provide any personal information to us.
We may gather personal information from our own websites for use under this policy. We will comply with the BBC’s Online Editorial Guidelines, available online at www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines.
Where advertisements appear on this website, we use a third-party advertising company to serve those ads. That company may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visit to this website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognise a unique “cookie” on your browser. In the absence of advertisements on this website your computer may still be issued with a cookie.
A cookie is a text file which identifies your computer to our server. Cookies do not in themselves identify the individual user, just the computer used. We will not collect and store personal information using the cookie, although we may use a cookie to monitor your visit and ensure that you are presented with appropriate information. If you wish, you can prevent acceptance of cookies by your internet browser, although this will impair your use of our site. Further information on cookies is available online at: www.aboutcookies.org.
If you would like more information about the cookies used by our third-party advertiser and to know your choices about not having this information used by this company, please click here.
Our websites may include links to other non-BBC web sites. These are outside our control and not covered by this policy. If you access those sites via the links, use of those sites will be in accordance with the privacy policy of those site operators, which may differ from ours.
You can always change the personal information that we hold and it is free to do so. If you wish to change any details then please write to us at the address below; or if you are an internet customer through your online account.
You can request a copy of the personal information that we may hold by writing to us at the address below. (Under the Data Protection Act, we may ask you to pay a £10 administration charge for this request).
We may change this policy to keep up to date with changes in legislation and best practice.
Further information about data protection is available online at the Information Commissioner’s website: www.ico.gov.uk.
If you wish to contact us about this policy, please write to:-
The Company Secretary, White City, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ.BBC Worldwide, Registration Number: 1420028 England Registered office: White City, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ.