At BBC Worldwide, 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.
How we collect and use information
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.
How we apply our policy
In order to put our policy into practice, we follow seven guidelines:-
Children
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.
Our websites
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.
Accuracy and access to your personal information
Changes to this statement
We may change this policy to keep up to date with changes in legislation and
best practice.
Further information
Further information about data protection is available online at the
Information Commissioner's website:
www.dataprotection.gov.
If you wish to contact us about this policy, please write to:-
the Company Secretary, BBC Worldwide Limited, Media Centre, 201 Wood Lane,
London, W12 7TQ