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Privacy Notice

Your trust is very important to us. This means the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.

This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you when you upload your stuff to Upload on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ. Find out more about information and privacy.

What personal information will we collect from you?

The personal data will be your name and contact details, such as phone number email address, postcode, or social media account name, your creation and any personal data you choose to give us within the content of your contribution, such as your PRS ID.

What will we do with your personal information?

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ will only use your personal data provided via this uploader for the purposes of our programmes, digital and social media platforms, and to verify your contribution, should we need to get in touch with you.

When you contribute to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, we may use your contribution in our programmes or content, but we cannot promise to use everything that we receive. Your contribution may be used on our online platforms and on a Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ social media page. If we broadcast your contribution it may be used again in future broadcasts.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is the ‘data controller’ of the personal information you give us. This means that the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ decides what your personal information is used for, and the ways in which it is processed. The legal basis on which the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ processes your personal information is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s legitimate interest in producing journalistic content. Where we process your personal information for our legitimate interests we will carefully consider and balance our interests in processing your data against any impact on your individual rights and freedoms and will not use your personal information where such impact overrides our interests.

How long will we keep your personal information?

For editorial reasons we will keep your contact details data for up to nine months. Content that is not used on air or on our digital platforms will be deleted after nine months. Content which is broadcast / published will be held in archive for 7 years. Broadcast material, such as videos, your voice recordings are retained in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Archives for historical record purposes.

Who do we share your information with?

We will not share your data or contributions with any other third parties without your consent. Contributions sent to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ through other third-party social media services, third-party messaging services, or email are also subject to the terms of conditions of the service you choose to use, and you should refer to their privacy policies for how they process your data and their individual retention policies.

Find out more

If you have any questions about how the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ handles your personal information, or you wish to find out about your rights, please visit the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s . You will also be able to find out more information about how the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ processes your information and how you can contact the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Data Protection Officer.

If you raise a concern with the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ about the way it has handled your personal information, you are entitled to lodge a concern with a supervisory authority. In the UK, the supervisory authority is the .