Privacy Notice
Your trust is very important to us. This means the ±«Óãtv 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 ±«Óãtv. 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.
You should not submit or share any sensitive data such as your health information when providing contributions.
What will we do with your personal information?
The ±«Óãtv 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 ±«Óãtv, 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 ±«Óãtv social media page. If we broadcast your contribution it may be used again in future broadcasts.
The ±«Óãtv is the ‘data controller’ of the personal information you give us. This means that the ±«Óãtv decides what your personal information is used for, and the ways in which it is processed. The legal basis on which the ±«Óãtv processes your personal information is the ±«Óãtv’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.
Any special category data, such as racial or ethnic background information or disability information that is evident from any audio-visual imagery and contributions provided, will be processed on the basis of the ±«Óãtv’s substantial public interest in producing broadcast content.
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 ±«Óãtv 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 ±«Óãtv 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 ±«Óãtv handles your personal information, or you wish to find out about your rights, please visit the ±«Óãtv’s . You will also be able to find out more information about how the ±«Óãtv processes your information and how you can contact the ±«Óãtv’s Data Protection Officer.
If you raise a concern with the ±«Óãtv 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 .