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From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, competitions.
By entering your details in the fields requested, we enable to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information we will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
2. Visitor Information
During the course of any visit to the pages you see, along with a short text
file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do
this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find
out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before.
This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie
left there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.
3. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique
identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored
on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your
browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy)
your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already
sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse bbc.co.uk anonymously until such time as you wish to register for bbc.co.uk services. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
4. Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information we have legal obligations towards
you in the way we use those data. We must collect the information fairly,
that is, we must explain how we will use it.
In general, any information you provide will only be used by us. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on here, we can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.