PRIVACY
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Introduction and General Terms
BBC Audiobooks America (BBCAA) is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using our services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through BBCAudiobooksAmerica.com websites.
In order to provide you with the full range of BBCAA services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.
This privacy policy explains the following:
- what information BBC Audiobooks America may collect about you;
- how BBC Audiobooks America will use information we collect about you;
- when BBC Audiobooks America may use your details to contact you;
- whether BBC Audiobooks America will disclose your details to anyone else;
- your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us;
- the use of cookies on BBC Audiobooks America website.
As set out above, BBC Audiobooks America is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").
Our websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
What information will BBC Audiobooks America collect about me?
When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any bbcaudiobooksamerica.com website, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different webpages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable BBC Audiobooks America and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular webpages we may ask you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these webpages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
BBC Audiobooks America also uses cookies (see below for details) and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
How will BBC Audiobooks America use the information they collect about me?
BBC Audiobooks America will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
- for "service administration purposes", which means that BBC Audiobooks America may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for, as set out below (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service has been suspended for maintenance);
- to contact you about a submission you have made to the websites;
- IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different countries and also to block disruptive use; and
- to analyse and improve the services offered on bbcaudiobooksamerica.com. e.g. to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience.
Where BBC Audiobooks America proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.
When will BBC Audiobooks America contact me?
BBC Audiobooks America may contact you:
- in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that BBC Audiobooks America can deliver the services to you;
- where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
- in relation to any contribution you have made to bbcaudiobooksamerica.com;
- to invite you to participate in surveys about BBC Audiobooks America services (participation is always voluntary); and
- for marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this.
Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?
BBC Audiobooks America won't contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.
Will BBC Audiobooks America share my personal information with anyone else?
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within BBC Audiobooks America. However, sometimes BBC Audiobooks America uses third parties to process your information. BBC Audiobooks America will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and BBC Audiobooks America will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.
Offensive or inappropriate content on BBC Audiobooks America website
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to bbcaudiobooksamerica.com, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on bbcaudiobooksamerica.com, BBC Audiobooks America may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where BBC Audiobooks America reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of the United States (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), BBC Audiobooks America may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
What if I am a user aged 16 or under?
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to BBC Audiobooks America's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
How long will BBC Audiobooks America keep my personal information?
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with BBC Audiobooks America or BBC Audiobooks America's corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long). In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a bbcaudiobooksamerica.com member, once an account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted automatically.
Where you contribute to bbcaudiobooksamerica.com, BBC Audiobooks America will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.
Can I find out what personal information BBC Audiobooks America holds about me?
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information BBC Audiobooks America holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Cookies Policy -Information BBC Audiobooks America collects from you
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device'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 website 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 and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of BBC Audiobooks America.co.uk features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to bbcaudiobooksamerica.com, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (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.
How does BBC Audiobooks America use cookies?
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience.
BBC Audiobooks America also use a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to BBCAA sites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. BBC Audiobooks America uses this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. BBC Audiobooks America strictly requires that third parties do not use any information for their own business or other purposes. Certain other areas of bbcaudiobooksamerica.com may use cookies for a specific reason - for example, to help an online aapplication work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.