BBC Sport Online Voting, Polls and Quizzes: Privacy Notice

Your trust is very important to us. This means the BBC is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. It is important that you read this notice so that you are aware of how and why we are using such personal data. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal data about you during and after your relationship with us, in accordance with data protection law. This privacy notice applies to any voting, polls, or quizzes associated with BBC Sport.

Why are we doing this and how can you participate?

The BBC will collect your personal data for the purposes of collecting how you vote when participating in any online voting on the BBC website.

What personal data will the BBC collect and how will we use it?

The BBC uses your personal data to tally the votes and to ensure we meet regulatory compliance requirements when running our votes.

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve user experience, we are exploring ways to improve user interaction with quizzes, polls and voting. We will look at whether requiring users to sign in before participating leads to more completed responses. The data gathered during this process will be used strictly for analysis and improving our services. This will not impact your ability to access or use the BBC platform.

Personal Data

For online voting via your BBC account, The BBC will collect and process the following personal data about you:

  • BBC Account identification

  • Geographic location

  • IP Address

  • Your vote choice

For other online voting, The BBC will collect and process the following personal data about you:

  • Geographic location

  • IP Address

  • Your vote choice

Who is the Data Controller?

The BBC is the "data controller" of your personal data. This means that the BBC decides what your personal data is used for, and the ways in which it is processed. For the avoidance of doubt, your personal data will be collected and processed solely for the purposes set out in this privacy notice. As the data controller, the BBC has the responsibility to comply, and to demonstrate compliance with, data protection law.

Lawful basis for processing your personal data

The lawful basis on which the BBC processes the personal data for the purposes of your vote choice activities is the performance of its public task. The BBC's role is to act in the public interest and to serve all audiences with content which informs, educates and entertains, and to reflect the United Kingdom and its cultures and values to the world. 

The lawful basis on which the BBC processes the personal data for regulatory compliance purposes is legal obligation.

Sharing your personal data

The BBC works with our approved third-party providers who help us to provide some of our services. These partners only use your personal data on behalf of the BBC and not independently of the BBC. We currently use a third-party data provider to facilitate the online voting system.

We may also share personal data with a third party where required or permitted by law.

Retaining your personal data

The BBC will retain your personal data for a period of two (2) years following collection for audit purposes after which time it will be deleted.

Your personal data will be stored in the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA).

Your rights and more information

You have rights under data protection law:

  • You can request a copy of the personal data the BBC stores about you.

  • You have the right to request that we rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that we hold about you.

  • You have the right to ask for the personal data we collect about you to be deleted, however there are limitations and exceptions to this right which may entitle the BBC to refuse your request.

  • In certain circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data, or to object to the processing of your personal data.

  • You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal data to you or to another organisation, in certain circumstances.

  • You can request a copy of the personal data BBC stores about you.

  • You have the right to ask for the personal data we collect about you to be deleted however there are limitations and exceptions to this right which may entitle the BBC to refuse your request.

You can contact our, Data Protection Officer if you have questions or you wish to find out more details about your rights, please visit the BBC's Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy

If you have a concern about the way the BBC has handled your personal data, you can raise your concern with the supervisory authority in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) https://ico.org.uk/

Updating this privacy notice

We will revise the privacy notice if there are significant changes to how we use your personal data.