Privacy Policy
1.1 General Information
Channel Four Television Corporation, 4 Ventures Limited and their subsidiaries (together "Channel 4") own and are responsible for the Channel 4 websites, www.channel4.com, www.e4.com and other Channel 4 websites which may contain standard terms and conditions, including privacy statements. This privacy policy covers the web applications on this site and associated web pages ("the web properties") produced on Channel 4's behalf.
1.2 General Channel4 Privacy Statement
Channel 4 will use any personal information collected from the web properties in accordance with all laws and regulations relating to the protection of personal data including the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Data Protection Act"). Further details on the Data Protection Act can be found on the Information Commissioner's website (http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk/).
1.3 What information do we collect and why?
The information collected in the course of using the web properties may include:
1.3.1 User's Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which are automatically logged by our web server. IP addresses are used to observe users' interest in this website (number of visits, etc).
1.3.2 Cookies, which are very small text files saved to your computer used to track user navigation around the web properties.
We currently contract with several online partners to help manage and optimize our internet business and communications. We use the services of a marketing company to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our site. To do this, we use Web beacons and cookies provided by our marketing company on this site. The type of information we collect includes content viewed, pages, site sections and videos. By supplementing our records, this information helps us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. Although our marketing company logs the information coming from our site on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used. If you do not want to help us learn how to improve our site, products, offers and marketing strategy, you can "opt-out" of this website analysis tool by clicking on the following links: http://webstat.channel4.com/optout.html.
Channel 4 may use a third party to deal with usage of the web properties. These third parties may use cookies to track the number of users using the web properties. Channel 4 does not have access to or control of cookies placed by third parties.
Disabling/Enabling Cookies - users have the ability to accept or disable cookies by modifying the settings in their browser. Disabling cookies however may mean that some functionality may be affected. For further directions on how to disable cookies please click here: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/stop-cookies-installed.html
1.3.3 Channel 4 may us e-mail addresses, contact details and/or other details which users voluntarily provide in order to:
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Provide goods and services to you;
basic profiling purposes (whether undertaken by Channel 4 or by third parties on Channel 4's behalf);
let you know about other goods and services in which you may be interested;
inform you about changes and improvements to the website;
register for competitions and other premium content;
participate in discussion forums (see below); and
provide content to Channel 4 or register to become a member part or all of the Channel 4 website (see below).
There are opportunities on the web properties to receive e-mail communications alerting you to news and offers. You may choose not to receive these.
1.3.4 Channel 4 will store the text and images you publish using the web properties in order to:
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Display them to visitors to the page on which you have installed the
web applications, in accordance with the privacy policy you have set for
that page.
Publish them anonymously to other users of the web properties
Channel 4 may, with your permission, use the text and images in other
ways. You will receive a message requesting permission beforehand.
1.4 Your rights
You have the right to access your information held by Channel 4 and, where necessary, to have it amended. You can also request not to receive marketing information from Channel 4. For more details, please contact: Data Protection, Commercial Affairs Department, Channel 4, 124 Horseferry Road, SW1P 2TX or email privacy@channel4.co.uk
1.5 Forums, Bulletin boards, Profiles and User Generated Content
Users are reminded that forums, bulletin boards and areas of the website that allow you to submit content or set up a profile on the website are for public viewing and discussion. Any personal information supplied by users here is widely accessible. Channel 4 is not responsible for the content posted by users of these services.
1.6 Links to other websites
This website contains links to other sites that are completely unrelated to Channel 4. This privacy statement does not apply to these sites nor are we responsible for the content and practices of these websites.
1.7 Changes to our privacy statement
This privacy statement may change at any time, so you may wish to check it each time you visit our website.
