This privacy notice is written in simple, child-friendly language, so that it can be better understood by children and young people. If you are a parent/guardian, we encourage you to read this with them, so they understand how the BBC will use their personal data during the research.
What is a privacy notice?
A Privacy Notice tells you what personal data the BBC collects about you, how we use it and what you can do about it. Personal data means any information that lets someone know who you are. It’s things such as your name, address or a picture of you.
Why are we doing this and how can you take part?
We want everyone to enjoy what the BBC does. You can help us make what we do better by taking part in our research. Research is when we ask you questions or we look at how you use the BBC, like our website. Once we understand this, we can then use this to make what the BBC does better.
We do different kinds of research. Some research takes a longer or shorter time than other research. Some research will ask you more or less questions than others, or we might spend more or less time looking at how you use BBC stuff.
We do research in lots of different places. For example, some research can take place at a BBC building, at your school or at building made just for research. It can also happen by talking to us using a computer or on the phone.
What personal data will the BBC collect and how will we use it?
We need to collect different kinds of personal data for different kinds of research. This means that we might collect some of your personal data from the list below, but not all of it. We collect this personal data so that you can take part in the research, and also so that we understand more about you, where this is important for the research.
Depending on the research project we might collect the following personal data about you:
- Your name
- Your pronouns (this if you are referred to as ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘they’)
- Your age
- Your gender
- Your postcode, or region
- Your school year
- Your school’s name
- Your views, opinions, and comments
- Photographs (when setting up equipment)
- Your computer’s IP address (this is numbers your computer network has that can be used to find where it is)
When we record our research, we will also collect:
- Your audio (your voice) and video (your image)
It is important that when we do research, lots of different kinds of people across the UK get to do it, not just similar people. To make sure this happens we also collect:
- How easy you find it to use computers, and
- The languages you speak
We also will collect the following special category data about you (special category data is like personal data, but we just have to be more careful when we use it):
- Your ethnicity
- Health data
We will also collect the following personal data about your parent/guardian:
- Their name
- Their contact telephone number
- Their postal address
- Their email address
- Their occupation
Who is the Data Controller?
The BBC is the “data controller” of your personal data. A data controller is in charge of the personal data collected about you and makes decisions about what to do with your personal data.
Lawful basis for processing your personal data
The BBC follows data protection rules when we collect and use your personal data. The rule that we are using to collect your personal data to take part in our research is called ‘public task’. The rule we use when we collect your special category data is called substantial public interest. We use these rules because the BBC was created to inform, educate and entertain the public’, and to do this for everyone no matter what their background is. By taking part in our research you are helping us do this.
Sharing your personal data
Some services at the BBC are provided by other organisations known as ‘third-parties’. We will only share your personal data with someone else, like a third-party, when we need to. We share your personal data so that we can do our job, or when the law says that we have to. When your personal data is shared with someone else, they must keep it safe and only use it in ways that the BBC or the law tells them to.
Keeping your personal data
The BBC will keep your personal data for two (2) years from when we first started the research.
We keep personal data within the UK and the EEA. If your personal data is processed outside the UK and EEA, we will ensure that it is kept safe in the same way as inside the UK and EEA. We do this by entering into legal agreements that make sure this happens.
What are your rights?
You have the right under data protection law to:
- Be told how we use your personal data.
- Ask to see and receive a copy the personal data we hold.
- Ask us to change personal data you think is wrong.
- Ask us to remove personal data when it's not needed anymore.
- Ask us to only use your personal data in certain ways.
- Tell us you don't want your personal data to be collected or used.
You may not always be able to use your rights. If you want to use these rights, you (and/or your parent/guardian) can contact us. You can find out more about your data protection rights on our website.
More information
You can find out more about what the BBC does with the personal data it collects in the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy.
There is an organisation called the Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) which makes sure that the BBC, and all the other organisations who hold your personal data, are following the rules.
You also have the right to contact the ICO and make a complaint https://ico.org.uk/ if you are worried about the way the BBC has used or shared your personal data. You can ask a parent or guardian you trust to help you.
Updating this privacy notice
We will update this privacy notice if there are big changes to how we use your personal data.