Blue Peter's Create Something Great Competition Privacy Notice

Please read Blue Peter's Create Something Great Privacy Notice before giving permission for your child to enter.

A Privacy Notice tells you what personal data the BBC and BBC Studios collects about you, how we use it and your legal rights. Personal data means any information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, address or picture. This privacy notice is designed to be read by children and young people; you might want to read it with your parents or guardians.   

What would Blue Peter look like if it wasn’t a television programme, but a place you’ve created?

Are you between 6-15 years old? Why not take part in our Blue Peter Create Something Great Competition!

To take part in the competition, you can create your own virtual world using Minecraft or by drawing it on paper.

If you use Minecraft, upload a video or use screen grabs to show us your world. If you would like to draw your world, you can upload your drawings as an image or video file.

You must also include an audio explanation of your ideas. This can be part of the video or using a separate audio file.

Our judges will decide on who wins and who the runners-up are.

The prize for the winner includes:

The prize for the two (2) runners up includes:

The top thirty (30) will also receive a

If you are shortlisted and/or win, we might show your design in a clip during a Blue Peter show. 

If you win this competition, the programme will be available online on our website and/or on demand on iPlayer, which means it can be watched at any time.

For information on how the BBC will process your personal data where you are providing contributions to our programmes, please see our Privacy Notice for Contributors here.

We will only collect your personal data when we need it to help us do our job or to follow the law.  We collect it for this competition so that we can choose the winning entry, and then to contact your parent/guardian if you are lucky enough to win or be shortlisted. 

You need to be between 6 and 15 years old to take part in this competition.  

When you upload your design we will collect the following personal data about you:  

We will also collect the following personal data about your parent/guardian:

The BBC and BBC Studios are together the data controllers of your personal data when you are sending in your entry for the competition. A data controller is in charge of the personal data collected about you.

If you download and play Minecraft, then Microsoft will be the data controller when you are using Minecraft. We suggest you read their privacy policy with your parent/guardian to understand how they will use your personal data.

The BBC follows the data protection rules when we collect and use your personal data. The rule that we are using to collect your personal data for the BBC Blue Peter Create Something Great competition is called ‘public task’. We use this rule because the BBC was created to inform, educate, and entertain, and competitions like the one you’re entering help us do that.

BBC Studios use the rule ‘legitimate interest’. It is BBC Studio’s legitimate interest to process your personal data to help the BBC ‘inform, educate, and entertain’ by making Blue Peter and by running this competition.

When we have to share your information with other people, we will only share it so 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 a way that the BBC and BBC Studios tells them they can use it.   

The competition is judged by people who work on the Blue Peter show and Minecraft experts.

The competition entries and winning design will be shared with Minecraft experts.

Personal data about the winner and their parent/guardian will be shared with Minecraft HQ to help when giving out prizes.

If you don’t win the competition, we will delete your personal data by 30th September 2023.  

For the winner and runners up your personal data will be kept for two (2) years for legal reasons, so we can check we ran the competition correctly. 

If you win the competition or are a runner up, and you or your design is included in a clip during the Blue Peter show, this will be held in our archive forever.

Your personal data will be stored in the UK and the EEA.  

You and your parents/guardians have the right under data protection law to:   

You can find out more about your data protection rights on our website.   

Both the BBC and BBC Studios have appointed Data Protection Officers: this person makes sure we do everything the law says we should. If you want to ask any questions about the personal data we collect, please email our Data Protection Officers at DataProtection.Officer@bbc.co.uk  

If you have questions or want to find out more about your rights, the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy can be found here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy.

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

We will update this privacy notice if there are big changes to how we use your personal data.