This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains what information we may collect about you, as well as how we collect, use, share, disclose or otherwise process that personal information. It also provides information about your data protection rights.
We use your information to provide you with the products and services you request, as well as to understand how and why our audiences engage with us. This allows us to personalise content, show you relevant adverts that supports our journalism and content, and generally improve your experience of our products and services.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION
We collect contact information, biographical details, preferences, and other declared personal information about you when you provide it to us. For example, when you fill out our online forms, subscribe to one of our titles, products or services, enter a competition run by us, respond to our promotions, call or text in to our studios, register and use our apps, enquire about our products and services or participate in a reader forum or poll (which could be on any medium or platform, including social media).
INFORMATION FROM DEVICES
We also collect information automatically from your devices when you interact with our websites or use our apps. This can include:
Information about your device type, operating system, hardware, software, display settings and browser type to tailor your experience to your device (tablet vs phone)
Unique identifiers, such as you Advertising ID (e.g. Google’s Advertiser Identification or Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers) to save your preferences against an identifier to display advertising
Other unique identifiers like IP address, so that we can recognise if you have been to our websites before, allow your device to interact with our websites and apps
Device settings such as general geographic location (this can be to provide services that have copyright restrictions, to show you content that is relevant to where you are, and tailor advertising to your interests)
Device operations, such as information about how you’ve used the device on our sites or apps, so that we can tailor the experience based on the way you or similar users interact with our content
Details of the products and services you are using and your navigation around, and interaction with, our products and servicesWe may also collect information from cookies placed on your device and store other cookies and technologies. See the section on Cookies & Similar Technologies for more information about our use of cookies
With your consent, we may also collect the specific location of your device or request access to data from other applications to provide certain services you have requested
