PRIVACY POLICY

IBC TV News is committed to protecting your personal information which you provide via our website. We are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including but not limited to the Data Protection Act 1998.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable IBCTV News and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.

We may use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:

• to contact you about a submission you have made to the websites, including any content you provide.
• IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different countries and also to block disruptive use; and to analyse and improve the services offered by IBCTV News.
• In relation to any contribution you have made to ibctvnews.com, e.g. on the IBCTV News comments boards;

If a case arises where we propose using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.

We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law. We will endeavour to only use your information within the IBCTV News.

However, we sometimes use third parties to process your information. In that case we will require these third parties to comply strictly with our instructions and will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.

If you post inappropriate or objectionable content on our site, we may use your personal information to put a halt to such behaviour. Where we reasonably believe that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England and Wales, we may use any of your personal information to inform relevant third parties about the content and your behaviour.

If you are aged 16 or under, ensure that you get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to our website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, Where you contribute to ibctvnews.com, we will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. It may have a permanent duration. Some content submitted to or shared with the us may be retained for prolonged periods of time or potentially indefinitely in our archives.

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Once we have verified who you are, we will use our best endeavours to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.

Please note that this privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to our website.

Please note that our website may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, which you should review. We cannot accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of any third party websites and your use of these websites is at your own risk.

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