PRIVACY POLICY

The Television Consultancy Limited ("we", "us" and "our") is committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to www.digitalnewsagency.com (the "Website"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect your personal data on the Website, how we protect such data, and the choices you have concerning our use of such data. Please read this Privacy Policy to understand how we use and protect the information that you provide to us.

This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective on 1st November 2007. By using the Website, you signify your acceptance to this Privacy Policy and to us processing your personal data in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will from time to time review and revise these practices and will post any changes to this Privacy Policy here. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. Your continued use of the Website following changes posted to this Privacy Policy will mean that you accept those changes.

SCOPE

This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by the Website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of websites that are operated or owned by third parties. Please assist us in protecting your privacy by contacting us immediately by clicking here mailbox@tvconsultancy.co.uk or by using the contact information on the Website if you become aware of any abuse of your privacy by any person, if you are unhappy with the treatment of your personal information or if you are asked to provide any information that you consider to be inappropriate.

INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT FROM YOU

Personal data is information that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you, e.g. your name, e-mail address, address, or phone number ("Personal Data"). When you visit, register or order products or services on the Website you will be asked to provide certain Personal Data, including your name, e-mail address, company and role. We may also collect data about your usage of the Website as well as information about you from e-mails or letters you send to us.

You do not have to provide us with any Personal Data to visit the Website. However, users who have not registered on the Website may not be able to visit all sections of or use all services offered on the Website.

We do not collect any sensitive personal data (for example, information relating to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, or religious or similar beliefs) from users.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We will use your Personal Data to supply the services you have requested for editorial and feedback purposes, marketing and promotion, statistical analysis of users’ behaviour, product development, delivering services, providing customer support, customizing and improving the content and layout of the Website, completing business transactions and administering individual accounts.

We reserve the right to contact by e-mail in relation to your account status, administration of your account, changes to the Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy, or to update you of any other matters or transactions relevant to your use of the Website, for example, upcoming news stories, footage or interview opportunities. You must ensure that we are provided with your up-to-date e-mail address.

We reserve the right to transfer your Personal Data within our group of companies (the details of which can be found on the www.[Digital News Agency].[co.uk][com] website), or to successors to the relevant part of any of our businesses. However, unless required to do so by law we will not sell, share, licence, trade or rent your Personal Data without your consent other than as specified in this Privacy Policy.

YOUR CHOICES REGARDING PERSONAL DATA COLLECTION AND USE

You may "opt in" to us sending you information via e-mail about other products and services which we offer which may be of interest to you. If you change your mind about being contacted in the future, please let us know by contacting our data manager on greg@tvconsultancy.co.uk.

You may also "opt in" to use sharing your Personal Data with carefully selected third parties who may contact you via e-mail about products and services which may be of interest to you. If you change your mind about being contacted by these companies in the future, please let us know by contacting our data manager on greg@tvconsultancy.co.uk.

Upon request via postal mail or e-mail, we will provide you with a summary of any Personal Data retained by us regarding you. You may modify, correct, change or update Personal Data that we have collected via the Website. We are entitled by law to charge a fee, currently £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. We will take all commercially reasonable steps to remove any Personal Data stored on our systems if requested, however, you should be aware that it may not be technologically possible to remove completely from our system each and every record of information you have provided to us.

SECURITY MEASURES

The information you provide to us will be held on our computers in the UK and may be accessed by or given to our staff located in the UK. We have established reasonable precautions to protect collected Personal Data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction, which include contractual, administrative, physical, and technical steps. Technical measures include use of firewall protection and encryption technology where appropriate. Although we take reasonable precautions to assess the reliability of such technology, it relies on the statements of the vendors of those products and services as part of its security evaluation. Also, as you probably know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the Website. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your Personal Data or private communications will always remain private.

Countries outside the European Economic Area do not always have strong data protection laws. However, we will always take steps to ensure that your information is used by third parties in accordance with this policy if we need to transfer any data outside of the European Economic Area including, binding obligations relating to use and storage of your data.

MONITORING DATA AND TRACKING TOOLS

In addition to Personal Data, we may collect and/or track information that by itself cannot be used to identify or contact you, e.g., demographic information, domain names, computer type, browser types, screen resolution, IP address and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of the Website ("Monitoring Data"). We use Monitoring Data to help us understand who uses the Website and to improve and market the Website.

To enhance the Internet experience on the Website, we may use various Internet technologies such as 'cookies,' ‘action tags,’ ‘web bugs,’ ‘.gif tags,’ and 'JavaScript' (together, "Tracking Tools"). Tracking Tools are files or tools that are placed on your computer in order to identify your Web browser and the activities of your computer on the Website. Ohmygod uses these technologies to customize and enhance the Internet experience of individual users. When you revisit the Website, we may recognize you by a Tracking Tool and customize your experience accordingly. You may disable cookies by using the appropriate feature of your Web browser software, but, in that case, you may not be able to use certain features on the Website.

LINKS

The Website may contain links to other Internet websites. We do not endorse, and are not responsible for, the privacy practices or the content of these third party websites. You should review the applicable privacy policies in connection with your use of such third party websites.

CONTACT

All comments, queries and requests relating to our use of your information are welcomed and should be addressed to the data manager at The TV Consultancy Ltd, 11 Cross Keys Close, London W1U 2DJ or at mailbox@tvconsultancy.co.uk.