ITV Privacy Policy

Online Privacy Practices

We at ITV SignPost and our affiliated companies ("we, us, our") are keen to strike a fair balance between your personal privacy and ensuring you obtain full value from the internet and other products and services we may be able to offer to you. The www.SignPostbsl.com website ("the Site") links to many different sites some of which have their own terms and conditions and privacy policies of which you should be aware and accept prior to accessing and using the relevant site.

We request that all users read and accept the terms and conditions and this privacy policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions or the privacy policy applicable to this Site or any Site managed by us that links from the Site you must cease using the Site or the one linked from it that is within our control immediately.

We are fully registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act") and to ensure we comply with all protection the Act affords to you we have set out below how we intend to utilise the information provided by you when you register via the Site homepage. Further information on the Act is on the internet at www.dataprotection.gov.uk .

All users must also agree not to tamper with the site and respect our intellectual property rights and those of our licensors and by accepting this privacy policy and the terms and conditions you hereby agree to do so. The Site may also have links to other websites over which we have no control.

In accordance with statutory obligations we only collect personal information from you which is necessary for us to supply the services to you. You have the option at any time to request that we:

• remove details from our database;
• update the information we hold about you ;
• request a copy of the information that we hold subject to the payment of a request fee; or
• stop receiving data.

All you need to do is write to the address below quoting "ITV SignPost Website" and in each case quote your name and leave a telephone number so that we may contact you. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity.

Cookies

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

Two types of cookies may be used on this website:

Session Cookies: which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site,

Persistent cookies: which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

How we may use cookies on our site and what information we may collect.

Session Cookies

To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.

To allow you to maintain a shopping basket.

Within registration to allow you to access stored information.

Persistent Cookies

To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly.

To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.

Within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often or after you have already done so.

Use of Web Beacons

Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information which including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.

Disabling/enabling cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled.

Find out how to disable/enable cookies by clicking on the "Manage Cookies" section of the Interactive Advertising Bureau UK website on the following link http://www.allaboutcookies.org

Further information on data protection and personal privacy

For further information from us on data protection and privacy contact us via post sent to the following address:

• SignPost web manager,
• ITV Broadcast,
• Television House,
• The Watermark,
• Gateshead
• NE11 9SZ

Information on the Data Protection Act 1998 is also on the Information Commissioner's web site at www.dataprotection.gov.uk

ITV SignPost is part of ITV Broadcasting Limited, Company no. 955957, The London Television Centre, Upper Ground, London SE1 9LT