Online Voting Terms and Conditions / Privacy Notice

1. You can take part by accessing the relevant web page. You will find the question and a list of alternative answers. You can register your vote by electronically selecting the option you wish to vote for.

2. Any votes registered outside the announced voting times, which will be listed online and on-air, will not count.

3. Online voting requires you to log into the page with your BBC account, which you can do here. If you do not have a BBC account, you can register for one for free here. If you have any trouble registering or signing in, you can visit the help pages.

4. This is not a competition and there will be no prize for any option or anyone taking part. Where the vote result has a consequence, the BBC will endeavour to meet it but editorial requirements may lead to a change in schedule or a change in programme content. However, the vote result stands.

5. The number of times you can vote may be restricted. The presence of a cap to voting and what that limit is will be made clear for each vote. Some votes may be restricted geographically to within the UK only. If you are not in the right area, you will not see the vote.

6. Live results may be displayed during the vote window. These should not be taken as an indicator of the final published results, but merely as a snapshot for interest. The BBC will announce the final result on-air and/or online when voting is closed, and the actual result is known.

7. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify entries or suspend voting if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent voting has occurred or if it considers there has been any attempt to rig the voting. The BBC has the right to substitute an alternative selection method at its absolute discretion. For the purposes of investigating possible voting irregularities when voting on BBC web pages using BBC account the BBC may use cookies, log IP addresses or analyse the information from your BBC account. The BBC will not publish this information or provide it to anyone without permission, except where required for enforcement of these terms. For more information please see: BBC Privacy Policy, how the BBC uses cookies and BBC online Terms of Use.

8. If, for any reason, the online voting system fails, the vote may be suspended or a contingency plan may be actioned.

9. The BBC reserves the right to change, cancel or suspend this vote at any time.

10. The BBC, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any system, server, provider or otherwise which may result in any vote not being received by the BBC, not properly registered or recorded.

11. Please note that BBC, BBC Group or Telescope employees or anyone who is directly connected in any way with the associated BBC content or the vote is not eligible to vote.

12. The voting accords with the BBC's Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting, which can be found here.

13. Online votes are subject to the BBC Privacy and Cookies Policy and BBC Terms of Use. More information about BBC Cookies can be found here.

14. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the law of England and Wales.

Your trust is very important to us. This means the BBC is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. It is important that you read this notice so that you are aware of how and why we are using such personal data. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal data about you during and after your relationship with us, in accordance with data protection law.

Why are we doing this and how can you participate?
The BBC will collect your personal data for the purposes of collecting how you vote when participating in any online voting on the BBC website.

What personal data will BBC collect and how will we use it?
The BBC will collect and process the personal data that you have provided to us. We use your personal data to tally the votes and to ensure we meet regulatory compliance requirements when running our votes.

Personal data
The BBC will collect and process the following personal data about you:
• BBC Account identification
• Geographic location
• IP Address
• Your vote choice

Who is the Data Controller?
The BBC is the “data controller” of your personal data. This means that the BBC decides what your personal data is used for, and the ways in which it is processed. For the avoidance of doubt, your personal data will be collected and processed solely for the purposes set out in this privacy notice. As the data controller, the BBC has the responsibility to comply, and to demonstrate compliance with, data protection law.

Lawful basis for processing your personal data
The lawful basis on which the BBC processes the personal data for the purposes of your vote choice activities is the performance of its public task. The BBC’s role is to act in the public interest and to serve all audiences with content which informs, educates and entertains, and to reflect the United Kingdom and its cultures and values to the world.

The lawful basis on which the BBC processes the personal data for regulatory compliance purposes is legal obligation.

Sharing your personal data
The BBC works with our approved third-party providers who help us to provide some of our services. These partners only use your personal data on behalf of the BBC and not independently of the BBC. We currently use a third-party data provider to facilitate the online voting system.

We may also share personal data with a third party where required or permitted by law.

Retaining your personal data
The BBC will retain your personal data for a period of two (2) years following collection for audit purposes after which time it will be deleted.

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

Your rights and more information
You have rights under data protection law.

You can request a copy of the personal data BBC stores about you.

You have the right to ask for the personal data we collect about you to be deleted however there are limitations and exceptions to this right which may entitle the BBC to refuse your request.

In certain circumstances, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data or to object to the processing of your personal data.

You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal data to you or to another organisation, in certain circumstances.

You can contact our, Data Protection Officer if you have questions or you wish to find out more details about your rights, please visit the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy.

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

Updating this privacy notice
We will revise the privacy notice if there are significant changes to how we use your personal data.