Radio Ulster and Foyle Smart Speaker Competition
Telephony Radio Competitions Privacy Notice
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?
Audiences are at the heart of everything we do at the BBC. We actively engage and ask our audience to take part and contribute in a variety of ways, including via telephony competitions.
Information on how to take part will be explained on-air or online including the specific competition rules that apply.
If you appear on-air, this may include the programme being available online and/or on demand, and your contribution may be used again in a future broadcast.
We may use your on-air appearance (if applicable) for promotional purposes on the BBC’s social media sites.
What personal data will the BBC collect and how will we use it?
The BBC will collect and process your personal data for the purposes of administering the telephony competition; keeping a record of winners for compliance and auditing purposes; to create broadcast content; and to provide the winner with their prize.
Personal data
Depending on the nature of the competition, the BBC may collect and process the following personal data about you:
- Full name
- Phone number
- Your age, or confirmation you are old enough to take part
- A broadcast recording of your voice
- Your opinions, answers to our questions and biographical information you may wish to share
We may also collect your email address or postal address if you are a winner so that we can send you your prize.
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 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.
We also have a legal obligation to process the personal data of the winners to comply with relevant competition regulations.
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. For telephony competitions we use a third-party telephony platform.
We may share personal data with a third party where required or permitted by law.
Retaining your personal data
Personal data stored on the telephone platform, such as contact telephone number and any call recordings will be kept for 1 year, then deleted.
Other personal data from unsuccessful entrants will be retained until the end of that days show.
We keep records of winners and runners-up for two (2) years for auditing and compliance purposes.
If you appear on a broadcast, the programme will be retained and archived in perpetuity by the BBC.
Your personal data will be stored in the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA).
Your rights and more information
You have rights under data protection law:
- You can requestacopy of the personal data the BBC stores about you.
- You have the right to request that we rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that we hold 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.
Radio Ulster and Foyle Smart Speaker Competition Terms and Conditions
The promoter of the competition is the BBC. Please listen carefully for specific details of your BBC radio station competition as this may broadcast as a simulcast across multiple stations.
Eligibility
1. The competition is open to all residents of the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man aged 16 or over on the date of entering the competition, except BBC or BBC Group Company employees, their close relatives or anyone connected with the competition or the particular prize being offered. Entrants under the age of 18 must obtain consent from their parent/guardian before entering the competition and ensure that their parent/guardian has read these terms and conditions.
How to Enter
2. The competition will run on daytime shows across BBC Radio Ulster and/or BBC Radio Foyle between 12th and 25th January 2026 (except when editorial requirements lead to a change in schedule or a change in programme content). To enter, listeners must phone in to the number announced on-air when they hear an announcement from the presenter. The presenter will then open the lines and listeners will have approximately 20 minutes to call in and answer the question.
3. Entry is by phone only:
• For most shows, listeners must call BBC Radio Ulster on 03030 805 555; or
• During the Sean Coyle show only, listeners must call 0300 123 1001 and during the Mark Patterson Show callers can call 028 71 387600.
The correct number will be announced on-air during each show.
4. Standard geographic charges from landlines and mobiles apply, please ask the bill payers permission before calling. Entry into the competition by text or Whatsapp are not eligible and will be disqualified. No other method of entry will be accepted. If a winner is found, it will be announced during that show.
5. One winner shall be randomly selected from all eligible entries and multiple winners shall be selected from all eligible weekend entries that give the correct answer. The selected entrant will be contacted to be informed of their win off-air. If the entrant does not pick up the phone after reasonable attempts or the entrant is rude or abusive, the BBCreserves the right to disqualify the entrant and contact the next eligible randomly selected entrant.
6. This process will continue until a winner is found. Following this, the winner(s) may be invited to participate in an on-air segment, or alternatively, their first name and general location may be announced on-air. The competition mechanism and registration process will reset for each round of the competition.
7. The entrant must be entering on their own behalf. Entries must be made by the person entering the competition. If the entrant is under 18 and needs help to enter (for example, using a parent or guardian’s phone), the entry must still be made in the entrant’s name and with their permission. The BBC may disqualify any entry if it believes the information provided is incorrect or misleading.
8. You may only enter once per day; any additional entries will not be counted. Winners are not permitted to re-enter the competition.
The Prize
9. The prize for each winner will be a Smart Speaker.
10. For the avoidance of doubt, the BBC shall not be responsible for any other fee, expense or cost. There is no cash alternative, and the prize cannot be sold or transferred in any circumstances.
11. The prizes are as described. The BBC is not responsible for winners failing to follow instructions.
12. The prizes are non-exchangeable, non-transferable, and are not redeemable for cash or other prizes.
13. The winner(s) cannot copy or distribute the prize or copies of it. Any programme names, branding or logos on or associated with the prize cannot be used or reproduced by the winner(s) in any way.
14. The winner(s) shall not do anything with the prize that might bring the BBC into disrepute.
15. Where necessary for the purpose of prize fulfilment, the BBC may share the winner’s details with the designated prize provider.
General
16. Entrants agree to take part in any post-competition publicity if required. Prize providers may also wish for entrants to participate in their own post-competition publicity, but this will be for the winners to consent to separately. The names and approximate location of winners will be made public.
17. The BBC’s decision as to entrants, winners and prizes awarded is final. No correspondence relating to the competition will be entered into.
18. The BBC, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction, nor for any other problem with any server, network, system or otherwise which may result in any entry not being properly registered. Proof of sending is not proof of receipt.
19. To the extent permitted by law, the BBC will not be liable for any loss or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise) including financial, reputational loss or disappointment.
20. Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions and to agree to be bound by them when registering.
21. The BBC reserves the right to: (i) amend these terms and conditions including, but not limited to, the competition opening and closing times; (ii) disqualify any entrant who breaches the rules, has acted fraudulently in any way or has brought the BBC into disrepute; (iii) where applicable, disqualify an entrant or winner, withdraw or substitute any prize, should any entrant, winner or their guest at any stage exhibit inappropriate or dangerous behaviour (including, but not limited to being under the influence of alcohol, illegal drugs or chemical substances or causing a nuisance) before or whilst on-air, attending BBC premises or where the prize includes attendance to an event, exclusion from that event; (iv) impose any additional entry restrictions or requirements should the prize being offered require such restrictions or requirements (including but not limited to tickets for events with an age minimum or other entry requirements); and (v) cancel the competition, at any stage, if in its opinion it is deemed necessary or if circumstances arise outside its control.
22. The promoter of this competition is the British Broadcasting Corporation.
23. This competition accords with the BBC's Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting.
24. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales.
