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?
BBC Teach is required to process your personal data in order to add your details to a mailing list for emails containing supporting information regarding your school’s registration and participation in BBC micro:bit - the next gen. This mailing list is held on behalf of BBC Teach by a third party, our supplier The Education Company, which is also responsible for sending out the emails.
What personal data will BBC collect and how will we use it?
BBC Teach is working with our partner Micro:bit Educational Foundation to deliver BBC micro:bit - the next gen.
When you apply to register your school for BBC micro:bit - the next gen, Micro:bit Educational Foundation will collect your registration information. On completion of the registration form, Micro:bit Educational Foundation will pass your name, role, work email address, and school address, to The Education Company which will use this information to add you to the mailing list for the BBC micro:bit - the next gen supporting emails.
Personal data:
As set out above, the personal data you provide which will be shared with BBC Teach will be:
• Your Full Name
• Your Role
• Your School Email Address
• Name of School
• Address of School
Who is the Data Controller?
The BBC is the “data controller” of this 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.
Micro:bit Educational Foundation will also act as a separate data controller in respect of the personal data processed as part of the services that it provides to you. The way in which the Micro:bit Educational Foundation will use and process your data is set out in the Microbit Registration Privacy Notice which is located here
Lawful basis for processing your personal data
The legal basis on which the BBC processes your personal data is the BBC’s legitimate interest. The BBC’s role is to act in the public interest and to serve all audiences with content which informs, educates and entertains.
Retaining your personal data
The BBC will retain the mailing list data until December 2024, after which time it will be deleted.
Your personal data will be stored in the UK.
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 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.
BBC micro:bit – the next gen Privacy Notice – Sharing your photos
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?
BBC micro:bit – the next gen invites teachers to share images of their class undertaking the BBC micro:bit playground survey.
You may share pictures from your class taking part in the BBC micro:bit playground survey, which may include photos of you and your pupils recording data in the playground using the micro:bit and work completed by your class, such as tallies, tables or artwork that have been made during your playground survey lessons. These pictures will be sent to us using an online platform used by the BBC and then shared on our website, social media platforms and newsletters.
If we wish to use one of the images provided by you, we will send you a material release form for the image, along with a Child-No Fee Contributor Release Form. You will be asked to provide the parents of the children featured in the images, with this Privacy Notice and the Contributor Release Form, to sign and return. The signed Material Release Form, and the Contributor Release Form would then need to be sent to us to demonstrate approval.
When you contribute to the BBC, we may use your contribution in our campaigns or content, but we cannot promise to use everything that we receive. If we share your contribution, this may include web content including articles and educational content, social media and newsletters.
For information in relation to how the BBC will process your personal data where you are providing contributions to our programmes, please see our Privacy Notice for Contributors here.
What personal data will BBC collect and how will we use it?
The BBC will collect and process the personal data for the purposes of including them on our BBC micro:bit – the next gen website, social media platforms and newsletters.
Personal data:
You must be a primary teacher to send your photos to the BBC micro:bit team.
The BBC will collect and process the following personal data about you:
- Your school
- Your email address
- Your lessons, which may include images of you
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, and to reflect the United Kingdom and its cultures and values to the world.
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 may share personal data with a third party where required or permitted by law.
Retaining your personal data
If your content is not used on the BBC micro:bit – the next gen website, social media platforms or newsletters then your personal data, including the emails you have sent to us and images you have uploaded will be deleted within 6 months after the article has been published.
If your contribution is used for an article, social media post or newsletter, your personal data will also be removed within 6 months of the date of publishing.
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 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.
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