Weather Watchers 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.

Weather Watchers gives you the chance to be part of the Weather Watchers community by sharing your weather reports and photos of weather conditions. The BBC may use some of your reports and photos as part of our TV and online weather reporting.

Simply sign up to Weather Watchers via the BBC website. The BBC will collect your personal data via an online platform used by the BBC.

If we broadcast your contribution, this may include the programme being available online and/or on demand, and your contribution may be used again in a future broadcast. It may also include use on the BBC's social media channels.

We may share your contribution with our partners, such as S4C, or on other sites that can show the BBC's content.

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.

Weather Watchers is only open to people who are 16 or older. Parents or teachers are welcome to involve children in their care, but someone who's 16 or older will need to set up and oversee the account.

The BBC will collect and process the following personal data about you:

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.

The lawful basis on which the BBC processes your personal data is 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. Your contributions to Weather Watchers helps the BBC fulfil its role, consist with its Public Purposes under the Royal Charter, to "provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them."

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 your contribution with our partners, such as S4C, or on other sites that can show the BBC's content.

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

We will retain your personal data for as long as you have an account with Weather Watchers.

If we use your photograph or weather report in our programming or other BBC content, this content will be permanently archived by the BBC.

Your personal data will be stored in the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA).

You have rights under data protection law:

You can contact our Data Protection Officer at dataprotection.officer@bbc.co.uk, external if you have questions, or if you wish to find out more details about your rights, please visit the BBC's Privacy and Cookies Policy at https://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/, external.

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