Blue Peter Walking with Dinosaurs Competition Privacy Notice
Blue Peter Walking with Dinosaurs Competition Privacy Notice
Blue Peter’s Walking with Dinosaurs Competition - Privacy Notice (adults)
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 is giving a child aged between (6) and twelve (12) years old the amazing opportunity to visit a prehistoric dig site in Alberta (Canada) where they will experience a ‘day in the life’ of a palaeontologist working with the Philp J Curry Dinosaur Museum. The winner will also receive a framed certificate and an Orange Blue Peter competition winner’s badge.
To enter the competition, they will have to imagine that they have discovered a dinosaur and give it a name, describe the dinosaur in no more than 200 words and tell us why they would like to be a dino hunter on Blue Peter. The submission should also be accompanied by a drawing or poster.
The BBC will collect personal data via an online platform used by the BBC. There is also an option to send your entry by post.
The competition will be open from 23rd May 2025 until Monday 30th June 2025 at 5pm. There will be one winner and three runners up chosen.
If the child or their submission appear on our broadcast this may include the programme being available online and/or on demand and may be used again in a future broadcast. The child or their submission may also be used for promotional purposes on the BBC’s social media channels.
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 the BBC collect?
The BBC will collect and process the following personal data about your child:
Full name
Date of birth
Age
Home address
The BBC will collect and process the following personal data about you (parent/guardian):
Full name
Email address
Contact telephone number
The BBC may collect and process the following special category data about your child if you wish to share it with us for accessibility reasons:
Health data
Who is the Data Controller?
The BBC (as the “Commissioner” of Blue Peter) and BBC Studios (as the “Producer” of Blue Peter) are together “joint data controllers” of your personal data for this competition. This means that collectively, the BBC and BBC Studios decide 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 joint data controllers, the BBC and BBC Studios are responsible for complying with data protection law.
Lawful basis for processing your personal data
The legal basis on which the BBC processes your and your child’s 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.
This is consistent with the BBC’s wider public purposes under its Royal Charter which states that the BBC should:
“…support learning for people of all ages: the BBC should help everyone learn about different subjects in ways they will find accessible, engaging, inspiring and challenging. The BBC should provide specialist educational content to help support learning for children and teenagers across the United Kingdom. It should encourage people to explore new subjects and participate in new activities through partnerships with educational, sporting, and cultural institutions.”
We also have a legal obligation to process the personal data of the winners to comply with relevant competition regulations.
The legal basis on which the BBC Studios processes your and your child’s personal data is the BBC Studios legitimate interest in assisting the BBC in meeting its Charter obligations.
The additional processing condition under which the BBC and BBC studios processes your child’s special category data (if applicable) is substantial public interest (Schedule 1 of the DPA (Data Protection Act) 2018, 8.) Equality of opportunity or treatment.
Sharing your personal data
The BBC and BBC Studios work with our approved third-party providers who help us to provide some of our services. These partners only use your personal data on behalf othe BBC and BBC Studios and not independently. We currently use a third-party data storage provider to store your data collected through the uploader form.
We may share personal data with a third party where required or permitted by law.
Retaining your personal data
The BBC and BBC Studios will retain the submission and any associated personal data for twelve (12) months from the date of any digital uploads and for six (6) months for any postal entries.
We keep records of the winners and runner ups, and their parents/guardians that receive an Orange Competition winner’s badge until the child is 16 year and 6 months old.
If your child or their submission appears on BBC programming or BBC promotional content, this 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 and/or BBC Studios store 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 and/or BBC Studios 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 the BBC’s Data Protection Officer if you have questions or 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.
You can contact BBC Studios data protection officer if you have any questions including any requests to exercise your legal rights by email at: [email protected].
To find out more, please see BBC Studios privacy policy at https://www.bbcstudios.com/privacy
If you have a concern about the way the BBC or BBC studios 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.