Privacy & Cookies

MG ALBA

MGA is the operating name of Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gàidhlig (the Gaelic Media Service) a body established pursuant to section 183 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 and section 208 of the Communications Act 2003.

Data Protection Officer

We have an appointed data protection officer (DPO) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPO using the details set out below.

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: Seirbheis nam Meadhanan Gàidhlig (the Gaelic Media Service)

Email address: dpo@mgalba.com

Postal address: DPO, MG ALBA, 54 Seaforth Road. Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, HS1 2SD

Telephone number: 01851 705 550

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Information that we collect from you

As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect: internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website (“Technical Data”) about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.

The Technical Data is the only Personal Data we collect about you directly from the Website.

We may collect further personal data (including name, email address, phone number, address, work address i.e. “Contact” data) if you contact us by phone, email or otherwise.

We do not collect any “Special Categories of Personal Data” about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions. You may give us your Personal Data by filling in forms (online of offline) or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  • apply for our services;
  • request marketing to be sent to you;
  • enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
  • give us some feedback.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As stated above, as you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns.
• Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties including analytics providers based outside the EU;

How we use your information

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us via email or phone.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Marketing

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company external companies for marketing purposes.

Opting Out

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by contacting us at any time.

Cookies

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see below.

Change of Purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please Contact us. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

International Transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These rights include, the right to:

•  request access to your personal data.
•  request correction of your personal data.
•  request erasure of your personal data.
•  object to processing of your personal data.
•  request restriction of processing your personal data.
•  request transfer of your personal data.
•  right to withdraw consent.

For more information on your rights please visit the Information Commissioner Officer’s website (www.ico.org.uk)

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact the MGA DPO on dpo@mgalba.com or by phone on 01851 705 550.

Cookies are small text files left on your computer by many websites. They are generally used so that sites can remember you as you move around on the internet. For instance, when you add books to your basket on Amazon, a cookie is used to make sure those are the books you end up buying when you move to the check-out. Some cookies, however, are used by sites in ways which may affect your privacy. They may (for example) allow you to be tracked across the internet and use information about your browsing habits to show you certain targeted adverts.

MG ALBA makes very sparing use of cookies (and certainly does not track your visits to any other websites).

MG ALBA uses some cookies that are not essential to the site’s functioning. If you are using cookie-blocking software you may block these cookies; although some minor functionality may be affected.

We use three third-party services that may leave cookies on your site: Google Analytics, Twitter and Facebook.

Google Analytics is widely used by many sites. MG ALBA use it to find out how many people come to the site each week, what pages they visit, and (just as importantly) don’t visit. It is done anonymously: we have no way of identifying who you are, what you’re called, where you live (although we do get an indication of which countries our users come from) or any other “personal” data. All the Google Analytics cookies have “__utm” at the start of their names.

Since we embed content from Twitter and Facebook within our sites, you may also have cookies from these two companies set on your computer as a result of visiting MG ALBA. These cookies are governed by the policies of Twitter and Facebook, and they pass no information about your online activities to MG ALBA. They can easily be identified by the domains from which they originate.

At any time you may prevent these cookies being set by using the “privacy settings” button which can always be found at the bottom right of our pages.

For any questions or concerns you may have about our use of cookies, please email the MG ALBA webmasters at comms@mgalba.com