Privacy Policy

1. General Information
Channel Four Television Corporation and 4 Ventures Limited (together “Channel 4") own and are responsible for the 4IP.org.uk website (and any related or superseding domain names) (the “Site”).
This Privacy Policy (together with our Terms and Conditions and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

2. Privacy Statement
Channel 4 will use any personal information collected from the Site in accordance with all laws and regulations relating to the protection of personal data including the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Data Protection Act"). Further details on the Data Protection Act can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website (http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk)

3. What information do we collect?
We may collect and process the following data about you:
3.1 Information that you provide by registering or filling in forms on the Site such as email addresses, contact details and/or other details. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Site, subscribing to receive email updates, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you submit a proposal, enter a competition or when you report a problem with the Site.
3.2 If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
3.3 We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
3.4 We may collect information about your computer, including where available your Internet Protocol (IP) address (which is automatically logged by our web server and used to observe users’ interest in the Site (number of visits, etc), operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
3.5 For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve the Site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
If the Site contains advertising and sponsorship, Channel 4 may use a third party to deal with advertisements on the Site. The advertisers may use cookies to track the number of users responding to the advertising campaigns. Channel 4 does not have access to or control of cookies placed by third parties.
Disabling/Enabling Cookies - users have the ability to accept or disable cookies by modifying the settings in their browser. Disabling cookies however may mean that some functionality may be affected. For further directions on how to disable cookies please click here: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/stop-cookies-installed.html
Channel 4 will not disclose voluntarily provided details to third parties or use the information in any other way without your prior consent. On all pages where personal data is collected, specific details on the use of this information will be provided.

4. Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

5. Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
5.1 To ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer.
5.2 To provide you with further information, products or services that you have requested from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
5.3 To update you on the status of any proposals submitted to the Site and obtain further information about your proposal where relevant.
5.4 To carry out our obligations arising from contracts entered into between you and us.
5.5 To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
5.6 To notify you about changes to our Site or proposal submission processes.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these by email where you have consented to receive this information by ticking the relevant box when we collect your data. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details to third parties for marketing purposes, please do not tick the relevant box on the form on which we collect your data.
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in Yorkshire). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

6. Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985 and to our authorised third party suppliers involved in the provision of the Site.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
6.1 In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
6.2 Where such party is a 4iP partner for the purpose of further considering your proposal.
6.3 If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Channel 4 or other users of the Site.

7. Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.  We will ask you (before collecting your data) if we can use your data for such purposes or if we can disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by NOT checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at or by post at the address below.

8. Access to Information
You have the right to access your information held by Channel 4 and, where necessary, to have it amended. You can also request not to receive marketing information from Channel 4. For more details, please contact: Data Protection, Commercial Affairs Department, Channel 4, 124 Horseferry Road, SW1P 2TX or email

9. Commenting and User Generated
Content
Users are reminded that any commenting functionality on the Site and areas of the Site that allow you to submit content for publication on the Site (but not proposal submissions which will not be available to the public) or set up a profile on the Site are for public viewing and discussion. Any personal information supplied by users here is widely accessible. Channel 4 is not responsible for the content posted by users of these services.

10. Links to other websites
This website contains links to other sites that are completely unrelated to Channel 4. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these sites nor are we responsible for the content and practices of these websites.

11. Changes to our privacy statement
This Privacy Policy may change at any time, so you may wish to check it each time you visit our website.

Last updated: 8 October 2008