1. 1 General Information
Channel Four Television Corporation owns and is responsible for the content of a number of websites
including, but not exclusively, www.channel4.com, www.filmfour.com, www.e4.com, www.homeworkhigh.com,
www.4learning.co.uk, www.4car.co.uk and www.cricket4.com. Unless stated otherwise, this Privacy
Statement applies only to the Channel4.com website. Any site belonging to Channel Four Television
Corporation may have additional privacy statements that relate to their content, practices and use of
personal information on each specific site. When visiting any of the Channel Four Television
Corporation websites, it is recommended that users consult the individual privacy statements available.
1.2 Channel4.com Privacy Statement
Channel 4 Television Corporation will use any personal information collected from this website (www.channel4.com)
in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 1998. Further details on the UK Data Protection Act can be found
at the website for The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner Channel4.com has taken appropriate measures
to keep secure and personal information given by user of this site.
1.3 What information do we collect and why?
The information collected on this site includes:
1.3.1 Users' IP address, which is automatically logged by our web server. IP addresses are used to observe
users' interest in this website (number of visits, etc).
1.3.2 Cookies are very small text files saved to your computer used to track user navigation around a website.
At www.channel4.com cookies are only used to store information on which advertisements have been seen by a user.
They are not cross-referenced with any other information such that an individual person could be identified.
1.3.3 E-mail addresses and/or other contact details which users voluntarily provide in order to:
- receive information from Channel 4 and/or our partners
- register for competitions
- participate in discussion forums (See below)
Channel Four will not disclose voluntarily provided details to third parties or use the information in
any other way without prior consent. On all pages where personal data is collected, specific details on the
use of this information will be provided.
1.4 Your rights
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, Rights Dept, Channel 4,
124 Horseferry Road, SW1P 2TX or email privacy@channel4.com
1.5 Chatrooms and Forums
Users are reminded that chat rooms and forums are for public discussion. Any personal information
supplied by users during these discussions is widely accessible. Channel 4 is not responsible for the
content posted by users of these services.
1.6 Links to other websites
This website contains links to other sites that are completely unrelated to Channel 4. This privacy
statement does not apply to these sites nor are we responsible for the content and practices of these websites.
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