At talkSPORT, we respect your privacy. Here's our promise (dated February 2006):

The talkSPORT website (part of talkSPORT Ltd) treats your privacy seriously. In general, we use the personal information that we collect from you to identify personal preferences and match your needs with relevant services and features on our website. NOTE this policy only applies to the talkSPORT website and not to the companies, individuals, organisations or other websites to which there are links.

Your use of this website signifies your consent to us collecting and using personal information about you as specified below in accordance with this Policy. Should we choose to change our Policy for any reason, the changes will be posted on this website, so that you are always kept informed of how we collect and use your personal information, and when we may disclose it.

2.1 You may provide personal information by telephone, online registration, e-mail, automatically by your Internet browser, or by post when communicating with us.

2.2 Our primary reason for collecting data is to personalize your visits to our web site and recommend products or services to you. We may also use the information to help us develop the design and layout of our web site to ensure that our sites are as useful and enjoyable as possible.

2.3 If you enter a competition, send us an email, submit a review or comment we will ask for your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address.

2.4We will collect information about your tastes and preferences both when you tell us what these are and by analysis of customer traffic by using cookies (see Para 4). This enables us to monitor accessibility of our service, and helps us to develop and improve our service in response to customer requirements.

2.5It may be that some of the personal information you give us (for instance about your lifestyle or health) is sensitive personal data within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 1998. Any such information will only be disclosed with your express consent.

2.6We may use personal information collected about you to let you know about new products or services, functionality changes to our web site or changes to our terms and conditions of use.

talkSPORT is serious about guarding the security of your personal details. We have strict security procedures covering the storage and disclosure of your information in order to prevent unauthorised access and to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. This means that sometimes we may ask you for proof of identity before disclosing any personal information to you.

A cookie is a piece of information, like a tag, that is stored on your computer's hard drive by your web browser when you visit a site. As with may other on line services, talkSPORT uses cookies to gather certain usage information such as how and when pages in our site are visited, and by how many people. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or show when a cookie is being set up without affecting your use of most of the features of the talkSPORT site.

THIRD PARTY COMPANIES

Information collected by cookies are used to provide summative statistics about our customers, and other site information to third parties. Cookies do not include any personally identifiable information.

We use DoubleClick to serve advertising. DoubleClick use cookies to restrict the amount of popups you get, and ensure that you see a wide range of banner ads. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by this company, please click here. http://www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy.

Your audio player (Windows Media Player, Win Amp, etc.) may also have a privacy policy attached to it. We advise you to read it. Some players do report anonymous statistics back to their creators.

NOTE Third party Internet sites that you can link to through talkSPORT.net are not covered by our privacy policy and security policy, so we urge you to be careful when you enter any personal information on line. talkSPORT accepts no responsibility or liability for these sites.

talkSPORT has a responsibility to keep your information confidential and we take all reasonable care to prevent any unauthorised access to your personal data. We do not disclose information that you may give, such as name, address, telephone number or e-mail address to any outside companies. However, talkSPORT reserves the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate its systems properly or to protect itself or its users.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information please contact us by completing the 'contact us' section of the website.