Landshare

Landshare Privacy Statement

Please note that while this privacy statement is specific to the Landshare website (the “Landshare Site”) it should be read in conjunction with Channel 4’s standard privacy policy.

The Landshare Site is operated by Channel Four Television Corporation (“Channel 4”) with its Landshare partners who are providing technology and services to make Landshare possible (“Landshare Partners”).

Channel 4 and its Landshare Partners have access to personal information collected from the Landshare Site and will use this in accordance with all laws and regulations relating to the protection of personal data including the Data Protection Act 1998. Channel 4 and its Landshare partners will keep personal information confidential and will not disclose any personal information to third parties or use the information in any other way without your prior consent.

What information do we collect on the Landshare Site and why?

The information collected on the Landshare Site and the way this is used includes:

• Usernames – these will be displayed on the Landshare Site for all other registered members to see. Please note that your username should not feature your last name or contain any other personal information that could be used to identify you (e.g. your address). We reserve the right to reject usernames that are offensive, defamatory or otherwise unsuitable.


• Email addresses – Channel 4 and its Landshare Partners may use your email address (which you provide as part of registering to become a member of the Landshare Site) to:




• manage your membership account (e.g. to notify you if there has been any moderation issue to a listing and/or handling change of password requests etc);
  
• ask you about your Landshare successes (e.g. if you have made a match, what size area are you growing on, if you are a novice grower or not, how much you eventually grow)



Any responses to such requests will be purely on a voluntary basis;




• resolve any reports or issues (where, for example, your or another member’s behaviour may be breaching the terms and conditions);


• inform you about changes or improvements to the Landshare Site;


• let you know about relevant resources in your area and/or other goods and services in which you may be interested;


• reply to any correspondence sent to us;


• allow you to participate in discussion forums, provide content to Landshare or register to become a Landshare member; and


• for any other reasonable purposes related to Landshare, the Landshare Site or your membership.



Your email address will also be available to other Landshare Site members where you email those members within the secure messaging system to enable them to respond to your emails.




• Postcodes will be shown as a pin within the Landshare map application. Look at the bottom of this page to see what the pins on the map are likely to look like. Landshare Site members and their listing will be searchable by postcode within the Landshare map, however, members will be able to opt out of their postcode being shown on the map if they choose.


• Street names (which are optional) shall be used to help place the pin that correlates to a listing within the Landshare map but the street name itself will not be referenced in any text.


• IP addresses and cookies which are set out in more detail in Channel 4’s standard privacy policy. Please note that this information may be collected whether or not you register as a member of the Landshare Site.


• Your proposed involvement within Landshare (e.g. a grower, landowner or helper) will be shall be shown within your member listing and shall be searchable as a group within the Landshare Site.

Please note that, where Channel 4’s involvement with Landshare and/or the Landshare Site comes to an end, the Landshare Site (together with all member data) will be held and used by Channel 4’s Landshare Partner, Keo Films.com Limited, to continue Landshare in the future.

This privacy statement may change at any time, so you may wish to check it each time you visit the Landshare Site.

Last updated 9 April 2009

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Example use of postcode