Privacy and Cookies
On this page we explain how the BBC uses your personal information when you access different features of BBC iPlayer. Please also read the Privacy Policy in full to learn more about how the BBC handles your personal information.
If you are not signed in when you use BBC iPlayer we send cookies to your device. Please see the cookies section of our Privacy Policy. We use cookies so that you can:
If you are not signed in this information cannot be transferred from one device to another (e.g. from your laptop to your mobile phone).
If you use your BBCiD to sign in when you use BBC iPlayer we will:
This information will be saved to your BBC account so that any time you log in with your BBCiD you will have access to your list of favourite programmes and automatic recommendations. Please visit BBCiD Help for more information about how to manage your BBC Account.
You must be signed in to make programme recommendations and comments. These recommendations and comments will be visible to other BBC users or contacts and friends from social network services you connect to. At no time do we know, or store, your login details for those external accounts and you can remove the connection to these accounts at anytime.
If you use BBC iPlayer Desktop we send cookies to your device. Please see the cookies section of Privacy Policy for more information about cookies. We do this so that you can:
This information cannot be transferred from one device to another (e.g. from your laptop to your mobile phone).
You can send programme links to your friends. The BBC will only use the details you supply to email your chosen friends and will not keep these details.
If you sign up to iPlayer email updates the BBC may include information about and links to content and services that we think might be of interest to you. To opt out of receiving any further updates please visit the BBC iPlayer site and unsubscribe.
The BBC will use some categories of information (including interest groups, year of birth, gender and region) to tailor the information it provides to you. The BBC may use third party service providers to provide this service but these service providers will only use your data on instruction from the BBC to provide these updates to you and never for their own commercial purposes.
See our full Privacy Policy for more informationYou are in the privacy and cookies section of the BBC website.
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