ITV Privacy & Cookie Information

1. What’s in this Information notice?

You’ve come to the right place to find out all about how we collect your personal information (the law calls this ‘personal data’), how we use it and what we do to protect it. We have also included information on our use of cookies and similar technologies. 

The information contained in this notice covers the services offered by ITV Consumer Limited and services offered by other parts of ITV which operate as separate companies (where there is a link to this notice or we tell you that it applies).

Our services include the free and paid versions (including any free trials) including:

• our streaming services (when you watch live channels or catch up/on demand),

• ITV Win, ITV News, ITV Vote, our TV show websites (such as Coronation Street and Emmerdale),

• any show/ companion apps where this Information is linked such as: the Love Island App, I’m a Celebrity App,  This Morning App, ITV Racing,

• our ITV channels broadcast on any platform or via set top boxes when we collect or receive information about you or your viewing history, or 

• when you interact or engage with us, including if you:

  • send us messages, videos, photos or otherwise interact with us or our programmes online or on social media,

  • enter one of our prize draws or competitions,

  • vote in one of our polls, shows or charitable appeals,

  • participate in content for an ITV service, 

  • donate, take part in our charitable appeals,

  • complete surveys, questionnaires or participate in a research panel, or

  • contact us with an enquiry, request or give us feedback.

This Information does not apply to...

• some websites or apps that have their own privacy policy and we don’t control even though they may be branded ITV (such as LoveIslandShop.com, ITVShop.co.uk, itv.arkadium.com, ITV7 section of ITV Racing app, ITV7 competitions),

• your use of other ITV-branded services that we don’t control and have their own privacy policy such as set visits or programme related experiences,

• social media or third party websites or applications we may link to (for example, if you click on a link in an ad and this takes you to the advertiser’s site). Please read their privacy policies carefully,

• any personal information which you submit in accessing our apps via the Apple and/or Android device app store providers (including for example, Google Play, Samsung App store or other Android store) is held by the app store provider under their own respective privacy and cookie notices. 

If you would like to find out how to control the use of your personal information on our ITV services. See section 2 “Your Controls” which details how you can change your permissions and unsubscribe from our electronic marketing communications.

Our websites, apps, social media communities and other services including the emails we send, use cookies and other similar technologies to collect information. When you visit our websites or use our apps, you can choose to accept, manage or refuse cookies and similar technologies unless our services need cookies to work properly or we have explained why we need to use them in this Information. You can find out more by reading section 13 “Cookies and similar technologies”.Contact us about your data protection queries or requests: Email: myprivacy@itv.com

Write to: ITV Group Data Protection Officer, ITV plc, ITV White City, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7RU.

2. Your controls

You have the following controls in ITV web and mobile services:

• Data Permissions settings: these enable you to choose what data is stored on or collected from your device and control how this data may be used for advertising to you,

• Communication Settings: these enable you to choose which electronic marketing communications you get from us and (Android devices only) you can choose whether to receive notifications on your device. For Apple devices go to your device ‘Settings’.

You can also:

• unsubscribe from receiving SMS/ text marketing communication by texting STOP to 65456, 

• unsubscribe from receiving email marketing communications by selecting unsubscribe in the email itself,  

• go to the ‘Manage Account’ section of your account or the ‘Communications Settings” in the footer of itv.com, or

• if you can’t unsubscribe in these ways then ‘Contact us’.

Remember you need to unsubscribe from each type of communication.  

To learn more about how you can control use of your information for advertising see section 6 “Advertising to you”.

How do I control targeted ads when I watch ITV channels on a smart TV, set top box or other streaming device?

You can opt out of targeted ads by visiting the privacy or other relevant settings page in your smart TV, set top box or other streaming device (if you ask for targeted ads to be turned off, you will still see adverts but they may be less interesting or useful to you). This will not affect your experience when you use the same ITV service on another device.

3. Personal information we collect about you or other people

Personal information which you provide to us includes:

“Registration Data”: Depending on the ITV service you use, we may collect all or some of the following when you register for, sign in, or update your account:

• title and name

• email address

• phone number

• date of birth

• postcode

• your chosen password

“Payment Data”: If you make any purchases or sign up for a trial or a paid service (including for example pay to enter prize draws or competitions), our payment services provider will share the following data with us:

• name

• email address

• time of payment

• mobile phone number

• postcode

• details of your purchase and payment history

Additional personal information you may choose to give us:

• Survey and Research Data: when you respond to a survey or participate in research, 

• Nominations: when you choose to take part in awards or recognition programmes and provide details of other people you have nominated,

• If you win a prize: we may collect additional information from you in order to fulfil your prize, which may include your address for physical prizes and your bank details for cash prizes,

• When you contact us: 

  • via Viewer Services or tell us about the problems you are experiencing on an ITV service,

  • to leave feedback or complaints, 

  • and post to any ITV service or on our social media communities. 

Personal information collected through your use of the ITV service (we call this “Usage Information”) includes:

Information about how you use the ITV service including:

• information about your subscription to an ITV service,

• your activity within the ITV service (including date and time), such as:

  • search queries,

  • favourites or watchlists you create,

  • viewing and browsing history,

  • how you access and use our services,

  • account settings,

  • marketing communication preferences,

  • your data permissions,

  • interactions with other ITV users,

  • your use of ITV services which may be provided via third party platforms or devices, 

  • our understanding of your interests and preferences based on what you watch and other activities (also known as ‘inferences’),

  • games, competitions, or prize draws you have entered, 

  • time you have spent playing our games, competitions or prize draws,

  • voting as part of a programme shown on ITV,

•  which ads you have been shown, how long they’ve been displayed and if you viewed or clicked them.

We also collect information and insights from your use and interactions with ITV services we operate on third party platforms or social media (for example, Facebook). In relation to such information and insights data, both we and the third party platform are controllers. For Facebook pages and other Facebook products we are joint controllers with Facebook Ireland Limited. You can find out more information about what this means here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/page_controller_addendum.

We collect the following technical information automatically:

• online identifiers (typically we do this through the use of cookies and similar technologies, please read section 13 “Cookies and similar technologies” for more info) such as your IP address or other user or device ID.

• information about the devices you use such as:

  • device type (examples: laptop, computer, connected tv, set top box, and other third party devices on your wifi network etc),

  • brand and version of your device,

  • network connection type (examples: wifi, 4G, LTE, Bluetooth),

  • broadband provider,

  • network and device performance,

  • browser type,

  • language,

  • information enabling digital rights management,

  • operating system and version,

  • ITV application version.

We collect your general location

We may learn your general (non-precise) location from technical information, for example by detecting your IP address or language setting of your device. We need this to:

• make available TV programmes for your region (and block access to programmes you are not entitled to view),

• meet geographic requirements in our agreements with content owners and delivery partners,

• deliver content and advertising that’s relevant to you because of where you live.

We only collect your precise location (which requires accessing GPS functionality on your device) with your permission.

You may also choose to provide us (or our prize fulfilment partners) with your home address if you win a prize.

Information from third parties

We get information about you from: 

• others, where you’ve been nominated for a prize, award or other recognition,

• If we direct you to an online seller, we may receive data fro m the merchant that is related to your purchase. For example, we might direct you to the retailer to buy items or similar items to those featured on the show (‘Shop the Show’). We may use cookies or affiliate marketing links which are explained in more detail in section 13 “Cookies and similar technologies”.Receiving this data allows us to:

  • calculate any commissions owed to us,

  • analyse the effectiveness of our partnership with these online sellers.

• trusted third party partners who are allowed to share additional personal information or inferences about you or people considered to be like you. This helps us to understand what you and our other users may like to watch or what ads may interest you, 

• technical service providers where we need to verify your location to show you the right local content or ads or where we are required by rightsholders. For example some of our ITV services may check your IP address to work out your location, 

• payment service providers and sellers. If you choose to pay for ITV merchandise through third parties, we may get aggregated sales data from those providers and sellers. This allows us to pay commission earned by others on your purchases, 

• third party platforms, services and devices: 

• if you access any ITV service or watch ITV channels on a third party platform, service or device, we may collect your Usage Information (and in some cases the third party platform or service provider will collect and share this data with us).  These third party platforms, services and devices may include smart TVs, games consoles and set top boxes or other streaming devices, 

• we may allow you to register for or login to an ITV service using another service (for example, your Google account credentials). With your permission we will receive your information from the other service to help set up your ITV account and to enable you to authenticate using the same credentials.

4. Why we use your personal information

In this section we will set out:

• why we use your personal information (our purposes),

• our legal justifications (each called a legal basis) under data protection law for each purpose, and 

• the categories of personal information which we use for each purpose.

We use your personal information to: 

• provide the ITV services to you,

• set up an account where you are asked to login,

• manage and administer the ITV services,

• understand and measure how people are using ITV services,

• improve ITV services, 

• sell adverts more effectively and to promote ITV services. You can read more info about “Advertising to you” in section 6,

• personalise our services and recommendations to you, to entertain you and help you discover programmes that we think you’ll love, 

• run competitions, polls, voting, events and other promotions,

• contact you in relation to paid phone services if you have reached our excessive use threshold so we can check you are ok to continue,

• monitor fair usage and to detect fraud,

• send you important service messages to update you about your ITV account and the ITV services you use, and

• send you marketing communications, where we have permission.

Here is a general explanation of each 'legal basis' to help you understand what we mean:

• performance of a contract –  to check your personal information before we start a new contract with you, and to perform a contract we have with you (which includes ITV Terms of Use or other applicable terms and conditions),

• legitimate interest – when ITV or a third party has an interest in using your personal information for a particular purpose. This purpose must be necessary and justified for our business considering any possible risks to you and others. For example, we have a legitimate interest in promoting our services, personalising services for you, showing you ads we think you will like, measuring or analysing performance and improving our services for everyone,

• consent: we only seek your consent in a few limited circumstances. For example, when you opt in to receive direct marketing by email,

• compliance with legal obligations: we may need to use your personal information to comply with the law or regulatory codes such as Ofcom. 

We have set out in more detail each purpose, legal basis we rely on and the categories of personal information we use for each processing activity in the “Legal Purpose Table” below. Sometimes more than one legal basis will apply.

5. Sharing your personal information

We will share your personal information:

• as set out in this section, or

• where we need to for any feature that you have chosen to use will work, or

• where you grant us permission to share. For example, you select an available setting in the ITV service or you give your consent.

We need to share your personal information with third parties as set out below. We assess what personal information is necessary for each processing activity and only share the information required by the third party to complete the activity. 

6. Advertising to you

Most ITV services are funded by advertising and we do carry out targeted advertising campaigns. Targeted advertising (or interest-based advertising) is when we use your personal information (described in the above table: Registration Data, Usage Information, technical information, location data), and sometimes other information we get from third parties, to create a ‘profile’ of you or your household which we use to promote ITV services and to show you ads for third party products, brands and services which we think may be of interest to you. We may:

• show you marketing and promotions about ITV services on our services or elsewhere online based on what we think may be of interest to you, and

• show you ads about third party products, brands and services you might find interesting on our services, including where any ITV service is provided via a third party platform or device.

For example, where we have information suggesting you would like to hear about great new dramas being shown on ITV we might show you ads on other platforms (e.g. Facebook) or send you an email letting you know about upcoming dramas. Or when one of our advertising customers has information suggesting winter holidays might be of interest to you then we might show you ads about holidays on our services.

We explain further below about how and why we perform targeted advertising

Targeting for ITV Promotions

We have a legitimate interest to promote our TV programmes and other products and services. This ensures ITV is commercially successful and is able to compete against other broadcasters and streaming companies. It enables ITV to maximise our audience ratings and find new users who would love to watch ITV and/or subscribe to or use one of our other services or products.

We may work with third party advertisers and platforms (such as Facebook and Google) to advertise our products and services to relevant audiences, or to exclude an audience from a marketing campaign if we know they are already loyal customers or the campaign is not likely to be of interest to them. We do this by providing a protected ID (for example, an email address which is converted into a stream of numbers or letters (also known as a hashed ID to help make it more secure) to match the personal information we hold about you with the data the third party may hold on their platform or in their customer database in order to show you (or exclude you from) the marketing or promotion. This is subject to your ad permissions on the relevant platform. 

If you do not want your personal information to be used to include or exclude you from our marketing efforts please go to section 2 “Your Controls”to find out howto change your settings or permissions. 

Targeted Ads

Most ITV services are funded by the sale of advertising and are free for our customers. The more income we generate from selling ads, the more we can invest in new TV programmes and services. We consider we have a legitimate business interest in using information we hold about you to help us promote our own products or services or to sell adverts (for example the adverts that appear during TV programmes you watch live or on demand).  which may be of interest to you or exclude you from seeing ads which may not be useful for you. For example, if you live in Leeds then we would be more likely to show an ad for a local event in Yorkshire - and less likely to see an ad for a local event in London.

To enable us to deliver targeted ads for our media buyers and advertisers, we may pass an identifier relating to you (which is in the form of some numbers/letters - it doesn’t use your name) and information about you to The Addressable Platform Limited (including Planet V) part of the ITV group, and its technical service providers. 

In addition to showing you ads that may be of interest to you we may also limit the number of the ads you may see. This is called frequency capping. We, our media buyers and advertisers, have a legitimate interest in making sure that you don’t see repetitive or less relevant advertising. 

Sometimes third party companies want to show ads about their products and services to their customers or who are similar to their customers and who are also ITV viewers Those companies, or companies within their group, may share the personal information of their customers with ITV. If you are a customer of one of these companies they should inform you about data sharing at the time they collected your data or before it is shared with ITV. The data that these companies share is matched with our own data so that we can identify their customers. The matching takes place in a secure platform operated by a company called InfoSum.  The data is encrypted before it is shared with Infosum and neither ITV nor the third party can directly identify you nor see or access the other party's data.  Where there is a match your data may be added to a group sharing similar attributes and you will see ads that are shown to  that group. We do not give your personal information to these third party companies.

See the section below about controlling targeted ads on ITV services. You can also opt out of being included in platforms that match similar audiences by requesting this directly to the other platforms and organisations that hold your data.

The Addressable Platform Limited (including Planet V; part of the ITV group,) provides advertising technology services to its customers and their group companies (including (i) GroupM UK Limited and its affiliate Finecast Limited; and (ii) Publicis Groupe) to enable them to match against other data they may legally hold, or that they licence for use. That combined information is used to show ads to you in both ITV services and in selected third party publishers (on smart TVs, set top boxes and streaming devices). You can read Planet V privacy policy here: https://www.planet-v.co.uk/privacy-policy.

How do I control targeted ads in ITV services?

See section 2 “Your Controls”for the controls available to you on the use of your information for targeted ads. Depending on which device you use (for example smart TVs, set top boxes and streaming devices), you may also control targeted ads you see on those devices by changing the settings available. These controls are managed by the platform or device provider, which might not be ITV. See further info below.

How do targeted ads work when I watch ITV channels on a smart TV, set top box or other streaming device?We have arrangements in place with some of our distribution partners (Sky, BT, You View and Virgin Media) to enable us to personalise the content and viewing recommendations when you use any available ITV service, and deliver targeted adverts you see (by dynamically inserting them) when viewing ITV channels broadcast on their TV services.  To do this we receive an ID which relates to your smart TV, set top box or other streaming device. This ID, together with information about what ITV shows you watch, enables us to create a profile of your household (so that we can identify groups of audiences to show ads on your smart TV, set top box or other streaming device which we think will be of interest or useful to you. We also use this information to personalise content and viewing recommendations in the ITV service (both our streaming service if you are a user - and ITV channels). This will include programmes that may interest you and adverts for products and services that we think you would like to hear about.  See section 2 “Your Controls”on how to opt out of these targeted ads. 

We may use cookies or similar technologies to support targeted ads - please read section 13 “Cookies and similar technologies” to find out how to manage your preferences.

7. When and why we might keep your personal information?

We keep your personal information where we have an ongoing legitimate or lawful need to do so. For example, 

• maintaining the performance of our services and our recommendations,

• if you ask us to stop sending you marketing communications, we need to keep some information about you to enable us to ensure we stop including you in those marketing activities,

• understanding and managing our business and how it is performing and making business decisions including about new features, products and services,

• complying with our legal or regulatory obligations (for example we may keep your payment information to comply with tax rules)

• dealing with intellectual property disputes or other breaches, 

• resolving complaints

When we no longer have a legitimate or lawful need to keep your personal information, we will delete it or anonymise it.

8. Do we send your information outside of the UK?

Yes, our service providers or other third parties we work with may be based outside the UK, for example, in Europe or the United States. In these cases we will ensure that your personal information is protected in line with UK data protection laws. 

This means we only transfer your personal information where it is permitted under UK data protection laws. The main transfers take place if: 

• the UK government has determined the country has an adequate level of data protection, 

• standard data protection clauses (which have been ‘adopted’ by the UK government or European Commission) are in place with the service provider or third party, or

• we can rely on one of the specified exceptions. 

We may also take steps to identify and use additional protections as appropriate for each data transfer. For example, we may require the use of:

• technical protections, such as encryption and pseudonymisation (which means making sure personal data can no longer be linked to you without the use of additional information) and

• policies and processes to challenge disproportionate or unlawful foreign government or other authority requests.

We review our service providers before we use them and also ensure that they are only allowed to access the information they need to perform the services we request. 

If you want more information, please contact us.

When you interact with ITV on social media please be aware they may store your personal information outside the UK, usually in the US. As explained above, you should read the privacy notices of the social media platforms you use to understand how they process your personal information.

9. How we keep your personal information safe

We're committed to protecting your personal information and keeping it secure, private and confidential. We put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to help protect the security of your personal information. Unfortunately no measures can ever be completely secure. We have implemented various safeguards to protect against unauthorised access and unnecessary retention of personal information in our systems. These include pseudonymisation, encryption, restricting access, and retention policies.

To protect your user account, we encourage you to:

• use a strong password which you only use for your ITV account,

• never share your password with anyone,

• limit access to your computer and browser,

• log out once you have finished using the ITV service on a shared device, and

• make sure your details are up to date so information we send you does not fall into the wrong hands (you can update your details online or by contacting us).

If other individuals have access to your ITV account (for example if you've given them permission to use your account on a shared device), then they can access personal information, controls and the ITV service available in your account.

It's your responsibility to only provide individuals with permission to use your ITV account where you are happy to do so and to let them know that ITV will collect Usage Data which you will have access to as part of your account. Anyone else's use of your ITV account or profiles may impact your personalised recommendations.

10. Children, Kids Profiles and CiTV

Please see the terms and conditions for the relevant ITV service which will specify any applicable minimum age. We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under this minimum age. 

On some of our ITV services, you may be able to set up a Kid’s Profiles for a child under the age of 16. These profiles have been designed to ensure only content in the children’s genre can be accessed.

We collect the following limited information on Kid’s Profiles which is stored under the adult account holder:

• how the streaming service is accessed - for example your IP address, device type and identifier, operating system and browser version,

• viewing history,

• which advertisements you have been shown and the length of time an advertisement was displayed and if you interact with them,

• location data from your IP address or by accessing global positioning functionality on your device (e.g. GPS),

• how you move around the streaming service. We use this information to improve our products and services,

• to ensure you comply with our terms and conditions and/or otherwise as required by law.

We do not collect any additional personal information about your child when using the Kid’s Profile. We do not show targeted ads on the Kid’s Profile. However, we will store the name you have chosen for your Kid’s Profile so it can be displayed on your profiles page. 

If you're a parent of a child under 16 and become aware that your child has provided personal information, please contact us. We may decide to delete the account for that child.

When using a shared device to access the ITV service, be careful about playing or recommending any TV programmes to individuals under 16 years old which could be inappropriate for them. You may choose to activate Parental Controls when you share your device or when using the Kid’s Profile.

11. Your rights

Data Protection law gives rights to individuals over their personal data. Some rights only apply when we use a certain legal basis to process your personal information. We have set out your rights below, when they apply (such as the legal basis required) and how to use them. We explain each legal basis in section 4 “Why we use your personal information”.

It’s your right to …

• be informed of the personal information we collect and process about you and how we do that (this notice does this).

• request access to the personal information we process about you by making a ‘Data Subject Access Request’. To do this, please email us at myprivacy@itv.com and include in your email: 

  • that you are requesting a copy of your personal information, and

  • full details of what you require. 

We may ask you to give us proof of your identity before we can deal with your request.

• request that we correct or update your personal information where it’s wrong, out of date or incomplete. Please let us know and we will put it right.

• request that we delete or erase some of your personal information. For example, you can ask us to erase information:

  • that we no longer need for the purpose it was collected for,

  • that we process based on your consent, and you withdraw your consent,

  • when you object to direct marketing, or

  • when you make a justified objection (more info below).

There are situations where ITV is unable to delete your personal information, for example when:

• it’s still necessary to process the personal information for the purpose we collected it,

• ITV’s interest in using it overrides your interest in having it deleted. For example, where we need to protect our services from fraud,

• we have a legal obligation to keep it, or

• we need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. For example, if there’s an unresolved issue relating to your account.

• Request that we restrict and/or stop our processing (temporarily or permanently) of all or some of your personal information. You can do this if:

  • your personal information is inaccurate,

  • our processing is unlawful,

  • we do not need your information for a specific purpose, or

  • you object to our processing and we are dealing with your objection request.

• Object to us processing your personal information. You can do this if we are processing it:

  • on the legal basis of legitimate interests (we will consider if your rights outweigh our interests and if they do, then we will either restrict our use of your information or delete it), or

  • for direct marketing.

To exercise your right to object:

• you can use available controls on the relevant ITV service to switch off or adjust some features which process your personal information. For example, you can switch off ‘Targeted Ads’ in your Data Permissions settings, or 

• where the ITV service does not provide a control, contact us to object.

• Request us to move a copy of your personal information that you provided to us to another provider or to give you a copy in a machine readable format (this right is known as ‘data portability’). You can request us to do this when we automatically process your personal information on the legal basis of consent or performance of contract. However, it may not be technically possible and/or feasible for us to comply with your request.   

• Not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making (decisions without human involvement), including profiling, where the decision would have a legal effect on you or produce a similarly significant effect. ITV does not carry out this type of automated decision making.

• Withdraw your consent to us collecting or using your personal information at any time. You can do this if we are processing your personal information based on your consent. To withdraw consent you can adjust the relevant control or contact us.

• Right to lodge a complaint. If you do have any questions or complaints then you should contact us first so we can try to put things right for you. If you are not happy with our response you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office, please visit the ICO website (www.ico.org.uk)  or write to ICO, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF or call 0303 123 1113. 

12. Changes to how we use your information

We may occasionally update this Information. You should check it out from time to time.  If we make a significant change to how we use your information, we will let you know in advance.

13. Cookies and similar technologies we may use

This section describes how cookies and similar technologies are used to support ITV services and the controls which may be available to you. These are used on our websites, apps and other digital platforms (for example on your connected TV). There are also other technologies we may use (which do not use cookies to store or access information on your device) - see section 3 above which explains when we collect technical information automatically.

What are cookies and similar technologies?

• cookies are small text files stored by your browser (a browser is the software on your device which enables you to access the internet). The cookie stores a unique identifier (a string of random characters) so that your browser can be singled out from other browsers to show you the information you want (for example, the episode of the programme you want to watch on our streaming service). And it is often used to link your browser to databases that hold data about your online behaviour and inferred interests, along with other data such as your IP address or device ID, 

• other types of storage, such as local or “HTML” storage. Some ITV services use local storage technologies that are similar to cookies but enable larger amounts of data to be stored. This means we can store information like your preferences and viewing history on your device rather than on our own systems, and

• pixels are embedded code to recognise your browser and record your interactions with emails, online content or ads.

From now on we will refer to these technologies collectively as ‘cookies’. Cookies are typically used by websites or where apps have embedded web browsers which allow them to access the internet.  

What about apps?

Mobile apps do not use cookies the way websites and mobile web browsers do. Most ITV apps use software development kits (also known as SDKs) which are building blocks and are part of our apps. These SDKs are stored on your device when you download the app. Instead of using browser cookies, we either collect a unique identifier or ID associated with your device, such as the device Advertising ID (a random and resettable ID on your device), or we generate an ID from your registration/login data and we may take these IDs and associate them with other data such as your viewing data or usage information when you access and use an ITV service. This data is used in the same way as cookies; for example, to analyse and improve services, to deliver a personalised viewing experience, and to show you ITV promotions or other marketing and advertising (if the ITV service is funded by advertising or contains advertising).

Why do we use cookies and what types of cookies do we use?

Essential: these cookies are necessary for ITV services to work. Without these cookies, we can’t provide you with our core functionalities and associated services such as login and security, and help to improve your experience and so these are not optional. Some of these types of cookies also provide you with features which you choose to use. They also help with the following:

• when you log in (or for ITV Vote - verify your mobile phone number), we’ll remember you so you don’t have to sign in (or verify) every time,

• to keep our sites and apps and your personal information secure, especially when you make any payments,

• we’ll track the content you’ve watched so that we can pay companies who have licensed us the rights to show you those programmes and so we can report aggregate usage for internal or external reporting purposes (for example, to broadcast or financial regulators or other bodies),

• we will measure which adverts you’ve seen so you don’t have to watch the same ads again and again within a specific period of time,

• we collect anonymous data on how you use ITV services in order to make improvements and to identify and fix any technical issues.

We use Google Tag Manager which supports our use of Google Analytics and allows us to manage our use of other types of cookies. Google Analytics is an analytics and measurement service provided by Google. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate use of ITV services where we have implemented it, and compile a report for us. Google Analytics records visits to our website to help us know:

• the date and time of visits and which other sites visitors have come from,

• how many active users we have at any given time, 

• which parts of our services are most popular (so we can find out what programmes are watched and so we know which are popular amongst all our viewers), 

• what browsers are used (so we can maximise compatibility), 

• the country or region where our users are located, 

• we may also use this cookie to derive demographics and interests data for analytics purposes only. 

You can find out more about how Google uses data  at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB. You can also install a browser plugin - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaopout to opt out from Google Analytics across all websites you visit (including ITV websites).

We do not (and neither do we allow Google to) use your name or email for measurement or analytical purposes. We do not use measurement or analytics data to show you personalised ads unless you have given consent to Targeted Ads (see below).

Performance and Functionality: these are used to produce anonymous reports to help us improve our site and measure how well new features or functionalities perform. For example we may test different versions of our website or app content or layout to understand which performs best. We don’t use this data to show you targeted ads.

These cookies also support social media features, such as enabling you to share our content via your social media account(s) and to embed content from social media platforms (such as video content). These other companies might use cookies to provide these services or otherwise enable them to track your use of their services. Please see their cookies policy to find out more about. If you choose not to consent to these cookies then some features or functions on the ITV service may not work.

Targeting for ITV Promotions: These are used to build a profile of your viewing behaviour and interests to show you ads about ITV products and services both in the app and on other websites and services that we think you will like. We use unique identifiers of your browser and/or device to do this. If you opt out you will still see ads, but they may be less interesting for you. These cookies allow us to understand the effectiveness of our marketing (for example, whether you viewed or clicked on one of our ads or opened one of our emails). 

Targeted Advertising: these cookies are used to build a profile of your viewing behaviour and interests to show you ads for third party products and services which we think you will like, both in the app and on other platforms where you watch ITV. We use unique identifiers of your browser and/or device to do this. If you opt out you will still see ads, but they may be less relevant.

How do I manage cookies?

You will be asked to choose which cookie purposes you allow when you first visit the ITV website or, service on some of our apps, when we periodically refresh the cookies used, and/or when we periodically ask you to review your preferences. We will ask for your consent again if any new types of cookies are added. You can manage or change your cookie settings used by ITV website  at any time by going to the “Manage Cookies” link in the footer of www.itv.com.

You can also choose how cookies (across all websites) are handled on your device via your browser settings including to block or delete all cookies or just third party cookies. Each browser manufacturer is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

Remember: In addition you can also control how we use your personal information (Registration Data) and viewing data in the Data Permissions  settings in the app or on our website. Please note that these controls and your cookie settings are managed separately and you need to select your preferences in each place. You also need to opt out on each device and browser you use (as you will have a different device ID or browser ID for each one you use) and when you clear or block cookies at a browser level this may remove your opt out selection and you will have to opt out again.

Apple ‘Do Not Track’

If you use Apple devices you will see a permission screen asking you to allow us to ‘track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites?’ which would allow us to use and link your device Advertising ID to target ads to you based on your activity on other third party websites. If you select “Ask App Not to Track” we will still use your personal information and viewing or browsing behaviour as described above but we won’t use your Apple advertising ID and we won’t set the following cookie:

• Appsflyer - Appsflyer is a tool that measures the effectiveness of our digital marketing campaigns, it ensures that our ads on third party platforms are served to the most relevant audiences, and it enables us to create links to our mobile app.

Legal Purpose

We have set out in more detail each purpose, legal basis we rely on and the categories of personal information we use for each processing activity. Sometimes more than one legal basis will apply.