1.IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND INTRODUCTION ABOUT WHO WE ARE
This website is operated by Hearst Networks UK (“Hearst Networks”, “we”, “us” or “our”).

We respect your privacy and do our utmost to protect your personal data.

This Privacy Policy sets out how we look after your personal data when you visit our Website(s) (including blaze.tv, skyhistory.co.uk, crimeandinvestigation.co.uk , hearstnetworks.com, and their international versions as set out at the end of this Privacy Policy) or any other of our Digital Media and explains your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

PURPOSE

This Privacy Policy aims to provide you with information on how we collect and process, meaning storing, using and sharing, personal data relating to you that we obtain when you use our Websites, applications, widgets, blogs, games and other online or digital services that we offer to our users (“Digital Media”), including data that you provide through our Website(s) and/or Digital Media when you subscribe to a newsletter or participate in a competition, for example.

Our Websites are not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect information relating to children. More information about how we handle children's privacy is explained further in section 7 below, under the heading "Children's Privacy".

It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing policy we may make available on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements the previous notices and privacy policies and is not intended to override them.

CONTROLLER

The data controller of your personal data is Hearst Networks UK, Company Number 03105704, of 1 Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9YN, the United Kingdom.

If you have any questions or concerns about your privacy or our use of your personal data , please contact us at feedback@hearstnetworks.com.

2. WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT, HOW AND WHY?
The personal data we collect about you largely falls into the categories below:

• Information you provide voluntarily/Direct interactions

Certain parts of our Websites and Digital Media may ask you to voluntarily provide personal information: for example, we may ask you to provide your contact details (i.e. name, email address, address and telephone number) plus your gender and age to create an account with us (at which point you will set a username and password), to subscribe to marketing communications from us, to vote in surveys, to receive prizes and/or to ask us questions and so on. If you send us a question or otherwise communicate with us, we will also collect any content you send us, including your comments and marketing preferences or survey responses.

We use this information or the record of our conversation for future reference and to enable us to provide you with services more efficiently. We also use your personal information to manage your user account, to send you news (including monthly newsletters to alert you to competitions, to offer you additional services or otherwise market products) where permitted by law, and to provide you with features and content that are more relevant to you and to analyse your interest in our services and general consumer trends and to generally understand how our Websites and Digital Media are used so that we can provide you with a service that is timely, efficient and reliable and to generally operate and improve our Websites and Digital Media. Information we collect is also used to enable our compliance with applicable laws and regulations, to verify your identity, to prevent fraud and address credit risk and to enable our performance of any agreements we may have entered into (including the agreement to enable you to use our Digital Media and services).

In general, at the time we ask you for personal information, we will explain why you are being asked to provide your personal information, and what information it contains.

• Information we collect automatically/Automated interactions

When you visit our Websites and/or use our Digital Media, we collect certain information about your device automatically. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area, this information may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws. The information we collect automatically includes specific information such as your IP address, device type, browser type, browser actions and usage patterns, general geographic location (i.e., location within a country or city) and other technical information. We also collect information about what type of interaction your device has had with or on our Websites and Digital Media, including the pages visited and links clicked.

Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our Website and Digital Media (including who uses it and how, and what content is of interest to them) and the web pages through which they arrive at our Website. We use this information for internal analytics purposes (for example, to record and report your user profile, behavior, location, audience, demographics, and information about what interests you), to measure the performance, effectiveness, and reach of our advertising (including advertising on the Internet) and marketing activities on the Websites, Digital Media, and elsewhere, and to improve the quality and relevance of our Websites and Digital Media to our visitors. We also use this information to enable us to customize certain aspects of the Websites and Digital Media and to remember your preferences. Depending on your use of cookie preferences, this may include:

• Develop, manage and conduct advertising and marketing campaigns, offers and promotions about our content, products and services or products, services and other initiatives of third parties.

• Send you interest-based ads (also known as targeted or personalized advertising or ads), which are advertisements based on your interests as inferred from your activities on the Websites and Digital Media and online services operated by third parties, as well as information from other sources. Interest-based ads may consist of written advertisements, images, animations or videos and are displayed to you based on several factors, including the context of the website or app in which they appear (e.g., sports or travel section), information you have provided to the operator of the website or app (e.g., when you created an account), and information such as demographics, interests and household information. Please note that interest-based ads may be displayed to you by third parties, such as ad networks or ad exchanges.

• Compiling market research. We collect online and offline information we have obtained about you, including personal information, to create audiences that are most likely to respond to advertisements, based on demographics, interests or household information.

• Cross-device linking. As briefly mentioned above, if you access the Websites and Digital Media from multiple devices, our service providers and third parties will attempt to create a connection between the multiple devices and browsers you use to access the Websites and Digital Media and our content and advertising that may be published elsewhere in certain circumstances. This helps us to provide you with a smooth experience across the different browsers and devices you use and to show you more relevant content and advertising (i.e., we don’t show you the same article twice). Please see our Cookie Policy for information on steps you can take to limit cross-device linking.

As explained, some of this information is collected through the use of cookies and similar tracking technologies and these are further explained in Section 5 below, under the heading “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”.

3. WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We may share your personal data with the following categories of recipients:

• Affiliates and subsidiaries. We work closely with affiliates and subsidiaries within our corporate group with whom we share our information as necessary or appropriate to operate our Websites and Digital Media.

• Third Party Service Providers and Partners. In order to operate and provide the Websites and Digital Media, we use various third parties to process data for us (for example, to provide, operate or help improve the security of our Websites and Digital Media) or who otherwise process personal data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or disclosed to you when we collected your personal data. These may include operators, promoters or providers of prizes or competitions, or third party companies that we use to facilitate the sending of our newsletters.

• Advertisers, providers of advertising and marketing related services and partners. We may provide your information to advertisers, advertising agencies, advertising networks, advertising exchanges, marketing companies, technology vendors and other entities that create, deliver and evaluate advertising or marketing campaigns, including Internet-based advertising.

• Social Media Platforms. When you interact with social media widgets, share content using social media sharing buttons, or access features on the Websites and Digital Media that contain content or features provided by social media platforms, the relevant social media platforms collect information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the social media platforms you interact with to understand their privacy practices, as we do not control these practices.

• Business Partners. In certain cases, we provide your information to our business partners, including but not limited to marketing partners, content sponsors, or event organizers, and for a variety of purposes. For example, we may work with a third party to offer products on a co-branded, co-sponsored, or cross-promoted basis, which involves sharing information. These initiatives may occur on the Websites and Digital Media or in other media. A business partner’s participation in a specific initiative will be communicated to you by including the relevant business partner’s products, services, or branding.

• Other parties when required by law or as necessary to protect our rights. We will share your information with any competent law enforcement body, regulatory agency, government agency, court or other party in cases where we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect our legal rights, the privacy or safety of our employees, users of the Websites and the Digital Media or other persons and entities, or as necessary or appropriate to comply with company standards and laws or legal process, including responding to court orders and requests from public and government authorities.

• Corporate transactions. To an actual or prospective buyer (and its agents and advisors), in connection with an actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any portion of our business.

• With your consent. To any third party or person with your permission to disclose it.

4. HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA AND WHAT IS THE LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING IT

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect personal data about you only (i) where we need the personal data to perform a contract with you, (ii) where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your interests and rights, or (iii) where we have your consent to do so. In some cases, we may also be required by law to collect personal data from you or may need the personal data to protect your interests or those of another person. If we ask you to provide personal data to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the appropriate time and advise you whether the provision of your personal data is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal data).

If we collect and use your personal data in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), that interest will normally be to operate our Websites and Digital Media, to communicate with you as necessary to provide our services to you and/or for our legitimate commercial interests, for example when responding to your enquiries, when improving our Websites and Digital Media, for marketing or for the purposes of detecting or preventing illegal activities. We may have other legitimate interests and if appropriate we will explain to you at the appropriate time what those legitimate interests are.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

5. COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

You can set your browser to refuse all or some cookies set on your browser, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. We use 'cookies' and similar tracking technologies (collectively “Cookies”) to collect and use personal data about you, including to provide you with interest-based advertising. For more information about the types of Cookies we use, why we use them and how you can control Cookies, please see our Cookie Notice .

6. HOW DOES Hearst Networks ENSURE THAT MY PERSONAL INFORMATION IS SECURE?

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal data we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk associated with processing your personal data.

7. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

We do not expect our Websites or Digital Media to be used by anyone under the age of 16 (anyone a “Minor”), nor do we collect or use personal information from Minors. If you are a Minor, please obtain your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission before providing us with any personal information.

If we become aware that a Minor has provided us with personal information without the consent of a parent or legal guardian, we will delete that information from our systems.

8. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information we collect about you where we have an ongoing legitimate need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with legal, tax or accounting requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate reason to process your personal data we will either delete it, no longer use it to identify you, not use it in a collection of data, pseudonymise or anonymise it or, if this is not possible, we will securely store your personal data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

9. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you reside. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to those in your country (or in some cases may not be as protective). In particular, our Websites servers are based in the UK, and our group of companies and third party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal information, we may process it in any of these countries.

However, we have taken appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information will continue to be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These measures include implementing an agreement within our group of companies containing the European Commission's standard contractual clauses for transfers of personal information between companies in our group, which require all companies in our group to protect personal information they process outside the European Economic Area in accordance with European Union data protection law.

We have implemented similar appropriate measures with our third party service providers and partners. For more information about these measures, please contact us using the contact details provided at the top of this Privacy Policy.

10. YOUR LEGAL/DATA PROTECTION
RIGHTS You have the following data protection rights:

• If you wish to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information, you may do so at any time by contacting us using the contact information provided at the top of this Privacy Policy. Such requests are subject to applicable law.

• In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data or request to have your personal data ported. Again, you can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details set out at the top of this Privacy Policy, but please understand that such requests are subject to applicable law.

• You have the right to opt-out of marketing messages we may send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing email we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing (such as postal marketing or telemarketing) please contact us using the contact details set out at the top of this Privacy Policy.

• You can also withdraw your consent at any time where we have collected and processed your personal data with your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal data conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

• You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data . For more information, in the UK, you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office at:  https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ . For data protection authorities in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and certain non-European countries, please see: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm .)

11. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

This Website or our Digital Media contains links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on such links, or enabling those connections, may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

If you follow a link from our Website or Digital Media to third party websites or other digital media, please be aware that these websites or digital media are not governed by this Privacy Policy and that they may have their own privacy policies. We do not accept any liability or responsibility for such third party websites and digital media. Please check the policies of all third party websites or digital media before you provide any personal data to them.

12. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments. When we change our Privacy Policy, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes made. We will obtain your consent to any significant changes to the Privacy Policy if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.

The date at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when it was last updated.

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please let us know if there are any changes to your personal information during your relationship with us.

Websites operated by Hearst Networks that are covered by this Privacy Policy are: 

blaze.tv, skyhistory.co.uk, crimeandinvestigation.co.uk, hearstnetworks.com, historytv.dk, historytv.fi, historytv.no, historytv.se, historytv.ro, historychannel.co.hu, history.nl, www.crimeandinvestigation.nl , historytv.africa, historytv.pl, crimeinvestigation.pl