Radio 3 Breakfast Privacy Notice

Your trust is very important to us. This means the BBC is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. It is important that you read this notice so that you are aware of how and why we are using such personal data. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal data about you during and after your relationship with us, in accordance with data protection law.

Why are we doing this and how can you participate?
Help raise spirits at the end of the week by taking part in Ode to Joy every Friday morning on Breakfast.

We'd love to hear your suggestions for music to include in our half hour of uplifting, mood-changing music, from 8am every Friday morning. Send us your recommendations with a brief explanation about why they bring joy, by text on 83111 or email breakfast@bbc.co.uk.

From Friday 16th October 2026 until Christmas Day 2026, if your piece is chosen for the Ode to Joy playlist, you will receive a Radio 3 branded smart speaker.

If your music choice is selected, we will read out your name and possibly other information you choose to share with us. The final smart speaker will be given away on Christmas Day, during Tom McKinney’s Breakfast programme.

What personal data will the BBC collect?
The BBC may collect and process the following personal data about you:
• Full name
• Phone number
• Email address
• Other information about yourself that you may wish to share as part of your suggestion

If we send you a smart speaker, we will also collect your postal address.

Who is the Data Controller?
The BBC is the “data controller” of your personal data. This means that the BBC decides what your personal data is used for, and the ways in which it is processed. For the avoidance of doubt, your personal data will be collected and processed solely for the purposes set out in this privacy notice. As the data controller, the BBC has the responsibility to comply, and to demonstrate compliance with, data protection law.

Lawful basis for processing your personal data
The lawful basis on which the BBC processes the personal data is the performance of its public task. The BBC’s role is to act in the public interest and to serve all audiences with content which informs, educates, and entertains.

Sharing your personal data
The BBC works with our approved third-party providers who help us to provide some of our services. These partners only use your personal data on behalf of the BBC and not independently of the BBC.

We may share personal data with a third party where required or permitted by law.

Retaining your personal data
Suggestions for musical next steps will be deleted after that day’s programme.

If we read out your selection this programme will be held in our archive indefinitely.

Where applicable, we will retain your postal address only for as long as necessary to send you a smart speaker.

Your personal data will be stored in the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA).

Your rights and more information
You have rights under data protection law:
• You can request a copy of the personal data the BBC stores about you.
• You have the right to request that we rectify any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that we hold about you.
• You have the right to ask for the personal data we collect about you to be deleted, however there are limitations and exceptions to this right which may entitle the BBC to refuse your request.
• In certain circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data, or to object to the processing of your personal data.
• You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal data to you or to another organisation, in certain circumstances.

You can contact our, Data Protection Officer if you have questions or you wish to find out more details about your rights, please visit the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy at http://www.bbc.co.uk/privacy.

If you have a concern about the way the BBC has handled your personal data, you can raise your concern with the supervisory authority in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Updating this privacy notice
We will revise the privacy notice if there are significant changes to how we use your personal data.