Privacy Policy

The ‘Ear to the Underground’ initiative and website is owned jointly by Capital 95.8 (Gcap Media plc) and thelondonpaper (NI Free Newspapers Ltd).
By Opting In to Ear to the Underground, you will only receive information and promotions in relation to the Ear to the Underground initiative. The Data Controller is NI Free Newspapers Ltd and GCAP Media Plc.
In order to receive information, offers and promotions separately from Ear to the Underground, but specifically from Capital 95.8 and thelondonpaper you must tick agree to the Opt In statements provided separately on the registration page.
Any information you provide about yourself to ‘Ear to the Underground’ will only be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy Statement, detailed below. Please note, the Privacy Policy Statement does not apply to websites or text services operated by third parties.
We collect information from you for a number of reasons, for example...
  • - To enable us to send out editorial content that you’ve requested.
  • - To enable us to send out promotions in which we think you will be interested.
  • - To help us to improve the services we offer.
Our Aims
  1. We are fully committed to protecting your privacy and will respect your privacy in terms of email, mobile and any other details you submit to us via any media.
  2. We will not collect personally identifying information except with your specific knowledge and consent.
  3. We will work with our suppliers to ensure that your data is protected with high quality, reliable and secure technology. Our technology partners invest in high-quality security and work hard to protect your privacy.
  4. We follow strict security procedures set out in UK Data Protection Legislation in respect of the storage and disclosure of information given by you via our websites, your mobile or via any other media.
  5. If you are registered you may update your personal information at any time via the “My Details” page for web users, where registration is available on the site. You can get to the “My Details Page” from most pages on the website if you are logged-on. If you are a text user then the text messages you receive from us will alert you to options for unsubscription and/ or change of details – please follow these messages.
  6. When you interact with us via either online or text services you may be invited to register with us. Such registration is your choice. Your decision to register or otherwise will not have any effect on the outcome of any competition.
Cookies
  1. You may have read about "cookies", small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. ‘Ear to the Underground’ uses cookies to identify registered users without needing to ask for registration details every time you access one of our sites. The cookies control the display of ads, to ensure that you don't see the same ad too many times in a single session, for example, and to track usage patterns on our sites.
  2. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. While using the sites, you may notice that our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies, either directly or when you link to their sites. We cannot directly control what our advertisers or these cookies do, but it's our policy that advertisers on the sites should use cookies the same way we do.
  3. Occasionally, we may use cookies to track registered or unregistered users as they travel through the site - for instance, we might use cookies to count the total number of unique users who are accessing the site over a particular period of time. This information will never be shared with a third party at an individual level, and is used to make our systems more efficient.
  4. If you are concerned about cookies, you can turn them off in your browser. However, please note that if you do this some areas of the site may not work properly.
Data Protection Act
  1. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and its relevant subordinate legislation and we will comply with the principles set out in that Act. When you supply any personal information to us we will meet our legal obligations towards you in the way that we deal with that information. In accordance with the data protection principles we have to collect the information fairly and to let you know how we will use it (see paragraphs 12 and 13) and whether we will pass the information on to anyone else. We will not supply your personal information to third parties without your express prior consent or where required by law. We will ensure that any information will be held only as long as is necessary to ensure that our service runs smoothly. We use up to date industry procedures to keep personal data as safe and secure as possible and to protect against loss, unauthorised disclosure or access.
  2. Where you have submitted personal information about yourself we may from time to time provide you by e-mail, mail, text or otherwise with information about Ear to the Underground. You may "opt out" by clicking on unsubscribe links provided in subsequent communications.
  3. You should be aware that any information you post in our public areas on our websites, such as message boards, may be seen, collected and used by others, and may result in unsolicited messages from other users or parties. Alas, we can't control this; you post at your own risk.
  4. Where we collect registration information from you, we will only contact you ourselves (‘Ear to the Underground’)
  5. We will not sell, trade, rent or pass on any individual’s user details (including your email address and/ or mobile telephone number) unless we have your prior consent. With your permission we will only share the information with carefully chosen, reputable and trustworthy third parties.
  6. We will never share your personally identifying information with a third party, including an advertiser, without your explicit permission.
  7. A few special cases are worth noting: From time to time we may run competitions or request material we can publish; to participate, you must usually supply us with your identity which you agree to have publicly associated with your submission. The exact rules vary from case to case, and will be noted clearly on the relevant pages. Your participation will always be voluntary and knowing.
  8. Otherwise, we will only share anonymous aggregate statistics about our users, sales and traffic patterns with our advertisers. Whilst your individual information is protected as outlined above, we reserve the right to use aggregated, anonymous data about our users as a group whether this is in connection with either web or text users. For example, we might report to potential advertisers that a certain percentage of our users are interested in its products, based on information requests.
  9. We reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect both ourselves and our users.
  10. We may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.
  11. Gcap Media plc and NI Free Newspapers Ltd and our associated companies follow the relevant legal requirements and uses all reasonable precautions to ensure only responsible third parties see the information, however we are not responsible for any breach of security or any actions of any third parties who receive the information.
We reserve the right to change our privacy policy and all changes will be posted here. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email all our registered users with the new