BBgossip is fully aware of the needs of users to maintain certain privacy issues when submitting personal information to the site. The following policy applies to bbgossip.com and bbgossip.co.uk:
The personal information we collect if you register is:
Your username and password - used to enable you to submit articles or comments or to edit your account details.
Account details - optional details as requested on the register page, which are displayed in your user profile. If you enter your email address, it is optionally displayed on your profile page.
Cookies
If you have signed up and have selected to remember your username and password, these details are stored in a permanent cookie on your computer. To prevent unwanted access to your account from your computer, select 'No' from the 'Remember username and password' section of your profile.
If you have customised your view via the links on the front page, then your settings are stored in a permanent cookie on your computer.
Running Commentary topics (those marked with the pink 'Running Commentary' graphic on the left which are not an external link to a website) create a cookie on your computer, storing article ID and a datestamp of the last time you visited, in order for you to quickly catch up with new comment posts without having to view all the comments every time the page is refreshed.
External Web Sites
This site links to many external websites which are not subject to this privacy policy. We urge you to read the individual sites' policy if privacy issues are of concern.
Security and data retention
Your account details are held on a database in a secure area of the server. BBgossip will not keep your data longer than intended for the purposes of which it was collected, and your personal information will never be given or sold to any third party without due notice and permission from you.
The use of the website by children
While BBgossip is a mainstream site and most content should be suitable for anyone, some content may not be suitable for children. We urge parents to take the responsibility to monitor their children's activities on the Internet. BBgossip does not knowingly take personal information from any person under the age of 13. If we are informed of an underage user of the site, we will delete their account immediately.
