Privacy Policy

This privacy policy governs the collection, storage and use of personal information collected by us, DPlay Entertainment Limited, through our Discovery Kids app (which may include videos, games, e-books, music, graphics, text, images, photographs and illustrations (the “Discovery Kids Content”) (the “App”).

Specifically this privacy policy provides you with details about the personal information we collect from you, how we use your personal information, and your rights regarding the personal information we hold about you.

Please read this privacy policy carefully – by accessing or browsing the App or requesting the provision of Discovery Kids Content from us, you confirm that you have read and understood this privacy policy in its entirety.

Overview

We respect your right to privacy. Our overall aim is to ensure that our collection and use of personal information is appropriate to the provision of Discovery Kids Content to you, and is in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Further details of how we do so is set out in each section of our privacy policy as follows:

Who we are
Children
The personal information we collect about you
How we store and use your personal information
How we share your personal information and who we share it with
International transfers
Cookies
Security
Data Retention
Your rights
Third party sites
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Complaints, questions and suggestions

1. Who we are

We are DPlay Entertainment Limited, registered in England with company number 09615785 whose registered office is at Chiswick Park Building 2, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YB, United Kingdom (“DEL”) and we are the data controller of the personal information that we collect from you.

You can contact us in relation to this privacy policy email at privacy_office@discovery.com.

2. Children

Only those who are aged 18 years or over may install and use the App but we allow children to use the App with your permission and under your supervision.

We do not collect personal information such as names, contact details or account details from children who use the App because they do not have their own account but we do collect information about what Discovery Kids Content is accessed through each account. This means that we may collect certain personal information relating to a child (for example, whether they access certain programmes if a parent sets up an individual profile for the child in their account).

We collect, store and use anonymised usage data from the App for the purpose of monitoring usage of our Discovery Kids Content and informing future improvements (for example finding out what content is most popular). To the extent that this inadvertently includes any personal data relating to children, we do not believe that this storage and use will unduly prejudice a child’s rights or freedoms.

3. The personal information we collect about you

When you access and browse the App (including when you submit personal information to us through data entry fields on the App sign up) and Discovery Kids Content and subscribe to our Discovery Kids Content, we collect the following information from you:

your name;
your email address;
any email communications, including attachments, which you send to us;
where you are purchasing Discovery Kids Content from us, your payment information including billing address;
your username and password for registering a Discovery Kids account;
your Facebook login, where you use a Facebook log-in to create a Discovery Kids account;
your date of birth (so that we can check that you are 18 years old or older);
how you use our Discovery Kids Content and the devices that you use to access our Discovery Kids Content. This includes collecting unique online identifiers such as IP address;
details of your interactions with Customer Services

We may also need to collect your mobile number in order to complete the sign-up and subscription process.

4. How we store and use your information

We collect, store and use your name, date of birth, contact details, user name and password because it is necessary in order for us to provide you with access to the App and the Discovery Kids Content, pursuant to the App’s Terms of Service.

We also collect, store and use your personal data including your name, contact details and other information submitted to us, user name, password and service usage data for our legitimate interests, so that we can:

make App available to you; and
provide any Discovery Kids Content that you request.
administer the services and Discovery Kids Content; and
suggest similar products to you that you may be interested in and to understand which products appeal to our customers.

We do not believe that our storage and use of your personal information for these purposes will unduly prejudice your rights and freedoms.

We also need to process information about your location to ensure that we provide any location specific Discovery Kids Content to you and (where applicable) to comply with any request by you to exercise your right to portability.

Sometimes, our use of your personal information is for purposes which are ancillary to the provision of the App and the Discovery Kids Content. In those circumstances, we believe we have a legitimate interest in handling your personal information, and do not believe that this storage and use of your personal information will unduly prejudice your rights or freedoms.

The relevant circumstances are:

detecting and preventing fraud;
keeping our websites, apps, products and IT systems secure;
ensuring that our own processes, procedures and systems are as efficient as possible;
analysing and enhancing the information that we collect;
for service administration requirements where we need to contact you for reasons related to the Service (for example, where we need to send you a password reminder, to notify you about Discovery Kids Content updates or amendments to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy);
to use IP addresses and device identifiers to identify the location of users and block any unauthorised users;
in some very limited circumstances, we will need to handle your personal information in a certain way to comply with our legal requirements; for example if we are asked by regulatory bodies or law enforcement agencies to share the information; and
where you have given your consent, contacting you by e-mail, with products and Discovery Kids Content which we think may interest you. We do not contact minors for this purpose.

Anonymous data

We collect anonymised details about visitors to our website and the App for the purposes of aggregate statistics or reporting purposes. However, no single individual will be identifiable from the anonymised details we collect for these purposes.

5. How we share your personal information and who we share it with

We disclose information under the following circumstances:

Third-party service providers: When we share information with third-party service companies to facilitate or to provide certain Discovery Kids Content on our behalf. This will include:
- companies providing IT infrastructure and services that facilitate our provision of the App and the Discovery Kids Content to you, for example;
  - IT support service providers; and
  - Other third-party service providers, for the purpose of tracking our customers’ use of the App and the Discovery Kids Content or sending our marketing communications to you (in accordance with your marketing preferences).

These companies are authorised to use your personal information only as necessary to provide their services to us.

Group companies: We may provide your personal information to our subsidiaries or affiliated companies for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf to provide the App and Discovery Kids Content to you. These parties are required to process such information based on our instructions and in accordance with this privacy policy. They do not have any independent right to share this information.
Compliance with laws and legal proceedings: When we respond to court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. When we believe in our sole discretion it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take actions against illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
Merger or acquisition: When we need to transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified afterwards via email and/or a prominent notice on our App of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

6. International transfers (for EU subscribers)

If you are an EU subscriber, then we may transfer personal information that we collect from you to third party data processors located in countries that are outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) (including to the United States) or to members of our group of companies in connection with the above purposes. Please be aware that countries which are outside the EEA may not offer the same level of data protection as the EEA, although our collection, storage and use of your personal data will continue to be governed by this privacy policy.

When transferring personal information outside the EEA, we will:

- include the standard contractual data protection clauses approved by the European Commission for transferring personal information outside the EEA into our contracts with those third parties (these are the clauses approved under Article 46.2 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR));
- ensure that the country in which your personal information will be handled has been deemed “adequate” by the European Commission under Article 45 of the GDPR; or
- (where appropriate when we are transferring your personal information to a recipient in the USA) ensure that the recipient is part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to any personal data shared between Europe and the US.

You can find out further information about the rules on data transfers outside the EEA, including the mechanisms that we rely upon, on the European Commission website here.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers downloaded on to your computer when you access certain websites. Like virtual door keys, cookies unlock a computer’s memory and allow a website to recognise users when they return to a site by opening doors to different content or services. Like a key, a cookie itself does not contain information, but when it is read by a browser it can help a website improve the service delivered.

Cookie files are automatically lodged into the – the memory of your browser – and each one typically contains:

The name of the server the cookie was sent from
The lifetime of the cookie
A value – usually a randomly generated unique number

The website server which sent the cookie uses this number to recognise you when you return to a site or browse from page to page. Only the server that sent a cookie can read, and therefore use, that cookie. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by us and our partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers. These technologies are used in analysing trends, administering the App, tracking users’ movements around the App and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

We use cookies, for example, to remember users’ settings (e.g. language preference) and for authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our App, but your ability to use some features or areas of our App may be limited.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website and the App. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the App when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the App. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the App, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

8. Security

Whilst we take appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard the personal information that you provide to us, no transmission over the Internet can ever be guaranteed secure. Consequently, please note that we cannot guarantee the security of any personal information that you transfer over the Internet to us.

We are committed to protecting your personal information using appropriate technical and operational measures such as access controls that restrict and manage the ways in which your personal information is stored and handled.

9. Data Retention

We will retain information (including personal information) for as long as we need to use it for the reasons set out in the privacy policy and will delete it after that time except where we need to keep any personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements.

10. Your rights

You have certain rights in relation to your personal information. If you would like further information in relation to these or would like to exercise any of them, please contact us at privacy_office@discovery.com at any time. You have the right to request that we:

provide access to any personal information we hold about you;
update any of your personal information which is out of date or incorrect;
delete any personal information which we are holding about you;
restrict the way that we process your personal information;
prevent the processing of your personal information for direct-marketing purposes;
provide your personal information to a third party provider of services;
provide you with a copy of any personal information which we hold about you; or
consider any valid objections which you have to our use of your personal information.

We will consider all such requests and provide our response within a reasonable period (and in any event within any time period required by applicable law). Please note, however, that certain personal information may be exempt from such requests in certain circumstances.

If an exception applies, we will tell you this when responding to your request. We may request you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity before responding to any request you make.

11. Third party sites

This App contains links to other websites operated by third parties. Please note that this privacy policy applies only to the personal information that we collect through the App and we cannot be responsible for personal information that third parties may collect, store and use through their websites. You should always read the privacy policy of each website you visit carefully.

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy was last updated on 24 April 2018.

Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates to this privacy policy. Where we make significant changes to this privacy policy, and we have your email address, we will send you notification of the changes.

13. Complaints, questions and suggestions

If you have any queries or concerns regarding this privacy policy please contact us at privacy_office@discovery.com or by writing to us at:

Privacy Office
Discovery Kids
c/o DPlay Entertainment Limited
Chiswick Park Building 2
566 Chiswick High Road
London W4 5YB
United Kingdom

You may also make a complaint to a supervisory body for data protection matters (for example, in the UK this is the Information Commissioner’s Office) or seek a remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached. By way of example, please see our list of the various EEA supervisory bodies below.

Annex

List of data protection authorities (EEA countries)

You have the right to lodge a complaint with local data protection authorities in the EEA if you believe we have not complied with applicable data protection laws.

The local authority differs depending on the country. Please see below for details of the local data protection authorities in the EEA countries in which we operate..

Country	Data protection authority
Austria	Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde Hohenstaufengasse 3 1010 Wien Tel. +43 1 531 15 202525 Fax +43 1 531 15 202690 e-mail: dsb@dsb.gv.at Website: http://www.dsb.gv.at/
Belgium	Commission de la protection de la vie privée Rue de la Presse 35 1000 Bruxelles Tel. +32 2 274 48 00 Fax +32 2 274 48 10 e-mail: commission@privacycommission.be Website: http://www.privacycommission.be/
Bulgaria	Commission for Personal Data Protection 2, Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov blvd. Sofia 1592 Tel. +359 2 915 3523 Fax +359 2 915 3525 e-mail: kzld@cpdp.bg Website: http://www.cpdp.bg/
Croatia	Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency Martićeva 14 10000 Zagreb Tel. +385 1 4609 000 Fax +385 1 4609 099 e-mail: azop@azop.hr or info@azop.hr Website: http://www.azop.hr/
Cyprus	Commissioner for Personal Data Protection 1 Iasonos Street, 1082 Nicosia P.O. Box 23378, CY-1682 Nicosia Tel. +357 22 818 456 Fax +357 22 304 565 e-mail: commissioner@dataprotection.gov.cy Website: http://www.dataprotection.gov.cy/
Czech Republic	The Office for Personal Data Protection Urad pro ochranu osobnich udaju Pplk. Sochora 27 170 00 Prague 7 Tel. +420 234 665 111 Fax +420 234 665 444 e-mail: posta@uoou.cz Website: http://www.uoou.cz/
Denmark	Datatilsynet Borgergade 28, 5 1300 Copenhagen K Tel. +45 33 1932 00 Fax +45 33 19 32 18 e-mail: dt@datatilsynet.dk Website: http://www.datatilsynet.dk/
Estonia	Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) Väike-Ameerika 19 10129 Tallinn Tel. +372 6274 135 Fax +372 6274 137 e-mail: info@aki.ee Website: http://www.aki.ee/en
Finland	Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman P.O. Box 315 FIN-00181 Helsinki Tel. +358 10 3666 700 Fax +358 10 3666 735 e-mail: tietosuoja@om.fi Website: http://www.tietosuoja.fi/en/
France	Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés – CNIL 3 Place de Fontenoy – TSA 8071575334 PARIS CEDEX 07 Tel. +33 1 53 73 22 22 Fax +33 1 53 73 22 00 Website: http://www.cnil.fr/
Germany	Die Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Husarenstraße 30 53117 Bonn Tel. +49 228 997799 0; +49 228 81995 0 Fax +49 228 997799 550; +49 228 81995 550 e-mail: poststelle@bfdi.bund.de Website: http://www.bfdi.bund.de/ The competence for complaints is split among different data protection supervisory authorities in Germany. Competent authorities can be identified according to the list provided under https://www.bfdi.bund.de/bfdi_wiki/index.php/Aufsichtsbeh%C3%B6rden_und_Landesdatenschutzbeauftragte
Greece	Hellenic Data Protection Authority Kifisias Av. 1-3, PC 11523 Ampelokipi Athens Tel. +30 210 6475 600 Fax +30 210 6475 628 e-mail: contact@dpa.gr Website: http://www.dpa.gr/
Hungary	Data Protection Commissioner of Hungary Szilágyi Erzsébet fasor 22/C H-1125 Budapest Tel. +36 1 3911 400 e-mail: peterfalvi.attila@naih.hu Website: http://www.naih.hu/
Iceland	The Icelandic Data Protection Authority Rauðarárstígur 10, 105 Reykjavík, Iceland Tel. +354-510-9600 e-mail: postur@personuvernd.is Website: https://www.personuvernd.is/
Ireland	Data Protection Commissioner Canal House Station Road Portarlington Co. Laois Lo-Call: 1890 25 22 31 Tel. +353 57 868 4800 Fax +353 57 868 4757 e-mail: info@dataprotection.ie Website: http://www.dataprotection.ie/
Italy	Garante per la protezione dei dati personali Piazza di Monte Citorio, 121 00186 Roma Tel. +39 06 69677 1 Fax +39 06 69677 785 e-mail: garante@garanteprivacy.it Website: http://www.garanteprivacy.it/
Latvia	Data State Inspectorate Director: Ms Signe Plumina Blaumana str. 11/13-15 1011 Riga Tel. +371 6722 3131 Fax +371 6722 3556 e-mail: info@dvi.gov.lv Website: http://www.dvi.gov.lv/
Liechtenstein	Datenschutzstelle Kirchstrasse 8 Postfach 684 9490 Vaduz Tel: +423 236 60 90 e-mail: info.dss@llv.li Website: http://www.llv.li/#/1758/datenschutzstelle
Lithuania	State Data Protection Žygimantų str. 11-6a 011042 Vilnius Tel. + 370 5 279 14 45 Fax +370 5 261 94 94 e-mail: ada@ada.lt Website: http://www.ada.lt/
Luxembourg	Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données 1, avenue du Rock’n’Roll L-4361 Esch-sur-Alzette Tel. +352 2610 60 1 Fax +352 2610 60 29 e-mail: info@cnpd.lu Website: http://www.cnpd.lu/
Malta	Office of the Data Protection Commissioner Data Protection Commissioner: Mr Joseph Ebejer 2, Airways House High Street, Sliema SLM 1549 Tel. +356 2328 7100 Fax +356 2328 7198 e-mail: commissioner.dataprotection@gov.mt Website: http://www.dataprotection.gov.mt/
Netherlands	Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens Prins Clauslaan 60 P.O. Box 93374 2509 AJ Den Haag/The Hague Tel. +31 70 888 8500 Fax +31 70 888 8501 e-mail: info@autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl Website: https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl
Norway	Datatilsynet Postboks 8177 Dep.0034 Oslo Tel: +47 22 39 69 00 e-mail: postkasse@datatilsynet.no Website: https://www.datatilsynet.no/English/
Poland	The Bureau of the Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data – GIODO ul. Stawki 2 00-193 Warsaw Tel. +48 22 53 10 440 Fax +48 22 53 10 441 e-mail: kancelaria@giodo.gov.pl; desiwm@giodo.gov.pl Website: http://www.giodo.gov.pl/
Portugal	Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados – CNPD R. de São. Bento, 148-3° 1200-821 Lisboa Tel. +351 21 392 84 00 Fax +351 21 397 68 32 e-mail: geral@cnpd.pt Website: http://www.cnpd.pt/
Romania	The National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing President: Mrs Ancuţa Gianina Opre B-dul Magheru 28-30 Sector 1, BUCUREŞTI Tel. +40 21 252 5599 Fax +40 21 252 5757 e-mail: anspdcp@dataprotection.ro Website: http://www.dataprotection.ro/
Slovakia	Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic Hraničná 12 820 07 Bratislava 27 Tel.: + 421 2 32 31 32 14 Fax: + 421 2 32 31 32 34 e-mail: statny.dozor@pdp.gov.sk Website: http://www.dataprotection.gov.sk/
Slovenia	Information Commissioner Ms Mojca Prelesnik Zaloška 59 1000 Ljubljana Tel. +386 1 230 9730 Fax +386 1 230 9778 e-mail: gp.ip@ip-rs.si Website: https://www.ip-rs.si/
Spain	Agencia de Protección de Datos C/Jorge Juan, 6 28001 Madrid Tel. +34 91399 6200 Fax +34 91455 5699 e-mail: internacional@agpd.es Website: https://www.agpd.es/
Sweden	Datainspektionen Drottninggatan 29 5th Floor Box 8114 104 20 Stockholm Tel. +46 8 657 6100 Fax +46 8 652 8652 e-mail: datainspektionen@datainspektionen.se Website: http://www.datainspektionen.se/
UK	The Information Commissioner’s Office Water Lane, Wycliffe House Wilmslow – Cheshire SK9 5AF Tel. +44 1625 545 745 e-mail: international.team@ico.org.uk Website: https://ico.org.uk