Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 17th August 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to Christian Media Network (“CMN,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website(s) and use our services across our divisions, including CMN News, CMN Studios, CMN Radio, and CMN Productions.

We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of personal data about you:

• Identity Data: First name, last name, username, or similar identifiers.
• Contact Data: Email address, telephone numbers, and billing/postal addresses (e.g., when booking production services or submitting news tips).
• Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types, operating system, and platform.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, listen to our radio streams, or engage with our news and video content.
• Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing or newsletters from us and your communication preferences.

3. How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:

• Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms on our website, subscribing to our publications, entering a competition, or contacting us directly for studio and production services.
• Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website or digital media streams, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns using cookies, server logs, and similar technologies.

4. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To provide and maintain our broadcasting, news, and production services.
• To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
• To administer and protect our business and websites (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, and support).
• To deliver relevant website content and measure the effectiveness of the content we serve to you.
• To process payments and manage client contracts for CMN Studios and CMN Productions.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

Under the UK GDPR, the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

• Your consent (e.g., when you sign up for our newsletter). You are able to remove your consent at any time by contacting us.
• We have a contractual obligation (e.g., providing video production services you have requested).
• We have a legitimate interest (e.g., to run our media operations efficiently and improve our digital platforms), provided it does not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

6. Data Sharing and Third Parties

We may share your data with trusted third parties who provide services on our behalf, such as:

• Web hosting and internet radio playout system providers.
• Analytics platforms (to understand how our news and streams are consumed).
• Payment processors for production services.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes.

7. Data Security and Retention

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

Under UK data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate or complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing: You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details below. You also have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

info@christianmedianetwork.co.uk