Privacy Policy

Your Privacy, Our Promise. Compliant & Clear.

Effective Date: 1st January 2026

Welcome to Breeze FM. We are part of the Cute Media family. We are committed to protecting your personal data and ensuring transparency in how we handle your information.

1. Who We Are (Data Controller)

For the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Controller is Cute Media.

For all data protection enquiries, please contact us at:

Email: support@cutemedia.uk

Breeze FM is operated in shared association with the Planet XO Network.

2. What Information We Collect

We collect information about you when you interact with our station:

  • Voluntary Data: Name, email address, and phone number (if you email us, submit a form, or enter a competition).
  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, and geographic location (approximate).
  • Usage Data: Pages visited, time spent on the site, and the stream you listened to.

3. How We Use Your Information (Legal Basis)

Under GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases to process your data:

A. Consent

When you explicitly sign up for a newsletter or accept non-essential cookies. You can withdraw this consent at any time.

B. Legitimate Interests

We use your data to:

  • Provide the Audio Stream: We need your IP address to send the audio to your device.
  • Local Weather: We use your approximate location (latitude/longitude) to request weather data from Open-Meteo and Nominatim. This location data is processed instantly and is not stored on our servers.
  • Analytics: To understand how our audience listens so we can improve our programming.
  • Security: To prevent fraud or abuse of our website.

C. Contract

If you enter a competition, we process your data to fulfill the contract (i.e., to contact you if you win and deliver the prize).

4. Google AdSense & Advertising

We use Google AdSense to serve ads on this website. This allows us to keep our radio stream free for you to listen to.

  • Third-Party Vendors: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites.
  • Advertising Cookies: Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You can learn more about how Google uses your data here: How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.

You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.

5. Other Third-Party Services

We do not sell your data. However, we use trusted third-party service providers to help run our business:

  • Streaming Provider: Our audio stream is hosted by Kane Productions. They receive your IP address to deliver the audio.
  • Weather Services: Open-Meteo and OpenStreetMap (Nominatim) receive anonymous location coordinates to provide the forecast.
  • RSS Feeds: Content from BBC News and National Highways is embedded via RSS. Clicking these links connects you to their servers.

6. Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information.

  • Essential Cookies: Required for the site to work (e.g., remembering your volume setting).
  • Performance Cookies: Help us analyse site traffic (e.g., Google Analytics).
  • Advertising Cookies: Used by Google AdSense to serve relevant ads (see Section 4).

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, but some website features (like the player volume) may not function as a result.

7. Your Rights

Under the UK GDPR, 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.
  • Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to erase 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.

8. How to Complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at support@cutemedia.uk.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk