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Last updated: 15 January 2026
This Privacy Notice explains how Energy Media Group Limited trading as Energy 106 (“Energy 106”, “we”, “us”, “our”) collects and uses personal data when you use our website, listen online, sign up to Club Energy, contact the studio, enter competitions or promotions, interact with us on social media, contact us about advertising, or otherwise communicate with us.
This Privacy Notice should be read together with any additional privacy information we provide for specific activities, such as competitions, promotions, events, surveys, advertising enquiries or recruitment.
The data controller for personal data collected by Energy 106 is:
Energy Media Group Limited
Trading as: Energy 106
Company number: NI716951
Registered in: Northern Ireland
Registered office:
Email for privacy queries: info@energy106.co.uk
Please put “Privacy” in the subject line.
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer. Privacy queries should be sent to the email address above.
The personal data we collect depends on how you interact with Energy 106.
We may collect:
Contact details
Your name, email address, phone number, postal address and any details you include in messages to us.
Studio messages and listener interaction
Messages, WhatsApp messages, SMS messages, emails, voice notes, shout-outs, requests, dedications, comments, opinions, social media messages, audio clips and competition entries.
Club Energy newsletter details
Your email address and any optional details you choose to provide, such as your name, preferences, interests or location.
Competition and promotion details
Information needed to run competitions and promotions, verify eligibility, contact entrants, select winners and deliver prizes. This may include name, contact details, age or date of birth, address, entry details, answers, eligibility information and prize delivery details.
Advertising and business enquiries
Your name, business name, job title, contact details, campaign information, billing or payment-related information, and correspondence.
Complaints and rights requests
Information you provide when making a complaint, privacy request or enquiry, including identity verification information where needed.
Images, audio and video
Photos, audio, video or other content you provide to us or that is captured when you take part in a programme, competition, event, promotion or publicity activity.
When you visit our website, stream online or interact with our digital services, we may collect:
Technical and usage data
IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, pages viewed, links clicked, referring website, approximate location derived from IP address, timestamps and site interaction data.
Cookie and identifier data
Information from cookies, pixels, tags, local storage and similar technologies used to make the site work, remember preferences, measure usage and improve services.
Streaming and digital interaction data
Information about online listening sessions, player usage, app or web interactions and technical performance, where available.
We use personal data for the purposes below.
This includes answering questions, responding to contact forms, handling advertising enquiries and managing listener communications.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests in running the station and responding to listeners, advertisers and other contacts; contract where the enquiry relates to a service or booking.
This includes reading out messages, playing voice notes, using shout-outs, responding to requests, selecting listener contributions and creating programme content.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests in producing interactive radio content and engaging with listeners.
This includes receiving entries, verifying eligibility, selecting winners, contacting winners, delivering prizes, preventing fraud and keeping records.
Lawful basis: contract; legitimate interests in running fair promotions; legal obligation where we need to comply with applicable rules or laws.
This includes updates, events, competitions, offers and station news.
Lawful basis: consent, where required. You can withdraw consent at any time.
This includes analytics, troubleshooting, performance measurement, testing, service improvement and understanding how people use our services.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests for essential service improvement and security; consent for non-essential cookies, analytics or similar technologies where required.
This includes detecting abuse, spam, fraud, unauthorised access, malicious activity and technical problems.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests; legal obligation where applicable.
This includes investigating complaints, responding to data protection rights requests, maintaining records and dealing with regulators or advisers.
Lawful basis: legal obligation; legitimate interests in managing complaints and protecting our rights.
This includes complying with broadcasting, advertising, company, tax, accounting, data protection and other legal obligations.
Lawful basis: legal obligation.
If you send messages, voice notes, dedications, requests or other content to Energy 106, including by WhatsApp, SMS, email, social media or app, we may:
We do this because you have chosen to contact a radio station for interaction or content, and listener interaction is part of producing live and recorded programming.
Please do not send us anything you do not want potentially broadcast or published.
If you want content removed from online use, contact us using the details in section 1. We will consider reasonable requests, but we cannot usually remove something that has already been broadcast live.
You can opt out of Club Energy emails at any time by:
If you unsubscribe, we may keep a minimal suppression record so we do not email you again.
When you enter a competition or promotion, we may use your personal data to:
Where a competition involves an advertiser, sponsor, prize provider or partner, we may share necessary personal data with them so the competition can be administered and prizes can be fulfilled.
A partner may sometimes be a separate controller of your personal data. Where relevant, this will be explained in the competition-specific terms or privacy information.
We do not sell your personal data.
We may share personal data with:
Service providers
Companies that help us operate our website, streaming, apps, email/newsletter delivery, analytics, hosting, IT, security, communications, forms, storage and administration.
Competition and prize partners
Advertisers, sponsors, prize providers, fulfilment partners, delivery providers and suppliers where needed to run a competition or deliver a prize.
Broadcast, production and professional advisers
Production partners, consultants, legal advisers, accountants, insurers and other professional advisers where necessary.
Platform providers
Platforms you choose to use, such as WhatsApp/Meta, social media platforms, smart speaker services, streaming platforms, app stores, Radioplayer, TuneIn or other third-party services.
Regulators, authorities and legal bodies
Ofcom, ASA, ICO, courts, law enforcement, government bodies or other authorities where required by law, regulation or to protect our rights.
Business changes
Potential buyers, investors, funders or advisers if we restructure, sell or transfer all or part of our business.
We require service providers acting as processors to protect personal data and use it only for agreed purposes.
Some suppliers, platforms and service providers may process personal data outside the UK.
Where this happens, we will take steps designed to protect your personal data in line with UK GDPR requirements. These may include using UK adequacy regulations, the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, the UK Addendum to EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or other lawful transfer safeguards.
Some third-party platforms may also process your data under their own terms and privacy notices.
We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.
Typical retention periods or criteria include:
General enquiries and listener messages
Kept for as long as needed to respond and manage the communication, then retained for a reasonable period for administrative, complaint-handling or evidential purposes.
Advertising and business enquiries
Kept for as long as needed to manage the relationship, campaign or enquiry, and then for legal, accounting, tax or dispute purposes where required.
Club Energy newsletter data
Kept until you unsubscribe or we stop operating the mailing list. We may keep a minimal suppression record after you unsubscribe.
Studio messages and production content
Kept as needed for broadcast, production, administration, compliance and archive purposes.
Broadcast recordings
Kept in line with our broadcast compliance obligations and internal policies. We usually keep recordings of broadcast output for at least 42 days after transmission.
Competitions and promotions
Kept long enough to run the competition, verify entries, select and contact winners, deliver prizes, handle complaints, comply with advertising rules and maintain audit records.
Complaints and privacy rights requests
Kept for as long as needed to investigate and respond, and then retained where necessary for legal, regulatory or evidential purposes.
Website analytics and cookie data
Kept for the period stated in our cookie banner, cookie settings or cookie information, where applicable.
We may keep information for longer if required by law, regulator, dispute, investigation, insurance, tax, accounting or legitimate business need.
You have rights under UK GDPR, subject to certain limits and exemptions. These may include the right to:
To exercise your rights, contact us using the details in section 1.
In most cases, there is no fee. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
We normally respond to rights requests within one month, unless the request is complex or we receive multiple requests.
If you have a complaint about how we use your personal data, please contact us first using:
Email: info@energy106.co.uk
Please put “Privacy complaint” in the subject line.
Please include enough detail for us to understand your concern and investigate it.
We will acknowledge and handle data protection complaints fairly and will normally aim to respond within one month, unless the matter is complex or we need further information.
From 19 June 2026, organisations must have a data protection complaints process under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025. The ICO says that even before the new requirements are in force, the published guidance represents good practice.
You also have the right to complain to the UK regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office.
ICO website: https://ico.org.uk
ICO complaints page: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
We use cookies and similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, scripts, local storage and device identifiers.
We use these to:
Some cookies are essential and are needed for the website to work.
For non-essential cookies, analytics, advertising cookies or similar technologies, we will ask for consent where required. You can manage cookies through your browser settings and, where available, our cookie banner or cookie settings.
The ICO’s cookie guidance covers cookies and similar technologies under PECR, and its updated storage/access guidance reflects changes under the Data (Use and Access) Act.
You should not use non-essential analytics or advertising cookies unless your cookie banner/settings support proper consent.
We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage.
These measures may include access controls, secure systems, password protection, staff awareness, supplier checks and other security safeguards.
However, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure.
Our website and general services are not aimed at children under 13.
Some competitions, events or promotions may have specific age restrictions. These will be stated in the relevant competition or promotion terms.
If we believe we have collected personal data from a child without appropriate permission where required, we may delete it.
Our website and communications may link to third-party websites, platforms or services, including social media platforms, WhatsApp, streaming services, app stores, advertisers, sponsors, prize providers or event partners.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties. You should read their privacy notices before providing personal data to them.
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time.
The “Last updated” date at the top shows when we last changed it.
If we make significant changes, we may take reasonable steps to bring them to your attention, such as updating our website notice or contacting you where appropriate.
Company name: Energy Media Group Limited
Trading as: Energy 106
Company number: NI716951
Registered in: Northern Ireland
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