Charitable auctions
Producers should think very carefully before planning an online auction. Auctions are rarely acceptable on publicly funded sites, except for a charitable auction supporting a BBC-wide fund raising appeal such as Children in Need. Producers who wish to conduct an online auction will need to consider:
- how to make the auction process as simple, as fair and as transparent as possible to avoid complaints
- that we cannot enter into any arrangement about verifying third party goods
- how to avoid promoting a third party site or giving undue prominence to commercial goods or services
- how to avoid visitors' personal information being collected on a third party site without the appropriate level of consent and without breaching fair trading principles
- adding rules to the site to cover the auction.
Further advice is available from Editorial Policy.