The Media Outlet has been independently certified according to the JTI Programme and CWA 17493:2019.

Certified by

Deloitte

Date of certification

02/12/2024

Contact details

477 Collins Street
3000 Melbourne
Australia

Media Outlet Latvian Television Date of first publication 13/11/2024 Date of Latest Change 27/09/2024

8. Disclosure of Revenue Sources and Data Collection

The aim of disclosure is to be able to assess potential conflicts of interests. Media Outlets are encouraged to exceed the financial disclosure requirements mandated by their national laws in order to achieve this goal. In cases where the requirements cannot be met, a justification for non-compliance should be published.

8.1. Sources of Revenue

The Media Outlet shall disclose a list of its sources of revenue, ranked from largest to smallest. These may include subscriptions, advertising, major donors and donations, subsidies, fees, sales, memberships, sponsorships, events, etc. Organisations obliged to publish or make public their financial information shall provide a reference to the source where the data is accessible. The Media Outlet may disclose its revenue and/or the categories of its sources of revenue, including the respective ratios. A Media Outlet owned by the state or the government, or financed with public money, shall disclose the nature of its source(s) of revenue: license fees, government budget, partnerships, public subscriptions, grants, commercial advertising, or other. Where a media entity deems itself precluded from disclosure of information due to safety and security concerns as outlined in the Terms and Definitions section, these shall be explained.

What are the categories of sources of revenue for the Media Outlet, ranked from largest to smallest? These may include subscriptions, advertising, major donors, donations, subsidies, fees, sales, memberships, sponsorships, events, etc.

LTV's sources of income are:
State subsidy
Funding of broadcasts
Revenue from donations and special investments for the purchase of fixed assets
Broadcasting of announcements and programmes
Other revenue*
Hire of equipment, staff
Telephone votes, etc.

Is the Media Outlet required to make financial disclosures?

Yes

Are those disclosures visible to the public?

Yes

What is the URL for those disclosures?

https://ltv.lsm.lv/finanses/parskati

What is the revenue of the Media Outlet?

28 834 582 euro (2023)

What is the ratio of the categories of revenue sources (as in question no. 46)?

State funding is 95.5 % of revenue, 3 % are budget allocations to special programms, rest income sources each are less than 1 % of budget.

What is the nature of the government sources of revenue? (For example, license fees, government budget, partnerships, grants, etc.?)

LTV is funded by state budget, small part are state grants to special programms.

Is there any reason for safety and security that you have given incomplete data in this section?

8.2. Data collection disclosure

Where a Media Outlet processes personal data from its audiences, on its own or by engaging with third parties, that shall be disclosed. The Media Outlet shall describe what personal data is processed, by which methods and for what purpose.

Does your Media Outlet process any personal information from online visitors on its own or with third parties?

Yes

What information is processed?

Data are processed in all LTV web pages according to their needs and audience specifics.
• We are using CookieFirst service for Cookie consent management.
• For statistics we use Chartbeat, Gemius and Google Analytics for tracking visitors based on the consent given on CMP.
Gemius privacy policy: https://gemius.com/privacy-policy/#:~:text=We%20use%20our%20technologies%20to,within%20this%20Framework%20is%20328.
Chartbeat privacy policy:
https://chartbeat.com/privacy/
Google Analytics privacy policy:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

• bernistaba.lsm.lv offers social authentication with basic permissions (public_profile), which contains ID and name from the social media. Then after authentication the user is asked to enter his gender, birthday so we can offer gifts on birthdays and serve gender related content first, e.g. for boys offering car toys first instead of dolls. All the information is private and not visible to other users nor shared with third parties.

• replay.lsm.lv and lsm.lv offer social authentication with basic permissions (public_profile), which contains ID and name from the social media. All the information is private and not visible to other users nor shared with third parties.

• Some individual projects on lsm.lv collect user data optionally (users can skip that step) based on the form data user inputs. This data is not associated with specific visitors or analytics.

bernistaba.lsm.lv - Name from social authentication (OAuth), Gender (optionally) and Birthday (optionally).
replay.lsm.lv - Name from social authentication (OAuth).
lsm.lv - Name from social authentication (OAuth).

Our privacy policy is available here:
https://www.lsm.lv/lietosanas-noteikumi/

What is the purpose for gathering that information?

The purpose is slightly different in each platform.

For replay.lsm.lv, lsm.lv - Information is gathered for user information only, when the user is authenticated, so it could identify which user is currently using the website in case multiple users are using the same PC account. Providing on-line services and functionalities - ability to create personal playlists, store user preferences, etc.

At bernistaba.lsm.lv - For providing more specific content based on the user data, e.g. offering birthday gifts, offering more gender specific content first.

Other information - for statistical and analytical reasons, which can be skipped and doesn’t block using specific features.

By what methods is the information processed?

Cookies and other forms of electronic data processing

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