Terms and Conditions
Entries
1. By submitting an entry in the competition, participants agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions, which form the rules of the Competition.
2. This competition is open to UK residents (including CI & IoM) aged 13-21 inclusive, except employees of the Promoter, its agencies or anyone professionally associated with the competition & their families. If under the age of 13 your entry will not be valid. If you are over 13 but under 18 on 3rd March 2010, you must have the consent of a parent or guardian to take part in the competition and to accept the prize. A parent or guardian will be required to sign and return a consent form permitting under 18s to accept the prize. Please note the competition prize may take place during normal working/teaching hours. Therefore, if you are in education (which includes school, sixth form college, all FE and HE establishments) or if you are under 18 and in training and employment, you may be required to gain the necessary written consents from your educational establishment/your employer to take time off. We reserve the right to check these consents and, if we are not satisfied with these consents, withdraw the participant from the competition without notice. The entrants need to be free to travel to London on a Wednesday and be able to stay in London for one night if necessary (ie. if the winner lives outside of London and cannot return home after the prize event takes place due to possible travel restrictions in the evening).
3. You will enter the competition online by adding a blog post via your own profile page on Write Here, Right Now.
4. Your competition entry can take the form of a picture, a video or a written article, any of which should be included within a blog post on your profile page on Write Here, Right Now. You can structure your competition entry how you like, but we would like it to be clear what your picture, video or article represents and why you have picked your picture, video or article as an example of sport breaking barriers between people and bringing them together. Your blog post should include the words ‘When sport brings people together’.
5. After adding your blog post, you will automatically be entered into the competition and no other entry mechanic will be needed to be in with a chance of winning, as long as you meet the stated age and region restrictions.
6. You will not need to provide us with any personal details at the time of entering the competition. If your entry is selected as the prize winner you will need to provide us with your name, date of birth and address, so that we can verify that you meet these terms and conditions and the arrangements can be made for you to travel to London. The data collected for these purposes will be used solely for the purposes of this competition and its promotion.
7. By entering into the competition you hereby grant an exclusive perpetual royalty-free worldwide licence to the Promoter of all rights (including copyright and other intellectual property rights) in all entries/comments/ideas submitted. For the competition such that the Promoter (and third parties authorised by the Promoter) may use, display, publish, transmit, copy, make derivative works or podcasts from, edit, alter, store, re-format, sell and sub-licence and otherwise exploit your submissions for any purposes (for the full period of any rights).
8. Only one entry per participant is permitted.
9. The closing date for sending in your idea for the opportunity to be selected as a finalist is 24th February 2010. All entries/comments must be posted by 11:59pm (BST).
Prizes
10. There will be one winner, selected to travel to London on March 3rd in order to attend the England vs. Egypt football match at Wembley Stadium.
11. If the selected winner finds themselves unable to make the date and time of the prize event, this will deemed to be a withdrawal from the competition, and an alternative entry may be chosen as a winner.
12. The Promoter shall pay the costs of or arrange transfers to and from a London station and the event venue for the winner and, if the winner is under the age of 18, a parent or guardian. If overnight accommodation is required, The Promoter shall pay the costs of one hotel room for the night of March 3rd. The Promoter reserves the right to refuse to pay the costs of a hotel room if the Promoter deems this to be an unnecessary requirement for the competition winner. If the winner is under 18 years of age on March 3, they must be accompanied by a parent/guardian for to the prize event and any necessary travel made in relation to the prize event.
13. The winner will be required to verify their age and confirm their agreement to these terms. If an entrant is under the age of 18, the written consent of a parent/guardian will also be required. In addition, we reserve the right to check the consent of the parent/guardian and if relevant any employer or school/college by phone/email and to withdraw the offer of the prize if we are not satisfied with the verification.
14. There may in addition be certain security checks required and we will provide you with details of such checks and obtain your consent for this.
15. Prizes are as stated & no cash or other alternative prizes will be offered.
16. The winner may be asked to take part in reasonable publicity. If you are the winner, you give your permission for a film of you to be taken & featured on-line & used for publicity purposes without further compensation.
17. The winner may also be asked to participate in public relations around the competition and the event. If you are the winner you give your permission, for photos of you to be taken & featured on-line, broadcast & in print for publicity purposes & for the use by the Promoter of your winning story without further compensation.
Judging and voting
18. All valid entries will be judged on the criteria below by a panel, which includes independent judges & one judge from the promoter.
19. The full or professional names of all the judges will be made available on request. Please send a stamped addressed envelope to the correspondence address below marked “Write Here, Right Now: Judges Names”.
20. The judges will choose one entry to be the winner. They will choose the shortlist by the quality of the entry, which must relate to a sport and sporting moment which has unified a group of people. The judges will be looking for the entry that seems the most considered. The judges will select a winning entry that they consider, in their absolute discretion, is the best example of a sporting moment or event which acted as a unifying force between people. The preliminary judging of entries submitted on Write Here, Right Now will take place between 23rd of February and 25th of February 2010.
21. When the winner is selected by the judges, they will be notified online via Write Here, Right Now. You must log-on to Write Here, Right Now during this time to see if you have been selected. The winner will then be asked to supply the promoter with a phone number that he or she can be contacted on. The winner will then have to have a short phone interview with the promoter to verify that he/she was actually involved with the creation of the idea. Further personal details (including name, address and date of birth) may be taken at that time for the purpose of Promoter providing the prize to you.
22. If the Promoter considers, in its absolute discretion, that there has been any rigging or inaccurate entries, that entry will be deemed withdrawn and a new winner will be selected. If any winner has not contacted the Promoter by [15:00] on 26th February 2010 supplying a contact telephone number, the offer of a prize will be withdrawn and a new winner will be selected by the judges.
23. The judges’ decisions shall be final & no correspondence will be entered into.
24. The Write Here, Right Now community is hosted by online platform Ning. Any entries that don’t comply with Ning’s Terms of Service will not be considered. Ning’s terms of service can be found here:
http://about.ning.com/legal/tos.php
25. The Promoter shall be entitled to reject any entry or disqualify any winner or entrant, if the promoter believes that the entry is defamatory, indecent or violates any third party’s rights.
26. The promoter & its agents can accept no responsibility for difficulties experienced in taking part in Write Here, Right Now or sending an email to the promoter.
27. Details of the prize winner’s name will be available by sending an SAE no later than 1st March 2010 to the correspondence address marked “Write Here, Right Now winner”. No other correspondence will be entered into.
28. The promoter reserves the right to withdraw or amend this promotion in the event of any unforeseen circumstances outside its reasonable control.
29. The promoter reserves the right to terminate or temporarily suspend this competition in the event of technical or other outside the control of the Promoter that may compromise its integrity.
30. This promotion is governed by English Law & subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. Promoter: Live Futures Limited, Unit 11, Piano House, 9 Brighton Terrace, London, SW9 8DJ.
Address for correspondence Write Here, Right Now, Unit 11, Piano House, 9 Brighton Terrace, London, SW9 8DJ.