Terms & Conditions – The Sun Travel Tips Competition
These terms and conditions apply to the Sun Travel Tips competitions organised by or on behalf of News Group Newspapers Limited (publishers of The Sun and The Sun on Sunday) of 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF only (the Promotion). News Group Newspapers Limited is the Promoter (Promoter). By entering a Promotion, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (these Terms and Conditions). Promotional materials relating to the Promotion, including all information on how to enter the Promotion published in publications of the Promoter (defined below) (including social media if applicable) or on the Promoter’s websites, also form part of these Terms and Conditions (Specific Terms and Conditions). In the event of any conflict between any Specific Terms and Conditions referred to in such promotional materials and these Terms and Conditions, the Specific Terms and Conditions take precedence.
All information submitted in connection with any Promotion will be processed in accordance with our privacy policy accessible at //www.newsprivacy.co.uk and the prize provider’s privacy policy and these Terms and Conditions.
Participation in the Promotion
1. The Promotion is open to residents in the United Kingdom only.
2. The following individuals are not eligible to enter the Promotion:
a) employees and agents of the Promoter, News Corp UK & Ireland Limited or other group companies;
b) employees and agents of any organisation directly connected with the operation or fulfilment of the Promotion (including third party promotional partners) and their respective associated, affiliated or subsidiary companies; and
c) the immediate families and household members of all such employees and agents referred to in (a) and (b).
d) Individuals under 18 years of age.
3. The start and closing date for any Competition will be stated in the Specific Terms and Conditions. (the Promotion Period). All entries must be received within the Promotion Period. Any entries received outside the Promotion Period will be void.
4. Entries received which are not submitted via the official entry method will not be accepted. Use of script, macro or any automated system to enter the Promotion is prohibited and entries made (or which appear to have been made) using any such system may be treated as void. Any illegible, incomplete or fraudulent entries will be rejected.
5. Entrants may make a maximum of one entry per person during the Promotion Period. Entrants may only win one prize per person, irrespective of the number of entries submitted. Bulk, automatically generated or third party entries are void.
6. To enter you must complete and submit the entry form during the Promotion Period.
7. Entries to the Promotion must be the original work of the participant and not previously published. Entries which are or in the Promoter's reasonable opinion appear to be plagiarised will be disqualified. Participants acknowledge and agree that:
(a) they have obtained all rights, licences, and permissions necessary, in writing, from any person who may have helped create and/or be featured in their entry; and
(b) their entry to the Promotion (including any text and photographs):
(i) does not contain or feature any personal information about any person (including their name, contact details, a photograph of them and/or any other identifying information) without that person's consent (proof of which must be provided to the Promoter upon request);
(ii) does not contain any content that is defamatory, libellous, racist, homophobic, derogatory, pornographic, obscene, sexist, illegal, and/or otherwise inappropriate;
(iii) does not include trade marks, logos, or copyright protected material which belongs to third parties without permission (including company names, music, photographs, motion picture or television programme clips or audio tracks, works of art, or images published on or in websites, television, movies, or other media);
(iv) is not subject to any third party agreements and the Promoter will not be required to pay any sums to any third party as a result of the Promoter's use (as set out in these Terms and Conditions) or the exploitation by the Promoter of the idea, video or other rights contained in any entry; and
(v) does not contain any known virus, trojan horse, worm, trapdoor or similar software that may in any way infect or affect any of the Promoter's hardware or software systems.
8. The Promoter reserves the right to remove or temporarily suspend from the Promotion any entries submitted if, in its reasonable opinion, it suspects any breach of these Terms and Conditions or if it receives any complaint from a third party relating to such entry.
Winners and Prizes
9. Promotion winners (and runners up, if applicable) will be selected at by a panel of judges including at least one independent member from all valid entries for the Promotion received during each Promotion Period, unless otherwise specified. There will be no prizes for any other entrants, but by entering the Promotion, Participants acknowledge and agree that their entries may be featured in future articles in The Sun or The Sun on Sunday.
10. Prizes are subject to availability, as stated and are non-exchangeable and non-transferable. There is no cash or other alternative to the prize in whole or in part.
11. Winners are responsible for paying all associated costs that are not specifically stated in any Promotional materials or Specific Terms and Conditions, including (where applicable) transport, accommodation, meal costs, spending money, insurance and all other incidentals. Winners are also personally responsible for any personal or incidental expenses and any VAT, national and/or local tax liabilities incurred in claiming or using the prize. By participating in the Promotion, entrants agree that the prize is awarded on an “as is” basis, and that neither the Promoter nor any of its subsidiary or affiliated companies, make any representations or warranties of any nature with respect to the prize.
12. In the event that, for reasons beyond the Promoter’s reasonable control the Promoter is unable to award the prize as described in the Specific Terms and Conditions, the Promoter reserves the right to award a prize of a similar nature and an equivalent value, or at its sole discretion, the cash value of the prize. The Promoter also reserves the right to award a prize of a similar nature and an equivalent value, or at its sole discretion, the cash value of the prize if in its reasonable discretion it is appropriate to do so.
13. Where a prize includes a gift card or a voucher, such prize will be for a pounds sterling amount. The Promoter, prize provider or the issuer gift card and their agents reserve the right to refuse to accept gift cards which are deemed to have been tampered with, defaced, duplicated, damaged or which otherwise are suspected to be affected by fraud or which have been lost or stolen following delivery.
14. The Promoter or its affiliates may amend or withdraw any element of a Promotion for reasons beyond their reasonable control, including but not limited to the unavailability of the vote, poll, competition or prize draw entry platform before the closing date, or for strike, lock-out, labour dispute, illness, act of God, natural disaster, adverse weather conditions, war, riot, civil commotion, accident, public health concern in relation to potential infection, epidemic or pandemic, malicious damage, fire, flood and/or storm, compliance with law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction, breakdown of plant, machinery or transportation. The Promoter or its affiliates are not responsible for any loss or damage caused to you as a result of any of these occurrences. Therefore the Promoter shall not be responsible if a winner or runner up is unable to redeem their prize for any time period as a result of government guidelines or restrictions resulting from COVID-19. No compensation will be made available in these circumstances.
Winner Announcement and claiming of prize
15. Unless otherwise stated in the Specific Terms and Conditions, winners (and runners up if applicable) will be notified by phone or using the other contact details provided to the Promoter within 14 days after the end of the Promotion Period. All reasonable endeavours will be made to contact the winners during the specified time. If a winner cannot be contacted or is not available, the Promoter reserves the right to re-draw another winner from the valid/correct entries that were received during the Promotion Period. Winners may be required to submit valid identification before receiving their prize.
16. Winners will be required to confirm acceptance of the applicable prize within 14 days of having been notified. If the winner has not claimed their prize by the date specified or the winner refuses or is unable to provide an eligible postal address for receipt of their prize, the Promoter reserves the right to award the prize to another entrant.
17. Unless otherwise stated in the Specific Terms and Conditions, the prize will be delivered within a reasonable time and by no later than 28 days after the prize has been accepted.
18. The Promoter proposes to make available a list of winners of a Promotion, subject to any objections from the relevant individuals. For a copy of the list, please send a stamped self-addressed envelope by no later than 28 days after the end of the Promotion Period to News UK, Promotions Department, 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF stating for which Promotion you would like winners’ details. If a winner objects to this information being made available, they should inform the Promoter at the earliest opportunity using email [email protected]. Winners acknowledge that the Promoter may still be required to share their details with the Advertising Standards Authority or other regulators
Data Protection and Publicity
19. The Promoter will collect and process entrants’ personal information in accordance with the privacy policy at //www.newsprivacy.co.uk. The information provided may be shared with the Promoter’s agents, affiliates and, if applicable, any third party prize provider (including those outside the UK/European Economic Area) who will process such information in accordance with their own privacy policy. Information provided by entrants will be used for the purpose of conducting this Promotion (including for prizes to be delivered) and other purposes as may be specified and/or consented to at the time of entry or on promotional materials. If entrants do not provide any of the mandatory information requested when participating in the Promotion, their entry will be void.
20. The Promoter is required to either publish or make available information that indicates a valid award took place. As such, the Promoter will send the surname and county of major prize winners and, if applicable copies of their winning entries, to anyone that contacts the Promoter at the address given above by no later than 28 days after the end of the Promotion Period.
21. If a winner (or runner up) objects to any or all of their surname, county and winning entry being published or made available, they should contact the Promoter at the address given above. In such circumstances, the Promoter must still provide the information and winning entry to competent authorities, including the Advertising Standard Authority, on request.
General
22. The Promoter’s decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
23. If entrants do not provide any of the mandatory information requested when participating in the Promotion, their entry will be void.
24. The Promoter reserves the right to require the entrants to prove that they are eligible. If a winner is found to be ineligible, the Promoter reserves the right to award their prize to another entrant and to require the return of any prize already awarded.
25. The provision of the prize does not imply endorsement by the Promoter of the prize provider or other third parties concerned in any way with the Promotion. Any complaints or queries relating to the use of the prize should be directed to the prize provider.
26. Unless otherwise stated in the promotional materials, this Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, the manufacturer or service provider of the relevant prize. You are providing your information to the Promoter and not to the manufacturer or service provider of the relevant prize.
27. Entrants must not do anything illegal and/or dangerous and/or that would put themselves or others at any risk. Save where it has been negligent, the Promoter will not be responsible for any damage, loss or injury resulting from entrants’ entry into the Promotion or their acceptance and/or use of the prize, or for technical, hardware or software failures, lost, faulty or unavailable network connections or difficulties of any kind that may limit or prohibit entrant’s ability to participate in the Promotion. The Promoter will not be responsible for any lost, damaged, defaced, incomplete, illegible or otherwise unreadable entries. Proof of posting is not proof of receipt by the Promoter of any entries. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions or the Specific Terms and Conditions shall in any way limit the Promoter’s liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for any other matter where liability may not be limited as a matter of law.
28. The Promoter reserves the right at any time to cancel, modify or supersede the Promotion (including altering prizes) if, in its reasonable opinion, the Promotion is not capable of being conducted as specified. In the event of a printing or other error resulting in there being more winners than prizes for the Promotion, the Promoter reserves the right to (a) declare as void any claims or entries resulting from such printing or other error; and/or (b) allocate the available prize(s) through a further draw or to divide the prize(s) or the value of the prize(s) between the winners of the Promotion.
29. Any entrant who enters or attempts to enter the Promotion in a manner, which in the Promoter’s reasonable opinion is contrary to these Terms and Conditions or the Specific Terms and Conditions or by its nature is unjust to other entrants (including tampering with the operation of the Promotion, cheating, hacking, deception or any other unfair playing practices such as intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrants or the Promoter and/or any of its agents or representatives) may be rejected from the Promotion at the Promoter’s sole discretion. Furthermore, where such actions have significantly impaired the Promotion, the Promoter may, at its sole discretion, add further stages to the Promotion as it deems reasonably necessary in order to resolve any problems arising from such actions.
30. The Promoter reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions. Any amendments will be published on the Promoter’s website (the Website).
31. These Terms and Conditions are governed by English law. The courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear any dispute or claim arising in association with the Promotion or these Terms and Conditions.