Australian Competitions Club

Weatherzone Spring Sweepstakes Competition

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/

https://www.facebook.com/weatherzone?sk=app_196571553808509

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

1. Competition and Promoter

1.1. By entering the “Weatherzone Spring Sweepstakes” Competition (Competition) and in consideration of the opportunity to participate in the Competition, each entrant agrees to be bound by and observe these Conditions of Entry.

1.2 The promoter of the Competition is “Weatherzone”. (Promoter).

2. Who may enter

2.1. Entry into the Competition via Facebook is open to all permanent residents of Australia aged 13 years or over who “Like” the Weatherzone page on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/weatherzone Facebook Page). Persons who are eligible to enter are referred to as "Eligible Participants".

2.2 The officers, management, employees and contractors of the Promoter, their related entities, suppliers, retailers and partners associated with this Competition are not eligible to enter.

2.3 Each Eligible Participant may enter once provided it is in accordance with these Conditions of Entry.

3. Competition Period

3.1 The Competition commences at 12:01am Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) on 22nd of October 2012 and closes at 11:59pm AEDT on 2nd December 2012 (Competition Period).

3.2 All complete and valid entries will be entered into the Competition.

3.3 Entries not received by the Promoter during the Competition Period or not completed in accordance with these Conditions of Entry or otherwise invalid will be void.

4. How to enter

4.1 To enter the Competition, Eligible participants must, during the Competition Period enter via the Weatherzone Facebook Page. To enter an Eligible participant must “Like” of the official Weatherzone Facebook page and must: "

(i) Complete the questions asked every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the Competition Period.; and

(ii) enter the details requested in the entry form, including the eligible participant’s real and complete name, telephone number, email address and other contact details

4.2 If an eligible participant fails to comply with all of the requirements in paragraph 4.1, the entry will be deemed incomplete and will be void.

4.3 Entrants are only able to answer each question once.

4.4 Questions will be available from 12:00am to 11:59 PM on each day as outlined in 4.1(i)

5. Judging of Entries

5.1. Points will be awarded for every correct answer based on the following:

    5 Points awarded for each Monday and Wednesday general question

    10 Points awarded for each Friday “Guess the weather” question. This question will be based on a weather metric for a particular weather station from one of the following:

        Minimum Temperature

        Maximum Temperature

        Total Rainfall to 9am

        Maximum Wind Gust

The result for this question will be declared at 5pm Sunday and calculated based on readings from BOM AWS data.

    1 Point will be awarded for every Eligible Participant that enters the competition as a result of you sharing the competition with a friend through the share functionality within the competition.

Points will be tallied for the weekly minor prizes and major prize automatically by a computer program.

5.2. There are a total of 6 Minor Prizes to be won by the Eligible Participant who gets the most points after each Friday’s question is declared. If more than one Eligible Participant gets the same top score the winner will be determined by a random draw from all entrants with the top score.

5.3. There is one Major Prize to be won by the Eligible Participant who accumulates the most points at the end of the Competition Period. If more than one Eligible Participant gets the same top score the winner will be determined by a random draw from all Eligible Participants with the top score.

5.4. The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

6. Prize and notification

6.1. The Winner of the Main Prize will win their choice of one of the following laptop computers:

    Apple MacBook Air

        13inch screen

        128GB

        1.8GHz i5

        4GB Memory

    Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

        13.3inch screen

        128GB

        1.6GHz i5

        4GB Memory

        Windows 7

6.2. The value of the Main Prize is AUD$1350

6.3 The Minor Prize winners will each receive the choice of one of the following devices

    Apple IPod Touch 8gb

    Google Nexus 7 Tablet

6.5 The value of each of the Minor Prizes is AUD$250

6.6 The total prize pool is valued at AUD$2850

6.7.a. The Minor Prize Winners will be notified by email or telephone on the Monday following each draw on the following days.

    29th October 2012

    5th November 2012

    12th November 2012

    19th November 2012

    26th November 2012

    3rd December 2012

6.7.b. The Major Prize Winner will be notified by email or telephone on 3rd December 2012

6.7.c. The names of the Prize Winners will be published on the Weatherzone Facebook Page on the Tuesday following each draw for the Minor Prizes, and on 3rd December 2012 for the Major Prize

6.8. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any variation in the value of a prize during the Competition Period.. The prizes are not transferable or exchangeable. The prizes are not redeemable for cash and must be taken as offered. In the event that any element of the prize is not available, the Promoter reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value.

6.8 Each Prize Winner acknowledges that the prize may be subject to additional terms and conditions imposed by third party prize suppliers. The Prize Winners are deemed to have accepted such additional terms and conditions prior to accepting the prize. The Promoter does not accept responsibility and is not liable for any additional conditions imposed on the taking of the prize or the breach of those conditions by any person.

7. Unclaimed prizes

If a prize is unclaimed or forfeited by 5 pm AEDT on 14th of December 2012, then there will be another draw between Eligible Participants with the highest total points for that period (for Minor prizes) or Overall (for Major prize). If there are no other entrants on the same points as the original winner then the person with the next highest points will be the winner The winner will be notified by email or telephone by 21st December 2012.

8. Limitation of Liability

8.1 To the full extent permitted by law, each Eligible Participant releases, the Promoter, Pixolut Pty Ltd, Facebook, their related entities, suppliers, retailers and partners associated with this Competition and their officers, management, employees and contractors from and against all liability for any loss or damage (including but not limited to any claim, injury, cost or expense) which is suffered or sustained to person or property or otherwise incurred by any person, eligible participant or Prize Winner in connection with or in any way related to the Competition and/or using or participating in the prizes, including, without limitation: (i) any indirect, economic or consequential loss; (ii) any loss arising from the negligence of the Promoter, Pixolut, Facebook, their related entities, suppliers, retailers and partners associated with this Competition and their officers, management, employees and contractors ; and (iii) any liability for personal injury or death.

8.2 The Promoter makes no representations or warranties as to the quality, suitability or merchantability of any of the goods or services offered as the prize, except as required by law.

8.3 The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any delay in delivery, or failure of safe delivery of a prize.

8.4 Notwithstanding paragraph 10, if the Promoter is held liable for any claim in connection with or in any way related to the Competition and/or using or participating in the prizes, including but not limited to a claim arising from the Promoter’s negligence, the Promoter’s liability for any such claim will not exceed the value of the prize as set out in these Conditions of Entry.

9. Privacy

9.1 By entering the Competition, the each Eligible Participant understands, agrees and consents to the Promoter collecting, using and disclosing the participant’s personal information for the purposes of conducting the Competition and if nominated by the participant on their entry form, communicating with the participant regarding special offers from the Promoter. Participants acknowledge that the Promoter may disclose personal information to Pixolut Pty Ltd and other distributors, agencies, suppliers and publishers involved in conducting the Competition for the purpose of conducting the Competition. If a participant elects to receive information from third parties, the Promoter may also disclose the participant’s personal information for that purpose. The Promoter is bound by the National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The Promoter’s Privacy Policy is available at http://www.weatherzone.com.au/about/privacy.jsp. Participants may access the personal information the Promoter holds about them, notify the Promoter that they do not wish the information to be disclosed or notify the Promoter that they do not wish to receive further promotional material by contacting Weatherzone (Promoter).

10. General

10.1 Each of the Prize Winners consent to the use of that Prize Winner’s name, suburb of residence, image, voice, photographs and Entry by the Promoter for editorial, advertising, promotional, marketing and/or other purposes and agrees to participate in promotional activities and such other publicity as reasonably requested by the promoter, without further compensation except where prohibited by law. The Promoter owns the copyright in the Entry and in all images, photographs and material incorporating the images and photographs of the Prize Winners. This is a condition of winning a prize.

10.2 The prizes remain the property of the Promoter until it is collected by the selected Prize Winner or unclaimed Prize Winner as the case may be.

10.4 The Promoter and Facebook do not represent or warrant that the site will be accessible without interruption or that the site any materials on the site, or the service that makes this available, are free from errors, defects, design flaws or omissions or from viruses or other harmful components. The Promoter and Facebook assume no responsibility for any delay in operation or transmission, communication line failure problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software of failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at the site, or any combination thereof. Any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the site is at the entrants own discretion and risk and no responsibility will be taken for damage to the entrant's computer system or loss of data that results from the download of such material and/or data.

10.5 If for any reason this Competition is not capable of being conducted as planned, including infection by computer virus, line drop out, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any causes beyond the control of the Promoter or Facebook which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Competition, the Promoter reserves the right in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who was involved in the tampering of the entry process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Competition.

10.6 The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any individual who conspires with others to gain an unfair advantage or who is otherwise involved in manipulating, interfering or tampering with the entry process or any other element of the Competition. The use of any automated entry software or any mechanical, electronic or other means which allows an entrant to automatically enter repeatedly is prohibited and will render all entries submitted by that entrant invalid.

10.7 The Promoter reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to remove, modify or not display any Text submitted for the Competition.

10.8 Neither the Promoter, Facebook nor their authorised agents are responsible or liable in any manner for Text or other materials submitted or posted by participants or third parties in relation to the Competition.

10.9 Neither the Promoter , Facebook nor their authorised agents will take any responsibility for lost, ineligible, misdirected or late entries due to technical reasons, telecommunications issues or any other reason. Entries that are not genuine, are incomplete or late or are in any way fraudulent will be declared void. The Promoter and Facebook are not liable nor responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation of transmission, communications line failure, theft, destruction, unauthorised access to, or alteration of, entries.

10.10 The Promoter may at any time disqualify an entrant or refuse entry of an entrant if the entrant fails to comply with and/or these terms and conditions, the entrant is engaged in practices which subvert or are intended to subvert these terms and conditions or the Promoter determines that an entrant is tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Competition.

10.11 The Promoter is not responsible for receipt of incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete information caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated or utilised in this Competition, or by any technical error that my occur in the course of administration of this Competition

10.12 Prize Winners are advised that tax implications may arise from winning a prize and should seek independent financial advice prior to accepting a prize. Prize Winners are responsible for all taxes which may be payable as a consequence of receiving a prize (except as otherwise specified in these Conditions of Entry).

10.13 The Competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.

10.14 A Prize Winner will forfeit their prize if they are in breach of any of these terms and conditions or are involved in any unlawful use of the prizes.

10.15 All entries remain the property of the Promoter.

11 Contact details

11.1 It is the Eligible Participant’s responsibility to inform the Promoter of any change to the entrant’s contact details, including their email address.