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Terms & Conditions
VIDEO ENTRIES FOR
"THE THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE TRACKMASTER" COMPETITION
AUSTRALIA
1. Information on how to enter and prizes form part of these Terms and Conditions. In order to enter the Thomas the Tank Engine Trackmaster Competition ( Competition) and be eligible for a prize, each Entrant must agree to these Terms and Conditions. An Entrant can agree to these Terms and Conditions by checking the box "I agree to the Terms and Conditions" on the 'Enter Now' entry page available at
www.ultimatetrackmaster.com Participation in this Competition is deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. Entries must comply with these Terms and Conditions to be valid.
2. The Competition commences at 12.01am AEDST on 25/9/12 and closes at 11.59pm AEST on 18/12/12 (Competition Period).
3. The Promoter of the Competition is Mattel Pty Ltd (Promoter) ABN 60 000 660 962 of Level 4, 658 Church Street, Richmond VIC, 3121 telephone 03 9425 5222.
Entry Eligibility
4. Entry is open to all permanent residents of Australia and New Zealand, aged between 2 and 7 years old as at 25/9/12. All entrants must have parent/guardian approval to enter. The parent/guardian of the entrant must read and consent to these Terms and Conditions by entering their full name, email address and telephone number and by checking the boxes required in the Entry Form available at
www.ultimatetrackmaster.com. Failure of a parent/guardian to do so will render the entrant ineligible to take part in the Competition. Parents/guardians may be required by the Promoter to enter into a further agreement as evidence of consent to this Competition. The entrant aged between 2 and 7 years old together with their parent/guardian who has read and consented to these Terms and Conditions, are jointly the "Entrant".
5. Employees (and their immediate families) of the Promoter and agencies associated with this Competition are ineligible to enter. Immediate family means any of the following: spouse, ex-spouse, de-facto spouse, child or step-child (whether natural or by adoption), grand child, parent, step-parent, grandparent, step-grandparent, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, brother, sister, step-brother, step-sister or first cousin.
6. The Promoter reserves the right, at any time, to verify the validity of entries and Entrants (including verification of age, identity, residential address of winners at the nominated prize delivery address and/or proof of entry validity and other information relevant to entry into or participation in this Competition). Verification is at the Promoter's discretion, whose decision is final. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any Entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, or is involved in any way with interfering or tampering with the conduct of the Competition. Errors and omissions may be accepted at the Promoter's discretion. Failure by the Promoter to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
7. Upon request from the Promoter, the Entrant including the parent/guardian will execute all such documents and take such further steps as may be necessary to verify the Entrant's details (including an Entrant's identity, age and place or residence) and consent and give full effect to any rights granted or purported to be granted and warranties and indemnities given under these Terms and Conditions.
8. Incomplete or indecipherable entries will be deemed invalid.
How to enter
9. To be eligible to enter, Entrants including the parents/guardians must during the Competition Period:
(a) complete and submit the Entry Form available on the "How to Enter" pages at
www.ultimatetrackmaster.com, by:
(i) entering the entrant's details including their full name, email address and age;
(ii) the entrant's parent/guardian reading and consenting to these Terms and Conditions by entering their full name, email address and telephone number and checking the boxes required in the Entry Form,
(b) create and submit a video:
(i) as a "solo entrant" meaning that the video features only one person;
(ii) of the entrant creating and building the ultimate TrackMaster set, available at
www.ultimatetrackmaster.com.
(iii) no longer than 3 minutes in length;
(iv) with recommended file size of 15mb (the maximum file size is 100mb);
(v) in recommended MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at 640x480 resolution with MP3 audio (other formats including QuickTime .MOV, Windows .AVI, .mp4, .flv, .MPEG or .MPG files are also acceptable); and
[Note: Re-sizing your video to the specifications in (b)(iii) - (v) above before uploading may help your video clips look better online]
(vi) which adheres to the video entry rules set out below under the heading "Do's and Don'ts" on the entry page.
10. Entrants are limited to one (1) entry per person.
11. All entries must be received within the Competition Period. Entries are deemed to be received at the time they are received by the Promoter's database and not at the time of submission by the Entrant.
12. The Promoter is not liable for late, lost, incomplete, incorrectly submitted, delayed, illegible, corrupted or misdirected entries, claims or correspondence due to error, omission, tampering, deletion, theft, communications failure or otherwise. The Promoter has no control over communications networks and is not liable for any problems associated with them due to traffic congestion, technical malfunction or otherwise. The Promoter is not liable for any consequences of user error including (without limitation) costs incurred.
13. Entrants who enter using multiple aliases may be disqualified.
14. Entries will be deemed void if forged, manipulated or tampered with in any way.
Video Entry Rules
15. Copyrighted music and any other subject matter that is protected by copyright cannot be used in the video entry unless the Entrant has obtained the consent of the copyright owner or is licensed by the copyright owner to use that material.
16. The content of the video (Content) must meet the criteria of a "G" classification in the Australian Free TV Code of Practice (click here to read the full Code of Practice). Material classified G is not necessarily intended for children but it must be very mild in impact and must not contain any matter likely to be unsuitable for children to watch without supervision.
17. Therefore, all videos entered into the Competition must adhere to the following standards:
(a) Violence: Visual depiction of physical and psychological violence must be very restrained. The use of weapons, threatening language, sounds or special effects must have a very low sense of threat or menace, must be strictly limited to the story line or program context, must be infrequent and must not show violent activity to be acceptable or desirable.
(b) Sex and nudity: Visual depiction of, and verbal references to, sexual activity are not acceptable. There is to be no visual depiction of nudity, and clothing deemed age-appropriate for each Entrant must be worn. For all Entrants aged 15 years and under, absolutely minimal skin is to be exposed in the outfits worn in videos, and clothing choices must not be overtly sexual.
(c) Language: Only extremely mild coarse language will be permissible in video content, and language used must be deemed age appropriate to the Entrant. Discriminatory language of any sort will not be accepted in video content.
(d) Drugs: Visual depiction of, or verbal reference to illegal drugs must NOT be referenced in anyway be this verbally or through actions.
(e) Suicide: No visual or verbal reference to suicide is acceptable.
(f) Themes: Themes dealing with social or domestic conflict must have a very low sense of threat or menace to children.
(g) Dangerous imitable activity: Dangerous imitable activity should only be shown when absolutely justified by the subject matter of the performance, and then only in ways which do not encourage dangerous imitation.
(h) Other: Where music, special effects and camera work are used to create an atmosphere of tension or fear, care must be taken to minimise distress to children.
How winners are determined
18. Videos deemed to comply with the Terms and Conditions (as determined by the Promoter) will be displayed on the Promoter's website:
www.ultimatetrackmaster.com.
19. There will be ten [10] weekly draws with each weekly draw consisting of five [5] winners ; one [1] major prize for valid video entries submitted by Entrants and ten [10] weekly voter prize draws for voters who vote on the video entries, conducted by the Promoter (or it's nominee) for this Competition as set out below.
Ten Weekly Draws
20. There will be ten [10] weekly draws of the video entries submitted conducted by the Promoter (or it's nominee) for this Competition with each weekly draw having five [5] winners . Entries open at 12.01am AEST on 25/09/12 and close for each weekly draw at 11.59pm on the dates specified in the table below. All draws will take place at Pro-Logic, Unit 3/52 Sunset Avenue, Barrack Heights, NSW 2528 on the dates specified in the table below. Un-drawn entries in each weekly draw will be entered into any subsequent weekly draws.
Draw
Entries close
Draw date
Weekly draw 1
9/10/12
11/10/12
Weekly draw 2
16/10/12
18/10/12
Weekly draw 3
23/10/12
25/10/12
Weekly draw 4
30/10/12
1/11/12
Weekly draw 5
6/11/12
08/11/12
Weekly draw 6
13/11/12
15/11/12
Weekly draw 7
20/11/12
22/11/12
Weekly draw 8
27/11/12
29/11/12
Weekly draw 9
04/12/12
06/12/12
Weekly draw 10
11/12/12
13/12/12
Major Prize
21. Valid video entries will be subject to a public vote.
22. Voting is open to all Australian and New Zealand residents. Voters can commence voting on video entries from 12.01am AEST on 25/09/12. Voting closes at 11.59pm on 18/12/12.
23. To vote, members of the public must visit
www.ultimatetrackmaster.com.and submit their vote by clicking on a particular video's "Vote" button based on their assessment of the below criteria:
(a) creativity;
(b) fun; and
(c) imaginativeness
of the TrackMaster product range used in the video.
24. An individual is able to vote for any number of videos, but cannot vote for the same video more than once. An attempt to vote on the same video more than once from a computer with the same "session profile" as established by a combination of a session cookie, IP address, and session information, will result in a failure to cast a vote or those votes will not be counted.
25. On 19/12/2012 at 2:00pm, the Promoter (or its nominee) will determine one [1] major prize winner based on the video voted the most popular (being the video with the highest number of public votes).
26. In the event of a tie - where two or more videos have the same amount of votes - the winner will be determined at the Promoter's discretion, based on the Promoter's assessment of the below criteria:
(a) creativity;
(b) fun;
(c) imaginativeness; and
(d) knowledge and passion for the Thomas & Friends brand.
27. The Promoter's decision is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into.
Ten Voter Prize Draws
28. There will be ten [10] weekly voter prize draws conducted by the Promoter (or it's nominee) for this Competition with each weekly draw having one [1] winner.
29. Voters can commence voting on video entries from 12.01am AEST on 25/09/12 and voter entries close for each weekly draw at 11.59pm on the dates specified in the table below. All draws will take place at Pro-Logic, Unit 3/52 Sunset Avenue, Barrack Heights, NSW 2528 on the dates specified in the table below. Un-drawn entries in each weekly draw will be entered into any subsequent weekly draws.
Draw
Entries close
Draw date
Weekly draw 1
9/10/12
11/10/12
Weekly draw 2
16/10/12
18/10/12
Weekly draw 3
23/10/12
25/10/12
Weekly draw 4
30/10/12
1/11/12
Weekly draw 5
6/11/12
08/11/12
Weekly draw 6
13/11/12
15/11/12
Weekly draw 7
20/11/12
22/11/12
Weekly draw 8
27/11/12
29/11/12
Weekly draw 9
04/12/12
06/12/12
Weekly draw 10
11/12/12
13/12/12
Australian Competitions Club
