TERMS AND CONDITIONS
These terms and conditions relate to the Precedent Charity Giveaway. By participating in this competition, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (which may be amended or varied at any time by us with or without notice), which are final in all matters relating to the competition.  
1. OUR DETAILS

"We", "us" and "our" means PRECEDENT. Our principal place of business is at 11 Curtain Rd, London, EC2a Precedent Communications Limited is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 2739347. VAT registration number: 564 6111 49.

2. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We may need to make changes to these terms in future. For example to reflect changes in the process of judging process, depending on popularity of the contest. We will try to keep all such changes to a minimum and only anticipate them in the case high volume of entrants. We recommend that you check these terms from time to time to see if they have changed. We will always state at the bottom of these terms the date on which they were last updated.

3. Mechanics for entry

The start and closing date for the competition are 3rd November 2009 to 13th January 2010.

  1. You may only enter a competition if you have a relevant registered UK charity number (from England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland).
  1. One (1) entry per organisation, which must include the information requested on the competition entry page which includes (but is not limited to) your charity name and register charity number, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number of charity and the link to your YouTube clip.
  1. In the event that we cannot for any reason contact the winner within a reasonable period of time, we reserve the right to choose another winner.
  1. Once the shortlist has been made, the shortlisted entrants must be contactable
  1. Our decision is final with respect to any aspect of the competition, including the determination of the shortlist and the winner and no correspondence will be entered into with other entrants.
  1. Entrants must be aware, the winning project will be facilitated from the most relevant and nearest Precedent office (either London, Worthing, Cardiff or Edinburgh)

4. Prizes

The competition prize is to be a client of Precedent, to deliver a website (or microsite), relevant web training and a digital strategy. The project contract will be equivalent to an estimated £30,000 minimum (which cannot be transferred or converted to a cash equivalent).

  1. The receipt, by any winner(s), of any of the prize is conditional upon compliance by the winner with any and all relevant laws, rules and regulations (in particular by having a registered charity number) as well as these competition terms and conditions. The winner are solely responsible for all insurance, applicable taxes and for any expenses or costs not specified in the prize description.
  1. The winner may be required to provide a written acknowledgement of acceptance of all terms and conditions of the competition.
  1. The winner will enter into a standard client contract with Precedent to initiate the project, and will be treated as a standard client throughout the process, with the equivalent of the £30,000 budget allocated to them (in Precedent time).
  1. All prizes are non-transferable and no cash alternative will be offered. Arrangements for the fulfilment of the prize will be made by Precedent.
  1. The winner agrees that Precedent and our subsidiaries, affiliates, related companies and employees, and any other sponsors and prize providers shall have no liability in connection with acceptance or use of any of the prize awarded in the competition. We reserve the right to disqualify any entrant and/or winner at our absolute discretion.

5. LICENCE FOR MATERIAL SUBMITTED BY YOU OR FOOTAGE FILMED OF YOU

In exchange for allowing you to enter the competition, you hereby:

  1. grant to us a non-exclusive worldwide, sub-licensable licence to use, or allow third parties to use, any material you have provided to us in connection with the competition including photos, artwork, written text, videos and images ("Material") in any manner we choose on any media (existing now or in the future) without restriction for the full term of any rights that may exist in your Material (without payment to you or any third party). You still own your material and may use it as you wish but we have the right to use it for example by showing your Material to the general public to publish/stream it on our websites or to provide it to third parties to do similar We may require you to provide us with a written acknowledgement of this licence by printing off and signing these General Competition Rules
  1. grant us the exclusive right to film, tape, sound record and photograph all your activities in connection with the competition and the prize, which will be in the form of following and promoting the winning project online throughout the project development stages. Everything filmed, taped or recorded of you by the precedent shall be known as "Footage"
  1. assign to us fully all intellectual property rights in any Footage throughout the world for the full term of any rights that may exist under any applicable law throughout the world. This means that we own all rights in the Footage for as long as they exist. We may require you to sign a release form consenting to the filming/recording of the Footage, the assignment of all rights in such Footage to us.
  1. waive any "moral" rights that you may have in your Material or the Footage for the purposes of us using it in accordance with these terms and conditions. Your moral rights include the right for the originator within the charity to be identified as the author and the right to object to derogatory treatment of your Material or the Footage. We need this waiver because we may not always be able to identify the originator within the entrants organisation (or other users who have uploaded content) as the author, and we need to be able to edit or treat your material as we see appropriate in our editorial judgment.
    1. agree that we may use your charity name, logo, photographs and/or video footage of you, submitted information provided by you and/or any statement made by you concerning the competition and/or the prize(s) in connection with publicizing the Competition, in any and all media in perpetuity throughout the world in any manner we choose without restriction

Terminating the licence in your Material

If you want us to stop using your material please tell us submit the details of your material along with your instruction to remove this material using our email contact address. We will then stop using your material in our publicity activities as far as reasonably practicable. However we are not obliged to stop your material where it is already being used or where we have already incorporated it into compilation packages or other publicity or where we have sublicensed your material to a third party.

Your promises

It is very important that the material you provide as part of a competition is your own work. Material that you did not create yourself, or that include images of people or information about people without their permission can result in serious liability to us and to you.

Accordingly, you promise that:

  1. Your organisation is the only creator, author and owner of the Material you post or upload, or if you are not the exclusive owner you have received written consent from the owner to upload or post the Material and to grant us the rights to use the Material as set out above.
  1. Our use of your Material will not infringe any intellectual property or other rights of any third party (for example trade marks, copyright, privacy rights). This means that, if your Material contain any underlying copyrights such as music, lyrics, film footage, artwork or other copyright material owned by any other person, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents in writing (including from other people appearing in your Material) necessary for us to use your material as set out above.
  1. The Material will not contain anything that is defamatory, offensive or illegal.
  1. Your Material is free from any right or claim by anyone under any recording contract, publishing contract, or any union, guild or collecting society such as the Performing Right Society and you agree that you will inform us immediately if this status changes.

6. LIABILITIES

  1. We can accept no responsibility for entries lost, delayed, misdirected, damaged or undelivered. Incomplete and/or illegible entries will be disqualified. We shall not be responsible for technical errors in telecommunications networks, Internet access or otherwise preventing entry to any competition.
  1. We will not be liable to you (whether as a result of contract law, tort, statutory duty or otherwise) for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with a Competition in respect of losses:
    1. that are related to a business or commercial undertaking
    2.  that were unforeseeable
    3. that are related to loss of opportunity, loss of goodwill or injury to reputation
    4. that are suffered by third parties
    5. that are caused by loss of data, or computer virus
    6. in respect of infringement of rights arising as a result of a third party linking to our online services and causing our content to be viewed within the pages of any other website
    7. that are due to your fault, for example if you have provided incorrect information to us or you fail to comply with our instructions in relation to the Competition and/or Prize
    8. that are not caused by our breach
    9. If you have a claim against another provider of services in connection with the Competition and/or Prizes you will pursue that claim independently and without recourse to us.
    10. We do not in any way seek to limit or exclude our liability to you for death or personal injury or any loss arising as a result of fraud.
  1. We shall not be liable for any delay in performing or partial or total failure to perform any of its obligations to the winner(s) under these terms and conditions if such delay or failure is caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control including without limitation delays, changes, disruptions, cancellations, diversions or substitutions howsoever caused including without limitation as a result of war, terrorist action or threatened terrorist action, strikes, hostilities, civil commotions, accidents, fire, flood or natural catastrophes or arising without limitation out of or in connection with (i) the activities of third party event organisers; (For the avoidance of doubt, the affected Winner(s) shall be solely liable for any additional costs incurred as a result.

7. DATA PROTECTION

Any personal information, including without limitation, your name, charity name and registration number, address (including postcode), telephone number and/or email address (“Personal Data”) will be used (i) in connection with the Competition which you entered, (ii) for any purpose to which you gave your express consent on entry and (iii) as set out in these terms and conditions. Your Personal Data will not be disclosed to any third party, except for the purpose of fulfilling the prize where applicable unless you gave your express consent to this on entry.

8. JURISDICTION

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and the courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any disputes arising therefrom.

We request any enquiries related to the competition are initially submitted via email at charitygiveaway@precedent.co.uk. Alternatively, you may write to us at: Precedent, 11, Curtain Rd, London, EC2A 3LT

These terms and conditions were updated on 12th November 2009