Terms & Conditions

ELLESSE LIMITED ("Ellesse")

Sport and the City Competition and Sport and the City Weekly Competition

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By entering into the Ellesse Sport and the City Competition (the "Competition") you agree to be bound by the following Terms and Conditions:

In order to enter the Competition you are required to upload your personal details and an original photograph of sport transpiring or a sporting event in a city of your choice in accordance with the Entry instructions and competition guidelines on www.ellesse.com/sportandthecity (the "Website") (the "Entry", or "Entries"). Entrants shall be automatically entered into the Competition as well as the Sport and the City Weekly Competition as further explained in Clause 19 - 24 below ("Weekly Competition").
The opening date for the Competition is 7 June 2010 and the closing date is at 17:00 (GMT) on 8th August 2010. No Entries will be accepted either before the opening date or after the closing date. Entries are limited to three (3) entries per person.
Entrants represent that they:
(a) are over 18 years old; (b) hold a full valid passport and are free to travel within the EU.
Ellesse reserves the right to discard any winning Entries which it subsequently discovers do not fulfil these criteria. The Competition is specifically closed to employees of Ellesse Limited, Pentland Brands plc, and any associated companies, and their families.
NO PURCHASE OF ANY SORT IS NECESSARY TO TAKE PART IN THIS COMPETITION. You do not have to buy or subscribe to any product in order to enter the Competition.
Your Entry must not infringe the intellectual property of any third party. This includes the use of third party trade marks, images and/or copyright. By submitting your Entry, you warrant that the work comprising the Entry was created by you. Your Entry shall not comprise of anything which is obscene or vulgar, offensive, abusive, harmful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, invasive of another’s privacy, sexually or racially or ethically or religiously insulting, harassing, abusive, profane or otherwise unlawful. All Entries will be screened by the Ellesse Marketing Team and Ellesse reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to removing and disqualifying any Entry from the "Website" which it believes is in breach of this clause.
Ellesse reserves the right to alter or amend all Entries.
By submitting your Entry, you warrant that you shall procure the necessary consents, licences and other such authorisations from any third party (including without limitation any models or members of the public) that may form part of your Entry.
Ellesse shall be under no obligation to accept damaged, illegible or defaced Entries or Entries that cannot be uploaded and you agree that proof of uploading your Entry on the Website shall not be proof of Ellesse’s receipt of any Entry. Ellesse shall not be responsible for any Entry which is lost or damaged in transit or that cannot be uploaded onto the Website.
9.1 By entering the Competition you agree that any winning Entry, of the Competition or the Weekly Competition (“Winning Entry”), may be used by Ellesse (and its partners) for the marketing and promotion of this and future competitions (“Competition Marketing and Promotional Purposes”).
9.2 You hereby acknowledge that Ellesse may have to crop and re-size the Winning Entries as necessary for Competition Marketing and Promotional Purposes.
9.3 The Winners’ names shall appear on all Winning Entries reproduced for Competition Marketing and Promotional Purposes.
9.4 You hereby grant Ellesse a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide licence for each Winning Entry in all media for the uses described in 9.1 above for 2 (two) years following the date of announcement of the Winners.
9.5 Ellesse shall contact you and afford you the opportunity to negotiate the terms of any additional usage of Entries falling outside of Competition Marketing and Promotional Purposes.
The Winners of the Competition shall be selected by a judging panel, which shall include representatives from Ellesse and a representative from Lonely Planet Publications Limited ("Lonely Planet") (the "Panel"). The Panel’s decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into. The voting process carried out by members of the public via the Website shall be for persuasive value only.
The Panel shall select four (4) winners from the Entries at the end of the Competition (the "Winner", or the "Winners"). Each Winner will receive one (1) prize comprising of: a. two (2) return economy class air tickets to either Athens, London, Rome or Barcelona (the "Air Tickets"), one (1) for the Winner and one (1) for the Winner’s guest. Ellesse shall allocate a city to each Winner upon notification of their success ("Allocated City"). Ellesse shall inform each Winner of their Allocated City after the Winner has been notified of his or her success. Ellesse’s decision with regard to each Winner’s Allocated City is final and no correspondence shall be entered into in this regard. b. four (4) nights accommodation at 3 star hotel within the Allocated City. c. £500 spending money.

(the "Prize")

PLEASE NOTE:

The Winner and the guest must be available to travel between the dates of 1 October 2010 and 1 December 2010. Ellesse shall inform the Winners of the actual travel dates once the Winners have been informed of their success. It is the winner and their guest’s responsibility to ensure that they arrive in plenty of time to check-in and catch the flight.
The Winner’s guest shall also comply with the criteria set out at clause 3 above. If the Winner and/or guest miss their flight Ellesse will not be responsible for the cost and organisation of an alternative flight. The prize does not include travel costs (other than the Air Tickets), food or any other financial contribution by Ellesse other than as stated in this clause 11.
The Winner and guest shall be responsible for arranging their own travel insurance.
The Winners will be required to complete a blog of his/her trip to the Allocated City, which shall be published on www.ellesse.com. Details of the blogging requirements shall be made available by Ellesse to the Winners.

The Winners shall be notified of their success by telephone on 20 August 2010. The Winners’ name and winning Entry will also be announced on the Website. The Winners agree to take part in post-Competition publicity at Ellesse’ reasonable request. If a Winner cannot be contacted by 20 August 2010, the Panel reserves the right to select another Winner. On notification the Winner shall also be required to sign a licence to consent to the exact use of their entry by Ellesse.
The Competition Prize may be altered or varied at the Ellesse’s sole discretion and substituted with a prize which, in the Ellesse’s sole opinion, is a suitable alternative. No cash alternatives are available and prize is non-transferable.Even if Entrant’s photos are not selected as the winning entry they may still be contacted by Ellesse in regard to the use of their photo for other marketing and promotional purposes.
Entrants accept that the Website is offered on an "as is" and "as available" basis. While Ellesse takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the Website is properly functioning at all times, Ellesse does not warrant that the Website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Website or the server that makes it available are free of software viruses or bugs or other defects. Ellesse has no control over, and disclaims all responsibility for, any content which entrants, or those who vote for entrants (collectively known as "Users"), may encounter, or events which may occur as a result of any User’s use of the Website to the fullest extent permitted by law, and Ellesse shall not be liable for any damages or other losses of any type whatsoever incurred by Users as a result of their use of the Website. Ellesse does not exclude liability for death or personal injury. However, by accepting these Terms and Conditions, Users accept that Ellesse cannot be liable to Users for any loss or damage which entrants may suffer as a result of using the Website. Users must take their own precautions (including but not limited to installing adequate protective measures to guard against software viruses and ensuring that up-to-date copies are made of all data) to protect Users against loss or damage.
Details of the Winners (name and photograph) shall be made available to anyone sending a stamped, addressed envelope to "Sport and the City Competition", Ellesse Limited, The Pentland Centre, Lakeside, Squires Lane, Finchley, N3 2QL after 23 August 2010.
In the event that you register on the Website, your name and email address shall be recorded for the purpose of keeping you up to date on the Competition. If you give Ellesse your consent, your details will be added to Ellesse’ marketing database. In addition, if you give Ellesse your consent, Ellesse may share your information with its affiliated companies in order that they can contact you with information, promotions, products, services and offers that may be interesting to you. Any personal data that you provide shall be held and processed in accordance with the requirements of the 1998 Data Protection Act.
Ellesse reserves the right to amend these terms and conditions and/or to cancel the Competition at its sole discretion.
Ellesse and its content providers have tried to make the information on the Website as accurate as possible, but it is provided ‘as is’ and Ellesse and its content providers accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience resulting from this information. You should verify critical information (like visas, health and safety,) before you travel.

WEEKLY COMPETITION

All of the above clauses are applicable to the Weekly Competition save for clauses 10, 11 and 12.
The winners of the Weekly Competition shall be selected by a judging panel, which shall include representatives from Ellesse (the “Weekly Competition Panel”). The Weekly Competition Panel’s decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into. The voting process carried out by members of the public via the Website shall be for persuasive value only.
The Weekly Competition Panel shall select one (1) winner every week from the new Entries received during that particular week (the "Weekly Competition Winner", or the "Weekly Competition Winners"). Each Weekly Competition Winner will receive one (1) prize comprising of one (1) Nikon CoolPrix Camera (the "Weekly Competition Prize").
Each Weekly Competition Winner shall be notified of his/her success by telephone on the following dates:
a. Monday, 14 June 2010; b. Monday, 21 June 2010; c. Monday, 28 June 2010; d. Monday, 5 July 2010; e. Monday, 12 July 2010; f. Monday, 19 July 2010; g. Monday, 26 July 2010; and h. Monday , 2nd August 2010 andi. Monday , 9th August 2010
If a Weekly Winner cannot be contacted on the dates in this Clause 22, the Weekly Competition Panel reserves the right to select another Weekly Winner.
All Weekly Competition Winners’ names and winning Entries will also be announced on the Website. All Weekly Competition Winners agree to take part in post-Competition publicity at Ellesse’ reasonable request.
The Weekly Competition Prize is non-exchangeable and non-refundable. No cash alternative is available for the Weekly Competition Prize.

The promoter of the Competition and the Weekly Competition is Ellesse Limited, whose registered office is at 8 Manchester Square, London, W1U 3PH and whose principal place of business is at Ellesse Limited, The Pentland Centre, Lakeside, Squires Lane, Finchley, N3 2QL.

Sport and the City Prize Draw

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The following Terms and Conditions apply to the Sport and the City Prize Draw (the "Prize Draw"):

In order to enter the Prize Draw entrants are required register their details on www.ellesse.com/sportandthecity (the "Website") and vote for an entry in the Ellesse Sport and the City Competition.
The Prize Draw opens on 7 June 2010 and the closing date is 8th August 2010 at midnight. No entries shall be accepted before the start date or after the closing date. Third party or bulk entries will not be accepted and illegible or altered entries or those not in accordance with the entry instructions are invalid.
Entrants represent that they are over 16 years old. Ellesse reserves the right to discard any winning entries which it subsequently discovers does not fulfil this requirement. The Prize Draw is specifically closed to employees of Ellesse Limited, Pentland Brands plc, and any associated companies, and their families.
NO PURCHASE OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO TAKE PART IN THIS PRIZE DRAW. You do not have to buy or subscribe to any product in order to enter this Prize Draw.
One (1) weekly winner (the "Weekly Winner" or the "Weekly Winners") will be drawn once a week at random from the entries received for the duration of the Prize Draw. For the avoidance of doubt, each of the Weekly Winners shall be notified of his/her success by telephone on the following dates:
a. Monday, 14 June 2010; b. Monday, 21 June 2010; c. Monday, 28 June 2010; d. Monday, 5 July 2010; e. Monday, 12 July 2010; f. Monday, 19 July 2010; g. Monday, 26 July 2010; and h. Monday , 2nd August 2010 andi. Monday , 9th August 2010
If a Weekly Winner cannot be contacted on the dates in this Clause 5, the Ellesse reserves the right to select another Weekly Winner.
There will be one (1) weekly prize which shall be specified on the Website.
The draw will be made by an independent person and Ellesse’s decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into. The Weekly Winners agree to take part in post-Prize Draw publicity at the request of Ellesse.
The prize may be altered or varied at the Ellesse’s sole discretion and substituted with a prize which, in the Ellesse’s sole opinion, is a suitable alternative. No cash alternatives are available and prize is non-transferable.
Entrants accept that the Website is offered on an "as is" and "as available" basis. While Ellesse takes all reasonable steps to ensure that the Website is properly functioning at all times, Ellesse does not warrant that the Website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the Website or the server that makes it available are free of software viruses or bugs or other defects. Ellesse has no control over, and disclaims all responsibility for, any content which entrants, or those who vote for entrants (collectively known as "Users"), may encounter, or events which may occur as a result of any User’s use of the Website to the fullest extent permitted by law, and Ellesse shall not be liable for any damages or other losses of any type whatsoever incurred by Users as a result of their use of the Website. Ellesse does not exclude liability for death or personal injury. However, by accepting these Terms and Conditions, Users accept that Ellesse cannot be liable to Users for any loss or damage which entrants may suffer as a result of using the Website. Users must take their own precautions (including but not limited to installing adequate protective measures to guard against software viruses and ensuring that up-to-date copies are made of all data) to protect Users against loss or damage.
Information regarding personal data provided in the entry email will be collected, stored and processed in a database for the purpose of managing entry into this Prize Draw. Such information will not be used for any other purpose than as stated in these Terms and Conditions or as separately accepted by you. If you have separately agreed to receive communications from the Promoter then your personal data may be used for such purposes, including direct marketing. Any personal data that you provide will be held and processed in accordance with the requirements of the 1998 Data Protection Act.
Ellesse reserves the right to withdraw or amend this promotion and these terms and conditions in the event of any unforeseen circumstances outside their reasonable control or if in their absolute discretion, consider it necessary.
Ellesse reserves the right to terminate or temporarily suspend this promotion in the event of technical or other difficulties that might compromise its integrity.
Ellesse reserves the right to exclude any entries which they believe to be fraudulent or based on misconduct.
Ellesse and their agents accept no responsibility for difficulties experienced in submitting an entry to this prize draw.
By entering this prize draw, entrants agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. All entry instructions form part of these Terms and Conditions and any entry which does not comply with the entry instruction shall be invalid.

The promoter of the Prize Draw is Ellesse Limited, whose registered office is at 8 Manchester Square, London, W1U 3PH and whose principal place of business is at Ellesse Limited, The Pentland Centre, Lakeside, Squires Lane, Finchley, N3 2QL.