Climate Week Challenge Terms and Conditions
Climate Week Challenges – Terms and Conditions of Entry to Challenges
1. Promoter details
1.1 The promoter of the Climate Week Challenge is Climate Week Ltd (the “Promoter”), a company registered in England and Wales with registered number 06646940 whose registered office is at 35 Ballards Lane, London, N3 1XW.
2. Competition details
2.1 Climate Week begins on 12 March 2012 and ends on 18 March 2012.
2.2 There are two separate challenges being held during Climate Week:
2.2.1 the One Day Climate Week Challenge; and
2.2.2 the One Hour Climate Week Challenge
2.3 All national winners of the One Day Climate Week Challenge will be announced in the two weeks following Climate Week.
2.4 The One Hour Climate Week Challenge is not run as a national competition.
3. Conditions of entry
3.1 The One Day Climate Week Challenge is open only to schools, companies, firms and other bodies corporate which are situated in the UK (“Organisations”). Employees and agents of the Promoter or any company connected with the production or distribution of the Climate Week Challenge, as well as their relatives or members of their family or households are not allowed to make a nomination for the Climate Week Challenge, and any nomination submitted by any such person or entity will be invalid.
3.2 Persons making a nomination for the Climate Week Challenges (“Nominators”) must be aged 18 years or over at the time of entry. Valid proof of eligibility must be provided upon request. Nominators must be duly authorised by their respective Organisation to make nominations.
3.3 By making a nomination for either the Climate Week Challenge, Nominators and their respective Organisations are deemed to accept and be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
3.4 The Climate Week Challenge will be judged in eight separate categories (“Categories”):
Ages 3-5
Nursery and reception
Ages 5-7
England and Wales: Years 1 & 2
Northern Ireland: Primary 2 & 3
Scotland: Primary 1 & 2
Ages 7-9
England and Wales: Years 3 & 4
Northern Ireland: Primary 4 & 5
Scotland: Primary 3 & 4
Ages 9-12
England and Wales: Years 5 & 6
Northern Ireland: Primary 6 & 7
Scotland: Primary 5 – 7
Ages 11-14
England and Wales: Years 7 – 9
Northern Ireland: Years 8 – 10
Scotland: S1 & S2
Ages 14-16
England and Wales: Years 10 & 11
Northern Ireland: Years 11 & 12
Scotland: S3 & S4
Ages 16+
Sixth Form (Scotland: S5 & S6), Further Education and Higher Education
All Ages
Workplace
4. The One Day Climate Week Challenge
4.1 How to enter
4.1.1 The Climate Week Challenge commences at 09:00 hours on 12 March 2012 and closes at 14:00 hours on 12 March 2012 (the “Challenge Period”).
4.1.2 The Climate Week Challenge is free to enter. To enter the Climate Week Challenge, Nominators must first register at www.climateweek.com (the “Website”). Nominators will be asked to submit details of their Organisation including name, contact details, and website address. Following submission of these details, the Nominator will receive confirmation that their Organisation has applied to enter the Climate Week Challenge.
4.1.3 Climate Week will set an environment-based challenge (the “Challenge Task”) for entrants to complete during the Challenge Period. Further details relating to the Challenge Task can be found in the Information Packs on the Website at www.climateweek.com . The actual Challenge Task will be revealed on the Website at 09:00 hours on 12 March 2012.
4.1.4 There is no limit on the number of groups within each Organisation which may participate, but (in accordance with paragraph 4.2 below) only one group per Category may be nominated to represent the Organisation in each such Category. The maximum number of people allowed within each group is six.
4.2 Winners
4.2.1 At the close of the Challenge Task at 14:00 hours on 12 March 2012, all Organisations must select one nomination to represent it for each Category in which it participates. The Nominator will submit one nomination per Category by 17:00 hours on 13 March 2012 to the Promoter. Methods for selecting a nomination can be found in the Information Packs on the Website at www.climateweek.com .
4.2.2 Nominators must make one nomination only for each Category in which its Organisation participates.
4.2.3 The winning entries should be submitted via email to an address
4.2.4 The Promoter will judge all entries and produce a shortlist for external judging. This shortlist will be judged by a panel of judges (the “Panel”). Judging criteria can be found in the Information Packs on the Website at www.climateweek.com.
4.2.5 There is one winner only per Category.
4.2.6 The decision of the Panel is final in choosing the winners of the Climate Week Challenge and the decision of the Promoter will be final in all other regards. No correspondence will be entered into.
5. Use of your data
5.1 By disclosing personal information to the Promoter, Organisations and their Nominators agree that the Promoter may obtain, hold and use any personal information they submit to the Promoter for the purposes of processing their entry and administering these Challenges and, if Nominators indicate their acceptance during the nomination process (for example, by appropriately marking the relevant box(es) provided), for marketing the Promoter’s other products and services to them. Nominators agree to obtain similar consents from all those within their Organisation participating in the Challenges.
5.2 Any personal information relating to each nomination will be used by the Promoter solely in accordance with current data protection legislation.
6. User submissions
6.1 Any communications and/or other material which the Promoter receives from Organisations and their Nominators (including without limitation by email and any material that you submit via this Website) (“User Material”) will be deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary and the Promoter reserves the right to use User Material on this Website, any other website operated by the Promoter and in the Promoter’s offline publications where the Promoter considers this appropriate. Organisations and their Nominators hereby grant to the Promoter (and in respect of participating individuals agree to procure from them the grant to the Promoter of) a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, and publish such User Material on this Website, any other website operated by the Promoter and in the Promoter’s offline publications and for all other commercial and non-commercial purposes related to the Promoter’s work. If Organisations or their Nominators do not wish to grant such rights to the Promoter, then please do not submit any User Material to the Promoter.
6.2 By submitting any User Material, Organisations and their Nominators:
(a) warrant that such User Material is the original work people within their Organisation and that they are fully entitled to make it available to the Promoter for all the purposes specified above; and
(b) agree to waive (or agree to procure the waiver of) any moral rights in User Material.
6.3 Under no circumstances should Organisations or their Nominators submit any User Material:
(a) that is knowingly false or misleading;
(b) that is defamatory, illegal, abusive, vulgar, obscene, inflammatory, of a racist, sexist or other discriminatory nature, in breach of confidence or privacy or which is otherwise unlawful or offensive, or which might reasonably cause offence to any person or damage the reputation of Climate Week. Organisations and/or their Nominators must not use, or permit the use of, any abusive or aggressive language, swear, threaten, harass or abuse any other person, including other users;
(c) which they do not own or for which they have not obtained all necessary licences or approvals;
(d) which is technically harmful including, without limitation, computer viruses, Trojan horses, worms, corrupted data, malicious software or harmful data;
(e) impersonating any person or entity or falsely stating or otherwise misrepresenting their affiliation with any person or entity.
6.4 Any User Material submitted to the Promoter is submitted on the basis that the Promoter may review and edit such User Material prior to publication. The Promoter reserves the right to remove any User Material or part thereof published on the Website at any time and for any reason at the Promoter’s absolute discretion without notification to Organisations or their Nominators.
6.5 If the Promoter determines, or is informed, that the User Material or the circumstances of their production are unsuitable for any reason, the Promoter may remove such User Material in its absolute discretion without prior notification.
6.6 Organisations and their Nominators agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Promoter and its directors, officers and employees, from and against all liabilities, claims, demands, expenses and costs arising out of your submission of User Material which breach these Terms.
6.7 Please note that User Material supplied by Nominators will not be returned.
7. Liability – important, please read
7.1 Organisations and their Nominators should take all appropriate care when organising the Climate Week Challenges.
7.2 Subject to Clause 7.2, Organisations and their Nominators agree that the Promoter will not be liable for:
7.2.1 Any loss, disruption or damage caused by the Promoter or any of its employees or agents; or
7.2.2 Any other loss or damages whatsoever (including but not limited to, loss of profit or loss of use, direct, indirect or incidental loss) arising from their participation in the Challenges and whether such loss or damage arises in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise.
7.3 Nothing in these Terms shall exclude or restrict any liability for death or personal injury arising from the negligence of Climate Week or for any liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.
8. General
8.1 The selection of entries for appearance on the Website is entirely at the Promoter’s discretion.
8.2 By submitting an entry to the Climate Week Challenges, each Organisation and its Nominator grants to the Promoter a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty free, non-transferable, irrevocable licence for the full period of copyright to use and reproduce any content provided by the Nominator to the Promoter or any third party acting on the Promoter’s behalf (including any content submitted as part of the entrant’s entry or otherwise, both before and after the Climate Week Challenges’ entry periods) in connection with the Climate Week Challenges including without limitation in print and on the Website.
8.3 Each Organisation and its Nominator agrees that the Promoter may use its Organisation’s name and/or likeness for advertising and/or publicity purposes in connection with the Climate Week Challenges including but not limited to publication of the Organisation’s name and idea on the Website.
8.4 The winning Organisations (and its representatives and personnel) may be required to take part in reasonable publicity events in connection with the Climate Week Challenges. Organisations agree to procure such participation from their participating representatives and personnel.
8.5 The Promoter is not responsible, and shall not be liable, for any problems related to any computer online systems or equipment, software failure of any email or failure of an entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or the Website, or any combination thereof, including but not limited to any injury or damage to an Organisation’s or its Nominator’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation in the Climate Week Challenges. Proof that an email has been sent will not be deemed proof of receipt. No entries will be accepted in bulk, from agents or third parties.
8.6 In the event of any dispute regarding an entry, the Promoter reserves the right in its absolute discretion to:
8.6.1 remove such entry from display; and
8.6.2 exclude the relevant entry and/or entrant from the Climate Week Challenges.
8.7 The Promoter reserves the right in its absolute discretion to disqualify any Organisation, Nominator or nomination which does not comply with these Terms and Conditions and/or any Organisation or Nominator whose conduct is contrary to the spirit of these Terms and Conditions. In the event of circumstances beyond its reasonable control, the Promoter reserves the right to withdraw, amend or cancel the Climate Week Challenges.
8.8 Events may occur that render the Climate Week Challenges impossible due to reasons beyond the control of the Promoter and accordingly the Promoter may at its absolute discretion vary or amend the promotion and the Organisation and the Nominator agree that no liability shall attach to the Promoter as a result thereof.
8.9 These terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales and any dispute (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
