London & Partners standard competition terms

These competition terms (Terms) apply to the #TaylorSwiftLondonMural promoted by London & Partners.

Please read these Terms carefully. By submitting a competition entry you agree to be bound by them, and to any additional terms included in the post(s) announcing the competition on the competition website(s)( (the “competition post”) (all such terms being together the “Terms”). We recommend that you print or save a copy of these Terms for future reference.

If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not enter the competition.

LONDON & PARTNERS:

1. WHO WE ARE AND HOW TO CONTACT US

1.1 We are London & Partners Limited (L&P, we, us), a company limited by guarantee, incorporated in England and Wales under company number 07493460 and whose registered office address is at 169 Union Street, London SE1 0LL.

1.2 To contact us please use the contact information provided at www.londonandpartners.com/contact-us.

2. THE COMPETITION

2.1 The competition will run from 00:01 on the date specified on the competition post to 23:59 on the date specified on the competition post (the “Closing Date”) inclusive.

2.2 All competition entries must be received by L&P by no later than 23:59 on the Closing Date. All competition entries received after the Closing Date are automatically disqualified.

2.3 You can enter the competition in the ways described on the competition post and the winner(s) and any runners up will be selected in the manner described on the competition post. Please note that prize(s) are only awarded to the overall winner(s) of the competition and not to any runners up.

2.4 No purchase is necessary and there is no charge to enter the competition.

2.5 L&P will not accept:

  • 2.5.1 - responsibility for competition entries that are lost, mislaid, damaged, mis-directed or delayed in transit, or that cannot be delivered, in each case regardless of cause, including, for example, as a result of any postal failure, equipment failure, technical malfunction, or systems, satellite, network, server, computer hardware or software failure of any kind; or
  • 2.5.2 - proof of posting or transmission as proof of receipt of entry to the competition.

2.6 For help with submitting an entry please contact us using the information provided at www.londonandpartners.com/contact-us.

2.7 Our website terms of use (www.londonandpartners.com/about-us/terms-and-conditions) (Website Terms) also apply to your use of our website.

2.8 In the event of a conflict between these Terms and the Website Terms, these Terms shall prevail.

3. ELIGIBILITY

3.1 The competition is open to persons aged 18 years or over who are resident in the United Kingdom (including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands) (the “UK”) or in a member state of the European Union (the “EU”) only, excluding:

  • 3.1.1 - employees of L&P or its holding or subsidiary companies;
  • 3.1.2 - employees of agents or suppliers of L&P or its holding or subsidiary companies, who are professionally connected with the competition or its administration; or
  • 3.1.3 - members of the immediate families or households of (a) and (b) above.

3.2 There are no limits on the number of entries you may submit. [However, entries made on behalf of another person will not be accepted, and joint submissions are not allowed.

3.3 In entering the competition, you confirm that you meet the requirements set out above in paragraphs 3.1-3.2, and are eligible to claim any prize(s) you may win. L&P may require you to provide proof that you are eligible to enter the competition and receive the prize(s).

3.4 In entering the competition you also confirm that you are not infringing any intellectual property rights of a third party and that any information contained in your entry is not confidential, proprietary or business sensitive information. In other words, you should be the original owner(s) and creator(s) of your submission and it should not be copied from anywhere or anyone else.

3.5 L&P will not accept competition entries that are:

  • 3.5.1 - automatically generated by computer or created by artificial intelligence (including but not limited to chatbots such as ChatGPT or similar software applications);
  • 3.5.2 - illegible, have been altered, reconstructed, forged, corrupted or tampered with;
  • 3.5.3 - completed by third parties or in bulk;
  • 3.5.4 - photocopies and not originals;
  • 3.5.5 – incomplete;
  • 3.5.6 – include false or misleading information;
  • 3.5.7 - contain any derogatory, defamatory, indecent or otherwise illegal content; or
  • 3.5.8 - are not compliant with the Terms.

3.6 L&P reserves all rights to disqualify you if your conduct is contrary to the spirit or intention of the prize competition.

3.7 Competition entries will not be returned.

4. THE PRIZE(S)

4.1 The prize(s) are supplied by L&P, or the supplier(s) identified on the competition post (if any) and are also subject to any terms of the supplier(s) specified on the competition post .You are responsible for complying (and for ensuring that each member of your party accompanying you to collect/participate in your prize(s) complies with) all such terms.

4.2 L&P reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to replace the prize(s) with an alternative prize(s) of equal or higher value if circumstances beyond L&P's and/or a supplier’s control makes it necessary to do so.

4.3 Unless otherwise stated on the competition post, the prize(s) do not include accommodation, upgrades, travel insurance, medical insurance, the cost of transfers to and from airports or stations, food and drink, spending money, vehicle parking charges, lounge access, excess baggage, excursions, attractions, the cost of any visa, visa-waiver or other travel document, tax, tips or personal expenses. Any other costs incurred in addition to those set out above and that are incidental to the fulfilment of the prize(s) are the responsibility of the winner(s), unless otherwise stated on the competition post.

4.4 You will be responsible for ensuring that if the prize(s) involve travel you and any person travelling with you are available to travel and hold valid passports or other necessary evidence of identity and any necessary visas or visa-waivers, and other required travel documents. L&P does not accept responsibility or liability:

  • 4.4.1 - if you are denied a travel document or refused entry for any reason into the UK. If you or any person travelling with you are refused entry into the UK, the remainder of the prize will be forfeited.

     

  • 4.4.2 - for any loss or damage suffered by you, any person travelling with you, or any other person as a result of your failure (or the failure of any person travelling with you) to arrive at, or return from, the applicable destination or if you (or any person travelling with you) are unable to travel to the destination.
    In addition:
  • 4.4.3 - you (and any person travelling with you) may be required to sign a release of liability in favour of L&P and/or any supplier before departure.

     

  • 4.4.4 - if any person travelling with you is under 18 then a parent or legal guardian may be required to sign a release of liability on behalf of the person under 18 before departure.

4.5 Prize(s) are subject to availability. There is no cash alternative for the prize(s).

4.6 The prize(s) are not negotiable or transferable.

4.7 In order to claim the prize(s) the winner(s) must follow the instructions set out on the competition post. Please note that any runner(s) up will not receive any prize(s). Prize(s) are only for the overall winner(s) of the competition.

4.8 The prize(s) may not be used in conjunction with any other promotion offered by the supplier of the prize(s) or any third party.

4.9 The prize(s) may not be claimed by a third party on behalf of any winner.

4.10 L&P does not accept any responsibility if the winner(s) is not able to take up the prize(s) (or any part of the prize) for any reason.

4.11 The prize(s) may not be the subject of any claim of any nature whatsoever by the winner(s) or by any party on the behalf of any winner(s).

4.12 The total value indicated for the prize(s) (if any) set out on the competition post is only given by way of a guide and is subject to change. It is the equivalent of the retail price including VAT of the goods and/or services offered or estimated immediately before the opening date of the competition.

5. WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT

5.1 The winner(s) of the competition and any runners up will be selected and announced in the manner set out on the competition post.

5.2 The decision of L&P, or the judges nominated by L&P (if applicable), is final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.

5.3 L&P will use reasonable efforts to contact the winner personally through the social media platform on which the original competition post was made, as soon as practicable after the Closing Date. L&P will not amend any contact information once the competition entry has been submitted.

5.4 If the winner(s), once contacted, fails to respond to us within 24 hours of having been notified of his or her prize(s), or fails to provide any required proof of identity or address upon request, or otherwise fails to provide a digital copy of their submission to us within the requested timeframe for to enable it to be used for the purposes set out in the competition post, the prize(s) will be relinquished and L&P reserves the right to offer the prize(s) to the next eligible winner(s) selected from the entries that were received before the Closing Date.

5.5 Prize(s) will be awarded to the winner(s) within 30 days of the Closing Date or, if later, within 30 days following the date on which the relevant winner has complied with all requirements for claiming such prize(s) as set out in these Terms.

6. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

6.1 Except for death and personal injury caused by L&P’s negligence and any other liability which cannot be excluded by law, L&P, its suppliers or agents will not in any circumstances be liable for any loss, damage, expense or liability which is incurred (whether or not arising from negligence) in connection with you entering the competition or as a result of any winner(s) (or any guests or travelling companions of the winner(s)) taking up the prize(s). Your statutory rights are not affected.

6.2 L&P will not be liable for any failure to comply with, or delay in complying with, its obligations under the Terms where that failure or delay is caused by something outside its reasonable control.

6.3 L&P will have no liability to the winner(s) (or any guests or travelling companions of the winner(s)) for any withdrawal, suspension, cancellation or amendment in accordance with paragraph 9.4.

7. OWNERSHIP OF COMPETITION ENTRIES AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

7.1 By submitting your promotion entry and any accompanying material, the winner(s) and any runners up agree that L&P and/or any of its suppliers professionally connected with the promotion may, but are not required to, make your entry available;

  • 7.1.1 - on L&P’s or such supplier’s website(s), social media platforms and/or in any other media, whether now known or invented in the future, in connection with any publicity of the competition; and

     

  • 7.1.2 - as otherwise specified in on the competition post.

     

7.2 The winner(s) and any runners up further agree to grant L&P an exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable and royalty-free licence of any and all intellectual property rights in their competition entry for a period of ninety (90) days commencing on the Closing Date (the Competition Period), to use, display, reproduce, issue and communicate to the public, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-license to any third party, and otherwise use the competition entry for the purposes listed in paragraph 7.1 above.

7.3 In addition to the licence granted under paragraph 7.2 above, the winner(s) and any runners up agree upon expiry of the Competition Period to grant to L&P a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free licence of any and all intellectual property rights in their competition entry to which they are then or are at any time in the future entitled, for the full period of such rights, to display, reproduce, issue and communicate to the public, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-license to any third party, and otherwise use the competition entry in marketing materials promoting any of L&P’s or such supplier’s products and/or services.

7.4 In addition all entrants to the competition agree and confirm that:

  • 7.4.1 - their competition entry does not feature any third party brands or any personal information about another individual, or infringe any other person’s intellectual property rights;
  • 7.4.2 - their competition entry has not been previously published in any medium or been entered into any other competition or won any prize or award;

7.5 Any winner or runner up whose competition entry is used by L&P or any of its suppliers agrees that he or she will not bring any claim against L&P or any of its suppliers or agents in respect of defamation or any infringement of personal or propriety rights or any sort arising from L&P’s (or its suppliers or agents) use of their competition entry in accordance with these Terms, and that he or she will not try to obtain any order preventing or restricting L&P (or its suppliers’ or agents’) use of their competition entry in accordance with the Terms.

8. DATA PROTECTION AND PUBLICITY

8.1 Unless the winner(s) of the competition objects as set out in paragraph 8.4:

  • 8.1.1 - the name, town of residence, image and any social media profile of the winner(s) may be used by L&P and/or its suppliers professionally connected with the promotion to announce the winner of the promotion; and
  • 8.1.2 - the name and county of the winner(s) will be available on request for a period of 30 days after the date when such winner(s) is notified of his or her prize(s) and has completed any necessary requirements to claim such prize(s):
    – by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope marked with the name of the relevant promotion and “Winner?” to L&P at the address set out in paragraph 1; and
    – at the offices of L&P set out in paragraph 1.

8.2 Subject to the winner’s right to object to use of their personal details as set out in paragraph 8.4, the winner(s) understands and agrees that he or she is expected to take part in promotional activity relating to the competition as reasonably requested by L&P and/or its suppliers professionally connected with the competition. This includes participating in media interviews and potentially being filmed and having his or her photo taken for use in press releases and broadcasts about the competition on the day that the mural based upon the winner(s) submission is unveiled to the public.

8.3 Subject the right to object to use of their personal details as set out in paragraph 8.4, below, the personal details of the winner(s) may be used by L&P and/or its suppliers professionally connected with the competition:

  • 8.3.1 - in connection with any publicity for the competition on L&P’s or such suppliers’ websites (including upon any social media platform where the competition is being promoted) and/or in any other media whether now known or invented in the future;
  • 8.3.2 - in connection with L&P’s or its suppliers’ use of any winning promotion entry in any marketing materials promoting any of L&P’s or its suppliers’ products and/or services; and/or
  • 8.3.3 - as otherwise specified in the competition post.

8.4 The winner(s) has the right to object to the use of their personal details in any publicity at the time of notification that they have won a prize, in which case L&P and its suppliers will not use the winner’s personal details in any way to which the winner has objected.

8.5 By entering the competition, you confirm that all data provided by you is accurate.

8.6 By entering the competition, you understand that your personal data and the personal details of any companion may be held and used by L&P and/or its agents and suppliers to administer the competition as well as for the purposes set out in these Terms. We will only process your personal details and that of any companion in accordance with the Terms and in the other ways set out in our privacy policy (as updated from time to time) (see www.londonandpartners.com/about-us/privacy). You are responsible for ensuring that any companion knows that his/her personal details may be used for these purposes by directing him/her to these Terms and to L&P’s privacy policy.

8.7 Please note that anyone wishing to enter the competition will need to have their social media platform profile switched to ‘public’ so that L&P can access their post with their submission entry. Otherwise we will not be able to see or access it.

8.8 We will not make any use of any personal information of a runner up other than their user name for the relevant social media platform. You consent to this use by entering into the competition. However you may object to our use of your personal information at any time in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy.

9. GENERAL

9.1 Any instructions and other terms provided on the competition post form part of the Terms. Any instructions and other terms on the competition post take precedence over any conflicting provisions in these Terms.

9.2 The decision of L&P and/or any judge on any aspect of the competition is final and binding and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.

9.3 If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these Terms, L&P may, at its absolute discretion, exclude you from participating in the competition.

9.4 L&P reserves the right to withdraw, suspend, cancel, or amend the competition if events beyond its reasonable control make the operation of the competition and/or the awarding any prize(s) impossible or materially more difficult, or technical or other difficulties might compromise the integrity of the competition.

9.5 As this competition is promoted on a social media platform, by entering it you acknowledge and agree that:

  • 9.5.1 - You must be a registered user of the relevant social media platform in order to access the competition;
  • 9.5.2 - the competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, that social media platform;
  • 9.5.3 - you will comply with all the rules regarding the use of the relevant social media platform including but not limited to any rules relating to entry of prize draws, competitions or other promotions either directly through that platform or otherwise;
  • 9.5.4 - you provide your information in the first instance to L&P (but that your information will also be being stored and processed on the social media platform in accordance with its own privacy policy and the terms of use of that platform);
  • 9.5.5 - you release that social media platform from any action or claim arising out of the competition; and
  • 9.5.6 - any questions, comments or complaints regarding the competition must be directed to L&P directly and not to the social media platform upon which the competition was promoted.

9.6 These Terms are governed by English law and you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Terms in the English courts. If you live in Scotland you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Terms in either the Scottish or the English courts. If you live in Northern Ireland you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the Terms in either the Northern Irish or the English court.