Home for Christmas Pre-Order Promotion
Official Rules
1. This Home for Christmas Pre-Order Promotion (“Promotion”) is organised by SIMON & SCHUSTER (UK) LIMITED of 222 Gray’s Inn Road, London WCIX 8HB (“Sponsor”). Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or amend the Promotion or these Official Rules without notice at any time, including, without limitation, in the event of an act of God or any other event outside of Sponsor’s reasonable control. Sponsor shall notify all entrants of any such cancellation or amendment. Sponsor, its parent company, subsidiaries and affiliates, and any other companies or agencies associated with the Promotion (such as technology, advertising, promotion, fulfillment, or judging partners), will hereinafter collectively be referred to as the “Promotion Entities.”
2. Only one entry per person/e-mail is permitted. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who uses multiple accounts, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, or any technologies which permit multiple entries and any entries which are completed by third parties or in bulk, illegible, have been altered, reconstructed, forged, or tampered with or are incomplete.
3. Each entrant must be a resident of the United Kingdom and aged 18 or over. Sponsor may require proof that you are eligible to enter the Promotion. Employees of Sponsor or affiliated companies, employees of agents or suppliers of the Sponsor or affiliated companies, their immediate families or anyone professionally associated with this Promotion or its administration and their immediate families, are excluded from entry.
4. Any entrants that do not meet the criteria to enter the Promotion shall be disqualified. Sponsor also reserves the right to remove any entries from the Promotion it determines, in its sole discretion, to be in violation of these Official Rules or if the entrant’s conduct is contrary to the spirit or intention of the Promotion.
5. To enter, During the Promotion Period (as defined below), Pre-order Home for Christmas (paperback, ebook or audio) from any online retailer of your choice, go to https://simonandschuster.co.uk/p/home-for-christmas-pre-order (the “Landing Page”) and fill out the form and follow the directions to enter with your full name, email address, mailing address, postal code, preorder confirmation number, and retail outlet, indicate that you have read and understood these rules and press submit by 11:59:59 PM BST on 09/10/24. If potential winner(s) entered using the pre-order method, they will be required to submit an image of the receipt and entry details need to match the submitted information when they entered the Promotion.
One (1) Pre-order Entry per person, per Promotion is permitted There is no charge to enter.
6. By submitting your entry form, you:
- Consent to the Sponsor publishing your picture on the Sponsor’s and affiliated companies’ and other third-party websites, on social media and all other platforms.
- Acknowledge that Sponsor will use and store your personal data for the purpose of fulfilling this Promotion. Information will be held in accordance with the applicable Sponsor’s Privacy Policy in place from time to time (https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/c/privacy-policy).
- Consent to the Sponsor publishing and/or disclosing your name, county, and a copy of your entry form if you win a prize;
- Hereby grant to Sponsor a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty free, perpetual licence to publish any or all of the content (including the entry and any photographs, although publication does not necessarily mean the entrant has won a prize) submitted to the Sponsor to edit, use, modify, copy, publish, display, promote, publicise and use in any and all media (including print, online and social media) for publicity, news and/or marketing purposes, along with your image, likeness and voice (where video or audio recording is provided).
7. The Sponsor is not obliged to publish your picture or the content you submit.
8. Promotion Period for receipt of entries starts at 12:00:00 AM BST on 11/09/24 (“Opening Date”) and ends at 11:59:59 PM BST on 09/10/24 (“Closing Date”). Entries submitted after the Closing Date will be invalid.
9. Sponsor accepts no responsibility for any late, lost, or misdirected entries regardless of cause including but not limited to messages not received due to technical disruptions, network congestion, loss in service of online entry mechanisms, computer error in transit or any other reason. Sponsor cannot enter into correspondence with entrants who experience difficulties with entering online. Sponsor will not accept proof of transmission or submission or any other evidence as proof of entry to the Promotion.
Total ARV of all Prizes combined: £100.00
All winners should receive the prize won upon submitting. Winners may be required to submit valid identification before receiving their prize.
11. The winners shall be notified via email on or around 11/10/24 and must respond accepting the prize via email within seven (7) calendar days of receipt of the foregoing notification email from Sponsor. If a selected winner does not confirm the prize via email within seven (7) calendar days of the notification email being sent by Sponsor, Sponsor may select another winner. Any winner that is not qualified to enter the Promotion shall be disqualified. Sponsor will not accept any amended contact details provided after the Promotion entry has been summitted. Sponsor is not liable for any inability to contact any entrant whether due to errors, omissions or inaccuracies in the contact details provided by an entrant on an entry form or due to technical problems preventing Sponsor from obtaining accurate contact details, including, without limitation, any acts, or omissions by any third-party service provider or for any other reason.
12. The prize is non-transferable, no money alternative is available, and no part of the prize may be substituted for other benefits, items, or additions. Sponsor does not accept any responsibility if you are not able to claim the prize and the prize may not be claimed by a third party on your behalf. The prize not valid with other offers. Prizes are subject to availability. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the prize with a prize of equal or greater value. The prize is not negotiable or transferable.
13. By entering the Promotion all entrants:
- waive all moral rights in the entry and all content provided including photographs; and
- undertake to Sponsor that all such materials including photographs are not and do not represent a breach of any third-party intellectual property rights and will not contain anything which is defamatory, indecent, harassing or threatening and that they will indemnify the Sponsor for any loss, damage or liability which arises out of any breach of this clause; and
- assign to the Sponsor all rights (including present and future copyright) in their entry (but not the copyright in any photographs) and all associated materials.
14. For the avoidance of doubt, all rights in the name and title of the Promotion and the format rights for the Promotion are the property of Sponsor and the same may be exploited at their absolute discretion.
15. Sponsor shall have no liability for any losses or damages which may be suffered by an entrant (or any person claiming under or through the entrant), in connection with this Promotion, whether the same are suffered directly or indirectly or are immediate or consequential, and whether the same arise in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise howsoever, but Sponsor does not exclude liability for:
- death or personal injury caused by the negligence of Sponsor
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
- any other liability which cannot be excluded by law.
16. Duplicate Entries by the same person will be subject to disqualification. Any other attempted form of Entry is prohibited. No automatic, programmed; robotic or similar means of Entry are permitted. All Entries become the sole and exclusive property of the Sponsor. Delivery of prizes requires a street address. Only fully completed Entry forms are eligible. Receipt of Entries will not be acknowledged or returned. The Promotion Entities are not responsible for: (i) technical, hardware, software, telephone or other communications malfunctions, errors or failures of any kind; (ii) lost or unavailable network connections, web site, Internet, or ISP availability, unauthorized human intervention, traffic congestion, incomplete or inaccurate capture of Entry information (regardless of cause); (iii) lost, late, illegible, stolen, invalid, unintelligible, misdirected, failed, incomplete, technically corrupt or garbled Entry, which will be disqualified; (iv) jumbled or delayed computer transmissions which may limit one’s ability to enter the Promotion; (v) any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participating in this Promotion or downloading any materials in this Promotion; (vi) or for problems of any other kind whether mechanical, human, or electronic. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.
17. No forbearance or delay by either party in enforcing its rights shall prejudice or restrict the rights of that party, and no waiver of any such rights or of any breach of any contractual terms shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other right or of any later breach. If any provision of these Official Rules is judged to be illegal or unenforceable, the continuation in full force and effect of the remainder of the provisions will not be prejudiced. None of these Official Rules are intended to confer a benefit on, or to be enforceable by, any person other than the entrant or Sponsor.
18. These Official Rules and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with these Official Rules or the Promotion will be governed by English law. The courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to determine any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Official Rules or the Promotion.
19. Any questions, comments or complaints about the Official Rules, or this Promotion, please send an email to amy.fulwood@simonandschuster.co.uk with “Home for Christmas Pre-Order Promotion” in the subject heading.
By entering into this Promotion, you agree to be bound by these Official Rules (and by any other requirements or limitations set forth in promotional materials relating to this Promotion) which may be amended or varied at any time by Sponsor.
20. Sponsor must either publish or make available information that indicates that a valid award took place. To comply with this obligation Sponsor will send the surname and county of prize winners and, if applicable, copies of their winning entries, to anyone who emails amy.fulwood@simonandschuster.co.uk within one month after the closing date of the Promotion.
21. If you object to any or all of your surname, county and winning entry being published or made available, please contact Sponsor by emailing genevieve.barratt@simonandschuster.co.uk. In such circumstances, Sponsor must still provide the information and winning entry to the Advertising Standards Authority on request.
22. If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these Official Rules, Sponsor may, at its sole discretion, reserve the right to exclude you from participating in the Promotion