SAFFIE’S SMILES PROMOTION RULES:
By entering this competition (the Promotion), you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (the Terms and Conditions). Completion and submission of an entry form or e-mail will also be deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions. Promotional materials relating to the Promotion, including all information on how to enter the Promotion published in publications of the Promoter (including social media if applicable) or on the Promoter’s websites, also form part of these Terms and Conditions. In the event of any conflict between any terms referred to in such promotional materials and these Terms and Conditions, these Terms and Conditions take precedence.
The promoter of this Promotion is News Group Newspapers Ltd (publishers of The Sun and The Sun on Sunday) of 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF (the Promoter).
Eligibility
The Promotion is only open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
You must be aged 18 years or older to enter the Promotion.
The following individuals are not eligible to enter the Promotion:
employees and agents of the Promoter, News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (or any group companies of the Promoter or News Corp UK & Ireland Limited);
employees and agents of (i) any organisation directly connected with the operation or fulfilment of the Promotion (including third party promotional partners); and (ii) any associated, affiliated or subsidiary companies of such organisations or partners; and
the immediate families and household members of all such employees and agents referred to in (a) and (b).
By entering the Promotion, you confirm that you are eligible to do so and are eligible to claim the Prize you may win. The Promoter may require you to provide proof of your age, residency, and eligibility to enter the Promotion. If a Winner is found to be ineligible, the Promoter reserves the right to award the Prize to another participant and to require the return of the Prize (or any portion of the Prize) if already awarded. The Promoter’s decision as to whether an entrant is eligible for this promotion is final and the Promoter is not obliged to provide any reasons for disqualification.
You must comply with the laws that apply to you in the jurisdiction that you access the Promotion from. If any laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit you from entering the Promotion, you must comply with those laws and, if applicable, refrain from entering the Promotion.
Timing
The Promotion starts at 00.01 AM (UK time) on 21 April 2025 and closes at 23.59 PM (UK time) on 26 May 2025 (the Promotion Period). Any entries received outside the Promotion Period are automatically disqualified.
How to Enter
To enter you must tell us in 150 words or less about a young person (aged 16 or under) who has gone above and beyond for others, their community/family/school, and why they deserve to win. Perhaps they have shown incredible bravery in the face of adversity or have worked incredibly hard to support others. (your Entry). You can enter this Promotion by completing and submitting the online entry form at http://thesun.co.uk/saffie during the Promotion Period.
Entries to the Promotion must be the original work of the participant and not previously published. Entries which are or in the Promoter’s reasonable opinion appear to be plagiarised will be disqualified. Participants acknowledge and agree that:
they have obtained all rights, licences, and permissions necessary, in writing, from any person who may have helped create and/or be featured in their entry; and
their entry to the Promotion (including any text and photographs):
does not contain or feature any personal information about any person (including their name, contact details, a photograph of them and/or any other identifying information) without that person’s consent (proof of which must be provided to the Promoter upon request);
does not contain any content that is defamatory, libellous, racist, homophobic, derogatory, pornographic, obscene, sexist, illegal, and/or otherwise inappropriate;
does not include trade marks, logos, or copyright protected material which belongs to third parties without permission (including company names, music, photographs, motion picture or television programme clips or audio tracks, works of art, or images published on or in websites, television, movies, or other media);
is not subject to any third party agreements and the Promoter will not be required to pay any sums to any third party as a result of the Promoter’s use (as set out in these Terms and Conditions) or the exploitation by the Promoter of the idea, video or other rights contained in any entry;
does not contain anything confidential or commercially sensitive;
does not include any computer-generated or AI-generated content; and
does not contain any known virus, trojan horse, worm, trapdoor or similar software that may in any way infect or affect any of the Promoter’s hardware or software systems.
Participants may make a maximum of one entry per person during the Promotion Period. Bulk, automatically generated or third party entries are void.
The Promoter reserves the right to remove or temporarily suspend any entries submitted from the Promotion if it reasonably suspects any breach of these Terms and Conditions or if it receives any complaint from any third party relating to such entry.
Any entries received other than via the official entry method will not be accepted. Use of script, macro or any automated system to enter the Promotion is prohibited. Entries made (or which appear to have been made) using any such system may be treated as void. Any illegible, incomplete or fraudulent entries will be rejected. No purchase of any product or service is required to enter into this Promotion.
Incomplete or illegible entries will be void.
Winners and Prizes
There will be only 1 winner of the Promotion (the Winner), who will receive the Prize (as defined below).
The Winner will be the Entry who nominee has gone above and beyond for others (the Judging Criteria). The Winner will be selected by an independent judge (or a panel of judges including at least one independent member). The decision of the judge(s) shall be final. The names of the judge(s) for a Promotion can be made available on request.
The Prize is a holiday voucher worth £5,000 (five thousand pounds), which is redeemable against a package holiday booking (flight and hotel) made with www.onthebeach.co.uk.
The Prize can be redeemed against a holiday of any duration, any board type and to any destination which is advertised on On the Beach Limited (“OTB”)’s website (www.onthebeach.co.uk). A Prize can only be redeemed against a holiday booking comprising of a flight and hotel. A Prize cannot be redeemed against flight only or hotel only bookings.
The Prize must be redeemed by booking a holiday comprising a flight and hotel before 31 December 2025. No extension is possible. Any changes made after the booking has been processed are subject to amendment fees.
the Prize has a maximum value of £5,000 (five thousand pounds) only. Any cost above this amount is the responsibility of the recipient of the Prize (the “Winner”) and must be paid in full at the time of booking. No alternative payment plan or method shall be available to a Winner in any circumstance.
the Prize does not include travel insurance, or any other items or expense not specifically stated within the Prize description. All such costs and expenses will be the responsibility of the relevant Winner and members of their travelling party.
the Winner and their travelling party are responsible for ensuring they (i) hold a valid passport and any necessary visa to travel, (ii) hold all adequate travel insurance policies, and (iii) comply with any other terms and conditions applicable to the Prize.
OTB will contact the Winner to facilitate the Prize. The Prize cannot be redeemed online. It may only be redeemed upon a telephone booking. The appropriate prize value will be deducted from the overall booking cost and the remaining amount must be paid in full at the time of booking by the Winner.
Any fees or costs associated with or incidental to the acceptance or use of a Prize (other than delivery of the same in accordance with these terms) will be the responsibility of the Winner.
The Prize is subject to the terms and conditions of OTB which can be found at www.onthebeach.co.uk/terms_of_business and their privacy policy (www.onthebeach.co.uk/privacy.) will apply to the processing of your personal information.
The Prize is non-exchangeable and non-transferable. The Winner has no right to request or receive an alternative to the Prize, and the Prize cannot be redeemed for cash or its monetary value, in whole or in part.
Notwithstanding paragraph 19 above, in the event that, for any reason beyond the Promoter’s reasonable control, the Promoter is unable to award the Prize as described in these Terms and Conditions, the Promoter reserves the right to award a prize of a similar nature and an equivalent value, or at its sole discretion, the cash value of the Prize. The Promoter also reserves the right to award a prize of a similar nature and an equivalent value, or at its sole discretion, the cash value of the Prize if in its reasonable discretion it is appropriate to do so.
The Winner is responsible for paying all costs and expenses that are not included within the Prize, but are incidental to the Winner redeeming the Prize, including (for example) transport, accommodation, meal costs, spending money, insurance and any other incidentals. The Winner is also personally responsible for any personal expenses and any VAT, national and/or local tax liabilities (if any) incurred in claiming or using the Prize.
By participating in the Promotion, participants agree that the Prize is awarded on an “as is” basis and that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, neither the Promoter nor any of its subsidiary or affiliated companies, make any guarantees, representations or warranties of any nature with respect to the Prize.
Winner Notification and Claiming Prize
The Promoter will use its reasonable endeavours to notify the Winner by email or phone or using the other contact details provided to the Promoter within 14 days after the end of the Promotion Period. The Winner needs to confirm acceptance of the Prize within 7 days of being notified they have won. Winners may be required to submit valid identification before receiving their prize.
If a Winner (i) cannot be contacted within this 7 day window or (ii) refuses or is unable to confirm acceptance of the Prize, the Promoter reserves the right to award the Prize to the next best Entry as judged by the judges.
The Prize will be delivered, or details with instructions on how to book or obtain the Prize will be communicated, to the Winner within a reasonable time and by no later than 28 (twenty eight) days after the Prize has been accepted.
Publicity and Data Protection
The Promoter will collect and process participants’ personal information in accordance with the privacy policy at http://www.newsprivacy.co.uk/. See also clauses 28 to 30, with regard to announcement of the Winner.
The Promoter is required to either publish or make available information that indicates a valid award took place. As such, (and subject to any objections of the Winner) the Promoter will send the surname and county of the Winner and, if applicable copies of their winning entries, to anyone that contacts the Promoter at the address given above by no later than 28 (twenty eight) days after the end of the Promotion Period.
The Winner of this Promotion may be asked to participate in publicity.
If a Winner objects to their information being published and/or made available, or participating in publicity as described above, they should inform the Promoter at the earliest opportunity by emailing [email protected]/ The Winner acknowledges that the Promoter may still be required to share their details with the Advertising Standards Authority or other regulators.
Participants will retain copyright in their submitted entries to the Promotion, however, by entering, all participants grant the Promoter a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to edit, publish and use each Promotion entry in any and all media whether now known or invented in the future (including print and online) for publicity and news purposes in respect of all intellectual property rights arising in and related to the entries in question. Participants acknowledge and agree that they have all rights necessary to grant the rights provided for herein, and that all materials forming part of their entry to the Promotion, and any use of such materials by or on behalf of the Promoter, comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations and do not infringe or otherwise violate the intellectual property or other rights of any third party, including privacy rights.
Liability
Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall in any way limit or exclude the Promoter’s liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for any other matter where liability may not be limited as a matter of law.
The Promoter will not be responsible for any damage, loss or injury resulting from participants’ entry into the Promotion or their acceptance and/or use of the Prize, or for technical, hardware or software failures, lost, faulty or unavailable network connections or difficulties of any kind that may limit or prohibit participant’s ability to participate in the Promotion. Your statutory rights are not affected.
The Promoter will not be responsible for any lost, damaged, defaced, incomplete, illegible or otherwise unreadable entries. Proof of sending an entry (whether by post, email, SMS or other method) is not proof of receipt by the Promoter of any entries.
Without prejudice to a participant’s statutory rights and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Promoter, its agents or distributors will not be responsible or liable to compensate the Winner or accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by or any personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up a Prize.
The title in the Prize and any risk of loss or damage to the Prize will pass to the Winner upon delivery of the Prize to such Winner. The Promoter is not liable for or obliged to replace any defective, lost, damaged or stolen Prize where such defect, loss or damage is not due to the fault and/or negligence of the Promoter.
General
The Promoter’s decision as to the Winner of the Prize is final and binding on the participants. The Promoter will not enter into correspondence with participants in relation to this decision.
Participants agree to keep confidential any information of any nature regarding the Promoter and its businesses, personnel, agents, sponsors and event promoters received by participants as a result of winning or participating in any Promotion.
The provision of the Prize does not imply endorsement by the Promoter of On the Beach Limited or any third parties concerned in any way with the Promotion. Any complaints or queries relating to the use of the Prize should be directed to On the Beach Limited.
Unless otherwise stated in the promotional materials, this Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, the manufacturer or service provider of the relevant Prize. Participants are providing their information to the Promoter and not to the manufacturer or service provider of the relevant Prize (although, if a participant wins, their details may be disclosed to the Prize provider in order to provide them with the Prize).
Participants must not do anything illegal and/or dangerous and/or that would put themselves or others at any risk with the Prize or in connection with the Promotion in any way.
Any participant who enters or attempts to enter the Promotion in a manner, which in the Promoter’s reasonable opinion is contrary to these Terms and Conditions or by its nature is unjust to other participants (including tampering with the operation of the Promotion, cheating, hacking, deception or any other unfair playing practices such as intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other participants or the Promoter and/or any of its agents or representatives) may be rejected from the Promotion at the Promoter’s sole discretion. Furthermore, where such actions have significantly impaired the Promotion, the Promoter may, at its sole discretion, add further stages to the Promotion as it deems reasonably necessary in order to resolve any problems arising from such actions.
The Promoter reserves the right, at any time, to cancel, modify or amend any element of the Promotion and/or these Terms and Conditions. Any such cancellation or any material amendment will be notified by posting the updated Terms and Conditions on the Promoter’s website. The Promoter is not responsible for any loss or damage caused to you as a result of any event outside the Promoter’s control.
These Terms and Conditions are governed by English law. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear any dispute or claim arising in association with the Promotion or these Terms and Conditions.
The Promoter may transfer all or part of its rights under these Terms and Conditions to someone else without obtaining your consent; provided such transfer does not significantly disadvantage you.
Any provision of these Terms and Conditions which is deemed illegal and/or prohibited or unenforceable under any applicable law will be ineffective to the extent of such illegality, prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions.
If you have any difficulty accessing or entering this Promotion, please contact the Promoter at [email protected]/. If you would like these terms and conditions in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille), please get in contact and the Promoter will endeavour to provide it.
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