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ROWGA THINK DEEP COMPETITION TERMS & CONDITIONS

 

  1. COMPETITION TERMS & CONDITIONS

These are the terms and conditions that govern the relationship between you and us in relation to the Think Deep competition (“the Competition”). Your entry into the competition and/or your acceptance of a prize (in the event that you win a prize) constitutes your binding acceptance of the terms and conditions on behalf of yourself and any person with whom you may share a prize (in the event that you win a prize which is for you and one additional person (“your partner”).

  1. OUR DETAILS

“We”, “us” and “our” mean ROWGA.

  1. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We may need to make changes to these terms in future. These terms may, therefore, be amended or varied at any time by us with or without notice and by our decisions, which are final in all matters relating to the Competition.  We recommend that you check these terms from time to time to see if they have changed. We will always state at the bottom of these terms the date on which they were last updated.

  1. ELIGIBILITIES

 

a. You may only enter the Competition as a team consisting of two individuals per team who are either final year students from the same University in Nigeria or serving corps members in Nigeria. The participating corps members must be graduates from the same university but not necessarily serving in the same state.

b. Members of each team can be from the same discipline but preferably from different fields.

c. Interdisciplinary collaboration is strongly encouraged. However, participants can be from a discipline related to Engineering, Geoscience, Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, Economics, Architecture, Law, Computer science, and Agricultural science. (Anyone who feels they can make quality contributions to this competition.) Note: Individual participation is not allowed.

d. You may not enter a Competition if you are a director, member, partner, agent, employee or consultant of ROWGA or any supplier of goods or services, sponsors, prize providers, co-promoters or affiliate companies or any other person professionally connected with the competition; and the spouse, life partner, business partner or associate, or the natural or adopted parent, child, or sibling, of any of the persons specified above.

e. Entrants under the age of 18 must obtain permission from their parents or guardians before entering.

f. The start and closing date for the Competition shall be set out on the Competition entry page or flyer.

g. Only one (1) entry is allowed per team, which must include the information requested on the Competition entry page or flyer which may include your names, age, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, telephone number of entrants and/or answer to the question.

h. It is your responsibility to ensure that your entry is received by us prior to the closure of the competition. Any entries which are not received by us prior to the closure of the competition will not be eligible to participate, regardless of the reason for the late entry. We and our affiliates are not responsible for any entries which are not received by us, whether timeously or at all, regardless of the cause thereof. Without limitation, we and our affiliates are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer hardware or software failure or malfunction, traffic congestion (whether physical, or on the Internet, telephone lines or at any service provider, web site or other device or medium), or any combination thereof, or any other technical or other problems.

i. We and our affiliates are not responsible for any injury or damage to your or any other person’s computer, mobile telephone or other device used by you to enter into or obtain any materials related to the competition.

j. It is your responsibility to ensure that any information which you provide to us is accurate, complete and up to date.

k. Any costs or expenses which you may incur other than in respect of those items specifically included in a prize are for your own account. ROWGA will not be responsible for any costs or expenses which you, or your partner (where applicable), incur during and for purposes of your entry into the competition and your acceptance and/or use of a prize.

l. The winner(s) will have answered the question correctly and will be the best from all correct entries received.

m. The winners will be notified by e-mail or telephone as soon as possible after the Competition and may receive subsequent written confirmation and full details of the Prize.

n. Our decision is final with respect to any aspect of the competition, including the determination of any winners of a Prize and no correspondence will be entered into.

 

  1. PRIZES

 a. All Prizes are non-transferable, and no cash alternative will be offered. Arrangements for the fulfilment of Prizes will be made by us. If due to circumstances beyond our control we are unable to provide any stated Prize(s), we reserve the right to award a substitute prize of equal value. All Prizes are subject to the additional terms and conditions of the producer or

b. The winners agree that ROWGA, their subsidiaries, affiliates, related companies and employees, and any other sponsors and Prize providers shall have no liability in connection with acceptance or use of any of the Prizes awarded in the Competitions. We reserve the right to disqualify any entrant and/or winner at our absolute discretion.

c. You must possess whatever documents and permissions that may be required in order to accept and use a prize, including, as regards international travel, a valid passport and all necessary visa and travel documentation, which documents and permissions it is your responsibility to obtain at your own cost, and which documents and permissions must remain valid in such minimum form and for such minimum period after the prize date as may be required by the relevant authorities. Your passport should have a validity of a minimum of six months following your return and have at least three blank pages.

d. The winners will be notified by means of the contact details provided to us. If we are, or a third party supplier is, unable to contact a winner within 30 days or if the winner is unable to redeem the prize within 60 days, the winner will forfeit the prize and ROWGA reserves the right to select a new winner under the same conditions.

e. We may invite you to be present when the prize winners are determined or announced, to participate in any of our marketing activities, to appear in person in the electronic media and/or the print media, and/or to endorse, promote or advertise any of our goods or services, for which no fee, royalty or other compensation will be payable.

 

f. We may require you to provide us with such additional information and documentation as we may reasonably require in order to process, confirm and facilitate your acceptance and/or use of a prize. If you refuse to provide us with the requested information or documentation, you will forfeit the prize.

g. In the event that you win a prize provided by a third party supplier, the supplier will contact you to arrange the collection thereof. In this regard, you must collect the prize at the time and date arranged with the supplier of the prize. All correspondence regarding the prize must be directed at the supplier of the prize. ROWGA will not be responsible for any further correspondence, harm, damage, loss or claim relating to the provision of any element of the prize.

h. We and our third-party suppliers, as the case may be, reserve the right to vary, postpone, suspend, or cancel the competition and any prizes, or any aspect thereof, without notice at any time, for any reason which we deem necessary. In the event of such variation, postponement, suspension or cancellation, you agree to waive any rights, interests and expectations that you may have in terms of this competition and acknowledge that you will have no recourse against us, our affiliates and third party suppliers.

i. You agree that your participation in the competition, and your acceptance and/or use of a prize, or any aspect thereof, is at your own risk.

j. We and our affiliates will not be responsible, and disclaim all liability, for any loss, liability, injury, expense or damage (whether direct, indirect, incidental, punitive or consequential) of any nature, whether arising from negligence or any other cause, which is suffered by your participation in the competition or the acceptance and/or use by you, or your partner (if applicable), of any prize, or by any action taken by us or any of our affiliates in accordance with the terms and conditions.

k. You, and in the event of your death, your family, dependants, heirs, assignees or any other beneficiaries of your estate, indemnify and hold us and our affiliates harmless against any claim by you, or your partner, (whether direct, indirect, incidental, punitive or consequential) of any nature, whether arising from negligence or any other cause, relating to any injury, loss, liability, expense and/or damage which you may suffer, howsoever arising, in relation to your entry into this competition and/or acceptance and/or use by you of a prize.

k. You acknowledge that the acceptance and use of a prize are subject to the proviso that:

l. all of the terms and conditions will apply to both you and your partner, and you will ensure that your partner agrees to be bound and complies, and will continue to comply, therewith;

  • you will take full responsibility for your partner;
  • you indemnify and hold us and our affiliates harmless against any claim by your partner or any third party in the event that your partner suffers any loss or damage pursuant to your partner’s acceptance and/or use of a prize;
  • any minor will be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

m. If you fail or, if your partner fails, to comply with any of the terms and conditions, then without prejudice to any other remedy which we may have, –

  • you will be automatically disqualified, and you will forfeit the prize/s (in the event that you have already won a prize);
  • you will pay us for any loss or damage incurred by us directly or indirectly as a result of your (or, if applicable, your partner’s) non-compliance, including all of our legal costs (including attorney and own client costs) which we may incur in taking any steps pursuant to your (or your partner’s,) non-compliance; and
  • you indemnify and hold us and our affiliates harmless against any claim by any person, (whether direct, indirect, incidental, punitive or consequential) of any nature, whether arising from negligence or any other cause, relating to any death, injury, loss and/or damage which may be suffered howsoever arising in relation to your failure (or that of your partner, if applicable) to comply therewith.

n. For purposes hereof, “affiliate” means our partners, co-promoters and sponsors of this competition, our subsidiaries, and their subsidiaries and respective holding companies, the subsidiaries of their holding companies, and our and their directors, officers, and employees, agents and representatives.

  1. LICENCE FOR MATERIAL SUBMITTED BY YOU OR FOOTAGE FILMED OF YOU

In exchange for allowing you to enter the Competition, you hereby:

a. grant us the exclusive right to film, tape, sound record and photograph all your activities in connection with the Competition and (if applicable) any Prizes. Everything filmed, taped, or recorded of you by the Promoter shall be known as “Footage”.

b. assign to us fully all intellectual property rights over materials submitted by you in the competition and over any Footage in connection with the Competition, for the full term of any rights that may exist under any applicable law throughout the world. This means that we own all rights over materials submitted by you in the competition and in the Footage for as long as they exist. We may require you to sign a release form consenting to the filming/recording of the Footage, the assignment of all rights in such Footage and over materials submitted by you in the competition to us.

c. grant to us an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable licence to copy, store, edit, distribute, transmit and publish your competition entries.

d. waive any “moral” rights that you may have in your Material or the Footage for the purposes of us using it in accordance with these Competition Rules. Your moral rights include the right to be identified as the author and the right to object to derogatory treatment of your Material or the Footage. We need this waiver because we may not always be able to identify you (or other users who have uploaded content) as the author, and we need to be able to edit or treat your material as we see appropriate in our editorial judgment.

e. agree that we may use your, name and/or likeness, voice, photographs and/or video footage of you, biographical information provided by you and/or any statement made by you concerning the Footage to use Competition and/or the Prize(s) in connection with publicizing the Competition, in any and all media in perpetuity throughout the world in any manner we choose without restriction.

 

6.2 Terminating the licence in your Material

If you want us to stop using your Material, please tell us by submitting the details of your material along with your instruction to remove this material using our email contact form. We will then stop using your material as far as reasonably practicable. However, we are not obliged to stop your material where it is already being used or where we have already incorporated it into compilation packages or other programming or where we have sublicensed your Material to a third party.

6.3 Your Covenants

It is very important that the Material you provide as part of the Competition is your own work. Material that you did not create yourself, or that includes images of people or information about people without their permission can result in serious liability to us and to you. Accordingly, you covenant that:

a. You are the only creator, author, and owner of the Material you post or upload, or if you are not the exclusive owner you have received written consent from the owner to upload or post the Material and to grant us the rights to use the Material as set out above.

b. Our use of your Material will not infringe any intellectual property or other rights of any third party (for example trademarks, copyright, privacy rights). This means that, if your Material contains any underlying copyrights such as music, lyrics, film footage, artwork or other copyright material owned by any other person, you confirm that you have obtained all necessary consents in writing (including from other people appearing in your Material) necessary for us to use your material as set out above.

c. The Material will not contain anything that is defamatory, offensive or illegal.

d. Your Material is free from any right or claim by anyone under any recording contract, publishing contract, or any union, guild or collecting society and you agree that you will inform us immediately if this status changes.

7. LIABILITIES

a. We accept no responsibility for entries lost, delayed, misdirected, damaged or undelivered. Incomplete and/or illegible entries will be disqualified. We shall not be responsible for technical errors in telecommunications networks, Internet access or otherwise preventing entry to the

b. We will not be liable to you (whether as a result of contract law, tort, statutory duty or otherwise) for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the Competition in respect of losses that are related to a business or commercial undertaking that were unforeseeable, related to loss of opportunity, loss of goodwill or injury to reputation, the loss suffered by third parties, losses that are caused by loss of data, or computer virus, in respect of infringement of rights arising as a result of a third party linking to our online services and causing our content to be viewed within the pages of any other website, losses that are due to your fault, for example, if you have provided incorrect information to us or you fail to comply with our instructions in relation to the Competition and/or Prize, and losses that are not caused by our breach.

c. If you have a claim against another provider of services in connection with the Competition and/or Prizes you will pursue that claim independently and without recourse to us.

d. We shall not be liable for any delay in performing or partial or total failure to perform any of our obligations to the winner(s) and/or any Allowed Guests and/or parent(s)/legal guardian(s) under these Terms if such delay or failure is caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control including without limitation delays, changes, disruptions, cancellations, diversions or substitutions howsoever caused including without limitation as a result of war, terrorist action or threatened terrorist action, strikes, hostilities, civil commotions, accidents, fire, flood or natural catastrophes or arising without limitation out of or in connection with (i) the activities of third party event organisers; (ii) any form of transportation (including but not limited to flights, trains, coaches, buses, ferries, taxis or cars); and/or (iii) by third parties providing accommodation included in the Prize. For the avoidance of doubt, the affected Winner(s) and/or any Allowed Guest(s) and/or parent(s)/legal guardian(s) shall be solely liable for any additional costs incurred as a result.

  1. DATA PROTECTION

Any personal information, including without limitation, your name, age, address (including postcode), telephone number and/or email address (“Personal Data”) will be used (i) in connection with the Competition in which you entered, (ii) for any purpose to which you gave your express consent on entry (iii) as set out in these terms and conditions and (iv) in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Your Personal Data will not be disclosed to any third party, except for the purpose of fulfilling the Prize(s) where applicable unless you gave your express consent to this on entry. (v) by entering the competition, you are giving your permission to be contacted via email or telephone for the purpose of both service information and promotional e-marketing. You can easily opt-out at any time.

9. JURISDICTION

These Competition terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Nigeria and the courts of Nigeria shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any disputes arising therefrom.

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