Bosch – Win A World Experience to travel to 6 Countries 2014

Terms and Conditions for the Bosch World Experience 2014 campaign

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A. Terms and Conditions “Bosch World Experience 2014″ Campaign

Preamble

If you are over 21 years of age apply now for your chance to be selected to take part in an exclusive trip around the world. Visit 6 destinations on three continents (London (Great Britain), Panama City (Panama), San Francisco (USA), Shanghai (China), Singapore (Singapore) and one surprise destination in Germany and witness the fascination of Bosch innovations worldwide.

To participate register via Bosch´s Campaign Microsite (www.experience-bosch.com) for the “Bosch World Experience 2014” Campaign and apply by solving a riddle for each of the first 5 destinations and completing your personal questionnaire and profile between 7 April 2014 (12:00 pm CET) and 16 May 2014 (12:00 pm CET). Take the chance to be invited to a personal interview and to be selected to join this exclusive experience as one of 6 winners worldwide. Good luck!

The following Terms and Conditions shall govern the “Bosch World Experience 2014” Campaign (the “Promotion”) which is carried out globally and being held by Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Platz 1, 70839 Gerlingen, Germany (“Bosch”). Please note that in some countries (such as Italy), it is legally not possible to conduct this Promotion and thus participate in this Promotion if you reside in one of these countries.

The Promotion is not affiliated with Facebook and is in no way connected, sponsored or otherwise supported, accompanied or monitored with Facebook or its subsidiary companies and/or associates. The recipient of all information provided by the participants is Bosch and not Facebook. All questions, comments or complaints relating to the Promotion should be addressed to Bosch through the contact form on Bosch´s Campaign Microsite or via email (kontakt@bosch.com) and not Facebook.

This Promotion is void in jurisdictions where prohibited or restricted by law.

Bosch reserves the right to make any amendments to the dates, contest mechanics, prizes and other contest elements at any time at its sole discretion and without prior notice.

Bosch reserves the right to add or amend the Terms and Conditions herein and without prior notification. All Contestants shall be bound by such additions or amendments

In the event of any dispute regarding the Terms and Conditions, conduct, results and all other matters relating to this Promotion there shall be no legal recourse open and/or available to the entrants.

1. Entry

In order to enter the Promotion, the entrant must take the following steps:

Registration

The entrant opens Bosch’s Campaign Microsite (www.experience-bosch.com) – either via desktop or mobile device.
In order to get all necessary information on the Promotion and participation, the entrant shall study the information on Bosch´s Campaign Microsite (www.experience-bosch.com) and these Terms and Conditions carefully. Next, the entrant needs to choose his preferred registration way and register via Bosch´s Campaign Microsite or – if the entrant has a Facebook account – can use the service “Facebook Connect” provided on Bosch´s Campaign Microsite and register via Facebook (“Registration”):
Registration via Bosch´s Campaign Microsite

Go to Bosch´s Campaign Microsite (www.experience-bosch.com)
Fill in the requested contact data (title, first name, surname and email address)
Accept Terms and Conditions
Click on the button “Apply”
Confirm your contact data by clicking on a link emailed to the email address you provided
Create your own user account via Bosch´s Campaign Microsite (www.experience-bosch.com) by choosing a password and user name (“Profile”).
Registration via Facebook

Go to Bosch´s Campaign Microsite (www.experience-bosch.com)
Click on the button “Login with Facebook” – please make sure you have an account on Facebook
Accept Terms and Conditions
Log in your Facebook account
Accept access to your profile data
Application

After the Registration, the entrant will have to follow the steps indicated in his/her Profile as further described below (“Application”).
The entrant will have to collect 5 so called “station badges” by correctly solving a riddle or correctly answering a question in connection with each of the 5 destinations: London (Great Britain), Panama City (Panama), San Francisco (USA), Shanghai (China) and Singapore (Singapore) ). For each destination there will be either a riddle or a question that needs to be solved correctly. Possible answers are displayed in a multiple choice system. If the answer is wrong the entrant may try again. The entrant has the possibility to save his/her data and return to his/her Profile to complete his/her Application at a later point in time. The Profile will provide an overview of the badges he/she has already earned and the ones that are still to be earned. All badges must be completed before 16 May 2014 (12:00 pm CET).
Along with successfully earning all station badges, the entrant will have to complete his/her Profile by filling in more detailed personal information. In particular, the entrant will have to state his/her title, first name, surname, email address, year of birth, nationality, English knowledge, profession and business sector and will have to confirm his/her personal availability and the validity of his/her passport for at least another six months at the date of the departure for the world trip according section 3 (“necessary information”). On a voluntary basis the entrant in addition may upload a picture of himself/herself (max. 3 MB/ 3,000 x 3,000 pixels/ jpg or png) and may provide his/her telephone number, answer the question how often he/she places posts in social networks, which social media he/she uses by providing the respective profile-URL and may provide a short text on his/her motivation to participate in the Promotion (“voluntary information”) in order to present himself/herself to Bosch. The entrant has the possibility to save his/her data and return to his/her Profile to complete his/her Application at a later point in time. The current “profile status” of the entrant will be displayed graphically in his/her Profile. All necessary information must be provided before 16 May 2014 (12:00 pm CET).
With all badges earned and the necessary information provided the entrant will have to submit his/her application by clicking the “Send application” button. After submitting the application the Profile cannot be changed anymore.
2. Data protection and consent

In order to realize this Promotion, it is necessary to process personal data of the entrant (e.g. necessary information, in particular his/her title, first name, surname, year of birth, nationality, English knowledge, profession and business sector and voluntary information, in particular a picture of himself/herself, his/her telephone number, answer to the question how often he/she places posts in social networks, which social media he/she uses by providing the respective profile-URL and a short text on his/her motivation to participate in the Promotion).

Upon accepting these Terms and Conditions, entrant consents to his/her personal data being collected, stored, processed and used by Bosch for the duration and handling of the Promotion. The provided personal data will be made available to NETEYE GmbH, Sternstrasse 117, 20357 Hamburg, Germany and aquarius digital consulting (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. A7/7102, SoHo | 501 Liyuan Road | Huangpu | Shanghai 200023 | China as third parties in order to select the suitable applicants and invite them for interviews. To the extent your personal data are transferred to aquarius digital consulting in China, Bosch takes appropriate measures to safeguard an adequate level of data protection there.

In case that the entrant is chosen for the world trip, personal data will be passed on to the event agency organizing the world trip in order to obtain necessary visa, hotel bookings, flights and all other amenities necessary to make the world trip. The contracted event agency is MCI Deutschland GmbH, Niederlassung Berlin, Markgrafenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin, Germany.

Unless agreed upon otherwise, the collection, use and processing of personal data is conducted in accordance with Bosch´s data protection directive, accessible under www.bosch.de.

Upon request Bosch will provide the entrant at any time and free of charge with full information on the stored and processed personal data. The entrant may object to the processing of his/her personal data any time e.g. by deleting his/her Profile or sending an email to world.experience2014EN@bosch.com and thereby withdrawing from his/her participation in this Promotion.

The entrant of the Promotion agrees that his/her first names, surnames and the picture he/she uploaded to his/her Profile will be published on Bosch´s Campaign Microsite (www.experience-bosch.com) if he/she is selected as winner of the Promotion according to section 5.

3. Time Period

Entry is possible between 7 April 2014 (12:00 pm CET) and 16 May 2014 (12:00 pm CET). In order to participate it is essential that all data necessary for the Entry according to section 1 is transmitted within this period.

The world trip further described in section 6 that can be applied for will take place from 20 July 2014 to 6 August 2014.

4. Eligibility

All natural, contractually capable persons over 21 years of age shall be eligible to enter. The Promotion will be carried out globally. Please note that in some countries (such as Italy), it is legally not possible to conduct this Promotion and thus participate in this Promotion if you reside in one of these countries.

The entrant shall be responsible for the correctness of the data, in particular the personal data, necessary for the Entry of the Promotion.

Employees of Bosch and any other companies involved in holding the Promotion and their relatives shall be precluded from Entry.

Everybody who is eligible to enter shall be entitled to enter and participate in the Promotion only once.

Bosch shall, given the existence of a good cause, reserve the right to exclude any entrant, even if he/she was selected as winner, from the Promotion and/or to refuse to present a Prize and/or to request the return of a Prize which has already been presented. Such good cause shall include, for instance, the serious infringement of these Terms and Conditions, providing incorrect personal data or the manipulation of or exercise of influence on the Promotion in any shape or form.

Bosch may also exclude an entrant, even if he/she was selected as winner, from the Promotion and/or refuse to present a Prize and/or request the return of a Prize which has already been presented if he/she does not have a valid passport to travel the destination countries, cannot get a visa for any of the destination countries or is not allowed to travel any of the destination countries for other legal reasons.

5. Determining the winners

Determining interviewees

Amongst all entrants worldwide eligible according to section 4 who successfully completed all steps according to section 1 within the time period set out in section 3, Bosch will determine 30 entrants who will be notified by email until 18 May 2014 that they are invited for an interview via video conference or at one of the Bosch locations in the entrant´s country of residence. Such determination shall be the result of a first evaluation of the personal Profile of the entrants, taking into account in particular the affinity for digital and social media, English and writing skills of the entrant and shall be made at Bosch´s sole discretion. All decisions by Bosch shall be final and binding.

In order to take part in the interview, the selected entrant will be required to answer to the email sent to him/her announcing that he/she is invited to an interview and accept the invitation within 7 days of the date the notice is sent.

In case the selected entrant cannot be contacted via the provided email address, the notification is returned as undeliverable or the selected entrant does not answer or does not agree to take part in the interview in the given period of time or under the conditions described in these Terms and Conditions, the selected entrant forfeits his/her invitation. In this case Bosch reserves the right to invite another entrant to be interviewed.

The interviews will take place between 19 May 2014 and 30 May 2014 after the selected entrant responded to the notification.

In general the interviews will be held via video conference. Bosch can decide, however, to hold an interview at one of the Bosch locations in the entrant´s country of residence. In this case Bosch will bear the travel costs and the hotel expenses of the selected entrants to allow him/her to take part in the interview. Bosch will determine, however, at which Bosch location the interview will take place and will choose and book all transportation and hotels at its sole discretion.

Determining the winners

Amongst all interviewed entrants an in-house jury of Bosch no later than 9 June 2014 will select 6 winners worldwide. Such determination shall be the result of the personal impression made by the interviewed entrants in the interview, taking into account in particular their affinity for digital and social media, their English and writing skills and their social competences and shall be made at the sole discretion of the Bosch jury. All decisions by the Bosch jury shall be final and binding.

6. Prize

Each of the 6 winners shall be awarded a trip to London (Great Britain), Panama City (Panama), San Francisco (USA), Shanghai (China), Singapore (Singapore) and one surprise destination in Germany which will take place from 20 July 2014 to 6 August 2014 where the winners can experience the fascination of Bosch innovations (“Prize”).

The Prize in particular contains:

the transport (including flight) from the winner’s place of residence to London, Great Britain on 20 July 2014
a 3-night stay in a single room in a standard hotel in London, Great Britain
the entry to Tower Bridge & London Eye including transportation to and from the site
the transport (including flight) from London, Great Britain to Panama City, Panama on 23 July 2014
a 3-night stay in a single room in a standard hotel in Panama City, Panama
the visit of Panama Canal and expansion project including transportation to and from the sites plus whale watching tour
the transport (including flight) from Panama City, Panama to San Francisco, USA on 26 July 2014
a 3-night stay in a single room in a standard hotel in San Francisco, USA
the entry to the Bosch Research & Technology Center and an eBike tour including transportation to and from the tour or site, plus sightseeing tour
the transport (including flight) from San Francisco, USA to Shanghai, China on 29 July 2014
a 3-night stay in a single room in a standard hotel in Shanghai, China
the entry to the Shanghai World Financial Center including transportation to and from the site
​he transport (including flight) from Shanghai, China to Singapore, Singapore on 2 August 2014
a 1-night stay in a single room in a standard hotel in Singapore, Singapore
the Bosch e-car experience including the transportation to and from the site.
the transport (including flight) from Singapore, Singapore to a surprise destination in Germany on 4 August 2014
a 2-night stay in a single room in a standard hotel at that destination
the entry to a surprise activity including the transportation to and from the site.
the transport from that surprise destination to the winner´s place of residence on 6 August 2014.
All transportation, flights and hotels will be chosen and booked by Bosch. For the duration of the trip breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided.

During the world trip Bosch will also provide for the following insurance covers of each winner according to the terms and conditions further specified in detailed travel preparations issued to winners during the preparation phase for the world trip .

The provided package includes: overseas health insurance for travel abroad, accident insurance and liability insurance.

The winners of the Prize will be covered by a overseas health insurance. This applies to medically necessary treatment due to an accident, as well as for acute episodes of illness during the world trip. Pre-existing health problems/injuries will not be covered. The winners will be covered by a general accident insurance. This insurance covers accidents resulting in disability or death.

Insurance cover is valid around the clock and throughout the whole world. Accidents occurring during the world trip are covered.

In addition Bosch will organize and bear the costs for all necessary visas.

It shall not be possible to disburse the Prize in cash or any other way or assign the same to third parties. The winner will bear all taxes that might accrue in connection with the acceptance of the Prize and shall be responsible for all notifications that might be necessary in this regard.

Bosch reserves the right to change the schedule of the world trip or exchange any of the destinations/tours for destinations/tours of a similar value if the respective schedule cannot be maintained, destinations cannot be travelled or tours cannot be realized for reasons that are not within Bosch´s responsibility.

7. Verification of winners

The 6 winners will be notified by email after the interviews of the entrants according to section 5 no later than 9 June 2014.