Cleo Bachelor of the Year – Win $5,000 (submit photo to win)

It’s that (awesome) time of the year again when we hunt down Australia’s Top 30 most eligible bachelors. Think you’ve got what it takes to be crowned CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014? Prove it! Fill out this entry form and upload a pic of yourself from the waist up (like 2013’s winner, Trent Maxwell, on your left) for the chance to win a cash prize of $5000 (not bad, huh?).

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I should be CLEO Bachelor 2014 because…

To impress a girl on a date I would…

My life motto is…

Nominations commence on 17th June 2014 at 12:00pm (AEST) and closes at 9:00am (AEST) on 18th July 2014. Nominations open to Male Australian residents aged 18 years and over only. One entry permitted per person. Entrants must nominate themselves to be a valid nomination. Entrants must be available to participate in a photo-shoot and interview between 26th July 2014 to 28th July 2014 in Sydney. The photograph must be in a JPEG form of a maximum of 3MB. The photograph must be a clear photograph of the nominee’s face, must be a recent photo no more than six (6) months old. No group photographs or indecent photographs will be accepted (including but not limited to naked, rude, raw, obscene, and offensive). No filters, airbrushing tools etc to be used on the photograph submitted For full terms and conditions go to http://www.cleo.com.au/bachelors/terms. Please see http://www.bauer-media.com.au/privacy/ for location of Bauer Media’s privacy policy. If you do not want your information given to any organisation not associated with this promotion, please indicate this clearly on your entry The Promoter is Bauer Media Pty Ltd (ABN 18 053 273 546)

1. Information on how to nominate and awards form part of these Conditions of Entry. Participation in this promotion is deemed acceptance of these Conditions of Entry.

2. Entry is open to Male residents of Australia aged 18 years and over. Entrants must be available to participate in a photo-shoot and interview between 26th July 2014 to 28th July 2014 in Sydney. Employees of the Promoter and their immediate families are not eligible to enter.

3. The entire promotion commences on 17th June 2014 and closes on 3rd October 2014 at 9:00am (AEST).There are three stages of the competition.The nomination stage, judging to determine the Top 30 finalists and the voting period to determine the overall winner.

The nomination stage: of the competition commences on 17th June 2014 at 12:.00pm (AEST) and closes at 9:00am (AEST) on 18th July 2014.

Judging to determine Top 30 Finalists: Judging will being on 21st July 2014 to determine the Top thirty (30) finalists to move in to voting period of the competition. Finalists will be notified by 22nd and 23rd of July 2014 via email and telephone using the contact details given in their nomination entry form. The Top thirty (30) finalists will include nominees from Cleo Bachelor of the Year nominees and Cleo Agency Bachelor of the Year nominees.

Voting Period: Public (Readers) will vote on the Top 30 finalists to determine the overall winner. Voting will begin on 25th August 2014 at 00:01am (AEST) and voting will close on 3 October 2014 at 17:00pm (AEST).

Nominations:

4. One entry per person will be permitted.

5. To enter, Entrants must nominate themselves via logging on to http://www.cleo.com.au/bachelors/, and follow the prompts to the nomination entry form and fill in the entry form including full name, date of birth, valid email address, daytime contact phone number, job title, company name, upload a current photo of themselves and answer to the following questions in one hundred (100) words or less:

• I should be CLEO Bachelor 2014 because?

• To impress a girl on a date I would?

• My Life Motto is? and submit the entry as instructed.

6. The Photo must be:

• In a JPEG form of a maximum of 3MB.

• The photograph must be a clear photograph of the nominee’s face (front on not twisted)

• Must be a recent photo no more than six (6) months old.

• Smiling photographs will be accepted

• No group photographs

• No indecent photographs will be accepted (including but not limited to naked, rude, raw, obscene, and offensive)

• Cannot be sitting or crouching down

• Not taken in a mirror (i.e “selfie”)

• No filters, airbrushing tools etc to be used on the photograph submitted by either a camera, mobile app or social media applications.

7. The Promoter is neither responsible nor liable for late, lost or misdirected entries, or entries not received by the Promoter for any reason whatsoever. Original copies of entries will not be returned to the entrant after judging has been completed. No responsibility will be taken by the promoter in the event that the original entry is lost or damaged in editing.

8. This is a game of skill; chance plays no part in determining the winner. Each entry will be individually judged based on its literary and creative merit of the answer to the questions provided and suitability to the Promotion. The judges’ decision in relation to any aspect of the competition will be final and binding on every person who enters. No correspondence will be entered into.

9. The Entrant warrants to the Promoter that the entry submitted is an original artistic work of the Entrant that does not infringe the rights of any third parties. If the entry or any part of the information provided to the Entrant in relation to the entry was provided by a third party, the Entrant warrants that they have obtained the relevant copyright permission to submit the entry for the purposes of this promotion. The entrant agrees to indemnify the promoter against all claims and costs by third parties arising from a breach of the warranty set out in this condition.

10. The Promoter is entitled to use any of the entries submitted in any manner and for any purpose at its absolute discretion, including using the entries for future promoter’s or their agents book publications, promotional, marketing and publicity purposes without any further reference or payment or other compensation to the entrant. The promoter is entitled to amend, edit, select, crop, retouch, add to or delete from any part of the submitted entry.

11. Entries must not be offensive, defamatory or racist. Any entry which the judgesdeem inappropriate will be invalid. The entrant agrees to indemnify the Promoter.

12. The Promoter reserves the right to verify the validity of Entries at any time during or after the Competition Period, and reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who tampers with the entry process or who submits an Entry that is not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. Failure by the Promoter to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.

13. Incomplete or indecipherable Entries will be deemed invalid.

14. Entrants must disclose any issues that may generate negative publicity and impact on the success of this promotion and/or CLEO magazine. The Promoter can disqualify an entrant for failure to disclose any issues that may generate negative publicity and impact on the success of the CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 Competition and/or CLEO magazine.

15. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify an entrant if, in their complete discretion the Promoter deems that nominee’s continued involvement in the CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 promotion will (in any way) negatively impact on the success of the promotion and negatively influence the general purpose of the promotion. For the removal of doubt the Promoter has the right to remove and/or disqualify a participant at any stage of the promotion. No correspondence will be entered into.

16. Each entrant agrees to inform Bauer Media (Promoter), before acceptance of any finalist/winner status related to this promotion of any unspent criminal convictions of any kind subsisting at the date of entry and will notify Bauer Media immediately if there are any criminal charges brought against them after the date they are nominated up to and including the date of the start of the announcement of the winner.

17. Except with our prior written consent, no entrant must supply commentary related to the Promotion, CLEO of any nature to any company or person engaged in the television, pay television or radio broadcasting, printed or electronic publishing, online media, telecommunications or advertising industries (or any company, person or entity which supplies services or programs to any such companies, persons or entities) from the date entry.

18. Judging to determine Top 30:

The judging will begin on 21st July 2014 at Promoter’s premises, 54 Park Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Entries will be judged by a panel of judges appointed by the Promoter. The judges will determine thirty (30) finalists from all valid entries received from CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 nominations and CLEO Agency Bachelor of the Year nominations to go through to the voting period to determine the overall winner of CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014. Finalists will be notified in writing and by telephone on 22nd and 23rd July 2014. Finalists will be announced in the CLEO magazine and will be featured on the CLEO website for voting purposes to determine the overall winner of CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 commencing on Monday 25th August 2014 at 9:00am (AEST).

19. At the time of finalist notification, the finalists will be given a date that they will need to be available to participate in a photo-shoot, be filmed and in-person interview for the feature appearing in CLEO magazine/ website for the purposes of voting. Interview, video and Photo-shoot dates will be determined by the Promoter in its complete discretion, and are currently scheduled to take place between 26th July 2014 to 28th July 2014.

20. For NSW Finalists: No travel including but not limited to domestic flights, transfers, accommodation, meals, beverages, spending money will be included as a part of the finalist status or be given to a finalist to attend the CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 Finalist photo-shoot. All costs associated to attending the photo-shoot will be the responsibility of each finalist.

21. For Finalists from ACT, VIC, TAS, SA, WA, NT and QLD the following will be included:

One (1) x return economy flight to Sydney from the finalist’s nearest capital city valued at up to $896.00 (including taxes) (depending on point of departure)

In the event the finalist has a late or early call time to the photo-shoot (times will be determined by the Promoter at its complete discretion) One (1) x night’s accommodation in a standard room in a minimum three (3) star hotel valued at up to $200.00

The Promoter is neither responsible nor liable for any loss or damage suffered in the event that the photo-shoot is postponed, cancelled, rescheduled or relocated for any reason whatsoever.

Prize does not include transfers to and from the winner’s place of residence to the departure point transfers between the hotel and airport, transfers to the photo-shoot. These costs are the responsibility of the winner.

The winner is responsible for all other expenses including spending money, meals (unless specified), drinks, transfers (unless specified), laundry charges, activities (unless specified), incidentals, energy surcharges, gratuities, services charges and all other ancillary costs.

It is a condition of accepting the prize that the winner may be requested to present their credit card or a cash deposit upon arrival at any accommodation to cover all incidentals they may incur during their stay.

For the removal of doubt, taxes for domestic travel are included in the domestic airfares provided by the Promoter. All airfares and accommodation costs were correct as of 16th June 2014. The Promoter will not be responsible for any variation in price.

The airfares and accommodation must be taken as offered. The airfares and accommodation, or any unused portion, is not transferable or exchangeable and cannot be redeemed as cash. The airfares and accommodation cannot be used in conjunction with any other special offer. The airfares and accommodation is valued in Australian dollars. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any variation in the prize value. Finalists are advised that tax implications may arise from the airfares and accommodation and they should seek independent financial advice prior to acceptance of the airfares and accommodation. Redemption of the airfares and accommodation will be subject to the terms and conditions stipulated on the voucher / ticket / pass/ letter. The Promoter will not be liable for any voucher / ticket / pass/ letter that has been lost, stolen, forged, damaged or tampered with in any way.

22. All Finalists must be available to be photographed, interviewed or attend any events at the request of CLEO during the entire voting period from the date of the Finalist announcement on 25th August 2014. All photo-shoots, interviews and events throughout this period dates and times to be advised to each Finalist by CLEO and determined by CLEO in its complete discretion. CLEO reserves the right at any time to ask Finalists to cease providing CLEO services. Decision to cease CLEO services remains with the Promoter at all times.

23. It is a condition of accepting the finalist status each finalist warrants to the Promoter that they understand that any arrangement entered into in relation to the redemption of this status does not create a relationship between the finalist and the Promoter of employer and employee, principal and agent, partnership or joint venture.

24. Except with our prior written consent, no Finalist must supply commentary related to the Promotion, CLEO of any nature to any company or person engaged in the television, pay television or radio broadcasting, printed or electronic publishing, online media, telecommunications or advertising industries (or any company, person or entity which supplies services or programs to any such companies, persons or entities) from the date entry.

25. It is a condition of accepting to be a finalist that all finalists agree to be interviewed, photographed and filmed (for voting purposes) at a time and date determined by the Promoter and the acceptance of the status by the Promoter or their agents for a story or feature on this promotion to be developed and featured in CLEO magazine, website or social media pages (or any other form of media it deems suitable) without further remuneration or reference to the participants. Feature may appear in CLEO magazine or website and for voting purposes on a date to be determined by the Promoter. The inclusion of any such feature (including but not limited to creative control of the feature) will remain with the Promoter at all times.

26. Voting Period:

27. The thirty (30) finalists will be uploaded to the Cleo Bachelor of the Year 2014 competition hub on http://www.cleo.com.au/bachelors/ on 25th August 2014 at 00:01am (AEST) and voting will close on 3 October 2014 at 17:00pm (AEST). Readers can cast their vote by submitting their details as requested and vote for their favorite finalist (Bachelor).

28. There will be a maximum of three (3) votes permitted per day per person.

29. The Promoter reserves the right to verify the validity of votes and to disqualify any entrant who tampers with the voting process or who submits a vote that is not in accordance with these Conditions of Entry.

30. The Promoters accept no responsibility for any votes not received by the Promoter or delays in the delivery of the votes due to any reason whatsoever. A vote will only be counted as being received once it has been received by the Promoter and not when it was sent. The Promoters accept no responsibility for late, lost or misdirected votes.

31. The overall winner of CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 will be determined by a combination of the highest number of votes received during the voting period and judging by a panel of judges determined by the Promoter at its complete discretion.

CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 winner announcement:

32. All finalists must be available to attend the Cleo Bachelor of the Year winner announcement event to be held in Sydney NSW currently scheduled to take place on 24th October 2014.

33. The Promoter is neither responsible nor liable for any loss or damage suffered in the event that the Cleo Bachelor of the Year 2014 Announcement event is postponed, cancelled, rescheduled or relocated for any reason whatsoever.

34. No travel including but not limited to domestic flights, transfers, accommodation, meals, beverages, spending money will be included as a part of the finalist status or be given to a finalist to attend the CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 Announcement event. All costs associated to attending the event will be the responsibility of each finalist.

35. Overall Winner of CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 – Prize:

The best (1) semi-finalist as determined by the judges will be deemed the winner of the Judges Choice Award and winner of the Cleo Bachelor of the Year 2014 competition will receive:

o A$5,000 – awarded in the form of a cheque made in favour of the winner

36. It is a condition of accepting the Prize that the winner signs all legal documentation (including but not limited to a Cleo Bachelor of the Year 2014 Winner Agreement) as provided to them by the Promoter. Form of documentation will be determined by the Promoter in its complete discretion.

37. If for any reason whatsoever the winner chooses to ether not sign the Cleo Bachelor of the Year 2014 Winner Agreement, or requests to not be bound by the terms of the Cleo Bachelor of the Year 2014 Winner Agreement they have signed with the Promoter then the winner will forfeit the prize.

38. The Promoter has the right to terminate any agreement it may have signed with the winner, subject to the terms signed Cleo Bachelor of the Year 2014 Winner Agreement.

39. The Overall winner of CLEO Bachelor of the Year 2014 must be available to be photographed, filmed, interviewed or attend any events at the request of CLEO for a one (1) year period from the date of the announcement event (24TH October 2014), the winner will need to be available for photo-shoots throughout the year (at dates and times to be advised to the winner by CLEO magazine throughout the year). In the event of an interview, CLEO magazine will determined the topic and format in which they may ask the winner to contribute to the magazine and advised the winner of their assignments throughout the year. CLEO reserves the right at any time to ask that the winner to cease providing CLEO services. Decision to cease CLEO services remains with the Promoter at all times

40. It is a condition of accepting the prize that the winner warrants to the Promoter that they understand that any arrangement entered into in relation to the redemption of this prize does not create a relationship between the winner and the Promoter of employer and employee, principal and agent, partnership or joint venture.

41. It is a condition of accepting the prize that the winner agrees to be interviewed and photographed at any time after winner notification by the Promoter or their agents for a story or feature on this promotion to be developed and featured in CLEO magazine, website and social media sites (or any other form of media it deems suitable). This story or feature will appear in CLEO magazine and/or website at a time to be determined by the Promoter. All control relating to any such story or feature will remain with the Promoter at all times.

42. Except with our prior written consent, the winner must supply commentary related to the Promotion, CLEO of any nature to any company or person engaged in the television, pay television or radio broadcasting, printed or electronic publishing, online media, telecommunications or advertising industries (or any company, person or entity which supplies services or programs to any such companies, persons or entities) from the date entry