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‘Snap a Selfie’ Competition Terms and Conditions

How to Enter
The Promoter for this competition is Next Byte/ Vita Group. Any reference to the Promoter in these Terms and Conditions is a reference to Next Byte/ Vita Group.
Information on how to enter and prizes form part of these Terms and Conditions. Submission of an entry into this promotion is deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
This is an online photo competition presented by the Promoter using the Instagram mobile application. Instagram is free to download and available through Apple and Android application stores.
Here’s a quick reminder of the simple steps to enter the Next Byte ‘Snap a Selfie’ competition:
Step 1: Download/ Login to Instagram.
Step 2: Take a creative, imaginative or humorous selfie of yourself with a product purchased at Next Byte.
Step 3: Hashtag the picture with #NextByteSelfies and share.
Once your image is hashtagged as #NextByteSelfies you have been entered into the competition.
Alternatively, #NextByteSelfies entries sent to the email address win@nextbyte.com.au will also be deemed valid and will be entered into the promotion.
Who Can Enter
The competition is open to all residents of Australia who are aged 13 years and older. However, users under the age of 18 must obtain parental/guardian consent prior to entering the promotion.
Employees, Directors and their immediate families of the Promoter and printers, suppliers, providers and agencies associated with this promotion are ineligible to enter.
Competition opens on 10/02/14 at 12pm midday AEST. Promotion closes on 9/03/14 at 5:00pm. (The “Promotional Period”).
In order for your entry to be validated, your Instagram settings must be ‘public’.
Only entries submitted via Instagram and email, and those that are appropriately hashtagged will be accepted.
Entry into the competition is free.
Data Usage
Use of images
All your images published on Instagram with #NextByteSelfies, may be moderated and possibly displayed on the Promoters social media channels.
Entrants retain copyright in their photographs. However, submission of an entry gives the Promoter a non-exclusive right to reproduce entrants’ photographs without fee for the purpose of marketing and promotion materials.
By registering to the competition and accepting the T&Cs you agree your images can be broadcast via digital feeds or printed for physical events by the Promoter.
If you are a winner of this competition, your submitted image and Instagram and/or Twitter username will be announced on the Promoters social media channel via the permission you gave when accepting these T&Cs.
Use of personal information
By registering to the competition and accepting the T&Cs, you give us permission to contact you via Instagram if you are a winner of this competition.
By publishing images with #NextByteSelfies on Instagram you also give permission for us to contact you by commenting on your images.
The Promoter will be storing your username in accordance with the permissions granted when you register to the competition and accept the T&Cs. This is in order to contact winners of the competition.
You will only be directly contacted to thank you for your entry or if you win a prize.
Image Regulation and Moderation
By submitting your images to the competition, in respect of each image, you confirm that:
It was taken by you; it is your own original work;
It does not knowingly contain or reference any third part trademarks;
If you send in images of other individuals (adults or children) you have obtained the permission of that individual or parent of the child;
Submitting it to the competition and granting a license in respect of its use as set out in these terms and conditions will not infringe the copyright or any other rights of any third party;
It does not contain any obscene, sexually explicit, violent, offensive, inflammatory or defamatory content or material.
We do not condone submissions that: are untrue, contain copyrighted content; condone or promote illegal activity; are derogatory to members of a particular race, nationality, sex, sexual orientation or religion or incite hatred of particular groups; are abusive, bullying or name calling of other people; are cruel to animals; that contain excessive use of vulgar language; that in any way expose information of a private nature; are spam; are pretending to be someone famous; compromise children’s safety; depict cigarettes, alcohol, drugs or nudity in the presence of children; display images of full nudity; are sexually explicit; depict violence, sadism or cruelty; include weapons or imitation weapons; condone illegal drug usage; represent any corporation negatively; include any personal or commercial solicitation or advertising; include broadcast material from TV or Radio; are political in any way; contain sensitive information about someone’s mental or physical health. Any content submitted like this will be deleted and may be reported to the appropriate authorities.
Submissions must not contain: i/ defamatory statements, ii/ threats to any person, place, business, or group, iii/ any dangerous behaviour, iv/ any unacceptable clothing or adornments, v/ any commercial/corporate advertising, or vi/ any indecent exposure of individuals.
Entrants voluntarily and knowingly release, discharge and relinquish any and all claims, actions and lawsuits of any kind against the Promoter or its agents related to or arising from their participation in this competition including, without limitation, any claims, actions or lawsuits for negligence and/or other fault, personal injury, defamation, violation of right of publicity, invasion of privacy, and infringement of copyright. Anything posted on this site becomes public information.
The Promoter reserves the right, at any time, to verify the validity of entries and entrants and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these Terms and Conditions or who tampers with the entry process. Failure by the Promoter to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
NOTICE TO ONLINE ENTRANTS: Any attempt by an individual to deliberately damage any web site or undermine the legitimate operation of this application is a violation of laws, and should such an attempt be made, promoter reserves the right to seek damages from any such individual to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Prizes and Judges
A panel of judges, who will score all entered photos set out by the selection criteria, will select the prize winners of this competition.
The judges for this promotion are members of Next Byte’s marketing department.
Submissions will be judged according to the following criteria:
The image is interesting, creative or humorous, as decided by the judges.
The image is relevant to the #NextByteSelfies theme in question.
The submitted image is original.
The decision of the judges is final. The Promoter reserves the right to change their decision if the winner hasn’t registered or is unavailable to share his details at the time of the prize announcement.
List of Snap a Selfie competition prizes:
Description Qty Retail value of each ($) Total Value ($)
Bose MIE2i Headphones (Weekly prize) 4 $169 $507
Next Byte Gift Card 1 $2,500 $2,500
TOTAL prize value $3,007
The entries and prizes are personal and non-transferable for alternative prize of greater or equal value.
The winner will be notified through their Instagram and/or email accounts. If the winner cannot be contacted through Instagram or e-mail, another entry that received the next highest number of votes from judges will be selected and the original winner will forfeit any prize.
The decision of the judges is final and binding in all matters relating to this competition. No other correspondence will be entered into.
By participating in the promotion, you agree that no claim shall be asserted against the Promoter, its parent company, affiliates, directors, officers, employers or agents in respect of any and all loses or injuries (including without limitation special, indirect or consequential loses), damages, rights, claims or actions of any kind whatsoever that result from your acceptance of the prize to the full extent permissible in law.
Additional Rules
The Promoter is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software failure of any e-mail or entry to be received on account of technical problems of traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines or at any website, or combination thereof, in relation to this promotion.
If this promotion is interfered with in any way or is not capable of being conducted as reasonably anticipated due to any reason beyond the reasonable control of the Promoter, the Promoter reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to the fullest extent permitted by law (a) to disqualify any entrant; or (b) to modify, suspend, terminate or cancel the promotion, as appropriate.
Where applicable, participation in this competition assumes the acceptance of the Instagram Terms and Conditions, found here: http://instagram.com/legal/terms/
By entering the competition, entrants agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions. The Promoter reserves the right to modify the content of these Terms & Conditions with retroactive effect should modification be required to ensure the good execution of the competition.
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram.
A complete release of Instagram becomes active upon entry to this promotion