Rules of Competition Discovery Science Competition (“Competition”) – 1.10.2013 – 25.10.2014 1. This Competition is organised by Discovery Communications Europe Limited (Company No. 05039068) located at Discovery House, Chiswick Park Building 2, 566 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 5YB, United Kingdom, (the "Promoter"). All participants taking part in this Competition (”Participant(s)”) will be deemed to have read and understood these rules (“Rules” which term includes any amendments thereto) and to have agreed to be bound by them. The Promoter will publish any amendments to the Rules on the website http://www.yourdiscoveryscience.com/ (“Website”) and participants agree that the amendments shall form part of the Rules, and shall apply to this Competition from the date of publication on the Website. All entry instructions form part of the Rules. 2. The Competition is open to residents of Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Georgia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Malta, Montenegro, Moldova, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen excluding employees of Promoter and their families, the Promoter's agents or anyone professionally associated with the Competition. Only one entry per person is permitted. 3. Entrants under 18 years old must gain the permission of their parents or guardians to enter the promotion. If parental or guardian consent is found not to have been given, the prize may not be awarded to that winner. Proof of identification may be required at the request of the Promoter. 4. Participants expressly declare and represent that (i) they submit to the laws and jurisdiction of England in participating in this Competition and (ii) they are individuals and not a company or any professional and/or commercial entity. 5. The Competition will run from 1 October 2014 to 25 October 2014. The closing time and date for receipt of entries is 23:59 hr. (GMT) on 25 October 2014. 6. Method of Entry No purchase is necessary to enter the Competition. The Competition must be entered by sending an email to [email protected] attaching a video of your answer to the question ‘Why can’t you live without science?’ a. Duration of videos should not be longer than thirty (30) seconds and may be submitted in English language or one of the recognized languages of the regions included in this Competition. b. All entry information, including the images and videos uploaded, once submitted becomes the property of the Promoter. The Promoter reserves the right to use this information worldwide across its websites, social media sites and for promotional use where it sees fit. c. Participants pledge that any content submitted within their entry has been created by themselves and is not the property of any other individual, group, organisation, company or government. d. Each entry is subject to approval by Promoter. e. Any entry that is deemed as offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable content or information will not be granted approval and will therefore be excluded from the Competition. f. Entries must not contain or refer to any third party brand and must not contain or reference any third party names, logos and/or trademarks. g. Entries must not use images which are under copyright nor images of third parties other than the Participant. The Participant hereby irrevocably consents to the use of Participant’s personal image in the videos (if any) by the Promoter, in any media or platform whatsoever and worldwide. h. All entries will be moderated to ensure they meet the criteria set, any not meeting the minimum criteria will be disqualified. 7. By entering, the winner gives their consent to the Promoter to use their names and country of residence in any publicity relating to the competition. 8. Participants and specifically the winner of the Prize irrevocably agree that the ownership of all intellectual property rights in their video, including but not limited to copyrights, shall belong exclusively to Promoter and are hereby assigned to Promoter worldwide and in perpetuity. As one of the conditions for confirmation of a winner of a Prize, or and entry to the competition, such Participant shall, if required by the Promoter, execute any such document as may be necessary or proper to evidence or secure to the Promoter the rights granted under this paragraph. 9. Prizes There is one prize (“Prize”) which shall consist of: a star will be named after the Prize winner. This will be a real star that’s clearly visible from Europe will be named after the winner and the star naming process will be recorded in the globally recognised Star-naming Registry - a registry in which star names are recorded, administered and audited. The winner will be required to provide us with the relevant data and once the process is completed he/she will receive a certificate and star chart. The naming of the star will be valid for a lifetime. a remote control UFO drone Model: WALKERA QR X350 GPS Drone 6CH Brushless UFO with RX-702 Receiver and DEVO 7 Transmitter RTF - 2.4GHz plus cost of delivery. Batteries not included. The combined value of the Prize is valued at approximately £405. The winner of the Prize will be required to comply with the laws, regulations and customs the winner’s country of residence, host countries, and conditions stipulated by prize sponsors. The Prize winner shall be solely responsible for any other expense incurred by the Prize winner and/or guest, which has not been expressly undertaken by the Promoter in these Rules. There shall be no replacement or substitute prize or any other form of compensation, and the Promoter may in its sole discretion determine whether to select another Prize winner if the original winner’s entry is invalid in any way. The Prize winner accepts the Prize at their own risk. The Prize winner understands that the Prize is being made available to the Prize winner on condition that the Prize winner will hold safe the Promoters from any claims or liability arising from any loss or damage, injuries, illness, loss or expenses arising from any part of the Prize. 10. Any applicable taxes on any element of the Prize will be paid by the winners, to the fullest extent permitted by the law of each applicable jurisdiction. It is the responsibility of winners to report their Prize to the relevant authorities and to pay any applicable tax or duties including without limitation custom duty and related taxes, if and when applicable. 11. The Prize is non-exchangeable, non-transferable and non-refundable and there is no cash alternative in whole or in part. The Prize is subject to availability and in the event of circumstances outside of its control the Promoter reserves the right to substitute a similar or alternative prize of equal or greater value. The Prize must be taken up only by the winner. 12. The Prize shall be awarded to the Participant who submits the best answer (as determined by the Promoter in its sole discretion) to the question as decided by the Promoter. 13. The decision of the Promoter will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. 14. The winner will be selected and notified by email by 27 October 2014 using the details submitted by the winner with their contest entry. The name and country of the winner will also be published on the Website. The winner must claim his/her prize no later than by 29 October 2014, 18:00 hr (GMT). In the event that, for any reason whatsoever, any winner does not or is not able to claim his/her Prize by the stipulated time, whether due to a failure to comply with these Rules, or if the winner cannot be contacted from the details supplied, then the Prize will be deemed forfeited, and Promoter may at its sole discretion determine whether to select another winner from all of the remaining entries. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any Participant and/or winner in the event of non-compliance with these Rules, and in its sole discretion determine whether to select an alternate winner. 15. The Promoter reserves the right to vary details of any of the prizes, or substitute any prize with a prize of equivalent value. The Promoter may at its sole discretion extend the closing time and date, suspend, terminate or modify the Competition and/or the Rules prior to the closing date by notice published on the Website. 16. By participating in this Competition, Participants hereby irrevocably transfer and assign of all of their rights to any intellectual property in the Participant’s entry to Promoter. Participant hereby irrevocably transfers and assigns to Promoter any and all rights in and to the Entry including without limitation all copyrights and financial rights thereto, worldwide, in perpetuity and in any media whatsoever including without limitation the rights to reproduction, broadcasting, rebroadcasting, public performance, public communication, translation, adaptation, rental, lending or making the work available to the public in any manner, including through computers, internet, information networks, communication networks and other means, as well as translation, adaptation, license, transfer and any kind of disposal of such rights. All submitted entries will not be returned to the Participant, and shall be the exclusive property of the Promoter, and the Promoter shall have the exclusive right to use or deal with the entries and content therein, including for example, to modify and publish the entries or any part thereof, and to license, sublicense and assign rights thereto to third parties. 17. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Participant agrees that Discovery Communications Europe Limited’s privacy policy set forth in http://www.discoveryuk.com/privacy-policy/ shall apply to the treatment of each Participant’s personal data, and consents to the processing of their personal data by Discovery Communications Europe Limited as Data Controller (as defined in the United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 1998) for the purposes of the administration of this Competition and any other purposes to which the Participant has expressly consented. Where required by applicable law, Promoter will comply with applicable local law on protection of personal data and warrants that all personal data received in connection with the Competition will be treated in accordance with the standards set out in the Data Protection Act 1998. 18. The Promoter cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by any Participant entering the Competition or as a result of accepting any prize. The Promoter is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment or software, failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet, or at any website, including any injury to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Competition. Nothing in these Rules shall exclude the Promoter’s liability for death as a result of its negligence.
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