Official Rules

Rules amended 20th September 2021

 

Win a Holiday on a Private Island in the Scottish Highlands

OFFICIAL RULES

 

NO PURCHASE, PAYMENT OR DONATION NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. NEITHER A PURCHASE, PAYMENT NOR DONATION WILL INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. 

 

1. TIMING

The Scottish Highlands Promotion (the “Promotion”) begins on 16th July 2021 at 11:00 a.m. BST and ends on 1st October 2021 at 11:59 p.m. BST (the “Promotion Entry Period”). The Promotion is sponsored by Vip4Aid, LTD. (the “Promoter”).

 

2. ELIGIBILITY

The Promotion is only open to individuals who are at least eighteen (18) years of age at the time of entry. Regrettably, residents of certain countries will be unable to enter the Promotion for a variety of reasons, which include local Promotion and contest laws and compliance legislation. These countries/provinces are: Afghanistan, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, the province of Quebec (Canada), Cambodia, Chad, China, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Lebanon, Mali, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Singapore, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania (the United Republic of), Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe, and any other country where local laws would prohibit the provision of or entry into a Promotion. Other countries are void where prohibited. Entries are limited to individuals only; commercial enterprises and business entities are not eligible. By participating in the Promotion, each entrant accepts the conditions stated in these Official Rules, agrees to be bound by the decisions of the Promoter and warrants that she/he is eligible to participate in the Promotion. Employees of either Vip4Aid or the charity, independent contractors, officers, and directors, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, and fulfillment agencies, and legal advisors, and their immediate family members and persons living in the same household, are not eligible to participate in the Promotion. 

3. HOW TO ENTER

There are three ways to enter during the Promotion Entry Period:

 

a. Paid Method of Entry. To use enter by this method, visit www.charitystars.com and select the "Win a Holiday on a Private Island in the Scottish Highlands" draw. Choose your Entry Fee. Each Entry Fee amount will come with a pre-defined number of entries. Once your payment is complete, you will automatically receive the number of entries you selected. You can enter as many times as you wish as long as you don't exceed the overall entry cap specified in these Official Rules. 

 

b. Enter Without Donation By Mailing In. To enter the Promotion without donating, visit the Promotion Website, print the free entry form. Place the completed entry form in an envelope, with the name of the Promotion you are entering written on the back and mail to CharityStars UK, Suite 77, Courthill House, 60 Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AJ. Upon receipt of your mail in entry form you will receive 1 entry into the Promotion. Your envelope must be postmarked within the Promotion Entry Period and received within seven business days of the close of the Promotion Entry Period. Only one entry form per envelope will be accepted. No illegible, incomplete, forged, mechanically reproduced or altered entries will be accepted. You can enter by the Alternative Method of Entry as many times as you wish as long as you don't exceed the overall Entry Limit.

  

c.  Receive Entries Through Alternative actions, as promoted by Vip4Aid via social media. Additional entries in the Promotion may also be earned by referring a friend. For each donation made during the Promotion Entry Period you have the opportunity to share a unique link. For each referred donation made through your unique link, regardless of amount, you will receive 10 additional entries as stipulated on the campaign page sharing section. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Additional entries may also be earned from time to time by completing tasks specified on the Promotion Website, which may commence during the course of a Promotion. Please see the Promotion Website for additional details.

Each Entry that is purchased through method c) will constitute a single, independent Entry to a single Promotion, will have the same value as any other Entry to that Promotion, and will have the same chance of winning as all other Entry.

Limit of 10000 entries per person for the Promotion regardless of method of entry. Entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any participant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that participant’s entries and that participant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. Promoter is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected entries, which will be disqualified. Vip4Aid is not responsible for lost, interrupted, or unavailable network, server, or other connections, garbled transmissions or miscommunications, telephone transmission problems; computer or software malfunctions or damage to a user’s computer equipment (software or hardware); technical failures; or other errors or malfunctions beyond its reasonable control whether human, mechanical, electronic, or otherwise. Only fully completed entries submitted during the Entry Period and actually received by Vip4Aid are eligible. Proof of sending or submission of entry will not be deemed proof of receipt by Vip4Aid.

In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorised account holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the registrant or player. The “authorised account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organisation responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorised account holder. Promoter reserves the right to contact entrants and all other individuals whose email address is submitted as part of this Promotion.

 

4. SELECTION OF WINNER

On or about 4th October, 2021 (the “Drawing Date”), Promoter will select the winner of the Promotion (“Promotion Winner”). The Promotion Winner will be selected in a random drawing from all eligible entries received during the Promotion Entry Period.  The selected entrant will be contacted on or about the Drawing Date using the email address provided with the entry and will be awarded the Promotion Prize subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with the terms of these Official Rules. Failure by entrant to respond to the initial verification within 72 hours of notification after three (3) attempts will result in disqualification and Promoter will select an alternate Promotion Winner in the same manner. In the event that a potential Promotion Winner is disqualified for any reason, Promoter will award the applicable Promotion Prize to an alternate Promotion Winner. 

 

5. ODDS

Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Entry Period. 

6. VERIFICATION OF WINNER

POTENTIAL Promotion WINNER IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY PROMOTER AND CHARITY. PROMOTER AND CHARITY’S DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE ADMINISTRATION, OPERATION, SELECTION OF THE WINNER, AND ALL OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO THE Promotion. In order to verify their identity and eligibility, Vip4Aid may require Potential Winners to sign paperwork confirming their eligibility and their ability to participate on given dates relevant to the Experience (if applicable), as well as other legal releases as may be reasonably required by Vip4Aid or the provider of the prize (for instance health and safety forms) by the date specified by Promoter, or an alternate potential Promotion Winner may be selected. At Promoter’s discretion, a background check may be performed which the Promotion Winner would have to pass in order to receive the Promotion Prize. In the event the potential Promotion Winner: (a) cannot be reached for whatever reason after a reasonable effort has been exerted or the potential winner notification or Affidavit is returned as undeliverable; (b) declines or cannot accept, receive or use the Promotion Prize for any reason; (c) is found to be ineligible to enter the Promotion or receive the Promotion Prize, cannot or does not comply with the Official Rules, or (d) fails to fulfil the Affidavit-related obligations, the potential Promotion Winner shall be disqualified from the Promotion and an alternate potential Promotion Winner may be selected, at Promoter’s sole discretion, from among the other eligible entries received. Promoter reserves the right to modify the notification and legal release procedures in connection with the selection of an alternate potential Promotion Winner, if any.

7. GRAND PRIZE

One (1) grand prize will be awarded. Grand prize winner will receive the following prize package: 

Travel on the Caledonian Sleeper Train for 4 (from London)
3 nights accommodation for 4 people on Eilean Sionnach Private Island
Boat transfers to the island on arrival and departure
Fridge stocked with local, award-winning produce

Winners will receive the prize(s) identified on each Promotion’s webpage. The specifics of all elements (including important information about timing for fulfilment of prizes, travel options and requirements, guests etc.) shall be solely determined by Vip4Aid. To avoid disappointment, please read carefully before entering any Promotion to make sure that you are available on required dates and/or can travel to the prize venue(s) if needed.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, any and all applicable taxes and all fees and expenses related to acceptance and use of an Experience not specifically stated herein are the responsibility solely of Winner(s). Vip4Aid will not replace any lost or stolen Prize(s). Promotion cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion or offer. Only the number of prizes stated in these Official Rules is available to be won in the Promotions.

Except as explicitly stated, all Prizes are awarded as is, without any representations or warranties, and cannot be transferred, sold, substituted or redeemed for cash by Winner. Unless noted in the Prize details in this Section, Winner is solely responsible for all taxes, costs, and fees associated with Prize receipt, ownership and/or use. Certain types of Promotions may have other restrictions or limitations, including without limitation as follows, unless otherwise specified:

Prize Manufacturers. All third party names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This sweepstake is not sponsored, endorsed, or affiliated in any way with anyone else. .
Prizes Involving Vehicles. Winner will be solely responsible for any taxes, requirement and costs incurred in by winning the Promotion’s price. The Winner may be required to show proof of valid insurance and driver’s licence prior to receipt of the vehicle. The Winner must take delivery of vehicle at a location and time of Vip4Aid sole choosing.

The total Approximate Retail Value of the Grand Prize is £2200.00. Any Grand Prize elements not specifically described in this Section may be determined by Promoter, in its sole and absolute discretion. Promoter may, in its sole and absolute discretion, present Winner with one or more Grand Prize options, from which Winner may choose one. However, Winner is not guaranteed or entitled to have the ability to request or demand any Prize elements that are not specifically stated in this section. 

Promoter is responsible only for Promotion Prize Fulfilment. Promotion Prize is non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Promoter’s sole discretion. Promoter reserves the right to substitute the listed Promotion Prize for one of equal or greater value for any reason. All tax liabilities, as well as any other costs and expenses not specified herein as being awarded are the sole responsibility of the Promotion Winner.

 

8. CONDITIONS

Each entrant agrees to: (a) comply with and be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Promoter which are binding and final in all matters relating to this Promotion; (b) defend, indemnify, release and hold harmless the Promoter, Prize Provider, Beneficiary, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies, celebrities, and any other person and organization responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising, or promoting the Promotion, and all of their respective past and present officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liability, including without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and legal expenses, which arise out of any third party claim, including but not limited to, negligence and damages of any kind to persons and property, including but not limited to invasion of privacy (under appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, false light in the public eye or other legal theory), defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of publicity, infringement of trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights, or death or personal injury arising out of or relating to an entrant’s entry, creation or submission of an entry, participation in the Promotion, acceptance, possession, attendance at, defect in, delivery of, inability to use, use or misuse of the Promotion Prize (including any travel or activity related thereto) and/or the broadcast, exploitation or use of the entry. The Promotion Prize is awarded as-is without warranty of any kind.

9. PUBLICITY

Except where prohibited or restricted by law, Vip4Aid reserves the right to publish or make available information that indicates that a valid award took place for each of the Experiences – for example, country and county of residence of the Winner.  the Promotion Winner’s acceptance of Promotion Prize constitutes the Promotion Winner’s agreement and consent for Promoter and any of its designees to use and/or publish the Promotion Winner’s first name and last name initial, city and state of residence, photographs or other likenesses, pictures, portraits, video, voice, testimonials, biographical information (in whole or in part), and/or statements made by the Promotion Winner regarding the Promotion, Promotion Prize, or Promoter, worldwide and in perpetuity for any and all purposes, including, but not limited to, advertising, trade and/or promotion on behalf of Promoter, in any and all forms of media, now known or hereafter devised, including, but not limited to, print, TV, radio, electronic, cable, or World Wide Web, without further limitation, restriction, compensation, notice, review, or approval.

Affected winners have the right to object to all or part of this information being published or made available – in such an event they should inform Vip4Aid in writing. In such circumstances, entrants acknowledge that Vip4Aid must nevertheless still provide the information and winning entry to the ASA or equivalent regulator on request.

 

10. GENERAL CONDITIONS

Promoter and its subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors shall not have any obligation or responsibility, including any responsibility to award any Promotion Prize to entrants, with regard to: (a) entries that contain inaccurate information or do not comply with or violate the Official Rules; (b) entries, Promotion Prize claims or notifications that are lost, late, incomplete, illegible, unintelligible, damaged or otherwise not received by the intended recipient, in whole or in part, due to computer, human or technical error of any kind; (c) entrants who have committed fraud or deception in entering or participating in the Promotion or claiming the Promotion Prize; (d) telephone, electronic, hardware, software, network, Internet or computer malfunctions, failures or difficulties; (e) any inability of the Promotion Winner to accept the Promotion Prize for any reason; (f) if the Promotion Prize cannot be awarded due to delays or interruptions due to acts of God, natural disasters, terrorism, weather or any other similar event beyond Promoter’s reasonable control; or (g) any damages, injuries or losses of any kind caused by the Promotion Prize or resulting from awarding, acceptance, possession, use, misuse, loss, or misdirection of the Promotion Prize or participation in this Promotion, or any promotion or prize-related activities. Promoter reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be (a) tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Promotion, or with any Website promoting the Promotion; (b) acting in violation of the Official Rules; or (c) entering or attempting to enter the Promotion multiple times through the use of multiple email addresses or the use of any robotic or automated devices to submit entries. If Promoter determines, in its sole discretion, that technical difficulties or unforeseen events compromise the integrity or viability of the Promotion, Promoter reserves the right to void the entries at issue, and/or terminate the relevant portion of the Promotion, including the entire Promotion, and/or modify the Promotion and/or award the Promotion Prize from all eligible entries received during the Promotion Entry Period.

11. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

The Released Parties are not responsible for: (a) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilised in the Promotion; (b) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (c) unauthorised human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (d) technical or human error in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries; or (e) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by entrant’s participation in the Promotion or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for any reason an entrant’s registration is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the Promotion. No more than the stated number of Promotion Prizes will be awarded.

12. DISPUTES

Entrant agrees that: (a) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion, or any Promotion Prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; (b) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved exclusively by bringing proceedings in respect of these Official Rules in the English courts. However, as a consumer, if you live in another part of the UK you can bring legal proceedings in respect of these Terms in either the English courts or your local courts. (c) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Promotion, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (d) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental  and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Promoter in connection with the Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the United Kingdom.
If you wish to have more information on online dispute resolution, please follow this link to the website of the European Commission: ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/". This link is provided as required by Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, for information purposes only.  We are not obliged to participate in online dispute resolution.

Each Entry Fee supports an awesome cause and entry to the Promotions may enable you to win an awesome Prize(s). A proportion of each Entry Fee goes to the Charity and helps them create real impact - as such, we do not provide refunds for Entry Fees [once a Promotion has closed].

13. CHANGES TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES
Vip4Aid may amend these Official Rules at any time by posting the amended Official Rules on the Site, and you agree that you will be bound by any changes to these Official Rules from [16/07/2021]. If, however, you have already entered a Promotion, the changes will not apply to any entries that you have already submitted, but they will apply to any future entries that you submit after the date on which the change become effective. The date of last revision of these Terms is included at the top of this page.

14. WARNING
Any attempt by you or any other individual deliberately to damage any website associated with a Promotion or undermine the legitimate operation of a Promotion may be a breach of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Vip4Aid reserves the right to claim against and seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Vip4Aid reserves the right to disqualify any individual it finds to be attempting to tamper with or undermine the entry process, the Site, and/or the legitimate operation of the Promotion; to breach the Official Rules; or to act in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person. If, for any reason, the Promotion cannot be run as planned, Vip4Aid may, in its sole discretion, void any suspect entries and (a) cancel or terminate the Promotion (or any portion thereof); (b) modify the Promotion or suspend the Promotion to address the impairment and then resume the Promotion in a manner that best conforms to the spirit of these Official Rules; and/or (c) award the Prize(s) at random from among the eligible, non-suspect entries received up to the time of the impairment.

 

15. WINNERS LIST

The first name, last initial and city of the Promotion Winner and a copy of these Official Rules will be available on the Promotion Website shortly following the Drawing Date and for ninety (90) days thereafter.

15. Promoter 

Vip4Aid Ltd, 45 Beaufort Court, Admirals Way, London.

Beneficiary: Snowland Journeys 

Copyright 2021 Vip4Aid, LTD. All rights reserved. Vip4Aid, LTD. and the associated logos are trademarks of Vip4Aid LTd. Any other trademarks in these Official Rules are used for prize identification purposes ONLY and are the properties of their respective owners.