Griffin's Bite Sized Stories Terms & Conditions

  1. Information on how to enter and prizes form part of the Terms and Conditions of entry.
  2. By entering the Promotion, entrants agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions of entry.
  3. Entry is open to New Zealand residents only.  Employees of Griffin’s Foods Limited (“the Promoter”) and any agencies associated with this promotion and their immediate families are ineligible to enter.
  4. Only entries complying with these Terms and Conditions are valid. 
  5. The promotion commences at 9am on Friday 1st August 2008 and closes at 5pm on Monday, 1st December 2008.  Entries received outside these times will be invalid.
  6. There are 10 major prizes to be won. Each major prize consists of 208 packs of Griffin’s biscuits. Each winner will receive a quarterly shipment of 8 packs of each of their 5 nominated favourite biscuit varieties plus 12 additional packs selected at Griffin’s’ discretion to a total of 52 packets per quarter.
  7. Each completed and valid entry will be entered into the draw to win. The prize draw is open to personal customers and companies. The prize draw will take place by 30 December 2008. The winner will be notified by phone (where applicable) and confirmed in writing no later than 30 January 2009. If the winner cannot be contacted or does not claim the prize within 28 days of notification, that winner will forfeit the prize and a redraw will be made.
  8. By entering the promotion, all entrants:(a)    grant the Promoter the right to use their entry, names, images, voices and likeness in any media, including but not limited to the internet, for future promotional purposes;(b)    agree that they will make themselves available for pronotional appearances and participate in future publicity for the Promoter and that no royalties or other remuneration will be paid by the Promoter in respect of any such promotional use of their entry, or their name, image, voice or likeness unless otherwise advised in writing by the Promoter; and(c)    warrants that the entrant is the sole legal and beneficial owner of the rights in the entry and that the Promoter's use of the entrants entry will not violate any law or infringe the rights of any third party.
  9. The winner agrees to the use by Griffin’s of their name, town of residence and photograph for publicity and promotional purposes, without compensation, and copyright will vest in Griffin’s. The winner must make themselves available for publicity photographs.
  10. Entries submitted by or through fraud or other illegal activity; or entries not complying with these Terms and conditions, are invalid.
  11. The Promoter takes no responsibility for lost, damaged, misdirected, late or illegible entries, incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information, or for any human error, technical malfunctions, lost/delayed data transmission, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, line failures of any telephone network, computer equipment, software, inability to access telecommunications network services, or any other error or malfunction.
  12. The Promoter reserves the right to verify the validity of any entry. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any entrant for submitting inappropriate or offensive material, or for tampering  with the entry process or attempting to act in a fraudulent or otherwise dishonest manner.  All decisions of the Promoter are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  13. Submitting entries will not be taken as proof of receipt of entries.
  14. All entries, and all rights in all entries, become the property of the Promoter.
  15. Entrants are identified by the email address used to submit the entry.  Any prize(s) won by drawing a participant whose entry was received by email will be awarded to the holder of the email address from which entry was submitted.  The Promoter takes no responsibility for disputes arising as a result of entries submitted by entrants using an email address belonging to any other person.
  16. Winners will be notified by email to the email address from which the online entry was received.  This notification will include information on how a prize may be claimed.
  17. The Promoter reserves the right to substitute any prize with another prize of similar value without prior notice and all prizes are non transferable or exchangeable for cash.  The Promoter shall not be liable if, for any reason outside its control, any prize or part of any prize becomes unavailable.
  18. If the prize is won by someone under the age of 16, the prize will be awarded to their parent/s or legal guardian/s, to be chosen by the Promoter at its sole discretion.  Allocation of the prize will be at the discretion of the parent/s or legal guardian/s.
  19. If the Promoter is unable to contact any winner after a period of three months following the original draw date, having made reasonable efforts to do so, that winner’s entry will be declared invalid and the Promoter reserves the right to randomly draw a new winner of that prize from eligible participants on the same Terms and Conditions as the original draw.
  20. As a condition of accepting their prize, winners agree to be available for reasonable publicity purposes without further compensation including, but not limited to, photographs and interviews.  Winners acknowledge that their personal details may be televised on national television and be published in newspapers, magazines and on the Internet.
  21. The Promoter and its associated agencies and companies shall not be liable in any way (including, without limitation, in negligence) for any loss or damage whatsoever suffered (including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss) or for any loss or damage or personal injury suffered or sustained in connection with this promotion, the prize or using any prize, except any liability that cannot be excluded by law.  The Promoter is not liable for any tax implications that may arise as a result of winning any prize.
  22. The Promoter collects and holds personal information provided with each entry to be used for the purposes of the Promotion (and in particular to notify prize winners and to verify prize winners’ identities), and for the purpose of future marketing and promotional materials.  All personal information provided by entrants will be held by Griffin’s Foods Ltd at Tower B, Level 5, 100 Carlton Gore Road, Newmarket, Auckland or such other place as is notified to the entrant on request.  Under the Privacy Act 1993, entrants have the right to access and correct their personal information.  
  23. The Promoter is Griffins Foods Limited of Tower B, Level 5, 100 Carlton Gore Road, Newmarket, Auckland.