Terms & Conditions
Competition Terms & Conditions
1. The promoter of the Beautiful Baby competition and the Face of Rock a Buy Baby competition is sit-up Limited (referred to as "us", "we" or the "Promoter"). The Promoter's principal place of business is at 179-181 The Vale, London, W3 7RW.
2. All entrants must qualify at the date of entry (in that they must be eligible in accordance with these Terms and Conditions) and be resident in the UK. The eligibility of any entrant is at the sole discretion of the Promoter.
3. By entering the competitions, you hereby warrant that all information submitted by you is true, current and complete.
Beautiful Baby Monthly Competition Terms and Conditions
4. To enter the Beautiful Baby competition, email a photo of your Beautiful Baby to beautifulbaby@sit-up.tv. Please include your full name, address and telephone number as well as your baby's name and age. The competition is for babies from 0-3 years of age.
5. All entrants submitting a baby's photo into the Beautiful Baby competition must be aged 18 or over, and must be the parent/guardian or a close relative of the baby appearing in the photo. Entrants must (if they are not the baby's parent/guardian) also obtain the permission of the parent/guardian of the baby appearing in the photo before entering the photo into the competition. By entering the photo, you warrant to us that you have obtained the permission of the baby's parent/guardian.
6. You also warrant that you own all rights in any photo submitted to us and that neither the photo (nor our use of it in accordance with these Terms and Conditions) will infringe the copyright, moral right, performing rights, rights of privacy, trade mark or other proprietary right of any other person.
7. All photos submitted must be a .jpg image no larger than 500KB in size.
8. We will not accept full or partial nude shots of babies for the Beautiful Baby Competition, although photos revealing bare head and shoulders only may be accepted at our absolute discretion.
9. Due to the high number of entries received for the Beautiful Baby competition, every month our Rock a Buy Baby team will select a shortlist of 25 Beautiful Baby photos from eligible entries and post them on the Rock a Buy Baby website to be put to the public vote. The Promoter's decision as to the shortlist is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
10. Public voting means that any member of the public who has registered for the Beautiful Baby competition can vote for any of the baby's in our Gallery of baby photos.
11. The photo which receives the most public votes via the website will become the monthly winner of the Beautiful Baby competition.
12. The monthly voting period is approximately from the 6th of the month to the last day of the month. PLEASE NOTE: April's 2008 shortlist will be displayed on the websites www.RockaBuyBabyTV.com, www.price-drop tv and www.bid.tv from launch date to the 31st May 2008). Where the end of the month ends on a weekend or Bank holiday, voting will close on the next working day after the end of the month at 5.00 pm.
13. The person who submitted the winning photo (the "Winner") will be contacted using the telephone number and address details provided with their entry within 30 days. The prize for the Winner will be £100 worth of vouchers to spend with us on any of our channels, namely bid tv, price-drop tv and speed auction tv, redeemable within a period of 6 months. The Winner and/or the winning photo will also appear on our TV channels price-drop tv, bid tv and/or their websites as the Beautiful Baby of the month.
14. To be eligible to vote for the Beautiful Baby competition participants must register first to vote to allow them to "click to vote". Only one vote per person per baby is permitted. Each vote must be assigned to a unique person from a permanent email address where we can contact voters at any time to confirm the validity of the vote. To validate votes we email a sample of voters and give them 24 hours to respond. Non responsive voters may be flagged as suspicious and be removed from the final tally. sit-up has the right to remove any baby from the competition where we believe that voting does not adhere to the one person-one vote rule (this includes, without limitation, where duplicate, fraudulent and/or non-responsive emails are discovered voting for the same baby).
15. By entering the Beautiful Baby competition, registering to vote or signing up to the Rock a Buy Baby newsletter, you agree that your email address will be added to the price-drop tv email newsletter list which announces special events, offers, competitions and promotions. From time to time we may share your email address with other carefully selected third parties. For further details, please read our privacy policy.
16. To tell a friend or family to vote in the competition simply click on the 'Tell a Friend' link on the voting page to send friends and family your baby's photo and a link to your baby's voting page.
17. You can enter your baby's photo once a month for as many months as you would like for as long as the competition is running. If your baby is not included in the Beautiful Baby Competition in the month entered, you can enter your baby's photo again the next month.
The Face of Rock a Buy Baby Competition Terms and Conditions
18. This is an additional competition connected with the Beautiful Baby competition.
19. The three photos with the highest number of public votes via the website from each monthly Beautiful Baby competition between April and October 2008 will be automatically entered into the Face of Rock a Buy Baby competition. The photos for The Face of Rock a Buy Baby Competition will be featured in our Voters Gallery from approx. 6th - 31st December 2008 where they will be open to a public vote to win the Face of Rock a Buy Baby competition. Only one vote per person per baby is permitted.
20. The photo which receives the most public votes via the website during the voting period for the Face of Rock a Buy Baby will become the winner of the Face of Rock a Buy Baby competition.
21. The winner will be announced from week commencing 5th January 2009
22. The person who submitted the winning photo (the "Winner") will be contacted using the telephone number and address details provided with their entry within 30 days. The prize will be:
a. For the winning baby to star in price-drop tv's Rock a Buy Baby promotional ads.
b. For the Winner to receive £500 worth of shopping vouchers to spend on any of our TV channels.
c. A professional studio photo shoot session for the family.
23. Entry to the Face of Rock a Buy Baby competition in all instances is via entry to the monthly Beautiful Baby competition.
Other Terms and Conditions
24. The Winners' names and counties will be posted on our websites and will also be available if you send a SAE to: bid tv, Beautiful Baby Competition, 179-181 The Vale, London W3 7RW.
25. By entering the Beautiful Baby Competition Baby you consent to your photo also being entered into the Face of Rock a Buy competition at our discretion and you agree to us using all photos on our web sites or in other promotional material at our discretion.
26. Employees of sit-up channels and their immediate family members, associated agencies or anyone else professionally connected with this promotion are not eligible.
27. The decision of the Promoter as to who has been awarded a prize is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The Promoter may at its sole discretion, substitute any prize for a prize of a similar nature and/or comparable value. Winners may not request and are not entitled to a cash alternative to their prize and their prize is non-refundable and non-transferable.
28. The Promoter accepts no responsibility or liability for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft, destruction, alteration of, or unauthorised access to entries, or entries lost, incomplete or delayed whether or not arising during operation or transmission as a result of server failures, virus, bugs or other causes outside its control. All lost, damaged or incomplete entries will be deemed invalid. Proof of entry shall not be proof of delivery or receipt. Only entries received in accordance with these Terms and Conditions will be acceptable. The Promoter will not be liable if a prize cannot be taken by a winner for any reason beyond the control of the Promoter. Return of prize notification as undeliverable or failure to respond to a prize notification within a reasonable time will result in disqualification and an alternate winner may be selected at the Promoter's discretion. In the event that a winner declines his or her prize the Promoter may elect, at its own discretion, to select an alternate winner.
29. Winners may be required to participate in publicity surrounding this promotion and consents to his/her name, locations and photographs being published for the purposes of any individual Competition and promoting the Promoter and its business.
30. The terms and conditions of any third party supplier may apply and must be accepted and complied with by the Winner. The Winner also acknowledges that the prize will not comprise any further or additional components not specifically stated.
31. By entering the Competitions, all entrants are deemed to accept these Terms and Conditions. The Promoter may, at its sole discretion, change the dates of entry into the Competitions and/or the dates on which the Competitions will be promoted and the Promoter reserves the right to alter, amend or withdraw these Terms and Conditions and/or the Competitions without prior notice.
32. By entering the Competitions you hereby assign all copyright which you may own in your entry to the Promoter and you acknowledge that the Promoter will own all the copyright in your entry.
33. Other than for death or personal injury arising from negligence of the Promoter, so far as is permitted by law, the Promoter hereby excludes all liability for any loss, damage, cost and expense, whether direct or indirect, howsoever caused in connection with the Competitions or any aspect of a prize.
34. By signing up for the Rock a Buy Baby newsletter you will receive the Rock a Buy Baby newsletter as well as the price-drop tv newsletter on a regular basis. If you choose to unsubscribe, you can click the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email upon receipt.
35. These Terms and Conditions are governed by and construed and performed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, whose courts shall be the courts of exclusive jurisdiction.
Please note that the following terms and conditions apply with the vouchers:
1. Vouchers entitle you to money off your next purchase with bid tv, price-drop tv or speed auction tv.
2. The voucher can be used for TV and web purchases only. Vouchers cannot be redeemed against purchases made in the price-drop tv stores.
3. To receive your money off discount, call us in the usual way but do not select the 'No Call Back' option, an operator will then call you back.
4. Vouchers can be used to pay postage & packaging.
5. There is no cash alternative to the offer.
6. The cash value of vouchers is 0.001p.
7. The promotion is subject to availability and is not valid in conjunction with any other offer, promotion or voucher.
8. The money off discount cannot be used retrospectively.
9. The voucher can only be used by the account holder and on the account it has been issued on.
10. Vouchers must be redeemed within 6 months.
How to use your voucher
1 You must quote the voucher number given to you to the operator at the start of the call when we call you back.
2. For web purchases enter your voucher number when prompted, only one voucher may be used on web purchases, to use multiple vouchers please order by telephone.
3. Select the most appropriate voucher denomination for each purchase. Total order value (including P&P) must exceed the voucher amount.
Privacy Policy
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2) sit-up uses data collection devices such as "cookies" on its websites. "Cookies" are small files placed on the hard drive that assist sit-up in providing customised services. sit-up also offers certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie. Customers are always free to decline the cookies if the browser permits, although in that case customers may not be able to use certain features on the websites.
