Terms and Conditions

A. CONTEST SPONSOR

This competition is being organised and managed by The Wheel (charity no. CHY 13288, company no. 302282). The project partners and sponsors are listed on www.bettertogether.ie.

B. NO OBLIGATION TO USE:

You acknowledge and agree that The Wheel and its partners is not required to host, display, accept, consider, or broadcast any video entered or submitted in to the Better Together competition, and you further agree that if The Wheel determines that your entry does not meet eligibility requirements for any reason, The Wheel may, at its sole discretion, remove your submission from the contest by declining to host it on www.bettertogether.ie

You understand and agree that once you submit or attempt to submit your video by uploading it on www.bettertogether.ie, it is an entry into the Better Together competition. You shall have no right to prohibit, restrict, revoke or terminate any of the rights granted to The Wheel hereunder. Moreover, you understand and acknowledge that you are not entitled to any compensation or other consideration for your video once submitted into the contest.

C. RIGHTS AND DISTRIBUTION:

By submitting your video into this competition, you hereby grant to The Wheel the royalty-free nonexclusive right to publish, broadcast, transmit and distribute content of the video, elements embodied within the video, in whole or in part. The Wheel is not assuming any obligation hereunder to broadcast or distribute any video uploaded to ww.bettertogether.ie.

D. AGREE TO BE BOUND

By entering, entrants agree to be bound by the decisions of the judges and these official rules and to comply with laws and regulations as well as all rules and terms of use posted on www.bettertogether.ie.

Further, The Wheel reserves the right to (a) modify the Terms & Conditions / Rules of the campaign at any time during the Better Together Video Competition and (b) cancel, terminate or modify any transmission or other activity not capable of completion as planned, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, force majeure or technical failures of any sort.

E. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

The Wheel and those working for or on its behalf will not be responsible for lost, late, misdirected, damaged, submissions or attempted submissions, or for e-mail, internet, computer hardware and software, phone, and/or any other technical errors, malfunctions, and delays that may prevent you from uploading your video into the competition, or interfere with your compliance of the rules of this competition. All responsibilities related to submitting a qualifying entry fall on you, the entrant or potential entrant.

F. ENTRY COMPLIANCE AND ENTRY DISPUTES

1. Entry is open to recognised community and voluntary organisations, clubs or associations in the Republic of Ireland (ROI). Volunteers can also enter if they have the express permission of the organisation, club or association promoted in their entry.

2. The Wheel will validate all entries and will determine, at its sole discretion, whether each video meets the entry criteria detailed herein for acceptance as an entry into the contest. If there is any doubt as to which category of the video competition the submitting organisation fits in to, The Wheel reserves the right to change the category and information the submitting organisation that it has done so.

3. The Wheel also reserves the unqualified right to investigate the bone fides of any organisation club or association that are mentioned or featured in an entry. We reserve the right not to accept, or to disqualify an entry, if we are not fully satisfied with the authenticity and validity of the credentials of either the entrant or any associated entity. You understand that The Wheel is under no obligation to disclose its reasons for not accepting an entry.

4. The opening and closing date and time for entries are as indicated in the Competition Information. Any entries received after 5pm (GMT) on Friday 28 October, 2011 will be disregarded, and will not appear on the website.

5. Entries which are longer than three minutes, mutilated, incomplete, illegible, inaccurate, forged, irregular in any way, or otherwise not in compliance with these official rules are void. In the event of a dispute concerning who submitted an entry, the entry will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorised holder of the e-mail account or IP address from which the entry made. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person to whom an email address is assigned by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

6. Automated entries of any kind, including but not limited to entries submitted using any bot, script, macro, or contest service, and third party entries are not permitted and will be disqualified.

7. The Wheel will validate all entries and will determine, at its sole discretion, whether each Video meets the entry criteria detailed herein for acceptance as an entry into the contest.

8. Once the voting closes at 5pm, 11 November, the ten most-voted-for videos in each video competition category (see below) will be shortlisted and a judging panel will select a single winner in each category. The Wheel is under no obligation to detail the short-listing or the judging process.

Video competition categories:

- Organisation with staff with a turnover greater than €500,000 per year
- Organisation with staff with a turnover less than €500,000 per year
- Volunteer only organisation.

G - VOTING PROCEDURE

The voting procedure for the Video Competition will work as follows:

The Better Together Video Competition voting system is based on an accumulated stars system. When voting for a particular video, you must choose between 1 and 5 stars (out of a total of 5). A 5-star rating delivers 5 votes to the video in question and a 1-star rating delivers 1 star, and so on. When the voting period ends (5pm, 11 November), the number of votes for each video will be added up for short-listing purposes (as described in F8 above).

You may vote once a day, every day for your favourite video(s) throughout the duration of the voting competition. Your IP address will be logged at the time of voting, preventing you from voting more than once within any 24-hour period. The Wheel accepts that voters may encourage their friends, families and colleagues get involved by voting for certain videos. However, any attempts to unfairly tamper / influence with the voting process will possibly lead to the blocking of specific IP addresses and potentially the removal of the associated video entry.

H. PROMOTION/PUBLICITY

By submitting an entry, you grant The Wheel and its partners the right to use information and content provided by you for publicity and institutional promotional purposes to the extent permitted by law. You understand and agree that The Wheel may request more information from you for such purposes, should your video become a finalist or a prize-winner. The finalists agree to participate in such reasonable publicity as may be requested by the The Wheel and their partners.

You also agree not to claim or imply for any reason that The Wheel and its partners are not the producers or co-producers of your video.

I. RELEASE FROM LIABILITY

Entrants agree that The Wheel and related individuals or entities as well as our sponsors shall not be liable for losses or injuries of any kind resulting from acceptance of prize(s), participation in the contest, individual, joint or collective technical malfunctions of the telephone network and/or transmission line, computer on-line system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, hardware and/or software, or any delay or distortion of an entry resulting from data transmissions that are garbled, incomplete, misdirected, lost, mutilated, delayed, corrupted, mechanically duplicated, illegible or otherwise not in compliance with these official rules.

Furthermore, you also agree that The Wheel and its partners are not liable in any way for any false claims, inaccuracies or illegal content contained in your video or in associated information links or external websites.

J. PRIZES

Specifics of prizes are the organisers sole discretion. There will be three prizes of €3,000 each - one in each of three categories: small, medium and large organisation. Prizes will be issued in the name of the organisation, club or association featured in the winning videos. Prizes are not transferable; no substitutions are permitted, except by the sponsor at their sole discretion. All taxes and any other costs related to this prize not specifically stated within these Official Rules are the sole responsibility of the winner.

K. PRIVACY

By submitting an entry each entrant confirms in respect of any content submitted that:

a) the entrant and any identifiable person in the video has waived their rights to privacy;

b) any identifiable person in the video has consented to the entry of the video in this competition on the terms and conditions set out herein;

c) the entrant is the sole author and owner of the video copyright;

d.) written permission has been obtained from the legal guardian of any minor appearing in the video.

L. DATA PROTECTION

The data, which is provided by entrants when they enter the competition, will be held by The Wheel. Entrants’ data will be shared with the judging panel, but it will not be shared with, or sold to, any external parties or commercial entities.

M. DISQUALIFICATION

Any organisation that attempts to distort or manipulate the results of the competition will be disqualified. The Judges decision on this will be final and no further correspondence will be entered into regarding this decision.

N. OTHER
The Wheel reserves the right to modify or vary the terms and conditions at any time.

A. CONTEST SPONSOR

This competition is being organised and managed by The Wheel (charity no. CHY 13288, company no. 302282). The partner for the Giving Challenge is the Sponsor.ie service provided by Total Fundraising (company no. 471867). You can read Sponsor.ie’s Terms and Conditions here. Other partners and sponsors are listed on www.bettertogether.ie.

B. CHALLENGE PERIOD

The Challenge begins at 12 noon on Tuesday, 4 October 2011 and ends at 5pm on Friday, 25 November 2011, during which all donations must be received (the "Challenge Period"). Attempted donations that are lost, late, misdirected, incorrect, or incompletely received, for any reason, including by reason of hardware, software, browser, or network failure, malfunction, congestion, or incompatibility at Sponsor.ie’s servers or elsewhere, will not be eligible.

C. AGREE TO BE BOUND

By registering to accept donations via the Giving Challenge, registrants agree to be bound by official rules detailed herein and to comply with laws and regulations as well as all rules and terms of use posted on www.bettertogether.ie.

Further, The Wheel reserves the right to (a) modify the Terms & Conditions / Rules of the campaign at any time during the Challenge Period and (b) cancel, terminate or modify any transmission or other activity not capable of completion as planned, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, force majeure or technical failures of any sort.

D. ELIGIBILITY

The Giving Challenge is open to organisations based in the Republic of Ireland that have registered and submitted a video to the Better Together Video Competition. All participating organisations must be either charities, clubs or voluntary associations. No private / for profit companies are permitted to take part.

The Wheel will validate all registrants on www.bettertogether.ie and will determine, at its sole discretion, whether each registrant meets the entry criteria detailed herein for acceptance as an entry into the Giving Challenge.

Donations may be submitted by any individual or organisation throughout the Challenge Period.

E. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

The Wheel and Sponsor.ie and those working for or on their behalf will not be responsible for lost, late, misdirected, damaged, submissions or attempted submissions, or for e-mail, internet, computer hardware and software, phone, and/or any other technical errors, malfunctions, and delays that may prevent you from uploading your video into the competition, or interfere with your compliance of the rules of this competition. All responsibilities related to submitting a qualifying entry fall on you, the entrant or potential entrant.

F. REGISTRATION OF ORGANISATIONS

In order to be eligible to receive donations as part of the Giving Challenge, you must register on www.bettertogether.ie, during which time you will be asked to provide your organisational bank details. The Wheel will securely transmit these details to Sponsor.ie, to facilitate the receipt of any donations made to your organisation. Registration is free. However, Total Fundraising will levy a 5% processing charge on all donations received throughout the duration of the Challenge Period.

G. PROMOTION/PUBLICITY

By registering on www.bettertogether.ie, you grant The Wheel and its partners the right to use information and content provided by you for publicity and institutional promotional purposes to the extent permitted by law. You understand and agree that The Wheel may request more information from you for such purposes, should your organisation become a Giving Challenge prize-winner. All participant organisations agree to participate in such reasonable publicity as may be requested by The Wheel or their partners.

H. RELEASE FROM LIABILITY

Entrants agree that The Wheel and related individuals or entities as well as our sponsors and partners shall not be liable for losses or injuries of any kind resulting from acceptance of prize(s), participation in the Giving Challenge; individual, joint or collective technical malfunctions of the telephone network and/or transmission line, computer on-line system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, hardware and/or software' or any delay or distortion of a donation resulting from data transmissions that are garbled, incomplete, misdirected, lost, mutilated, delayed, corrupted, mechanically duplicated, illegible or otherwise not in compliance with these official rules.

Furthermore, you also agree that The Wheel and its partners are not liable in any way for any false claims or illegal donations submitted to your organisation during the Challenge Period.

I. PRIZES

A prize of €10,000 will be awarded to the organisation which receives the highest number of unique donors during the Challenge Period. A unique donor is defined as a single donation to a cause (i.e. a video) having a unique email address In the event of a tie between two or more organisations (in which those organisations each recorded the same amount of individual donors (as noted from email addresses) by the end of the Challenge Period, whichever of those organisations received the highest amount of unique donations in monetary terms will be designated the winner.

J. DATA PROTECTION

The data, which is provided by entrants when they enter the competition, will be held by The Wheel. Entrants’ data will be shared with the judging panel, but it will not be shared with, or sold to, any external parties or commercial entities.

Bank account details and associated contact details submitted by organisations for the Giving Challenge will only be made available to Total Fundraising for the purpose of facilitating the Giving Challenge competition. The Wheel will not shared or sell any bank account details to any external parties or commercial entities. The Wheel and Total Fundraising will securely dispose of these bank account details once the Challenge Period has passed.

K. DISQUALIFICATION

Any organisation that attempts to distort or manipulate the results of the competition will be disqualified. The Judges decision on this will be final and no further correspondence will be entered into regarding this decision.

L. OTHER

The Wheel reserves the right to modify or vary the terms and conditions at any time.

A. CONTEST SPONSOR

This competition is being organised and managed by The Wheel (charity no. 13288, company no. 302282). The project partners and sponsors are listed on www.bettertogether.ie.

B. NO OBLIGATION TO USE:

You acknowledge and agree that The Wheel and its partners is not required to display, accept or consider any entry to the Better Together Charity Hero Award competition, and you further agree that if The Wheel determines that your entry does not meet eligibility requirements for any reason, The Wheel may, at its sole discretion, remove your submission from the contest by declining to display it on www.bettertogether.ie

You understand and agree that once you submit or attempt to submit a Charity Hero nomination on www.bettertogether.ie, it is an entry into the Better Together Charity Hero Award competition. You shall have no right to prohibit, restrict, revoke or terminate any of the rights granted to The Wheel hereunder.

Moreover, you understand and acknowledge that you are not entitled to any compensation or other consideration for your Charity Hero nomination once submitted into the contest.

C. AGREE TO BE BOUND

By entering, entrants agree to be bound by the decisions of the judges and these official rules and to comply with laws and regulations as well as all rules and terms of use posted on www.bettertogether.ie.

Further, The Wheel reserves the right to (a) modify the Terms & Conditions / Rules of the campaign and campaign schedule at any time during the Better Together Charity Hero Award and (b) cancel, terminate or modify any transmission or other activity not capable of completion as planned, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, force majeure or technical failures of any sort.

D. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

The Wheel and those working for or on its behalf will not be responsible for lost, late, misdirected or incomplete entries, or for e-mail, internet, computer hardware and software, phone, and/or any other technical errors, malfunctions, and delays that may prevent you from submitting an entry into the Better Together Charity Hero Award competition, or interfere with your compliance of the rules of this competition. All responsibilities related to submitting a qualifying entry fall on you, the entrant or potential entrant.

E. ENTRY COMPLIANCE AND ENTRY DISPUTES

1. Nominations for the Better Together Charity Hero Award competition may be submitted by any individual, including those employed by a community and voluntary organisation; those volunteering for a community and voluntary organisation; or any general member of the public.

2. The person being nominated as a Charity Hero cannot be a paid employee of the charity that they are associated with for the purposes of this campaign. Their charity work is only eligible for this competition if performed on a voluntary basis.

3. The competition is open to Republic of Ireland residents aged 18 and over only. This criteria applies to both the person nominating a Charity Hero and the person who is being nominated.

4. Once an entry is submitted to the Charity Hero Award, The Wheel will validate that entry by confirming that the nominee consents to have their details included in the Charity Hero Award. If they do not consent to this, the entry will be removed from www.bettertogether.ie. The Wheel is under no responsibility to explain this action to the original nominator.

5. The Wheel reserves the unqualified right to investigate the bone fides of any person nominated as a Charity Hero. We reserve the right not to accept, or to disqualify an entry, if we are not fully satisfied with the authenticity and validity of the credentials of either the entrant or the person being nominated. You understand that The Wheel is under no obligation to disclose its reasons for not accepting an entry.

6. Individuals are permitted to nominate themselves as a Charity Hero if they meet all of the criteria outlined on www.bettertogether.ie.

7. The opening and closing date and time for entries are as indicated in the Competition Information. Any entries received after 5pm (GMT) on Friday 28 October, 2011 will be disregarded, but may still appear on the website.

8. The ten entries with the most public votes as entered between 4 October, 2011 and 22 November, 2011 (inclusive) will be shortlisted and a judging panel will select a single winner. The Wheel is under no obligation to detail the short-listing or the judging process.

9. Entries which are incomplete, illegible, inaccurate, forged, irregular in any way, or otherwise not in compliance with these official rules are void. In the event of a dispute concerning who submitted an entry, the entry will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorised holder of the e-mail account or IP address from which the entry made. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person to whom an email address is assigned by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

10. Automated entries of any kind, including but not limited to entries submitted using any bot, script, macro, or contest service, and third party entries are not permitted and will be disqualified.

F - VOTING PROCEDURE

The voting procedure for the Charity Hero Award will work as follows: you may vote once a day, every day for your favourite Charity Hero(es) throughout the duration of the voting competition. Your IP address will be logged at the time of voting, preventing you from voting more than once within any 24-hour period. The Wheel accepts that voters may encourage their friends, families and colleagues get involved by voting for Charity Hero(es). However, any attempts to unfairly tamper / influence with the voting process will possibly lead to the blocking of specific IP addresses and potentially the removal of the associated Charity Hero nomination(s).

G. PROMOTION/PUBLICITY

By consenting to be a nominee in the Charity Hero Award, nominees grant The Wheel and its partners the right to use information and content provided by the nominator for publicity and institutional promotional purposes to the extent permitted by law. The nominee understands and agrees that The Wheel may request more information from them for such purposes, and may request that they take part in a publicity photo-call and media interviews, should they become a Charity Hero Award finalist or a prize-winner.

The winning entry will be publicly announced to media and on the Better Together Facebook page, www.bettertogether.ie and www.wheel.ie once the judges have reached their decision and after the public prize-giving ceremony on 1 December, 2011. The winner will be notified first.

H. RELEASE FROM LIABILITY

All entrants (both nominators and nominees) agree that The Wheel and related individuals or entities as well as our sponsors shall not be liable for losses or injuries of any kind resulting from acceptance of prize(s), participation in the contest, individual, joint or collective technical malfunctions of the telephone network and/or transmission line, computer on-line system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, hardware and/or software, or any delay or distortion of an entry resulting from data transmissions that are garbled, incomplete, misdirected, lost, mutilated, delayed, corrupted, mechanically duplicated, illegible or otherwise not in compliance with these official rules.

Furthermore, you also agree that The Wheel and its partners are not liable in any way for any false claims, inaccuracies or illegal content contained in Charity Hero Award entries or in associated information links or external websites.

I. PRIZES

Specifics of prizes are the organisers sole discretion. The prize of €1000 will be issued directly to the charity, club or association detailed in the winning Charity Hero Award entry. The winning Charity Hero Award nominee will be invited to attend a special Award ceremony in Dublin on 1 December 2011. The Wheel will not compensate you for attending the awards ceremony.

The prize is not transferable; no substitutions are permitted, except by the sponsor at their sole discretion. All taxes and any other costs related to this prize not specifically stated within these Official Rules are the sole responsibility of the winner.

J. DATA PROTECTION

Data which is provided by nominators when they submit an entry to the competition, and which nominees must subsequently approve, will be held by The Wheel.

Nominees’ data will be shared with the judging panel, but it will not be shared with, or sold to, any external parties or commercial entities.

K. DISQUALIFICATION

Any nominator / nominee that attempts to distort or manipulate the results of the Charity Hero Award will be disqualified. The Judges decision on this will be final and no further correspondence will be entered into regarding this decision.

L. OTHER

The Wheel reserves the right to modify or vary the terms and conditions at any time.