Terms and conditions

TERMS AND CONDITIONS FEMMES DE VIRUNGA FAN LETTER PROMOTION

  1. Organizer

Original Beans B.V. located in Keizersgracht 452, 1016 GD Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is identified as the organizer responsible for this campaign / action and is referred to as “the operator” hereinafter.

 

  1. Nature of the competition

The participant writes a message, which is stored by the operator and, after the competition has ended, handed over to female cacao farmers in eastern Congo, eho are working together with Original Beans B.V. Optionally, the user can also send a photo image. The operator of the competition randomly selcts 5 participants from the set of all participants to select 5 winners for the chocolate prize (see section 4).

All received messages and photos are invariably passed on to the cacao farmers in the eastern Congo without exception.

 

  1. participation

Entrants must be 18 years or over and must have a valid postal address in Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria or UK. Participation in this event is free.

Employees of Original Beans BV are not entitled to participate, nor those connected with the operation of the Sweepstakes and their respective family members.

Participation in the event is not bound or connected to the purchase of any goods and / or services.

Only one entry will be accepted per person. Multiple entries from the same person will be disqualified.

By entering this competition, an entrant is indicating his/her agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions.

 

  1. Promotion Period

The promotion starts on 03/08/2016 and ends on 03/24/2016 no responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason in the above timeframe. The operator determines the winner of the Chocolate price from all entries that took place in the previous period and received via the web-form. Submissions through other channels are not included. The winners will be notified via email, the operator will use the email that was provided by the participant in the contact information.

Shipping costs of the price will be carried by the operator and shipping only will take place to Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, UK. Any possible fees that the participant may need to pay for receiving a price from a raffle need to be carried by the participant. Any possible tax claims of the price need to be carried by the participant.

If no repsonse is received by the winner after two repeated requests, another winner will be selected instead.

the participant is responsible for the correctness of their entry details.

 

  1. Termination of the Competition

The organizer reserves the right to terminate the Contest without notice and without notification of reasons. This applies particularly to any reasons that would disrupt or prevent the scheduled course of the competition.

 

  1. Privacy Policy

To participate in the competition, the disclosure of personal information is necessary. The participant confirms that the information provided by him to the operator, in particular name, last name and email address are true and correct.

The operator indicates that all personal data of the subscriber will not be shared in any form or way with third parties without consent. The data will be stored and used solely for the purpose of execution of the competition.

The competition winner agrees to the publication of his/her name on the social media channels Facebook and Twitter, as well as on the website and www.originalbeans.com www.originalbeans.de.

The participant may at any time revoke his given consent. The cancellation can be send to the email address of the operator: Femmes@originalbeans.com. After withdrawal of consent, the subscriber’s collected and stored personal data will be deleted immediately.

 

  1. Optional imagery sending as part of the promotion

Each participant may OPTIONALLY upload respectively a (single) image. The image must be submitted in digital format via an online form on www.femmes.originalbeans.com, permissible formats are PDF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG. The mandatory information in the online form must be filled out completely. Participants must have read the terms and conditions and agree.

Any artwork must be at least 999 pixels by 999 pixels in size and the file size must not exceed 5 megabytes.

 

  1. Rights, Liability release by the participants

By accepting these Terms the participant grants the operator the permission for his/her entry to be published on the operators websites including but not limited to www.originalbeans.com and femmes.originalbeans.com and grants the operator a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual licence (with a right to sub-license) to use, republish, edit and/or modify the Competition entry in any/all media (including in electronic format, hard copy and in publications) for purposes connected with the Competition and as described in these Terms and Conditions .

The participant also hereby waives all moral rights in his/her entry. Notwithstanding the afore-going waiver, in order to use entries as intended and advised in these Terms and Conditions, the operator may need to modify entries, including but not limited to resizing, cropping or colour adjustment as necessary, provided that the operator shall endeavour in undertaking such modifications to maintain the integrity of the participant’s entry as originally created.

The participant owns the copyright to the Competition entry as its author. The participant’s entry must be his/her own work, must not be copied, must not contain any third-party materials and/or content that he/she does not have permission to use, must not include any trade marks, and must not show inappropriate or dangerous behaviour, or otherwise be obscene, defamatory, distasteful, offensive, or in breach of any applicable law or regulation, or in breach of any confidentiality obligations owed by participant to third parties. If the operator has reason to believe participant’s entry is not his/her own work or otherwise breaches these Terms and Conditions, then the operator may not consider it and may disqualify it.

The participant confirms that each individual whose image is featured in the Competition entry has given consent for the use of his/her image in connection with this Competition and in accordance with these Terms and Conditions. Where an individual whose image is featured in a Competition entry is aged less than 18 years the entrant confirms that the parent or guardian of that individual has given the relevant consent.

 

  1. Sweepstakes violation

In case of violation of the conditions of participation or the attempt of technical manipulation, the operator may exclude participants of the action. In such a case won prizes can also be subsequently removed and reclaimed by the operator.

In particular, the operator reserves the right to immediately exclude participants from the prize promotion if their sent messages / images are obscene, ethically inappropriate, contain defamatory, abusive, racist or pornographic content.

 

  1. Prize

The following prizes will be awarded:

5x Chocolate Package

consisting of: 2xFemmes de Virunga (55%) 70 gr Chocolate blackboard 2xCru Virunga (70%) Chocolate panel, 1x Femmes de Virunga Chefs Buttons 150gr (55%) 1xCru Virunga Chefs Buttons 150gr (70%)

worth: sales value

The prizes cannot be exchanged or transferred by the participant and cannot be redeemed by the participant for cash or any other prize. The operator retains the right to substitute the prizes with another prize of similar value in the event that the original prize offered is not available.

 

  1. Severability

If any part of this agreement is declared unenforceable or invalid, the remainder will continue to be valid and enforceable.

Contact Original Beans: femmes@originalbeans.com