The Sun £1million reader charity fund – terms and conditions

By entering your nomination into the Promotion, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (these Terms and Conditions).

Completion and submission of an entry form or e-mail will also be deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

Promotional materials relating to the Promotion, including all information on how to enter the Promotion published in publications of the Promoter (including social media if applicable) or on the Promoter's websites, also form part of these Terms and Conditions.

In the event of any conflict between any terms referred to in such promotional materials and these Terms and Conditions, these Terms and Conditions take precedence.

Participation in the Promotion

Residents of the United Kingdom aged 18 or over only.

The Promotion starts at 00:01 am (UK time) on 18 November 2019 and closes at 23:59 pm (UK time) on 18 December 2019 (the Promotion Period). Any entries received outside the Promotion Period will be void.

Participants may make a maximum of 3 entries per person. Bulk, automatically generated or third party entries are void. At the end of the Promotion, participants' entries will not be returned to them.

Participants can enter the Promotion via the official application form, available at mcb777.fun/50 and via the video entry process on social media channels.

Participants will be asked to nominate a registered charity and provide detail on why the charity should be awarded a cash donation.

Eligible Charities must be registered with the Charity Commission in the UK, not fund individuals, not fund religious or political causes, and must fit into the following six categories:

• Children and Young People
• Health and Wellbeing
• Veterans
• Animals and the Environment
• Emergency Heroes
• International Aid
• (“Eligible Charity”)

The registration number of the Eligible Charity is required to proceed with the application form.

Entries to the Promotion must be the original work of the participant and not previously published. Entries which are or in the Promoter's reasonable opinion appear to be plagiarised will be disqualified. Participants represent and warrant that:

they have obtained all rights, licences, and permissions necessary, in writing, from any person who may have helped create and/or be featured in their entry; and
that their entry to the Promotion (including any text and photographs):

does not contain or feature any personal information about any person (including their name, contact details, a photograph of them and/or any other identifying information) without permission (proof of which must be provided to the Promoter upon request);

does not contain any content that is defamatory, libellous, racist, homophobic, derogatory, pornographic, obscene, sexist, illegal, and/or otherwise inappropriate;
does not include trade marks, logos, or copyright protected material which belongs to third parties without permission (including company names, music, photographs, motion picture or television programme clips or audio tracks, works of art, or images published on or in websites, television, movies, or other media);

is not subject to any third party agreements and the Promoter will not be required to pay any sums to any third party as a result of the Promoter's use (as set out in these Terms and Conditions) or the exploitation by the Promoter of the idea, video or other rights contained in any entry; and does not contain any known virus, trojan horse, worm, trapdoor or similar software that may in any way infect or affect any of the Promoter's hardware or software systems.

The Promoter reserves the right to remove or temporarily suspend from the Promotion any entries submitted if, in its reasonable opinion, it suspects any breach of these Terms and Conditions or if it receives any complaint from a third party relating to such entry.

Entries received which are not submitted via the official entry method will not be accepted. Use of script, macro or any automated system to enter the Promotion is prohibited and entries made (or which appear to have been made) using any such system may be treated as void. Any illegible, incomplete or fraudulent entries will be rejected. Participants should be aware that they may be subject to data charges depending on their own individual arrangements for Internet access if they enter the Promotion online or by email.

Winners and Prizes

The Promoter will appoint a panel of judges (“the Panel”) to review all applications. The Panel will include at least one independent member. A shortlist of Eligible Charities will be selected from all valid entries (“Shortlisted Charities”). Only Shortlisted Charities will be contacted by the Promoter for further information.

The Panel will consider the editorial potential of the charity’s cause, the amount of grant sought, geographical location of the Eligible Charity and the time-frame in which the Eligible Charity intends to use the Prize. The decision of the Panel shall be final.

Winners will receive a charity grant of a specified amount (“the Prize”) out of a total prize fund of £1 million (one million pounds). Prizes will be cash donations between £2,000 and £20,000 and the amount of each Prize will be decided by the Panel. In exceptional circumstances, the Promoter may award prizes outside of these limits. Please note only a limited number of larger grants will be available and he panel will be looking to donate the majority of the overall fund as small grants. This fund will be distributed over the course of 12 months.
Prizes are as stated and are non-exchangeable and non-transferable.

Winners are personally responsible for any personal or incidental expenses and any VAT, national and/or local tax liabilities incurred in claiming or using the prize. By participating in the Promotion, participants agree that the prize is awarded on an "as is" basis, and that neither the Promoter nor any of its subsidiary or affiliated companies, make any representations or warranties of any nature with respect to the prize.

In the event that, for reasons beyond the Promoter’s reasonable control the Promoter is unable to award the prize as described in these Terms and Conditions, the Promoter reserves the right to award a prize of a similar nature and an equivalent value at its sole discretion. The Promoter also reserves the right to award a prize of a similar nature and an equivalent value at its sole discretion if in its reasonable discretion it is appropriate to do so.

Winner Announcement and claiming of prize

Winners and their nominating participant will be notified by email or using the other contact details provided to the Promoter by 18 November 2020. All reasonable endeavours will be made to contact the Winners during the specified time. If a Winner cannot be contacted or is not available, the Promoter reserves the right to select another Winner from the valid entries that were received during the Promotion Period. Winners may be required to submit valid identification before receiving their prize.

Winners will be required to confirm acceptance of the applicable Prize within 14 days of having been notified. If the Winner has not claimed their Prize by the date specified or the winner refuses or is unable to provide an eligible postal address for receipt of their prize, the Promoter reserves the right to award the Prize to another participant.

The Prize will be delivered within a reasonable time and by no later than 28 days after the Prize has been accepted. Each Prize will be paid directly by the Promoter by BACS payment to the charity Winners.

Names of all Winners will be published by the Promoter by 31 December 2020.

Data Protection and Publicity

The Promoter will collect and process participants' personal information and it will be shared with the Promoter's agents, affiliates and, if applicable, any charity in your nomination with your consent in the application form (including those outside the European Economic Area). Information provided by participants will only be used for the purpose of conducting this Promotion (including for prizes to be delivered) and other purposes as may be specified at the time of entry or on promotional materials. Personal information will be held in accordance with the applicable privacy policy in place from time to time (see //www.newsprivacy.co.uk/single/).

By entering, participants agree to allow the free use of their names, photographs and general locations for publicity and news purposes if their nominated Eligible Charity is a Winner of the Promotion, both during this and future promotions by the Promoter or any associated or subsidiary company of News Corp UK & Ireland Limited. This includes making their name available on the Promoter's websites and social media platforms. The Winners will also be required to participate in reasonable publicity relating to this Promotion including Editorial in The Sun.
Intellectual Property

Participants will retain copyright in their submitted entries to the Promotion, however, by entering, all entrants grant the Promoter a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to edit, publish and use each Promotion entry in any and all media (including print and online) for publicity and news purposes. Participants represent and warrant that they have all rights necessary to grant the rights provided for in this paragraph 20, and that all materials forming part of their entry to the Promotion, and any use of such materials by or on behalf of the Promoter, comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations and do not infringe or otherwise violate the intellectual property or other rights of any third party.

General

The Promoter's decision is final and binding on the entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.

If participants do not provide any of the mandatory information requested when participating in the Promotion, their entry will be void.

The Promoter reserves the right to require the participants to prove that they are eligible. If a Winner is found to be ineligible, the Promoter reserves the right to award their Prize to another Eligible Charity and to require the return of any Prize already awarded.

The provision of the prize does not imply endorsement by the Promoter of any third parties concerned in any way with the Promotion.

Entrants must not do anything illegal and/or dangerous and/or that would put themselves or others at any risk. Save where it has been negligent, the Promoter will not be responsible for any damage, loss or injury resulting from participants' entry into the Promotion or their acceptance and/or use of the prize, or for technical, hardware or software failures, lost, faulty or unavailable network connections or difficulties of any kind that may limit or prohibit participant's ability to participate in the Promotion. The Promoter will not be responsible for any lost, damaged, defaced, incomplete, illegible or otherwise unreadable entries. Proof of posting is not proof of receipt by the Promoter of any entries. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall in any way limit the Promoter's liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for any other matter where liability may not be limited as a matter of law.

The Promoter reserves the right at any time to cancel, modify or supersede the Promotion (including altering prizes) if, in its sole discretion, the Promotion is not capable of being conducted as specified. In the event of a printing or other error resulting in there being more winners than prizes for the Promotion, the Promoter reserves the right to (a) declare as void any claims or entries resulting from such printing or other error; and/or (b) allocate the available prize(s) through a further selection process or to divide the prize(s) or the value of the prize(s) between the winners of the Promotion.

Any participant who enters or attempts to enter the Promotion in a manner, which in the Promoter's reasonable opinion is contrary to these Terms and Conditions or by its nature is unjust to other entrants (including tampering with the operation of the Promotion, cheating, hacking, deception or any other unfair playing practices such as intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other participants or the Promoter and/or any of its agents or representatives) may be rejected from the Promotion at the Promoter's sole discretion. Furthermore, where such actions have significantly impaired the Promotion, the Promoter may, at its sole discretion, add further stages to the Promotion as it deems reasonably necessary in order to resolve any problems arising from such actions.

The Promoter reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions. Any amendments will be published on the Promoter’s website (the Website).
These Terms and Conditions are governed by English law. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear any dispute or claim arising in association with the Promotion or these Terms and Conditions.

The promoter of this Promotion is News Group Newspapers Ltd (publisher of The Sun and The Sun on Sunday) of 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF (the Promoter).