Terms & Conditions

General:

  1. The Norwich Union Community Sports Fund promotion is open to all UK residents aged 12 years or over.
  2. By registering, all Team Members agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
  3. No purchase is necessary for entry. Anyone who meets residency, age and other requirements set out in these Terms and Conditions (including the requirement for an email address) can join our team.
  4. Team members may join only once per e-mail address. Multiple or automatic voting systems or applications designed to circumvent this condition will result in such votes being made void.
  5. If Norwich Union in its reasonable discretion suspects or becomes aware that any Team Member and/ or initiative has been involved in fraudulent or illegal activity or has not complied with these Terms and Conditions, Norwich Union reserves the right to disqualify that Team Member and/ or initiative.
  6. Norwich Union may also ask any entrant to provide proof of age and/ or country of residence.
  7. If circumstances beyond Norwich Union's reasonable control make it necessary to do so, Norwich Union may suspend, change or cancel the Norwich Union Community Sports Fund campaign or any aspect of it at any time.
  8. Except in relation to death or personal injury resulting from negligence or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation or any other liability which cannot lawfully be excluded, Norwich Union, its affiliates and/or its/ their authorised agents shall not be liable in contract or tort (including negligence) or for breach of statutory duty or in any other way for any direct or indirect loss of damage, howsoever arising, suffered by any person as a direct or indirect result of 'joining the team' and participating in the voting element of the promotion.
  9. Although Norwich Union and/or its authorised agents will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that Norwich Union Community Sports Fund functions correctly, Norwich Union will not be responsible for any event (a 'Force Majeure Event') beyond its reasonable control affecting Norwich Union Community Sports Fund in anyway, including the operation of Norwich Union Community Sports Fund, entry to Norwich Union Community Sports Fund or receipt of Awards. Force Majeure Events include (without limitation) problems or technical malfunctions of any communications network or online system or any computer hardware or software failure.
  10. By entering the Norwich Union Community Sports Fund promotion, winners of any Initiative Awards irrevocably grant Norwich Union permission to use their names, likenesses, biographical and Norwich Union Community Sports Fund information for reasonable advertising and/ or publicity purposes. These purposes will include, in the case of winners or major Awards, posting their names and counties on the 'winners' page on the Norwich Union Community Sports Fund website located at www.joinourteam.com from October 2008. Winners may also be required to sign Publicity Release Forms. If any likeness of a prize winner is deemed to be of a sensitive nature Norwich Union shall, prior to usage, seek explicit consent from that prize winner.
  11. Norwich Union may use third parties to facilitate one or more elements of the Norwich Union Community Sports Fund and may provide some of Team Members' personally identifiable information to them. These third party service providers are subject to confidentially agreements with Norwich Union and other legal restrictions that prohibit the use of the information Norwich Union provides to them for any other purpose except to facilitate the operation of Norwich Union Community Sports Fund. Norwich Union will not sell or rent Team Members' personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without Team Members' explicit consent. This clause does not affect Team Members' statutory rights. For further information please refer to the Privacy Policy and Legal Information on the Norwich Union Community Sports Fund website.
  12. All decisions of Norwich Union and its authorised agents are final and binding on entrants and no correspondence will be entered into.
  13. These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
  14. Norwich Union reserve the right to impose additional terms and conditions in relation to certain awards.

Vote for a Local Initiative:

  1. Voting for a local initiative begins on 26th January 2008 and finishes at midnight on 14th September 2008.
  2. For the purpose of the Norwich Union Community Sports Fund, an "initiative" is defined as a sport or activity related enterprise, moment or body that has been pre selected to enter the said campaign after meeting the necessary criteria duly set by Norwich Union.
  3. Initiatives have all been pre selected in advance of the competition start date, and although we have endeavoured to ensure that there is an equal spread of initiatives in every region; this has not been possible in all cases.
  4. In order to vote, a person must 'join the team' by registering their details either on the website or on manual voting slips.
  5. Only one vote is allowed per e-mail address. Multiple or automatic voting systems or applications designed to circumvent this condition will result in such votes being made void.
  6. The Promoter reserves the right to offer additional voting opportunities to previous voters or introduce additional voting mechanics throughout the campaign.
  7. To win a Bronze Award (£1000), initiatives must show that they have made a concerted effort to gather support for their initiative and will be awarded to all initiatives that have received 200 votes and over. Bronze Awards will be at the discretion of the Promoter, using the above criteria.
  8. Initiatives will go head to head with other initiatives in their region to win the Silver Award (£12,500). There are 12 regions throughout the United Kingdom: North West, North East, Yorkshire & Humberside, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, London, Wales, Scotland & N. Ireland. The winner will be the initiative which secures the highest number of votes in its region.
  9. Regional winners of the Silver Award will be notified in writing by Friday 26th September 2008.
  10. Bronze and Silver Award winners' details will be published on the Norwich Union Community Sports Fund website from 1st October 2008.
  11. Silver Award winners will then be asked to submit a project plan to demonstrate how they would use the Gold Award (£50,000) by Friday 10th October 2008. A detailed template will be sent out to winners with these requirements.
  12. A panel of independent judges will choose one winner from the project plans submitted to receive the Gold Award. (The names of those comprising the panel will be made available on request from 3rd October 2008). For the avoidance of doubt, the judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered in to.
  13. The Silver Award winners will be invited to join Norwich Union at the British Writers Awards Dinner (exact date TBC), where the Gold Award winner will be revealed.
  14. The National Winner of the Gold Award (£50,000) will be published on the Norwich Union Community Sports Fund website three days after the winner has been notified.
  15. All Monetary Awards will be paid out to the Initiatives before 23rd December 2008.
  16. The award may not be transferred to any other person or charity without permission in writing of Norwich Union.
  17. Use of false information by the Team Members will disqualify them from receiving any award.

Promoter: Norwich Union, 11th floor, St Helens, 1 Undershaft, London EC3P 3DQ