Terms & Conditions

By participating in this Competition, you accept these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with the Terms and Conditions you should not participate in this Competition. The Promoter reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time.

DURATION

   
• Starting date: 16.00 (GMT) on 18 January 2021.
   
• Closing date: 12.00 (GMT) on 26 January 2021.
   
• Any entries received after the closing date will not be considered for inclusion into the Competition.
   
• Voting period: 12.00 (GMT) on 22 February 2021 until 12.00 (GMT) on 8 March 2021.
   
• Winner announcement: 10 March 2021

ELIGIBILITY

   
• This competition ("Competition") is open to bartenders who have received an email invitation to participate by Simon Difford.
In addition all participants should meet the following requirements to be eligible:
   
• Must be 21 years or older.
   
• Must freely and knowingly give their consent as described in these Terms and Conditions.
   
• Must legally give the authorisation and assign to Promoter the rights indicated in section 3 of this document.
   
• Cannot be employees or agents of the Promoter, nor their relatives, or any other person who is directly or indirectly related to the organisation of the Competition.

LIMITATIONS / RESTRICTIONS ON ENTRY

   
• One entry per bartender.
   
• Incomplete entries and entries that do not comply in full with these Terms and Conditions will be disqualified and will not be counted.
   
• Internet access is required.
   
• Entry must include Patrón Silver or Patrón Reposado.
   
• A maximum of 8 ingredients, excluding a garnish, is permitted.

HOW TO ENTER

   
• Eligible bartenders who have replied to Simon Difford's email inviting them to enter will receive a password and a link to the entry form, on Monday 18 January.
   
• All sections of the online entry form are to be completed to be considered a valid entry.
   
• Participants will have until Tuesday 26 January to finalise their entry form.
   
• All competition entries must include the following:
a) Inspiration for the cocktail
b) Photo
c) The cocktail name, recipe, garnish, glassware and method.
d) If they wish to, participants can also create a short video.
   
• Any images or videos submitted must have been created and owned by the participant.
   
• Any ideas or recipes submitted in whatever form must be the sole and unique work of the participant.
   
• The Promoter reserves the right to reject entries based on incomplete information being provided or inappropriate content / language.

WINNER SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION

   
• On Margarita Day, 22 February 2021, all entries will be published on www.diffordsguide.com and people will be able to vote for their favourite cocktail.
   
• The cocktail with the highest number of votes will win.
   
• There will not be a visible running total of votes shown on the website.
   
• All votes will be verified by an IT expert and, at their sole discretion, if any fake votes are discovered they will be removed from the total.
   
• Promoter's decisions are final and binding in all respects on all entrants and no correspondence will be entered into.
   
• The winner will be notified on 10 March 2021.

STANDARDS FOR ENTRIES

   
• The Promoter expressly reserves the right to disallow or disqualify (or prevent from passing through the judging stage) any entry which it considers does not meet normal standards of taste and decency.

PROMOTER'S USE OF CONTENT

   
• By entering the Competition, the participants grant the Promoter, its affiliated companies, its sub-contractors and Brand partners the right to use any and all cocktail entries ("Content") supplied to the Promoter in connection with the Competition:
a) for the purposes of administering this Competition;
b) for promotional and publicity purposes; and
c) in all digital and social media in connection with the Promoter and the Competition.
   
• To the extent permitted by law, entrants hereby waive in favour of the Promoter and agree not to assert any moral rights (or similar rights worldwide) in and in connection with their Content.

LIABILITY

   
• References to the "Promoter" in this Liability section include all of the Promoter's associated companies, agencies or any other third party involved in the Competition.
   
• The Promoter cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, death or injury suffered by any entrant entering the Competition or as a result of accepting any prize.
   
• The Promoter will not be responsible for (and will have no liability in connection with) the following occurrences, to the extent that they occur for reasons beyond the Promoter's reasonable control:
a) any postponement or cancellation of the Competition or any prize;
b) any changes to the prizes or the way in which they can be used; and
c) problems with the prizes (such as a problem obtaining the ingredients to sell the cocktail)
   
• The Promoter does not accept responsibility for network, computer, hardware or software failures of any kind, which may affect the sending, receipt or processing of your entry or for entries lost, damaged, delayed or unreadable, including loss of entries through technical fault or transmission delays.
   
• If the Promoter has grounds to suspect any entrant or third party of cheating, deception or fraudulent or unsportsmanlike conduct of any kind (including, without limitation, manipulating the Promotion or voting, choice of prize winner(s) or any entry, the Promoter reserves the right (in its sole discretion) to disqualify any entrant, entry or person it reasonably believes to be responsible for, or associated with, such activity.
   
• The winner should be in good health and appropriately fit for travel and waive any claim they may have against the Promoter for any safety or health issue or problem they may have during travel.

PERSONAL DETAILS AND PUBLICITY

   
• The Promoter will use entrant's personal details for the purpose of administering this Promotion only. Please see the Promoter's Privacy Policy at DiffordsGuide.com/Privacy-Policy for further details.
   
• By entering this Competition, entrants acknowledge and agree that they will grant the Promoter and their Brand partner in this Competition the free use of their name, country of residence, photographs, video and voice ("Image") for advertising, publicity and news purposes in any media in perpetuity without additional remuneration. The winner may also be asked to take part in reasonable publicity and public relations activities in connection with the Promotion.
   
• All entrants acknowledge and agree that all intellectual property rights, including copyright, in all recipe entries, shall be assigned to and become the property of the Promoter, which thereafter has the right to edit, re-edit, adapt, modify, reproduce, promote, create derivative works and otherwise use the winning entry in any way it sees fit. The Promoter will retain rights to the use of all submitted entries, names and videos and may use them for the purposes of advertising and promotion.

ENGLISH LAW APPLIES

   
• This Competition, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it (including the prizes), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and entrants irrevocably agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim.