These terms and conditions (the "Terms and Conditions") govern your participation in the Promotion as operated by the Promoter and carry the following definitions:
Agency means the company providing the Prize, being Lucas Bols;
Starting Date means midday (12pm Greenwich Mean Time) on Monday, 20th January 2025;
Closing Date means midnight (12am Greenwich Mean Time) on Monday 3rd March 2025;
Criteria means the Promotion will be judged by a panel of judges with a minimum of one independent and competent judge.
Prize a trip to the Netherlands
Promoter means Difford's Guide
Privacy Policy means the policy found at www.diffordsguide.com
Promotion means this promotion to win the Prize
Territory
Website means www.diffordsguide.com
General Conduct:
1. Competitions like Bols Cocktail Battle promote the global bartending community; it is all about having fun and being a good sport.
2. To participate in the Promotion, you must:
a) be of legal drinking age in your country of residence;
b) be a bartender resident in the Territory, with a Difford's Guide account; and
c) have access to the internet.
3. You must create a cocktail, which includes a Bols product in the recipe using the cocktail builder tool on the website.
4. Rude lurid sexual words and / or offensive expressions will lead to immediate disqualification.
5. We take health and safety seriously, hazardous bartending that jeopardizes guests and or colleagues is not allowed in this competition.
6. Due to the Promoter's commitment to promoting a message of responsible drinking, we require all entrants to be sensible, responsible and considerate when interacting with this Promotion. We will monitor any posted submissions to ensure that they comply with the Promoter's corporate social responsibility policies, including ensuring that it does not feature someone who is or appears to be under the legal drinking age or is made by someone under the legal drinking age, encourages illegal, irresponsible or immoderate drinking.
7. The rules and regulations are established to ensure a fair, educational and exciting competition. These guidelines will play big part in the preparation for this competition; any attempt to cheat underlined rules may result in disqualification and expulsion of the competition.
8. All rules and guidelines are subject to change at the discretion of the organization, nothing will change without informing all competing bartenders and judges involved.
9. The Promoter reserves the right to refuse entry or refuse to award the Prize to anyone in breach of these Terms and Conditions.
10. This Promotion is only open to residents in the Territory and entry must be submitted from within the Territory.
11. Only one entry per person is permitted for the Promotion. If more than one entry is received from the same person all such further entries will be disqualified and only the first entry will be accepted as an entry into the Promotion.
12. No entries from agents, third parties, syndicates, organized groups or entries automatically generated by a computer, program, application, script or any automatic method will be accepted.
13. Entries received after the Closing Date will not be considered.
14. No cash alternative is available for the Prize.
15. The Prize may not be claimed by a third party on your behalf.
16. For the local winner in your country competition the prize will consist of travel to the Netherlands. The Participant is aware that visa application and any cost relating to this is their own responsibility and need to be arranged in due time.
17. No payment or purchase is necessary to enter or win as this is a free prize competition. A payment or purchase will not improve your chances of winning.
18. Entries that are in breach of any of the above requirements will be disqualified and removed by the Promoter.
Copyright:
1. By entering this competition, contenders agree to assign copyright of their recipe, photographs, video clip, and drink name to the competition organizers.
2. Contenders and drinks presented during the competition may be photographed (still or motion picture) by the organizer and copyright of these images for any use, including advertising, will be retained by the competition organizers.
3. Bols maintains the right to share images taken during the competition on our global social media accounts.
4. By entering this competition, contenders agree to share the right and ownership of the recipe with Lucas Bols.
You hereby confirm that all personal information submitted by you in entering the Promotion (the "Information") is true and accurate. You are disclosing the Information to the Promoter for the Promotion. The Promoter will only use the Information for the purpose of operating and administering the Promotion (including, without limitation, sharing it with any Prize provider for the purposes of awarding and administering the Promotion), and for the further purposes set out or referred to in the Privacy Policy. The Promoter is the data controller in respect of the Information. Other than as set out in these Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy or as may be required by law or any enactment, and unless separate consent is received to use such Information for any other purpose, the Information will not be disclosed to any third party, other than members of Lucas Bols or their appointed agencies as required to operate the Promotion.
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