ALDI WINTER FUND COMPETITION TERMS AND CONDITIONS

11 Nov 2024

The Promoter is Aldi Stores Limited, Holly Lane, Atherstone, Warwickshire, CV9 2SQ.

How to enter:

  1. To enter the competition, entrants must be aged 18 or over.
  2. To enter, individuals must send an email including the name and location of the charitable organisation they are nominating as well as a short summary on why they deserve to win, as well as their own name and address to aldiwinterfund@citypress.co.uk.
  3. Entries can be submitted from 09:00am on 11 November 2024 to 11:59pm on 24 November 2024.
  4. All entries received after 11:59pm on 24 November 2024 will not be entered into the competition.
  5. 10 (ten) winners will be chosen by a panel of judges from all valid entries as per paragraphs 28-30 of these terms and conditions.  The winners will be contacted on or before 29 November 2024 by Aldi or Citypress.
  6. By entering the competition, entrants accept these terms and conditions.
  7. The Promoter is not responsible for any lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected entries, which will not be entered into the competition. No responsibility can be accepted for any technical failures of any kind or any unauthorised intervention in any part of the entry process, nor for any technical or human error, which may occur in the administration of this competition or the processing of entries.
  8. Entries must not contain material that:

(a) is inappropriate, offensive, indecent, obscene, hateful, defamatory, derogatory or anything similar;

(b) promotes irresponsible or excessive drinking; or

(c) may promote bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or that may promote discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity or age.

  1. Entrants acknowledge that other entrants may have submitted ideas and concepts that may be similar to their entry, and that they will not be entitled to any compensation or right to negotiate with the Promoter over such matters.
  2. Entrants warrant that their entries are their own original creation and have not been copied and/or reposted from any other person(s).
  3. In the event of any dispute regarding the winner, the decision of the Promoter is final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
  4. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if it has reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of these terms and conditions.

Eligibility:

  1. The competition is open to all residents in the United Kingdom over the age of 18 except employees of:

(a) the Promoter;

(b) any business involved or associated with the competition; or

(c) any of the Promoter’s agencies (including any of their parent and/or affiliate companies); or

(d) the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and other household members of any such employee described in this clause.

  1. In entering the competition, you confirm that you are eligible to do so. The Promoter may require you to provide proof that you are eligible to enter the competition. The Promoter reserves the right to verify entrants’ eligibility.
  2. There is a limit of 1 (one) entry to the competition per person.
  3. Internet access is required.
  4. The Promoter will not accept competition entries that are:

(a) automatically generated by a computer;

(b) completed by third parties or in bulk; or

(c) illegible, altered, reconstructed, forged or copied.

Prize:

  1. Each winner’s nominated charitable organisation will receive a cash donation to the value of £1,000 (the “Prize”).
  2. Charitable organisations may need to be ‘onboarded’ by the Charities Aid Foundation in order to receive the donation.
  3. The charitable organisation must be a registered charity in England and Wales at the Charity Commission in order to receive the donation.
  4. The donation will be received by the winner’s nominated charitable organisation  within three months of being notified of the win.
  5. The winner will be contacted directly by Aldi or Citypress by no later than 29 November 2024.
  6. The Promoter will make all reasonable efforts to contact the winner. If the winner cannot be contacted or is not available or has not claimed their nominated charitable organisation’s prize within 10 (ten) days, the Promoter reserves the right to offer the prize to the next eligible entrant selected from the valid entries received before the closing date.
  7. The Prize is non-refundable, non-changeable and no alternative will be given.
  8. The decision of the Promoter regarding any aspect of the prize draw including the Prize is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into about it.
  9. The Promoter reserves the right in its absolute discretion to disqualify entries or to re-award a prize if the charitable organisation is not a registered charity or is found to not have charitable aims.
  10. The Promoter reserves the right in its absolute discretion to substitute another prize of similar or greater value.
  11. The Promoter must either publish or make available information that indicates that a valid award took place. To comply with this obligation the Promoter will send the surname and county of the winner to anyone who requests this information by email to aldiwinterfund@citypress.co.uk or writes to Aldi Stores Limited, Holly Lane, Atherstone, Warwickshire, CV9 2SQ (enclosing a self-addressed envelope) within one month after the closing date of the competition.
  12. If you object to any or all of your surname, county and winning entry being published or made available, please contact the Promoter at aldiwinterfund@citypress.co.uk. In such circumstances, the Promoter must still provide the information and winning entry to the Advertising Standards Authority on request.

Judging:

  1. The nominations will be judged by a panel of judges who will review the short summaries submitted to determine, in their discretion, which charitable organisations most deserve to be awarded the prizes.
  2. The decision of the panel of judges (acting reasonably) will be final.
  3. The Promoter will send the full names of the judges to anyone who writes within one month after the closing date of the competition requesting details of the judges and who encloses a self-addressed envelope to Aldi Store Ltd, Holly Lane, Atherstone, Warwickshire, CV9 2SQ.

Data protection and publicity:

  1. Insofar as the Promoter becomes a controller of any personal data relating to entrants, any such personal data will be held and/or processed in accordance with current UK data protection legislation and for the purposes of the current competition only. The details of the Promoter’s privacy policy including details on how to exercise any rights under the data protection legislation can be found at www.aldi.co.uk/privacy.
  2. Subject to paragraph 26 above, no personal data of entrants held and/or processed by the Promoter will be disclosed to a third party without the data subject’s prior consent, other than is absolutely necessary so as to fulfil the terms of the competition, in which case such processing will be subject to the necessary lawful basis under data protection legislation.
  3. You should not submit any personal data that is not personal to and/or relates specifically to you. You hereby warrant that the information which you submit and/or distribute will not infringe the intellectual property or any other rights of any third party, and will not contain anything which is defamatory, obscene, indecent, harassing or threatening.
  4. By entering this competition, you hereby warrant that all information submitted by you is true, current and complete.

Ownership and publication of competition entries and intellectual property rights:

  1. The winners may be required to take part in publicity accompanying or resulting from this competition. By entering this competition you hereby assign to the Promoter, and waive your moral rights in, the copyright and all other intellectual property rights whatsoever in your entry and confirm that you have no rights in any promotional or advertising material or similar which arises out of, or is in connection, with this competition.
  2. For the avoidance of doubt, by entering this competition, entrants agree for content shared as part of their entry to be used on Aldi social media channels.

General:

  1. The Promoter reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any entry that does comply with these terms and conditions.
  2. The Promoter reserves the right to amend or withdraw this promotion if circumstances arise which are beyond its control.
  3. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the operation of the competition or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person deliberately to undermine the legitimate operation of the competition may be a violation of criminal and civil law and, should such an attempt be made, the Promoter reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. The Promoter’s failure to enforce any of these terms and conditions shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
  4. Except where prohibited, entrants agree that:

(a) any and all claims brought by them in relation to this competition, and any consequential judgments or awards, shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this competition and

(b) under no circumstances will entrants be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrants hereby waive all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages otherwise increased. Subject to any liability arising as a result of its fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, the Promoter’s liability for claims related to this promotion is limited to a maximum of three thousand pounds.

  1. To the extent permitted by law, the Promoter is not liable for any injury or damage to persons or property, which may be caused, directly or indirectly, from any entrant’s participation in the competition or from any prize.
  2. All issues and questions (whether contractual or non-contractual) concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the parties hereby agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
  3. Any other promotions run by the Promoter will be governed by their own separate terms and conditions.

To contact us, please visit us at help.aldi.co.uk/s/ or call us on 0800 042 0800.