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This free prize giveaway is operated by or on behalf of the British Council and the Graduate Management Admission Council (HK) Limited (“GMAC”) to promote taking IELTS and the GMAT® exam as the official tests when users apply for business schools and prepare for an MBA (the “Competition”).
The Competition is open to all residents in Japan, South Korea, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Taiwan, China. Where a participant is under the age of 18 or is a minor under the laws applicable to such participant, his/her entry must be submitted on behalf of the participant by a parent/guardian over the age of 18 years or otherwise has the authority to do so under the applicable laws and who, in submitting the entry, agrees to and accepts these competition terms and conditions (the “Competition Rules”).
VOID OUTSIDE OF JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, MYANMAR, PHILIPPINES, THAILAND and TAIWAN, CHINA AND WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW.
Only one entry per person is allowed. No participant may win more than one prize.
Entry to the Competition is free of charge although participants are responsible for their own costs of connecting to the Internet.
The opening date of the Competition is 00:01 am on 16 August 2018 Hong Kong time and the closing date is 11:59 pm on 30 November 2018 Hong Kong time. Any entry received before the opening date or after the closing date will not be included in the Competition. The British Council and the GMAC accept no responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any system, server, provider or otherwise that may result in any entry being lost, delayed or not properly registered.
Each competition winner will be notified by the end of the promotional period on the campaign website www.ieltsasia.org/gmac-ielts-promotion and via email. This notification will be made to the email address provided by the winning participant when registering for the Competition in accordance with section 4 of these Competition Rules. In this notification, the British Council will inform each Competition winner (who has registered online at www.ieltsasia.org/gmac-ielts-promotion) of how to claim their prize and of any additional information or steps required to enable the British Council to provide them with the prize. The British Council and GMAC reserve the right to award the relevant prize to another Competition participant if the prize is not claimed within one week after such notification.
The Competition will be promoted through the British Council’s IELTS Asia website.
To enter participants must complete the online application form on www.ieltsasia.org/gmac-ielts-promotion and then follow these steps:
The selection of the winners from the eligible participants will be based on the identification of the first 100 participants, who will be identified in Hong Kong within eight days following the closing date referred to in section 3 above.
No correspondence will be entered into with the unsuccessful participants.
The prize consists of GMAT Official Practice Exam 5&6 (retail value: USD 49.99) and there are 100 of these to give away in total.
Prizes are personal to the winners and cannot be transferred to any third party. Prizes cannot be exchanged for money or any other goods or services.
The British Council and GMAC accept no responsibility and will not compensate for failure to notify winning participants or failure to deliver prizes where such failure results from the provision of inaccurate contact details by the participants or from the acts or omissions of any third party (including, without limitation, any internet or postal service provider) and shall have no liability to any entrant if it is prevented from or delayed in delivering any aspect of the Competition or the prizes by acts, events, omissions or accidents beyond its reasonable control.
The British Council and GMAC do not offer any insurance in connection with the prize. Each prize winner may arrange their own insurance in respect of the prize, if applicable.
The British Council and GMAC will collect and store the names, email addresses, privacy notices, online application forms and other details as specified in Section 4 above of all participants and the additional contact details of winners as anticipated below. The British Council and GMAC will use this personal data for the following purposes:
Where a participant (or his/her parent or guardian where he/or she is under the age of 18 or is a minor under the laws applicable to him or her) has consented to the British Council and GMAC doing so, the British Council and GMAC may contact the participant using the personal data collected to provide information about the goods, services, courses or promotions that the British Council and/ or GMAC offers.
By participating in the Competition, participants consent to their personal data being collected and processed by the British Council and GMAC in accordance with, and for the purposes set out in, this section 6.
Participant’s personal data will be used for one or more of the above purposes in section 6 for the period of time and in all the manners that the British Council and/or GMAC considers it necessary or appropriate for any such purposes and in any area where the British Council and/or GMAC operates. The Participants have the right, by the means described in the immediately following paragraph, to request to review, to make copies of, to update, or to correct, their personal data collected and processed by the British Council and/or GMAC, or to ask the British Council and/or GMAC to cease the continued collection, processing or use of their personal data, and to delete their personal data. Please note that the British Council and/or GMAC may reject a Participant’s participation in the Competition if he or she chooses not to provide his or her personal data.
Participants can exercise their rights to access their personal data held by the British Council and, separately, GMAC, and can withdraw their consent to the processing of their personal data by sending an email, accompanied by a scanned photocopy of their valid passport or Identity Card to the corresponding local Customer Care department or email of the British Council. Contact details can be found in each country/territory’s corporate website.
British Council websites:
Japan: https://www.britishcouncil.jp/en/contact
South Korea: https://www.britishcouncil.kr/en/about/contact
Myanmar: http://www.britishcouncil.org.mm/contact
Philippines: https://www.britishcouncil.ph/contact
Thailand: https://www.britishcouncil.or.th/en/about/contact
Taiwan, China: https://www.britishcouncil.org.tw/en/contact
The British Council and GMAC intend to publish the names and photographs of the winners on the British Council’s and GMAC’s websites, Facebook pages, Twitter pages, press releases and in other promotional and marketing material. In addition, the British Council and GMAC may write and publish articles about the winners’ enjoyment of their prize. By entering the Competition, each participant agrees to the use of their name and image and agrees to co-operate with any such publicity or marketing if they win a prize.
Participants will retain copyright in the entry material that they submit to the British Council and GMAC. By entering the Competition each participant grants the British Council and GMAC, free of charge, permission to use the entry material (including, without limitation, modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) in any media worldwide for purposes connected with the Competition. Participants who win a prize grant the British Council and GMAC further permission to publish and exhibit their entry material (including, without limitation, modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) in print and any media worldwide for any British Council and/ or GMAC purpose. Each participant confirms that the entry material is their original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any applicable laws, that they have the right to give the British Council and GMAC permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that all necessary consents for the submission of the entry material have been obtained.
All rights in the British Council’s and GMAC’s name and logo, websites, Facebook pages, Twitter pages, press releases and other promotional and marketing material and all course and examination content and materials (together the “Council’s Materials” and “GMAC’s Materials”) shall vest in and remain with the British Council (or its licensors) and GMAC (or its licensors). By participating in the Competition, participants agree that they will not use, broadcast, publish, export, exploit, reproduce nor copy part or all of the Council’s Materials or GMAC’s Materials.
The British Council and / or GMAC may disqualify or refuse to accept the entry of any participant which does not meet the eligibility criteria in section 2 or does not otherwise comply with these Competition Rules.
These Competition Rules shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes or claims (including, without limitation, non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with the Competition.
By participating in this Competition, participants are deemed to have accept these Competition Rules.