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France Telecom, a Public Limited Company with 10,457,395,644 euros capital, Paris Commercial Register N° 380 129 866, with its registered office at 6 place d'Alleray 75015 Paris (hereinafter called “the Organizer”), is organizing a free competition, with no obligation to buy, entitled “Pikeo FISE Photo Competition” (hereinafter called the “Competition” or “Pikeo FISE Photo Competition”) (FISE stands for Extreme Sports International Festival), solely accessible via the Internet network on the Internet address www.pikeo.com.
The ““Pikeo FISE Photo Competition” will start on April 24, 2008 at 12pm and end on May 20, 2008 at 11:59 pm (GMT + 1:00h).
The Organizer reserves the right to postpone, modify, cancel or renew the Competition if circumstances demand. In any event, its liability cannot be brought to bear in this respect.
The Competition is open in any country to members and any new members of the Pikeo service participating in the competition, hereinafter called the “Participant”. On assumption that a Participant is a minor, s/he declares and acknowledges that s/he has received permission to participate from his/her designated legal representative and that the legal representative has accepted to be liable for the participant abiding by all the terms and conditions presented herein. Any and all participation by a minor is the full responsibility of the concerned person’s legal representative.
This excludes people who directly took part in the direct or indirect preparation of the Competition and their families, permanent or occasional members of the France Telecom Group and their families (same name, same postal address) and members of staff of Etude PIQUET-MOLITOR, Official Bailiffs.
A) Participating Pikeo members propose their digital photos on the theme “sports” adding them to the group “SPORT PHOTO COMPETITION”. Participants who are not yet members of Pikeo can become members free of charge in order to be able to take part in the Competition.
B ) A panel of judges will select the best 3 photos from all those sent in, corresponding to the “Sports” theme and thus choose the 3 winners.
A)
Participants (members and new members of Pikeo) will deposit their Travel Portraits photos (in JPEG format) on the Pikeo service between April 24, 2008 at 12pm and end on May 20, 2008 at 11:59 pm (GMT + 1:00h) inclusive; to register their photos for the competition, they will add them to the group "SPORT PHOTO COMPETITION ".
To be considered a Participant, an Internaut must have:
Set up a Pikeo user account on the address http://www.pikeo.com with a valid email address and an identifier in compliance with Article 4 of this current terms and condition document.
There may only be one Pikeo user account per Internaut. The setup of an additional account will void participation.
Integrated at least one digital photo into this account (in JPEG format), taken by the participant himself/herself or for which he or she has full permission to use for this purpose, and add it to the group “SPORT PHOTO COMPETITION ". To be valid, the photo must remain accessible by the public until the end of the competition. Any modification to the photo access rights will invalidate the photo.
Participants may import as many photos as they wish into their Pikeo space, up to a limit of 1Gb, and can submit as many photos to the group “SPORT PHOTO COMPETITION”.
B)
Between May 20 to 30 2008, a panel of judges consisting of 5 members from the Organizing company and the FISE organization will select the best photo by every Participant from all the photos meeting participation criteria and respecting public order as specified in Article 4, based on criteria of originality, quality and consistency with the "sports" theme.
Still based on the same criteria of originality, quality and consistency with the "sports" theme, the following will be selected from these best photos:
1. Extreme sports Prize;
2. Team spirit Prize;
3. Humoristic Prize.
The panel's choice is final. No questions will be answered on the roll-out of the competition and selections made by the Organizer.
Participants encountering technical difficulties can contact the support service by email on the following address: support@pikeo.com .
Participation in the Pikeo FISE Photo Competition is free with no obligation to buy.
The Participant will not choose an identifier contrary to good morality or public order.
The Participant will not insert into his or her account photos reproducing:
messages contrary to good morality or public order (notably messages that are abusive, defamatory or racist, messages of a violent or pornographic nature, messages which, by their nature, infringe respect for human beings and their dignity, equality between men and women or the protection of children and adolescents, messages that encourage crimes and/or offences to be committed or urge the consumption of prohibited substances or messages inciting discrimination, hatred or violence).
• messages that infringe or are liable to infringe the rights of third parties and, in particular, their intellectual property rights.
Moreover, the Participant declares that he or she holds all the rights relative to the photos onlined and, in this respect, guarantees the Organizer against any action brought by third parties.
Participation in the Competition involves unreserved acceptance of these regulations in their entirety, the rules of ethics currently in force on the Internet, as well as laws and regulations applicable to competitions currently in force in France.
5 prizes will be awarded for an approximate total value of 3,588euros, inclusive of VAT(Three thousand and five hundre eighty eight euros inclusive of VAT).
Winners will be advised by email of the prize they have won, on the email address indicated in their Pikeo account and will be asked to indicate their postal address for delivery. In addition, the list of winners and their photos will be displayed on the page dedicated to the PHOTO competition on the Pikeo site on http://www.pikeo.com.
Winners will receive their prizes by post from the Organizer within a maximum of 4 months after the response by the winner.
If the email from the Organizer informing the winner, sent to the address entered on the winner's Pikeo account is returned (cf. Article 3.2. A), or if a reply is not received from the winner within 8 days of the date of dispatch, the winner will be disqualified and his or her prize awarded to the winner in the next place, without it being possible to invoke the liability of the Organizer.
Similarly, Participants will surrender any prizes not delivered and returned due to an incomplete or incorrect postal address and they will be kept by the Organizer, without it being possible to invoke the latter's liability. Also, in the event of express abandonment of a prize by a winner, the prize will be kept by the Organizer and may be used in a subsequent operation if the nature of the prize permits, without it being possible to invoke the liability of the Organizer.
The Organizer cannot be held liable for any delays, losses, damage or lack of readability of date stamps due to the postal service, which may occur on delivery.
The Organizer cannot be held liable for any incident/accident that may occur when prizes are used. The prizes awarded to winners are personal and cannot be awarded to another person.
Prizes cannot be exchanged for other prizes, cash or for another item or service. However, the Organizer reserves the right to replace one of the prizes to be awarded by a prize of an equivalent or higher value, notably but without it being exhaustive, in the event of a stock outage of the prizes initially planned or any other unforeseeable, irresistible, external event that would make it impossible to deliver the prizes planned within reasonable timeframes. The prizes awarded only include what is indicated, to the exclusion of anything else. They cannot be contested in any way by the winner, be replaced by their equivalent in cash or replaced or exchanged for any reason whatever.
The value indicated for the prize(s) corresponds to the recommended retail price, inclusive of VAT, currently applied or estimated as of the date of preparation of the Rules: it is given for information purposes and may vary. The photographs or other illustrations used in any Competition presentation materials have no contractual value in relation to the characteristics of the prize finally awarded.
All the brands or names of products quoted are the registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Only one prize will be awarded per household (same name and address).
By the sole fact of participating in the Competition, winners authorize the Organizer to reproduce and represent their Pikeo user names (alias/identifier) and the 3 winning photos in any of the Organizer's promotional operations and publicity events on Internet sites, blogs, monthly archives and newsletters throughout the world, for the period of time necessary for presentation of the competition result, without use thereof granting the winners the right to remuneration or a benefit other than the prize awarded. Winners may request publication of their photo to cease by submitting a request in writing to the Organizer.
Similarly, within the framework of the event or simply due to their participation in the Competition, the Organizer reserves the right to ask the winners for their authorization to take photos, slides, fix on any electronic support medium, film, paper, videograms or any other material, their image, last/first names, speeches in full or extracts thereof to be reproduced on any type of support medium, digitize, present by any public mode of representation, notably on TV or other telecommunications services, cable distribution and on any networks, the Internet in particular, in any country.
Participation in the Competition implies knowledge and acceptance of the characteristics and limits of the Internet, notably in relation to technical performance, response times for viewing, querying or transferring information, the risk of interruption and, more generally, the risks inherent in any connection and transmission on the Internet, the absence of protection of certain data against possible misappropriation and the risk of contamination by any viruses circulating on the network.
As a result, the Organizer cannot, under any circumstances, without this list being limitative, be held liable for:
- any malfunction of the Internet network preventing smooth roll-out/operation of the Competition;
- the failure of any receiving equipment or communication lines;
- the loss of any paper or electronic mail and, more generally, the loss of any data;
- routing problems;
- the operation of any software;
- the consequences of any virus, computer bug, anomaly or technical failure;
- any damage caused to a Participant's computer;
- any technical, equipment and software failure whatsoever preventing or limiting the possibility of taking part in the Competition or which may have damaged a Participant's system.
- the malfunction of prizes distributed within the framework of the Competition and any indirect damages that they might cause.
It is specified that the Organizer cannot be held liable for any direct or indirect damage resulting from an interruption or malfunction of any kind, irrespective of the reason, or for any direct damage whatsoever that might result from a connection to the site developed within the framework of this Competition. It is up to all Participants to take appropriate measures to protect their own data and/or software stored on their computer equipment against any interference. Anyone logging on to the site developed within the framework of this Competition and Participants taking part in the Competition do so at their own responsibility.
The Organizer may cancel all or part of the Competition if it becomes apparent that fraud has occurred in any form whatsoever, notably by computerized means, within the framework of participation in the Competition or in deciding on the winners. In this event, the Organizer reserves the right not to award prizes to the perpetrators of fraud and/or to take appropriate legal action against the people responsible for this fraud. However, the Organizer cannot be held liable in any way in relation to Participants for any fraud which may be committed. The following will notably be considered as fraud:
- If a Participant proposes photos for which he or she does not hold the rights.
- If a Participant registers and then takes part in the Competition under one or more fictitious assumed names, fictitious emails, or names borrowed from one or more third parties: each Participant must register and take part in the Competition with a unique alias and email address.
- The use of multiple email addresses in an attempt to participate several times.
In the event of fraud, the Participant will be eliminated.
It is hereby agreed that, except in the event of manifest error, the Organizer may use – notably as proof of any action, fact or omission - programmes, data, files, records, operations and other elements (such as follow-up reports or similar) of a computerized/electronic nature, format or medium, established, received or directly or indirectly retained by the Organizer, in its information systems in particular.
Participants will not contest the admissibility, validity or evidential value of the above-mentioned elements of a computerized/electronic nature, format or medium, on the basis of any legal provision of any kind, which might specify that certain documents must be written or signed by the parties to constitute proof.
As a result, the elements considered constitute proof and, if produced as means of proof by the Organizer in any legal or other proceedings, they will be admissible, valid and enforceable between the parties in the same way, under the same conditions and with the same evidential value as any document established, received or retained in writing.
The Organizer cannot be held liable if, due to a case of force majeure or circumstances beyond its control, the Competition were to be modified, curtailed or cancelled.
In all cases, the Organizer reserves the right to extend the period of participation and to postpone any date announced.
Any modification to the Rules will give rise to a new document being lodged at the offices of PIQUET MOLITOR, Official Bailiffs, 23 rue Vaneau 75007 Paris, and will take effect from the time it is onlined: all Participants will be deemed to have accepted it simply by their participation in the Pikeo Fise Photo Competition, as of the effective date of the modification. Any Participant refusing the modification(s) made should cease to participate in the Pikeo FISE Photo Competition by removing the photo from the group " SPORT PHOTO COMPETITION ".
The costs incurred to participate in the Pikeo FISE Photo Competition, on the basis of an average call connection time of 6 minutes (at a rate of 0.23 euros a minute) can be reimbursed via a simple request in writing to the following address:
Marketing Next Technocentre
Concours photo Pikeo FISE
38 rue du Général Leclerc
92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux .
on presentation of documentary proof (copy of the invoice with the dates and times of connection clearly underlined). This request must be sent by post before 1st April 2008, with the post office date stamp constituting proof, and must indicate the email address registered for the Competition, enclosing full bank account details (RIB/RIP).
Costs incurred by the Participant for the reimbursement request will be reimbursed on request (reimbursement of the stamp at the current slow rate - 20g.).
Costs for photocopying documentary proof will be reimbursed on the basis of 10 cents a sheet by including this request in the connection cost reimbursement request.
Reimbursement will be made by any means chosen by the Organizer, to be sent within 60 days of receipt of the request, after verification of the validity of the request and, in particular, the conformity of the information contained in the reimbursement request letter with the information recorded on the registration form input on the site.
Participants who do not pay connection charges due to the volume of their calls (holders of a subscription plan, cybercable or ADSL users, etc.) cannot obtain reimbursement.
Only one request per household (same name and postal address) will be permitted throughout the period of the competition.
The rules are governed solely by French law.
Any question concerning the application or interpretation of the Rules or any unforeseen question that may arise will be decided upon, without appeal, depending on the nature of the question, by the Organizer or by PIQUET MOLITOR, Official Bailiffs, in compliance with French law. Claims can only be accepted within one week of publication of the results.
Personal data collected within the framework of this Competition will be treated in compliance with the Pikeo confidentiality policy, which can be accessed on www.pikeo.com. This data may give rise to the exercise of a right of access, rectification and opposition. All participants in the Competition and their legal representatives, if minors, are entitled to apply this right by sending an email to support@pikeo.com.
A full copy of the Rules is lodged with PIQUET MOLITOR, Official Bailiffs, 23 rue Vaneau 75007 Paris. The Rules can be viewed on the Site.
A full set of the Rules will also be sent free of charge by post to anyone making a request to:
Marketing Next Technocentre
Concours photo Pikeo FISE
38 rue du Général Leclerc
92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux .
The cost of the stamp will be reimbursed on the basis of the slow "letter" rate in force, by including a request with the application for a copy of the Rules. No verbal request will be answered concerning the Competition.
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