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Terms and Conditions - Your take on that

  1. This promotion is open to O2 customers who are UK residents aged 18 years or over, excluding employees of O2 UK ,or any of their subsidiary companies or organisations, their families, agents or anyone else connected with this promotion. O2 UK reserves the right to verify the eligibility of entrants.
  2. The "Your Take On That" photo competition. This comprises a competition whereby entrants submit a photo and text to the blueroom. The photos will be judged by a panel from O2. The top 5 photos selected will win a pair of tickets to the Countdown to Midnight concert, at The O2 on 31 December 2007. Each winner and their guest will also be given the chance to meet Take That. Entries close at 5:00pm (GMT) on Monday 17 December 2007.
  3. Judging Criteria
    1. To be eligible for entry, entrants must nominate a Take That song, and submit a photo which they have taken and which conveys the entrant’s interpretation of that song in a creative manner. Entrants may also provide a short explanation of the meaning of the song and photo, in order to aid the judges in deciding the winners. Uploading of a photo and / or a text shall be defined as an "Entry"
    2. The winners will be the five photos which, in the opinion of the judging panel:
      1. are unique in concept and/or execution; and
      2. Which capture the meaning of the Take That song in relation to which they have been nominated; and
      3. which best capture and convey the meaning of attributed by the entrant to the photo and song.
    3. The judges' decision is final and no explanation will be given or correspondence will be entered into.
  4. Photo Competition
    1. To enter the Photo Competition, participants must upload an eligible photo onto o2blueroom.co.uk/TheO2/TakeThat/Enter.aspx between Tuesday 4 December 2007 and 5:00pm Monday 17 December 2007. All entrants must successfully upload their photo or submit their vote before the competition close date to be eligible to win a Prize.
    2. To be eligible, photos uploaded to o2blueroom.co.uk/TheO2/TakeThat/Enter.aspx must:
      1. satisfy the Judging Criteria;
      2. be supplied as an image file and cannot exceed a file size of 2Mb;
      3. not contain images of people whose prior express consent has not been obtained;
      4. not contain material which is copyrighted or features predominantly or solely a trademark or logo not owned or licensed by you;
      5. not contain material which is potentially offensive (including, but not limited to, because it is adult in nature), defamatory or in any way derogatory about the Promoter, Take That, or any other third party connected in any way with the promotion otherwise objectionable.
      6. be taken by the entrant.
    3. The Promoter will review the image(s) submitted, for suitability and compliance with these terms and conditions, before any image will be entered in the Photo Competition. If the image does not comply with these terms it will not be entered into the Competition and you will not be eligible to win a prize. Any decision to allow or disallow Entries will be made at the Promoter’s sole decision and such decision shall be final.
  5. General
    1. The winners will be chosen by the judging panel in the week following the closing date. Winners will be notified by telephone using the details provided by them at the time of entry. If any winners cannot be contacted, or prizes are unclaimed or declined within a reasonable period, O2 will select a replacement winner, or winners, using the Judging Criteria. The judges decision is final.
    2. Entrance to concerts is subject to the standard conditions of entry to The O2, which can be viewed online at www.theo2.co.uk/web/guest/termsandconditions. O2 will not be liable for any change of date or venue or cancellation of any event . In the event of cancellation the Promoter reserves the right to invoke clause 20. O2 will not be responsible for any inability of the prize winners or their guests to take up the prizes, and no alternative or replacement will be offered. Prizes are not transferable
    3. The names of the winners may be obtained by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope detailing your request to: Take That Promotion, O2 (UK) Limited, 260 Bath Road, Slough, SL1 4DX.
    4. O2 reserves the right to provide substitute prizes of similar value (such alternatives to be at Promoters sole discretion) should any of the specified prizes become unavailable for reasons beyond its control. Cash or credit alternatives will not be offered. The prizes are not transferable.
    5. In the event of fraud, abuse, and/or an error affecting the proper operation of the promotion, including the allocation of more prizes than are available, O2 reserves the right to end or suspend the promotion; amend these terms & conditions; declare void the notification of winners; and/or to allocate available prizes by conducting a simple draw from all wrongly allocated winners.
    6. For the avoidance of doubt the Prize does not include travel, accommodation or any other expenses incurred by the winner or their guest. The Promoter can accept no responsibility for the failure of the Winner or their guest to attend the concert however so caused or for the failure of the Winner to attend the meet and greet in the manner or time specified.
    7. O2 accepts no responsibility for incorrectly completed, lost or delayed entries, notices, acceptances, tickets or other documents related to the promotion or prize. Entries not complying with these terms and conditions will be invalid. The instructions provided at the point of entry form part of the terms & conditions of this draw, and in the event of a conflict, these terms & conditions take precedence.
    8. If any provision of these terms and conditions is held invalid by any law, rule, order or regulation of any government, or by the final determination of any court of a competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect the enforceability of any other provisions not held to be invalid.
    9. The winners may be required to participate in publicity connected with this promotion and it is a condition of entry that entrants agree to their name being made publicly available if they win.
    10. Information which you provide to O2 is also subject to O2's Data Protection and Privacy Statement, the current version of which can be found at o2.co.uk/termsconditions/o2privacypolicy and shall be deemed incorporated into these terms and conditions.
    11. O2 may wish to use any Entry, including but not limited to the image and accompanying text into the Photo Competition (regardless of whether they win) in several ways including exploiting them and distributing them for free via O2's services, to promote O2 and/or the Promotion, and to create videos and wallpapers derived from the Entries which may be broadcast, distributed and/or exploited by O2 on a free of charge basis only (the "Purpose"), and by entering the Photo Competition you grant O2 a worldwide, royalty free licence for the Purpose. If O2 wishes to exploit your Entry or Entries commercially, it will negotiate with you and agree a reasonable licence fee before doing so. You acknowledge and agree that O2 may, in its sole discretion and without notice to you, adapt, reformat, edit, alter, tag or otherwise modify your Entry or Entries for the Purpose. Unless agreed otherwise in writing, O2 will not make any payments to you or any third party for its use of your Entry or Entries for the Purpose. Entrants waive all moral rights existing in their entry or entries in favour of O2.
    12. The Promoter does not claim ownership of the Entry or Entries you submit and you continue to own the rights in such Entry or Entries. However, by submitting your entry, you hereby grant to O2 a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right and licence to copy, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, sub-licence, create derivative works from, perform, play, make available to the public (on O2's services or in relation to O2 sponsorship properties), exploit, transmit, distribute in any media now known or later developed and otherwise deal in or with and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to the Entry or Entries for the full term of any rights that may exist only as required for the Purpose. Entry into this promotion constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions. The promoter's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
    13. This promotion is governed by English Law.
    14. The promoter is O2 (UK) Limited, 260 Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 4DX ("O2").