Introduction
These Interactive Account Terms and Conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) apply to all Games played via the Interactive System. For the avoidance of doubt, any references to “we”, “us”, and “our” on the Site are references to the Company (as defined in these Terms and Conditions).
By accepting these Terms and Conditions, Players and Prospective Players agree to be bound by:
Definitions
Central Computer System – the technologies used by the Company including systems supplied by third parties which facilitate the playing of the games.
Company – Hunt the Pixel is a trading name of Once Once Ltd. All payments are received by Once Once Ltd. Once Once Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales, whose registered office is at Purley Lodge, Sheepwood Road, Henbury, Bristol BS10 7BS United Kingdom.
Entry – to pay for and enter into a Game
Equipment – the equipment required to play a Game
Game/s – the game/s played interactively on the Site
Game Rules – any rules or conditions issued by the Company in addition to these Terms and Conditions which apply to the Games played which are identified by the Company as Games Rules.
Interactive System – the system (accessible via the Site but all elements of which may not be accessible via the Mobile Site) established and operated by the Company for the purpose of facilitating Games and paying Prizes.
Payment – the fee to enter a Game
Play – an entry into a Game.
Player – a person who has successfully entered a Game.
Prospective Player – a person considering entering a Game
Prizes – a prize won by a Player from a Play.
Site – the website huntthepixel.com.
SSL Certificate – the technology used to secure payment transactions on the Site
Whitelist – a list of email contacts that the user deems are acceptable to receive email from and should not be sent to the trash folder.
Winner – the person that has won a Game
PARTICIPANTS OF THIS GAME OF SKILL SHOULD READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE PARTICIPATING. YOU WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE ACCEPTED THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND AGREED TO BE BOUND BY THEM WHEN PARTICIPATING. THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS INCLUDE LIMITATIONS ON YOUR RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.
1. Hunt the Pixel Ltd. (the company) (‘Us’, ‘we’, ‘our’, ‘the promoter’) is a trading name of Once Once Limited whose company number is the operator of a skilled based prize competition through its website huntthepixel.com. All payments are received by Once Once Limited. Once Once Limited is a company registered in England Wales, company number 14399015.
2. Participants purchase tickets to enter and prizes are allocated in accordance with the following terms and conditions.
3. The prize games take place at set dates and times. See website for the countdown of dates and times of these games.
4. In the event of any dispute regarding the Rules, conduct, results and all other matters relating to a Competition, the decision of the promoters shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
5. Entry is only open to persons over the age of 16. By entering a skill based competition game, the entrant (‘entrant’, ‘you’, ‘your(s)’) will be deemed to have legal capacity to do so, you will have read and understood these terms and conditions and you will be bound by them and by any other requirements set out in any related promotional material advertised on the website.
6. The competitions are governed by English Law and any matters relating to the competition will be resolved under English Law and the Courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction. By participating online via the website, and by accepting these terms and conditions you confirm that you are not breaching any laws in your country of residence regarding the legality of entering our competitions. The promoter will not be held responsible for any entrant entering any of our competitions unlawfully. If in any doubt you should immediately leave the website and check with the relevant authorities in your country.
7. You must not be an employee or an immediate family member of Hunt the Pixel Ltd. For the avoidance of doubt, an “immediate family member” shall mean any individual with any of the following relationships to the employee:
- a. spouse, and parents thereof;
- b. sons and daughters, and spouses thereof;
- c. parents, and spouses thereof;
- d. brothers and sisters, and spouses thereof;
- e. grandparents and grandchildren, and spouses thereof;
- f. grandparents and grandchildren, and spouses thereof;
- g. any individual related by blood or affinity whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship.
- h. additional eligibility requirements may apply to a specific Competition, e.g. a valid passport, visas and/or driver’s licence will be required if the Competition prize includes travel outside the United Kingdom and/or car hire.
10. By entering the Competition, you hereby warrant that all information submitted by you is true, current and complete. We reserve the right to verify the eligibility of all entrants.
11. We assume that by reading the publication or by using the website and entering the Competition (and you warrant that) you are aged 16 or over.
12. We reserve the right to disqualify any entrant (at our sole discretion) if we have grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of the Rules.
13. In the event that any entrant is disqualified from the Competition, in our sole discretion we may decide whether a replacement should be selected. In this event, any further entrant will be selected on the same criteria as the original entrant and will be subject to these Rules.
14. Competition entries must be made in the manner and by the closing date specified on the Competition Notice. Failure to do so will disqualify the entry.
15. Only one entry per person will be accepted. If it becomes apparent that a participant is using a computer(s) to circumvent this term by, for example, the use of ‘brute force’, ‘script’ or any other automated means, that person/those e-mail addresses will be disqualified and any prize award will be void.
16. Entrants should note that unless stated otherwise, we do not accept responsibility for the return of any entries, including those consisting of artistic or other material.
17. The prize winner is the first person to find the pixel and complete personal details, unless specified otherwise in the Competition Notice. In all matters, the decision of the promoters shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into. There shall be no right of appeal.
18. Game winners will be notified in the manner and within the time specified on the Competition Notice. Return of any prize notification as undeliverable or failure to reply as specified in the notification (and within the time stated) may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. If more than one prize is awarded only one prize per entrant will be awarded.
19. Claims for prizes must be made in the manner and within the time specified on the Competition Notice. Failure to claim a prize within this time or in the manner specified may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner.
20. Prizes are non–transferable and there is no alternative. We reserve the right to substitute prizes of equal or greater value at any time.
21. Prizes are awarded at our sole discretion and no prizes will be awarded as a result of improper actions by or on behalf of any entrant.
22. Where a prize may not be appropriate for a younger contestant, the minimum age for entry will be stated in the Competition Notice and must be observed. We reserve the right to request written proof of age of any winner.
23. All taxes, insurances, transfers, spending money and other expenses (including meals or personal expenses upgrades etc.) as the case may be, unless specifically stated, are the sole responsibility of the prize winner.
24. Participants’ names and general locations will be published or made publicly available if they are the winner of the game in accordance with regulatory requirements. In such circumstances, the promoter may also make free use of this information and the participants’ photographs for publicity and public relations purposes, both during this and future promotions by the promoter or any of its associated or subsidiary companies in the UK. This includes making their name available on the promoter’s websites and social media platforms.
25. Entrants are automatically entered onto the promoter’s database for the purpose of conveying information as to the status of their competition, as well as any future promotions or competitions offered by the promoter.
26. Players and Prospective Players need to provide all equipment and technology necessary to access the internet to play the Games and at the time designated by each Game. Failure to provide all necessary equipment and technology may prevent a Player and Prospective Players from being able to play Games or access certain information that is available via the Site.
27. Players and Prospective Players need to add the Site email address to their email application Whitelist in order to receive Site Game emails.
28. There is no guarantee that the Site will display correctly on all devices it can be viewed on.
29. Players and Prospective Players agree that the Site and the Games are for their own personal, non-commercial use.
30. Players and Prospective Players may not:
- copy, disclose, transmit or otherwise make available or remove or alter any material available on the Site;
- reverse engineer or decompile (whether in whole or in part) any software used in connection with the Site and/or the provision of the Games (except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law); or
- remove, obscure or change any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property right notices contained in any material obtained from the Site or as a result of playing the Games.
31. Each Player and Prospective Players warrants that they will only play the Games and use the Site and/or the Interactive System in accordance with these Terms and Conditions and in an appropriate and lawful manner and, by way of example, that they shall not in connection with playing the Games or using the Site and/or the Interactive System (and shall not authorise or permit any other party to):
- receive, access or transmit any content which is obscene, pornographic, threatening, racist, menacing, offensive, defamatory, in breach of confidence, in breach of any intellectual property right (including, without limit, copyright) or otherwise objectionable or unlawful; or
- knowingly or recklessly transmit any content (including, without limit, viruses) through the Site and/or the Interactive System which shall cause, or be likely to cause, detriment or harm, in any degree, to computer systems owned by the Company or others; or
- hack into, make excessive traffic demands on or cause any impairment of the functions of any computer system, deliver or forward chain letters, “junk mail” of any kind, surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or otherwise engage in any behaviour intended to inhibit others from playing the Games or using the Site and/or the Interactive System or any other website, or which is otherwise likely to damage the reputation or business of the Company or of any third party.
32. Each Player and Prospective Player agrees to indemnify the Company against any costs, losses, damages and expenses which the Company may suffer or incur arising out of or in relation to any claim, legal proceeding or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of that Player’s or Prospective Player’s wrongful or negligent use of playing of the Games, access to the Site and/or the Interactive System, or breach by that Player or Prospective Player of these Terms and Conditions.
33. Without prejudice to the above, the Company shall not in any circumstances be liable for any loss of whatever nature, including, without limitation, loss of profits, indirect, special or consequential loss, suffered or incurred by any Player or Prospective Player, any holder or owner of a Play, any Claimant or any other person arising from the withdrawal of any Game or from the participation or non-participation of any person in any Game, including the loss, for whatever reason, of the chance to participate in such Game. In particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Company shall not be liable to any person:
- for any event beyond the Company’s reasonable control including, but without limitation, any act of God, war, strike, lockout, industrial action, fire, flood, drought, tempest, power cut and/or failure or obstruction of any network, broadcasting or telecommunications service;
- for the failure of, or damage or destruction to, or any errors caused by the computer systems or records of the Company or any third party (including, without limitation, the Site, the Interactive System and/or the Central Computer System), or any part of any of the foregoing;
- for delays, losses, errors or omissions in or made by the delivery service or by the banking system;
- for any other action or event which prevents or hinders the issue of a valid Play (including without limitation the failure of the Site to display correctly on any device used to view the Site);
- for the refusal to sell a Play to any person or to allow any person to play a Game;
- for any losses caused by Players or Prospective Players including misuse or money lost by playing the Games and failure or malfunction of the equipment or technology of the Player or their internet service provider.
34. All payment transactions are managed by Stripe (a link can be found at the bottom of this page) and are encrypted using a 256 bit encrypted SSL certification.
- We do not store credit card details on our server.
- Refunds are received 7-10 days after they are actioned.
- Winners will be notified and paid within 7-10 days after a Game has ended and a winner verified.
- Refunds will not be given in any circumstances unless the Company see fair to do so.
35. We do not, unless we agree this with you, claim any rights of ownership in your entry. As such, you retain ownership and copyright, although we will be able to use entries as set out in the Rules, you will also have the right to use your entry in any way you choose. Where any entry is to be used in a different way (e.g. we are asking to own this) this will be made clear in the Competition Notice and you will then be able to choose whether to enter the Competition.
36. In consideration of us agreeing to consider entrants to the Competition, each entrant hereby agrees that we (and third parties authorised by us) may make any and all entries available in their publications and on their websites and any other media, whether now known or invented in the future. You now grant us (and third parties authorised by us) a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence (for the full period of any rights in the entry) to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, make derivative works from, edit, alter, store, re-format, sell and sub-licence the entry for such purposes.
37. We do not guarantee to use or otherwise make available any entry. We may, in appropriate circumstances, and at our sole discretion, reject, edit, remove or disable access to entries that appear to be legally or otherwise problematic e.g. infringe the copyright or other intellectual property or privacy rights of others, are defamatory etc. or for any other reason.
38. Your entry and any information submitted by you must be personal to and relate specifically to you. You hereby warrant that your entry and all information which you submit and/or distribute will not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or any other rights of any third party, and will not contain anything which is libellous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, harassing or threatening. If relevant, we reserve the right, but not the obligation, to screen, filter and/or monitor information provided by you and to edit, refuse to distribute or remove the same.
39. We cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by any entrant entering the Competition or as a result of accepting any prize. We are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment or software, failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines or at any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer or mobile telephone related to or resulting from participation in the Competition. Nothing shall exclude our liability for death or personal injury as a result of our negligence, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by applicable law.
40. Any personal data relating to entrants will not be disclosed to a third party without the individual’s consent. Please see Privacy Policy for further details. Data relating to entrants will be retained by us for a reasonable period after the Competition closes to assist us to operate competitions in a consistent manner and to deal with any queries on the Competition.
41. Any words following the terms including, include, in particular, for example or any similar expression, shall be construed as illustrative and shall not limit the sense of the words, description, definition, phrase or term preceding those terms.
42. Our failure to assert our rights in relation to any breach of the Rules shall not constitute a waiver of such rights, nor will any such waiver be implied.
43. If any provision of the Rules (or portion thereof) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality or enforceability of the remainder of the Rules will not be affected or impaired.
44. The exercise by the Company of any discretion contained in these Terms and Conditions shall be final and binding.
Changes to Terms and Conditions
The Company may change these Terms and Conditions, and/or the Game Procedures, and/or the Games Rules and/or the Game Specific Rules for any and/or all of the Games at any time. Such changes shall be prospective save that changes shall be applicable to prior Games so far as they relate to claim and Prize payment procedures. Such changes shall be binding on Players and Prospective Players and will take effect immediately on posting of the revised documentation on the Site, or on notification to Players and Prospective Players by email or by post that such changes have taken place (whichever takes place sooner). Players and Prospective Players hereby agree that they will be bound by such changes when they next claim a Prize, or on the next occasion they play the Games following the changes taking place, or (where relevant) on acceptance of the changes whichever is the sooner.
Law
These Terms and Conditions and the rights and obligations of the Company, Prospective Players and Players set out herein shall be governed by and construed in all respects in accordance with the laws of England and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Contact Information
Registered Office
Hunt the Pixel is a trading name of Once Once Ltd
C/O Purley Lodge, Sheepwood Road, Henbury, Bristol, United Kingdom, BS10 7BS United Kingdom.
Website
Payments
Stripe stripe.com
