Australian High Commission
Kingdom of Tonga

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                               AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION & AFL TONGA JINGLE COMPETITION                                                                     

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE ENTERING THE COMPETITION.

Competition Name

  1. The AFL Jingle Competition (the Competition) is a competition run by the Commonwealth of Australia through the Australian High Commission in Tonga.

Competition Period

  1. The Competition will run from 11 September 2024 to Midnight Wednesday September 25, 2024.

Eligibility

  1. Entry into the Competition is free and is open to:
    1. Secondary school students in Tonga, with permission from their parents/guardians, who consent by application to their submissions being uploaded to the Australian High Commission’s social media pages.
  2. Employees of the Australian High Commission or its attached agencies, its contractors and/or their immediate family members are ineligible to enter the Competition. Immediate family member means a spouse, defacto partner, child, grandchild, parent, grandparent and/or sibling (and their spouses).
  3. The Australian High Commission reserves the right to verify the eligibility of each Entrant and to exclude and/or disqualify any Entrant who does not meet the eligibility requirements. By entering the Competition, the Entrant warrants that he or she is eligible.

Entering the Competition

  1. To enter the Competition each Entrant must, during the Competition Period:
    1. Submit the AFL jingle via messenger to the Australia in Tonga Facebook page.
  2. There is no limit to the number of times an Entrant may enter the Competition.

Content Criteria

  1. For an entry to be considered valid and eligible for judging it must meet the following content criteria:
    1. Between 30-45 seconds long.
    2. Include reference to the upcoming AFL Grandfinal 26 September.
    3. No offensive meanings.

Judging Criteria

  1. Entries will be judged by Embassy Staff on the following criteria:
    1. Creativity.
    2. Ingenuity.
    3. Musicality.
    4. The jingle’s ability to demonstrate Tonga and Australia’s links through sport.
  2. Entries which the High Commission determines have involved fraudulent practices, such as false email addresses or fake [Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/LinkedIn] accounts to allow multiple entries by the same person, or any other illegitimate behaviour to gain advantage over other entrants, will be disqualified from the Competition.

Competition Prize(s)

  1. 1st Prize: TOP500, 2nd Prize: TOP 300, 3rd Prize: TOP200.
  2. The Embassy reserves the right to substitute the Prize with another prize of similar value if the original prize is not available.
  3. Unless otherwise specified in these terms and conditions, the High Commission will not be responsible for any costs associated with the award, acceptance, receipt or use of the Prize, including any cost of travelling to redeem the Prize.

Notification and collection of Prize

  1. The High Commission will announce the winner of the Competition on the High Commission Facebook/ Twitter after the end of the Competition Period.
  2. The High Commission will also notify the winner by private message on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/LinkedIn within two business days of announcing the result. At this time, the High Commission will seek the winner’s details (name and age) (Personal Details) and contact details, to organise collection of the Prize. The winner must provide the Personal Details and contact details within 7 days of the request by the High Commission.
  3. Prize to be sent by post.
  4. If the winner fails to provide the High Commission with his or her Personal Details and contact details within the required timeframe, or fails to collect the Prize in accordance with paragraph [16], the winner will forfeit the Prize and the High Commission reserves the right to select another winner, in accordance with these terms and conditions.

Intellectual property

  1. The Entrant warrants that his or her entry has not been copied, recreated, reproduced or derived from any other work and that the entry does not infringe on any other legal, intellectual property or privacy rights of any third party. The Entrant indemnifies and holds harmless the High Commission from any and all claims by any third party arising out of the use of the Entrant’s entry, including but not limited to claims of infringement or violation of the intellectual property or privacy rights of the third party.
  2. The Entrant grants the High Commission a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable, non-transferable, perpetual licence to use, modify, copy, delete from, add to, publicly display and/or reproduce, the Entrant’s entry, in whole or in part, in any medium, now or at any time in the future for any purpose.
  3. The Entrant grants the High Commission the right to use his or her Personal details, likeness, comments and/or entry for promotional purposes without payment of additional consideration, except where prohibited by law. This includes but is not limited to announcing the result of the Competition and publishing the name of the winner on the High Commission Facebook page or website.

Privacy

  1. Personal information associated with the entry and/or winning of the Competition (including, but not limited to, the Entrant’s name [and relevant social media alias]) will be collected, used and disclosed (including to the High Commission) by the High Commission for promotional, marketing and publicity purposes in connection with the Competition. This personal information will be stored by the High Commission on a secure electronic database and will be destroyed once it is no longer required for these purposes. If this information is not collected, the High Commission will be unable to enter the Entrant into the Competition. For further information regarding how the High Commission will handle this information, please consult our Privacy Policy at: http://dfat.gov.au/about-us/about-this-website/pages/privacy.aspx .
  2. The Entrant acknowledges that while the High Commission will disclose this information to [Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/LinkedIn] for promotional, marketing and publicity purposes in connection with the Competition, the Competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, [Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/LinkedIn]. The Entrant should refer to [Facebook’s/Instagram’s/Twitter’s/LinkedIn’s] own privacy policy for further information as to how [Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/LinkedIn] will handle the Entrant’s personal information. The Entrant also acknowledges that by agreeing to the High Commission disclosing their personal information to overseas recipients including [Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/LinkedIn], if [Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/LinkedIn] breaches the Australian Privacy Principles, the High Commission will not be accountable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Entrant will not be able to seek redress under that Act.

Indemnities

  1. The Entrant agrees to indemnify, release and hold harmless the High Commission and relevant social media pages from any liability, damages, losses or injury resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the Entrant’s participation in the Competition and the acceptance, use or misuse of any Prize that may be won.
  2. The High Commission is not responsible for content that third parties publish, post, upload, distribute, disseminate or otherwise transmit via social media services. the High Commission accepts no liability whatsoever arising from or connected to the currency, accuracy or completeness of any material posted on social media sites or elsewhere on the internet and disclaims all responsibility for any loss or damage which may arise from the use of information provided via social media services.

Amendments and cancellation

  1. The High Commission reserves the right to, at its absolute discretion and without prior notice, vary, amend, delete or supplement any of these terms and conditions and the Entrant’s continued participation in the Competition amounts to acceptance of any revised terms and conditions. The Entrant should check the High Commission website on a regular basis for any changes to these terms and conditions. If an Entrant does not agree to a change, he or she may withdraw from the Competition by [email, direct messaging].
  2. The High Commission reserves the right to, for any reason and without any obligation to state a particular reason, cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Competition. In the event of such cancellation, termination, modification or suspension, the High Commission may at its absolute discretion elect not to award any Prize in respect of the Competition. The decision of the High Commission to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Competition will not give rise to any liability to pay compensation of any nature to any Entrants.
  3. the High Commission decision in relation to any aspect of the Competition is final and binding on every Entrant. No correspondence will be entered into.

Governing law

  1. The Competition is governed by the laws of Tonga.