TERMS AND CONDITIONS

This contest has now ended but you are welcome to play the games and score a place on the Leader Board!

The Challenge the Winners Contest includes an:

  • SMS Challenge
  • Online Challenge

 

Contest Duration

  1. This contest begins on November 4, 2007, and closes on December 30, 2007, 23:59 India time (Contest Period).

Acceptance of conditions

  1. Information regarding prizes and the method of participation form part of these terms and conditions. By participating in this Contest, Participants accept and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. This Contest is subject to the laws of India, and is not offered outside of India.

Eligibility

  1. A Participant can participate in the Contest via SMS (SMS Challenge), via the Internet (Online Challenge), or via both means.
  2. To participate in the contest and be eligible to win a prize, Participants must purchase either a MACH3Turbo Razor or Gillette Series Shave Gel or Gillette Series After Shave Splash on or after 1st October 2007.
  3. To qualify for the prizes, a valid barcode found on all packs of MACH3Turbo Razors/Gillette Series Shave Gels/Gillette Series After Shave Splash must be entered when registering for the contest.
    • The bar code is a 13 digit number found on the back of a MACH3Turbo Razor/Gillette Series Shave Gel/Gillette Series After Shave Splash pack.
  1. If a Participant chooses not to purchase a product and enter the barcode of the product for the Online Challenge, he or she will NOT be eligible to win any prizes.
  2. The Participant for the SMS Challenge requires a barcode to take part. If a barcode is invalid or not provided, the Participant will be disqualified.
  3. Contest participation is open to all India residents aged 18 or over as of November 4, 2007.
  4. Employees of P&G and their agencies are not eligible to enter the contest.

Method of Participation

SMS Challenge

  1. The SMS Challenge is based on any of the following games: Soccer, Tennis, Cricket & Golf.
  2. To enter the contest, a Participant must SMS Winners<space>game name <space> barcode <space > first name <space> last name <space> age <space> gender to 54646.
    1. Example: Winners Soccer 1234567890123 John Smith 22 M
  3. Once the above is submitted, the Participant will receive one question with multiple answer options (A, B or C) based on the selected game and short instructions on how to reply.
  4. To qualify for the prizes, the Participant must answer the question correctly, and send the answer in the following format: SMS Winners<space>answer to 54646.
    1. Example: Winners A

Online Challenge

  1. To enter the Online Challenge, the Participant must log on to www.gillettewinners.com (the "website").
  2. On the website, the Participant can to select to play a game of Golf, Soccer, Tennis, or Cricket.
  3. To qualify for the contest, the Participant must follow the instructions on the website, complete 3 levels ("one game cycle") of at least 1 game, and register or login to save his or her score.
  4. The Participant can choose to play any of the games for an unlimited number of times. However, only the highest score achieved for each game will be saved and considered for the awarding of prizes.

Winner selection

  1. There are 2 types of winners that will be selected:
    1. EIGHT GRAND prizes(ie.Trip to Australia), ONE GRAND prize to be announced weekly
    2. 200 Weekly winners.
  2. The GRAND prize winners will be selected at the end of every week amongst the top scorers from the Online Challenge and all Participants who provide the correct answers in the SMS challenge.
  3. The finalists, those who do not submit the slogan will be contacted individually to submit a slogan "Gillette is The Best a Man Can Get because..........." & the best slogan will win the grand prize.
  4. Weekly winners will only be eligible to win once, after which they will be disqualified from subsequent bi-weekly drawings.
  5. For weekly winners, the contest period starts on Sunday at 21:30 and ends Sunday at 21:29.
  6. The player must rank among the top players to stand a chance to win weekly prizes. Please note that the Leaderboard will only show the Top 20 scorers weekly.
  7. To qualify to be a weekly GRAND PRIZE winner, your score must ALWAYS be higher than your personal best score. For example, if in Week 1 you score 2000 points, whilst in week 2 you score 1000 points, you don't qualify for week 2 even if that score is amongst the highest weekly scores.

Prizes

  1. WEEKLY GRAND PRIZE WINNER:
    1. The weekly GRAND PRIZE winners will win a two day return trip to Australia in 2008 to meet Rahul Dravid or Roger Federer.
    2. The trip includes 1 return fare (economy class) ticket, accommodation for 2 nights and meals (3 meals per day).
    3. Winners are to ensure relevant travel documents are prepared prior to the trip.
    4. The exact date of the trip will be announced after the promotion.
    5. The winner will not be allowed to request for a change in the dates of the trip.
    6. GILLETTE reserves the right to change the location of the event from Australia to another country at their discretion.
  2. Weekly prizes
    1. 200 winners will be awarded Gillette merchandise including 10 Gillette Caps, 500 Gillette t-shirts and other premia.
    2. A total of 1600 prizes will be awarded within the contest period.
  3. All prize recipients will be notified with details on how to claim their prize.
  4. All prize recipients must follow given instructions for claiming their prize, failing which they may not receive their prize.
  5. All prize recipients may be required to sign a form of legal release to be determined by GILLETTE in its absolute discretion.
  6. Prizes are not transferable or exchangeable for cash or kind.
  7. Prizes that are not claimed by February 15 2008 shall be forfeited.
  8. GILLETTE may in its absolute discretion substitute any prize with another item it deems to be an appropriate replacement of equal or higher value as determined by GILLETTE.

Publicity

  1. Prize recipients must, at GILLETTE's request and free of any charge, participate in any promotional activity (such as publicity and photography) surrounding the receiving of the prize, and he/she consents to GILLETTE using his/her name and image in any promotional material.

Notification of Contest Winners

  1. Contest winners will be notified by telephone call to his/ her mobile phone for which the contact number shall be the number used by the Participant for submission of the answers in the SMS Challenge, or the registration in the Online Challenge. GILLETTE reserves the right to use any other method or medium GILLETTE deems fit at its sole and absolute discretion for the purpose of announcing the Contest winners.
  2. Upon request, Contest winners will be required to provide their original receipt, contact details, I.C. Number and any other details deemed necessary and relevant by GILLETTE at its discretion within forty eight (48) hours upon receiving the request/notification from GILLETTE.
  3. Proof of mailing, faxing, or delivering (in any manner whatsoever) any details to GILLETTE does not denote proof that GILLETTE has received such details.
  4. GILLETTE reserves the right to forfeit prizes for any Contest winner who does not provide the required verification upon receiving the request/notification from GILLETTE.
  5. GILLETTE reserves the right to appoint a third party to conduct the verification of Contest winners and to fulfill the delivery of prizes and Participants agree that GILLETTE may provide all necessary information of Contest winners to such a third party to facilitate such service.
  6. The Mumbai courts will have the exclusive jurisdiction in case of any disputes.

Terms of participation

  1. GILLETTE accepts no responsibility for late, lost, incomplete, incorrectly submitted, delayed, illegible, corrupted or misdirected submissions made by the Participant whether due to error, omission, alteration, tampering, deletion, theft, destruction, transmission interruption, communications failure, virus attack, unauthorised data hacking, data corruption, software or hardware failure or any other cause whatsoever.
  2. GILLETTE has no control over networks or lines and accepts no responsibility for any problems associated with them, whether due to traffic congestion, technical malfunction or otherwise.
  3. GILLETTE is not liable for any consequences of Participant error including (without limitation) costs incurred.
  4. All submissions shall become the property of GILLETTE, who may use Participants' personal information for future promotional and marketing activities of GILLETTE. For more information about P&G's privacy policy, please read P&G's Privacy Policy here.

Disqualification of Submissions

  1. GILLETTE may, in its sole discretion, disqualify any submissions, and prohibit further participation in this Contest by, any person who tampers with or benefits from any tampering with the submission process or with the operation of this Contest or acts in violation of these terms and conditions, acts in a disruptive manner or acts with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

Problems affecting competition

  1. If for any reason any aspect of this Contest is not capable of running as planned, including by reason of infection by computer virus, network failure, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any cause beyond the control of GILLETTE which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, GILLETTE may in its sole discretion cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this Contest, or invalidate any affected submissions.

Exclusion of Liability

  1. GILLETTE and its related companies and agencies will not be liable for any loss (including, without limitation, indirect, special or consequential loss or loss of profits), expense, damage, personal injury or death which is suffered or sustained (whether or not arising from any person's negligence) in connection with this Contest or the acceptance or use of any prize, except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law (in which case that liability is limited to the minimum allowable by law).
  2. Nothing on the Website, or on any other website of GILLETTE, or relating to this Contest, shall be construed as conferring any license or other rights under the intellectual property or other proprietary rights of GILLETTE or its related companies or any third party, whether by estoppels, implication or otherwise.
  3. GILLETTE and/or its agent shall be licensed to evaluate all submissions for the purposes of this Contest, including verification and as specified in these terms and conditions.
  4. The software and programming code and media relating to the Website and Promotion-related communication is protected by the applicable laws of copyright, trademark, patent, unfair competition and other proprietary laws.

Tax Statement

  1. GILLETTE accepts no responsibility for any tax implications that may arise from the prize winnings.

Miscellaneous

  1. GILLETTE's decisions shall be final in all matters relating to this Contest and no correspondences will be entertained.
  2. GILLETTE reserves the right to change these terms and conditions without prior notice.
  3. A Participant shall be deemed to have notice of any such amendments or interpretations upon publication of the same on the Website and shall be deemed to have accepted such amendments or interpretations by virtue of his/her continued participation in this Contest. Should a Participant not wish to continue to participate in this Contest pursuant to the prevailing terms and conditions as amended or interpreted, he/she may terminate participation in this Contest upon written notice to GILLETTE.
  4. GILLETTE may in its absolute discretion extend any time limit or waive any of these terms and conditions where a Participant might otherwise be disqualified.