Competition Terms and Conditions

Scenic Rail Britain Days Out by Rail Competition Terms and Conditions

1. PROMOTER

The promoter is Community Rail Network (trading as Scenic Rail Britain) with company number 04219081, a UK company with registered office at The Old Water Tower Huddersfield Railway Station, St George’s Square, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 1JF (“the Promoter”).

2. COMPETITION PERIOD

The Competition commences on Monday 21 October 2024 and concludes at 23:59 hrs GMT on Monday 4 November 2024.

3. ENTRANTS 3.1 The Competition is open to residents of Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) who are between the ages of 16 and 99 years of age. Proof of eligibility must be provided upon request.

3.2 To enter the competition for a Family & Friends Railcard, entrants must follow the following steps:

  • Sign up to Scenic Rail Britain’s newsletter during the competition period, see point 2
  • Existing newsletter subscribers will be automatically entered into the competition

To enter the competition for a Two Together Railcard, entrants must follow the following steps:

3.3 Employees of Community Rail Network (including any relatives, family members, agents and/ or household members) and anyone else professionally associated with this promotion are expressly excluded from entering this Competition.

3.4 Multiple email addresses or comments for the same person will not be permitted or accepted.

3.5 Entries on behalf of another person are not permitted.

3.6 Entries must be received before the Competition end date. Late, incomplete, invalid and/or corrupt submissions will not be accepted and will be disqualified. No responsibility will be accepted by the Promoter for lost entries and proof of transmission will not be accepted as proof of receipt.

  1. THE COMPETITION PRIZE (“the Prize”)

4.1 Two winners will be chosen – one from Scenic Rail Britain’s newsletter mailing list and one from Scenic Rail Britain’s Instagram. The newsletter prize consists of x1 1-year Family & Friends Railcard and the Instagram prize consists of x1 1-year Two Together Railcard.

The two winners will be given 1 code each to enter at checkout on Railcard.co.uk to receive their respective Railcard for free.

4.2 To win they must be eligible for either a Family & Friends or Two Together Railcard.

  1. SELECTION OF WINNERS

The winner will be selected at random and will be contacted by Scenic Rail Britain through Facebook or Instagram. Winners will be given 5 days to respond and confirm their prize.

  1. GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

6.1 By entering this competition, entrants are considered to have agreed to these terms and conditions, as well as the privacy policies of Scenic Rail Britain: https://scenicrailbritain.com/privacy-and-cookies/

6.2 The Prize is subject to (i) these Prize terms and conditions and (ii) the Promoter’s standard Community Rail Network terms and conditions that are available at https://communityrail.org.uk/terms-conditions/

6.3 The Promoter reserves the right to amend these terms at any time.

6.4 The Prize winner must submit all the necessary and required proof of ID, in order to receive their Prize. Failure to provide such documentation and/or information shall entitle the Promoter to withdraw the Prize and select another winner. Prize fulfilment will be managed by the Promoter.

6.5 The Promoter reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to:

(i) cancel, suspend and/or modify this Promotion, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, a change in applicable law or any other factor beyond the Promoter’s reasonable control impairs the integrity and/or proper functioning of this competition; and

(ii) reject any submissions/entries, and/or disqualify any entrants, at any time, if it deems that there has been or may be, whether intended or otherwise, any: (a) breach of any of these terms and conditions; and/or (b) infringement or potential infringement of any third party rights and/or intellectual property; and/or (c) defamation or potential defamation of any persons, companies, intellectual property, institutions, cultures or similar; and/or (d) offence or potential offence caused, howsoever arising; and/or (e) breach of any laws, regulations, codes (including moral codes), uses, guidelines and generally accepted etiquette rules required from any internet users, platforms, providers, hosts and/or sites and similar.

6.6 The Prize is as described, is not transferable, cannot be amended once booked has no cash value (and cannot be exchanged for cash) and cannot be re-sold.

6.7 The Promoter reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to change the Prize and/or substitute any or all of the Prize with an alternative prize of equivalent value.

6.8 The winner may be required to take part in publicity resulting from the Competition. The Promoter (and its group companies) shall be entitled to make use, in any way and/or through any medium, of any comments provided and/or made by the winning entrant including, without limitation, those provided by the winning entrant on any social media sites and/or Community Rail Network owned marketing channels (including the website), for the benefit of promoting the Promoter and associated companies, subject to the applicable policies of the relevant social media sites and/or marketing channels.

6.9 In entering the competition, entrants agree not to post any detrimental content on any social media platform and/or in any other mediums.

6.10 Any personal information provided during the entry process (including but not limited to entrant’s name) must be valid and truthful. The Promoter accepts no responsibility or liability for any incorrect, false or fictitious personal information provided to it.

6.11 The Promoter shall use the entrants’ personal data for the purpose of administering and/or promoting this Promotion.

6.12 If entrants wish to receive marketing information from the Promoter, they can opt-in on the Promoter’s website, and can opt-out at any time by writing to the Promoter at the address below, or by clicking the link in any message received.

6.13 By entering this Promotion, each entrant is providing information to the Promoter who undertakes to process such entrant’s personal details in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“Privacy Law”) and (ii) any applicable laws implementing the Privacy Law in the territories where entrants are resident (“Applicable Laws”).

6.14 The determination and decision of the Promoter on all matters shall be final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into (including as to the winner). The Promoter reserves the right in its reasonable discretion: (i) to disqualify any entrant, claimant, competitor or their guest whose conduct is contrary to the spirit of the rules or the intention of the competition and to declare as void any or all of their claims or entries based on such conduct; (ii) to declare as void any claims or entries resulting from any printing, production and/or distribution errors (including but not limited to any error(s) on any website or app of the Promoter and/or, any published materials, regardless of format) or where there has been error(s) in any aspect of the preparation for or conduct of the competition materially affecting the result of the competition and/or the number of claimants and/or the value of claims; (iii) to add to or to waiver any rules on reasonable notice; and/or (iv) to cancel the Competition or any part of it at any stage in the event of circumstances beyond the Promoter’s reasonable control.

6.15 The Promoter reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify this competition and/or Prize, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, change in applicable law(s) or any other factor beyond the Promoter’s reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of this competition, as determined by Promoter in its sole and absolute discretion.

6.16 Insofar as is permitted by law, the Promoter, its employees, agents, subcontractors and/or or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable for (i) any loss, damage, cost, compensation and/or other expense; and/or (ii) for any personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up a Prize except where it is caused by the negligence of the Promoter and/or , its employees and, where it is responsible for them, its agents and/or distributors. Winner’s statutory rights shall not be affected.

6.17 The entrant shall be liable for complying with any fiscal and/or tax requirements (including, without limitation, any benefit-in-kind declarations and/or calculations) and other legal obligations and/or requirements arising out of, or in connection with, the Prize.

6.18 Any complaints regarding this Competition should be addressed to Community Rail Network at news@communityrail.org.uk quoting “Days Out by Rail competition”.

6.19 This competition shall be subject to English law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.