You may remember our hot pink Birchbox taxis from last year’s London Fashion Week. This season, they’re back and they’ve had a mini makeover! Have you spotted any on the streets yet? If you do, be sure to hail it — there’s a treat inside for you from tomorrow. Don’t live in London? You can still get in on the fun.
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If you live in London, keep an eye out for Birchbox taxis. From February 20th-22nd, if you hail one, not only will you arrive at your destination in inimitable style but you’ll also get a free Birchbox filled with fun lifestyle and beauty goodies!
Not in London? Don’t worry! You can still enter to win a free annual Birchbox subscription plus 500 Birchbox Points (worth £50) by regramming or retweeting a photo of the taxi with the tag #BirchboxTaxi!
Good luck and happy spotting!
– Grace
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Birchbox #BirchboxTaxi Competition Official Rules
1. WHO MAY SUBMIT A PHOTO ENTRY: The ‘#BirchboxTaxi Competition’ (‘Competition’) is open to legal residents of the United Kingdom. Entrants under the age of 18 must have permission from their parents or legal guardians to participate. Employees of Promoter and their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, and fulfillment agencies, their immediate family members and persons living in their same household, are not eligible to participate in the competition. Participation in the competition constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules & Regulations (“Official Rules”). This competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram or Twitter. You understand that you are providing your information to the Sponsor and not to Instagram or Twitter. The information you provide will be used for the purposes of the competition administration. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
2. HOW TO SUBMIT A PHOTO ENTRY: During the Photo Entry Period (as defined below), share a photo of the Birchbox Taxi on Instagram or Twitter tagging #BirchboxTaxi. Entries must be submitted by 11:59pm GMT on February 23, 2014 to be considered. All entries must adhere to these Participation Terms and the guidelines set forth in the Entry Requirements section below to be eligible. Entries will be accepted between 8:00am GMT February 19, 2014 and 11:59pm GMT on February 22, 2014 (“Entry Period”). Only entries received during the Entry Period and which are otherwise fully compliant with these Participation Terms are “Valid Photo Entries.” Unlimited Photo Entries per person. In the event of a dispute involving Photo Entries submitted by multiple individuals using the same email account or address, the Photo Entry will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized subscriber of the email account used to enter the competition at the time of Photo Entry. The authorized account holder is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by the relevant Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.
3. PHOTO ENTRY CONTENT REQUIREMENTS: Photo Entry may not contain, as determined by the Sponsor, in its discretion, any content that: • is sexually explicit or suggestive; violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group; profane or pornographic; contains nudity; • promotes illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing); promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; promotes any particular political agenda or message; • must not feature, advocate, suggest, condone or treat in a humorous manner the excessive, underage or irresponsible consumption of beverage alcohol products; • is obscene or offensive; endorses any form of hate or hate group; • appears to duplicate any other Photo Entries that were submitted prior to this Photo Entry; • defames, misrepresents or contains disparaging remarks about other people, companies or products; • contains trademarks, logos, or trade dress (such as distinctive packaging or building exteriors/interiors) owned by others; • contains any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, e-mail addresses or street addresses; contains copyrighted materials owned by others (including photographs, sculptures, paintings, and other works of art or images published on or in websites, television, movies or other media); • contains materials embodying the names, likenesses, or other indicia identifying any person, including, without limitation, celebrities and/or other public or private figures, living or dead; • contains look-alikes of celebrities or other public or private figures, living or dead; • communicates messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or good will to which Sponsor wishes to associate; and/or • violates any federal, state or local laws, including without limitation, copyright laws. Photo Entry must be in English and the original work of the applicant, may not have been previously published, and may not have won previous awards. By submitting a Photo Entry, applicant warrants and represents that he/she consents to the Photo Entry/submission and use of the Photo Entry in this competition and to its use as otherwise set forth herein.
4. PRIZES: One (1) randomly selected winner will receive an annual Birchbox UK subscription and 500 Birchbox points (worth £50) to spend in the Birchbox UK e-shop. Total competition ARV is £175.40. Sponsor is not responsible for lost or mutilated prizes and none will be replaced. Prizes are nontransferable and must be accepted as awarded. No substitution, assignment or transfer of any prize is permitted, except by Sponsor, who has the right to substitute a prize with another of comparable or greater value. Prizes will be sent to all confirmed winners within three weeks after the end of the Promotion Period. Total aggregate value of all prizes to be awarded: £175.40.
5. SELECTION: One (1) winner will randomly be selected via Twitter DM or Instagram comment. Winner must be following Birchbox on Twitter and/or Instagram and have a public account to be eligible for entry. The odds of winning the competition prize shall depend on the total number of eligible entries received. The winner is solely responsible for any and all local or national taxes that apply to prizes. No cash or other substitution of prizes is permitted, except at the sole option of Promoter for a prize of equal or greater value. A prize won by minors will be awarded to the parents or legal guardians, who must sign all required affidavits and releases. Promoter will not replace any lost or stolen prizes. Sponsor is not responsible for any delay or failure to receive notification for any reason, including inactive email account(s), technical difficulties associated therewith, or Winner’s failure to adequately monitor any email account. Winner must then respond to Sponsor within fourteen (14) days. Should Winner fail to respond to Sponsor, Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify Winner. Sponsor is not required to give away prizes in the event that a potential Winner is disqualified or otherwise does not claim prize. Except where prohibited, participation in the promotion constitutes participant’s consent to Sponsor’s use of participant’s name, likeness, voice, opinions, biographical information, and residence for promotional purposes in any media without further payment or consideration. Winners will be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility, liability release and a publicity release that, among other things, will further allow Sponsor to use a winner’s name, likeness, voice, opinions, tweets, biographical information, and residence for publicity and promotional purposes without further compensation where permitted by law.
6. NOTIFICATION OF WINNER: The winner(s) will be notified at the end of the competition and may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release within seven (7) business days of notification. If a selected Winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize and/or where applicable an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release is not timely received, is incomplete or modified, prize may be forfeited and an alternate Winner will be selected from remaining valid, eligible entries timely submitted. In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail account specified in the entry. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. No automatically generated entries will be accepted.
7. PRIVACY POLICY: Any personal information supplied by you to Birchbox UK will be subject to Birchbox UK’s Privacy Policy [http://birchbox.co.uk/privacy]. Birchbox UK will not sell, rent, transfer or otherwise disclose your personal data.
8. GENERAL: By participating, all participants warrant and represent that they have complied in full with these Participation Terms, including but not limited to all eligibility requirements, and further agree to be bound by these Participation Terms and the decisions of Sponsor and/or the judging organization or entity, which are final and binding in all respects. All Photo Entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged. Photocopies, facsimiles, incomplete or mechanically reproduced Photo Entries are not eligible. Photo Entry materials that have been tampered with or altered, or mass Photo Entries or Photo Entries generated automatically or robotically, or by a script, macro or use of any automated device(s) are void. Neither Sponsor nor its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions and/or advertising or promotion agencies are responsible for: (i) lost, late, misdirected, or damaged Photo Entries; (ii) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of Photo Entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or failure to receive Photo Entry information by Sponsor; (iii) hardware or software errors; faulty computer, telephone, cable, satellite, network, electronic, wireless or Internet connectivity or other online communication problems; errors or limitations of any Internet service providers, servers, hosts or providers; garbled, jumbled or faulty data transmissions; failure of any e-mail transmissions to be sent or received; lost, late, delayed or intercepted e-mail transmissions; inaccessibility of the website in whole or in part for any reason; traffic congestion on the Internet or the website; unauthorized human or non-human intervention of the operation of the competition, including without limitation, unauthorized tampering, hacking, theft, virus, bugs, worms; or destruction of any aspect of the competition, or loss, miscount, misdirection, inaccessibility or unavailability of an email account used in connection with the competition; or (iv) any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from entering or otherwise participating in the competition. Sponsor reserves the right to withdraw and terminate, or modify, the online method of Photo Entry if it becomes technically corrupted, if a computer virus or system malfunction impairs its ability to conduct the competition, or if the online Photo Entry method otherwise becomes impossible, impractical, infeasible for any other reason. If for any reason the competition is not capable of running as planned, including without limitation, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the competition, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion to cancel, modify or terminate the competition.
9. WARRANTY: By entering, each Applicant warrants and represents (i) that the participant owns all rights to the Photo Entry/submission he/she is entering in this competition, including, without limitation, the video or digital recording, and the performance contained in each Photo Entry/submission, with the exception of any Sponsor brand assets provided or made available by the Sponsor for use by participants in connection with this competition; (ii) that the participant is the individual pictured and/or heard in the Photo Entry/submission, or, alternatively, that the participant has obtained permission from each and every person appearing in the Photo Entry/submission, granting full exhibition rights to the Sponsor as described in these Participation Terms, and can make written copies of such permissions available to the Sponsor upon request; (iii) and that his/her Photo Entry/submission: (a) is original to the participant and has been legally obtained and created, (b) does not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights or any other legal or moral rights of any third party, or violate applicable laws, rules regulations, or network standards; and (c) has not been entered in or won any previous competitions or awards.
10. ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS: If Applicant’s Photo Entry/submission is selected, participant will be required to execute such documents as may be required by Sponsor to irrevocably assign and transfer to Sponsor any and all rights, title and interest in the Photo Entry/submission, including, without limitation, all copyrights, and forever waive all moral rights in the Photo Entry/submission, any rights of privacy, intellectual property rights, and any other legal or moral rights that might preclude the Sponsor’s use, alteration or modification of the Photo Entry/submission or require the participant’s permission to use it for any purpose, and agrees to never sue or assert any claim against the Sponsor or any entity acting pursuant to Sponsor’s direction for any use, alteration of such Photo Entry/submission. By participating in the competition and/or accepting an award, each participant agrees to release, defend, indemnify and hold harmless Sponsor and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising agencies, promotion agencies, franchises, fulfillment companies, dealers, retailers, present and former officers, directors, employees, directors, and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, expenses, losses and liabilities of any nature whatsoever caused or contributed to by entering or participating in the competition, the acceptance, use or misuse of any award, participation in any award-related activities, including any claims of third parties claiming infringement of trademark, copyright, or other intellectual property rights, right of publicity, right of privacy or defamation, and further agrees to release and indemnify and hold harmless Sponsor from any and all claims that any commercial, advertising, presentation, web content or any other material subsequently produced, presented, and/or prepared by or on behalf of Sponsor infringes on the rights of participant’s work as contained in any submitted Photo Entry. By participating in the competition, participant irrevocably grants to Sponsor and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, legal representatives, assigns, agents and licensees, the unconditional and perpetual right and permission to copyright (as appropriate), reproduce, encode, store, copy, transmit, publish, post, broadcast, display, publicly perform, adapt, exhibit and/or otherwise use or reuse, without limitation, the participant’s name, address, image, voice, likeness, statements, biographical material and Photo Entry/submission, including, but not limited to any video, still image, likeness, photos, names, special effects or digital or other recording, performances or other material contained in such Photo Entry, as submitted or as edited, altered or modified in any way by the Sponsor or its designee(s) in the Sponsor’s sole discretion), as well as any additional photographic images, video images, portraits, interviews or other materials relating to the participant and arising from his/her participation in this competition in any media throughout the world for any purpose, without limitation and without additional review, compensation, or approval from the participant or any other party. By submitting a Photo Entry, Applicant recognizes and acknowledges that the intellectual property, including, but not limited to: trademarks, service marks, domain names, names, titles, symbols, logos, designs, artwork, phrases, trade names and trade dress, and any combination thereof associated with Sponsor and/or any of its affiliates, whether registered, pending registration, or subsisting at common law and the goodwill associated therewith are the sole and exclusive property of Sponsor and/or its affiliates. No rights are granted hereunder to Applicant for any use other than that specified in the Photo Entry process. Applicant agrees that all ownership rights in the intellectual property of the Sponsor and/or its affiliates will remain with such parties and applicant will not claim any right, title, or interest in and to, or attack the title or any rights of such intellectual property, except for the right to use such intellectual property in accordance with the Photo Entry process.
11. Additional Conditions: Except where prohibited, by accepting any prize, Winner consents to the use of his/her name, photo and/or likeness, biographical information, winning entry and statements attributed to winner (if true) for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation. All entries become property of Promoter and none will be acknowledged or returned. Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery of prizes.
12. Winner’s List, Official Rules: For information on the winner or a copy of these Official Rules, send your request and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the #BirchboxTaxi, Birchbox UK 6 Heddon Street London W1B 4BT, or (for Winner’s list only) send an email message to support@Birchbox.co.uk with “Winner’s list” as the email subject and contest name specified in the body of the e-mail.
13. Promoter is Beautycom UK LTD, doing business as Birchbox UK with offices located at Birchbox UK 6 Heddon Street London W1B 4BT UK
14. Governing Law: These Rules and the competition are governed by English law. Any dispute arising from, or related to, them shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
