Botas x Škoda “Guess where are we” competition terms & conditions
These rules regulate the terms of the Social media contest “Guess where are we” (hereinafter referred to as the “Promotion” or “Contest”), taking place on the Instagram channel of Škoda Global at www.instagram.com/skodagram/, and are the only document that regulates completely and obligatorily the rules of the Contest.
By entering the Promotion the participant agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
Any information or instructions published by the Promoter about the Promotion on the www.instagram.com/skodagram form part of these terms and conditions.
THE PROMOTER
The organiser of this Contest is Škoda Auto a.s., a joint-stock company with its registered office at tř. Václava Klementa 869, 293 01 Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic, Company ID number 00177041, registered in the Commercial Register managed by the Municipal Court in Prague, Section B, file number 332 (hereinafter referred to as the “Promoter”).
ENTRY ELIGIBILITY
1. The Contest may be entered by any individual who has reached at least the age of 18, and who resides in one of the countries where the Contest is being held. The Contest is being held in the following countries: ALBANIA, ANDORRA, AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, BOSNIA A HERZEGOVINA, BULGARIA, CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, DENMARK, ESTONIA, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, HUNGARY, ICELAND, IRELAND, ITALY, LATVIA, LIECHTENSTEIN, LITHUANIA, LUXEMBOURG, MALTA, MOLDOVA, MONACO, MONTENEGRO, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, NORTH MACEDONIA, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROMANIA, SAN MARINO, SERBIA, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, SPAIN, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, UKRAINE, UNITED KINGDOM.
2. Employees or agents of the Promoter or any of their group companies, or their families or households or anyone professionally connected to this Promotion are not eligible to enter.
HOW TO ENTER & THE DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES
3. The entry is free. To participate in the contest, the participants must post a correct comment under the correct post and follow the Škodagram Instagram account (hereinafter referred to as the “Entry”).
4. The closing date for entries is 7th April 2025 on 23:59. Entries received after this time will not be eligible for entry.
5. Entries will be accepted from 24th March 2025.
6. Entries must not include or in any way contain:
i. obscene or indecent material, including but not limited to nudity, pornography or profanity;
ii. defamatory content, including but not limited to words or symbols that are widely considered offensive to individuals of a certain race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or socioeconomic group;
iii. threats to any person, place, business, group or world peace.
7. Entries must not invade privacy or other rights of any person, firm or entity, and must not in any other way violate applicable laws and regulations or network standards and have to be in compliance with Instagram Terms of Use.
8. All elements appearing in a participant’s entry must be entirely original, created by the participant. Entries must not contain or reference any third party copyrighted works or trademarks and must not infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party.
9. Participants may only enter the Promotion once. Duplicate entries will be removed from the Promotion.
10. This Promotion is only available to consumers (i.e. not to any business or reseller). Bulk entries made from trade, consumer groups or third parties will not be accepted. If it becomes apparent that a participant is using a computer(s) to circumvent this condition by, for example, the use of ‘script’, ‘brute force’ or any other automated means, that person’s entries will be disqualified and any prize award will be void.
11. No responsibility is accepted by the Promoter for lost, delayed or damaged data which occurs during any communication or transmission of entries.
THE PRIZE
12. The winners (6 in total) will be randomly selected based on the correct answer in the comments. Answering the contest questions “Guess where we are”. The correct answer is “Milan, Italy” and other similar variants of this city’s name such as Milano, Milán etc.
13. The main prize is: 1 pair of Botas x Škoda sneakers for the winner. (6 pairs of sneakers in total = 6 winners in total). After announcing the winners, winners will be contacted for detailed info about shoe size. After the shoe production with relevant size, the shoe will be delivered to the winner.
14. The winner will be contacted on 8th April by Instagram direct messages. The winner will have 5 days from the date the notification was sent to claim their prize.
15. In the event that a winner is unreachable, ineligible, or fails to claim the prize in the time required the winner shall forfeit their prize and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the prize to the next randomly drawn correct contest entry comment. (i.e. Comments with the correct answer).
16. After the random draw, each selected winner will be verified to ensure they follow the Instagram account @skodagram. If a drawn winner is not a follower, another winner will be randomly drawn until all 6 winners meet this requirement.
17. The prize is not transferable to another individual. Any transfer of the prize by the winner will result in immediate disqualification. The prize must be returned to the Promoter and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the prize to another participant.
18. The Promoter reserves the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
19. The Winner will be offered one pair of Botas x Škoda sneakers according to their shoe size preferences. The delivery of the prizes will be provided through the promotion agency: Etnetera Motion s.r.o., Jankovcova 1037, 170 00 Praha 7 – Holešovice.
20. Sneakers delivery details will be communicated to winners in advance.
21. The participation in the event is subject to the Event Condition, as will be issued by the Promoter.
22. The Promoter gives no guarantee in relation to this prize, and cannot be held liable for any injury, loss or damage of any kind arising from a winner’s (and where applicable, guest’s) use of the prize.
ACQUISITION AND USE OF DATA
23. If a participant becomes a winner, he/she grants consent to the Organizer to obtain and use the participant’s name and related information and/or expressions of a personal nature obtained by the Organizer in connection with the hosting of the Challenge on various Organizer’s digital platforms.
24. The participant grants the Organizer this consent free of charge without material, time, quantity, or territorial limitations and can revoke it at any time. This consent shall also apply to third parties to whom the Organizer may provide these data.
DISQUALIFICATION
25. The Promoter reserves the right, at its absolute discretion, to disqualify participants who it considers to have not complied with any of these terms and conditions; or any participant who it reasonably believes has interfered with the fair running of this Promotion.
26. The Promoter shall have the right, where necessary, to undertake all such action as is reasonable to protect itself against fraudulent or invalid claims and entries including, without limitation, to require further verification as to the identity, age and other relevant details of a participant and before accepting a claim or entry as being valid. A participant may be excluded from the Contest if the Promoter discovers or has reasonable suspicion that the participant or other persons aiding the participant have engaged in fraud to receive prizes or engaged in unfair conduct, ie. Using the bots of any kind etc.
PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION
27. The Promoter, as a personal data controllers according to General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), hereby provides you with information about the processing of personal data and your rights related to the processing. The processing takes place within the framework of the following activity: Organisation of competitions and assurance of fair voting in a voting competition. Legal basis of the processing: We are entitled to process your personal data on the basis of the conclusion of a contract (these Contest Rules). Categories of the personal data we process: Identification data, Contact information, Information on mutual communication and interaction. Processing period: We process your personal data one year after termination of the Competition. Source of personal data: We receive the personal data directly from you. Transfer of personal data to third countries or multinational companies: As part of this processing, your personal data will not be transferred to third countries or multinational companies. Automated decision-making based on personal data: During this personal data processing, automated decision-making based on the personal data does not occur. As part of the processing of personal data, you have the following rights: Access to the processed personal data, Correction of inaccurate or incorrect data or completion of incomplete data, Deletion of personal data in the event of termination of purpose or unauthorised processing, Restriction or blocking of personal data processing, Listing of personal data in a structured and machine-readable format for yourself or for another administrator, Not to be subject to automated decision-making. To exercise your rights, use the following communication channels: Electronically at: https://www.skoda-auto.com/data-privacy; by mail: Škoda Auto a.s., Data Protection Office, tř. Václava Klementa 869, Mladá Boleslav II, CZ 293 01 Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic (in English or Czech). In connection with the exercise of your rights, Škoda Auto may charge a reasonable fee taking into account the administrative costs for the processing when requests from a data subject are apparently unfounded or excessive. If you have any questions regarding personal data protection, you can contact Škoda Auto’s Data Protection Officer: dpo@skoda-auto.cz. If you do not agree with the way we process your personal data, you can file a complaint with Škoda Auto’s Data Protection Officer or file a complaint with the supervisory authority to protect your rights. Office for Personal Data Protection, Pplk. Sochora 27, 170 00 Praha 7, +420 234 665 111, https://www.uoou.cz/en.
28. The Promoter reserves the right to publish or make available the surnames and county and country of residence of all winners and where applicable, their winning entries, for the purpose of indicating that a valid award took place for this Promotion. If you object to your information being published of made available for this purpose, please contact the Promoter using the contact details in the Promoter’s privacy policy (see above). In such circumstances the Promoter shall still be entitled to provide the information and winning entry to the Advertising Standards Authority (“ASA”) if required.
29. By entering this Promotion, you consent to the processing of your personal data in accordance with these terms and conditions.
MISCELLANEOUS
30. All the Promoter’s decisions relating to this Promotion are final and binding. No correspondence about the Promotion will be entered into.
31. All participants take part in the Promotion at their own risk and to the fullest extent possible in law the Promoter accepts no liability with regard to entries and the prize(s) whatsoever. The Promoter will have no liability in relation to the conduct of the winner, nor in connection with any circumstances outside its control with respect to the entries and the prize(s). The winner shall be subject to the policies and terms and conditions of any and all third parties involved in the creation and fulfilment of the Prize.
32. The Promoter reserves the rights to vary these terms and conditions or cancel the Promotion at any stage in the event of circumstances arising beyond its control.
33. Promoter acknowledges that this Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram/Meta and releases Instagram/Meta of any and all liability in relation to this Promotion. Any information provided by a participant under this Promotion is provided to the Promoter and not to Instagram/Meta. In accepting these terms and conditions participants release Instagram/Meta from liability to the fullest extent possible in law.
34. By entering the Promotion, participants will be deemed to be bound by and have accepted these terms and conditions. Failure to comply with these terms and conditions may result in disqualification from the Promotion and forfeiture of the prize(s)
JURISDICTION/APPLICABLE LAW
35. This Promotion will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Czech republic, except to the extent excluded by the applicable legislation of the participants’ countries. By participating the participants agree that any and all disputes regarding this Promotion will be subject to the jurisdiction of the Czech courts. This Contest is not in any way operated, sponsored by, or associated with social networks providers. The information provided during the event will not be provided to social networks providers. All questions, comments, or complaints regarding the application must be directed to the co-organizers, not social networks providers.
24th February, 2025