Website & Membership Terms + Conditions
These terms and conditions sets forth the terms and conditions under which COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS (ABN 88 662 992 985) of Melbourne, VIC 3000 (COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS, we, or us) provides you access to giveaways, and governs your use of our website located at www.competitiongiveaways.com.au (the Site), and the COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Members platform made available through the Site (the Software) and the information, content, features and services provided through the Site (together with the Software, collectively, the Service).
YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND/OR THE SERVICE, OR THE PURCHASE OF ONE OF OUR MEMBERSHIPS, SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND CONSTITUTES YOUR BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THIS THEM, INCLUDING ANY MODIFICATIONS THAT COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS MAKES FROM TIME TO TIME. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you may not use the Site or the Service.
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS may amend these terms and conditions at any time by posting the amended Terms and conditions on the Site, and you agree that you will be bound by any changes to these terms and conditions. COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS may make changes to the Site and/or the Service at any time. You understand that COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS may discontinue or restrict your use of the Site and/or the Service for any reason or no reason with or without notice.
1.Privacy Policy
By clicking purchasing a membership and using our platform or entering one of our giveaways, you represent that you have read and consent to our Privacy Policy in addition to these terms and conditions. COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS may revise the Privacy Policy at any time, and the new versions will be posted on the Site. If at any point you do not agree to any portion of the Privacy Policy, you must immediately stop using the Site and/or the Service.
1.The Services.
The COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Site is a membership rewards platform that offers its members discounts at leading brands across Australia. Members get access to a member’s dashboard where they can utilise the discounts on offer and manage all their payments depending on what package they have and update details as needed.COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS reserves the right to add, change, modify, suspend or discontinue any portion of the Service, in its sole discretion, at any time. Your use of the Site and/or the Service, including the availability of new services through the Site, shall be subject to these terms and conditions. In addition, COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS may impose limits on any portion of the Service or restrict your access to portions of or the entire Site in its sole discretion without notice or liability.
2.Support
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS supports all registered and official Australian Business Partners of the COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS. To become a registered partner please go to competitiongiveaways.com.au
3.Refunds, returns, and exchanges
Your purchase of a membership to our rewards platform supports the COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS brand, a selected charity and enters you to win amazing giveaways. Memberships purchased during a promotion period/giveaway are non-refundable.
Our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under Australian Consumer Law. For major failures, you are entitled to
- cancel your service contract with us; anda refund for the unused
- portion or compensation for its reduced value.
- You are also entitled to choose a refund or replacement for major failures with goods.
If a failure with the goods or service does not amount to a major failure, you are entitled to have the failure rectified in a reasonable time. If this is not done, you are entitled to a refund for the goods and to cancel the contract for the service. Refunds or rectifications cannot be given for reasons such as change of mind or failure to not understand properly.
To use certain portions of the Site and Service, you will be directed to register on the Site and create a user profile or account (Account). Eligibility is limited to persons equal to or over the age of 18.
As part of the registration process, you may be asked to submit your name, address, email address and/or similar information and to select a password. You agree that all information you provide to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS for purposes of creating an account (Registration Information) will be true, accurate, current, and complete and your failure to provide such information shall constitute a breach of these terms and conditions and may result in the immediate termination of your Account. You shall (i) promptly update your Registration Information to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete; and (ii) maintain the confidentiality of your password.
In creating an Account, you shall not (a) select or use the email address or username of another person with the intent to impersonate that person, (b) use a name subject to the rights of any other person without authorization, (c) use an email address or username that is profane, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate or (d) allow any other party to use your Account and/or password except as set forth herein.
You may not share or transfer any Account. You may not disclose your password to anyone. You agree to immediately notify COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS by sending an email to support@competitiongiveaways.com.au
of any known or suspected unauthorized use(s) of your Account or any known or suspected breach of security, including loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure of your password. You understand and agree that you shall be liable for all activities that occur under any Account created for your use, even if such activities were not committed by you. COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS is not responsible for any loss or damage arising from your failure to maintain the confidentiality of your password.
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS employees, directors, managers and their respective immediate family members (i.e., parents, spouses, domestic partners, siblings and children) or any other person residing in the same household as an COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS, employee, director or manager may not win the offered giveaways.
4. Termination of Account
You understand and agree that you have no ownership rights in your Account and COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS may stop offering the Service at any time. Further, COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS may cancel your Account, delete all of your Registration Information and any other information you have provided through the Site (collectively, User Content) associated with your Account at any time, without notice, for any reason or no reason including, without limitation, your violation of these terms and conditions. COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS will not be liable for any damages or loss resulting from the removal of any User Content from the Site and/or the Service. You may cancel your Account at any time by contacting support@competitiongiveaways.com.au and cancellation will take effect once administration has processed. Once that email is sent a response will come back from our email for you to read and if you want to confirm the cancellation a reply will have to be sent back stating CANCEL. COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS reserves the right to temporarily or permanently restrict or block access to the Site and/or the Service to any users who have had their Accounts cancelled.
5. One-Off Memberships
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS offers multiple tiers of one-off memberships that grant customers timed access to the member’s reward platform. These memberships are offered in bronze, silver, gold or platinum packages. The designated timed access to the platform for each member is as follows:
- Entry – 2 Days Access to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Database
- Bronze – 7 Days Access to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Database
- Silver – 28 Days Access to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Database
- Gold – 186 Days Access to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Database
- Platinum – 365 days Access to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Database
6. Loyalty Memberships
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS offers an ongoing subscription to the platform that is direct debited monthly until cancelled. This membership provides customers with unlimited time on the platform while their loyalty membership is active. Upgrading/Downgrading of memberships comes into effect on the next billing cycle.
There are 3 subscription-based membership tiers for the COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Platform.
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Entry – $19.99 p.m
- Access to Mates Rates discounts (over 1000 stores)
- 1 bonus entry per month
- 15% off Official COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Merchandise and Products.
- Invites to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Events across Australia
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Early Bird Promotion Emails
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Premium – $49.99 pm
- Access to Mates Rates discounts (over 1000 stores)
- 4 bonus entries per month
- 20% off Official COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Merchandise and products
- Invites to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Events across Australia
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Early Bird Promotion Emails
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Elite – $99.99 pm
- Access to Mates Rates discounts (over 1000 stores)
10 bonus entries per month. - 25% off Official COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Merchandise and products.
- Priority VIP Invites to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Events across Australia
- COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Early Bird Promotion Emails
Loyalty members accumulate entry(s) for every month that they are debited. Entries are generated based on the current membership status of the customer. These entries accumulate and are valid for every promotion that COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS holds including trade promotions. For details on the promotion please refer to the T&C associated on the relevant promotion.
Loyalty members can upgrade/downgrade as often as they like, each upgrade/downgrade comes into effect on the next billing month. While upgrading/downgrading entries are generated based on two factors, the months the subscription is active and the highest tier that the loyalty member is currently on when the entries are generated for the next promotion. Please refer to the FAQ in the members portal for an example.
Entries are sent via email, if you do not receive them please check your member dashboard prior to the promotion as entries are removed after each giveaway. If you have not received your entries please contact support@competitiongiveaways.com.au
6. Bonuses
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS may offer sign-up bonuses or special offers such as free hat during this month or free trial periods. These are only valid for that particular promotion and can not be claimed after that promotion is closed. Free trial periods are stated as free for that month, once that month is completed your card on file with be debited that membership tier amount and your subscription will continue.
Loyalty Members can obtain/claim bonus entries when they achieve milestones every 6 months. To claim they must send an email to support@competitiongiveaways.com.au with proof of their months a member.
-6 months = 5 bonus entries into 1 giveaway of their choice.
-12 months = 10 bonus entries into 1 giveaway of their choice.
-18 months = 10 bonus entries into 1 giveaway of their choice.
-24 months = 10 bonus entries into 1 giveaway of their choice.
-30 months = 10 bonus entries into 1 giveaway of their choice.
7. Termination of Loyalty Membership
Upon cancelling your loyalty membership which must be done via email to support@competitiongiveaways.com.au you will remove all future payments and remove the bonus accumulated entries from all future promotional giveaways.
Terminating your loyalty membership does not remove you from our mailing or text lists, these must be done via the associated links as they are sent via third parties
Pre 17/01/22 (Invoice failure prior to date): If failure to pay the account your account will be cancelled. There are 4 automatic attempts made to bill your account. The system attempts every 3 days from the initial payment failure. On the 3rd attempt, an email is sent out with a 48-hour notice and reminder. If the account is not paid within that period the account is automatically cancelled and your loyalty streak is lost.
As of 18/01/22 (invoice failure post this date) : If failure to pay the account your account will be cancelled. There are 4 automatic attempts made to bill your account. The system attempts every 5 days (20 days grace period) from the initial payment failure. On the 4th and final attempt, if there are insufficient funds your subscription will be terminated and your loyalty streak lost.
Once a subscription is cancelled Stripe does not allow for the reactivation of that subscription, so all accumulated history for that subscription is lost. If you want to continue your subscription please follow the instructions in the notification emails provided or login to the member’s dashboard and update your banking details.
If an account is cancelled, the entry history can be synced up if it a new subscription is created within 30 days of the cancellation. The account will only sync up the recent most active subscription. If there are multiple cancellations, the previous entry history will not be included in the accumulation of entries moving forward as the cancellation date is beyond 30 days from the current active subscription. Please note that the system only allows 4 attempts which is inclusive of the user manually attempting to charge the account.
8. Use of Site and Service.
You agree that you will not, in connection with your use of the Site, or Service, violate any applicable law or regulation. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to (i) make available through the Site any material or information that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other right of any party (including rights of privacy or publicity); (ii) institute, assist, or become involved in any type of attack including, without limitation, denial of service attacks, upon the Site and/or the Service or otherwise attempt to disrupt the Site and/or the Service or any other person’s use of the Site and/or the Service; or (iii) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, Service, Accounts registered to other users, or the computer systems or networks connected to the Site and/or the Service.
Furthermore, you may not use the Site to develop, generate, transmit or store information that: (a) is defamatory, harmful, abusive, obscene or hateful; (b) in any way obstructs or otherwise interferes with the normal performance of another person’s use of the Site and/or the Service, (c) performs any unsolicited commercial communication not permitted by applicable law; (d) constitutes harassment or a violation of privacy or threatens other people or groups of people; (e) is harmful to children in any manner; (f) violates any applicable law, regulation or ordinance; (g) makes any false, misleading or deceptive statement or representation regarding COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS and/or the Site or Service or (h) constitutes phishing, pharming or impersonates any other person, or steals or assumes any person’s identity (whether a real identity or online nickname or alias).
You agree that you will not (i) obtain or attempt to obtain any information from the Site including, without limitation, email information of other Account holders or other Software data; (ii) intercept, examine or otherwise observe any proprietary communications protocol used by the Site or Software, whether through the use of a network analyzer, packet sniffer or other device; (iii) use any type of bot, spider, virus, clock, timer, counter, worm, software lock, drop dead device, Trojan-horse routing, trap door, time bomb or any other codes, instructions or third-party software that is designed to provide a means of surreptitious or unauthorized access to, or distort, delete, damage or disassemble, the Site or Software.
All comments, feedback, suggestions, ideas, and other submissions that you disclose, submit or offer to us in connection with your use of the Site or Service, such as your suggestions regarding improvements that we make to the Site or Service (collectively, Comments) will become our exclusive property. Such disclosure, submission or offer of any Comments shall constitute an assignment to us of all worldwide right, title and interest in all patent, copyright, trademark, and all other intellectual property and other rights whatsoever in and to the Comments and a waiver of any claim based on moral rights, unfair competition, breach of implied contract, breach of confidentiality, and any other legal theory relating to submissions. Thus, we will own exclusively all such right, title and interest and shall not be limited in any way in the use, commercial or otherwise, of any Comments. You should not submit any Comments to us if you do not wish to assign such rights to us. We are and will be under no obligation: (i) to maintain any Comments in confidence; (ii) to pay to you or any third party any compensation for any Comments; or (iii) to respond to any Comments. You are and shall remain solely responsible for the content of any Comments you make. By posting Comments or any other content, you warrant and represent that you own the rights to such or are otherwise authorized to post, distribute, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute such Comments and content and grant us the right to do the same. You hereby irrevocably waive any claims based on moral rights and similar theories, if any.’
Your User Content, and the contents of all of your Comments and other online communications (including without limitation chat text, voice communications, IP addresses and your personal information) may be accessed and monitored as necessary to provide the Service and may be disclosed: (i) when we have a good faith belief that we are required to disclose the information in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); (ii) to satisfy any applicable laws or regulations (iii) where we believe that the Site or Service is being used in the commission of a crime, including to report such criminal activity or to exchange information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit card theft reduction; (iv) when we have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the health and/or safety of you, another person or the public generally; and (v) in order to protect the rights or property of COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS, including to enforce these terms and conditions. By entering into these terms and conditions, you hereby provide your irrevocable consent to such monitoring, access and disclosure.
When accessing the Site you agree to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the Site is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content in violation of any third party’s copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights.
You shall be solely responsible for any violations of any relevant laws and for any infringements of third-party rights caused by any content you provide or transmit, or that is provided or transmitted using your account. The burden of proving that any content does not violate any laws or third-party rights rests solely with you.
The Site and the Service are operated by COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS in Australia. Those who choose to access the Site, and/or the Service from locations outside of Australia can do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.
9. Third-Party Products, Services + Discounts from Our Partners.
Third party services, content, information, and products may be made available by COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS on or through the Site. Third Party Products, services and discounts are provided solely for the benefit of our paid members and COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS makes no representations or warranties regarding any Third-Party Products, services and discounts and takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Third-Party Products, services or discounts. Third Party Products, services and discounts are subject to the applicable terms and policies of the third parties that offer them.
10. Hyperlinks.
Links from the Site. The Site may contain links to websites operated by other parties. COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS provides these links to other websites as a convenience and use of these sites is at your own risk. The linked sites are not under the control of COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS, and COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS is not responsible for the content available on the other sites. Such links do not imply COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS endorsement of information or material on any other site and COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS disclaims all liability with regard to your access to and use of such linked websites.
Links to the Site. You may not place a link to the Site on another website without our prior written consent and, without limiting the foregoing, you must adhere to COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS inking policy as follows: (i) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS and/or its licensors’ names and trademarks, (ii) the appearance, position and other attributes of the link may not create the false appearance that your organization or entity is sponsored by, affiliated with, or associated with COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS (iii) when selected by a user, the link must display the Site on full-screen and not within a frame on the linking site, and (iv) COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS reserves the right to revoke its consent to the link at any time and in its sole discretion.
11. COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Infringement.
The interfaces, content, arrangement and layout of the Site including, but not limited to, the COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS trademark and logo, designs, text, artwork, graphics, images, buttons, user interfaces, information and other content, and any compilation of the foregoing (COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Intellectual Property) are the property of COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS, except where otherwise noted, and are protected from copying, imitation, communication, or simulation under Australian. and international laws and may not be reproduced, modified, communicated, displayed, distributed, or transmitted without the prior written permission of COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS.
You understand and acknowledge that, by visiting the Site, you do not acquire or obtain by implication or otherwise, any license or right to use or make additional copies of any materials or information displayed on the Site. You agree not to display or use any COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS Intellectual Property or third party content located on the Site in any manner not expressly permitted under these terms and conditions.
12. Representation and Warranties of Members
The Participant represents and warrants that it shall not contact the any affiliate, employee, sponsor or partner of COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS in order to manipulate the Contest results.
13. Giveaway Disclaimers
By becoming a member or Customer of COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS the Participant agrees to enter the Contest and Agrees that:
Any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or in connection with the Contest and the promotional gifts shall be resolved individually with any form of class action;
Any claims judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out of pocket costs incurred in entering the Contest, but under no circumstances will COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS be responsible for any legal fees;
Participants hereby waive all rights to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damage and any rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased and any other damages, other than damages for actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred in entering the contest.
In no event will COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS, their licensees, parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and related companies, their advertising or promotional agencies or their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents, be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising from access to, or use of, this website, electronic or computer malfunctions, or entrant participation in this contest, even COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS was advised of the possibility of such damages.
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS reserves the right to disqualify any Participant found to be tampering with or otherwise abusing any aspect of this Contest as solely determined by COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS.
In the event the Contest is compromised by non-authorised human intervention, tampering or other causes beyond the reasonable control of COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS, that corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper operation of the Contest, COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS reserves the right to suspend, modify or terminate the Contest.
Any attempt by a Participant to deliberately damage the website o undermine the legitimate operation of this contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS reserves the right to seek damages from any such Participant to the fullest extent permitted by Law.
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS assumes no responsibility for any problems or technical malfunction of computer systems, servers, software, internet service provider, or e-mail systems, failure of any entry to be received on account of technical problems or incomplete, late, lost, damaged, illegible or misdirected electronic communications, or any combination thereof.
The Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law. the administration, security, fairness or proper operation of the Contest, COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS reserves the right to suspend, modify or terminate the Contest.
Any attempt by a Participant to deliberately damage the website o undermine the legitimate operation of this contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS reserves the right to seek damages from any such Participant to the fullest extent permitted by Law.
COMPETITION GIVEAWAYS assumes no responsibility for any problems or technical malfunction of computer systems, servers, software, internet service provider, or e-mail systems, failure of any entry to be received on account of technical problems or incomplete, late, lost, damaged, illegible or misdirected electronic communications, or any combination thereof. The Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
BRONZE MEMBERSHIP
$ 19.99/month$229/year5 Bonus Entries- 1 FREE Accumulating Entry Into EVERY Draw Each Month
- 5% Discount from Partners
- Unlimited Access to all Giveaways
- No limit on how many times you can win
- Access to exclusive bonus member only giveaways
SILVER MEMBERSHIP
$49.99/month$549/year20 Bonus Entries- 5 FREE Accumulating Entry Into EVERY Draw Each Month
- 10% Discount from Partners
- Unlimited Access to all Giveaways
- No limit on how many times you can win
- Access to exclusive bonus member only giveaways
GOLD MEMBERSHIP
$99.99/month$1099/year50 Bonus Entries- 20 FREE Accumulating Entry Into EVERY Draw Each Month
- 20% Discount from Partners
- Unlimited Access to all Giveaways
- No limit on how many times you can win
- Access to exclusive bonus member only giveaways