Terms & Conditions

Community Blog Awards Competition

1. No purchase necessary. Competition opens to all Contour Housing Group residents except employees of Contour Housing Group or associated companies and businesses.
2. To enter, simply fill the online form available in the ‘How to enter’ page, choose the category you are applying for and send the link of your blog or micro-blog. Include a brief description (no more than 200 words) explaining why you should win the competition. Alternatively you can download the pdf form, complete it and sent to Samuel Cooper at sam.cooper@contourhousing.co.uk.
4. The Community Blog Awards starts in 1st July 2010 and entries must be received by 1st August 2010.
5. The Contour Housing Group reserves the right to publish participating blogs and micro-blogs  (including parts of entries) other than the winner and publication does not necessarily mean the referred blog or micro-blog has won a prize.
6. Participants will retain copyright in their submitted entries, however, by entering, all participants licence the Contour Housing Group a worldwide royalty-free perpetual licence to edit, publish and use each entry in any and all media (including print and online) for publicity and news purposes.
7. The winner of the Community Blog Awards will be chosen by a judging panel chaired by Tom Cheesewright (Strategy Director at AND Digital), Dave Carter (Head of Manchester Digital Development Agency) and Kate Feld (Writer and editor; also director of the Manchester Blog Awards). Their decision as to the winner of the Community Blog Awards will be final.
8. The competition will be consist of three (3) categories: Best Personal Blog, Best Local Blog and Best Advice Blog. The judges will choose the winners of each category and an overall winner. The prizes referred to in any literature are for the the overall Community Blog Awards winner. Prizes are not transferable and there are no cash alternatives.
9. The five entrants shortlisted for each category (Best Personal Blog, Best Local Blog and Best Advice Blog) will be revealed on this website (date to be confirmed).  The winner of each category and the Best of All Categories winner will be revealed at the Residents Conference in September (date and venue to be confirmed). By entering the contest, entrants agree to their name and entry form informaton being used for publicity/advertising purposes by Contour Housing Group and any other organisations involved in the promotion or administration of the Community Blog Awards.
10. The promoter of the competition, Contour Housing, and the sponsors, reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal value in the event that circumstances beyond their control make the original prize unavailable or impossible.
11. Neither the Contour Housing Group nor AND Digital will be liable for any failure of receipt of entries, or for any entries that are delayed, corrupted, incomplete or otherwise invalid. Entries will not be acknowledged or returned.
12. Any breach of these rules by a participant will void their entries. Misrepresentative or fraudulent entries will invalidate that entry. The judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
15. Contour Housing Group reserves the right at any time to cancel, modify or supersede the competition (including altering prizes) if, in our sole discretion, a competition is not capable of being conducted as specified.
16. Other than death or personal injury arising from the acts or omissions of their or its employees, none of the Contour Housing Group will be liable for any loss or damage arising out of the winner’s enjoyment of the prize.
17. If the participant has any further questioning, s/he must contact Samuel Cooper on sam.cooper@contourhousing.co.uk.