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1. This prize draw is open to members of the dental profession, students who are registered at dental and/or hygiene schools and any individual with an interest in dentistry, who are aged 18 and over.
2. Employees of FDI, its agencies, their families, or anyone professionally associated with the prize draw are not eligible to enter. Entries by agents or any party acting on behalf of the entrant will not be accepted.
3. To enter this promotion, submit a photo to the FDI.COM website in accordance with the website's terms of use.
4. There are six regional winners prizes to be won in this promotion. One regional winner prize of gift vouchers worth €2000 will be awarded to a winner from each of the following geographical regions; Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia Pacific and Oceania and the Middle East. Of the regional winners, an overall winner will be chosen who, in addition, will receive an expenses paid trip to the FDI Annual World Dental Congress in Stockholm, Sweden (24 – 27 September 2008). This overall winner prize will comprise of an economy flight for one person to Stockholm, 4 nights hotel accommodation (minimum 3* standard), a full complimentary congress registration and EUR 500 spending money.
5. The closing date for entry into this promotion is June 30th 2008.
6. No responsibility is accepted for late, lost, delayed, corrupted, illegible or incomplete entries to this promotion, which shall be disqualified at the absolute discretion of the Promoter, or for transmission and/or computer error affecting the logging of entries to this promotion. Proof of sending will not be accepted as proof of delivery.
7. The winners will be notified by email by no later than 31st August 2008. In the event that a winner does not respond within one month of notification the FDI reserves the right to withdraw the prize offer.
8. The winners agree to participate in post promotion publicity if required.
9. The Prizes are as stated and are non-transferable, non-upgradeable and subject to space availability. No cash alternatives will be offered. The overall winner is responsible for all other expenses, including without limit travel insurance and for ensuring that they (and their guests) have a passport and visa valid for the trip. Travel is exclusively for the period of the FDI Annual World Dental Congress 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden (24-27 September 2008).
10. The Promoter's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Promoter:
FDI World Dental Partners Ltd
Whiteleaf Business Centre
11 Little Balmer
Buckingham
MK18 1TF
United Kingdom
Company Registered Number: 03919706
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11. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the www.ushoot.org website (the "Site"). By using the Site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use this Site.
12. Information about us
12.1 This Site is operated by FDI World Dental Partners Ltd (company number: 03919706) of address ("we" / "us").
13. Uploading your photos
13.1 You are solely responsible for all photographs or other materials ("Photo(s)") that you upload to the Site, and agree that all Photos uploaded by you will be your own original work and will not have been previously published. You affirm that you have obtained consent from any people appearing in the photographs that you have submitted for the Award.
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- is unlawful, harmful, threatening or harassing, abusive, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable;
- contains nudity, violence or offensive subject matter;
- infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any third party; and/or
- contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
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- interfere with or disrupt the Site, or the servers or networks connected to the Site;
- use any information obtained from the Site in order to harass, abuse or harm any individual; and/or
- use the Site in breach of any applicable laws and regulations.
13.4 FDI reserves the right not to publish images submitted for this competition on the www.ushoot.org website. FDI reserve the right (but not the obligation) to refuse or remove any Photos that are available via the Site, including without limitation the right to remove any Prohibited Content.
13.5 We do not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of the Photos uploaded to the Site.
15 Availability of the Site
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17 Links
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17 Changes to these terms of use
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18 Termination
18.1 You agree that we may in our sole discretion remove and permanently delete any Photos on the Site for any reason without notice, including without limitation if you appear to us to be in breach of any provision of these terms of use.
18.2 We may also in our sole discretion discontinue providing the Site or any part thereof at any time, without notice.
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20 Your information
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19.2 We may also collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
19.3 We will store your name and email address collected via the Site on our secure servers, and will only use this information as follows:
- to let you know if your Photo is intended to be used in poster sites and/or elsewhere; and
- (subject to you indicating your express consent by clicking the appropriate tick-box) to send you news and updates regarding our products, services and activities.
We will not use or disclose this information for any other purpose whatsoever, including without limit any marketing purposes, except where required by law.
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21 Your liability
You undertake to indemnify FDI, its subsidiaries, affiliates and partners, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, and keep them indemnified fully at all times against all claims, demands, proceedings, damages, losses, costs, expenses, fines and charges which are made or brought against or incurred by them due to or arising out of any use of the Photos you upload onto the Site, your use of the Site, and/or your breach of these terms of use.
22 Assignment
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24 Applicable law
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