Accor Hotels Best Vegan Burger Competition - Terms & Conditions
1. These Terms and Conditions (hereinafter ”TnCs”) published on 24th January, 2025 shall govern the “Accor Hotels Best Vegan Burger competition” (hereinafter referred to as “Promotion”) and shall be applicable to you to the extent law permits, hence read them carefully.
Eligibility:
2. This promotion is open to Accor hotels and their chefs aged 18 or over in the UK. Employees must obtain their employer’s consent to enter. The following are not eligible to enter this Promotion: employees of the Promoter, their families, agents or anyone professionally connected with the promotion.
How to Enter
3. To enter:
- create a vegan burger using vegan products by The Vegetarian Butcher and Hellmann’s; · visit https://www.unileverfoodsolutions.co.uk/about-our-brands/best-vegan-burger.html;
- complete the form using your full name, email address, business postcode, the name of your Burger; and
- submit a photo of your burger entry.
4. The opening date for entries is 12:00 PM GMT on 27.01.2025 and the closing date for receipt of entries is 23:59 PM GMT on 07.02.2025.
5. Judging of the competition entries will start on 10.02.2025. Winners will be notified by 17.02.2025.
6. The best 3 entries in the opinion of our panel will each win a prize. The criteria for selection is which is the most creative and attractive burger. Only entries using vegan products by both The Vegetarian Butcher and Hellmann’s will be valid and judged.
Entry Requirements
7. The promotion is limited to one entry per person and per Accor hotel. No person nor Accor hotel may win more than one prize. Prizes are limited to one per hotel site.
8. Each entry
a. must be suitable for display and publication online and should not be obscene or indecent (including but not limited to nudity, pornography or profanity), it must not contain defamatory statements or words or symbols that are offensive either generally or to individuals of a certain race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or socioeconomic group. It must not include threats to any person, place, business or group, it must not invade privacy or other rights of any person, firm or entity, and it must not in any other way violate applicable laws and regulations or network standards;
b. must not contain or refer to any products other than those of Unilever / The Vegetarian Butcher / Hellmann’s and it must not contain or reference any third party trade marks or logos (other than those of Unilever / The Vegetarian Butcher / Hellmann’s) unless such inclusion is merely incidental and is not unduly prominent and as long as it is included with due cause and in such a way that it does not take unfair advantage of any third party trade marks; and
c. must be the entrant’s own work and must not contain any copyright protected works (other than as owned by the entrant).
9. No applications from agents, third parties, organised groups or applications automatically generated by computer will be accepted. No incomplete or corrupted entries will be accepted. Entries will only be accepted if they comply with all entry instructions.
10. If you submit an entry that includes material the rights in which are owned by a third party, including intellectual property rights such as copyright and trade marks, you will be responsible for any legal action that party may take against you.
11. Entrants shall indemnify and hold the Promoter and their respective affiliates, directors, agents, or other partners ("the Indemnitees") harmless from any claims, actions, proceedings, costs (including reasonable legal fees) and expenses brought or asserted by a third party against any of the Indemnitees arising as a result of the Promoter's use of the entrant's submission including but not limited to any breach of third party intellectual property rights.
12. By participating in this promotion, you agree to release, discharge and hold us harmless from any and all injuries, liability, losses and damages of any kind resulting from your participation in this promotion (save that nothing shall limit our liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence).
13. By submitting your entry, you grant us a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of your entry in any media and through any media channel.
14. Responsibility is not accepted for entries lost, damaged or delayed as a result of any network, computer hardware or software failure of any kind. Proof of submission will not be accepted as proof of receipt.
Prizes
15. There are 3 prizes to be won by the top 3 entrants. Each prize is different and will be awarded on a first, second and third place basis (see below for details of the contents of each prize). Prizes will be delivered to the hotel site where the winner is based. Prizes will belong to the winner, not the relevant hotel site.
16. Only one entry per person, per email address and per Accor hotel site is permitted during the Promotional Period. Any use by entrants of identities other than their own to enter this Promotion will be disqualified and any prize entitlement will be void. The Promoter reserves the right to determine, in its sole and absolute discretion, whether an entrant has already submitted an entry and to disqualify any subsequent entries or prize entitlement.
17. There will be 3 winners and 3 prizes. All prizes are a type of knife set from I.O. Shen. Each winner will be entitled to a prize depending on their ranking:
i. 1st Place: 1 x I.O. Shen ‘BBQ Bundle’ which includes:
- 1 x Butcher’s Scimitar;
- 1 x Cleaver;
- 1 x Traditional Boning Knife
- 1 x Mizu and Miho Slicers; and
- 1 x 17-Pocket Knife Roll.
ii. 2nd Place: 1 x I.O. Shen ‘3-Piece Knife Set’ which includes:
- 1 x 105mm Pointed Paring Knife;
- 1 x 160mm Sahm Khom Slicer; and
- 1 x 210mm Chef’s Knife.
iii. 3rd Place: 1 x I.O. Shen ‘2-Piece Knife Set’ which includes:
- 1 x 160mm Sahm Khom Slicer; and
- 1 x Mai Peng Parer.
Selection of Winners
18. All valid entries received on or before the closing date will be reviewed by our expert panel. The panel will consist of 3 judges. The judges are competent to judge the entries on the following bases. The first judge is a qualified chef of 15 years and employed by Unilever Food Solutions. The second judge is a manager at Unilever Food Solutions and has 22 years’ experience. The third judge is a senior leadership figure at Accor Europe and has 13 years’ experience working in the food and drink business.
19. The judges, although employees of the Promoter and Accor, have had no prior involvement in the planning, execution, or operation of the promotion. Their sole responsibility is to judge the entries based on the criteria outlined in these Terms & Conditions.
20. In the event of any tie the prize will be awarded to the first entry received.
21. The full names of the judges will be made available on request by emailing ukicare@unilever.com.
22. In the event of any dispute, the decision of the Promoter is final. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the Promoter reserves the right to substitute the prize for an alternative of equal or greater value. No correspondence will be entered into.
23. The winners will be notified via an email from jeffrey.davidson@unilever.com within 10 days of the closing date. The winners must claim their prize by responding to the email confirming their full name and the address of the Accor hotel site where they are employed within 7 days of the notification. If the prize is unclaimed after this time, it will lapse, and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the unclaimed prize to a substitute winner selected in accordance with the promotion rules.
24. If you are selected as a winner and Unilever receives a request from a consumer that a valid prize award took place, Unilever will share the first letter of both your first name and surname with them, e.g. “AA”. If the UK Advertising Standards Authority request confirmation that a valid award took place, we will share information such as your first and last name directly with them.
25. The winners’ details (initials of first and last name) will be made available on request by emailing ukicare@unilever.com within 14 days after the closing date. The winners have the right to object to disclosure of their details and they can notify the Promoter if they do not wish for this information to be published by responding within 7 days to the email informing them that they are a winner.
General Terms
26. By entering the promotion, all entrants will be deemed to have accepted and be bound by the rules. All entry instructions form part of the rules.
27. The Promoter, Unilever, reserve the right to terminate this Promotion early in the event of exceptional circumstances outside of their control.
28. Entrants’ personal data collected for the purpose of administering this Promotion by the Promoter and/or by its agents will be handled in accordance with Promoter’s privacy notice, available at Privacy Notice | Unilever Legal (unilevernotices.com).
29. These terms and conditions and any issues or disputes which may arise out of or in connection with these terms and conditions (whether such disputes or issues are contractual or non-contractual in nature, such as claims in tort, for breach of statute or regulation or otherwise) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Entrants hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts to settle any such dispute or issues.
Promoter and Data Controller: Unilever UK Limited, 3 St James Road, Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2BA (please do not send entries to this address).
