ACA Conference 2024 Social Media Terms and Conditions

Information regarding prizes and how to enter forms part of these terms and conditions. By entering, entrants are deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions.

Entry Eligibility

  1. Entry is open to all ACA students. Management and employees (and the immediate families of management and employees) of the Promoter, its suppliers, or of the agencies associated with this competition are ineligible to enter.
  2. The competition commences at 9.00am AEST Friday 26 July 2024 and closes at midnight AEST Sunday 28 July 2024 (“Competition Period”). Entries are deemed to be received at the time of receipt of media to Communications Officer, Jordan Curry, via 0450 031 110.

How to Enter

  • To enter, entrants must, during the Competition Period:
    a.Record testimonials across the weekend on their mobile phones and share these videos on social media, highlighting either of the following:

    – Key insights on what they have learnt from the sessions and speakers.
    – Their favourite part of the conference so far.
    – Highlight an ACA or Board member they met over the weekend and what they learned speaking to this member; 
    – Must use the hashtags #TurtleTestimonials #ACAConf24 #Cairns
    – Must provide their name with entry submission to Communications Officer

    OR

    b.Take creative selfies with a turtle across the weekend:
    – Think outside the box – the more creative, the better!
    – Could be general selfies with the turtle inside or outside the venue, with conference promotional materials, ie at the ACA booth, in front of the ACA media wall, or even demonstrating wellness activities with chiropractic care.
    – Could post selfies with the turtle and a speaker!
    – Must use the hashtags #TurtleSelfieChallenge #ACAConf24 #Cairns
    – Must provide their name with entry submission to Communications Officer

  • Entries must be received by midnight Sunday 28 July 2024
  • As a condition of entry participants must tag the ACA student page @auschirostudents
  • There is no limit to the number of entries per person.

Prizes and Judging

  1. Three (3) winners will be selected by the Promoter in its sole discretion. Judging will be based on, among other things, originality and creative merit.
  2. The prizes consists of:
    a. Apple iPad 10thGen 265gb valued at $900;
    b. Bose SoundLink Max Portable Speaker valued at $599; and
    c. Fujifilm Instax Mini12 Instant Camera + Film, valued at $150
    The prize value is based upon the recommended retail price (inclusive of GST). The Promoter does not accept any responsibility for a change in prize value.
  3. Competition Judging Process:
    a. The competition will be judged at the Australian Chiropractors Association, Level 1, 75 George Street, Parramatta NSW 2150.
    b. The winner will be notified by email immediately prior to the public announcement on the Promoter’s website and/or the ACA’s Facebook page on Monday 5 August 2024. The Promoter will not publish the winners’ full address.
  4. The winners are required to contact the Promoter to claim their prize before 9.00 am AEST Friday 9 August 2024. The Promoter will also attempt to contact the winners. After the prizes are claimed, the Promoter will send the prizes to the winners nominated addresses.
  5. Subject to any written direction given under relevant legislation, if the winner does not claim their prizes by 9.00am AEST Monday 12 August 2024, a new winner will be chosen from the remaining entries at 5.00pm AEST on Monday 12 August 2024 at the Australian Chiropractors Association (ABN 50 050 096 038) office at Level 1, 75 George Street, Parramatta NSW 2150. The winner of any unclaimed prize will be notified by email.
  6. Without limiting any other term of these terms and conditions, the Promoter and its associated agencies and companies will not be liable for any damage or delay in transit to the prize.

General Terms and Conditions

  1. By entering, entrants acknowledge that and consent to their Statement and their first name being made available online on the ACA’s website and/or Facebook page by the Promoter (in its absolute discretion) and accessible to the general public without any reference, payment or other compensation to the entrant.
  2. This promotion is a game of skill; chance plays no part in determining the winner.
  3. All entries become the property of the Promoter and will not be returned to the entrant. By entering this competition, entrants:
    a. consent to the Promoter making copies of or publishing the whole or any part of their entry on the promoter’s website and / or  facebook page or elsewhere, and otherwise exploiting the entry and any rights in relation to the entry, to publicise this competition or for any other promotional purposes;
    b. undertake to the Promoter that their entry is not, and its use by the Promoter will not be, in breach of any third party intellectual property rights; and
    c. consent to the Promoter editing or modifying the whole or any part of their entry for any reason.
  4. By entering, entrants warrant that their entry:
    a. is original and not copied, and was created by the entrant;
    b. does not include (or link to) any content that contravenes any law, infringes the rights of any person or is obscene, offensive, discriminatory, indecent or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate. Without limitation, entrants must not include (or include a link to) any content that involves nudity, malice, swearing or which may be defamatory or in contempt of court; and
    c. contains no viruses or other computer code or material embedded in it which may have a negative impact on the ACA’s website or any network or third party computer systems
  5. Entries not fully complying with these conditions of entry may be deemed invalid at the Promoter’s sole discretion. If this occurs in respect of a winning entry, the Promoter reserves the right to award the prize to the next best valid entry. The Promoter’s decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  6. The Promoter may, in its sole discretion, disqualify all entries from, and prohibit further participation in this competition by, any person who tampers with or benefits from any tampering with the entry process or with the operation of the competition or acts in violation of these conditions, acts in a disruptive manner or acts with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.
  7. If for any reason any aspect of this competition is not capable of running as planned including by reason of tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any cause beyond the control of the Promoter which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this competition, the Promoter may in its sole discretion cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the competition, or invalidate any affected entries.
  8. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any tax implications that may arise from the prize winnings. Independent financial advice should be sought. Where the operation of this competition results in, for GST purposes, supplies being made for non-monetary consideration, entrants agree to follow the Australian Taxation Office’s stated view that where the parties are at arm’s length, goods and services exchanged are of equal GST inclusive market values.
  9. The Promoter reserves the right to refuse any entries that are deemed to be submitted via any form of computer programming or automatically generated entries.
  10. Except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law the Promoter
    a. is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, including (but not limited to) any injury or damage to participants or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this competition;
    b. accepts no responsibility for any incorrect or inaccurate information caused by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilised in connection with this competition, or by any technical error that may occur in the course of this competition;
    c. accepts no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alteration of entries or entrant’s details; and
    d. accepts no responsibility for late, lost, incomplete, incorrectly submitted, delayed, illegible, corrupted or misdirected entries, claims or correspondence whether due to error, omission, alteration, tampering, deletion, theft, destruction, transmission interruption, communications failure or otherwise. The Promoter has no control over telephone communications, the Internet, networks or lines and accepts no responsibility for any problems associated with them, whether due to traffic congestion, technical malfunction or otherwise. The Promoter is not liable for any consequences of user error including (without limitation) costs incurred.
  11. The information entrants provide will be used by the Promoter for the purpose of conducting this competition (including contacting an entrant if they are a prize winner) and as otherwise set out in these terms and conditions. The Promoter may disclose entrants’ personal information to its contractors and agents to assist in conducting this competition or communicating with entrants. The Promoter will use entrants’ personal information in accordance with the Promoter’s privacy policy. The Promoter’s privacy policy is available at https://chiropractors.org.au/privacy.