MasterCard® Turn Your Shopping into a Year’s Free Cinema Tickets – Terms & Conditions

1. This promotion is open to MasterCard UK cardholders, who are 18 or over, and reside in the UK. No employees and their families of MasterCard, their subsidiaries, other group companies, their agents, or any company associated with the promotion and those involved in the promotion are eligible to enter.

2. The promotion will run from 1st October 2011 – 30th November 2011 inclusive (“Promotional Period”).

3. To enter the promotion, a cardholder must use their MasterCard card for any purchase during the Promotional Period, visit www.mastercard.co.uk/cinema and register their details. Cardholders will be required to input personal data to enter this promotion. Once an eligible cardholder has entered their details at www.mastercard.co.uk/cinema the website will generate an instant response advising if they have won. If they have won, they will be given instructions on how to redeem. Regardless if the entrant has won or not, they will be given a selection of cinema related offers (a Cineworld concessions offer: free upgrade from a small combo to a large combo of popcorn and a soft drink. Plus a 2 Month free trial and a saving of £20 on a 12 Month Hi-Life dining card, giving cardholders access to 1000’s of 2 for 1 restaurant deals throughout the UK, during the promotional period. Cardholders are under no obligation to sign up to a membership card after their 2 month free membership expires.*Due to the unavailability of an original offer of a 2 for 1 voucher on main courses at Pizza Hut restaurants we are now offering the Hi – Life dining card offer instead, which we believe is a more valuable offer).

4. Alternatively, cardholders can also enter the promotion by text message, by making a purchase on their MasterCard during the Promotional Period and then texting ‘CINEMA’ to 63006.  All text message entrants will instantly receive a response via text message advising if they have won.  If they have won, they will be given instructions on how to redeem. Regardless if the entrant has won or not, they will be given a selection of cinema related offers (a Cineworld concessions offer: free upgrade from a small combo to a large combo of popcorn and a soft drink. Plus a 2 Month free trial and a saving of £20 on a 12 Month Hi-Life dining card, giving cardholders access to 1000’s of 2 for 1 restaurant deals throughout the UK, during the promotional period. Cardholders are under no obligation to sign up to a membership card after their 2 month free membership expires.*Due to the unavailability of an original offer of a 2 for 1 voucher on main courses at Pizza Hut restaurants we are now offering the Hi – Life dining card offer instead, which we believe is a more valuable offer).

Standard network rates apply to text entries. Please note that texts may not be included in all ‘text-inclusive’ packages.  If a cardholder wishes to unsubscribe from receiving text messages, they must simply text ‘STOP’ to 63006.  In submitting this text, the cardholder is confirming that they wish to no longer receive communications regarding this promotion. Please note that it may take up to 1 week to process the request. If you have entered the promotion with more than one phone number you may continue to receive future communications from us. To prevent this, please ensure you text ‘STOP’ to 63006 from each phone number used to enter this promotion.

5. 5,100 prizes are available to be won in this promotion:

• 100 prizes will be: a year’s worth of free cinema tickets. Winners will receive 24 tickets, 2 x tickets can be used each month, for 12 months. Tickets will be dated with the month they can be redeemed in, e.g. October tickets can be used from 1st October – 31st October 2011. The tickets may not be used at the following Cineworld Cinemas; Chelsea, Fulham Road, Haymarket, Shaftesbury Avenue or The O2 Greenwich. Tickets may not be exchanged wholly or partly for cash or other prizes and may not be resold. Tickets are not valid for Deluxe, VIP, 3D, non-film performances or preview screenings, or occasions where the cinema has been hired for private functions or special performances. Tickets are subject to Cineworld’s standard terms and conditions (which can be found here: http://www.cineworld.co.uk/terms) and the cinema reserves the right to refuse admission. The manager’s decision is final.

•  5,000 prizes will be: 2 for 1 Cineworld Cinema tickets. Cineworld 2 for 1 tickets may not be used at the following Cinemas; Chelsea, Fulham Road, Haymarket, Shaftesbury Avenue or The O2 Greenwich. Cineworld 2 for 1 tickets are valid until 31st December 2011. Cineworld 2 for 1 tickets may not be exchanged wholly or partly for cash or other prizes and may not be resold. Cineworld 2 for 1 tickets are not valid for Deluxe, VIP, 3D, non-film performances or preview screenings, or occasions where the cinema has been hired for private functions or special performances. Cineworld 2 for 1 tickets are subject to Cineworld’s standard terms and conditions (which can be found here: http://www.cineworld.co.uk/terms) and the cinema reserves the right to refuse admission. The manager’s decision is final.

6. The 5,100 prizes are allocated randomly to predetermined winning moments. The first entry received after the randomly predetermined winning moment (whether by text or online) will win either a year’s worth of free cinema tickets or a 2 for 1 Cineworld Cinema ticket, depending on what prize is allocated to what winning moment. A year’s worth of free cinema tickets prize constitutes the winner receiving 2 cinema tickets per month, for a consecutive 12 month period. These cinema tickets are valid at Cineworld Cinemas within the UK.

7. The 100 winners of ‘a year’s worth of free cinema tickets’ will be asked to contact MasterCard’s agency via telephone or e-mail to confirm their prize. Winners have 28 working days, from initial instant notification to acknowledge this prize in a return e-mail or telephone call. Details of which will be provided in winning text or winning web page. Failure to do this will result in the prize becoming void. The 5,000 ‘2 for 1’ Cineworld Cinema ticket winners will receive a code via text/e-mail notification, which will allow the winner to claim a free ticket when they purchase a ticket at www.cineworld.co.uk and enter their code in the promotional box at checkout.  Winners of 2 for 1 tickets have until 31st December 2011 to redeem their ticket, after this date the voucher code will become void. If there is no entry made between one randomly predetermined winning moment and the next randomly predetermined winning moment, then prizes will not be reallocated.

8. Cardholders can enter the promotion a maximum of three times per day via text and e-mail. Each entry will require a different card spend. Bulk entries made from trade, consumer groups or third parties will not be accepted. If it becomes apparent that a participant is using a computer(s)  or multiple mobiles to circumvent this condition by, for example, the use of ‘script’, ‘brute force’ or any other automated means, that person’s entries will be disqualified and any prize award will be void.

9. No purchase necessary (Northern Ireland Only): For alternative entry without purchase in Northern Ireland only, send your full name, email address and telephone number to ‘MasterCard Priceless Cinema  2011 Promotion’, PO Box 31586, London, W11 4YB.  Upon receipt your entry will be included for the same chance of winning. Only one entry per self addressed envelope.

10. Incomplete, illegal, misdirected or late entries will not be accepted. Proof of sending will not be accepted as proof of delivery. MasterCard (the “Promoter”) and its agencies for this promotion take no responsibility for entries delayed, incomplete or lost due to technical reasons or otherwise.

11. Neither MasterCard nor agencies involved in this promotion will be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever caused by matters relating to this promotion.

12. All prizes are subject to availability.

13. No cash or other alternative prizes or rewards are available, except that in the event of circumstances outside of its control, the promoter reserves the right to substitute similar alternatives of equal or greater value at the choosing and discretion of MasterCard, their agencies and partners for this promotion.

14. The promoter’s decision will be final with regard to all promotional matters, and no correspondence will be entered into.

15. The winner agrees to participate in related publicity. No additional compensation will be awarded for such promotional activities.

16. The names and counties of the winners will be available by sending a self addressed envelope to ‘MasterCard Priceless Cinema Promotion Winners’, PO Box 31586, London, W11 4YB within three months of the closing date.

17. The promoter reserves the right to vary, cancel or terminate the promotion or terms and conditions or disqualify any participant at any time without giving advance notice if circumstances make this necessary.

18. By entering the promotion, entrants will be deemed to be bound by and have accepted these terms and conditions.

19. Any dispute concerning these terms and conditions will be settled on the basis of English law and the courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction

19. Entrants’ personal data shall be processed for the purpose of their participation in the Promotion only and will only be retained as long as necessary for such purpose (i.e. until 3 months after the end of the Promotion). Entrants can request access to and/or rectification of their personal data if incorrect. For these purposes entrants can contact the Promoter at the below address or by visiting the following website page www.mastercard.com/uk-privacy.  By participating to the Promotion, entrants consent that their personal data may, for the same purpose as stated above, also be transferred to other entities of the MasterCard group of companies based in countries that, according to EU principles, do not provide an adequate level of protection of personal data and to Promoter third party contractors necessary to process entrants’ participation in the promotion.

Promoter: MasterCard Europe sprl, 10 Upper Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5NP

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