The necessary legal stuff
By entering this competition, entrants are agreeing to be bound by the following terms and conditions:
- This competition is organised by the cool peeps at Bible Society New Zealand. They’re at 144 Tory Street, Wellington.
- We’ll fly you and a mate to Darwin, Australia where you’ll join the Flying Bible Man and fly to some really remote communities to help with Bible delivery and a few other serving type tasks.
- Flights are subject to availability but we anticipate you’ll leave around 3 May 2012 and we’ll fly you home to New Zealand around 13 May 2012.
- We can cancel or change the Competition or the Rules without telling you if something really freaky happens outside of our control like war, crazy weather or even an act of God, yep even we’re not immune to that.
- If you don’t agree with our Rules, conduct, the results or anything else relating to this Competition, we get the final say and don’t have to discuss it with you if we don’t want, even if you write to us.
Qualifying entrants - If you work for us or The Flying Bibleman or if you’re related to or live with any of us, then you can’t enter, sorry : (
- If you win, you’ll have to get your own travel documents, e.g. a valid passport (preferably with a picture of you where you’re not looking nerdy or stupid), and a visa if you need one, etc .
- By entering the Competition, you promise that everything you say about yourself is true, 'cos we’re allowed to check up on you if we want.
- This Competition is only open to residents of New Zealand.
- We’re gonna assume that by entering the Competition (and you agree) that you’re 18 or over or, if you’re under 18, that your Mum and/or Dad and/or guardian have said you can enter. We can make you prove it if we have to.
- If we choose you to go on the mission adventure and then find out you’re not eligible, we can choose another winner.
- If we find out you’ve done something naughty, like break the law, or if you break one of these rules, we’ll forgive you, but we can also change our minds about sending you on this mission adventure and pick someone else ... or not, it’s up to us really.
Competition entries - You can only enter once. We’ll actually be sifting through all the entries so we’ll notice if your name keeps popping up.
- You can take the ‘Change Lives Today’ challenge and submit content on our Facebook page as many times as you like though – In fact the more the merrier – but if we find out anything you’ve posted is copied from someone else or you made it up and it’s all porkies, then we can make a sad face and can pick another winner.
- Get your entries in by 5pm Wednesday 15 February otherwise it won’t count.
- Unlike a lot of competitions run by big corporates, you don’t have to buy anything to enter this Competition and we won’t ever charge you to register : )
- If you make a mistake on your entry form or forget to include something and/or your entry form gets lost on its way to us due to reasons we can't control, or if your computer is too slow or crashes ... it’s not our fault.
Prizes - We’re gonna pick the person who is the best fit for Bible mission and once we decide no amount of grovelling, bribery or sweet talking will make a difference to our decision.
- If we’ve chosen you we’ll contact you in early March to let you know, so if you don’t hear from us, um, yeah, sorry it’s not you.
- If we can’t get hold of our first choice mission adventurer, then we’re allowed to take the runner up instead. We’ll give it a really good go trying to get hold of you first though.
- If we pick you we’re gonna put your name on our website and facebook page and wherever else we want (but only relevant places). You’ll even get in the papers or on telly like Bridgette and Heather did last year – you’ll be famous. Better tell your friends to get your autograph now.
- No, you can’t swap this prize for anything else, especially not money. If you don’t like it – don’t enter.
- We’ll feed you and give you a roof over your head while you’re on the mission adventure but you’ll have to bring your own pocket money if you wanna buy any souvenirs or have a chocolate addiction to support and you have to agree not to ask us for any money back for any personal stuff you buy.
- We’ll take care of any airport taxes, travel insurances, transfers and any other mission adventure related costs. That includes medical cover for most things too, but if you've got a pre-existing condition, we'd need to check if that's included before we take you. If it's not, you'll need to cover that yourself. And if your condition is gonna cause you any problems on the trip then we get to decide if we still want to take you.
Intellectual property rights & use of entries - If you post anything on our facebook page or email it to us then we can use it for anything else we want like our website or any other media (within reason of course). Or if we don’t like it or it’s something mean about someone, we can delete it and block you. So be nice please.
- Anything you post on our facebook page should be about you, not like “ I have a friend who ...” cos that’s just cheating.
- By entering, you promise that anything you submit won’t upset anyone by breaching any laws, privacy or copyrights and that it won’t freak us out by being rude or threatening. Cos we’ll just block you if you do.
Liability - We’ll do our best to keep you and your stuff safe while you’re on this trip but if you’re a klutz and hurt yourself, it’s not our fault. And if you’re one of those people who is always losing your phone or your keys, then we can’t be blamed if you lose stuff on this trip either. If you get eaten by a croc though ... just kidding, we’ll give you a stick to fend off any hungry crocs.
- If we choose to take you on the trip, you have to promise to behave and not do anything stupid or anything that makes us look bad, and if you do we aren't responsible and may claim not to know you. And on that note, you have to agree that you'll listen to us and follow our instructions while you're on the trip.
- If something hideous happens while you're on the trip and you get hurt, sick (and that's the original meaning of the word sick and not the cool kind of sick) or worse ... if you die, then you agree that you or your family won't blame us or come after us to claim anything. Oh, and if you get kidnapped, while we do think you're worth heaps, we're a charity so we won't pay your ransom.
Data protection & publicity - If you win and you’re really cool, we might want you to do some promo stuff for us, and we’ll definitely want to use any photos or videos we get of you on the trip. We’ll be polite and always check with you first though 'cos we’re nice like that.
- We’ve got a copy of the New Zealand data protection legislation so we know we can’t tell anyone else your phone number or email address or anything else. All your personal details are totally safe with us. Promise.
- If you move flats, shift back to Mum and Dads, want to tell us never to write to you ever again (sob sniff) or you just wanna see what contact info we have for you, just flick an email to
How to contact us - If you want to get hold of us in relation to this Competition or just to say hi, write to us at Mission Adventure Headquarters, Bible Society New Zealand, Private Bag 27901, Marion Square, Wellington 6141.
- If you’ve actually managed to read all of these T’s and C’s, big ups to you! And we reckon that makes you a pretty dedicated person who could be perfect for the mission adventure, so stop faffing about on this page and get back to the entry form and enter already, go on!
