January 2025 @UOPSport social media competition terms and conditions

The prize draw is open to anyone who is;

  • 16 years of age or older.
  • not currently or previously banned from the facilities.
  1.  The prize draw is free to enter and no purchase is necessary. 
  2.  To enter the prize draw, entrants must like the competition post on Instagram, follow @uopsport and tag at least one person, or, like the competition post on Facebook, like the UOP Sport and Recreation page and tag at least one person.
  3.  Each additional tag will be considered a new entry as long as all steps above in section 3 have been carried out.
  4.  Weekly prizes will be offered between 30 December 2024 and Sunday 2 February 2025 and announced on our social media pages each week. 
  5.  The prizes available are: 2x Super Session Passes, 2x Core Month memberships, 2x Super Month Memberships, 2x Ultimate Month memberships or 2x 6-month Ultimate memberships.
  6.  Each prize will be won by one person, with the option to gift the other membership to a friend, relative or someone known to them.
  7.  The gifted membership cannot be given to a person who is currently or previously banned from the facilities, or is under the age of 16.
  8.  If the winner does not have a person to gift the membership to, the gifted membership will be void. The winner can still enjoy their membership according to the terms.
  9.  If the winner of any prize is a monthly paying member, they will receive the next month for free. For fixed-term members, the free month will be added to the end of the current subscription.
  10.  The closing date for each competition is 23:59 on the next Sunday after the competition has been posted. The closing dates will be 5 January 2025, 12 January 2025, 19 January 2025, 26 January 2025, 2 February 2025. 
  11.  The University of Portsmouth accepts no responsibility for entries not successfully completed due to a technical fault, technical malfunction, computer hardware or software failure, or satellite, network or server failure of any kind. 
  12.  The winners will be chosen by a random draw performed by a computer process in the subsequent week after the competition closes. The winners will be notified by email and announced on Facebook and Instagram within 7 days of the prize draw taking place.
  13.  If a winner does not respond to the University within 14 days of being notified, then the winner's prize will be forfeited and the University will be entitled to select another winner in accordance with the process described above.
  14.  The prizes will be sent to the winners within 14 days of being notified of their win.
  15.  The prizes for the winners are non-exchangeable, non-transferable and no cash alternative is offered.
  16.  The winner's surnames can be requested from the Department of Sport and Recreation within 2 weeks of the prize draw date by emailing sport-sales@port.ac.uk.
  17.  The University of Portsmouth Department of Sport and Recreation will collect personal information from entrants in order to administer the draw. This data will be kept for 180 days after the closing date and then securely disposed of. 
  18.  The decision of the University of Portsmouth regarding any aspect of the prize draw is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into about it. The University reserves the right to refuse entry, or refuse to award the prize to anyone in breach of the Rules or the Terms and Conditions or the spirit of the Rules or the Terms and Conditions.
  19.  The University reserves the right to withdraw this offer or to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice.