Terms and Conditions for Participation in Mastercard Competition

E-Commerce Campaign 2024

• Participation in the competition as part of the Mastercard campaign is subject to the following terms and conditions.
• The competition is held by K+R GmbH, Hauptstrasse 81-85, 65760 Eschborn, Germany on behalf of Mastercard Europe SA, Chaussée de Tervuren 198A, 1410 Waterloo, Belgium (Mastercard), in the period from 1 November 2024 until 31 December 2024 (promotion period).
• During the promotion period, participants take part in the prize draw by using their Mastercard online for payments and by subsequently registering on the campaign landing page (mc-promotion.ch/EN) and answering the competition question. No obligation to purchase applies. It is possible to take part free of charge and enjoy a fair chance to win.
• In both cases mentioned in item 3, the participants must accept these Terms and Conditions for Participation in the competition to participate and thus have the chance to win one of the 3 prizes (see item 5).
• The three prize packages for a total of 3 people and their companions include a 5-day trip for two adults (at least 18 years of age) with the following services:
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  - Travel to and from their home town to Kitzbühel and back
  - Transfers on site
  - 5 days/4 nights in a 4* hotel incl. breakfast
  - Culinary package (lunch and dinner depending on the programme)
  - Visit to the award ceremony and race party
  - Meet & greet with a ski legend
  - Experience 3 ski races (super-G, downhill, slalom) live
  
  The trip must be taken within the period from 23 to 27 January 2025.
• The winners are responsible for ensuring that they and the person accompanying them meet all the conditions for the trip, in particular that they are in possession of valid travel documents.
  
  Any taxes, fees or duties incurred as a result of winning must be paid by the respective winners. The winners must pay for any services beyond the scope of the prize.
• The participation deadline is 31 December 2024 at 23:59:59 CET. Participants may only enter once, multiple registrations for the competition will be ignored.
• Participation requires the entry of the following information at mc-promotion.ch/en:
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  - First name, surname
  - Email address
  - Telephone number
  - Correct answer to the competition question
  - Use of a Mastercard online within the promotion period (subject to the possibility of free participation)
• Information about how personal data is processed by Mastercard in this competition can be found in the Privacy Policy for the Mastercard eCom 2024 campaign. You can find more information about Mastercard’s data protection practices in our global Data Protection Guidelines.
• All Mastercard cardholders aged 18 years and above resident in Switzerland may take part in the competition. By registering on the competition’s website, participants confirm that they used their Mastercard for an online-purchase during the promotion period (subject to the possibility of free participation). We reserve the right to verify use of the card by the winners in the form of a corresponding receipt.Mastercard employees and their relatives as well as persons, companies and service providers working for Mastercard, including their employees and relatives, are not permitted to take part in the prize draw. Competition agents and competition clubs are banned from taking part in the competition. The use of robots or similar tools for data mining or the automatic submission and transfer of data is not permitted.
• The winners will be selected at random from the participant database on 7 January 2025. The winners will be drawn at random and notified of their win by email and/or telephone by the Mastercard promotion office or the respective issuer of the Mastercard. They will be contacted up to three times within seven days of the draw. If it is not possible to contact the winners during this period, or if the winners do not contact the promotion office or the card issuer which notified them of their win, the entitlement to the prize shall expire and new winners will be drawn at random.
• The prizes cannot be exchanged for cash or transferred. We will not enter into correspondence regarding the prize draw. The winners are not permitted to sell on or auction the prize or parts thereof. Mastercard or K+R GmbH respectively reserve the right to withhold the prizes or parts thereof in case of non-compliance.
• To the extent that this is legally permissible, Mastercard and K+R GmbH assume no liability or responsibility in the context of this competition, its organisation and redemption of the prizes. Mastercard or K+R GmbH respectively reserve the right to amend these Terms and Conditions for Participation at any time with effect for all new participants in the competition. At their own discretion and without consequences regarding liability, Mastercard or K+R GmbH respectively may terminate the competition prematurely, interrupt it or exclude individual participants from taking part in the competition should they identify a risk to the fair and/or correct execution of the competition.
• Mastercard and K+R GmbH do not accept liability for technical website downtime, including network server or hardware errors, viruses, bugs, programming errors or other errors relating to transmission that lie outside its control.
• If individual provisions of these Terms and Conditions for Participation become invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.
• Swiss law shall apply exclusively. Legal recourse is excluded.