Terms and Conditions: Fundraising Event for Disasters Emergency Committee

1. GNM is running a fundraising event to raise and collect funds for the Disasters Emergency Committee, a registered charity with registration number 1062638 (the “Fundraising Event”). You are invited to submit a bid for 1 of 12 special edition commemorative stamps, as described on the event page (a “Stamp”). All Successful Bids (as defined below) collected by GNM as part of the Fundraising Event will be transferred (without deduction) to the Disasters Emergency Committee.

2. By submitting a bid to the Fundraising Event for 1 of 12 Stamps, you shall be deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions.

3. The Fundraising Event is open only to individual UK residents aged 18 and over. Submissions on behalf of another person will not be accepted and joint submissions are not allowed.

4. The Fundraising Event opens at 00:01 on Tuesday 7 June 2022 and closes at 23:59 on Tuesday 14 June 2022. Bids submitted outside of this time period will not be included in the Fundraising Event. GNM reserves the right in its absolute discretion to extend the closing date.

5. Any submissions to the Fundraising Event must be made through the event page

6. If your highest bid is 1 of the 12 highest amounts submitted to the Fundraising Event (a “Successful Bid”), such bid shall be a binding commitment for you to pay the amount submitted. For the avoidance of doubt, should you submit multiple bids to the Fundraising Event, only your highest bid will be ranked and the other bids will be discounted.

7. If you have submitted a bid that is a Successful Bid, you (a “Successful Bidder”) shall pay the amount of the Successful Bid to Guardian News & Media Limited (“GNM”) within 2 working days of the date that GNM notifies you (in accordance with clause 8). Following the receipt of such funds, GNM shall transfer the funds to the Disasters Emergency Committee as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any event no later than 30 days.

8. Successful Bidders shall be notified after the closing date of the Fundraising Event at the email address entered as part of the submission process described in clause 5 above, and given details of how to donate their Successful Bid.

9. If a Successful Bidder does not respond to GNM within 14 days of being notified, their bid will be discounted and GNM shall be entitled to select another Successful Bidder in accordance with the process described above.

10. GNM may disqualify your bid if you if do not comply with these Terms and Conditions or you are not eligible to enter the Fundraising Event. In the event of disqualification, GNM may select the next highest bid to be a Successful Bid.

11. GNM shall use and take care of any personal information you supply to it in connection with the Fundraising Event in accordance with data protection legislation and as described in its privacy policy, a copy of which can be seen at http://www.theguardian.com/help/privacy-policy. By submitting a bid to the Fundraising Event, you agree to the collection, retention, usage and distribution of your personal information in order to process such personal information and to contact you in connection with the Fundraising Event.

12. GNM accepts no responsibility for any damage, loss, liabilities, injury or disappointment incurred or suffered by you as a result of participating in the Fundraising Event, including (without limitation) any loss of, or damage caused to, the Stamps after GNM has sent the Stamps to the Successful Bidders, except that if the Stamp is lost or damaged before you receive the Stamp, GNM shall refund you with the amount of your Successful Bid. GNM further disclaims liability for any injury or damage to your or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials in connection with the Fundraising Event. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude the liability of GNM under law for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for death or personal injury resulting from its negligence.

13. GNM reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, this Fundraising Event with or without prior notice due to reasons outside its reasonable control (including, without limitation, in the case of anticipated, suspected or actual fraud). The decision of GNM in all matters relating to the Fundraising Event is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding such decisions.

14. GNM shall not be liable for any failure to comply with its obligations relating to this Fundraising Event where the failure is caused by something outside GNM’s reasonable control. Such circumstances shall include, but not be limited to, weather conditions, fire, flood, hurricane, strike, industrial dispute, war, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, inevitable accidents, supervening legislation or any other circumstances amounting to force majeure.

15. These Terms and Conditions will be governed by English law and entrants to the Fundraising Event submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

16. If you have any questions about how to enter (or otherwise in connection with) the Fundraising Event, please email GNM at promotions@guardian.co.uk with “Fundraising Event for the Disasters Emergency Committee” in the subject line.