Terms and Conditions of Participation at Panasonic Personal Care Wellbeing Competition
By participating in this Competition, each participant accepts the following Terms and Conditions:
1. Eligibility
The Panasonic Personal Care Wellbeing Competition (hereinafter referred to as the “Competition”) is open to residents of the EU and UK, aged 18 years or over, excluding employees, their relatives and representatives of Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH (hereinafter referred to as “Panasonic” or the “Promoter”) and affiliated companies. Participants must have a personal and public profile on Instagram; participation by third parties is not possible.
2. Entry Process
In order to qualify for the Competition, participants must like and comment on the promotional Instagram post describing this Competition and linking to these Terms and Conditions and follow the Instagram Channel “@PanasonicPersonalCare”. Entrants can enter the Competition only once. No purchase is necessary to enter the Competition. Incomplete, incorrect or otherwise invalid entries will not be considered. It is a condition of entry that participants agree to abide strictly by the rules of the Competition. Entrants must adhere to Terms of Use of Instagram, which are available at Terms of Use | Instagram Help Centre. The Promoter reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all participants. The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any entries and remove them immediately from the Promoter’s social media pages, if the Promoter considers such entries to be in bad faith, fraudulent, illegal or showing any illegal, immoral, lewd or disrespectful behaviour. The Promoter reserves the right to exclude participants and withhold the prize for violation of any of these Terms and Conditions. The decision of the Promoter is final and no correspondence will be entered into. No responsibility can be accepted for any entries that are delayed, corrupted, damaged, incomplete or otherwise invalid or if entry was not possible due to technical difficulties.
3. Competition Period and Prizes
The Competition starts at 00:00 hrs on 5 February 2024 and closes at 24:00 hrs on 9 February 2024 (the “Competition Period”). Any entries posted or submitted before or after the Competition Period will not be considered. The prize will be a “wellbeing prize” of Panasonic Personal Care items such as, but not exclusively and in no way guaranteed, the NA9J Rose Gold Hairdryer and/or the XS01 Facial Steamer. There is no cash alternative to this prize. The prize is also non-transferable. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the Promoter reserves the right to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value should the original prize or parts thereof become unavailable.
4. Winner selection
The winner of the competition will be chosen at random from eligible participants. Each winner will be announced via Instagram DM from the Instagram Channel “@PanasonicPersonalCare” once the competition is over. The winner has 48 hours to acknowledge the prize or reserve the right to choose another winner. If it transpires a winner has not met the eligibility criteria, a new winner will be selected from the remaining eligible qualifying entries.
5. Organizer of this Competition
The Competition is promoted by Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH, Hagenauer Strasse 43, 65203 Wiesbaden, Germany.
6. Privacy and Data Protection
The Promoter complies with the statutory provisions of the applicable data protection law (especially EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK Data Protection Act 2018). You can find the Promoter's Privacy Notice in the Annex to these Terms and Conditions.
7. Legal process and jurisdiction
Legal action for the assertion of prize claims is excluded. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany with the exception of conflict of laws, whereby the choice of law does not result in the participant as a consumer being deprived of the protection of mandatory local provisions which cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law that would be applicable without the choice of law.
Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH, February 2024
Annex: Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice is issued by Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH as the data controller to inform about the processing of personal data in connection with the Competition.
Types of personal data, purposes and legal bases
The participation in the competition may involve the processing of personal data provided by participants, as well as personal data shared by Instagram with Panasonic when participants visit the “@PanasonicPersonalCare” Instagram Channel. After selecting the winners, Panasonic will collect and process their name and address to deliver the prize. This data processing is based on Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR, as it is necessary for the performance of the contractual relationship between the participants and Panasonic. If the participant fails to provide the data when requested, Panasonic will not be able to fulfil the competition and may need to select a new winner as set out in Section 4 of the Terms & Conditions.
Instagram collects personal data such as the IP address of visitors to the Instagram Channel for usage statistics. The data collected about you in this context may be transferred to countries outside the EU. Instagram’s data processing is subject to its privacy policy, which is available at: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/.
Recipients of personal data
Panasonic uses service providers who are contractually bound to Panasonic’s instructions as data processors to provide the Instagram Channel and organise the competition.
Data retention
The personal data will be retained by Panasonic for as long as necessary to comply with legal requirements and for legal purposes and, if longer retention is not required, will be deleted no later than three years after the end of this competition.
Data subject rights
The participants have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict and object to the processing of their personal data, as well as to receive a copy of their data in a structured and machine-readable format (data portability). The participants also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority if they consider that the processing of their personal data infringes the GDPR:
- EEA/EU authorities: Members | European Data Protection Board (europa.eu)
- United Kingdom (UK): Make a complaint | ICO
Contact
If the participant wishes to assert claims specifically with regard to his/her personal data provided in the competition, the participant can contact Panasonic’s data protection officer at:
Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH
The Data Protection Officer
Hagenauer Strasse 43
D-65203 Wiesbaden
or by e-mail: data_protection@eu.panasonic.com
Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH, February 2024