Terms and Conditions

1. The promoter is Electric Ireland, PO Box 12523, Dublin 9, Ireland. Electric Ireland is the customer supply business unit of Electricity Supply Board.
2. By entering, Entrants will be deemed to have accepted, and be bound by, these Terms and Conditions.
3. The promoter has the right to change, alter or withdraw the promotion at any time.
4. Electric Ireland is not responsible, and does not accept any liability, for any loss or damage caused by participating in the Power Ballad campaign. However, nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall operate as to limit Electric Ireland’s liability for death, personal injury or fraud.
5. Staff and immediate family members of ESB (including its subsidiaries) employees are excluded from entering the promotion.
6. Entrants must be aged 18 years and over.
7. No applications from agents, third parties, organised groups or applications automatically generated by computer will be accepted. No incomplete, illegible or corrupted entries will be accepted. Entries not in accordance with the entry instructions will not be accepted.
8. The promoter accepts no responsibility for entries lost, damaged or delayed as a result of any network, computer hardware or software failure of any kind. Proof of sending is not proof of receipt.
9. Entrants agree that by uploading any videos, the following rights are granted to Electric Ireland:
   1. Promotional rights including, but not limited to, the right to use the video and/or its contents in any advertising or promotional activity;
   2. The right to broadcast the contents of the video publically including, but not limited to, on Electric Ireland’s website, on social media, or at the Electric Picnic event.
10. Competition entries will be accepted from 09:00 on Monday 18th August until 17:59 on Friday 22nd August 2014.
11. Entries are accepted through Instagram video via the following steps:
    1. Choose a power ballad from the list of tracks available on powerballads.ie/enter
    2. Click enter to register your details and then use Instagram on your smartphone to record your lip-syncing video. Make sure your Instagram privacy settings are on public.
    3. Upload your video with the tags #PowerBallads and #ElectricPicnic2014
    4. You will then receive an email to the address provided on registering, containing your personal video link which can be shared on Facebook and Twitter
12. Participants can enter multiple videos per day.
13. Voters can share up to 5 videos per day.
14. Voters participating in the secondary competition (1 x pair of tickets over the competition period) may share a maximum of five videos per day.
15. A maximum of 50 votes outside of the secondary competition will be accepted per IP address per day. Voting will reopen each day as per the below voting timings. Electric Ireland reserves the right to amend this figure during the competition period as they see fit. 
16. Entries must feature one of the songs listed on the powerballads.ie website. Any videos featuring alternative tracks will not be published or eligible for entry. 
17. All submitted videos will be subject to a moderation process. Any videos found to be offensive or inappropriate will not be accepted. The moderator’s decisions are final.
18. Videos submitted before 18:00 on the relevant day of the campaign will be featured on the site and open to voting until 09:29 the following day.
19. Any entries submitted after 18:00 on the relevant day of the campaign will be published from 09:30 the following day and open to voting until 09:29 the day after.
20. The above applies to all campaign dates apart from Friday the 22nd August, wherein voting and submissions will close at 18:00.
21. Voting will be open on each day between the following times:
    Day 1 - 09:30 on the 18th of August until 09:29 on the 19th of August
    Day 2 - 09:30 on the 19th of August until 09:29 on the 20th of August
    Day 3 - 09:30 on the 20th of August until 09:29 on the 21st of August
    Day 4 - 09:30 on the 21st of August until 09:29 on the 22nd of August
    Day 5 - 09:30 on the 22nd of August until 18:00 on the 22nd of August
    
22. By accepting these terms and conditions, Entrants hereby declare that they are the sole owners of the videos and content therein. Entrants undertake to ensure that submitted entries shall not contain any third party copyright material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights (including rights of privacy or rights of publicity), unless the Participant is legally entitled, to post the material in question.
23. The winning videos will be displayed on the winners gallery each day at 4pm the day after their submission. The winning videos are removed from the competition at this point and are not eligible to compete for the remainder of the competition.
24. The video which receives the highest number of votes each day over the competition period will be selected as the winner. Votes will be counted and verified at 09:30 the day after the video has been submitted and winners will be notified and contacted by 4pm on the relevant day. Electric Ireland reserves the right to disqualify any votes at its sole discretion.
25. The one winner each day will receive 6 weekend tickets to Electric Picnic, August 29th- August 31st. One winner will be selected daily from August 18th – August 22nd. One additional winner who votes for their favourite video will be randomly selected and will receive one pair of tickets.
26. Winners will be notified via email.
27. Prizes not claimed within 72 hours will lapse and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the unclaimed prize to a substitute winner selected in accordance with the promotion rules.
28. The prizes are non-transferable and NO CASH ALTERNATIVES OR REFUNDS will be offered.
29. Data collected for non customers for this campaign will not be used for any other purpose unless the entrant opts in to future marketing campaigns.
30. Electric Ireland may use any content uploaded to powerballads.ie for promotion across their Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and blog.
31. Electric Ireland reserves the right to use content uploaded to powerballads.ie for marketing assets as Electric Picnic and through EDM communications.
32. Data collected from Entrants in the competition will be stored on secure servers for no longer than 12 months. Electric Ireland may use the personal details supplied for purposes including, but not limited to: helping Electric Ireland understand customer habits and/or to provide customers with relevant tailored offers by email, SMS or post. Any such communication will include an opt-out facility.
33. Electric Ireland reserves the right to change the terms and conditions at any stage during the competition.
34. The use of proxies and anonymisers, such as the service offered by Puffin and CloudMosa, for the purpose of circumventing voting restrictions is prohibited and any votes accumulated this way will be forfeited.
35. Electric Ireland reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend a competition and/or vary competition rules at any time without prior notice.
36. Any person found to be in disregard of these rules will be disqualified automatically.
37. Electric Ireland reserves the right to disqualify any contestant for any reason whatsoever in its sole discretion.
38. Electric Ireland's decision on voting arrangements and validity of the vote will be final.
39. Any user who, in the opinion of Electric Ireland, attempts to tamper with or inappropriately influence any part of the voting or interfere with or manipulate voting procedure may be disqualified from further participation. Electric Ireland's decision in this regard is final and conclusive.
40. All votes will be reset to zero at 09:30 each morning during the competition period and videos will remain in the gallery for voting for the duration of the campaign. Winning videos will be removed from the rotation at 4pm each day.
41. By entering the promotion Entrants will be deemed to consent to the transfer of personal data to Electric Ireland for the purposes of the administration of this promotion.
42. These terms and conditions shall be governed by Irish Law and the Courts of the Republic of Ireland shall have exclusive jurisdiction.