These Terms and Conditions govern the participation of individuals ("Participants") in the Cutty Kiddies Contest online kids competition, hosted by Helpers Corporation ("We" or "Us"). Entering the competition constitutes full acceptance of these Terms and the Rules below.
11.1 By entering the Competition, Participants acknowledge that they have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, apart from which no legal proceedings shall be engaged with beside the protection and legally binding assertions of these.
Before you enter your child into the Cutty Kiddies Contest competition, please take a few minutes to read the rules and familiarise yourself with our terms and conditions. We advise all participants to respect our rules in the interests of fairness, kindness to each other and the overall enjoyment of the competition for everyone taking part. Any queries regarding our rules can be sent to us and a member of our team will assist.
1. Please read these Rules, along with our General Competition & Website Terms and Privacy Policy (“Policies”), before entering the Cutty Kiddies competition, as your participation, or use of any website hosting or detailing our competitions (“Website”), constitutes your automatic acceptance of the Rules and Policies outlined as well as our working terms and conditions.
2. Cutty Kiddies is administered by Helpers Corporation (the legal owner of Cutty Kiddies) (“the Promoter”), which remains the overseeing and mother body of this innovative competition for kids.
3. Any queries related to the Cutty Kiddies online competition can be directed to support@cuttykiddies.co.za and we will speedily and accurately assist.
4. The Promoter is also the Responsible Party (as defined by SA data laws) for all data it may process pursuant to your entry into this competition.
5. This competition is only open to participants who are South African residents aged 18 years and older, who warrant that they have full legal capacity and guardianship of the child they enrol, and who understand that they are entering into a binding contract from the moment the competition starts until the end of the term. If entering on behalf of a corporate entity, the participant warrants that they have the full authority of the relevant entity and the legal power to do so.
6. Entry is only open to children aged between 0 and 18 years within each separate gender.
7. Employees (and their immediate families, including any live-in partner) of the Promoter, companies within the Promoter's group of companies, and/or those associated with the operation or promotion of the Competition, including without limitation the provider of the prize, are ineligible to enter or vote in any of our Competitions. Any such entries are invalid. Winners (parents) are required to have a valid South African bank account in order for us to award any cash prizes and will be required to verify their identity and age before receiving their prize.
8. All photos and videos will be screened. Only those accepted and deemed good enough in quality and standard, at our sole discretion, will be accepted, confirmed, allowed upload on our site, and issued a Unique Voting ID for the specific child entrant.
9. Inappropriate or distasteful photos will not be accepted and your entry will be deleted. The decision to do so is entirely within our sole discretion.
10. Entry into the competition is done via our website, and a registration fee and administration fee is charged per category and age to ensure quality processes and to deter fraudulence and unethical practices.
11. Voting opens at 00:00 on the first day of the first competition month and closes at 23:59:59 on the 20th day of the 3rd competition month.
12. Voting is made available with a few methods, inclusive of timely, random free voting methods made available at our discretion. We will make available daily, weekly and monthly free votes and bonus coded voting methods for the enjoyment of our voters, redeemable for free with each free method, plus paid-for premium rate SMS, credit and debit card options, Zapper, PayPal and other paid-for methods with packages and mass vote options.
14. The 10 kids for each gender and age group category with the most votes at the end of the competition cycle are declared that quarter's Cutty Kiddies winners. Winners will be announced on our social media pages and will also be contacted within 7 working days of the close of the competition.
16. Winners will be awarded the associated prizes by the Promoter in this competition.
17. Prizes will be paid to verified winners of the Cutty Kiddies online competition within 10–15 working days of being announced. Prize winners will be notified directly by email and/or phone (using the contact details provided on their entry form) to arrange for the payment of their prizes. This communication may involve requesting additional information to confirm that the prize winner does indeed qualify to receive a prize and that there has been no fraudulent means by which they won, after which the prizes will be handed over.
18. Voters need the bill payer's permission to vote via SMS; this applies to contract and pay-as-you-go subscribers. Proof may be required before any cash prizes are awarded.
19. The Promoter will block votes from our system if more than 100 SMSs are received from the same mobile number in a month. Further SMSs received will still be charged by your mobile network, but votes will not be allocated. Our system will notify you when you have reached your limit.
20. Failure to adhere to these rules in any way could result in disqualification from the Cutty Kiddies competition. In this case, Cutty Kiddies reserves the right to reassign a prize to another entrant or withhold the prize until due diligence is done, so that we maintain fair and open adjudication methods and practices.
Our competition makes available some free voting methods, while other voting methods attract a charge to the voter, namely:
Free and bundled SMS cannot be used to vote. Errors will be billed and cannot be reversed. SMS voting is not available on FNB Connect networks. A limit of 100 SMS per mobile number applies.
Free daily, weekly and monthly votes, including social media posted votes and bonus codes, are also made available throughout each running term.
The Cutty Kiddies Contest online competition and its website are governed by the laws of South Africa only. Should certain features of these same laws not be expressly stated herein, they are nonetheless applicable. We also adhere to the Code of Conduct as set out by the Wireless Application Services Providers' Association (WASPA).
