Terms and Conditions for Mahindra #1LakhStronger gamification
Introduction:
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (“M&M” / “Mahindra”) introduces the Mahindra Scorpio #1LakhStronger contest (“Contest”) during the period from 12th October, 2023 to 12th November, 2023 (“Contest Period”).
As part of the challenge, The Mahindra team will select 10 winners who will stand a chance to win the grand prize – The 4X4 Mahindra Adventure Experience.
Eligibility:
- This free-to-enter promotional contest is open to all Indian residents aged 18 years and above, who have valid identification as to the citizenship of India and consent for capturing their Personal Information to be participants in such gaming activities, except employees of M&M and subsidiaries, their families, Dealers, Dealer Employees, channel partners, Sales Executives of Dealerships and their families (“Eligible Participant”).
- “Winner” means the Eligible Participant who complies with the terms and conditions (“T&C”/ “Terms and Conditions”) of the Contest and is selected by M&M basis his/her entry in relation to the Contest.
How to Participate?
- Steps to Participate: To participate, all Eligible Participants must follow the below 2 steps:
- STEP 1: Visit #1LakhStronger for the game landing page. Fill in your Mobile number and after reading and confirming the Terms & Conditions click the check box to accept the game T&C.
- STEP 2: Once the game begins, the participant must choose their vehicle, choose the terrain and then swipe 'Left' or 'Right' to move the vehicle in the terrain.
- STEP 3: The participant has to collect 9 flags throughout the game under 60 seconds and avoid all obstacles in its path.
- The gaming timer is of 60 (sixty) seconds. The Eligible Participant must complete the game within the time limit to reveal their best score. This score will be captured and will determine the Winners of the game.
- The Winners shall be announced on or before 30th November.
- Each Eligible Participant gets unlimited attempts to play the game, until they complete the game within the stipulated time of 60 seconds.
- The Eligible Participant can retry the game to record their best score within the 60 seconds. However, the score that was recorded the first time the Eligible Participant played the game, is the only score that will be recorded for declaring the Winners.
- Only 10 Winner(s) will stand a chance to win the Prizes. Selection of the Winner/Winners shall be at the sole discretion of M&M, using a pre-defined process, as further specified in Section 7 below.
- M&M and its partners will reach out to the Winners who have been selected by M&M and they will have 14 working days to confirm and share all documentation required by M&M. If the Winner delays the confirmation beyond 14 working days, then M&M will not be responsible for the delay and its implications on claiming the Prize.
Prizes:
The gratification for the Contest i.e., the Prizes shall be the below:
- From among the total participants qualified for the game, M&M will select those with the best time and from among these, only 10 Winners will be selected and will win a Mahindra Adventure Experience of the same price at M&M’s Igatpuri (Maharashtra) plant.
- Inclusions of Prize: Meals, refreshments and lunch, T-shirt and cap, certificates, induction program which involves basic 4wd theory and introduction to off-roading techniques.
- Exclusions of Prize: Flight/travel tickets to and from Igatpuri plant to respective locations, airport transfers (to and from Igatpuri plant), off-road shoes/gumboots.
How to Claim Prize?
- Winners must claim the Prizes in the manner communicated by M&M. In case the Winner fails to claim the Prize on or before the date specified by M&M, for any reasons whatsoever, he/she shall be deemed to have surrendered the Prize under this Contest and shall have no claims in the Prize or any other money compensation or otherwise.
- The Winners shall be required to provide self-attested proof of identity, confirmation of his/her mobile number along with the auto-response received acknowledging his/her participation, along with other documentation as required below and as per applicable law in force.
- Incomplete / rejected / invalid / returned /disputed or unauthorized/ fraudulent/incomplete documents or information in relation to claiming the Prizes will not be considered for the purpose of redemption.
Selection of Winner, Declaration of Winner and the Prizes:
- The Eligible Participants shall be shortlisted basis correct entries, as well as draw of lots, which shall be conducted by an internal jury of M&M. The jury shall be decided by M&M and decision of the Jury shall be final and binding on all the Eligible Participants. Eligible Participant will have no right or authority to identify and/ or question the jury or the decision of M&M in this regard.
- Winners will be announced on or before 30th November
- The names of the Winners shall be announced via an email and/or a phone call by the Authorized representative of M&M.
- M&M representative may ask the Winner(s) to share their bytes on winning the contest for digital use. Any information / comments / data that is shared by the Eligible Participants shall become the property of M&M and M&M shall be free to use such data in any of their promotional / marketing / website use, without any compensation to You in cash / kind.
- The Prizes and its benefits are non-transferable, non-negotiable and cannot be exchanged for cash or kind. The Winner shall not be permitted to sell the prize to any third party or register the prize under any other name / entity.
Other Terms and Conditions:
- Participation in the Contest is purely voluntary and at the sole discretion of the person / individual. By entering the Contest, all Eligible Participants accept and agree that he/she has understood and is bound by the T&Cs contained herein. Non-acceptance of any of these T&Cs will result in disqualification from the Contest.
- M&M recommends the Eligible Participant to read these Terms & conditions carefully each time they access the website, as the T&C are subject to change.
- By participating in this Contest, every Eligible Participant agrees to allow use of his or her name and / or public profile picture/photograph for advertising or in any contest-related announcements M&M shall be free to use these on any of our social media platforms or similar promotions / marketing use. The Participation agrees and confirms that no compensation in cash and / or kind shall be paid to the Eligible Participants for the aforesaid data.
- All Prizes shall be subject to Indian laws, including tax regulation, as and when applicable. All applicable taxes, levies, charges and incidental costs including TDS, if applicable on any prize, will have to be borne by the Winner. Any other deductions are applicable under the provisions of law shall be made at source before refunding the amount to the Winners.
- All the government taxes including gift taxes will be borne by the Winners. The payment of applicable taxes has to be borne by the Winners to avail the prizes. Taxes, if any, shall be paid prior to claiming the prize, as and when applicable. If the Eligible Participant is unable to make payment towards any charges or statutory requirements, then such Eligible Participant may be disqualified on this ground and the Eligible Participant shall have no right towards the prize.
- M&M reserves the right to change, curtail or discontinue the Contest and/or change the Prizes at any point of time without any notice. Decision of M&M shall be final in all respects and binding on all Eligible Participants to the Contest and no correspondence whatsoever will be entertained in this regard, and on occurrence of such an event M&M shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising due to a force majeure event and shall not be liable to pay any amount as compensation or otherwise for any such loss.
- M&M reserves the right to disqualify the Winner from the benefits of the Prize, if any fraudulent activity is identified as being carried out by the Winner for the purpose of availing the benefits under the Prize or if the Winner is unable to provide any of the documents requested by M&M.
- Eligible Participants are solely responsible for time taken with regards to bandwidth connectivity and/or any other internet related issues during the contest entry submission.
- Any fake profile which is set up for the purpose of competing in Contest will be automatically disqualified.
- M&M reserves the right to disqualify any inappropriate entry.
- This Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, any social media platforms whatsoever. Eligible Participants are providing their information to M&M and not to any social media platforms.
- At any time, M&M reserves the right to update and/or amend all or any of these terms without further notice to the Eligible Participant.
- M&M shall not be held liable if the communication pertaining to the winning entry doesn't reach intended participant for any reasons whatsoever including but not limited to the following reasons:
- Bandwidth problem of the mailbox/server of the host
- Incorrect e-mail address and Mobile number given at the time of submitting entry
- Inbox of the recipient being full/having insufficient space
- Any other reason, technical or otherwise, beyond the control of M&M.
- M&M reserves the right to suspend, shorten, modify, extend or cancel the Contest at any time without any prior notice at its sole discretion.
- The entries submitted by any Eligible Participant under this Contest or otherwise shall be treated as his / her own independent personal views and submissions; M&M and/or its affiliates do not acknowledge or agree with any such content and further shall not be held liable for any defamatory, abusive language used and loss occurring to any third party.
- Eligible Participant shall indemnify M&M or its affiliate from any loss that may occur to M&M due to non-adherence to these T&Cs or due to submission of abusive, defamatory content submitted for the contest.
- M&M does not exercise any control, nor does it have the means for exercising this control, amongst others, regarding the quality, originality, authenticity, legality, security or validity of the contest entries.
- M&M reserves the right to remove, refuse or cancel access to any Eligible Participant without any reason therefore and shall be under no obligation to provide any benefits accrued under the contest.
- The Eligible Participant shall not, without any valid license or authorization, use the intellectual property rights belonging to M&M and/or third parties.
- Contest is subject to Force Majeure events and situations beyond control of M&M and/or its affiliates.
- M&M takes no responsibility for the damages that the Eligible Participant may suffer due to errors or omissions affecting website content.
- Eligible Participant hereby authorizes M&M to communicate with him / her from time to time about the matters connected with the Contest.
- Eligible Participant unconditionally agrees that he/ she shall not:
- do anything which violates any of the terms contained herein;
- make any misrepresentation;
- Inbox of the recipient being full/having insufficient space
- do anything that does not comply with generally accepted internet etiquette including (without limitation) the excessive use of inflammatory or antagonistic criticism ("flaming"), or wastefully and unnecessarily including previous communications in any postings;
- perform system abuse;
- propagate, distribute or transmit Destructive Code, whether or not damage is actually caused thereby;
- Post abusive, obscene, threatening, harassing, defamatory, libelous, offensive or sexually explicit material.
- Intentionally make false or misleading statements.
- Offer to sell or buy any product or service.
- Post material that infringes copyright.
- Post information that he/ she knows to be confidential or sensitive or otherwise in breach of the law.
- Copy information which is the property of M&M including Eligible Participant’s data or comments or post such information in any website or webpage.
- M&M reserves the right to offer the Prize to other Eligible Participants should a Winner be unable, for any reason, to accept the Prizes under this Contest.
- Eligible Participants agree to make themselves available for publicity purposes if requested by M&M and agree to the use of their image and quotes for such publicity.
- Whenever called for, Eligible Participant will be required to complete all formalities as may be communicated by M&M and/or its affiliate including but not limited to providing his/her authentic and correct information, failing which he/she shall be disqualified at any time or at any stage. In case false information is revealed at any time after participation, the Eligible Participant shall be liable to return all benefits provided under the Contests and subject to cost, if any.
- M&M reserves the right to restrict / bar any person from participating in the Contest without quoting any reasons for such rejection.
- Eligible Participants found indulging in any malpractices such as cheating or creating dubious profiles etc., shall be disqualified from the contest at any time and shall not be eligible for any Prize.
- In the event of a dispute the decision by M&M is final and binding and no correspondence will be entertained in this regard. These Terms & Conditions and the Contest shall be governed by Indian laws only. Any claim, dispute or lawsuit arising in connection with them or the Contest shall solely be subject to the jurisdiction of the Courts of Mumbai.
- This Contest is not applicable in any country outside the Indian jurisdiction and also within the Indian jurisdiction if the State Law, does not permit such contest.
- The Winners shall be contacted on the mobile number shared by them during contest participation. M&M shall not be liable in any manner whatsoever for any Eligible Participant who cannot be contacted on the mobile number from which the SMS was received or if the mobile number is incorrect.
- The Prize Winners shall execute all such documentation as deemed necessary by M&M and allow M&M and their assignees to use, display, copy, modify, distribute, publish, sell, assign, exchange, license, sub-license, in all and all locations, in any medium, form or format, in any number, the picture, image or likeness and the reproductions of the Winner, and any biographical information furnished by the Winner to M&M.
- The information willingly provided by the Eligible Participant can be used by M&M in future for any lawful purpose as deemed fit by M&M, without any compensation to the Eligible Participant whatsoever.