Blog T&Cs
DEBENHAMS BLOG TERMS OF USE
Thank you for your interest in the Debenhams’ Blog. Debenhams is pleased to receive your contributions. This service is subject to the terms and conditions set out on this page and by using the blog you confirm your agreement to these terms and conditions. We respect, and expect users to respect fellow community members by complying with these terms.
1. Your Comments
You are responsible for any comments or content that you post on our blog (together referred to as the “User Posting”). You must ensure that your User Posting does not include any material which:
• is offensive, abusive, discriminatory, harassing, malicious, threatening, blasphemous, racist or defamatory;
• is indecent or obscene;
• violates the intellectual property, privacy or other right of any other person;
• is illegal or encourages any action which is illegal;
• advertises any other person, products or services, or has the appearance of so doing ;
• is irrelevant or unsolicited material (such as spam);
• links to inappropriate websites; or
• contains viruses or other malicious code.
It is your responsibility to ensure that your User Posting is: (i) accurate, where it states facts; (ii) is genuinely held, where it states opinions; and (iii) you have obtained all third party consents required to make the User Posting.
User Postings are the sole responsibility of the user who posted and we cannot accept responsibility for any comments made on our blog or on any external sites, such as Facebook. The views and opinions expressed in User Postings are the views of those users. We do not endorse any User Postings and are not in any way responsible for the User Postings, which may not reflect our own views. We do not accept any responsibility to vet, monitor or moderate User Postings.
We retain the right at all times to delete or edit any User Postings at our complete discretion without providing any explanation or to republish any comments, but we are not obliged to do so.
2. Links to Third Party Websites
You must make sure that any third party websites for which you post a link on our blog do not contain any of the material prohibited above. We do not accept liability for the content of third party sites or resources. Use of third party sites are not covered by our terms and conditions or by our privacy policy and will be governed by the site’s own terms and policies which you are advised to check.
3. Content and Operation of Blog
We aim to ensure that all content we create and publish on our blog is accurate in all material respects at the time of publishing. However, all content is subject to change and while we will always seek to reflect the latest position, we cannot guarantee this and accept no liability in respect of this.
Notwithstanding the above, any content on the blog is not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We make no guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness, reliability or otherwise of any of the content on our blog including any User Postings. Content, such as pricing and other information, may be incorrect or out of date.
If our blog is unavailable due to technical error or other reason, we will seek to resolve this as soon as possible. We make no representation or warranty and accept no liability as to the blog’s operation or availability.
4. Intellectual Property
All copyright, trademarks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in or in connection with our blog is our property or the property of our licensors. All rights are reserved. You may only use the blog for your personal use and you may not use the any part of the blog for any other purpose. Nothing in these Terms of Use grants you a right or licence to use any copyright, trademark, design right, patent or other intellectual property on or relating to the blog. Without limitation, you do not have any rights to reproduce, modify, transmit, display, publish, sell, create derivative works or distribute any part of the blog without obtaining our prior written consent.
You grant us an irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use the intellectual property in any content that you post on or in connection with our blog. By posting content on our blog, you warrant that you either own or otherwise control all of the rights to that content, including but not limited to the right to post such content.
5. Reporting a Comment or Content and Customer Complaints
If you see any comments on our blog which you feel contravene these Terms of Use, or any content which you believe is incorrect, please email blog@debenhams.com
For customer complaints, please contact our customer contact centre on 0844 800 8877.
6. Breach of these Terms of Use
If you breach these Terms of Use, you may be prohibited from posting on our blog in the future and/or we may take further legal action against you.
7. Data Protection
In using our blog, you agree that we may process any information which you provide in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
8. Changes
We may from time to time change, modify, add to or replace any part of these Terms of Use. Please visit this page regularly to check for any changes. Your continued use of the blog after any changes have been made constitute your acceptance of the changes.
9. Graham & Brown competition
1. The Graham & Brown competition is open to all residents of the UK aged 18 and over except for Debenhams PLC Group employees, all contractors and families or anyone directly connected with the organization, and operators of its brands and concessions.
2. A limit of one entry per customer will be accepted.
3. No responsibility is accepted for any entries that are incomplete, lost or delayed or are unable to be submitted because of any technical or other reason.
4. The start date of the promotion is 12th March 2012; closing date for entries is midnight 1 April 2012.
5. The winner will be picked at random on 2 April 2012.
6. The winner will be notified by 5 April 2012.
7. The winner has 30 days to claim the prize, failure to do so will result in another winner being chosen.
8. The Graham & Brown competition prize consists of Graham & Brown products available on the Debenhams.com up to a value of £500
9. By entering their details, entrants will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the conditions.
10. The judge’s decision shall be final. Neither correspondence nor discussion concerning any decision shall be entered into.
11. All prizes are non-transferable. No cash alternative is available for any prize.
12. A list of the winner’s names can be obtained by sending an SAE to; WINNERS, Graham & Brown Competition, Debenhams, 6th Floor, 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX after 5th April 2012.
Baker by Ted Baker giftcard competition
1. The Baker by Ted Baker giftcard competition is open to all residents of the UK aged 18 and over except for Debenhams PLC Group employees, all contractors and families or anyone directly connected with the organization, and operators of its brands and concessions.
2. A limit of one entry per customer will be accepted.
3. No responsibility is accepted for any entries that are incomplete, lost or delayed or are unable to be submitted because of any technical or other reason.
4. The start date of the promotion is 19th March 2012; closing date for entries is midnight Monday 9th April 2012.
5. The winner will be picked at random on the 12th April 2012.
6. The winner will be notified by the 15th April 2012.
7. The Baker by Ted Baker giftcard competition prize consists of one Debenhams giftcard to the value of £100.
8. By entering their details, entrants will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the conditions.
9. The judge’s decision shall be final. Neither correspondence nor discussion concerning any decision shall be entered into.
10. All prizes are non-transferable. No cash alternative is available for any prize.
11. A list of the winner’s names can be obtained by sending an SAE to; WINNERS, Baker by Ted Baker Competition, Debenhams, 6th Floor, 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX after 12th April 2012.
“Debenhams / Wonderbra Ultimate Hen Party Weekend” Prize Draw
1. Participation signifies acceptance of these terms and conditions, including the instructions to this promotion which form part of these terms and conditions.
2. Open to all residents of the UK and Ireland aged 18 or over, excluding employees and their immediate families of Debenhams and the Promoter and their agents or anyone else professionally connected with the promotion.
3. Purchase is not necessary. Entry to the prize draw is open to any customers of Debenhams that are getting married in before March 2013. Entry is via website at www.debenhams.com where you will be asked to complete an on-line entry form, which must be properly completed in full. Only one entry per person.
4. All entries must be received by 12.00pm on 26th April 2012, the Closing Date. Responsibility cannot be accepted for entries not properly completed or not received or received late due to technical, communication or other problems or because of any computer error.
5. One winning entry will be selected at random from all valid entries. The winner will receive a weekend treat that includes:
a) A personalised Wonderbra bra for the bride to be;
b) £350 cash spending money for the winner;
c) Reservation at a top London club for the winner and 5 friends of her choice on either a Friday or Saturday night (the “Night Out Prize”). The Night Out Prize will include a 3 course meal and a show;
d) Accommodation at a hotel (3 star minimum) in London (the “Hotel”) for the winner and her 5 friends, based on 2 people sharing a double room (3 rooms in total).
For the avoidance of doubt, the prize does not include anything else, including any insurance or any other costs and expenses that may be incurred.
6. The draw will be supervised by an independent judge. The draw will take place and the winner will be notified within 4 weeks of the Closing Date.
7. Prizes must be claimed within 10 days of the date of notification, otherwise the prize may be forfeited at the Promoter’s discretion or passed on to a reserve list of winners. The prize can be taken on a date agreed with the Promoter and subject to availability, but must be taken before 31 December 2012.
8. To claim the prize, the winner will be required to provide the Promoter with (i) confirmation of her name, address and name and address of her chosen friends; (ii) confirmation of preferred bra size; and (iii) provide two separate pieces of photo ID confirming her age (e.g. copy of passport and driving licence).
9. The winner and her friends will have their name on a guest list for the Night Out Prize and will each be required to show photo ID before they are able to obtain entry to the venue. The winner and her friends must comply with the venue’s dress code.
10. The winner and her friends must behave appropriately at all times at the venue and fully comply with the rules and regulations of the venue and all instructions issued by the venue. The venue may refuse entry or ask the winner and/or any of her friends guest to leave the venue at any time if in the absolute discretion of the organisers there is any inappropriate behaviour.
11. With regard to the Night Out Prize and the Hotel, standard operator terms, rules and regulations apply and the winner and her friends must at all times comply with such terms, rules and regulations.
12. The Promoter shall not be liable in any way and does not accept any responsibility for any act or omission of the venue, the Hotel or any other third party, for any delays or cancellation or unavailability of any service or facility or for any inconvenience, accident or injury, loss or damage to property or possessions, or for any other loss or liability whatsoever, except for death or personal injury caused by Promoter’s own negligence.
13. For the name and county of the prize winners, send a stamped SAE to the Promoter’s address set out below, marked “Winner – Debenhams / Wonderbra Ultimate Hen Party Weekend”.
14. Prize is non-transferable and non-refundable and there are no cash alternatives. The Promoter reserves the right in its sole discretion to offer an alternative prize of equal or greater value.
15. Winner may be required to participate in publicity at the Promoter’s sole discretion, including use of their names, geographic location and pictures and entry into this Promotion signifies the entrant’s consent to such use.
16. Promoter: DBApparel UK Ltd, Wonderbra, Britannia Wharf, Monument Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 5LW.
Win the bluezoo brochure competition
1. The prize comprises of one of either every girl’s product featured in the brochure, or every boy’s product featured in the brochure. The prize will be determined by sex and age of the child, as provided at the point of competition entry.
2. Whilst Debenhams will make every attempt to provide one of every item featured in this brochure, where this impossible, a substitute item will be provided. We will do our best to ensure that any substitute item is as similar as possible in style and colour to the item featured.
3. All entries must be submitted via the online entry form found at website [URL]
4. This competition will close at midnight on Sunday 13 May 2012
5. The winner will be drawn and notified by Friday 18 May 2012
6. The winner is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the information provided at the point of entry.
7. No cash alternative will be offered to the prize, and no substitutes can be made. The prize is not valid against the purchase of Debenhams financial services, food services, cash, gift vouchers or giftcards or in payment of any outstanding balance on your Debenhams account.
8. Entry is restricted to UK residents.
9. Employees of Debenhams Retail PLC and associated companies and their immediate families are ineligible to take part in this competition.
10. Entrants must be over the age of 18.
11. All entries are subject to verification.
12. The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
13. Entry instructions form part of these terms and conditions and competition entry signifies acceptance of these terms and conditions.
14. The Promoter is Debenhams Retail PLC, 1 Welbeck Street, London, W1G 0AA. Company no. 83395
15. The prize is provided under the law requirements for the UK and Ireland.
Prom collection competition T&Cs
1. The Prom Collection competition is open to all residents of the UK aged 18 and over except for Debenhams PLC Group employees, all contractors and families or anyone directly connected with the organization, and operators of its brands and concessions.
2. A limit of one entry per customer will be accepted.
3. No responsibility is accepted for any entries that are incomplete, lost or delayed or are unable to be submitted because of any technical or other reason.
4. The start date of the promotion is 15 April 2012; closing date for entries is midnight Sunday 13 May 2012.
5. The winner will be picked at random on 14 May 2012.
6. The winner will be notified by 15 May 2012.
7. The Prom Collection competition prize consists of a £150 giftcard, a Benefit makeover at a Debenhams store of your choice and a Benefit ‘Hello Flawless Oxegen Wow’ new foundation in your shade.
8. Free benefit makeover in a store of your choice must stock Benefit product.
9. By entering their details, entrants will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the conditions.
10. The judge’s decision shall be final. Neither correspondence nor discussion concerning any decision shall be entered into.
11. All prizes are non-transferable. No cash alternative is available for any prize.
12. Prize must be claimed within 1 month of the winner being contacted. Failure to claim prize will result in forfeit.
13. A list of the winner’s names can be obtained by sending an SAE to; WINNERS, Prom Competition, Debenhams, 6th Floor, 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX after 16th May 2012.
Delonghi coffee machine T&Cs
1. The Delonghi coffee machine competition is open to all residents of the UK aged 18 and over except for Debenhams PLC Group employees, all contractors and families or anyone directly connected with the organization, and operators of its brands and concessions.
2. A limit of one entry per customer will be accepted.
3. No responsibility is accepted for any entries that are incomplete, lost or delayed or are unable to be submitted because of any technical or other reason.
4. The start date of the promotion is 16 April 2012; closing date for entries is midnight Sunday 6 May.
5. The winner will be picked at random on 7 May 2012.
6. The winner will be notified by 8 May 2012.
7. The Delonghi coffee machine competition prize is a Delonghi prima donna coffee machine.
8. By entering their details, entrants will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the conditions.
9. The judge’s decision shall be final. Neither correspondence nor discussion concerning any decision shall be entered into.
10. All prizes are non-transferable. No cash alternative is available for any prize.
11. Prize must be claimed within 1 month of the winner being contacted. Failure to claim prize will result in forfeit.
12. A list of the winner’s names can be obtained by sending an SAE to; WINNERS, Delonghi coffee machine, Debenhams, 6th Floor, 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX after 16th May 2012.
Jenny Packham competition T&Cs
1. The Jenny Packham competition is open to all residents of the UK aged 18 and over except for Debenhams PLC Group employees, all contractors and families or anyone directly connected with the organization, and operators of its brands and concessions.
2. A limit of one entry per customer will be accepted.
3. No responsibility is accepted for any entries that are incomplete, lost or delayed or are unable to be submitted because of any technical or other reason.
4. The start date of the promotion is 01 May 2012; closing date for entries is midnight 31 May 2012.
5. The winner will be picked at random on 14 June 2012.
6. The winner will be notified by 15 May 2012.
7. The Jenny Packham competition prize consists of the Black Floral Sateen Prom Dress from the No. 1 by Jenny Packham ‘Designers at Debenhams’ collection.
8. By entering their details, entrants will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the conditions.
9. The judge’s decision shall be final. Neither correspondence nor discussion concerning any decision shall be entered into.
10. All prizes are non-transferable. No cash alternative is available for any prize.
11. Prize must be claimed within 1 month of the winner being contacted. Failure to claim prize will result in forfeit.
12. A list of the winner’s names can be obtained by sending an SAE to; WINNERS, Jenny Packham, Debenhams, 6th Floor, 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX after 16th June 2012.
The BaByliss Big Hair competition T&Cs
1. The BaByliss Big Hair competition is open to all residents of the UK aged 18 and over except for Debenhams PLC Group employees, all contractors and families or anyone directly connected with the organization, and operators of its brands and concessions.
2. A limit of one entry per customer will be accepted.
3. No responsibility is accepted for any entries that are incomplete, lost or delayed or are unable to be submitted because of any technical or other reason.
4. The start date of the promotion is 01 May 2012; closing date for entries is midnight 15 May 2012.
5. The winner will be picked at random on 15 May 2012.
6. The winner will be notified by 17 May 2012.
7. The BaByliss Big Hair competition prize consists of one BaByliss Big Hair product.
8. By entering their details, entrants will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the conditions.
9. The judge’s decision shall be final. Neither correspondence nor discussion concerning any decision shall be entered into.
10. All prizes are non-transferable. No cash alternative is available for any prize.
11. Prize must be claimed within 1 month of the winner being contacted. Failure to claim prize will result in forfeit.
12. A list of the winner’s names can be obtained by sending an SAE to; WINNERS, BaByliss Big Hair, Debenhams, 6th Floor, 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX after 1st June 2012.
Weight Watchers ‘Ultimate Weight Loss’ Shopping Spree competition T&C’s
1. The Weight Watchers is open to all residents of the UK aged 18 and over except for Debenhams PLC Group employees, all contractors and families or anyone directly connected with the organization, and operators of its brands and concessions.
2. A limit of one entry per customer will be accepted.
3. No responsibility is accepted for any entries that are incomplete, lost or delayed or are unable to be submitted because of any technical or other reason.
4. The start date of the promotion is 8th May 2012; closing date for entries is midnight Tuesday 22nd May 2012.
5. The winner will be picked at random on the 23rd May 2012.
6. The winner will be notified by the 31st May 2012.
7. The Weight Watchers prize consists of a £500 giftcard and an appointment with a Debenhams Personal Shopper.
8. By entering their details, entrants will have signed up for Debenhams emails and will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the conditions of the competition
9. The judge’s decision shall be final. Neither correspondence nor discussion concerning any decision shall be entered into.
10. All prizes are non-transferable. No cash alternative is available for any prize.
11. A list of the winner’s names can be obtained by sending an SAE to; WINNERS, Weight Watchers Competition, Debenhams, 6th Floor, 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX after 1st June 2012.
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Barbecue competition T&Cs
1. The barbecue competition is open to all residents of the UK aged 18 and over except for Debenhams PLC Group employees, all contractors and families or anyone directly connected with the organization, and operators of its brands and concessions.
2. A limit of one entry per customer will be accepted.
3. No responsibility is accepted for any entries that are incomplete, lost or delayed or are unable to be submitted because of any technical or other reason.
4. The start date of the promotion is 09 May 2012; closing date for entries is midnight 29 May 2012.
5. The winner will be picked at random on 30 May 2012.
6. The winner will be notified by 31/05/2012.
7. The Barbecue competition prize consists of.
8. By entering their details, entrants will be deemed to have accepted and agreed to be bound by the conditions.
9. The judge’s decision shall be final. Neither correspondence nor discussion concerning any decision shall be entered into.
10. All prizes are non-transferable. No cash alternative is available for any prize.
11. Prize must be claimed within 1 month of the winner being contacted. Failure to claim prize will result in forfeit.
12. A list of the winner’s names can be obtained by sending an SAE to; WINNERS, Barbecue Competition, Debenhams, 6th Floor, 33 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 1QX after 1st June 2012.
