Conditions of Participation in Prize Competitions of AV-Medien (Österreichischer Agrarverlag)

1. Eligibility to participate

1. Any nat­ur­al, Ger­man-speak­ing per­son resid­ing in Aus­tria, Ger­many and Switzer­land who has reached the age of 16 at the time of their par­tic­i­pa­tion is enti­tled to par­tic­i­pate in prize com­pe­ti­tions organ­ised by the brands and media of AV-Medi­en or “Öster­re­ichis­ch­er Agrarver­lag Druck- und Ver­lags­ge­sellschaft m.b.H. Nfg. KG” (reg­is­tered office: Sturz­gasse 1a, 1140 Vien­na, Aus­tria).
2. Sweep­stake clubs or per­sons who use auto­mat­ed ser­vices to par­tic­i­pate in prize com­pe­ti­tions (bots, scripts) are not eli­gi­ble to par­tic­i­pate.
3. Fur­ther­more, any per­son who per­forms any type of func­tion at or for the organ­is­er AV-Medi­en is also inel­i­gi­ble.
4. Every nat­ur­al per­son may only par­tic­i­pate once in one and the same prize com­pe­ti­tion. If it is estab­lished that a per­son is par­tic­i­pat­ing in a com­pe­ti­tion using sev­er­al iden­ti­ties (e.g. sev­er­al e‑mail address­es), the per­son and all of his/her iden­ti­ties will be auto­mat­i­cal­ly exclud­ed from the com­pe­ti­tion.

2. Data Protection and General Terms and Conditions

1. AV-Medien’s cur­rent data pro­tec­tion pol­i­cy applies to all prize com­pe­ti­tions organ­ised by AV-Medi­en at the time of the start of the com­pe­ti­tion. The pol­i­cy can be accessed at any time at: https://www.av-medien.com/privacy-policy/
2. In the respec­tive prize com­pe­ti­tions, the par­tic­i­pant will be asked to agree to this data pro­tec­tion pol­i­cy. Only those who give their con­sent can par­tic­i­pate in prize com­pe­ti­tions organ­ised by AV-Medi­en, as a prop­er car­ry­ing out of a com­pe­ti­tion would oth­er­wise not be pos­si­ble.
3. Pur­pose of data processing:3.1. The main pur­pose of pro­cess­ing per­son­al data in the course of prize com­pe­ti­tions is sub­or­di­nate to the prop­er car­ry­ing out of prize com­pe­ti­tions. Per­son­al data need to be request­ed from par­tic­i­pants pri­mar­i­ly when a draw takes place and a win­ner is to be informed of his/her prize or when the prize is to be sent to the win­ner. For this pur­pose, it may also be nec­es­sary to make required data avail­able to third par­ties (e.g. the spon­sor of the prizes). These third par­ties will be request­ed by AV-Medi­en to use the data only for the above-men­tioned pur­pose and to delete them after­wards. In addi­tion, per­son­al data will be used by AV-Medi­en to inform par­tic­i­pants about pos­si­ble changes to the course of the respec­tive prize competition.3.2. Per­son­al data may also be used by the brands and media of AV-Medi­en for adver­tis­ing pur­pos­es. This is under­stood to mean the adver­tis­ing of AV-Medien’s prod­ucts or third-par­ty prod­ucts. This type of adver­tis­ing is gen­er­al­ly lim­it­ed to e‑mail mar­ket­ing, but may also go beyond it in indi­vid­ual cas­es (this will be com­mu­ni­cat­ed sep­a­rate­ly for each prize com­pe­ti­tion). The par­tic­i­pant must active­ly give his/her con­sent to these adver­tis­ing pur­pos­es in the respec­tive prize com­pe­ti­tion. If par­tic­i­pa­tion results in reg­is­tra­tion for a newslet­ter, the par­tic­i­pant will be informed of this dur­ing reg­is­tra­tion for the prize com­pe­ti­tion or its announce­ment — includ­ing infor­ma­tion on which newslet­ter he/she is reg­is­ter­ing for and the approx­i­mate con­tent of the newslet­ter. If the par­tic­i­pant does not con­sent, AV-Medi­en reserves the right to exclude him/her from par­tic­i­pa­tion. If con­sent is giv­en, a barter aris­es between AV-Medi­en and the par­tic­i­pant (par­tic­i­pa­tion in the prize com­pe­ti­tion in return for reg­is­tra­tion for adver­tis­ing mes­sages), which will be com­mu­ni­cat­ed to each par­tic­i­pant in a man­ner that is clear­ly com­pre­hen­si­ble dur­ing reg­is­tra­tion for the com­pe­ti­tion or in its announcement.3.3. AV-Medi­en reserves the right to pub­lish the names of the par­tic­i­pants on its own media (print and online, newslet­ter, social media, etc.) depend­ing on the type and loca­tion of the prize com­pe­ti­tion. In the inter­ests of data min­imi­sa­tion, only the first name and place of res­i­dence of the par­tic­i­pant will be pub­lished. The par­tic­i­pant may object to this pub­li­ca­tion imme­di­ate­ly in the course of his/her par­tic­i­pa­tion and in any case before the clos­ing date for par­tic­i­pa­tion. Objec­tions must be sub­mit­ted in writ­ing and usu­al­ly to the con­tact address stat­ed in the respec­tive prize com­pe­ti­tion. In the event that no con­tact address is pro­vid­ed, objec­tions may also be sent to datenschutz@agrarverlag.at.3.4. Par­tic­i­pants may have to sub­mit pho­tos, videos, texts, draw­ings, etc. in order to par­tic­i­pate in cer­tain prize com­pe­ti­tions. By sub­mit­ting them, AV-Medi­en receives, from the sender, the right to pub­lish these types of con­tent in its own pub­li­ca­tions for an indef­i­nite peri­od. AV-Medi­en may also use these sub­mis­sions for com­mer­cial pur­pos­es. Con­tent sub­mit­ted by users may be repro­duced, pub­lished and edit­ed for adver­tis­ing pur­pos­es with­out any restric­tions in terms of loca­tion and time, free of remu­ner­a­tion and with­out nam­ing the respec­tive author.
4. Data con­troller:
   At AV-Medi­en, the per­son respon­si­ble for han­dling per­son­al data is pub­lish­ing direc­tor Win­fried Eberl. For ques­tions and com­plaints, please con­tact datenschutz@agrarverlag.at.
5. Par­tic­i­pants’ rights:
   Every par­tic­i­pant in com­pe­ti­tions organ­ised by AV-Medi­en has the right to objec­tion to, obtain­ing of infor­ma­tion about, delet­ing or cor­rec­tion of data and to lodge a com­plaint with the data pro­tec­tion author­i­ty. Par­tic­i­pants also have the right to can­cel their sub­scrip­tion to mail­ing lists at any time.
6. Legal basis:
   The legal basis for car­ry­ing out prize com­pe­ti­tions at AV-Medi­en is Arti­cle 6 “Law­ful­ness of pro­cess­ing” of the Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (GDPR).
7. Gen­er­al Terms and Con­di­tions of AV-Medi­en:
   For the Gen­er­al Terms and Con­di­tions of AV-Medi­en, please go to:: https://www.av-medien.at/services/agb.html

3. General conditions/rules of a prize competition

The gen­er­al con­di­tions of any prize com­pe­ti­tion organ­ised by AV-Medi­en are defined in the respec­tive com­pe­ti­tion itself or in its announce­ment. In order to be able to par­tic­i­pate in a prize com­pe­ti­tion, an eli­gi­ble per­son must observe and com­ply with the respec­tive rules of the game.

4. Start and end of competitions

1. When­ev­er a prize com­pe­ti­tion does not start with its announce­ment, the start will be announced direct­ly as part of the com­pe­ti­tion itself or by means of a sep­a­rate announce­ment.
2. AV-Medi­en will define the clos­ing date of a prize com­pe­ti­tion in advance dur­ing the devel­op­ment phase and will com­mu­ni­cate it to the par­tic­i­pants. The clos­ing date can be extend­ed once by AV-Medi­en — pro­vid­ed that cor­re­spond­ing infor­ma­tion is pro­vid­ed in the course of the com­pe­ti­tion itself. A pos­si­ble exten­sion, includ­ing the dura­tion of the exten­sion, will be announced at the start of the respec­tive prize com­pe­ti­tion, there­by pro­vid­ing the par­tic­i­pant with a fore­see­able final clos­ing date of the com­pe­ti­tion.

5. Prizes

The prizes of a com­pe­ti­tion are pre­sent­ed dur­ing the com­pe­ti­tion itself or in its announce­ment and are pro­vid­ed either by AV-Medi­en itself or by part­ners of AV-Medi­en. The win­ner is not enti­tled to any exchange, refund, guar­an­tee, cash equiv­a­lent or oth­er addi­tion­al ser­vices in con­nec­tion with the prize. Prizes are not trans­fer­able. Only prizes stat­ed in the com­pe­ti­tion will be raf­fled. AV-Medi­en express­ly reserves the right to replace the respec­tive announced prizes with prizes of equal or greater val­ue with­out giv­ing rea­sons.

6. Determination of the winners

The winner(s) will be deter­mined after the clos­ing date in a non-pub­lic draw with­out the pres­ence of a notary. If win­ners are unavail­able or can­not be con­tact­ed with­in sev­en days of the first noti­fi­ca­tion by AV-Medi­en, anoth­er win­ner will be deter­mined. Win­ners will be con­tact­ed by per­son­al mes­sage via email, tele­phone or the respec­tive social media chan­nel (depend­ing on the nature and loca­tion of the prize com­pe­ti­tion).

7. Acceptance, rejection and passing on of a prize by AV-Medien

Each par­tic­i­pant is free to accept a prize. As a rule, AV-Medi­en assumes that the win­ner will accept his/her prize. If a prize is not accept­ed, the win­ner must inform AV-Medi­en of this in writ­ing. In that case, the prize will either be award­ed to the pos­i­tive par­tic­i­pant direct­ly fol­low­ing the win­ner or the draw will be repeat­ed among the oth­er remain­ing par­tic­i­pants (depend­ing on the type of the com­pe­ti­tion). If a com­pe­ti­tion involves sev­er­al prizes, a par­tic­i­pant is only enti­tled to accept one prize — unless oth­er­wise reg­u­lat­ed.

8. Possible additional costs that may be associated with a prize

Unless oth­er­wise com­mu­ni­cat­ed, AV-Medi­en only raf­fles the prizes list­ed in the com­pe­ti­tion itself but not their trans­port and/or any addi­tion­al ser­vices, resources and/or expens­es that may be asso­ci­at­ed with a prize. Pos­si­ble addi­tion­al costs must be borne by the win­ner, if he/she wish­es to accept the prize. In the event that these costs are borne by AV-Medi­en or a part­ner of AV-Medi­en, this will be com­mu­ni­cat­ed indi­vid­u­al­ly and in advance in the course of the com­pe­ti­tion.

9. Exclusion of liability

AV-Medi­en exer­cis­es the great­est pos­si­ble care in car­ry­ing out prize com­pe­ti­tions. AV-Medi­en is not liable for any dam­ages in con­nec­tion with the par­tic­i­pa­tion in a com­pe­ti­tion. AV-Medi­en reserves the right to with­draw a com­pe­ti­tion or make changes to it in the event of unfore­seen cir­cum­stances beyond its rea­son­able con­trol or for impor­tant rea­sons — with­out lia­bil­i­ty to par­tic­i­pants, win­ners or third par­ties.
AV-Medi­en accepts no lia­bil­i­ty if the loca­tion of a com­pe­ti­tion (web­site, social media, etc.) is unavail­able or does not func­tion with­out prob­lems. AV-Medi­en will at all times attempt to fix tech­ni­cal faults as quick­ly as pos­si­ble (inso­far as this is with­in its pow­er), but excludes any lia­bil­i­ty for them.

10. Prize competitions on social media or other channels

If a prize com­pe­ti­tion does not take place on one of AV-Medien’s own plat­forms or chan­nels (e.g. Face­book, Insta­gram, Google, plat­forms of part­ner com­pa­nies, etc.), the exter­nal plat­form has no con­nec­tion with AV-Medi­en — unless oth­er­wise com­mu­ni­cat­ed. AV-Medien’s prize com­pe­ti­tions are in no way spon­sored, sup­port­ed or organ­ised by third-par­ty plat­forms. The exclu­sive recip­i­ent of the data pro­vid­ed by the par­tic­i­pant is AV-Medi­en.

Ver­sion: 28.02.2024