Terms and Conditions

1. The competition is open to all UK and the Republic of Ireland residents aged 16 and over, excluding employees and the immediate families of Waterstone's, Seven Squared, any HMV Group plc company, their agents or anyone professionally connected with this competition. Under 16s can upload an entry however will not be eligible to take part in the competition.
   
   
2. There is one prize consisting of a Delight themed hamper from Fortnum and Mason worth over £100, an Individual Annual Membership to the London Library worth £395 and a £100 Waterstone's gift card. Prize must be accepted as offered. No cash alternative to the prize will be offered and the prize is not transferable. Value of prize is correct at time of going to press. The promoter reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value should circumstances makes this necessary.
   
   
3. The closing date for the receipt of all entries is 5pm (GMT) on Wednesday 7 October 2009. The entry must be the author's original work, and submitted in the name of the author. Only one entry per person. No third party or bulk entries. Multiple entries from a single source (eg 'competition entry' website/company) will be disqualified. The word limit for all entries is 200; any entry received over 200 words will be disqualified. The title of the entry is not included within the 200 word limit. You may not use a false or fake email address, impersonate any person or entity.
   
   
4. Entries published will always be credited to the author. If you do post content or submit material, you 1) grant Waterstone's and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free and fully sub-licensable rights to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media; and 2) Waterstone's and its affiliates and sub-licensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, should they choose.
   
   
5. The winner may be required to take part in publicity resulting from this competition. Names, city of residence, photograph and/or image may be published for publicity purposes in all media carried out by Waterstone's, without payment or compensation.
   
   
6. Waterstone’s reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit any content.
   
   
7. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post; that, as at the date that the content or material is submitted to Waterstones.com: (a) the content and material is accurate; (b) use of the content and material you supply does not breach any applicable policies or guidelines and will not cause injury to any person or entity (including that the content or material is not defamatory). You agree to indemnify Waterstones.com and its affiliates for all claims brought by a third party against Waterstone's or its affiliates arising out of or in connection with a breach of any of these warranties.
   
   
8. Waterstone's assumes no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected entries or for any failure of the website during the promotional period, for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or entry to be received by Waterstone's on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or any website, or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to an entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from playing or downloading any material in the promotion. Waterstone's reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel or suspend the email portion of this contest should a virus or bug or other cause beyond the reasonable control of Waterstone's corrupt the security or proper administration of the contest. Any attempt to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of this promotion is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Waterstone's reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution. Entries are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are illegible, mechanically MV reproduced, mutilated, forged, falsified, altered or tampered with in any way. Entrants agree to abide by the Terms and Conditions and the decision of the promoter is final and binding.
   
   
9. The winning entry will be decided by a public vote on the Delight microsite www.waterstonesdelight.com between 04/09/09 and 07/10/09. The entry that receives the most votes will be deemed the winner. If a selected entrant does not meet all of the entry conditions, the entry with the next highest number of votes will become the winner.
   
   
10. The winner will be notified by email within 28 days of the closing date. If the prize has not been claimed within three months of the closing date, the entry that received the next highest number of votes will become the winner. The judges' decision is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into. The email address you provide to enter the competition will be used by us to contact you if necessary, and will not be shared with other companies. Waterstone's will only use your email address in compliance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and in accordance with our privacy policy.
    
    
11. For name and county of the winner, please send a stamped addressed envelope, marked Waterstone's Delight Competition Winner, to Waterstones.com, Capital Court, Capital Interchange Way, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 0EX after 07/11/09. No entries should be sent to this address.
    
    
12. The promoter is Waterstone’s, Capital Court, Capital Interchange Way, Brentford, Middlesex, TW8 0EX.