Conditions of Entry
- By entering the Awards the Entrant will be deemed to have read and understood these rules and to be bound by them. These rules include any instructions set out with the Entry Form.
- The competition is open to owners, licensees or managers of forecourt retail sites in the UK. Overseas entrants are not eligible.
- Any employees (and their families) of the Organiser, its agents and anybody professionally connected with the competition are not eligible for entry.
- Entrants may not submit more than one entry for a site but there is no limitation on the number of categories that may be entered.
- The Organiser reserves the right at its absolute discretion to reject any entry that it deems inappropriate.
- Entry forms and photographs must be sent by prepaid post or courier to arrive no later than Friday May 27, 2011. Proof of posting will not be deemed to be proof of delivery. Photographs will be retained by the Organiser.
- Entries will only be accepted if they are submitted on the Entry Form completed in full, in ink and accompanied by appropriate good quality digital photographs.
- Entries must be signed by the person responsible for submitting the entry and to whom all correspondence concerning the Awards should be addressed.
- Responsibility cannot be accepted for any lost, late or mislaid entry and any entry which is damaged, defaced, illegible or incomplete, or which otherwise does not comply with these terms and conditions may be deemed invalid in the sole discretion of the Organiser.
- There will be one winner in each specialist category. There will be six finalists in each region, three up to 2.5 mpla and three 2.5 mpla+, from which one of each size will be chosen as a winner in each region. An overall regional winner will then be selected, and from the six overall regional winners The Forecourt Trader of the Year will be selected.
- All of the Category and Regional finalists will be selected in June against the criteria set out in the Entry Form by a panel of judges selected by the Organiser and will be notified by post within fourteen days.
- The winning site of the Forecourt Trader of the Year Award is not eligible to win in a consecutive year.
- The winner of the Forecourt Trader of the Year Award 2011 will receive a cheque for £3,000. There are no other prizes.
- The winners will be announced at and will be required to attend the Awards ceremony and dinner at The Hilton, Park Lane, London W1 on Thursday, September 22, 2011. The names of the Category Winners and award winners will be published in Forecourt Trader's October issue.
- Finalists will be offered two complimentary places at the Awards dinner.
- The judges may decline to make some or all of the Awards in any category if in their opinion there are insufficient entries of a winning standard.
- The Organiser reserves the right to change the categories and the judging panel without prior notice to entrants.
- The decision of the Chairman of the judges on all matters affecting this competition is final and legally binding.
- No correspondence will be entered into.
- Winners may be required to take part in some post-event publicity and consent to their name and photograph being used for such purposes.
- Entrants consent to the publication by the Organiser in connection with the Awards of any of the documents or materials constituting their entry.
- Winners may state in advertising, promotional and other business material that they are winners but must also state the category of the Award and the year in which it was won.
- By entering the Awards, all entrants will be deemed to consent to the transfer of their personal data to the Data Controller for the purposes of the administration of the Awards and any other purposes to which the entrant has consented.
- The Organiser and Data Controller is William Reed Business Media Ltd, Broadfield Park, Crawley, RH11 9RT.
