Mum Idol competition – terms and conditions

1. By entering this competition (the Promotion), you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (the Terms and Conditions).  Completion and submission of an entry form or e-mail will also be deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.  Promotional materials relating to the Promotion, including all information on how to enter the Promotion published in publications of the Promoter (including social media if applicable) or on the Promoter’s websites, also form part of these Terms and Conditions. In the event of any conflict between any terms referred to in such promotional materials and these Terms and Conditions, these Terms and Conditions take precedence.

2. The promoter of this Promotion is News Group Newspapers Ltd (publishers of The Sun and The Sun on Sunday) of 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF (the Promoter).

3. The Promotion is only open to residents of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland who are aged 18 years or older only. 

4. The following individuals are not eligible to enter the Promotion:

1. employees and agents of the Promoter, News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (or any group companies of the Promoter or News Corp UK & Ireland Limited);
2. employees and agents of (i) any organisation directly connected with the operation or fulfilment of the Promotion (including third party promotional partners); and (ii) any associated, affiliated or subsidiary companies of such organisations or partners; and
3. the immediate families and household members of all such employees and agents referred to in (a) and (b); and
4. By entering the Promotion, you confirm that you are eligible to do so and are eligible to claim the Prize you may win. The Promoter may require you to provide proof that you are eligible to enter the Promotion.

6. The Promotion starts at 00.01 AM (UK time) on 2 February 2025 and closes at 23.59 PM (UK time) on 18 March 2025 (the Promotion Period). Any entries received outside the Promotion Period are automatically disqualified. 

7. You must comply with the laws that apply to you in the jurisdiction that you access the Promotion from. If any laws applicable to you restrict or prohibit you from entering the Promotion, you must comply with those laws and, if applicable, refrain from entering the Promotion.

8. To enter you must nominate a mum (or someone you love just like a mum) by: 

1. sending an email to sundayfeatures@the-sun.co.uk with “Mum Idol” in the subject line, telling us why you believe your nominee is a special mum, during the Promotion Period only. Please also include your full name, your email address, your postal address and your telephone number; or 
2. completing and submitting the online entry form at [ENTRY FORM URL] during the Promotion Period only.  
3. Entries to the Promotion must be the original work of the participant and not previously published. Entries which are or in the Promoter’s reasonable opinion appear to be plagiarised will be disqualified. Participants acknowledge and agree that: 

1. they have obtained all rights, licences, and permissions necessary, in writing, from any person who may have helped create and/or be featured in their entry; and 
2. their entry to the Promotion (including any text and photographs): 

1. does not contain or feature any personal information about any person (including their name, contact details, a photograph of them and/or any other identifying information) without that person’s consent (proof of which must be provided to the Promoter upon request); 
2. does not contain any content that is defamatory, libellous, racist, homophobic, derogatory, pornographic, obscene, sexist, illegal, and/or otherwise inappropriate;
3. does not include trade marks, logos, or copyright protected material which belongs to third parties without permission (including company names, music, photographs, motion picture or television programme clips or audio tracks, works of art, or images published on or in websites, television, movies, or other media); 
4. is not subject to any third party agreements and the Promoter will not be required to pay any sums to any third party as a result of the Promoter’s use (as set out in these Terms and Conditions) or the exploitation by the Promoter of the idea, video or other rights contained in any entry; and 
5. does not contain any known virus, trojan horse, worm, trapdoor or similar software that may in any way infect or affect any of the Promoter’s hardware or software systems.  

10. Participants may make a maximum of one entry per person during the Promotion Period. Bulk, automatically generated or third party entries are void. 
11. The Promoter reserves the right to remove or temporarily suspend from the Promotion any entries submitted if, where it reasonably suspects any breach of these Terms and Conditions or if it receives any complaint from any third party relating to such entry.
12. Any entries received other than via the official entry method will not be accepted. Use of script, macro or any automated system to enter the Promotion is prohibited. Entries made (or which appear to have been made) using any such system may be treated as void.  Any illegible, incomplete or fraudulent entries will be rejected. No purchase of any product or service is required to enter into this Promotion. 
13. Participants should be aware that they may be subject to data charges at the usual rate depending on their own individual arrangements for Internet access if they enter the Promotion online or by email.
14. If participants do not provide any of the mandatory information requested when participating in the Promotion, their entry will be void.  

Winners and Prizes 

15. There will be only one winner of the Promotion (the Winner), who will receive the Prize (as defined below). There will be no prizes for any other participants.

16.  The Winner will be the nominated mum whom the judges deem the most deserving of the title of Mum Idol. The Winner will be selected by an independent judge (or a panel of judges including at least one independent member). The decision of the judge(s) shall be final.  The names of the judge(s) for a Promotion can be made available on request.
17. The Prize is:
    1. a holiday for (i) two adults and up to four children (aged 17 and under), or (ii) four adults to a Eurocamp parc of their choice, subject to availability only, worth up to £1,800 (eighteen hundred pounds). Eurocamp reserves the right to exclude certain parcs. Prize includes a seven night stay for in a Classic or Comfort holiday home. Accommodation is provided on a self-catering basis. Prize includes a return P&O Dover to Calais ferry crossing for one car and passengers to the value of £65, subject to availability. Prize also includes bed linen, beach towels and a welcome pack for all party members, subject to availability. Subject to availability, prize must be booked in advance. Prize must be taken between 1 April 2025 and 1 November 2025, except on the following dates: 1 July 2025 – 31 August 2025. Winner and his/her guests must travel on same itinerary. All parts of prize must be used in conjunction with same booking. Winner and his/her guest(s) are solely responsible for ensuring they are available to travel and have valid travel documentation (including passport/visa/visa waiver as may be required), obtaining adequate travel insurance and appropriate vaccinations / inoculations for foreign travel at their own expense. Prize is subject to Eurocamp Booking Terms and Conditions, which can be found at https://www.eurocamp.co.uk/information/help-and-contact/booking-terms-and-conditions. 

2. A two night stay for four people at the London Hilton on Park Lane hotel. Winner and guests will be sharing a room. Prize also includes one dinner for four at the Park Corner Brasserie. Subject to availability, prize must be booked in advance. Prize must be taken within 12 months of the closing date.  Stay is subject to availability.   Winner and guest(s) must travel on same itinerary. All parts of prize must be used in conjunction with same booking. 

3. A year’s supply of Lily O’Brien’s chocolates, worth £414 (four hundred and fourteen pounds). A year’s supply means 1 X Desserts Collection, 1 X Luxury Collection, 1 X Salted Caramel Truffles and 1 X Milk Chocolate Truffes per month.  The year’s supply will be delivered to your UK/ROI home address. 
4. a year’s gym membership to Snap Fitness UK, worth £400 (four hundred pounds).
5. A year’s supply of pizza from Pizza Express, worth £1,000 (one thousand pounds).

6. A year’s supply of GATHER Gourmet cocktails – 2 X cases of GATHER Salted Caramel Banana Colada, 3 X cases GATHER Spicy Mango Margarita, 3 X cases GATHER Caramelised Pineapple Rum Punch, 2 X cases GATHER Raspberry Ripple Daiquiri and 2 X cases GATHER Chocolate Honeycomb Espresso Martini, worth £500 (five hundred pounds). The year’s supply will be delivered in monthly instalments to your UK/ROI home address. Valid photo ID may be required upon delivery. Please drink responsibly (always be drink aware, please see www.drinkaware.co.uk for the facts). 

18. If the Prize becomes unavailable for any reason, the Promoter reserves the right, without notice to the Winner and at is sole discretion, to substitute the Prize for an alternative Prize.

19. The Prize is subject to the terms and conditions of Eurocamp, Hilton, Lily O’Briens, Snap Fitness, Pizza Express and GATHER Gourmet, and their privacy policies will apply to the processing of your personal information.

20. The Prize is as stated and is non-exchangeable and non-transferable.  The Winner has no right to request or receive an alternative to the Prize in whole or in part. 

21. The Winner is responsible for paying all costs and expenses that are not included within the Prize, but are incidental to the Winner redeeming the Prize, including (for example) transport, accommodation, meal costs, spending money, insurance and any other incidentals.  The Winner is also personally responsible for any personal expenses and any VAT, national and/or local tax liabilities (if any) incurred in claiming or using the Prize.  If a Winner’s guest is a minor, the minor must be accompanied by his or her parent or legal guardian.   

22. By participating in the Promotion, participants agree that the Prize is awarded on an “as is” basis, and that neither the Promoter nor any of its subsidiary or affiliated companies, make any guarantees, representations or warranties of any nature with respect to the Prize. 
23. In addition to the provisions above, in the event that, for any reason beyond the Promoter’s reasonable control, the Promoter is unable to award the Prize as described in these Terms and Conditions, the Promoter reserves the right to award a prize of a similar nature and an equivalent value, or at its sole discretion, the cash value of the prize.  The Promoter also reserves the right to award a prize of a similar nature and an equivalent value, or at its sole discretion, the cash value of the prize if in its reasonable discretion it is appropriate to do so.  
24. The Promoter reserves the right at any time to cancel, modify or supersede the Promotion (including altering Prizes) if, in its reasonable discretion, it becomes necessary to do so. In the event of a printing or other error resulting in there being more Winners  than Prizes for the Promotion, the Promoter reserves the right to:

(a) declare as void any claims or entries resulting from such printing or other error; and/or 

(b) allocate the available Prize(s) through a further draw or to divide the Prize(s) or the value of the Prize(s) between the winners of the Promotion.

Winner Notification and Claiming Prize 

25. The Promoter will use its reasonable endeavours to notify the Winner by email or phone or using the other contact details provided to the Promoter within 14 days after the end of the Promotion Period.  The Winner  needs to confirm acceptance of the Prize within 14 days of being notified they have won. Winners may be required to submit valid identification before receiving their prize.   
26. If a Winner (i) cannot be contacted within this 14 day window or (ii) refuses or is unable to confirm acceptance of the Prize, the Promoter reserves the right to re-draw a new Winner (at random, using a computer process that produces verifiably random results), from the remaining valid entries that were received during the Promotion Period. 
27. The Prize will be delivered within a reasonable time and by no later than 28 (twenty eight) days after the Prize has been accepted.  

Publicity and Data Protection 

28. The Promoter will collect and process participants’ personal information in accordance with the privacy policy at http://www.newsprivacy.co.uk/. See also clause 28 and clause 29, with regard to announcement of the Winner.  
29. The Promoter is required to either publish or make available information that indicates a valid award took place. As such, (and subject to any objections of the Winner) the Promoter will send the surname and county of the Winner and, if applicable copies of their winning entries, to anyone that contacts the Promoter at the address given above by no later than 28 (twenty eight) days after the end of the Promotion Period. 
30. If a Winner objects to their information being published and/or made available as described above, they should inform the Promoter at the earliest opportunity by emailing help@thsun.co.uk/.  The Winner acknowledges that the Promoter may still be required to share their details with the Advertising Standards Authority or other regulators.
31. Participants will retain copyright in their submitted entries to the Promotion, however, by entering, all participants grant the Promoter a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to edit, publish and use each Promotion entry in any and all media whether now known or invented in the future (including print and online) for publicity and news purposes in respect of all intellectual property rights arising in and related to the entries in question. Participants acknowledge and agree that they have all rights necessary to grant the rights provided for herein, and that all materials forming part of their entry to the Promotion, and any use of such materials by or on behalf of the Promoter, comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations and do not infringe or otherwise violate the intellectual property or other rights of any third party, including privacy rights.

32. The Winner and any guests may also be required to participate in reasonable publicity relating to the Promotion including being photographed and interviewed.

Liability 

33. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall in any way limit or exclude the Promoter’s liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for any other matter where liability may not be limited as a matter of law. 
34. The Promoter will not be responsible for any damage, loss or injury resulting from participants’ entry into the Promotion or their acceptance and/or use of the prize, or for technical, hardware or software failures, lost, faulty or unavailable network connections or difficulties of any kind that may limit or prohibit participant’s ability to participate in the Promotion.  Your statutory rights are not affected.

35. The Promoter will not be responsible for any lost, damaged, defaced, incomplete, illegible or otherwise unreadable entries.

36. Without prejudice to a participant’s statutory rights and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Promoter, its agents or distributors will not be responsible or liable to compensate the Winner or accept any liability for any loss or damage incurred by or any personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up a Prize.

37. The title in the Prize and any risk or loss or damage to the Prize will pass to the Winner upon delivery of the Prize to such Winner. The Promoter is not liable for or obliged to replace any defective, lost, damaged or stolen Prize where such defect, loss or damage is not due to the fault and/or negligence of the Promoter.

General 

38. The Promoter’s decision as to the Winner of the Prize is final and binding on the participants. The Promoter will not enter into correspondence with participants in relation to this decision.
39. Participants agree to keep confidential any information of any nature regarding the Promoter and its businesses, personnel, agents, sponsors and event promoters received by participants as a result of winning or participating in any Promotion.
40. The Promoter reserves the right to require the participants to prove that they are eligible.  If a Winner is subsequently found to be ineligible, the Promoter reserves the right to award the Prize to another participant and to require the return of the Prize (or any portion of the Prize) if already awarded. 
41. The provision of the Prize does not imply endorsement by the Promoter of any third parties concerned in any way with the Promotion. Any complaints or queries relating to the use of the Prize should be directed to the relevant prize provider. 
42. Unless otherwise stated in the promotional materials, this Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, the manufacturer or service provider of the relevant Prize. Participants are providing their information to the Promoter and not to the manufacturer or service provider of the relevant Prize (although, if a participant wins, their details may be disclosed to the Prize provider in order to provide them with the Prize).
43. Participants must not do anything illegal and/or dangerous and/or that would put themselves or others at any risk.  
44. Any participant who enters or attempts to enter the Promotion in a manner, which in the Promoter’s reasonable opinion is contrary to these Terms and Conditions or by its nature is unjust to other participants (including tampering with the operation of the Promotion, cheating, hacking, deception or any other unfair playing practices such as intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other participants or the Promoter and/or any of its agents or representatives) may be rejected from the Promotion at the Promoter’s sole discretion. Furthermore, where such actions have significantly impaired the Promotion, the Promoter may, at its sole discretion, add further stages to the Promotion as it deems reasonably necessary in order to resolve any problems arising from such actions.
45. The Promoter may amend or withdraw any element of a competition, prize draw, vote or poll for reasons beyond its reasonable control. The Promoter is not responsible for any loss or damage caused to you as a result of any event outside the Promoter’s control. 
46. These Terms and Conditions are governed by English law. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear any dispute or claim arising in association with the Promotion or these Terms and Conditions.
47. The Promoter may transfer all or part of its rights under these Terms and Conditions to someone else without obtaining your consent; provided such transfer does not significantly disadvantage you.
48. Any provision of these Terms and Conditions which is deemed illegal and/or prohibited or unenforceable under any applicable law will be ineffective to the extent of such illegality, prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions.