Terms and Conditions

1. Terms of Payment

This page includes the relevant information surrounding terms of participation for any service-based product offered by The Comms Council. Please read these terms of use carefully before you decide to purchase training with The Comms Council.

 

Overview

Attendance to any training event conducted by The Comms Council is subject to all outstanding funds being cleared prior to the course delivery date.

 

To confirm your booking, you will need complete the registration form on The Comms Council website. You then receive a confirmation email from The Comms Council, prior to the course, you will receive another email containing all course information.

 

The Comms Council will make every effort to ensure that your allocated course will take place on the relevant date and time originally specified within your booking confirmation, but where this is not possible, The Comms Council reserves the right to alter the date, time and location, provided that The Comms Council gives the delegate considerable notice of any such change(s) as soon as is reasonably possible.

 

Once a registration has been received by The Comms Council, you will receive an invoice for the course within 5 working days. Confirmation of your place on such course shall be deemed by way of payment.

 

Should The Comms Council be required to cancel a course for whatever reason, you shall be refunded the course fees in full. No other associated costs incurred by the participant shall be passed onto The Comms Council and shall remain the liability of the participant

 

2. Services and Pricing Information

The Comms Council offers several courses which vary in price. Details can be found here: https://commscouncil.nz/training

 

3. Refund/Cancellation Policy

In the event that you wish to cancel any training session that you have booked through The Comms Council, the following applies:

• If you are unable to attend a booked course, a substitute attendee may be sent as a replacement (subject to approval).
• For all courses, if you wish to cancel more than 14 working days before the start of the course, we will refund 50% of the course fee.
• If you cancel less than 14 working days before the start of the course, no fee will be refunded.
• If you wish to cancel after the course has started, no fees will be refunded.

All cancellations or postponements must be notified in writing to the Comms Council Talent and Training Manager.

 

4. Non-attendance

Non-attendance of any event due to illness, or for personal or professional reasons does not provide the right to refunds or a transfer to another event

 

5. Privacy Policy

The Comms Council is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. The Comms Council may collect information surrounding information of a personal nature (Name, Company, Title etc) for The Comms Council’s database for industry communications only. The Comms Council is an independent entity that does not deal with any third parties, all information collected is stored at The Comms Council for internal purposes only and will endeavour to remove you from our record should we receive a written request. The Comms Council is a not-for-profit association registered at the New Zealand Companies Office (Registration Number: 216595).

 

By submitting an entry, the entrant agrees to be bound by and comply with the terms set out on this webpage, including the following rules of entry (collectively, the Rules). The Comms Council reserves the right to vary these Rules from time to time. Notice of the change will be provided by uploading the updated Rules on the Young Lions Competition webpage.

 

Entries

The Comms Council and the judging panel reserves the right, at its sole discretion:

• to move an entry to another category if it is deemed to have been entered into the wrong one; and
• to withdraw an entry from the competition if the entrant’s conduct and / or the content of the entry is contrary to the spirit or intention of the competition, or the entrant otherwise fails to comply with the Rules.
  
  

The decision of the judging panel is final and under no circumstances will debate or correspondence be entered into.
By submitting an entry, the entrant confirms they are eligible to do so. The Comms Council may require the entrant to provide proof that they are eligible to enter the Young Lions competition.

Intellectual Property

While entrants may use artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool in developing their response, entrants may not use AI for image creation or video creation.
The entrant confirms and warrants that:

• they are the sole legal and beneficial owner of the copyright and any other intellectual property rights within the entry, including in relation to images, video, music, and other media contained within their entry; or
• if their entry contains copyrighted works or other intellectual property that is owned by a third party, the entrant has been granted all relevant licences to reproduce and use that work in their entry. The Comms Council reserves the right to require the entrant to provide proof they hold such licences; and
• if their entry contains content created using AI, they have disclosed which AI system has been used and how AI has been used within their entry; and
• use of the entrant’s entry on the Comms Council website, partner websites, hype videos, and other public domains will not infringe any third party rights.
  
  

The Comms Council reserves the right to withdraw an entry from the competition if it considers, at its sole discretion, that an entry contains material that is owned by a third party and the entrant does not have the rights to use that material.

Announcements and Publication

The names of the winners and other identifying information relating to winning entries will be at AXIS Speaks and published on the Comms Council website and other public domains.

The entrant grants the Comms Council, sponsors of the competition, and the third party who has provided the brief for the competition a perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free licence to show the entry at AXIS Speaks, publish the entry on their websites, use it in promotional material, articles and for historical reference, and at any other times as they deem appropriate in their sole discretion. The entrant acknowledges and agrees that for the purposes of the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017, this clause is fully intended to confer a benefit on, and be legally enforceable by, sponsors of the competition and the third party who has provided the brief for the competition.

Prize

The prize for the winning entry in each category includes an entry to the Young Lions International competition and an opportunity to attend the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
The Comms Council will:

• pay for and book airline tickets for the members of each winning team to travel to Cannes;
• provide a daily allowance for each winner for their time in Cannes;
• pay for and book accommodation in Cannes; and
• pay for and book airport transfers in Cannes.
  
  

Any amendments to the travel itinerary and coverage of expenses or upgrades beyond those that the Comms Council have booked and paid for will be the entrant’s responsibility. The prize does not include travel insurance, which the entrant must arrange at their own cost. Any other costs incurred by the entrant in travelling to Cannes, entering the Young Lions International competition and attending the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, are the entrant’s responsibility.

Liability and Indemnity

The entrant indemnifies the Comms Council against all liabilities, costs (including legal costs calculated on a full indemnity basis) expenses, damages, and losses suffered or incurred by the Comms Council arising out of or in connection with any claim relating to the Rules, including, but not limited to any breach of a third party’s intellectual property rights associated with the entrant’s entry.
The Comms Council will not be liable for entries that are corrupted, not successfully completed or transmitted, lost, mislaid, damaged or delayed in sending, regardless of cause, including, for example, as a result of equipment failure, technical malfunction, or website, systems or software failure of any kind.

The Comms Council will not be responsible or liable:

• if the winners are not able to take up the prize; and
• for any loss, damage or claim arising as a result of the winners taking up the prize.
  
  

To the extent that the Comms Council’s liability cannot be excluded, the Comms Council’s liability to the entrant is limited to $500.

New Zealand Law

The Rules, and any claims arising out of or in connection with them or the Young Lions competition, will be governed by New Zealand law and the New Zealand courts have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to any matter arising under or relating to the Rules.