Terms and Conditions

1. Entries must be submitted online at www.Open2.net/roughscience3/competition.html by no later than 5pm Friday the 20th of December 2002.
2. Entrants must supply their names, postal address and e-mail address.
3. The prize is one set of earrings and a necklace as made on the BBC/OU TV series “Rough Science” and no cash alternative will be substituted for the prize.
4. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence relating to the competition will be entered into.
5. Some or all of the entries may be displayed on the website.
6. Entries must be the entrant’s own work and the entrant warrants that no-one else is entitled to share in the prize or any other benefit arising from their entry.
7. No responsibility will be accepted for ineligible, corrupted, lost or late entries.
8. BBC and Open University employees or agents, their immediate families and anyone else connected with the competition are not eligible to enter.
9. The winner will be notified within 28 days of the closing date by e-mail and by post and the prize will be sent out to the winner two months after it is awarded.
10. Only one entry is allowed per entrant.
11. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-competition publicity.
12. The winner will be the entry received by the closing date which has the most questions answered correctly and, in the opinion of the judges, the best answer to the tie-breaker.
13. Entries cannot be returned.
14. Entries once received become the property of the Open University and entrants irrevocably assign to the Open University all copyright and other intellectual property rights in entries and waive all moral rights in entries in consideration of the entrant having the opportunity to enter the competition.
15. The BBC reserves the right to withhold a prize if in the opinion of the judges entries do not reach the required standard.
16. The competition is open to UK residents only. Entries from overseas will not be accepted.
17. By entering the competition, entrants accept and agree to be bound by these rules.

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