1. QUALIFICATIONS

1.1 Any person over the age of 18 who is actively employed as a bartender responsible for producing alcoholic cocktails and beverages within the following defined regions may take part in this Promotion:


  1. United Kingdom;

  2. France;

  3. Italy;

  4. Germany;

  5. Spain;

  6. Norway;

  7. Sweden;

  8. Greece;

  9. Hungary;

  10. Romania;

  11. Czechia; and

  12. Slovakia.


This excludes employees of the Promoter or its affiliate companies, and their immediate relatives, agents, third parties, or anyone professionally connected with the Promotion (collectively, the “Promoter’s Affiliated Parties”). Your bar must stock Diplomático Rum.

1.2 Entry to the Competition is open from 15:00 on the 15th of July 2024 until 15:00 (CET time) on the 5th of August 2024.

2. PARTICIPATION

2.1 In entering the Promotion, entrants confirm they are both eligible to enter the Promotion and claim any prize that may be a result of entering the Promotion. The Promoter reserves the right to select an alternate winner if an original winner has failed to prove of identity or age as being over 18 or their employment as a bartender in a bar serving Diplomatico Rum, within 7 days of notification or if the winner is unable to accept or win the prize. All winners are final, and no correspondence will be entered into.

2.2 The winners will be selected based on a cocktail competition judging panel (Clause 4). Winners will be notified by email within seven business days of the draw.

2.3 The Promoter is not responsible for submissions that have not been transmitted, whether due to delay, destruction, or technical reasons. Proof of submission is not proof of receipt by the Promoter.



3. RESPONSIBILITY

3.1 The Promoter supports responsible drinking and adheres to all marketing codes applicable to alcoholic beverages, therefore any entries which the Promoter deems to encourage or be suggestive of irresponsible drinking or irresponsible behaviour, or which might in the Promoter’s judgement constitute a contravention of any applicable marketing law or code will be ineligible. Furthermore, any entry that is considered lewd, obscene or distasteful in the sole opinion of the Promoter, will not be eligible.

3.2 Do not include trademarks or logos owned by others unless you have permission.

3.3 All entrants must, for the duration of the Competition, conduct themselves consistently with the promotion of responsible drinking behaviours.



4. ENTRY MECHANISM

4.1 In order to qualify for entry entrants must submit;

  1. their personal details; name and name of the bar who are working at and e-mail address;

  2. the story behind their drink recipe and a full description of the techniques used for the recipe; and

  3. their original cocktail recipe (with unlimited ingredient amount permitted) with an associated picture of your cocktail (which conforms to the Cocktail Recipe Requirements detailed below) at www.diplomaticoartisansoftaste.com


4.2 The original cocktail recipe (“Cocktail Recipe Requirements”) has the following instructions that entrants must adhere to:


  1. The cocktail recipe must contain and be based on Diplomático Rum: this is the only rum permitted in the Competition.

  2. Entrants are allowed homemade ingredients, but must be aware that if successful they will need to take with them the homemade ingredients, on the day of the national final. These ingredients (and all ingredients used) must be food safe and will be brought by themselves on the day of the national final.

  3. The maximum quantity of alcohol permitted is the equivalent of 50 ml of alcohol at 40% ABV.

  4. All ingredients must be specified in millimetres or centimetres divided into “whole numbers'' (1,2,3, etc) and/or “half numbers'' (½, 1½, etc), and/or smallest quantities (dashes and/or drops). The ingredients have to be measured out using a jigger.

  5. Cocktail decoration should be composed of edible and food safe ingredients, such as fruit, herbs and vegetables.


4.3 Recipes not in accordance with the above requirements will be rejected.

5. COCKTAIL COMPETITION JUDGING

5.1 Judging will take place via jury comprised of the Diplomático Global Team and a top bar and will be undertaken in a two stage process as defined below:


  1. The jury (see composition of jury composition below) will select 10 finalists from each country's entry, from the first 30 qualifying entry recipes received. Only the first 30 recipes will be evaluated to define the 10 national finalists per market. The judges will pick 10 finalists out of the first 30 qualifying entries under the Entry Mechanism based on how well the recipe and the story demonstrates the brief of Artisans of Taste and www.diplomaticoartisansoftaste.com and notify those shortlisted finalists by the 10th of September via email.

  2. Secondly, the jury will then pick an overall national winner per market that will win the Prize. The National Final, which will take place between October 2024 and December 2024 in each market.

5.2 All entrants finalists need to bring all the material & ingredients needed to reproduce 3 units of their cocktail entree recipe the day of the final. Diplomático products will be available to use the day of the final.

6. THE PRIZE

6.1 Each national winner, from each market, will win a 6 day trip to Venezuela to discover the distillery where Diplomatico is produced.

6.2 The prize consists of a 6 day, 6 night trip for the prize-winner to Venezuela to discover the Diplomático distillery. The prize includes return flights from the winners nearest international airport to a Venezuelan airport on the date of the trip (to be confirmed), during March 2025; 4 star hotel accommodation in Venezuela to include breakfast for 6 days; return ground transfers from airport to the hotel in Venezuela. Hotel room will be based on 2 people sharing. The Promoter will book and pay for the prize as agent for the prize-winner, who agrees to be bound by any terms imposed by third parties including, without limitation, any relevant tour operator. The prize-winner must hold a valid passport with 9 months' validity remaining, and, if they do not already have one, must not require a pre-arranged visa in order to travel to Venezuela. Prize-winners must also comply with immigration requirements for entry into Venezuela. In particular the prize winners may have a criminal record. All travel-related administration is the responsibility of the prize-winners. All additional expenses including without limitation, spending money, travel to and from departure airport and insurance cover is the responsibility of the prize-winner. The prize must be taken between the 10th of March 2025 to the 30th of March 2025.The Promoter reserves the right to select alternative winners, should the original winner not validate all of their identity, age, ability to travel on the fixed trip dates and compliance with Venezuela´s immigration criteria by 30th of March 2025.

6.3 For those countries listed that require tax to be paid by the national winner on their prize the winner will also receive an additional prize in the form of an amount equal to the percentage amount required by law under their country of residence for personal income tax and, if necessary in their country of residence, a percentage of social contribution tax of the value of the prize, which will be transferred directly to the appropriate tax office by the Promoter on behalf of the winner as tax on the Prize.

6.3 The prize winners must hold valid passports and Visa, if required, with 12 months' validity remaining. The prize winner must also comply with immigration requirements for entry into Venezuela and must not have a criminal record/any unspent convictions. It is the responsibility of the prize winner to arrange any necessary visas to enter Venezuela.

6.4 Any amendments to or cancellation of the trip made by the prize winner after the booking is confirmed may be subject to administration charges, which will be the responsibility of the prize winner.

6.5 The Promoter must either publish or make available information that indicates that a valid award took place. To comply with this obligation the Promoter will send the surname and county of major prize winners and, if applicable copies of their winning entries, to anyone who emails [email protected] or writes to calls Francisco Silvela 42 Diplomático office (enclosing a self-addressed envelope) within one month after the closing date stated in Clause A.1. If entrants object to any or all of their surname, county and winning entry being published or made available, please contact the Promoter Javier García Vicuña.

6.6 The prize is as stated and is not transferable. Payment of the equivalent value of the prize in cash is not valid.

7. OWNERSHIP OF PROMOTION ENTRIES AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

7.. All Promotion entries and any accompanying material submitted to the Promoter will become the property of the Promoter on receipt and will not be returned.

7.2 Entrants agree that by submitting their Promotion entry and any accompanying material, that they agree:

  1. that all intellectual property rights associated with the Promotion, including the brands associated with the Promotion, are owned by Promoter and/or the Promoter Affiliated Parties, and entrants have no right to use any intellectual property associated with the Promotion except in connection with the Promotion entry and accompany material;

  2. to assign to the Promoter any and all intellectual property rights associated with the Promotion entry and accompanying materials, with full title guarantee, such that Promoter has the full and exclusive right to use, reproduce, or publish such Promotion entry and accompanying materials; and

  3. to waive all moral rights in and to their Promotion entry and accompanying materials otherwise arising in connection with your entry to which entrants may now or at any time in the future be entitled under copyright, right of publicity, right of privacy, and other intellectual property laws applicable in the jurisdiction in which the Promotion occurs.

7.3 Entrants agree that the Promoter may, but is not required to, make their entry available on its website www.diplomaticoartisansoftaste.com and any other media, whether now known or invented in the future, and in connection with any publicity of the Promotion. Entrants agree to grant the Promoter a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence, for the full period of any intellectual property rights in the Promotion entry and any accompanying materials, to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-licence the Promotion entry and any accompanying materials for such purposes. Entrants agree that, by submitting their Promotion entry, they waive any and all claims against Promoter or the Promoter Affiliated Parties for right of publicity or right of privacy relating to Promoter’s public reference or publication of the name or other identifying information of an Entrant.

8. LIMITATIONS

8.1 The Promoter reserves the right to modify or cancel this Promotion in the event of any unforeseen circumstances outside the Promoter's reasonable control. In addition, the Promoter reserves the right to offer an alternative, materially equivalent prize if the prize becomes unavailable due to reasons outside the Promoter’s control.

8.2 Save for any liability incurred by the participant that cannot be limited by law, the Promoter shall not be liable for any personal injury, death, monetary loss, or expense incurred by the entrant in their participation in this Promotion and any prize which may result in their participation in this Promotion.

8.3 The Promoter will not accept competition entries that are:

a. automatically generated by computer or created by artificial intelligence (including but not limited to chatbots such as ChatGPT or similar software applications);

b. completed by third parties or in bulk;

c. illegible, have been altered, reconstructed, forged or tampered with;

d. photocopies and not originals;

e. entered by a Promoter Affiliated Party; or

f. incomplete.

8. DATA PROTECTION

8.1 By participating in the Promotion, each winner acknowledges and consents that his / her name and image may be used in reasonable future publicity for marketing or promotional purposes without additional compensation.

8.2 Unless an entrant has indicated that he/she would like to receive communications from the Promoter in the future, his/her personal data will only be held for the purpose of administering the Promotion and will not be retained once the prize draw has been concluded and each winner has received their prize.

8.3 Entrants acknowledge that Brown-Forman Corporation (BROWN-FORMAN) and other companies within the BROWN-FORMAN group (details of which are available on request) or BROWN-FORMAN's agents, partners or licensees, will handle your personal information, in accordance with the BROWN-FORMAN privacy policy https://legal.brown-forman.com/privacy-policy/english, for legitimate business purposes such as to provide them with personalised services and content, to analyse and consider ways of improving our services and products, and to respond to their requests. Entrants personal information may be transferred to any country where BROWN-FORMAN group companies or our service providers have facilities and personal information will be retained as permitted by applicable law. If in the future, entrants do not wish to receive further communications from the BROWN-FORMAN group and would prefer to be removed from its database, or if they wish to make corrections to their details or change how they receive communications from us, please write to: [email protected]

9. OTHER

9.1 By entering the Competition, all entrants will be deemed to have accepted and be bound by the rules. The decision of the Promoter in all matters is final and no correspondence will be entered into. These terms and conditions shall be governed by English law and the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

Promoter: Brown-Forman Corporation, 850 Dixie Hwy #1038, Louisville, KY 40210, United States



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