'Morality'' clauses in Competition t&c

Zanzib

Morality might not really be the right word here, but just seen a clause in the terms and conditions in a Facebook post for a Wilko competition for a bird food hamper.

It said:

23. Entrants must not engage in or be connected with any conduct that may bring Wilko or its products into disrepute

Now I'd love to know what they think that covers...

grannybiker

Ooooh, now the devil in me is awakened....

Newnan

I read the title as mortality and thought - well surely you have to be alive to enter:rotfl:

Must get round to getting my eyes checked now the Advents are over.

oliveoyl

The National Lottery have added something similar to their social media T&C's - they declined to announce a winner's name a while back and stated it was due to unsuitable content on their timeline - it was added after that. So I'm guessing, profanity, !!!!!!, racism, homophobia - stuff like that, which could potentially reflect badly on a company if they selected & publicly announced them as a winner.

2013yearofthehouse

There was something similar for the Walkers 2015 comp where they gave away £100,000. T&Cs stated something about the winner needing to wait until they had investigated their moral character (looking at all their social media accounts and other online traces of them, as well as checking they didn't have a criminal record) before the money would be awarded.

tghe-retford

oliveoyl wrote: »

The National Lottery have added something similar to their social media T&C's - they declined to announce a winner's name a while back and stated it was due to unsuitable content on their timeline - it was added after that. So I'm guessing, profanity, !!!!!!, racism, homophobia - stuff like that, which could potentially reflect badly on a company if they selected & publicly announced them as a winner.

I'd be interested to know what this "unsuitable content" is because at the moment, that could apply to any support for Donald Trump, support of Brexit, criticism of political correctness, criticism of feminism, criticism of equality of outcome (ie. diversity policies companies are introducing), following a Britain First social media account or voting for UKIP as some examples.

This is the problem with vague definitions, "unsuitable content" can be anything the competition promoter deems it to be.

mjm3346

"unsuitable content"

could include any "bad mouthing" of the promoter/their products etc as well as promotion of any competitors products/services.

toniq

Wilkos basically don't want their bird food hamper in the back of someones home made porno.

They don't want someone getting jiggy with their product on show, can you imagine the scene, the bird food seedy seed being pecked at by some bird as some other bird is doing the deed/seed nearby.

Total tarnish of their image.

Zanzib

It's their rules, but how can you know what that 'conduct' is that they won't accept?

Really should be defined.