Terms and Conditions

• About these Terms

You must comply with these terms and conditions of entry, including all general and specific terms that relate to the entrant or the entry (Terms). By entering, you accept and agree to comply with these Terms. In these Terms, ‘we’ or ‘us’ means realestate.com.au Pty Ltd and ‘you’ means you, the entrant.

• Entry Period

You must enter during the Entry Period (defined in Key Dates). You will be deemed to have entered at the time we receive your entry. We will confirm that we have received your entry. If you do not receive confirmation within 3 days of submitting the entry, please contact us.

• Changes

We may vary any of the dates, criteria or terms and conditions for the Awards for any reason by placing a notice of the change on this website. If you have submitted an entry that is affected by any such change we will contact you and provide you with an opportunity to update your entry.

• Maximum number of entries

We will accept one entry per Award per entrant only. You may enter as many awards as you want. Every entry must be authorised. Take care when hitting ‘submit’ – see ‘First entry counts’ and ‘Entry authorisation’ below.

• First entry counts

If multiple entries are received from you or on your behalf for an Award, the first entry received by us for that Award will be deemed to be your sole entry. All later entries for the Award will be deemed invalid.

• Valid subscription

If your REA account (or if you are an individual, the REA account of the customer/client for whom you work) is suspended at any given time, you will be deemed not to have a ‘valid’ as at that time.

• Eligibility

To be eligible for an Award, you must meet the Eligibility criteria listed for the Award.

• Who is the entrant?

The entrant will be deemed to be the legal entity that holds an account with us. This may be a company, partnership, individual, association, trust or registered charity. For individual Awards, the entrant will be the individual nominated for the Award in the entry process.

• Online entries only

Entries will be accepted via the online portal only. We will not accept any objects, books, flyers, installations, models, etc. as part of an entry.

• Valid entries only

Judges will not judge any invalid entries. Incomplete, inappropriate (to be determined in REA’s sole discretion), corrupted, illegible, unlawful, defamatory, irrelevant, infringing, fraudulent, misleading or unauthorised entries will be deemed invalid.

• Technical issues

We are not responsible for: (a) any technical malfunction in any communication network or platform; or (b) any entries being lost, received late, rendered illegible or corrupted.

• Breaching these Terms

If you breach these Terms, we may (in our absolute discretion) invalidate the relevant entry or all of your entries.

Entry authorisation

• Your representatives

You will be deemed to have authorised the actions of your representatives (including principals, agents, clients, contractors and employees) and approved all entry content that they provide to us. We recommend that you require your representatives to get all entry content approved before it is submitted to us. You must ensure that your representatives do not cause you to breach these Terms.

• Make sure you are authorised

If you are an individual, subsidiary, agency or franchisee, submitting on behalf of any entity you must obtain all necessary authorisations and consents required from that entity: i.e. your principal, holding company, client or franchisor (as appropriate) to submit your entry. For example, if you are an individual submitting an entry on behalf of your organisation, or an agency submitting on behalf of your client, you must be authorised to do so. We may ask you to provide proof of authorisation or consent. Failure to provide proof to our reasonable satisfaction may mean we deem your entry to be unauthorised.

Judging

• Criteria

The judges will judge the Awards according to the relevant judging criteria. Each entry will be given a score out of 100 by adding the aggregate sub-scores for each stated criteria.

• Further information

We may ask for additional information for an entry. If you do not provide requested information, it may compromise the judges’ ability to judge the entry.

• Judges

Judges are required to sign confidentiality agreements, declare conflicts of interest and withdraw themselves from judging any entry that has a potential conflict.

• Dealings with judges

You must not contact or provide any gift or benefit to any judge in relation to the Awards. If you do so, you must report it to us immediately. If a Judge reports any inappropriate contact by You, Your entries will not be accepted.

• Insufficient entries

If we do not receive sufficient entries for a particular Award or we do not receive an entry that our judges believe is of an appropriate standard, we will not make the relevant Award.

Entry content

• Rights and responsibilities

You warrant to us that: (a) you have all necessary rights, consents and authorisations to submit each of your entries and all the content in them (including all copy, images, video, and branding); (b) you are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the entry content, including any copyright or trade mark rights contained in that content; (c) all information that you submit is true, current and complete. If you breach any of these warranties, any affected entry will be deemed invalid.

• Our rights to use your entry content

By submitting an entry, you grant to us a perpetual, royalty free, world-wide, non-exclusive licence (with a right to sub-license) to use, copy, change, edit, modify, adjust, adapt, exploit, transmit, distribute and publish the entry content in any media for the purpose of promoting the Awards, our goods or services and/or those of any of entity within the REA Group or any of its third party suppliers providing market or promotional services. You warrant that our use of any entry content submitted by you, does not and will not infringe any intellectual property rights of any third party.

• Authorship

We will if requested by a specific author of any entry content, attribute the relevant content to the author, but otherwise the individual contributors are deemed to waive any moral rights in respect of entry content.

Finalists and Winners

• Help us help you

If you are announced as a finalist or a winner, we would love to promote your success by highlighting your activities and achievements. We ask that you take advantage of this and participate in all promotional activity (such as publicity, interviews, presentations and photography) surrounding your entry.

• The art of self-promotion

If you are announced as a finalist or winner, it’s natural that you will want to promote your success. We ask that you discuss with us your plans for promoting your success and get prior approval from us for all marketing and publicity activities that mention our Awards. You first point of contact should be Erin Chancellor (0411 048 474 or erin.chancellor@rea-group.com).

• Using the Awards logo

If you want to use the Awards logo, you must obtain our consent prior to any use. Generally, we will allow finalists to use the Awards logo on promotional materials for 12 months from the announcement of finalists, but please contact us to see if any restrictions apply.

• Experience the glory

If you are a finalist or winner, make sure you attend the gala ceremony and are present to accept your award in person!

Privacy

• Use and disclosure

The information you provide (which may include personal information such as names and images) may be used and/or disclosed to conduct and/or promote the Awards. We may also use or disclose your information for the purposes specified in our Privacy Policy.