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Miss Student 2007/8 Terms and Conditions (for 2007/2008 competition - 2008/2009 competition will be published later.)

By completing and submitting their profile online each contestant confirms their acceptance of these Rules and Regulations.

1. Contestants

Contestants must be Female and over 18 on 1st September 2007. There is no upper age limit and contestants may be single or married.
They must be attending one of the Universities listed as one of the qualifying Universities on the MissStudent.com website. For 2007/2008 these are the only Universities that are entered into the competition. Students from any other University, College or other educational establishment not eligible to enter. – However they can suggest their University for inclusion in the next year’s competition.
Contestants agree that should they be successful in the University Heat they will attend the Regional Finals and Grand Finals and will make every effort to take supporters with them to ensure the evening is a success. All entrants acknowledge that any travel and associated costs of attending a Final is their own responsibility.
Contestants must complete their profile in all honesty and without obscenity or profanity. Any profiles that contain any items judged to be unsuitable will be removed and the contestant will be deleted without notification. Contestants are totally responsible for their own safety and they must not divulge any personal information in the free text area of their profile. Personal information which forms part of the application i.e. email address and mobile phone number will not be displayed. Voters only need to know your unique MissStudent number to be able to vote for you.
All contestants must be of good character and standing and must be free from criminal conviction (save for minor traffic offences). Any contestant who has in any way been involved in any illegal or immoral act must not enter – should they do so and this is brought to the organiser’s attention they will be instantly disqualified.
Throughout the competition and in particular during the Regional and Grand Finals all contestants must conduct themselves in a responsible manner and must be prepared to maintain a standard of behaviour acceptable to the organisers and to the ethos of Miss Student. All contestants will be directly responsible for the behaviour of their supporters and must ensure that their supporters act in a correct and proper manner.
All contestants are required to make themselves available where reasonably possible to attend any promotional event or rehearsal to ensure the smooth running and success of the competition.
The Regional Finals and Grand Final will be held in a public venue and as such each contestant will be expected to conform to the rules and regulations of the establishment and to any other health and safety regulations.
Contestants agree to be filmed during any of the Finals and to pose for promotional shots. All rights for any photographs, films, video or audio recordings become the property of the Organiser. During promotions contestants may be asked to make quotes / give interviews to the media. If requested to do so contestants agree to not make detrimental comments about The Organisers, The Competition and/or the Sponsors.
Failure to comply with any terms and conditions or rules and regulations will result in the contestant/contestants being instantly expelled from the competition regardless of the stage of competition and any votes will be lost.

2. Publicity, Promotion and Rights:

Each contestant acknowledges and confirms that they fully own or have the full rights to use any material that they submit to Miss Student and that they have the full release authority from any person who may claim to have title of any photograph. Any photograph submitted which is proven to fall outside of any such agreement will be instantly removed and the contestant will be liable for any breach of contract with the photographer. Each contestant also acknowledges and confirms that all rights and copyright of all information and images submitted to Miss Student passes to the organiser for limited use within the MissStudent competition and the advertising and promotion of the competition. Each contestant will thus grant the Organiser full authority and licence to use all such material in any suitable way without consent. Any images taken by Miss Student or their appointed agents throughout the duration of the competition belong to MissStudent.
Photographs and Video’s and any other material electronically submitted to MissStudent, which conforms to all copyright criteria becomes the property of the Organiser which will not be returned.
Information listed in Publication Schemes, which can be disclosed under Freedom of Information Act, will be subject to copyright protection. The supply of documents under FOI does not give the person who receives the information an automatic right to re-use the documents without obtaining the consent of MissStudent. Permission to re-use copyright information is only granted in the form of a license.
The Winner of the Grand Final and the title of MissStudent.com must make herself available, where reasonably possible, to the Organiser for promotion of subsequent events and the promotion of the brand, the Company and the brands of the Sponsors of the MissStudent.com Contest. The Organiser agrees to suitably reimburse MissStudent.com for any reasonable out of pocket expenses carrying out these duties. In addition to which, the Organiser agrees to try to negotiate a just reward for the appearance. The reign as MissStudent.com will end when a new MissStudent.com is voted in through a subsequent competition. The usual period of reign will be 12 months.
MissStudent.com shall not give any endorsement visual, oral or written to any commercial product or service without the written permission of the Organiser.
All rights relating to any media activities including appearances or acting roles in TV, Film or Video, recording contracts or any endorsements, modelling assignments, promotions or engagements belong to the organiser.
All Contestants agree to be photographed and/or filmed for promotional purposes and all rights for the material will pass to the Organiser.

3. General Terms and Conditions:

All information is accurate at the time of going to press however this may be subject to change and can be changed by the Organiser at any time without notice.
The Organiser reserves the right to amend any of these Regulations and Terms and Conditions any time without notice.
Prizes may be substituted at any time prior to the Grand Final.
The Organiser cannot be held responsible for any injury or loss or damage to any Contestant or their property or any Supporter and their property.
Where any judging is to be done the judge will be an independent adjudicator. His decision will be final and neither the Judge nor the Organiser will enter into any correspondence regarding the Competition.

4. Definitions:

For the purpose of these Rules and Regulations and Terms and Conditions:

“Contestant” “Competitor” “Entrant” - shall mean any person eligible to participate in the Competition who has satisfactorily entered with a valid profile.
“Competition” “Contest” - shall mean the MissStudent.com Contest
“Supporter” -shall mean any friend, acquaintance or family of a Competitor
“Miss Student”, “Miss Student.com” shall mean the organiser.
“Organiser” - shall mean Miss Student Ltd or any of its subsidiaries or associated companies.

5. Competition Details – Contestant Information

It is FREE to enter Miss Student but to enter the 2007/2008 competition you must be over 18 years of age on the 1st September 2007, you must be female and you must be attending one of the Universities listed in our University list. Students are only allowed to enter for themselves and cannot enter for, or be entered by, family or friends.

If you are over 18 and meet the other criteria, all you have to do is complete your profile online and submit it along with a photo or photos or video. The Organiser reserves the right to edit all information supplied. Obscene text and/or photographs will not be allowed. Any entrant who uses obscene or abusive language or submits unsuitable photographs will be deleted instantly. All photographs supplied with the application must be within copyright guidelines as detailed in our terms and conditions.

After approval your profile will be displayed under the University you are attending along with your unique four digit MissStudent number. This is the number you will use throughout the competition and the number people need to vote for you.

Once you have your number and your profile is live, the rest is up to your powers of persuasion!!

All you have to do is to get as many people to vote for you as you can. The more votes you get the higher up the table you go.

University Heats The first round of the competition is the University heats - all voting will be done by text. People can vote for you by texting STUDENT and your unique four digit number to 63333. (Texts cost 50p plus your normal text charge). Votes will be collected from the start of the competition until the last day of the first round of the competition December 31st 2007. The students with the most votes will be displayed in descending order and the top ten students have the opportunity to go through to the next round – The Regional Finals.

The “winning” students, from each University, will be notified by the 9th January 2008 by email. They will be the two STUDENTS with the most votes (the winner and runner up) plus one of the STUDENTS in the top ten who is judged* to be “a popular choice” by having received a combination of the most unique views/or hits and the highest number of unique texts.

If for any reason one of the “winning students” cannot attend the Regional Final the student in next position in the league will be invited to take their place.

*(All judging and verification of votes received will be done by an independent adjudicator – the judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into).

Regional Finals The 3 ‘winning’ Students from each University will be entered into their Regional Final. The Regional Finals will be held in a local venue throughout January, February and March where all the competitors will compete for text votes on the night to win a place in the Grand Final.

Details of dates and venues for the Regional Final will be published on the website as soon as they are confirmed. (The Town where the Regional Final will take place is already published on the website). Finalists will be given first option to purchase tickets for the evening before they go on general sale so they can invite as many supporters as they want.

The evening of the Regional Final will be split into two parts. Part One will see all competitors competing in a semi final to find the 12 most popular students for Part Two. All semi finalists will be invited on stage in their favourite outfit and introduced to the audience. They will have the opportunity to try to entice the audience to vote for them by text. Later in the evening, the 12 semi finalists with the most votes will be selected for the Final Part (Part Two). In Part Two the Finalists will be invited back on stage but this time they will be allowed to say a few words about themselves to try and capture as many votes as they can. Voting will continue to be by text and members of the audience prompted throughout the evening to cast their vote/votes for their favourite STUDENT.

Votes will be collected and results verified constantly to let everyone know who is leading. At the allotted time the voting will be stopped and verified and the winner and runner up will be announced shortly afterwards. The winner and runner up (the two students with the most votes on the night) will be invited to compete in the Grand Final - to be held in April 2008.

Each Regional Final Winner will receive a cash prize of £500 and each Runner up will receive a cash prize of £200 presented at the end of the evening.

If for any reason one of the “Winners or Runners up” cannot attend the Grand Final the student in next position will be invited to take their place, until we have two students from each region attending the Grand Final. Cash prizes will only be awarded once on the evening to the Winner and Runner up.

*(All judging and verification of votes received will be done by an independent adjudicator – the judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into).

The GRAND FINAL The Winner and Runner up from each Regional Final will be entered into the Grand Final, which will be held at a venue to be confirmed in June 2008. The location for the Grand Final will be Derby.

The evening of the GRAND Final will be split into two parts. Part One will see all competitors competing in a semi final to find the 24 most popular students for Part Two. All semi finalists will be invited on stage in their favourite outfit and an Evening outfit and introduced to the audience. They will have the opportunity to try to entice the audience to vote for them by text. Later in the evening, the 24 semi finalists with the most text votes will be selected for the Final Part (Part Two). In Part Two the Finalists will be invited back on stage and will be given the opportunity to impress the judges with a talent. The Judges will decide which student should be crowned Miss Student UK 2008.

Votes will be collected and results verified constantly to let everyone know who is leading. At the allotted time the voting will be stopped and verified and the winner and runner up will be announced shortly afterwards.

THE PRIZES The Winner will be crowned MissStudent.com 2007/2008 and will receive a cheque for £10,000.00 plus a European Holiday for 2 and a photo shoot with a top agency, plus a goody bag kindly donated by our Sponsors.

The Runner-Up will receive a cheque for £3,000 and a UK Holiday for 2 or £500 of holiday vouchers, plus a goody bag kindly donated by our Sponsors.

All losing finalists will receive a goody bag with prizes kindly donated by our Sponsors.