Terms of entry for raffles

These terms apply to raffles on tellmelo, starting with the raffle behind door 24 of the Advent calendar. Anyone who takes a ticket agrees to them.

Organizer

The organizer is Blackline Development Inh. Sebastian Ostermeier (“we”), with the details in the imprint. Apple, Google and other app stores do not organize the raffle, do not sponsor it and are not involved with it in any way.

Free participation

Taking part is free of charge and does not depend on any purchase; a plan, sparks or looks do not improve the chance of winning. Each person can have only one ticket per raffle, even with several accounts.

Who can take part

Natural persons who meet all of the following can take part:

• You are at least 18 years old on the day of the draw. You confirm your age with your date of birth when you take a ticket; only the fact that you confirmed it is stored.
• You have a personal account on tellmelo that was created before 1 December and is not suspended. Accounts of companies or associations and automated accounts do not take part.
• You have opened at least 16 of doors 1 to 23 of the Advent calendar.
• You are not a member of the tellmelo team, and your account is not under parental supervision.

Period

Tickets are available as soon as the 16th door is open, until 24 December at 6 pm German time.

Prize

The prize is 100 euros, at your choice as a payment via PayPal or as a voucher from a retailer that you name and from whom we can buy a voucher. The prize is not transferable.

How the draw works

1. At 6 pm the ticket list closes. We publish it without names, with the ticket number and code of each ticket and with its hash (SHA-256); after that, no ticket can change. Among members, only you can see your ticket number and your code. We can look up which account a ticket number belongs to and which ticket number an account has, in order to check participation and the prize; this does not show us the code.
2. At 7 pm we draw using the public random number of the drand service (quicknet) for the round of that moment. We name the round in advance; nobody knows the random number in advance, not even us.
3. The winning ticket is the one whose position in the list sorted in ascending order (counting from 0) equals the remainder left when the random number is divided by the number of tickets.
4. The list, round, random number and result are public at /api/advent-raffle, so anyone can recalculate the draw.

Notification and payout

Whoever has won is told by a notification in tellmelo and chooses the payout in the Advent calendar within 14 days, with a PayPal address or a retailer. Before the payout, you show us an identity document for the age check; we delete the copy afterwards.

If you do not respond in time or do not meet the conditions, we draw again in the same way, with the round a few minutes after our decision and without the tickets already drawn. We publish the winner’s name only with their consent.

Exclusion

Anyone who manipulates the raffle, uses several accounts for more tickets or breaches the Terms can be excluded; a ticket already drawn then lapses, and we draw again.

Cancellation

For good cause, such as a technical fault or manipulation, we can postpone or cancel the raffle; we will then say so in the Advent calendar.

Data

Which data we process for the raffle, and for how long, is set out in the privacy policy; we delete payout details 30 days after the payout or after the prize has lapsed.

German law applies. If you are a consumer, the mandatory provisions of the country in which you live remain unaffected.