Terms & Conditions
1. Name of Fundraising Promotion: Text Giving
2. Period: The Text Giving will commence 00:01 on 9th May 2011 and is planned to be available until 13th June 2011. Any entries received outside the Period (for whatever reason) will be invalid but you may still be charged for your text where costs apply.
3. Restrictions:
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Donations are welcome from all residents of the UK, excluding the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man (due in part to the operating cost in the excluded territories)
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All supporters must obtain permission from the bill payer before sending a SMS text message. Please ensure that you do not send more texts than you can afford or your network operator might allow.
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The text entry method is available to Vodafone, Orange, O2, 3, T-Mobile and Virgin mobile users only.
4. Text Giving – How to Give:
To donate £2.00 via text message you will need to text the keyword home to the shortcode 70099. Please make sure you key-in the shortcode and spell the keyword correctly.
Text messages cost £2 plus your standard network message charge (based on your service provider rates and terms). Your text message will result in a charity donation (rounded to 2 decimal points) to Thames Reach (register number: 24377R) for each successful premium text message delivered.
Each UK mobile network operator now provides charity out payments using the HMRC VAT-inclusive 70099 SMS Short Code. After deducting mobile operators' and billing provider charges from the gross donation the premium SMS reply message will generate a minimum of £1.86 (via 3UK) to the charity. *Please note that our service provider; Cymba do not profit from your donation.
If your keyword and shortcode are valid, and your text message is received within the Period, you will be charged £2 via a bounce-back message. On occasions it may take some time for you to receive the bounce-back ‘thank you’ message. Please wait until you receive it. Proof of text sent is not proof of donation.
The charge will appear on your mobile phone contract bill or be taken from available funds on a non-contract mobile phone (PAYG).
If your keyword or shortcode are invalid, or your text message is received outside the period, you may not receive a bounce-back text but may still be charged your standard network message charge. You will not be charged the £2 entry fee and you will not be donating to Thames Reach.
5. Donation Limitations: There is no maximum number of limitations for text message donations from the same mobile telephone number throughout the period; however daily or weekly premium rate SMS text restrictions may be imposed by your Mobile Network Operator.
The mobile operators reserve the right to disqualify any text that breach rules or are in any way fraudulent, illegible, incomplete or otherwise deficient or inaudible.
6. General Terms and Conditions: Thames Reach, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for: (i) any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any telephone network or line, system, server, provider or otherwise which may result in any entry being lost or not properly registered or recorded and; any other changes made by the event organisers.
Thames Reach will only ever use personal details for the purposes of administering this campaign, and will not publish them or provide them to anyone without permission. For additional information regarding the use of information collected in conjunction with this competition, please refer to the privacy policy at http://www.thamesreach.org.uk/privacy-policy/
Gift Aid can be claimed on the proceeds of a text message donation.
If you would like to make a gift (outside of this promotion) to Thames Reach please visit: www.homelesstext.co.uk
Thames Reach, Cymba Integrated Solutions Ltd ( http://www.smsshortcodes.co.uk ) or their sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any mobile telephone or internet network or line, system, server, mobile provider, internet service provider or otherwise which may result in any SMS text or online donation being lost or not properly received.
7. Promoter/Fundraiser: The promoter of this Text Giving service is Thames Reach (register number: 24377R England & Wales). To get involved with Thames Reach in different ways, go to www.thamesreach.org.uk. If you have any queries regarding the service or our cause please contact Thames Reach at the following address:
Thames Reach
Gem House, 122-126 Backchurch Lane, London E1 1ND Register number: 24377R
For help telephone 020 7702 4260
Date of terms and conditions: 27/04/2011
Text Giving service is provided by Cymba Integrated Solutions Ltd ( http://www.cymba.co.uk ) to the third sector.
Thank you for donating.
