Terms & Conditions

This Celebrating twenty years of Google In Ireland with Google Doodle  (the ‘Contest’) is run by Google Ireland Limited whose principal place of business is at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (‘Google’).

To enter this Contest, you must read and agree to these terms and conditions (“Terms”). By entering the Contest, you agree that these Terms will apply to you. 

1. Eligibility

   1. To participate in the Contest and be eligible for entry, the following conditions must be satisfied throughout the duration of the Contest. You must:

      • Be a resident of the Republic of Ireland.

      • Be a 3rd-6th class primary school student 

   2. A parent or legal guardian, aged 18 years or older must submit all entries.

   3. You may only submit one entry to the Contest. 

   4. All determinations of eligibility will be made at Google’s sole and absolute discretion. Google reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any related dispute at any time. No correspondence will be entered into.

2. How to Participate

   1. You must:

      • Each entry must create a Google Doodle based on what they think Ireland will look like twenty years from now in 2043.

      • To submit an entry, a parent or legal guardian must share the child’s entry (A4 size) via the contest entry form.

      • Entrants should enter Entries received after the closing date of the Contest Period will not be considered.

   2. Google reserves the right to request proof of age for all entrants. Only one entry will be permitted per child.

   3. All data provided through the registration process must be complete and correct.

3. Key Dates

Contest begins at 09:00am GMT on September 11, 2023 and ends at 09:00 am on October 10, 2023 (‘Contest Period’). After this time entries will NOT be considered.

4. Determining the winners

   1. 20 winners will be selected by our internal panel of judges. The winners will be the persons who the judges determine have shown creativity & originality in their Google Doodle.

5. Prizes 

   1. The prize includes attendance (plus expenses up to 250E with valid receipts) at the Google Doodle Workshop in Google’s Dublin office on the 1st November 2023 (the “Prize”). 

6. Notification of Winners and Winners’ Obligations

   1. If you are a winner, Google will notify your parent/guardian (who submitted the entry form) that you have won a Prize by sending an email to the address you provided on entry to the Contest by 16 October 2023.

   2. Google reserves the right in its reasonable discretion to substitute equivalent Prizes of equal or greater value. No cash equivalent of Prizes can be claimed.

   3. You may be required to submit a declaration of eligibility and/or publicity release in order to receive a Prize.

   4. Google is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, mutilated, incomplete and illegible entry materials, or for electronic transmission errors, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to or alterations of entry, technical malfunctions of any kind.

   5. Entries are void if they are in whole or in part incomprehensible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, altered, counterfeit, produced in error, forged, mechanically reproduced or obtained through fraud or theft.

   6. Google will not be liable for unsuccessful efforts to notify your parent/guardian if you are a winner. If you decline a Prize, do not respond to the Prize notification within 60 days of the notification being sent, fail to claim the Prize, are unavailable for Prize fulfilment, fail to abide by these Terms or are ineligible, Google may select an alternative winner from all remaining participants.

   7. Prizes are non-transferrable. You may not sell on or give away a Prize to other persons.

7. Privacy

   1. You acknowledge that Google may collect, store, share and otherwise use personally identifiable information provided during registration for the Contest. Google will use this information for the purpose of the Contest only and will process any such personal information in accordance with its Privacy Policy (http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/).

   2. Your information may also be transferred to countries outside your country of residence, including the United States. Such other countries may not have privacy laws and regulations similar to those of your country of residence.

   3. You have the right to request access, review, rectification or deletion of any personal data held by Google in connection with the Contest by writing to Google DoodleIreland20@google.com 

8. Intellectual Property Rights

   1. As between Google and you, you retain ownership of all intellectual property rights (including moral rights) in and to any content submitted by you as part of your entry into the Contest. By submitting an entry into the contest, you grant Google, its subsidiaries, agents and partner companies, an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence for the duration of any intellectual property rights in the entry to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create a derivative work from, and publicly display your entry into the Contest (1) for the purposes of allowing Google and the judges to evaluate the entry for purposes of the Contest and identifying winners to the public, and (2) for marketing purposes.

   2. You promise that you are entitled to any intellectual property rights in your entry and that you have not copied your entry, in whole or in part, from any other existing work.

9. Right To Cancel, Modify, or Disqualify

   1. If for any reason outside Google’s control, the Contest is not capable of running as planned (which may include tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures, printing errors, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Contest), Google may, at its sole discretion, cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest.

   2. Google may, acting reasonably: (a) disqualify any participant who tampers with the submission process or any other part of the Contest, or whose conduct is contrary to the spirit of the rules or the intention of the Contest, and declare void any or all of their entries based on such conduct; or (b) declare void any entries resulting from any errors materially affecting the result of the contest or the number of entrants.

10. Limitation of Liability & Disclaimer of Warranties

    1. Nothing in these Terms will exclude or limit the liability of Google or its affiliates for:

       1. Death or personal injury as a result of the negligence of Google or its affiliates, servants, agents or employees;

       2. Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or

    2. Subject to clause 9.1, Google shall not be liable under or in connection with this Contest (whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise) for any:

       1. Loss of profit; or

       2. Indirect or consequential losses;

    3. Subject to clause 9.1(b), and to the extent permitted by law, all warranties, conditions or terms, express or implied, relating to the Prize, its use, value or enjoyment, including (without limitation) its satisfactory quality or fitness for purpose, are excluded, with the exception of any standard manufacturer's warranty that may apply to the Prizes.

    4. Subject to clauses 9.1 and 9.2 Google's total liability to you under or in connection with this Contest (whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise) is limited in aggregate to €25,000.

11. Severability

    1. If any provision(s) of these Terms are held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

12. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

    1. These Terms shall be governed by, subject to, and construed in accordance with Irish law, and you and Google submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts in relation to any dispute (contractual or non-contractual) concerning these Terms.