AFLW Season Opener Terms and Conditions

2025 AFLW Season Opener Competition

Terms and Conditions

By entering you consent to receive special offers and marketing emails from Carlton Football Club.  See the terms and conditions below for more information.

Promoter: Carlton Football Club Limited (ABN 95 005 449 909), IKON Park, Royal Parade, Carlton North VIC 3054 (Promoter)

• Information on how to enter the competition and the competition prizes form part of these Terms and Conditions. Participation in this competition is deemed acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.

• The competition will commence at 12:00pm (AEST) on Friday, 4 July 2025 to and end at 23:59pm (AEST) on Friday, 4 July 2025 (Competition Period).

• To enter the competition, you must purchase a ticket (or tickets) via the official Ticketmaster website to the 2025 NAB AFLW season opener between Carlton and Collingwood, to be held at 7:15pm (AEST) on Thursday, 14 August 2025 (Match), during the Competition Period (Eligible Transaction).

• Ticket purchases to the Match made outside the Competition Period will not be eligible to go into the competition draw (i.e. will not be deemed Eligible Transactions).

• Entrants will receive one (1) entry into the competition per Eligible Transaction, regardless of how many tickets are purchased in the transaction.

• Entries are limited to one (1) per entrant, irrespective of how many Eligible Transactions a person makes.

• Entry is open to Australian residents who are aged are aged 18 or over.

• Directors, officers, management and employees (and their immediate families) of the Promoter and the agencies, companies or participating premises associated with this competition are not permitted to enter the competition.

• Where relevant, the Promoter is not responsible if your mobile device/desktop is not sufficiently capable for the purpose of submitting an entry.

• There will be twenty-five (25) separate winners determined in respect of the competition.

• Each winner will receive a VIP experience valued at $100 and consisting of:

• one (1) x guest ticket to the Match;

• access to a private room at IKON Park for the Match for the winner and their guest;

• catered food during the Match; and

• one (1) free drink for each winner and their guest (subject to all liquor licensing and responsible service of alcohol requirements).

• The total prize pool of the competition is $2,500.

• The first twenty-five (25) valid entries randomly drawn from the eligible entries received for the competition will win a prize.

• Winners may bring a guest who is under 18 if the relevant winner is that guest’s parent or guardian.

• The draw will be conducted using computerised random selection at 12:00pm (AEST) on Friday, 18 July 2025 at the Carlton Football Club, 400 Royal Parade, Carlton North.

• The Promoter may draw additional reserve entries in a draw and record them in order, in case a winning entry/entrant is deemed invalid or a prize is unclaimed (Reserve Entrants).

• Each winner will be notified by phone and in writing (by email) within 2 business days of the prize draw.

• Winners must respond confirming acceptance of the prize within seventy-two (72) hours of receiving notification, otherwise the Promoter reserves the right to award their prize to a Reserve Entrant.

• Prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged nor redeemed for cash. Without limiting any other term of these Terms and Conditions, all prizes (and elements of prizes) must be taken as and when specified or will be forfeited with no replacement. The prize values are correct as at the date of preparing these Terms and Conditions and include any applicable GST. The Promoter is not responsible for any change in prize value. You agree that if a prize (or element of a prize) is unavailable for any reason the Promoter may provide another item of equal or higher value, subject to any necessary approval by the state/territory gaming authorities.

• All prizes are subject to any additional terms and conditions imposed by the relevant supplier, the relevant venue or the Promoter.

• You are responsible for all other unspecified costs related to a prize, including insurance (including any excesses), and costs associated with travel to and from the Match and the ongoing use of a prize, etc.

• The Promoter is not responsible for any dispute between you and any person with whom you choose to, or choose not to, share a prize.

• If any aspect of this competition cannot run as planned for any reason beyond the Promoter's control, for example due to software, hardware or communications issues, unauthorised intervention, tampering, fraud or technical failure, rescheduling of the Match, a pandemic, government directives, public health orders and the like, the Promoter may end, change, suspend or cancel the competition or disqualify affected entries/entrants, subject to any necessary approval by the state/territory gaming authorities.

• The Promoter is not responsible for any tax implications arising from you winning a prize. You should seek independent financial advice. If for GST purposes this competition results in any supply being made for non-monetary consideration, you must follow the Australian Taxation Office’s stated view that where the parties are at arm’s length, goods and services exchanged are of equal GST inclusive market values.

• If you are a winner, you and (if applicable) your guest/s must take part in all publicity, photography and other promotional activity as the Promoter requires, without any compensation. You/your guest/s consent to the Promoter using your name/s and image/s in any promotional or advertising activity.

• The Promoter may collect your/your guest/s’ personal information directly or through its agents or contractors. The Promoter will use your/your guest/s’ personal information to conduct and manage the competition. The Promoter may disclose your/your guest/s’ personal information to its related companies, agents and contractors to assist in conducting this competition, communicating with you/your companions or storing data.

• By entering, you consent to the Promoter keeping your personal information on its database to use for promotional, publicity, research, profiling and future marketing purposes, including contacting you by electronic messaging. By entering, you consent to receive email or SMS messages from the Promoter in compliance with the SPAM Act.

• The Promoter’s Privacy Policy (see www.carltonfc.com.au/privacy) includes information about:

• how to seek access to the personal information the Promoter holds about you and seek correction of the information; and

• how to complain about a privacy breach and how the Promoter will deal with such a complaint.

• You may have consumer rights under statute including under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), which may be relevant to any issue or problem you encounter in relation to this competition and cannot be excluded or restricted. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes or restricts those rights. See www.accc.gov.au for more information about those rights).

• Subject to the previous paragraph, the Promoter and the agencies and companies associated with this competition are not liable (including in negligence) for any loss (including indirect, special or consequential loss or loss of profits), expense, damage, personal injury (including allergies, skin conditions or other reactions, as relevant), illness or death suffered in connection with this competition or any prize, except for any liability which under statute cannot be excluded (in which case that liability is limited to the greatest extent allowed by law).

• Without limiting the previous paragraphs, the Promoter and the agencies and companies associated with this competition are not liable for any loss of, damage to or delay in delivery of prize/s, or for any damage that occurs to displayed prize/s (where relevant) due to circumstances beyond the Promoter's reasonable control. Unless otherwise specified, prize/s will only be delivered to addresses in Australia.

• This competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with any social media platform, including Facebook, Instagram and X. You provide your information to the Promoter and not to any social media platform. You completely release any relevant social media platforms from any and all liability.