Terms and conditions

Terms and Conditions of entry

  1. You understand you are registering for The Month Series, which includes Cycle the Month, Cycle the Month: Choose Your Challenge, March the Month, Run the Month, and Run the Month: Marathon Edition (“Event”). The Event is organised by Prostate Cancer UK (company number 02653887 and charity number 1005541) Registered office: Fourth floor, The Counting House, 53 Tooley Street, London SE1 2QN. (“Prostate Cancer UK” or “we”).
  2. You must be aged 18 and over to register for the Event. If you are under 18 years of age you will need a parent or guardian to register on your behalf.
  3. You may participate in the Event as an individual subject to the Event instructions which can be found on the Prostate Cancer UK Website https://prostatecanceruk.org/get-involved/the-month-series. We reserve the right to not accept any registration for the Event in our absolute discretion.
  4. By registering for this Event, you are creating a JustGiving fundraising page to fundraise for Prostate Cancer UK in connection with this Event. By creating a JustGiving fundraising page, you agree to comply with JustGiving’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Prostate Cancer UK is not responsible for JustGiving.
  5. You must register to participate in the Event by completing a Registration Form which can be found at https://prostatecanceruk.org/get-involved/the-month-series. By completing and submitting a Registration Form, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.
  6. You agree to abide by any local or national public health or safety guidance or restrictions applicable at the date of and at any point throughout the duration of The Month Series, including in relation to Covid-19.
  7. By submitting a Registration Form, you confirm that, to the best of your knowledge and belief, you are healthy and fit to take part in the Event unaided and in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, understand and have considered and evaluated the nature, scope and extent of the risks involved, and have voluntarily and freely chosen to participate in the Event entirely at your own risk.
  8. You acknowledge that taking part in this activity is entirely at your own risk. You agree that you will not hold Prostate Cancer UK or any of its representatives, employees, volunteers, trustees, persons connected to the trustees, officers or professional advisers of Prostate Cancer UK responsible for any injury, death or loss that might occur as a result of your participation in the Event.
  9. You acknowledge that participation in the Event involves physical activities and inherent risks and dangers of accidents, personal and bodily injury (including death) and property loss or damage. If you have any medical conditions that could be adversely affected by exercise, particularly a heart condition, or if you are in any doubt about your health, you must get clearance from your doctor before participating.
  10. Prostate Cancer UK does not provide any insurance, whether life or medical or liability, for any illness, accident, injury, death, loss and/ or damage that may arise out of or in connection with the participation in the Event by you. You are advised to obtain such insurance yourself if required or desired.
  11. In no event shall Prostate Cancer UK be liable to you whether for breach of contract, any tortious act or omission (including negligence) or otherwise, under or in connection with these Terms and Conditions for any loss or damage, loss of profit, reputation, business, revenue or goodwill,  anticipated savings,  any special, consequential or indirect loss, regardless of whether the loss or damage: would arise in the ordinary course of events; is reasonably foreseeable; or is in the contemplation of the parties, or otherwise.
  12. Prostate Cancer UK reserves the right to remove your Event registration from participating in and/or completing the Event if Prostate Cancer UK determines that you fail to meet the Event’s registration and/or health and safety requirements and/or if allowing you to participate in the Event is likely to harm the charity’s reputation.
  13. If broadcasting your Event activity via social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, YouTube or any such site or social media platform, you shall not upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit or publish any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. You must agree to delete any content which we reasonably consider to be in breach of this conditions.
  14. You agree that in carrying out all fundraising for the benefit of Prostate Cancer UK, you will:
    1. abide by any fundraising guidelines issued by Prostate Cancer UK from time to time which can be found at https://prostatecanceruk.org/get-involved/organise-your-own-fundraising/fundraising-resources;
    2. only use lawful means to fundraise and you must not do anything which harms or is likely to harm Prostate Cancer UK or Prostate Cancer UK’s reputation; and
    3. make it clear in whichever manner you see fit to potential sponsors that their donation in support of you taking part in this Event is a donation to Prostate Cancer UK and this amount will not be refundable even if the Event does not take place for whatever reason or you do not take part in it or you do not complete it.
  15. If you receive any donations outside of your fundraising page, these funds must be sent to Prostate Cancer UK as soon as reasonably possible and, in any event, within three weeks of receipt by you. To send donations by post, please use the following address: The Month Series, Prostate Cancer UK, York House, Wetherby Road, Long Marston, York, YO26 7NH.
  16. If you choose not to participate in the Event or if we prevent you from doing so (including where the Event is cancelled for any reason) all sums collected or pledged will still be payable to Prostate Cancer UK.
  17. To claim challenge incentives, you must abide by the following:
    1. you must sign up to the Event within the ten weeks prior to the challenge end date https://prostatecanceruk.org/get-involved/the-month-series;
    2. you must have raised the fundraising goals (excluding Gift Aid) outlined for the challenge incentives within two weeks of the challenge end date to be eligible;
    3. if you enter into any of The Month Series challenges, Prostate Cancer UK may send you updates about the Event in accordance with Prostate Cancer UK's data privacy policy. Prostate Cancer UK will not contact you about our other activities unless you have already opted in to such communications or you amend your contact preferences to allow us to do this;
    4. if you are eligible for the fundraising incentives you will be contacted through email for the purpose of instructing how to secure your item(s). Your data will be processed and held in accordance with Prostate Cancer UK's data privacy policy;
    5. you can only enter each of the events of The Month Series, which includes Cycle the Month, Cycle the Month: Choose Your Challenge, March the Month, Run the Month, and Run the Month: Marathon Edition once and there is no cost to entry;
    6. entries that are incomplete will be deemed invalid and will not count as an entry;
    7. Prostate Cancer UK does not accept any liability for: (i) any entries which are incomplete or corrupted in any way as a result of any technical malfunction (whether caused by a website failure, virus, computer hardware or software failure, satellite, network or server failure or other technical malfunction); or (ii) for any entries which are lost, misdirected or delayed;
    8. the incentives available are listed on the challenge website.
    9. Prostate Cancer UK reserves the right to change the incentives at any time at its discretion; and
    10. there are no cash alternatives to the incentives.
  18. The personal data provided by you upon registration for the Event will be used to process registration and to provide you with additional information about the Event. Our agent, JustGiving (part of Blackbaud, Inc.), provides the registration platform and helps us to process registrations. After the Event, Prostate Cancer UK will continue to keep in touch about our work and tell you about breakthroughs in diagnosing, treating and preventing prostate cancer, and how you can get involved, but only if you have agreed for us to do so on your Registration Form. We will look after your details and we won’t share your personal data with anyone else. Read our Privacy Policy for more information. You are in control of how we contact you, so if you would like to change how often we do or what we tell you about, just call our Supporter Care team on 0800 082 1616 or email us on [email protected]
  19. We will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Event takes place so far as reasonably possible in accordance with the information provided on the Prostate Cancer UK website. However, we do reserve the right to cancel, postpone or make such alterations to the Event as we may reasonably require without any liability to you.
  20. Prostate Cancer UK reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions and any of the rules, guidelines or policies mentioned herein without notice.
  21. You agree that these Terms and Conditions shall be governed by English law and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.