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Privacy notice

1. The ‘Saving our Species’ program (SoS) is working to increase the number of threatened species that are secure in the wild in New South Wales (NSW). To achieve this ambitious goal, SoS needs the NSW public to know about and support the work it does. This contest is designed to increase the number of subscribers to the SoS monthly newsletter to build awareness of and engagement with SoS content. Increased engagement with and awareness of SoS content educates the public about the native plants, animals and ecological communities at risk of extinction. This helps build advocacy and support for the program and our partners, increasing the effectiveness of the work of SoS.
2. To enter this competition, participants must provide their email address. This information is collected by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) for the purpose stated above.
3. Providing your email address is voluntary; however if it is not provided, then you will not be eligible to be entered into the competition.
4. By submitting this form, you acknowledge that you have read our privacy notice and understand our collection, use, storage, disclosure and management of your personal information in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 and DCCEEW's privacy policies.
5. Participants that provide their email address in this competition will be added to DCCEEW’s SoS mailing list to receive promotional and other marketing communications from SoS.
6. Participants will be able to opt out of the mailing list at any time by following the instructions included in each communication sent by ‘Saving our Species’. However, you must be a current member of the SoS mailing list at the time of the draw to be eligible to win a prize.
7. DCCEEW will not disclose your personal information to any other parties without your consent (unless legally required to do so).
8. By submitting an entry into this competition, participants consent to DCCEEW using and/or disclosing personal information as necessary to facilitate the provision of applicable prizes.
9. Successful prize winners will be notified via the email address provided.
10. Personal information collected will be held by DCCEEW, 4 Parramatta Square, 12 Darcy Street, Parramatta NSW 2150. To access and/or correct the personal information collected, you can contact the DCCEEW Information Access and Privacy Team on 02 8275 1095 or the Saving our Species team at [email protected].
11. For more details on how your information is handled by DCCEEW, please see our privacy statement.
12. By using and entering this competition, participants acknowledge that this competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook, Instagram, X, NSW DCCEEW Instagram, NSW DCCEEW Facebook, NSW DCCEEW LinkedIn or any other third-party platform used to advertise this competition, whether paid or unpaid.

Terms and conditions

1. Information on how to enter and prizes form part of these terms and conditions. By participating, participants agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. Entries must comply with these terms and conditions to be valid.
2. The promoter is the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (ABN 27 578 976 844) of 12 Darcy St, Parramatta NSW 2150 (DCCEEW). To contact DCCEEW, please email [email protected] or telephone 1300 361 967.

Competition period

3. The competition commences at 12:00 am (AEST) on 8 September and ends at 11:59 pm (AEDT) on 8 October 2025 (Competition Period).

Eligibility to enter

4. Entry is open to residents of NSW who are aged 18 years or over (Participants).
5. Directors, management, employees and their immediate families of DCCEEW, retailers, suppliers, associated entities and agencies associated with this competition are ineligible to enter. Immediate family means any of the following: spouse, ex-spouse, de-facto spouse, child or step-child (whether natural or by adoption), parent, step-parent, grandparent, step-grandparent, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, brother, sister, step-brother, step-sister or first cousin.

How to enter

6. To enter, Participants must, during the Competition Period:
   1. visit the ‘Saving our Species’ (SoS) newsletter sign-up page;
   2. provide their email address; and
   3. submit the completed online form, to be added to the SoS mailing list.
7. Participants who are already on the SoS mailing list before the Competition Period begins will automatically receive one (1) entry into the competition.
8. A limit of one entry applies per Participant.

Entry

9. DCCEEW reserves the right, at any time, to verify the validity of entries and entrants (including an entrant’s identity, age and place of residence) and reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who DCCEEW has reason to believe has breached any of these Terms and Conditions, tampered with the entry process or engaged in any unlawful or other improper misconduct calculated to jeopardise fair and proper conduct of the competition. Errors and omissions may be accepted at DCCEEW's discretion. Failure by DCCEEW to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
10. Incomplete, indecipherable or illegible entries will be deemed invalid.
11. If there is a dispute as to the identity of an entrant, DCCEEW reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to determine the identity of the entrant.

Draw

12. The draw will take place at the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 12 Darcy St, Parramatta NSW 2150 at 10 am (AEDT) on 15 October 2025. DCCEEW may draw additional reserve entries (Reserve Entries) and record them in case an invalid entry or ineligible entrant is drawn, or the prize has not been claimed by the winner in the timeframes required (see term and condition 27).
13. Each winner will be notified by email. Each winner’s email will be partially coded and published at Saving our Species newsletter subscriber competition. A winner must claim the prize by 9:00 am (AEDT) 16 January 2026.
14. DCCEEW’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Prizes

15. The first valid entry drawn will win two (2) nights’ accommodation at Scribbly Farm, Southern Highlands (two adults – double share), valued at approximately $850 (dates dependent). The voucher is valid for 3 years for 2-night bookings between Sunday–Thursday with the option to upgrade to a weekend. Blackout period from December–January. Booking includes dome accommodation, breakfast, bread, butters, local jams, farm eggs, a bottle of wine and a cheese plate.
16. The second valid entry will win one (1) Stefano Marvello 'Pasta Master' Italian cooking class for two (2) adults, valued at $340. Code is valid for one year with bookings only available for Friday sessions.
17. The third valid entry drawn will win a Scenic World (located in the Blue Mountains NSW) Unlimited Discovery pass for 2 adults and 2 children valued at $246. The pass is valid for 12 months (from the date prize is awarded). Blackout dates: pass cannot be redeemed from 25 December – 5 January inclusive or during Easter long weekend. Full terms and conditions are included with the pass.
18. The next five (5) valid entries drawn will each win a Taronga Zoo (located in Sydney, NSW) family pass valued at $151 each. Full terms and conditions are included with the pass.
19. The next valid entry draw will win a one-year subscription to Australian Geographic magazine (6 issues) and one year subscription to Australian Geographic Adventure (2 issues), together valued at $127.92.
20. Additional spending money, meals, insurance, transport to and from departure point, transfers, items of a personal nature, in-room charges and all other ancillary costs are not included in the prize or otherwise funded by DCCEEW.
21. Prize is subject to the standard terms and conditions of individual prize and the service providers administering the prizes (see terms and conditions 15−19). A winner may be required to present their credit card at the time of accommodation check-in.
22. Subject to the unclaimed prize draw clause, if for any reason the winner does not take the prize (or an element of the prize) by the time stipulated by DCCEEW, then the prize (or that element of the prize) will be forfeited.
23. If the prize (or part of the prize) is unavailable, DCCEEW, in its discretion, reserves the right to substitute the prize (or that part of the prize) with a prize to the equal value and/or specification, subject to any written directions from a regulatory authority.
24. The prizes are subject to the event venue and ticket terms and conditions (see 15−19), including any applicable age restriction. DCCEEW and event organisers hereby expressly reserve the right to eject a winner (and/or their companion) for any inappropriate behaviour, including but not limited to intoxication, while participating in any element of a prize.
25. The total prize pool value is up to $2,500.
26. Prizes, or any unused portion of a prize, are not transferable or exchangeable to another person and cannot be taken as cash, unless otherwise specified.
27. If a prize remains unclaimed by 9:00 am (AEDT) on 16 January 2026, then:
    1. DCCEEW will notify the next winner on the Reserve Entries list; or
    2. if there are no winners on the Reserve Entries list, then an unclaimed prize draw will take place at a time and place notified by DCCEEW to all the entrants.

The unclaimed prize winner will be notified in writing by email. Each winner’s email will be partially coded and published at Saving our Species newsletter subscriber competition. The unclaimed prize winner (if any) must claim the prize by 9:00 am (AEDT) on 16 April 2026. All terms and conditions continue to apply to the prize and the unclaimed prize winner, and if the prize is unclaimed again, the same process under this section 27 will be followed.

28. If this promotion is interfered with in any way or is not capable of being conducted as reasonably anticipated due to any reason beyond the reasonable control of DCCEEW, including but not limited to technical difficulties, unauthorised intervention or fraud, war, terrorism, state of emergency, pandemic, or any other kind of disaster, DCCEEW reserves the right and continues to reserve the right, in its sole discretion, to the fullest extent permitted by law:
    1. to disqualify any entrant; or
    2. subject to any written directions from a regulatory authority, to modify, suspend, terminate or cancel the promotion, as appropriate.
29. Any cost associated with accessing the promotional website is the entrant’s responsibility and is dependent on the internet service provider used.
30. The use of any automated entry software or any other mechanical or electronic means that allows an entrant to automatically enter repeatedly is prohibited and will render all entries submitted by that entrant invalid.
31. Nothing in these terms and conditions limits, excludes or modifies or purports to limit, exclude or modify the statutory consumer guarantees as provided under the Competition and Consumer Act, as well as any other implied warranties under the ASIC Act or similar consumer protection laws in the states and territories of Australia (‘Non-Excludable Guarantees’). Except for any liability that cannot by law be excluded, including the Non-Excludable Guarantees, DCCEEW (including its respective officers, employees and agents) excludes all liability (including negligence), for any personal injury; or any loss or damage (including loss of opportunity); whether direct, indirect, special or consequential, arising in any way out of the promotion. Except for any liability that cannot by law be excluded, including the Non-Excludable Guarantees, DCCEEW (including its respective officers, employees and agents) is not responsible for and excludes all liability (including negligence), for any personal injury; or any loss or damage (including loss of opportunity); whether direct, indirect, special or consequential, arising in any way out of:
    1. any technical difficulties or equipment malfunction (whether or not under DCCEEW’s control);
    2. any theft, unauthorised access or third party interference;
    3. any entry or prize claim that is late, lost, altered, damaged or misdirected (whether or not after their receipt by DCCEEW) due to any reason beyond the reasonable control of DCCEEW;
    4. any variation in prize value to that stated in these Terms and Conditions;
    5. if an event is delayed, postponed or cancelled for any reason beyond the reasonable control of DCCEEW;
    6. taking of the prize and attendance at an event.
32. As a condition of accepting a prize, the winner (and their companion) must sign any legal documentation as and in the form required by DCCEEW and/or prize suppliers in their absolute discretion, including but not limited to a legal release and indemnity form.