AVBOB in partnership with Oxford University Press Southern Africa present to you the #RoadToLiteracy competition. We’re giving away 180 trolley libraries, so nominate your favourite primary school to win one to the value of R40 000. Please familiarise yourself with the Terms and Conditions of the Road to Literacy Trolley Library Competition. If you have any questions please send them to competition@avbob.co.za

1. The Road to Literacy Competition 2022 (the “Competition”) is organised by AVBOB Mutual Assurance Society (“AVBOB”), headquartered at 368 Madiba Street, Pretoria Central, Pretoria, 0002.

2. The Competition opens for entry at 09h00 South African Standard Time (SAST) on 19 April 2022.
3. The closing date of the Competition is at 23h59 South African Standard Time (SAST) on 31 May 2022.

4. The competition is open to primary schools, non-government organisations (NGOs) and educational institutions that cater for learners from Grade R to Grade 7 in South Africa.
5. The learner enrolment at the institution needs to be less than 600.
6. Members of the public may identify and nominate an institution of their choice by completing the online entry form: avbob.zero-data.co.za/roadtoliteracy/index.html
7. Only online submissions will be accepted.
8. An individual may nominate no more than 10 primary schools or NGOs (combined).
9. Each institution’s eligibility will be assessed by AVBOB. No correspondence or discussions will be entered into.
10. Current direct or indirect AVBOB employees and staff and their spouses/partners and/or family members are not eligible to nominate an institution.
11. AVBOB does not accept any responsibility for late, lost, incomplete, incorrectly submitted, delayed, illegible, corrupted or misdirected nominations, claims or correspondence, whether due to error, omission, alteration, tampering, deletion, theft, destruction, transmission interruption, communications failure or otherwise. Entrants acknowledge that the Internet is not a secure medium and that the judging panel is not responsible for the security of online nominations.
12. AVBOB reserves the right, at any time, in its sole discretion to cancel, vary, suspend or modify the Competition, including, without limitation, circumstances where AVBOB in its own opinion considers for any reason that this Competition is not capable of running as planned because of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, pandemic, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of AVBOB, which may corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Competition or otherwise, subject to any written directions under applicable legislation.
13. AVBOB and its employees will not be liable for any claim, loss or liability (monetary or otherwise) sustained or incurred, direct or indirectly, as a result of, arising out of, or in any way connected with the Competition, excluding a liability which cannot be excluded by law (in which case that liability is limited to the maximum allowable by law). Each entrant indemnifies, holds harmless and releases AVBOB and its employees from all such claims made or sustained as a result of entering this Competition, or for any loss suffered as a result of any breach of these terms and conditions by an entrant, including breach of any third-party intellectual property rights or any warranty or representation being false or incorrect. This clause survives the conclusion of the Competition.
14. The laws of South Africa shall apply to these Competition rules. If any part of these Competition rules is void or unenforceable, then that part will be severed from and the remainder construed as if the severed part had never existed.
15. This Competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

16. The panel judging the Competition (the “judging panel”) reserves the right to refuse any entries at its sole discretion. The judging panel also reserves the right to disqualify any entrant or entry at its absolute discretion. For example, the judging panel may disqualify:
    1. any surplus or additional entries;
    2. incomplete, indecipherable or illegal entries, or entries containing incorrect contact details;
    3. any entries that AVBOB considers contains material that is objectionable, defamatory, profane or potentially insulting, inflammatory or defamatory, or contravenes an applicable law or infringes any third party's rights;
    4. entrants who AVBOB considers have tampered with the entry process or engaged in unlawful or improper conduct that is designed to jeopardise the fair and proper conduct of the Competition, or is generally damaging to the goodwill or reputation of AVBOB; or
    5. entries that AVBOB considers inappropriate for any reason.
17. AVBOB reserves the right, at any time, to verify the validity of entries and the mandatory details provided by entrants, and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these terms and conditions. The identification necessary for verification is at the sole discretion of AVBOB. Failure by AVBOB to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.

18. AVBOB cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by any entrant entering the Competition.
19. AVBOB reserves the right both to cancel the Competition and to amend these rules where it is deemed necessary or to account for circumstances beyond AVBOB’s control. Any notice of cancellation or changes to the rules will be posted on this website (avbob.zero-data.co.za).
20. In the event of any dispute regarding these rules or any other matter relating to the Competition, the decision of AVBOB shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
21. Entries not complying with the Competition rules will be disqualified, as will entrants in breach of the rules.
22. Entrants must not approach or attempt to influence any judge or member of AVBOB staff over Competition matters.
23. The Competition rules will be governed by South African law, and any dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of South Africa.

24. Each winning institution will receive a maximum of one trolley library.
25. Winning institutions will be asked to provide a letter which acknowledges receipt of the trolley library.
26. AVBOB reserves the right, in conjunction with the Competition panel of judges, to withhold the prizes, if, in their opinion, such action is justified for any reason.

27. Winning institutions will be announced by 31 August 2022.
28. Details of the winners will be announced on avbob.zero-data.co.za, as well as to the press.

29. An entrant’s personal information as defined by the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act 4 of 2013, may be collected, received, recorded, organised, collated, stored, updated, processed, analysed and used and disclosed by AVBOB for Competition purposes and other functions incidental hereto, including disclosure of the winner's personal information in publications made available to the public throughout the world, by use of online, print and other media services and communication tools. By entering the Competition, the entrant consents to the lawful collection, processing, storing and transferring of his or her personal information. The entrant also acknowledges and accepts that it is his or her responsibility to provide AVBOB with his or her correct personal information and should these details change, inform AVBOB of the changes immediately. A request to access, update or correct any personal information held by AVBOB should be directed to competition@avbob.co.za
30. By entering the Competition, an entrant (and if an entrant is under 18 years of age, an entrant’s parent or legal guardian) consents to AVBOB using and disclosing any part of the entrant’s personal information provided as set out above, including, without limitation, the following:
    1. Use in any communications, publications, marketing or promotional activities associated with the Competition.
    2. In the event of winning, use and disclosure of an entrant’s name and photograph(s) for publicity, marketing, promotional and publication purposes, including throughout the world, whether by online, print or other media services and communication tools.
31. An entrant may withdraw his or her consent to future use and disclosure of personal information in promotional and marketing activities and publications at any time by written notice to competition@avbob.co.za and, upon receipt of such notice, AVBOB will take reasonable steps to cease using and disclosing that personal information as soon as is reasonably possible. In some instances, AVBOB will not be able to cease the use or disclosure, for example, where information has been cached by others.
32. For further details pertaining to the use of your personal information, please refer to our Privacy Policy which is available on our website for your convenience.
33. By entering this competition you hereby grant AVBOB permission to utilise information submitted during the nomination process.