PAWject Manager Competition

These Terms and Conditions prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency with any other communications, including advertising or competition materials. Entry and claim instructions are deemed to form part of the terms and conditions and by participating, all entrants will be deemed to have accepted and be bound by the terms and conditions. Please retain a copy for your information.

Promoter

• Promoter: Merlin Attractions Operations Limited (company number 06272935) with registered office at Arbor Building, 16th Floor, 255 Blackfriars Road, London, England, SE1 9AX, trading as the Chessington World of Adventures Resort, Leatherhead Road, Chessington, Surrey, KT9 2NE for the purposes of this promotion.
• The parent/guardian of the Winner may be invited to co-operate (and to procure the co-operation of his/her companions who share in the benefits of the prize) with any reasonable requests by the Promoter relating to any post-winning publicity where the parent or legal guardian has provided explicit consent for such publicity. Refusal or withdrawal of consent to publicity will not affect the Eligible Entrant’s participation in the Competition or eligibility to receive a prize. This includes, but is not limited to, national, consumer and regional media across broadcast (TV and Radio), print and online media. The Promoter may publish (in accordance with its legal obligations) publish the winner’s name and general location (town or county only) where the parent or legal guardian has explicitly consented to such publication, on its website e.g. Mr Smith from London.
• By entering, the parent or legal guardian of the of the Eligible Entrant acknowledges that they may be asked separately to provide explicit consent for participation in media and marketing communications, including the use of images of the winning design.
  

The Competition

• Parents and guardians with children aged 4-6 years old at the time of application (“Eligible Entrants”) will have the opportunity to submit their application for their child to become the PAWject Manager by explaining why their child would be ‘PAWfect’ for the job. Explanations can be submitted as a short video (1-1.5 minutes), written, or a photo via a dedicated webpage hosted on the Chessington website: www.chessington.com/pawjectmanager. Parents or legal guardians are asked to ensure that submissions do not include unnecessary personal data, including addresses, school names, or other identifying information beyond what is required for the Competition. 
• One Eligible Entrant will be selected as the Winner, and will become the PAWject Manager. 
• Two Eligible Entrants will be selected as the runners up
• The Winner and two runners up will receive prizes as detailed in “The Prize” section of these Terms and Conditions”.
• The Competition will run from 09:00 GMT on Tues 3 February until 23:59 GMT on Wed 4 March 2026 (the "Closing Date").  
  

Eligibility

• To be eligible to enter the Competition, Entrants must be aged between 4 and 6 years old on the date of entry. Entrants must also be a resident in the UK and must not be employees or immediate family members of employees of the Chessington World of Adventures, Merlin Entertainments Group, their agents or anyone professionally connected to this Competition ("Eligible Entrants").
• Eligible Entrants and a parent or legal guardian must be available to attend Chessington World of Adventures on the photoshoot day in April (exact date to be confirmed by the promoter) if their Entry is selected as the winner. Upon selection, the winner will be required to confirm that they are able to attend the photoshoot day.
• Only entries from individuals will be accepted. Any entries that the Promoter believes have been made (a) via participation in a syndicate, and/or (b) using any robotic, automatic, programmed or similar entry method, will be disqualified from the Competition.
•  Any Entry that, in the sole opinion of the Promoter, is deemed to be inappropriate for publication is ineligible. Incomplete or illegible entries will be disqualified from the Competition.

How to Enter

• Eligible Entrants, with the help of their parent or legal guardians, must enter the Competition by visiting www.chessington.com/pawjectmanager (the "Website"), following the instructions to complete the registration form and submit either a video (up to 1.5 minutes in length), image (photograph) or a written description explain why they would be PAWfect for the job as the PAW Patrol PAWject Manager
• Entries submitted as JPEG images or videos must not exceed 20MB in file size.
• Eligible Entrants must submit their entries under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian to ensure that they have followed the correct online procedure for submitting their Entry and provided all the required information. Alternatively, a parent or legal guardian may submit the Entry on behalf of the Eligible Entrant.
• All entries must be received by the Promoter before the Closing Date. All entries received after the Closing Date will be automatically disqualified from the Competition. The Promoter does not accept responsibility for competition entries that are lost, mislaid, damaged or delayed, regardless of cause, including, for example, as a result of equipment failure, technical malfunction, systems, satellite, network, server, computer hardware or software failure of any kind.
  

Winner Selection

• Entries will be judged by a panel of 2 judges including a representative from Merlin Magic Making and the Vice-President of Chessington World of Adventures (the "Judging Panel"). Entries will be judged on (a) the level of understanding of PAW Patrol (b) the level of love shown for PAW Patrol (the "Judging Criteria").

• The Promoter will send the full names of the judges to Eligible Entrants (and or their parents or legal guardians) who writes within one calendar month after the Closing Date of the Competition requesting details of the judges, and who enclosed a self-addressed envelope to FAO PR team, Chessington World of Adventures, Leatherhead Road, Chessington, Surrey, KT9 2NE. 

The Prize

• 1 Winner and 2 runners-up will be selected to receive prizes as detailed below.
• The prize for the Winner will be the nominal title of PAWject Manager of PAW Patrol World. They will be among the first members of the public to experience the rides as well as meeting PAW Patrol costume characters in the new World of PAW Patrol land. The Winner will also receive tickets for their family to attend the World of PAW Patrol opening event; a night in one of the five PAW Patrol hotel rooms at Chessington (for 2x adults and 2x children) on the night before or night of the opening event or a night that is more convenient for the winner and their family – all stays are subject to availability  ;and other additional PAW Patrol goodies not exceeding £100.
• The prize for the two runners-up will be tickets for their family (2x adults and 2x children) to attend the opening event of World of PAW Patrol and other additional PAW Patrol goodies not exceeding £50.
• The Winner’s 1x night accommodation in a PAW Patrol Hotel room (for 2x adults and 2x children), on a Bed And Breakfast basis, will be covered by Chessington World of Adventures. Travel, food and incidental expenses will not be covered by Chessington World of Adventures.
• Travel, accommodation, food and incidental expenses for the two runners-up will not be covered by Chessington World of Adventures. 
• There is no cash alternative for the prize and the prize is not negotiable,  transferable or for resale. All other terms and conditions of entry to Chessington World of Adventures shall apply as available on the Chessington World of Adventures website: Terms & Conditions | Chessington World of Adventures Resort
  

General

• All Entries submitted become the property of Chessington World of Adventures and will not be returned. This clause applies to intellectual property rights only and does not affect the Eligible Entrant’s or parent or legal guardian’s rights under data protection law in respect of personal data contained in the Entry.
• All Entries are subject to approval by the Promoter. In particular, the Promoter will reject entries which are offensive, abusive, misleading, unethical, discriminating or defaming in nature.
• By submitting an Entry, the Eligible Entrant and their parent or legal guardian are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions. Entries must be the sole work of the Eligible Entrant, with appropriate support from their parent / legal guardian. Any plagiarised Entry, or Entry that is not the sole work of the Eligible Entrant, with appropriate support from their parent / legal guardian, will be disqualified from the Competition. Entries must be unique and not have previously been published or received any prize or reward.
• All competition entries and any accompanying material submitted to the Promoter will become the property of the Promoter on receipt and will not be returned. By submitting an Entry and any accompanying material, the Eligible Entrant agrees to assign to the Promoter all intellectual property rights and waive all moral rights in the competition Entry and otherwise arising in connection with the Entry to which the Eligible Entrant may now or any time in the future be entitled. Any assignment of intellectual property rights does not constitute consent to the processing of personal data for publicity or marketing purposes.
• By entering, the Eligible Entrant and their parent or legal guardian acknowledges that the Entry may be posted on the Promoter's website and on social media, but that the Promoter is not obliged to use, post or display any Entry submitted. Chessington World of Adventures shall have full right and power to copy, publish, broadcast, display, distribute, use, edit, alter, combine with other material, refuse and adapt any or all proportions of entries solely for the purposes of administering the Competition and, where explicit consent has been provided, for agreed promotional purposes.
• By entering this Competition, the Eligible Entrant and their parent or legal guardian agrees that, if the Eligible Entrant is the winner of the Competition, the Promoter and its parent company and communications agency may use the Eligible Entrant's name, image and town or county of residence to announce the winner of this Competition only where the parent or legal guardian has provided explicit consent, and only for the purposes and duration specified at the time consent is obtained. It is further agreed that the Eligible Entrant will participate in any reasonable publicity required by the Promoter. This includes, but is not limited to media interviews, on the radio on television, and in print and online media.
• If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these terms and conditions, the Promoter may, at its sole discretion, reserve the right to disqualify the Eligible Entrant from participating in the Competition.
• If any of these clauses should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable then it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and conditions and the remaining clauses shall survive and remain in full force and effect.
• The Promoter reserves the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time on giving notice via www.chessington.com/pawjectmanager 
• The Promoter will use the personal details supplied for the administration of this Competition. Any additional uses, including publicity, marketing or media activity, will be carried out only where separate explicit consent has been obtained. The Eligible Entrant’s personal details will always be kept confidential and in accordance with current Data Protection legislation. Click here for the Promoter’s Privacy Policy. The Eligible Entrant or their parent or legal guardian can request access to their personal data, or have any inaccuracies rectified, by sending an email to data.protection@merlinentertainments.biz. By participating in the Competition, the Eligible Entrant (or their parent or legal guardian on their behalf) agrees to the use of their personal data as described here.
• Chessington World of Adventures reserves the right, in our absolute discretion, to refuse entry and to close and/or alter all or any part of the facilities including closure of rides and/or attractions and removal of models for technical, operational, health and safety or other reasons where physical access or operation is not safe, practical or physically possible, including overcapacity.
• The short break tickets supplied as part of this offer remain the property of Chessington World of Adventures at all times and we reserve the right to take possession of such tickets and/or withdraw the offer at any time. 
• Size, height, weight, age restrictions and medical warnings apply to certain rides and/or attractions.  Some rides will require guests who only just meet the minimum height requirements to be accompanied by a person aged 16 years or over.
• All attraction information is subject to change; please check our website before your visit for the latest information: Chessington World of Adventures Resort: UK Theme Park & Zoo
• Entry into Chessington World of Adventures is subject to our terms and conditions of entry, which can be found on our website as above.
• Insofar as is permitted by law, the Promoter, its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate any successful participants or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up the offer except where it is caused by the negligence of the Promoter, its agents or distributors or that of their employees. Statutory rights are not affected.
• By taking up the offer of the short break and free tickets, the participant agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions.
• If the Promoter considers that there has been a breach of these rules by a participant, the Promoter may, at its sole discretion, exclude such participant from participating in the offer, and/ or cancel or invalidate the participant's short break and tickets.
• In the event of circumstances outside the reasonable control of Chessington World of Adventures or otherwise where fraud, abuse and/or an error (human or computer) affects or could affect the proper operation of this offer, and only where circumstances make this unavoidable, Chessington World of Adventures reserves the right to cancel or amend the offer or these terms and conditions, at any stage, but will always endeavour to minimise the effect to participants in order to avoid undue disappointment.
• The Promoter's decision is final and binding. No correspondence will be entered into. 
• If any of these clauses should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable then it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and conditions and the remaining clauses shall survive and remain in full force and effect.
• These terms and conditions shall be governed by English law, and you and we agree to only bring legal actions about these terms and conditions in the courts of England and Wales.  We will try to solve any disagreements quickly and efficiently.  If you are not happy with the way we deal with any disagreement you and we may agree to refer the matter to arbitration, but you and we are not restricted from bringing court proceedings.
  

Annex A - Fair Processing Notice 

This fair processing notice ("Notice") sets out the basis on which we process and protect the Personal Information we collect from you.

TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU:
"Personal Information" refers to information which does or is capable of identifying you as an individual. The types of Personal Information that we process may include: names, address and postcode as well as media and video content you submit with your entry. We comply with principles of "data minimisation", and only collect the types and volume of Personal Information required to achieve the purposes set out in this Notice.

WHEN WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM YOU:

• We will collect information from you directly when you complete any associated forms to participate in the offer.
• To the extent permitted by law, we may also monitor and record telephone calls for training and quality assurance purposes if you call us directly in connection with the offer.
• Information about you may also be provided to us indirectly by a family member or any other third person who may be entering into the competition on your behalf.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will use the Personal Information we collect for the purpose of administering the offer. We will also need to use your Personal Information for purposes associated with our legal and regulatory obligations.

We have to establish a legal ground to use your Personal Information which we have set out in the table below:

We will make sure that we only use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in this section where we are satisfied that:

• our use of your Personal Information is based on your specific consent. Where we rely on consent as the lawful basis for processing (including for publicity or use of images or videos of children), such consent may be withdrawn at any time without affecting participation in the Competition, or
• our use of your Personal Information is necessary to perform a contract or take steps to enter into a contract with you (e.g. to manage your application to participate in the offer), or
• our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to (e.g. to comply with requirements of the ICO), or
• our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support 'legitimate interests' that we have as a business (e.g. to carry out analytics across our datasets in relation to the offer, provided it is always carried out in a way that is proportionate) and that respects your privacy rights.  

Before collecting and/or using any Special Categories of Data, we will establish an additional lawful ground to those set out above which will allow us to use that information. This additional exemption will typically be:

• your explicit consent.
• the establishment, exercise or defence by us or third parties of legal claims; or
• a specific exemption provided under local laws of EU Member States and other countries implementing the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").

Please note: if you provide your explicit consent to allow us to process your Special Categories of Data, you may withdraw your consent to such processing at any time. However, you should be aware that if you choose to do so, we may be unable to provide certain services to you. If you choose to withdraw your consent we will tell you more about the possible consequences.

Please note: if we have previously advised that we are relying on consent as the basis of our processing activities, going forward we will not be relying on that legal basis except where this has been explicitly set out to you.

CHILDREN

If you are under the age of 16, you should not enter the offer unless you have the authorisation of, and are supervised by, a parent or guardian. We will take reasonable steps to verify parental or guardian authorisation, including direct confirmation with the parent or legal guardian, before processing personal data of a child for the Competition.  We will provide follow up communication to your parent or guardian stating that you have indicated that their consent has been obtained, asking them to verify that that is indeed the case, and offering  them a chance to opt-out if not. Where they have not provided consent, we will remove your entry and Personal Information. If you are a child, please make sure that your parent or guardian reads this Notice.

Parents and guardians should at all times supervise their children's activities, in particular for use of our website. We do not and will not knowingly collect information from any child under the age of 16 without us having been informed that the child's parent or guardian provided consent (other than such information as is necessary in order to obtain parental or guardian consent).  Parents and legal guardians may request to review information collected from their children under the age of 16, or exercise any of the rights set out below on the child's behalf as specified in the "Contact Us" section below.

RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Information will not be kept for longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it is processed (which will normally mean at the expiry of the offer and will be retained in accordance with our records management policy). Entries that do not win will be deleted within a reasonable period after the Competition closes. Winning Entries may be retained for audit, legal and agreed promotional purposes for a longer period. In certain cases, laws or regulation require us to keep records for specific periods of time, including for accounting purposes or health and safety compliance. In other cases, records are retained in order to administer the relationship, to fulfil our contractual or statutory obligations or to resolve queries or disputes which arise from time to time.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share Personal Information with carefully selected third-party service providers acting on our behalf, such as IT hosting providers, competition administration partners, professional advisers, and communications agencies, under appropriate contractual safeguards. We do not sell personal data.

Stripe Communications is our chosen competition administrator partner and communications agency for this competition. Stripe Communications act as our data processor and may contact you on our behalf in relation to this competition. 

TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ACROSS BORDERS

Due to the global nature of our business, the Personal Information we collect may be transferred, processed and stored across geographical borders. For instance, we may transfer Personal Information locally or overseas, including to the European Union, United States, Australia and Singapore and other locations where we have business operations and where our data processing agents may perform duties for us. Any transfers of Personal Information from the European Economic Area to countries not automatically deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection are governed by appropriate safeguards, including UK International Data Transfer Agreements and/or EU Standard Contractual Clauses with the UK Addendum, as applicable.. You have a right to request a copy of such safeguards using the contact details supplied in the section below, subject to any duties of confidentiality (i.e. we may have to remove commercially sensitive information).

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Information is treated securely and in accordance with this Notice.

MARKETING

We will not use your personal data to send you any marketing communications. 

PROTECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

We have implemented reasonable physical, technical and administrative security standards to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or damage, including the use of password protection/encryption of Personal Information.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data. In summary, you may request access to your data, rectification of any mistakes in our files, erasure of records where no longer required, restriction on the processing of your data, objection to the processing of your data, data portability and various information in relation to any automated decision making and profiling or the basis for international transfers.  You also have the right to complain to your supervisory authority (further details of which are set out in the section below). Those underlined are defined in more detail as follows:

To exercise your rights, you may contact us as set out below. Please note the following if you wish to exercise these rights:

• Identity. We take the confidentiality of all records containing personal data seriously, and reserve the right to ask you for proof of your identity if you make a request.
• Fees. We will not ask for a fee to exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data, unless your request for access to information is unfounded, repetitive or excessive, in which case we will charge a reasonable amount in the circumstances. We will let you know of any charges before completing your request.
• Timescales. We aim to respond to any valid requests within one month unless it is particularly complicated or you have made several requests, in which case we aim to respond within three months. We will let you know if we are going to take longer than one month. We might ask you if you can help by telling us what exactly you want to receive or are concerned about. This will help us to action your request more quickly.
• Exemptions. Local laws, including in the UK, provide for additional exemptions, in particular to the right of access, whereby personal data can be withheld from you in certain circumstances, for example where it is subject to legal privilege.
• Third Party Rights. We do not have to comply with a request where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other data subjects.

CONTACT US

To exercise your data subject rights, including Subject Access Requests, please complete the request form.

If you have any queries or complaints about our collection, use or storage of your personal information, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact our Data Protection Team - email Data.Protection@merlinentertainments.biz.  

You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) here.

For any questions that are not related to data protection you can contact us at feedback@chessington.co.uk.