Scotland

Terms and Conditions

STV Central Limited
Registered in Scotland
Company Number 172149
Pacific Quay
Glasgow
G51 1PQ
Duty Office: 0141 300 3000
E-mail: viewer.enquiries@stv.tv
STV Central Limited is regulated by Ofcom: www.ofcom.org.uk
 
STV North Limited
Registered in Scotland
Company Number 35733
Pacific Quay
Glasgow
G51 1PQ
Duty Office: 0141 300 3000
E-mail: viewer.enquiries@stv.tv
STV Central Limited is regulated by Ofcom: www.ofcom.org.uk
 
(STV Central Limited and STV North Limited together is hereafter referred to as “STV”)
 
1. Any person who is an employee or an immediate family member of an employee of STV or any other person who is directly connected with the organisation of any particular competition or vote is ineligible to participate. The Greatest Scot vote is open to all UK and world-wide residents of any age.
 
2. By placing a vote, participants will be deemed to have read and understood these rules and be bound by them.
 
3. Voting is open to all residents of the UK, Channel Islands Isle of Man and all international countries.
 
4. Voting is open to all ages. Any voters under the age of 16 must have permission from their parent or guardian before placing their vote via premium rate telephone.
 
5. All decisions of STV will be final and binding. No correspondence will be entered into.
 
6. All votes received by STV by the closing date and time as specified will only be included. No responsibility will be taken by STV for any votes that are illegible, misdirected, lost for technical or other reasons or received after the closing date and time.
 
7. If for any reason the advertised prize for the Greatest Scot competition is unavailable STV reserves the right at its absolute discretion to substitute a similar prize of equivalent or greater value.
 
8. The Competition Framework for The Greatest Scot: The Greatest Scot will be chosen from a list of 35 candidates.  30 of this list were chosen by a select panel, arranged by STV, and the remaining5, the peoples choice, were voted by the public on stv.tv. STV will be showcasing all of the contenders within the 5-part programme series The Greatest Scot broadcast from 9 to 16 November and repeated from 16 to 20 November on STV. The list of all 35 contestants will be made available at stv.tv/greatestscot from 9am, 9 November until midnight 22 November.  Viewers are invited to vote for their favourite either online on stv.tv/greatestscot or by telephone, and the candidate with the highest number of votes will be crowned STV's Greatest Scot.
 
9. The Prize: The Greatest Scot winner will be announced on STV within the Greatest Scot Results Programme, on 30th November 2009, and the winner will be marked with a permanent piece of contemporary art by a Scottish artist, which will be donated to the nation.
 
10. Voting Rules: The voting period for the Greatest Scot is 9am, 9th November until midnight on 22 November 2009. 35 candidates in total will be available for the public vote, and these will be outlined on stv.tv/greatestscot during the voting period. Two voting routes will be in place to collate the votes. Voting Route One - online at stv.tv/greatestscot. Voting Route Two - premium rate telephone. Both voting routes (online and telephone) will be open and live to collect votes from 9am, 9th November until midnight on 22 November 2009. Anyone with access to a telephone or the internet can vote. Voters who wish to place their vote by phone, and who do not pay for the line rental, must obtain permission for the line owner before making their call. All online voters will have to log in or register on STV.TV in order to place their vote during the voting period. Details on how to register are provided on stv.tv/greatestscot. A maximum of one online vote per person (identified by e-mail address) will be accepted.
 
For telephone votes, the IVR premium rate telephone number to vote for each candidate will be printed in the Daily Record newspaper on 14th and 21st November and will be available to view for the voting period at stv.tv/greatestscot. The telephone lines will be open from  9am, 9 November  and will close at midnight on 22nd November.  Telephone calls will cost 50p per call from BT landlines plus standard network rates. Calls from other networks may be higher and calls from mobiles will be considerably more. Calls received after the closing date and time will not be counted and if charged, will be refunded. A maximum of 100 phone votes is allowed per phone number. Each Greatest Scot candidate will have an unique IVR premium rate number that will record all votes for them, and are outlined below.
 
All votes placed online at stv.tv/greatestscot and by premium rate phone by the end of the voting period will be collated together to produce one overall vote count for each of the 35 candidates. The winner of the Greatest Scot will be the candidate from the 35 nominees that has collated the highest number of votes within the voting period. Votes made after the closing date and time will not be counted, and if charged will be refunded.
 
11. Greatest Scot Voting Lines
 
Robert Burns
09011300501
 
Robert Louis Stevenson
09011300502
 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
09011300503
 
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
09011300504
 
Lord John Reith
09011300505
 
Billy Connolly
09011300506
 
JK Rowling
09011300507
 
Alex Harvey
09011300508
 
Joseph Lister
09011300509
 
Sir James Young Simpson
09011300510
 
James Clerk Maxwell
09011300511
 
Sir William Arrol
09011300512
 
Sir Alexander Fleming
09011300513
 
Sir James Whyte Black
09011300514
 
David Tennant
09011300515
 
Eric Henry Liddell
09011300516
 
Jim Clark
09011300517
 
Jock Stein
09011300518
 
Sir Alex Ferguson
09011300519
 
Liz McColgan
09011300520
 
Sir Chris Hoy
09011300521
 
Sir William Alexander Smith
09011300522
 
John Law
09011300523
 
Andrew Carnegie
09011300524
 
Alexander Graham Bell
09011300525
 
John Logie Baird
09011300526
 
Sir William Burrell
09011300527
 
Ann Gloag
09011300528
 
Annie Lennox
09011300529
 
William Wallace
09011300530
 
Robert The Bruce
09011300531
 
David Hume
09011300532
 
Adam Smith
09011300533
 
John Muir
09011300534
 
Sir Sean Connery
09011300535
 
12. Voting costs are as advertised. Voters are liable for their costs to access telephone, mobile or computer networks.
 
13. STV reserves the absolute right to disqualify any votes which it considers to have been submitted using improper technical means.
 
14. stv.tv is available via digital signal UK-wide.
 
15. No third party entries, bulk entries or entries submitted by agents will be accepted.
 
16. Entries that are incomplete, defaced or damaged will be deemed invalid. No responsibility will be accepted for entries lost, delayed or damaged in submission.
 
17. The Promoter is stv, Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1PQ