UCAS Card terms and conditions
These terms and conditions should be read in conjunction with the terms and conditions relating to the UCAS website.
Updated on 8 November 2012
About ucas.com/ucascard
Students are invited to join the UCAS Card scheme in academic Years 12, S5, or equivalent. The scheme is a fun and informative way to introduce students to the UCAS application process, providing resource and study guides, help with the application process and information about what life as a student is really like. In addition, students also receive special offers and discounts from leading brands. These promotions are provided by our UCAS Card partners. If you have any questions regarding the terms and conditions, you should contact the Commercial Director at UCAS Media Limited, Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, GL52 3LZ.
Changes to these terms
UCAS Media Limited reserves the right at all times to vary, change, alter, amend, add to or remove any of these terms. By browsing the UCAS Card website you accept that you are bound by the current terms and conditions and notices. We, therefore, recommend that you check these each time you revisit the site.
You should also be aware that UCAS Card partners may alter or withdraw their offer without notice at any time during your membership period.
Eligibility and registration
The UCAS Card scheme is open to people who are considering an application to higher education, specifically Year 12, S5 and equivalent students in the UK. By registering for the UCAS Card scheme, you warrant (or confirm) that you are a student in the correct cohort and that you understand and agree to these terms and conditions.
When you register on the UCAS Card website you should provide accurate information about yourself as specified in the registration form. You are responsible for the management of your personal details and for keeping your password secure at all times; you should not share your password with anyone. You can also withdraw from the UCAS Card scheme by emailing ucascard@ucas.ac.uk quoting your name and postcode at any time. However your eligibility to participate will automatically cease after 29 February 2013 if you registered prior to 31 August 2012. If you register from the 8 October 2012 onwards, your eligibility to participate will automatically cease after 28 February 2014.
Privacy policy
UCAS and UCAS Media Limited takes your privacy very seriously. Please read our UCAS Card privacy policy.
Disclaimer
This section should be read in conjunction with the Disclaimer appearing within the terms and conditions relating to the UCAS website. Additional riders are imposed as follows:
UCAS Card is an arrangement between UCAS Media Limited and partners who will provide, subject to their terms and conditions, goods and services of use or interest to members. It follows that whilst UCAS Media Limited has done its best to ensure the accuracy of information provided by partners, it cannot and does not provide any warranty express or implied as to the quality, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or fitness for a particular purpose of the material or discount offers and promotions included in the UCAS Card scheme. UCAS Media does not endorse any product nor make any recommendation of its use. UCAS Media Limited will not accept liability for any claims, penalties, loss, damages or expenses arising from the use of products or services supplied by partners. This clause shall not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by the negligence of UCAS Media Limited.
The UCAS Card website includes links to external websites. These links are to help you find additional information quickly and easily. UCAS Media Limited accepts no responsibility for the content of these websites and specifically excludes to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability that may arise with respect to or as a result of such material causing damage, costs, injury or financial loss of any kind.
Partners and Advertisers are responsible for ensuring that offers for inclusion in UCAS Card comply with all relevant laws. The offers in the UCAS Card scheme are subject to the terms and conditions of the various participating companies. You should ensure that you make yourself aware of the terms and conditions of any offer that you wish to participate in. Details of these terms and conditions can be found by reference to the participating company.
Please note that any participating company can withdraw from the UCAS Card scheme at any point in time. As this is beyond the control of UCAS Card, we cannot be held responsible for any consequences that might occur as a result of the participating company's decision to no longer support the UCAS Card scheme. Cards will continue to have validity for the remaining participants of the scheme but will not be re-issued to reflect any change in participants.
General
These terms are not intended to confer any benefit on a third party under the provision of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved to UCAS Media Limited.
UCAS Media Limited reserves the right, at any time, to suspend or terminate your access to, or use of, the Websites.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is found to be invalid by any Court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions which shall continue to have full force and effect.
The failure by UCAS Media Limited to exercise any right or remedy under these terms and conditions shall not constitute a waiver of that right or remedy.
Prizes, Competitions & Incentives
Certain offers in the UCAS Card scheme are subject to the terms and conditions of the various participating companies. You should ensure that you make yourself aware of the terms and conditions of any offer that you wish to participate in. Details of these terms and conditions can be found by reference to the participating company.
UCAS Media Limited and all promotional partners will not be using data received from the competitions for the purposes of communication, other than to inform prize winners. Winners will be notified by email or post. Winners' names may be published on the UCAS Card website.
All competition entries need to be made before the specific competition closing date displayed on the websites. No late entries will be accepted.
Once a winner has been chosen all reasonable efforts will be made to notify the winner. In the event of UCAS Media Limited being unable to contact a winner within 1 calendar month of the draw or competition closing date, another winner will be chosen (in the case of competitions) or a re-draw will take place (in the case of a prize draw).
All prizes must be claimed or, where appropriate, redeemed within a period of 4 months following the date on which the draw took place or the competition result was announced. Should this not occur, UCAS Media Limited reserves the right to identify an alternative winner and the original winner will cease to be eligible to receive or redeem the prize.
The prize is non-transferable and cash alternatives are not available.
UCAS Media Limited will not be responsible for the loss of any prize or the costs associated (including local Customs duties) with its delivery outside of the United Kingdom.
UCAS and UCAS Media Limited do not accept any responsibility for the quality and/or functionality of prizes. Product defects are the responsibility of the manufacturer and queries or complaints regarding the product should be taken up with them.
Where tickets to an event are offered as a prize, travel and accommodation are not included unless otherwise stated.
UCAS Media Limited will accept no responsibility for any loss or delay howsoever caused in connection with travelling to or from the event, nor will UCAS Media Limited be responsible for the costs of travel to or from the event or any accommodation used. No responsibility will be accepted by UCAS Media Limited for other occurrences beyond its control including, but not limited to, cancellation or postponement of the event, illness of the prize winner or any his or her family or partners for the purpose of attending the event.
Any breach of these prize draw and competition rules by an entrant will void their entry. Misrepresentative or fraudulent entries will invalidate an entry.
For a list of winners please send a stamped envelope to UCAS Card, UCAS Media Limited, Rosehill, New Barn Lane, Cheltenham, GL52 3LZ.
The decision of the Commercial Director, UCAS Media Limited, is final and no correspondence will be entered into.