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Terms and Conditions

Raffle ORCID for Proceedings

This promotion is run by Springer-Verlag GmbH

1. Participation

1.1     You  enter this promotion in the following way.  Springer receives your contribution as a chapter author or volume editor to the LNCS, CCIS, LNBIP, IFIP-AICT, or LNICST proceedings with a first publication date within a certain period of time and an ORCID iD  provided along with the author/editor information. If you fulfill these criteria you are entered into our quarterly raffle to win Springer book vouchers!

1.2     The participation is free of charge.

1.3     The participation is possible no later than December 31, 2018.

1.4     Persons under 18 years of age are excluded from participation.  

This Promotion is not open to directors or employees (or members of their immediate families) of Promoter. 

2.    Determining of the winner

2.1     The winner will be determined by a raffle.

2.2     The winner will be contacted via email by the email address provided with the publication.


3.    Prize and execution

3.1   The prize for the Promotion consists of the following book vouchers. The claim of the prize is  free of charge.

Prizes raffled Value book voucher
1st prize 150.00 €
2nd prize 100.00 €
3rd prize 75.00 € 

The Prize draws will take place in : 

January 2018:  for contributions by authors/editors with first publication date January 1 - December 31, 2017 | April 2018:  for contributions by authors/editors with first publication date January 1 - March 31, 2018 | July 2018: for contributions by authors/editors with first publication date April 1 - June 30, 2018 | October 2018: for contributions by authors/editors with first publication date July 1 - September 30, 2018

3.2    No cash equivalent to the Prize is available.

3.3     The winner(s) will be required to confirm acceptance of the prize within 30 working  days and may be required to complete and return an eligibility form stating their  age and residency details, among other details. Promoter will endeavour to ensure  that winner(s) receive  their prizes within 30 days of the date they confirm acceptance of the prize.  If a winner does not accept the prize within 30 days of being notified, they will forfeit their prize and Promoter reserves the right to choose another winner(s). Promoter’s decision is final and Promoter reserves the right not to correspond on any matter.

4.    Consequences of violations
Any form of manipulation of the Promotion is prohibited. 

5. Liability

5.1  The liability of the Promoter shall be unlimited in the event of wilfulness and gross negligence.

5.2  Furthermore, the Promoter shall be liable for the negligent breach of material obligations which jeopardizes the achievement of the purpose of the contract or for the breach of obligations whose fulfillment makes the due performance of the contract possible in the first place and where the contractual party regularly relies on. In these cases, however, the contractual party is only liable for the typical  foreseeable damage. The Promoter isn’t liable for the slight negligence of other than the above mentioned obligations.

5.3 The above limitations of liability shall not apply to damages of life, body and health in the event of maliciously concealed defects. The liability under the Product Liability Act shall remain unaffected.

5.4 The exclusion or limitation of liability for the Promoter also applies to the personal liability of representatives and auxiliary persons.

6. Data protection and revocation 

6.1 The Promoter only collects and uses personal data of the participants in accordance  with the provisions of law and only for handling and execution of the Promotion and will not use the personal data to forward to third parties or for other purposes  without the explicit approval of the participant.

6.2 The participant can revoke the participation on the Promotion at any time by filling in this brief form.

​​​​​​​7. Miscellaneous
7.1     Promoter reserves the right to cancel or amend these Terms and Conditions any time due to technical, organizational or legal reasons and in case of force majure events or to change the Prize (to one of equal or greater value) as required by the circumstances.

7.2     Redress through the courts is excluded.

7.3     Should some regulations of these conditions are ineffective or become ineffective validity of other regulations are not touched by this.

7.4     German Law applies to this promotion. Private International Law and the International Sale of Goods transferred to German law do not apply.