From 16.04.2025 through 23.04.2025 you can participate in a competition. The below Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Notice (hereinafter together “Terms and Conditions”) shall apply to this competition. 

 

 

 

1. Organiser 

This competition is organised by Sennheiser electronic SE & Co. KG, Am Labor 1, 30900 Wedemark, Germany (“Organiser”). The competition is not affiliated with Instagram or Meta, and is in no way sponsored, supported or organised by Instagram or Meta. 

 

 

You can win a price package containing one original MKH 416-P48U3 and one HD 25. There are a total of one[1] such prize packages to be won,  valued at 1168 Euro. 

 

 

All persons of legal age having their place of residence in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland, the USA, Latin America, Australia or New Zealand are eligible to participate. Employees of the Organiser or companies commissioned by the Organiser and their relatives are excluded from participation. A person can only participate once. Repeated participation will result in exclusion from the group of eligible participants. 

 

The Organiser reserves the right to exclude from the competition participants who violate the conditions of participation or morality and/or otherwise attempt to influence the draw in an illegal, unfair and/or inappropriate way. 

 

 

The competition runs from 16.04.2025, from 16:00 pm CET to 30.04.2025, 16:00 pm CET (“Competition Period”) on Instagram. 

 

 

To participate, you must follow Sennheiser on Instagram and describe what you think are the best features of the Sennheiser MKH 416 in a maximum of 25 words on the assigned Instagram post. 

How does it work? 

Firstly, you have to navigate to this webpage https://www.instagram.com/sennheiser and follow the Sennheiser Instagram account. 

Secondly, you must comment in maximum 25 words your favorite feature of the MKH 416 on the assigned Instagram post, which will be posted on April 16, 2025.  

You must then indicate your wish to participate in the competition using the comments section of the Instagram post for the MKH 416 and set your Instagram account to “public”. 

Each participant may only submit a comment once. 

The winner(s) will be selected by a panel of Sennheiser employees, with the most creative answer to win. 

The winner(s) will be notified via Instagram direct message within 7 days of the end of the Competition Period. 

If the winner does not respond within 3 days, an alternative winner may be selected. 

 

 

Only participants having completely and correctly met the requirements set out in these Terms and Conditions shall be entitled to participate in the competition. Any participation using automated procedures or similar devices or procedures shall not be permitted. All entries will be collected, and four winners will be selected at the end of the Competition Period, with the most creative answer winning. 

 

 

In the event of a win, you agree to be contacted via Instagram direct message within seven [7] days of the end of the Competition Period and provide us with your mailing address. 

If you do not respond within 3 days of being informed about the prize via Instagram direct message, you will have no right to claim the prize or any other compensation. Instead, and a new winner will be drawn. 

 

The prize is not transferable and cannot be sold. The prize awarded cannot be paid out in cash. 

 

 

Participation in the competition is not conditional upon any purchase from or payment to the Organiser. A purchase or payment does not affect the chances of winning. 

 

 

Within the scope of the implementation of the competition, personal data will be processed in accordance with the following data privacy statements (cf. under B.). 

 

 

By participating in this competition, participants declare that they agree with the Terms and Conditions. 

 

 

The Organiser is liable for intent and gross negligence. In case of slight negligence, the Organiser shall only be liable in the event of a breach of an essential contractual obligation (“Kardinalpflicht”) whose fulfilment is a prerequisite for the proper execution of the contract and whose observance the participant may regularly rely on, as well as in the event of damage resulting from injury to life, body or health. 

 

 

The Organiser reserves the right to interrupt or prematurely cancel the competition if there is a good reason to do so. In particular, compelling legal reasons, such as official orders, changes in the law or other reasons for refusing to hold the competition shall be deemed to constitute good reasons for such a course of action in this regard. 

 

 

Any disputes arising out of or in connection with the competition described above shall be governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the exclusion of both the conflict of laws and the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all legal disputes arising from or in connection with these participation conditions is Hanover. Should one of the clauses of this agreement be or become invalid, the rest of the agreement shall remain unaffected. 

 

 

 

The following personal data may be processed by the Organiser when conducting the competition: 

Master data (e.g. first name, surname) 

Address data (e.g. street, postal code) 

Contact data (e.g. telephone number, e-mail address) 

Individual data associated with the respective competition, especially the Instagram username. 

 

This processing is carried out on the basis of the execution and fulfilment of the contractual objectives that follow from the competition [article 6 section 1 lit. b) of the GDPR]. Insofar as personal data of the winner is disclosed on the Instagram profile of Sennheiser, this shall only take place in the presence of a previously-obtained, express consent of the winner pursuant to article 6 section 1 lit. a) of the GDPR. 

 

The data collected from the participant will be used by the Organiser exclusively to carry out the competition, in particular to determine and notify the winner and to send the prizes. 

 

The personal data will not be used for purposes other than those described here or passed on to third parties. In particular, the data collected will not be used for other marketing purposes. 

 

The participant's personal data that has been collected will be deleted as soon as the purpose of the processing has been achieved. Due to legal requirements, different retention periods may apply. 

As covered persons, the participants have the following additional rights vis-à-vis Sennheiser: 

Right to information – The right to know what data is being processed and how. 

Right to rectification – The right to request that inaccurate and out-of-date personal data be amended. 

Right to erasure – The right to have personal data erased- 

Right to restrict processing – The right to restrict a data processing operation. 

Right to data portability – The right to transfer personal data directly from one system to another (in machine-readable form). 

Right of objection – Under the conditions of article 21 of the GDPR, participants have the right to object to the data processing at any time. 

Right of complaint – Participants can complain to the supervisory authority responsible for Sennheiser electronic SE & Co. KG. The contact data is as follows: 

Landesbeauftragter für Datenschutz, Niedersachsen, 

Prinzenstraße 5, 30159 Hannover, Germany 

Tel: 0511 120-4500 

E-Mail: poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de