Competition On SENNHEISER´s Instagram-Account
Terms and conditions and Data Privacy Note
From 1.08.2025 16:00CET through 08.08.2025 16:00 CET 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.
A. PARTICIPATION CONDITIONS
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. It is used for brand advertising and is to be understood as an advert.
2. Prize
You can win a price package containing one original HD 25 Light. There are a total of four [4] such prize packages to be won, valued at 99 Euro each.
3. Eligibility
All persons of legal age having their place of residence in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland, the USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, 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.
4. Participation time period and place
The competition runs from 1.08.2025 16:00CET through 08.08.2025 16:00 CET (“Competition Period”) on Instagram.
5. Procedure
To participate, you must follow Sennheiser on Instagram and respond with a comment to the question: "If you could DJ any event or festival in the world, which one would it be — and what vibe would your set bring?"
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 answering the question: "If you could DJ any event or festival in the world, which one would it be — and what vibe would your set bring?" on the assigned Instagram post, which will be posted on August 1, 2025.
You must then indicate your wish to participate in the competition using the comments section of the Instagram post for the HD 25 Light 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. Answers will be ranked based on the following criteria:
Creativity: Originality, imagination, and passion demonstrated in the expression of ideas
Clarity: Effectiveness in communication, including coherence of the writing
The winner(s) will be notified via Instagram direct message within 7 days of the end of the competition period.
6. Winner determination procedure
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.
7. Informing the winner and sending of the prize
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 5 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, a new winner will be drawn.
The prize is not transferable and cannot be sold. The prize awarded cannot be paid out in cash.
8. No dependence on payments
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.
9. Data protection
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.).
10. Acceptance of the participation conditions
By participating in this competition, participants declare that they agree with the Terms and Conditions.
11. Liability
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.
12. Premature cancellation or interruption
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.
13. Applicable law, severability clause
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.
B. DATA PRIVACY STATEMENTS
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].
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