Teen Heroes 2018 - Terms and Conditions

Do you know someone inspirational aged between 12-17? This year's Teen Awards are the chance to celebrate them and share their amazing achievements with the world.

All three Teen Hero award winners will be recognised live on stage at SSE Arena, Wembley on Sunday 21st October, where they will collect their award in front of 10,000 people!

Nominations close at 9pm on Sunday 12th August 2018.

Submit your nomination here!

Make sure you take a look through the full terms and conditions below before nominating.

1. In order to nominate someone, you must be a UK resident (including Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) and not be a BBC employee, employee of any of its affiliates, close relative of any such employees or connected to the awards competition directly or through a close relative.

2. Any UK resident (including Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) aged between 12 and 17 by 20th October 2018 is eligible to be nominated, except BBC employees, employees of any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, close relatives of any such employees or connected to the awards competition directly or through a close relative. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested.

3. Nominations can be made online by accessing bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 from the 10th June 2018 and must be received no later than 21:00 on 12th August 2018. Any nominations received after this will not be accepted. If you are listening on demand after 12th August you will no longer be able to submit a nomination. You must not submit personal data relating to another individual without first obtaining the permission of the nominee’s parent / guardian. We will contact the nominee’s parent / guardian as part of the application process to obtain their consent to the nominee being considered for an award. For what is considered personal data please visit the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies pages at bbc.kongjiang.org/www.bbc.co.uk/privacy.

4. You are required to provide an email address and contact number for your nominee’s parent / guardian.

5. If you are under 16, you must seek your parent/guardian’s permission to make a nomination and your parent/guardian must fill in the nomination form on your behalf (including providing their contact details).

6. The criteria to qualify for nomination are as follows and must have been met by the nominee sometime between 11th August 2017 – 10th June 2018

The nominee must have acted in one or more of the following ways:
(i) acted selflessly,
(ii) inspired others,
(iii) acted with courage and bravery, or
(iv) ensured a positive outcome for an individual, family member or their community.

7. The BBC Radio 1 team will contact the nominee’s parent / guardian to obtain their consent to the nominee being considered for an award. Both the nominator and nominee (or their parents/ guardians, as applicable) may also be contacted to verify facts and/or events. This should not be interpreted as anything other than an information gathering exercise.

8. Further on-going research will be undertaken by the BBC Radio 1 team. The nominee (or parent / guardian of the nominee, as appropriate) may be contacted and asked for relevant contacts to assist this research. The BBC reserves the right to disqualify a nominee if such contacts are not provided.

The BBC Radio 1 team will select a shortlist of no more than 15 nominees to present to the judging panel who will select the winner. Nominees who have made it to this stage in previous Teen Awards will not be eligible for consideration in this year’s Awards.

9. The judging panel will consist of a panel of Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJs, Artists and previous Teen Heroes who will select up to 3 winners based on the criteria stated above.

10. The winners will be selected and notified prior to the event and all shortlisted nominees must agree to keep details of the award confidential until after the public announcement on 21st October 2018. The shortlisted nominees and the person who nominated any shortlisted nominee will be required to sign a Confidentiality Agreement.

11. The winners will be publicly announced on Radio 1 by Friday 19th October 2018 and all winners will be expected to accept the award in person on Sunday 21st October 1018 at Wembley Arena.

12. The BBC will reimburse the winners (including one parent or guardian) for reasonable travel and accommodation expenses incurred travelling directly within the UK in attending the Radio 1 Teen Awards event on 21st October 2018. Any other costs incurred will be the responsibility of the winner’s family.

13. The BBC’s decision as to the winners is final. No correspondence relating to the awards will be entered.

14. Each of the winners will receive the Teen Hero Award. There are no prizes, no cash alternative and the award cannot be sold or transferred in any circumstances.

15. Nominees must agree to take part in any post-award publicity if required.

16. Winners and their nominators will be recorded with the intention of broadcasting those contributions on TV and radio as well as using them on all other platforms including online. The winners and their nominators will be expected to confirm consent to this in writing by signing standard contributor consent forms (or their parent or guardian signing on their behalf).

17. The BBC reserves the right to: (i) vary these Terms and Conditions, including but not limited to the opening times of the awards; (ii) disqualify any nominee who breaches the rules or has acted fraudulently in any way; and (iii) cancel the awards, at any stage, if in its opinion it is deemed necessary or if circumstances arise outside its control.

18. The BBC, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem which may result in any nomination not properly registered.

19. Where relevant, these awards accord with the BBC's Code of Conduct for Competitions and Voting, details of which can be found on the BBC's Standards and Guidelines website.

20. The promoter of the awards is the British Broadcasting Corporation and these terms and conditions are subject to the laws of England and Wales.

PRIVACY NOTICE

Your trust is very important to us. The BBC is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.

It is important that you read this notice so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you during and after your relationship with us, in accordance with data protection law.

Additional information can be found in the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy. Where there is inconsistency between those documents and this notice, this notice shall prevail. You can find out more about your information and privacy here.

What will we collect and how will we use it?

The BBC will collect and process the personal information that you have provided to us about yourself and the individual that you have nominated for an award. The personal information that we will collect includes: your name and contact details and, in relation to the nominee, their name, email address, photograph, and information about what they do and why you believe that they deserve an award.

The BBC is the “controller” of this information. This means that the BBC decides what your personal information is used for and the ways in which it is processed.

We have a legitimate interest to process the personal information at the point at which you provide it to us: to consider the nominees for our Teen Hero Awards and create an initial shortlist of candidates. We have carefully considered the impact on your and will not use your personal information where the impact overrides our interests.

We will review the applications and create an initial shortlist. We will contact the nominee’s parent / guardian using the contact details that you provide to us. If they consent to the nominee being considered for our Teen Hero Awards, their application will proceed.

How long will retain your information?

The BBC will retain your information until October 22nd 2019. We will retain the winners name and their contact details until October 22nd 2020.

Sharing your information

The entry form is hosted and provided by a third party supplier on behalf of the BBC, Monterosa. If your application is shortlisted, it will be shared with a panel of judges consisting of Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJs, artists and previous winners.

Your rights and more information

If you have any questions about how the BBC handles your personal information, or you wish to find out about your rights, please visit the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy. You will also be able to find out more information about how the BBC processes your information and how you can contact the BBC’s Data Protection Officer.

If you raise a complaint with the BBC about the way it has handled your personal information, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In the UK, the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which can be contacted at: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.