Terms and Conditions for Cambridge Bioscience’s Free Prize Draw
1. The Promoter
The promoter is Cambridge Bioscience Limited (the Promoter) of Munro House, Trafalgar Way, Bar Hill, Cambridge, CB23 8SQ.
2. Eligibility
2.1 Entry into the prize draw is free
2.2 Employees or students at UK and Ireland based life science companies or life science departments within academic institutions who complete and return the Promoter’s feedback form entitled “Zymo Research refreshingly simple competition feedback” following a request & trial of the Promoter’s free trial sample products from Zymo Research may be eligible to enter the prize draw.
2.3 The following groups of people are not eligible to enter the free prize draw:
(a) employees of the Promoter, its holding company Europa Biosite Group Holding AB (SE) and its subsidiaries;
(b) employees of agents or suppliers of the Promoter or its holding company Nordic BioSite Holding AB or subsidiary companies, who are professionally connected with the free prize draw or its administration; or
(c) members of the immediate families or households of (a) and (b) above.
2.4 The entrants providing feedback on behalf of their company must be aged 18 years or over.
2.5 The Promoter’s trial sample products are intended for laboratory research purposes only and, unless otherwise stated on product labels, in the Promoter’s catalogue or in other literature furnished to you by the Promoter, are not to be used for any other purposes, including but not limited to, in vitro diagnostic purposes, in foods, drugs, medical devices or cosmetics for humans or animals or for commercial purposes including resale to third parties.
2.6 Free trial samples may only be requested by laboratory-based employees or students, working within life science companies or life science departments within academic institutions. Members of the public are not permitted to request free trial samples from the Promoter and are not eligible to complete feedback forms.
2.7 The Promoter cannot accept feedback forms submitted from personal email addresses.
2.8 When completing a feedback form, you confirm that you are eligible to enter the draw (if you have not opted out of entry to the draw) and are eligible to claim the prize you may win. The Promoter may require you to provide proof that you are eligible to provide feedback and enter the draw.
2.9 The Promoter will not accept for entry into the draw feedback forms that are:
(a) completed but the free trial sample has not been tested;
(b) completed by individuals to whom the Promoter has not provided a free trial sample;
(c) automatically generated by computer or created by artificial intelligence (including but not limited to chatbots such as ChatGPT or similar software applications);
(d) completed by third parties or in bulk;
(e) illegible, have been altered, reconstructed, forged or tampered with;
(f) photocopies and not originals; or
(g) incomplete.
2.10 You are only entitled to receive one free trial sample of each type of trial sample product per individual. You cannot enter the draw multiple times. Where multiple feedback forms are completed and returned to us for different types of sample products, and provided you are eligible to be entered into the draw, you will only be entered into the draw once.
2.11 The Promoter reserves all rights to disqualify you from entry into the draw if your conduct is contrary to the spirit or intention of the free prize draw.
2.12 Completed feedback forms will not be returned.
3. How to enter
3.1 The free prize draw will run from 00:00 on 2 April 2025 to 23:59 on 30 September 2025 (the "Closing Date") inclusive. All feedback forms received by the Promoter after the Closing Date are automatically disqualified from entry into the draw.
3.2 The prize draw is free to enter.
3.3 Trial sample products are supplied without charge and the feedback form may be completed online via the following link: https://www.bioscience.co.uk/zymo-refreshingly-simple-feedback.
3.4 You will be automatically entered into the free prize draw if we receive your completed feedback form before the Closing Date after you have received and tested one of our free trial samples. You will not be entered into the free prize draw if you have opted out of entering the prize draw or you are not eligible to enter the draw. You will have the opportunity to opt out of the prize draw at the time of providing feedback. Free trial sample products are available on request to the Promoter subject to the person making the request meeting the eligibility requirements for receiving such products.
3.5 The Promoter will not accept:
(a) responsibility for feedback forms that are corrupted, not successfully completed or transmitted, lost, mislaid, damaged or delayed in transit, regardless of cause, including, for example, as a result of any postal failure, equipment failure, technical malfunction, systems, satellite, network, server, website, computer hardware or software failure of any kind; or
(b) proof of posting or transmission as proof of receipt of the feedback forms.
3.6 By submitting a feedback form, you are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions. The Promoter reserves the right to refuse entry or refuse to award the prize to any person in breach of these terms and conditions.
3.7 For help with eligibility, requesting free trial samples and completing feedback forms, please contact the customer service team on 01223 316 855 or email us at sales@bioscience.co.uk.
4. The prize
4.1 The winner of the free prize draw will receive a tech bundle including:
(a) One MacBook Air (13-inch M4 chip with 10-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16‑core Neural Engine, 256GB, 30W USB-C power adapter, with no additional software);
(b) One Nutri Ninja 700W Slim Blender & Smoothie Maker - QB3001UKS; and
(c) One Bose SoundLink Flex Bluetooth® Speaker.
4.2 Prizes are subject to availability.
4.3 The prize is not negotiable or transferable.
4.4 The Promoter reserves the right to replace the prize with an alternative prize of equal or higher value.
5. Winners
5.1 The decision of the Promoter is final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
5.2 A winner will be chosen by random draw performed by a computer process within 5 working days after the Closing Date. Each entrant will be assigned a random number and a random number generator will be used to select a winner, plus runners up in the event that the winner cannot accept the prize.
5.3 The Promoter will contact the winner by email or telephone (using details provided on the feedback form) before 8th October 2025 and the winner must provide a postal address to claim their prize. This must be a non-residential address of the company or institution that the winner works for or is engaged by.
5.4 If a winner does not respond to the Promoter within 5 working days of being notified by the Promoter, then the winner's prize will be forfeited and the Promoter will be entitled to select another winner in accordance with the process described above.
5.5 The prize will be sent to the winner by (or on behalf of) the Promoter or by courier within 14 working days of acceptance of their win.
5.6 The Promoter must either publish or make available information that indicates that a valid award took place. To comply with this obligation the Promoter will publish the surname and county of the prize winner on the Promoter’s website on 31st October 2025 and/or send the surname and county of the prize winner to anyone who emails sales@bioscience.co.uk within one month after the Closing Date of the prize draw.
5.7 If you object to your surname and county being published or made available, please contact the Promoter at sales@bioscience.co.uk. In such circumstances, the Promoter must still provide the information and winning entry to the Advertising Standards Authority on request.
6. Claiming the prize
6.1 Please allow 10 working days for delivery of the prize.
6.2 The prize may not be claimed by a third party on your behalf unless previously agreed with the Promoter.
6.3 The Promoter does not accept any responsibility if you are not able to take up the prize.
7. Limitation of liability
Insofar as is permitted by law, the Promoter, its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate the winner or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking up the prize except where it is caused by the negligence of the Promoter, its agents or distributors or that of their employees. Your statutory rights are not affected.
8. Ownership of feedback forms and intellectual property rights
8.1 All feedback forms and any accompanying material submitted to the Promoter will become the property of the Promoter on receipt and will not be returned.
8.2 By submitting your feedback form and any accompanying material, you agree to:
(a) assign absolutely to the Promoter all your intellectual property rights held in the feedback forms with full title guarantee; and
(b) waive absolutely all moral rights,
in and to your feedback form and otherwise arising in connection with your entry to which you may now or at any time in the future be entitled under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 as amended from time to time and under all similar legislation from time to time in force anywhere in the world.
8.3 You agree that the Promoter may, in its sole discretion, make your feedback form and any accompanying materials available on its website and in any other media, whether now known or invented in the future, and in connection with any publicity of the prize draw. You grant the Promoter a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence in perpetuity, for the full period of the intellectual property rights in the feedback form and any accompanying materials, to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-licence the intellectual property rights in the feedback form and any accompanying materials for such purposes.
9. Data protection and publicity
9.1 The Promoter will only process your personal information as set out in the Promoter’s privacy policy. See also condition 5.5 and condition 5.6, with regard to the announcement of winners.
10. General
10.1 If there is any reason to believe that there has been a breach of these terms and conditions, the Promoter may, at its sole discretion, reserve the right to exclude you from participating in the free prize draw.
10.2 The Promoter reserves the right to hold, void, suspend, cancel, or amend the prize draw where it becomes necessary to do so.
10.3 These terms and conditions are governed by English law. If any entrants to this promotion wish to take court proceedings, then they must do this within the courts in the United Kingdom.