TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE ADVENT COMPETITIONS OF THE ROUTE INDUSTRIEKULTUR
Here you will find the terms and conditions for the Advent giveaways on the Instagram channel the Industrial Heritage Route in the period from November 30th to December 24th, 2025.
1. Subject of the conditions of participation and organizer
(1) These terms and conditions govern participation in the prize draws and any necessary transfer of rights. The description and procedure of each prize draw will be provided as part of the respective prize draw campaign on the Route of Industrial Heritage's Instagram channel.
(2) The organizer of the competition is Ruhr Tourismus GmbH, Department of Culture, Centroallee 261, 46047 Oberhausen, Email: info@ruhr-tourismus.de
(3) By participating in the respective competition, these terms and conditions of participation are accepted.
(4) This competition is not connected to Meta, Facebook and Instagram and is in no way sponsored, supported or organized by Meta, Facebook and Instagram.
All questions about the competition should not be directed to Meta, Facebook or Instagram, but rather to the organizer, either by email routeindustriekultur@rvr.ruhr or via Instagram at www.instagram.com/route_industriekultur.
2. participation
(1) All persons who are at least 18 years old, reside in Germany, and have an account on the social network Instagram are eligible to participate in the competition. Employees of RTG and affiliated companies, as well as their relatives, are excluded. Participation with false identities or the identities of third parties is not permitted.
(2) Eligible participants can take part in the competition by writing in the comment function under the respective competition post.
(3) The prize draw period is from November 30th to December 24th, 2025. Participation is possible until December 31st, 2025. The exact participation periods can be found in the post.
(4) Participation in the competition does not incur any costs for the participant.
3. Prizes and Notification of Prizes
(1) The winners will be drawn at random from all eligible participants within one week of the closing date. The winners will be notified via Instagram comment and direct message and asked to send an email to the specified email address within one week, providing their personal data (first and last name, address) completely and accurately. This information will be used for sending the prize.
(2) If we do not receive an email from a winner within the specified period, the prize claim expires. In this case, the organizer is entitled to conduct a substitute draw.
(3) Only one prize is possible per participant.
(4) The prize is neither transferable nor can it be exchanged or paid out in cash.
(5) If circumstances arise for which the organizer is not responsible, and therefore, contrary to expectations, the prizes are not available or not available in sufficient numbers, the organizer will raffle suitable substitute prizes. Such circumstances beyond the organizer's control include, in particular, those attributable to the prize sponsors.
(6) The prize will be sent by post to the selected winners
(7) The participant incurs no costs either in determining the prize or in accepting the prize.
4. exclusion
(1) A violation of these terms and conditions of participation entitles the organizer to exclude the respective participant from participation. This applies in particular if the participant provides false information or if photos or other content used (e.g., comments) violate applicable law or the rights of third parties. The same applies to comments that can be considered to glorify violence, be offensive, harassing, or degrading, or that otherwise violate common decency.
(2) If the excluded participant is a winner who has already been drawn, the prize can be subsequently withdrawn.
5. Early termination and changes
We reserve the right to terminate the competition prematurely, in whole or in part, or to modify its course at any time, even without observing deadlines, if it is not possible to guarantee the proper conduct of the competition for technical reasons (e.g., computer virus, manipulation of or errors in software/hardware) or legal reasons (e.g., prohibition by Facebook and/or Instagram).
6. Final Provisions
(1) If the conditions of participation contain ineffective regulations, the validity of the conditions otherwise remains unaffected.
(2) German law applies. Legal recourse to check the draw is excluded.
7. Data protection declaration competition
(1) The organizer, Ruhr Tourismus GmbH (RTG), Centroallee 261, 46047 Oberhausen, info@ruhr-tourismus.de is responsible within the meaning of Article 4 Paragraph 7 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the collection, processing and use of participants' personal data as part of the Advent calendar competition, provided that the organizer processes them themselves.
(2) RTG uses the participant's personal information and other personal data required under the terms and conditions of participation only to the extent necessary for conducting and processing the prize draw and for using the photos in connection with the prize draw (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR). The data will then be deleted. The participant may request information about the data stored about him or her at any time.
(3) Otherwise, in particular with regard to the rights of those affected, our data protection declaration applies accordingly, which can be found under www.ruhr-tourismus.de/ruhr-tourismus/datenschutz/ is available.