Terms & Conditions: Piatkus Valentine's Writing Competition

1. This is a writing competition which will be judged by the aforementioned Piatkus editors.
2. The Judges’ decision is final.
3. The length of entries must be no more than 500 words.
4. The winner will see their entry posted on the Piatkus website and Twitter account, and possibly other websites and Twitter accounts
   The winner will receive a set of six Piatkus romance books.
5. There is no purchase necessary to enter this competition.
6. The competition opens at 9am BST on 14th January 2012 and closes at 11:59pm BST on 14th February 2012. Any entries received outside these specified times and dates will not be eligible for entry into the competition.
7. Entries must be received on or before the Closing Date.
8. Entrants must provide an email address and phone number with their entry.
9. The competition is open to anyone except employees of Little, Brown Book Group, their families, or anyone professionally connected to the competition either themselves or through their families.
10. Only one entry per person allowed. Second or subsequent entries will be disqualified. Entries will not be accepted via agents, third parties or in bulk.
11. Little, Brown Book Group is not responsible for contacting or forwarding prizes to entrants who provide unclear or incomplete information or for entries lost, misdirected, delayed or destroyed.
12. Little, Brown Book Group reserves the right to alter the prizes or cancel the competition without notice.
13. Your email address may be shared with companies within the Hachette group of companies but will not be shared with other companies outside the group.
14. Little, Brown Book Group will only use your email address, and the winners’ postal addresses, in compliance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and in accordance with our privacy policy. The emails from the entrants, and from the winners with their postal addresses (including any other record of the address), will be deleted respectively after the end on the competition and after the prizes have been posted.
15. By entering the competition each entrant agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions.
16. This competition is being organised by Little, Brown Book Group.