Terms & Conditions

STEPtember 

STEPtember (steptember.org.au) is a fundraising initiative owned and operated by Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA). 

The Challenge 

1. The challenge starts on 1 September 2023 and ends on 30 September 2023.
2. To be eligible to receive a reward, STEPtember fundraisers need to meet the conditions outlined below (under "Rewards") by Sunday 11:59pm AEDT on 8 October 2023.
3. Any additional fundraising activity must be completed by 11:59pm AEST on 31 October 2023, and funds raised as part of the campaign must be banked before this date. The STEPtember fundraising pages will remain open until 11:59pm AEST on 31 October 2023.
4. While participating in this challenge may have health benefits, STEPtember provides no warranty whatsoever that this challenge will achieve an individual's health goals. The challenge has not been developed with any individual's particular health requirements in consideration.
5. Do not rely on the information provided in relation to the STEPtember challenge as an alternative to medical advice from a doctor or other professional healthcare provider. If participants have any specific health or medical concerns, they should consult with their medical or healthcare provider, prior to changing their diet, nutrition, or exercise regimen.
6. While Cerebral Palsy Alliance has made every attempt to ensure that the information provided as part of the STEPtember challenge has been obtained from reliable sources, Cerebral Palsy Alliance is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. 

Agreement 

I/We understand the terms and conditions under which any fundraising activities benefiting Cerebral Palsy Alliance need to operate. I/We have read Cerebral Palsy Alliance’s terms and conditions and offer to participate in STEPtember in accordance with those terms and conditions. 

By agreeing to these Terms of Fundraising you acknowledge: 

1. Will be solely responsible for all your activities on the steptember.org.au site also referred to as the Site;
2. No person under the age of 18 may use steptember.org.au to donate or fundraise, unless the permission of a parent or guardian is sought to participate in the challenge.
3. You do not have any pending/current charges or past criminal convictions relating to a sexual offence. You do not have any convictions of a violent nature or assault. You have never been convicted, with or without trial of, pleaded guilty or no contest to a theft or fraud charge. You are not currently awaiting or attending a trial or been arrested for a theft, fraud charge, sexual offence, assault or crime of a violent nature.
4. You will be solely responsible for all your activities on the steptember.org.au site also referred to as the Site;
5. You have the legal capacity to enter these terms;
6. You will keep all passwords, account names, log in identifiers required to access steptember.org.au secure and confidential; 
7. You will not use steptember.org.au in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the site or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way;
8. You will not use the site to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organisation;
9. You will not use the Site to conduct, display or forward details of any survey, contest, pyramid scheme or chain letter or use any part of our Site to send commercial messages in contradiction of the Spam Act 2003 (Cth)
10. You will not attempt to modify, adapt, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the site, any associated website or any other website.
11. You will not hide, deface, alter or delete any copyright symbol, trademark or other proprietary rights notice;
12. You will not use any part of the Site which you are not authorised to use or devise ways to circumvent security in order to access part of the Site which you are not authorised to access. This includes, but is not limited to, scanning networks with the intent to breach and/or evaluate security, whether or not the intrusion results in access.
13. You will not use or attempt to use the Site for any unlawful, criminal or negligent purpose. This includes, but is not limited to, password cracking, social engineering (defrauding others into releasing their passwords), denial-of-service attacks, harmful and malicious destruction of data, infringing the intellectual property rights of any person, and injection of computer viruses and intentional invasion of privacy.
14. Cerebral Palsy Alliance requires that there be no door-to-door appeals, street collections or telephone solicitation of any kind to the public in connection with the STEPtember challenge.
15. You agree to comply with all applicable Fundraising Acts, other laws, regulations and by-laws (including all applicable privacy laws) and any other conditions which we may notify to you. In participating in the STEPtember challenge, you agree to refrain from doing anything which may reasonably be expected to damage the goodwill, reputation or integrity of Cerebral Palsy Alliance. 

Disclaimer: 

Cerebral Palsy Alliance reserves the right to withdraw approval to fundraise should it be necessary to protect its reputation. 

Rewards
To be eligible to receive a reward, STEPtember fundraisers need to meet the conditions outlined below by Sunday 11:59pm AEDT on 31 October 2023.

• Fundraisers must complete the form sent to them via email to provide an Australian delivery address, in order to receive fundraising rewards. The email will be first sent once the milestone is achieved. 
• Reward recipients will be notified by email, phone and SMS durung the STEPtember campaign.
• All physical rewards will be delivered to the address provided in your confirmation form.
• Rewards must be redeemed by 11:59pm AEST 3 November via the link emailed when fundraising milestone was achieved, and / or in follow up emails. 
• Cerebral Palsy Alliance will not send rewards to addresses outside of Australia.