CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION - VBS Painting Competition 2025

The painting competition organised by VBS will be held from 17.09.2025 to 30.09.2025 on the campaign website in Germany https://www.vbs-hobby.com/en/vbs-painting-competition-2025, in Austria https://www.vbs-hobby.at/en/vbs-painting-competition-2025 or in the Netherlands on the campaign webside https://www.vbs-hobby.nl/vbs-schilderwedstrijd-2025 by VBS Hobby Service GmbH, represented by the managing director Philipp Lübeck, Justus von Liebig Str. 8, 27283 Verden.

Participation in this competition and its realisation are exclusively subject to the following conditions.
Participation is free of charge and independent of the purchase of products or services from VBS Hobby Service GmbH. By participating in the competition, the participant recognises the following conditions and the data protection declaration.

§ 1 Participation

(1.) All natural persons aged 18 and over with a place of residence and address in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as in the Netherlands, Belgium and France are eligible to participate. Only private individuals are eligible to participate. Business customers of VBS Hobby Service GmbH who register or log in as such are not eligible to participate. Employees of VBS Hobby Service GmbH, employees of affiliated companies, their relatives and all persons involved in the development and realisation of the competition are excluded from participation. Participation via entry or competition registration services is also excluded.

(2.) Registration on the campaign website  is required for participation. All participants, whether they are customers of VBS Hobby Service GmbH or not, must register using the registration form and fill in the mandatory fields shown here completely and truthfully.

Uploading an original photo of the self-made autumn & winter creation is also necessary for participation in the competition. Multiple participation and participation by one natural person under different e-mail addresses and/or names is not permitted (this applies to multiple participation under different e-mail addresses with the same computer IP). Multiple participation by a natural person under the same e-mail address is valid, but the prize will only be awarded once to a natural person.
VBS Hobby Service GmbH reserves the right to exclude participants from the competition (see § 7) in the event of a breach of these conditions of participation, unauthorised influencing of the competition or other manipulation.

(3.) To take part in the painting competition, participants must provide their full e-mail address, title, first name, surname and full address. In the case of specific prizes, the e-mail address and full address must be provided so that the participant can be notified by VBS Hobby Service GmbH of any prize or the prize can be dispatched. Incorrectly or incompletely completed registration forms may be excluded from the prize draw by VBS in advance.

(4.) The campaign website will be accessible until 30/09/2025. After this date, there will no longer be access to registration for the painting competition.


§ 2 Competition description

(1.) The painting competition will take place online on the campaign website. As described, this campaign website offers the opportunity to submit a picture, a caption and brief instructions for the self-made autumn & winter creation to VBS Hobby Service GmbH. The submitted creations can be a self-painted picture or a painted DIY idea.

(2.) To take part in the prize draw for the vouchers, the competition form must be completed in full and the original photo of a self-made painting creation must be uploaded.

(3.) In addition, acceptance of the privacy policy and the conditions of participation is required.

(4.) All participant photos admitted to the competition as well as the pseudonym name of the participant will be displayed in a picture gallery. VBS Hobby Service GmbH will automatically upload the pictures to the picture gallery after checking them (approx. 1 - 2 working days).

(5.) Notices, results and further information about the VBS Hobby Service GmbH craft competition may be placed on advertising posters, in brochures in the online shop vbs-hobby.com or other VBS Hobby Service GmbH websites and in VBS Hobby Service GmbH catalogues.


§ 3 Prizes and their redemption

(1.) After submitting the form on the campaign website, there is a chance to win a prize at the end of the campaign period. This is one of three shopping vouchers for the VBS online shop, each worth €100 or CHF 100. The three selected winners can each win one of the shopping vouchers.

To determine the winners, a jury appointed by VBS Hobby Service GmbH consisting of employees of VBS Hobby Service GmbH will evaluate the submitted pictures and select three winners.

(2.) The participants will be informed at the latest three weeks after the end of the competition if they have won.

(3.) If the prize is linked to a condition (e.g. a purchase with a certain value of goods), this condition must first be fulfilled.

(4.) The prize will be sent to the winner at the address provided. VBS will inform the winner in advance by e-mail.

(5.) A cash payment of the prize or a possible prize replacement or the exchange of prizes is not possible.

(6.) The claim to the prize or prize substitute cannot be assigned.




§ 4 Liability

Claims for damages against VBS Hobby Service GmbH in connection with the competition and the prizes handed over are - as far as legally permissible - excluded, regardless of the legal grounds, unless VBS Hobby Service GmbH has acted wilfully or with gross negligence. Statutory liability under the Product Liability Act and in the event of injury to life, limb or health remains unaffected by this.

VBS Hobby Service GmbH is not liable for damages that may arise due to incorrect content, loss or deletion of data, viruses or in any other way during participation in the competition. Furthermore, VBS Hobby Service GmbH is not liable for damages resulting from the impairment of the availability of the websites (vbs-hobby.com, vbs-hobby.nl, vbs-hobby.be, vbs-hobby.fr, vbs-hobby.ch, vbs-hobby.at, vbs-versand.de and the campaign website) in the event of technical faults and force majeure events beyond its control or faults caused by third parties.

VBS Hobby Service GmbH is not liable for material defects and/or defects of title in the prizes sponsored by co-operation partners of VBS Hobby Service GmbH.




§ 5 Data protection provisions

The personal data of the competition participant as well as their IP address and associated data are collected, processed (stored) and used electronically for the purposes of the competition.

Consent to the collection, processing and use of personal data: The participant agrees that his/her personal data may be collected, processed (stored) and used by VBS Hobby Service GmbH for the purpose of establishing, implementing and running the competition. The participant agrees that his/her personal data (title, first name, surname, address, e-mail address, date of birth and IP address) with the associated data as well as his/her telephone number, if this is provided voluntarily, may be collected, processed (stored) and used. Furthermore, the participant agrees that VBS Hobby Service GmbH may pass on and use this data to all companies entrusted with the realisation and processing of the competition. The participant can revoke this declaration of consent to VBS Hobby Service GmbH at any time and object to the further use of his/her data at any time. The cancellation should be sent to: vbs@vbs-versand.de. Immediately after receipt of the cancellation or objection, the participant's personal data will no longer be processed or used and will be destroyed.

If the cancellation/objection is made before the prize is processed, the handover of the prize can no longer be guaranteed. After receipt of the cancellation, further participation in the competition is excluded.

In accordance with the statutory provisions, the participant can obtain information from VBS Hobby Service GmbH about his/her stored personal data at any time. In addition, the current data protection guidelines of VBS Hobby Service GmbH apply. These can be viewed on the website www.vbs-hobby.com under the link Data protection. The responsible body within the meaning of the Federal Data Protection Act is VBS Hobby Service GmbH, Justus von Liebig Str. 8, 27283 Verden.



§ 6 Premature termination of the competition

VBS Hobby Service GmbH reserves the right to suspend or terminate the competition in whole or in part at any time without prior notice and without giving reasons if the proper organisation of the game cannot be guaranteed for technical reasons (e.g. viruses in the computer system, manipulation or errors in the hardware and/or software) or for legal reasons. No claims can be derived from premature termination.


§ 7 Exclusion of participants

VBS Hobby Service GmbH reserves the right to exclude participants from the competition who provide false information during registration, violate the conditions of participation and/or carry out manipulations and/or have manipulations carried out or wish to gain an advantage in an unauthorised manner. If a prize has already been handed over in such a case, it can be reclaimed if necessary.


§ 8 Miscellaneous

(1.) Legal recourse is excluded.

(2.) The law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply exclusively.

(3.) Should individual provisions of these conditions of participation be or become invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.