Asteris Founder Lifetime Giveaway — Competition Terms and Conditions

Last updated: 01 June 2026 Effective date: Competition opens as announced at asterisforwoocommerce.com (per the no-hard-dates policy, the open date is announced at launch and not pre-committed) Promoter: My Cosmic Message Pty Ltd (ACN 652 358 159, ABN 30 652 358 159) trading as Asteris Commerce Promoter address: Bullecourt Ave, Milperra NSW 2214 Promoter contact: competition@asterisforwoocommerce.com

1. About the competition

The Asteris Founder Lifetime Giveaway is a game of skill (not a game of chance) run by Asteris Commerce. Twenty (20) Asteris Founder Lifetime licences will be awarded to entrants whose 50-word entries score highest under the objective, published judging criteria in §6.

Total prize value: USD $4,980 (approx. AUD $6,938, USD/AUD = 1.3931 as of 01 June 2026) — 20 × USD $249 per Founder Lifetime licence Per-prize value: USD $249 (approx. AUD $347, USD/AUD = 1.3931 as of 01 June 2026)

Prize values are stated in both currencies to comply with the Australian Consumer Law (Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) Schedule 2, s.29(1)(i)).

2. Eligibility

You are eligible to enter if:

One entry per person and one entry per household. Where multiple entries appear to originate from the same person or household (assessed on email, IP address, store URL ownership, WordPress.org username, and payment/contact details), only the first eligible entry will be considered.

The competition is open globally to those who meet the above. Specific regulatory rules may apply by state (Australia) or country — see §11.

Why install is required. This is a skill-based competition for entry into the Founder cohort. The Founder cohort exists to shape the Asteris for WooCommerce product through genuine usage and feedback. Requiring entrants to have installed Asteris Free is a product-trial gate (consistent with ACCC guidance on genuine consumer trials), not a purchase or a review. No incentive of any kind is offered in exchange for posting a review of Asteris Free on WordPress.org — Guideline 8 of the WordPress.org Plugin Directory Guidelines prohibits incentivised reviews and we comply with it.

3. How to enter

To enter, complete all three of the following steps:

Step 1 — Install Asteris for WooCommerce Free. Download Asteris Free from WordPress.org/plugins/asteris-for-woocommerce and activate it on a live WooCommerce store you operate. You will need a free WordPress.org account to download.

Step 2 — Write a 50-word answer to: “Why do you want Asteris Founder Lifetime?”

Step 3 — Email your entry to founder@asterisforwoocommerce.com with the subject line Competition entry — [your name] and include:

There is no purchase required to enter. Asteris Free is free; the install is the product-trial step, not a purchase.

No bonus entry mechanism. This competition has one entry per eligible person. There is no separate “download + bonus entry” path because installing Asteris Free is already a mandatory entry requirement under §2. The Promoter does not offer any incentive, bonus, or other thing of value in exchange for posting a review of Asteris Free on WordPress.org. Posting a review is neither required nor rewarded, in compliance with WordPress.org Plugin Directory Guideline 8 (incentivised reviews are prohibited) and ACCC online-review guidance.

4. Verification

To filter out junk and bot entries, two verification checks are performed at submission time:

4.1 WooCommerce store URL verification. Your nominated store URL is checked:

4.2 WordPress.org username verification. Your nominated WordPress.org username is checked against the public WordPress.org directory:

This data-handling disclosure is provided under Australian Privacy Principle 5 (notification of collection), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

5. Entry window

Entries received after the published close date will not be considered.

The Promoter reserves the right to extend the entry window (notified on the same page) but not to retroactively close it earlier than the announced close date.

6. Judging

This is a game of skill. Each entry is scored on a 1–10 scale on each of the four objective criteria below, multiplied by the weighting, and totalled. The four entries with the highest scores… no — the twenty (20) entries with the highest total scores win.

Scoring criteria:

Judge: Nick (founder, Asteris Commerce) is the sole judge. Judging decisions are final and not subject to correspondence.

Audit trail: Each entry will be scored on a written scoring sheet that records the 1–10 score and the specific indicators relied on for each criterion. Scoring sheets are retained for 12 months from the close date and will be produced on reasonable request to a relevant Australian state regulator (e.g., NSW Fair Trading, SA Consumer and Business Services, ACT Gambling and Racing Commission).

Tie-break: If two or more entries have equal total scores at the cut-off for the 20th prize, ties are broken by (a) highest score on Specificity, then (b) highest score on Clarity, then (c) earliest entry submission timestamp.

Anti-AI provision: see §10.

7. Prizes

What each prize includes:

What each prize does NOT include:

Tax responsibilities: The prize is awarded to you in your capacity as a business operator of a WooCommerce store. The Australian Taxation Office has indicated that prizes received in a business context are generally assessable income (see ATO Interpretative Decision ATO ID 2002/644 and TR 1999/17). You should obtain your own tax advice. The Promoter will not withhold tax and will not issue a 1099, W-8BEN, or equivalent foreign-tax form; winners are responsible for self-reporting per their local tax authority.

Force majeure / product discontinuation: If the Asteris product line is discontinued, Founder Lifetime prize holders will receive the same wind-down treatment as paying Founder customers under the Asteris EULA. The Promoter will not separately refund the prize value because the prize was awarded at no cost. This clause is provided to avoid any suggestion of misleading conduct under ACL s.29 in relation to the word “Lifetime”.

8. Selection and notification of winners

9. Privacy

Personal information collected during entry is governed by our Privacy Policy and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Specifically:

Marketing reuse of entry text — opt-in only: the entry form contains a separate tickbox (default unchecked) by which you may consent to the Promoter using the text of your 50-word entry in marketing materials. If you do not tick this box, your entry will be used only to administer the competition and will not be reproduced in marketing. If you do tick the box, the licence in §16 applies. As an alternative to opting in, the Promoter may use de-identified excerpts of up to 10 words from any entry where no person, store, or other identifying detail is mentioned.

By entering, you consent to:

10. Disqualification

Entries will be disqualified if:

AI-generated entries: The Promoter may, acting reasonably, request the entrant to attest in writing that the entry was substantially written by them. Entries that the Promoter reasonably determines (after that request) to be predominantly AI-generated without meaningful human authorship may be disqualified. The Promoter is not required to use any particular automated detection tool and will not disqualify an entry solely on the output of an automated AI detector. This approach reflects documented false-positive rates in AI-detection tools and avoids the unfair-conduct risk that arose in the well-publicised 2024 Australian photography contest disqualification.

The Promoter’s decision on disqualification is final, subject to the complaints process in §17.

11. Jurisdiction-specific rules

Australia

On the basis of the objective, merit-based judging criteria published in §6, this competition is conducted as a game of skill and does not require a trade-promotion authority or permit under the Community Gaming Act 2018 (NSW) and Community Gaming Regulation 2020 (NSW), the Lotteries Act 2019 (SA) and Lotteries Regulations 2021 (SA), the Lotteries Act 1964 (ACT), or the Charitable and Non-Profit Gaming Act 1999 (Qld). The Promoter will retain judging scoring sheets for 12 months to evidence the skill-based determination (see §6).

State-by-state references:

If you believe the competition is being run as a game of chance disguised as skill, you may contact the relevant state regulator listed above, or escalate to the ACCC.

European Union / United Kingdom

EU/UK entrants: the lawful basis for processing your entry data is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR / UK GDPR, with the disclosures required by Art. 13 provided in this document and the linked Privacy Policy. You may withdraw consent and request erasure at any time by emailing competition@asterisforwoocommerce.com; withdrawal will result in your entry being removed from the competition. See Privacy Policy §7 for the full list of GDPR rights.

This competition is void in any EU member state or in the UK where prize competitions of this nature, or skill-based contests open to residents, are restricted or prohibited (including without limitation any jurisdiction requiring local registration, bonding, or tax pre-clearance of foreign promoters — note in particular the UK Gambling Act 2005 ss.14, 339, and specific national rules in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands). Entrants are responsible for confirming local eligibility before entering.

United States

No purchase is necessary to enter. The competition is void where prohibited or restricted by US federal or state law. Residents of US states or territories that impose registration, bonding, tax-withholding, or other administrative requirements on foreign promoters (including, without limitation, New York, Florida, and Rhode Island for prize pools over local thresholds; and skill-contest restrictions in Colorado, Maryland, Nebraska, North Dakota, Vermont and Arizona) may be ineligible if those requirements are not met. The Promoter does not warrant compliance with US state law and may refuse to award a prize to a US resident where awarding would impose registration, tax-withholding, or bonding obligations on the Promoter, in which case the prize will be reallocated to the next-highest-scoring eligible entry.

Canada / New Zealand / Other

Eligible entrants in other jurisdictions are responsible for confirming this competition complies with local law before entering. The Promoter reserves the right to refuse to award a prize to a winner in any jurisdiction with onerous registration, bonding, or tax-clearance requirements for foreign promoters, and to reallocate the prize accordingly.

Void-where-prohibited (universal)

This competition is void in any jurisdiction where prize competitions of this nature, or skill-based contests open to residents, are restricted or prohibited. Entrants are responsible for confirming local eligibility before entering. The Promoter reserves the right to refuse to award a prize to a winner in such a jurisdiction and reallocate to the next-highest-scoring eligible entry.

12. Promoter rights

The Promoter reserves the right to:

Prior versions of these Terms are archived at asterisforwoocommerce.com/competition-terms/archive. The version applicable to your entry is the version published at the time your entry was submitted.

13. Liability and consumer guarantees

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy conferred by the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where the prize is supplied as a service, the Promoter’s liability for failure to comply with a non-excludable consumer guarantee is limited, to the extent permitted by ACL s.64A, to the supply of the services again or the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.

Subject to the foregoing, and to the maximum extent permitted by law:

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. The exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute is the courts of that state, subject to the complaints process in §17.

15. Contact

For questions about this competition:

For questions about prize delivery (after winners are announced):

For regulator escalation if internal complaints process (§17) does not resolve your concern:

16. Intellectual property licence over entry text

You retain ownership of the copyright in the text of your 50-word entry.

By submitting an entry and (where required) ticking the marketing-reuse consent box at §9, you grant the Promoter a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, communicate to the public and otherwise use the text of your entry, in whole or in part, for marketing and promotional purposes related to Asteris for WooCommerce. This licence is granted under Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) s.31 and is consistent with the writing requirement of s.196 (this document being in writing).

If you do not tick the marketing-reuse consent box, the Promoter’s licence is limited to administering the competition — including judging, reallocation, and storage for the periods stated in §9.

You warrant that the entry is your original work and does not infringe any third party’s copyright, trade mark, or other right.

17. Complaints and dispute resolution

If you have a complaint about this competition or a judging decision, you must first contact the Promoter at competition@asterisforwoocommerce.com, setting out the complaint in writing with the following details:

The Promoter will acknowledge receipt within 2 business days and substantively respond within 10 business days.

If the complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction, you may escalate to:

This pre-litigation step is not intended to limit any non-excludable statutory right.

18. No association with platforms

This competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Meta Platforms Inc. (Facebook, Instagram), X Corp, WordPress.org, the WordPress Foundation, Automattic Inc., or WooCommerce. By entering, you release each of those parties from any claim arising from the competition. This disclaimer is included pursuant to the Meta Promotion Guidelines and best practice for skill contests in the WordPress ecosystem.

19. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, that provision is severed in that jurisdiction only, and the remaining Terms continue in full force and effect.

20. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the documents they reference (Privacy Policy, EULA), constitute the entire agreement between you and the Promoter in relation to this competition and supersede any prior representations.