Listeners' Opinion Poll terms and conditions

Jennifer Tracey | 10:00 UK time, Monday, 30 March 2009

The small print...

1. The BBC Code of Conduct for competitions can be found at the competition code webpage.

2. The competition is open to all residents of the UK, including the Channel Islands, except BBC or its affiliates' employees and anyone connected with the competition.

3. Entry to the competition is by: (i) e-mailing the programme ipm [at] bbc.co.uk; (ii) leaving a comment on the iPM blog www.bbc.co.uk/ipm or; (iii) sending a postal entry to Listeners' Opinion Poll, iPM, Room G601, BBC TV Centre, London W12 7RJ. The closing time for receipt of entries is 00:01 on 8 May 2009. No entries received after that time will be considered. Entries cannot be acknowledged or returned. Full details of opening and closing times will be given on air.

4. All email and postal entrants must supply their names and addresses and daytime telephone number. Blog entrants must supply their names and addresses and daytime telephone numbers if contacted by the BBC. The BBC will only ever use personal details for the purposes of administering this competition, and will not publish them or provide them to anyone without permission. You can read more about the BBC Privacy Policy.

5. The winning entrant will be decided by the programme editor, at his/her absolute discretion. Contestants are hereby made aware that the winning topic (ie that to be submitted to the commissioned poll) may be a combination of various topics included in more than one entry. In that situation, the BBC will use reasonable endeavours to credit all of the relevant entrants.

6. The prize consists of having an opinion poll commissioned to include the winning entry (or a variation or mixture of various entries).

7. The prize is as stated. There is no cash alternative and it is not transferable.

8. The BBC's decision as to the winning topic is final. No correspondence relating to the competition will be entered into.

9. The winner or winners will be notified within seven days of the close of the competition by post/telephone/email. The results of the commissioned poll will be published on the iPM blog on 9 May 09. Update:(12 May 2009) This has now been extended to 19 May 09.

10. Only one entry is allowed per person.

11. Entrants must agree to take part in any post-competition publicity. Winners agree to allow the use of their names for publicity purposes as may be required, and for their entries to be published in any relevant format by the newspaper or any associate company. For entrants/winners under 18 years of age, parent or guardian's consent may be required.

12. The BBC reserves the right to cancel or alter or amend the competition at any stage, if deemed necessary in its opinion, or if circumstances arise outside of its control.

13. The BBC, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem with any Internet platform/system or the post or otherwise which may result in any entry being lost, delayed or not properly registered or recorded.

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1. At 10:27pm on 11 Apr 2009, Alfred_Vella wrote:
Once bitten twice shy: Just how shy?
I am not quite sure how to word my question BUT I want to try and get a feel for how reluctant to help authorities people become if they, like me, have had a catastrophic experience.
My question, at present takes the form of a rather long multiple choice one – but we may be able to alter it.
Question:
Suppose that you have lost your job because you are a whistleblower who complained about the bullying of others by their managers. You sought to use ‘the procedures’ but these were denied you and you were eventually sacked for gross misconduct.
Now suppose that you believe, but have no evidence, that some wrongdoing is about to be committed, just how serious must the wrongdoing doing be before you risk alerting the authorities?
Choices:
a) I would report my suspicions regardless
b) If others were likely to be robbed
c) If others were likely to be injured

Alfred Vella [Personal details removed by Moderator]

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2. At 6:22pm on 14 Apr 2009, clairemurph wrote:
My question is

Should physical chastisement of children be prohibited by law?

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3. At 7:05pm on 14 Apr 2009, Gillianian wrote:
My question is

Do you trust the results of opinion polls?

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4. At 01:34am on 26 Apr 2009, Markonee1 wrote:
None of the main political parties are worthy of my vote. They all[both] get voted in on one policy, and then claim that this gives them a mandate to cover their other previously hidden, noxious agenda.
My question is:
"With the advent of the internet giving most voters a potential voice, is it now the time to create a new party; 'The Mandate Party' where all main decisions are based on the will of the people?"

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5. At 01:46am on 26 Apr 2009, Markonee1 wrote:
My other question:

To help solve the government debt crisis:
"Is it now the time to renationalise all utilities?"

Moderate profits could be used to provide for the social structure of the country.
It cannot be right for private individuals in general, and especially overseas individuals to profit from providing basic essentials of life.
I believe that no non share-holding individual has benefitted from better service since utility privatisation.

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6. At 01:53am on 26 Apr 2009, Markonee1 wrote:
I lied, I have one more 'Q'...

"Should call centres be banned?"
Calls to companies should link to local offices that have the chance of employing someone with local knowledge who understands what the caller is on about when referring to a local problem....

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7. At 01:57am on 26 Apr 2009, Markonee1 wrote:
Sorry just read clause 10, which prohibits more than one entry. [Not helped by the 20 second coundown before allowing further comments]
Please pick the 'new party' question.

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8. At 8:18pm on 05 May 2009, Katescomment wrote:
My opinion poll suggestion is as follows:

In view of the national problems of obesity, lack of exercise and traffic congestion, do you think it would be a good idea if parents of school age children who wished to drive their children to or from school, had to apply for an annual permit first stating why this was necessary?

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9. At 8:30pm on 06 May 2009, jonathanmorse wrote:
my question would be:

"why do you believe other people don't answer opinion polls"

to better assist us understand how accurate these polls are and how to encourage better polling. I like the idea of being asked my views but if I see a pollster I tend to avoid eye contact and hope I don't get noticed. This question would be answered by people answering a poll but it might indicate why the pollee doesn't answer polls at other times. Also I once saw an advert suggesting, with their help, you could make a living, a living, answering these questions online now that some polling agencies pay for responses.

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10. At 2:00pm on 07 May 2009, omahapete wrote:
Should DNA samples be taken at birth, and kept for the life of the person?

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11. At 10:01pm on 07 May 2009, ExuberantBeryl wrote:
This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.

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