Check the legal settings before your giveaway goes live

It can suit both. Some clients use it for a single social media giveaway, while others need help with a larger campaign involving multiple entry steps, prize conditions or promotional channels. The key question is whether your promotion has enough moving parts to create legal risk if the wording or mechanics are unclear. If your campaign includes eligibility rules, prize limitations, pricing messages, refund issues or customer data collection, a legal review can be worthwhile before launch.

Common issues include entry terms that do not match the actual campaign, vague prize descriptions, overstated advertising, unclear closing dates, and refund or substitution wording that leaves too much open to interpretation. Problems also arise when the published promotion mechanics differ from what the business intends to do in practice. Promotion rules may depend on the mechanics and location of the competition, so even a simple giveaway can raise questions if the campaign runs across different channels or regions.

The service can include reviewing or preparing promotion terms, checking advertising and pricing statements, assessing prize and eligibility wording, and identifying fair trading or consumer law risk points tied to the campaign. We look at whether the terms reflect the actual promotion mechanics and prize structure, because that is often where issues start. If your campaign also involves collecting entrant information, we may flag privacy-related points, since the legal position depends on how your business handles information in practice.

We can flag whether permit or approval questions are likely to arise, but the fixed-fee does not include preparing or lodging permit applications. That matters because permit requirements can vary depending on where and how the promotion runs, including the campaign format and prize setup. If your promotion appears to need further regulator-facing work, we can explain the issue and outline the next legal step. This service is better suited to the campaign review and drafting side than to managing external application processes.

Useful starting materials include your draft terms, ad copy, landing page text, social posts, prize details, entry method, eligibility criteria and any internal notes on how winners will be selected or contacted. If refunds, substitutions or cancellations could arise, include those planned rules too. The more closely the documents match the promotion you actually intend to run, the more precise the review can be. If you only have a rough concept, we can still help identify what needs to be documented before launch.

Submit an enquiry on this page or click 'Get started'. One of our legal consultants will review it within 1 business day and get in touch to understand what you need.

Your consultant will then email you a fixed-fee quote setting out the cost, scope and timing. If you're happy with it, you can accept the quote and sign our engagement letter online.

Once you've accepted, one of our Australian-qualified lawyers will work with you to complete your project. They'll contact you by email or phone if they need anything.

Sprintlaw works on fixed-fee pricing wherever possible, so you can review the scope and cost before you decide whether to proceed. For the Promotions And Giveaway Compliance Pack service, pricing starts from $900.00.

After you enquire, a legal consultant will confirm what is included, the expected timing and whether any extra work is needed before you engage us.

We work online, so we can help wherever you are in New Zealand. Our team works remotely, mainly from Australia.

Your work is done by our Australian-qualified lawyers, who hold Australian practising certificates and specialise in business law. None of them are New Zealand lawyers or hold a New Zealand practising certificate.

Sprintlaw NZ Limited is a legal consultancy, not a law firm, and is not regulated by the New Zealand Law Society. We don't act in court or tribunal matters, conveyancing (including leases and business sales) or other reserved areas of work. Communications with Sprintlaw are unlikely to be protected by legal professional privilege. We still keep everything confidential under our engagement letter.