Editorial policy

A competition is listed when there is a named promoter, a prize a reader could understand, a way to enter, and a closing pattern we can put on a calendar. We prefer the promoter’s own page. We do not list a draw that asks you to pay a stranger to “release” a prize you have already won. That pattern is a scam, and it is covered in the scam guide.

Free means free

“Free to enter” is reserved for a route with no ticket price and no membership. A supermarket draw that needs a Clubcard, Sparks card, Nectar card or similar is labelled “Free account needed”. Sky VIP and anything else that needs an existing paid relationship is labelled “Existing customers only”. A quote, a raffle ticket, a lottery line or a subscription is not called free. The filter “No account or purchase” hides everything except the first group.

Odds

If a promoter does not publish how many people entered, we do not invent a number. A sentence such as “about 12,000 entries” will not appear here unless it is the promoter’s figure, named as such. The odds guide explains what can and cannot be known.

Dates

Many of these promotions repeat. The date on a listing is the next close in that cycle. It is removed the day after it passes. We do not claim the list is rewritten by hand every Monday, or that it refreshes itself the moment a brand changes a webpage. If a date is wrong, write to [email protected] and say what the promoter’s page says now.

Entrant notes

Anyone can leave a short note on a listing. It is stored as pending and is not shown to other readers until it is approved. Approval and rejection are two private links, one each. Those links are emailed to the editor only when the server has an email provider configured (a Resend API key and a from-address). This host cannot send mail on its own. Until that is connected, the waiting notes are read on the moderation desk, which is not linked in the public menu.

Notes are rejected if they are advertising, a demand for money, a private address, an accusation we cannot check, or a claim that Prize Desk entered or won on someone’s behalf. We do not publish a note just because it flatters the site.

Advertising

Prize Desk does not ask you to click advertisements. If Google AdSense is later placed on the site, it belongs on the guides and the longer listing pages, not as a substitute for the directory. The privacy policy says how those cookies work. Affiliate book links are marked as such on the reading page.

Removal requests from a promoter, and corrections, go to the same editorial address. We would rather take a listing down than leave a wrong one up.