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Terms & conditions

Steptember:

Steptember (Steptember.org.au) is a fundraising initiative owned and operated by Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA). 

The Challenge:

  1. The challenge starts on 1 September 2025 and ends on 30 September 2025.
    2. To be eligible to receive a reward, Steptember fundraisers need to meet the conditions outlined below (under "Rewards") by 11:59pm AEDT on Thursday 2 October 2025.
    3. Any additional fundraising activity must be completed by 11:59pm AEST on Thursday 31 October 2025, and funds raised as part of the campaign must be banked before this date. The Steptember fundraising pages will remain open until 11:59pm AEST on Friday 31 October 2025.
    4. While participating in this challenge may have health benefits, Steptember provides no warranty whatsoever that this challenge will achieve an individual's health goals. The challenge has not been developed with any individual's particular health requirements in consideration.
    5. Do not rely on the information provided in relation to the Steptember challenge as an alternative to medical advice from a doctor or other professional healthcare provider. If participants have any specific health or medical concerns, they should consult with their medical or healthcare provider, prior to changing their diet, nutrition, or exercise regimen.
    6. While Cerebral Palsy Alliance has made every attempt to ensure that the information provided as part of the Steptember challenge has been obtained from reliable sources, Cerebral Palsy Alliance is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. 


Agreement:

I/We understand the terms and conditions under which any fundraising activities benefiting Cerebral Palsy Alliance need to operate. I/We have read Cerebral Palsy Alliance’s terms and conditions and offer to participate in Steptember in accordance with those terms and conditions. 

By agreeing to these Terms of Fundraising you acknowledge:
1. Will be solely responsible for all your activities on the Steptember.org.au site also referred to as the Site.
2. No person under the age of 18 may use Steptember.org.au to donate or fundraise, unless the permission of a parent or guardian is sought to participate in the challenge.
3. You do not have any pending/current charges or past criminal convictions relating to a sexual offence. You do not have any convictions of a violent nature or assault. You have never been convicted, with or without trial of, pleaded guilty or no contest to a theft or fraud charge. You are not currently awaiting or attending a trial or been arrested for a theft, fraud charge, sexual offence, assault or crime of a violent nature.
4. You will be solely responsible for all your activities on the Steptember.org.au site also referred to as the Site;
5. You have the legal capacity to enter these terms;
6. You will keep all passwords, account names, log in identifiers required to access Steptember.org.au secure and confidential;
7. You will not use Steptember.org.au in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the site or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.
8. You will not use the site to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organisation;
9. You will not use the Site to conduct, display or forward details of any survey, contest, pyramid scheme or chain letter or use any part of our Site to send commercial messages in contradiction of the Spam Act 2003 (Cth)
10. You will not attempt to modify, adapt, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the site, any associated website or any other website.
11. You will not hide, deface, alter or delete any copyright symbol, trademark or other proprietary rights notice;
12. You will not use any part of the Site which you are not authorised to use or devise ways to circumvent security in order to access part of the Site which you are not authorised to access. This includes, but is not limited to, scanning networks with the intent to breach and/or evaluate security, whether or not the intrusion results in access.
13. You will not use or attempt to use the Site for any unlawful, criminal or negligent purpose. This includes, but is not limited to, password cracking, social engineering (defrauding others into releasing their passwords), denial-of-service attacks, harmful and malicious destruction of data, infringing the intellectual property rights of any person, and injection of computer viruses and intentional invasion of privacy.
14. Cerebral Palsy Alliance requires that there be no door-to-door appeals, street collections or telephone solicitation of any kind to the public in connection with the Steptember challenge.
15. You agree to comply with all applicable Fundraising Acts, other laws, regulations and by-laws (including all applicable privacy laws) and any other conditions which we may notify to you. In participating in the Steptember challenge, you agree to refrain from doing anything which may reasonably be expected to damage the goodwill, reputation or integrity of Cerebral Palsy Alliance. 
16. Any prizes, incentives or rewards will only be able to be claimed or rewarded until Friday 14 November 2025. No claiming, sending or redrawing of these rewards or prizes will occur after this date. 


Disclaimer: 

Cerebral Palsy Alliance reserves the right to withdraw approval to fundraise should it be necessary to protect its reputation. 

Activity Leaderboards:

At Steptember, we are committed to upholding the integrity of the challenge and ensuring fair competition. As part of this commitment, any suspicious or unusually high volumes of logged activities will be investigated. If participants are unable to provide valid GPS evidence, the Steptember team, in partnership with Cerebral Palsy Alliance, reserves the right to remove the activities and/or impose daily step limits. These measures are designed to ensure that Steptember remains a positive and fair challenge for all participants.


Rewards:

  1. Rewards open to all new and returning Australian Steptember participants and managed organisiations who register for 2025 on org.au
  2. To be eligible to receive a reward, Steptember fundraisers need to meet the conditions outlined below between Thursday 10 July 2025 11:59pm AEDT and Thursday 2 October 2025 11:59pm AEST.
  3. To receive individual fundraising rewards, all fundraisers must have opted in during registration and must have provided a valid Australian postal address
  4. Cerebral Palsy Alliance will not send rewards to addresses outside of Australia.
  5. Reward recipients will be notified via their registered email and/or via SMS with registered mobile number.
  6. Participants registering under a Managed Organisation will be eligible to receive a free pair of Steptember socks. To receive a free pair of Steptember socks, participants must register under a Managed Organisation before 11:59pm AEST on 27 August 2025, or until stock (26,000 units) is exhausted, whichever occurs first.
  7. The individual fundraising targets that are required to be eligible to receive rewards include:
  • Raise $50: receive a special thank you
  • Raise $150: receive a digital certificate
  • Raise $350: earn a Steptember t-shirt (size and valid Australian postal address must be selected and submitted at time of registration and no exchanges permitted once selection made) 
  • Raise $550: receive a special thanks from Professor Nadia Badawi AM
  • Raise $750: earn a Steptember t-shirt (size and valid Australian postal address must be selected and submitted at time of registration and no exchanges permitted once selection made) 
  1. 3-5 day streak: Receive a 3-day activity streak and raise more than $50 between 3-5 September 2025 to be eligible for the draw to win 1 of 2 Fitness First Annual Memberships.
  2. Log Steps from 2 Activities to win: Enter more than 2 activity types between 9-12 September and collect a minimum of one additional donation. Enter the draw to win one of two Tiny Home Stays.
  3. Every donation to win: Every donation you receive between 16-18 September is an entry in the draw. Enter the draw to win a $5K travel voucher for you and YOUR donor.
  4. Hit fundraising target: Hit personal fundraising target set in Steptember dashboard by 1 Oct 11:59pm AEST. Enter draw to win one of two hot air balloon experiences from RedBalloon.
  5. VIP Super Stepper Club rewards:
  • Chance to win an invitation to the Steptember After Party (travel not included)
  • Discount voucher for use in the Steptember shop
  • VIP t-shirt (size and valid Australian postal address must be selected and submitted at time of registration and no exchanges permitted once selection made) 
  • Special emblem on your dashboard and fundraising page
  • Leaderboard icon badge
  • 10% discount from a Steptember sponsor
  1. All rewards are subject to availability and while stocks last. CPA may substitute rewards of equal or greater value.
  2. Prizes are as stated, and no cash or other alternatives will be offered. Prizes are not transferrable.
  3. The promoter's decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into. The promoter is Cerebral Palsy Alliance, ABN 45 000 062 288.