Colourful Retirement Stories

If we'd like to use your story we will get in touch. To qualify for a gift card you will need to sign a 'Release Form' to give us permission to publish your story on our website, newsletter and on social media. We'll send you a £50 Love2Shop gift card if we publish details of your story. There are a few stories we’d like to choose for a Feature article. In this instance we will get in touch and see if you’d like to do this. If so, we’ll need more details and will arrange a photographer to take some pictures of you to use with this article. We’ll send you £250 of Love2Shop gift card to say thank you for your time for a Feature article, rather than the £50 gift card mentioned above. Rest assured, we won’t publish any information you provide to us without your written permission.  

To be eligible for consideration for publication you will need to write a short summary of what makes your retirement different. Candidates for the stories should be aged 65 or over and a UK resident. If you are submitting on behalf of someone else, please confirm that you have their permission. For any stories that we would like to feature we will need the candidate’s direct permission. This will be requested from shortlisted candidates by 12 July 2021. Entries will be reviewed by the Legal & General Retail Retirement Marketing department. 

The closing date for applications is 23:59 on 30 June 2021. Candidates who are shortlisted will be contacted by 12 July 2021 but we may be in touch before this point to find out more information. If you are shortlisted, there is no guarantee that your story will be published nor that you will qualify for the gift card. We will keep you in touch every step of the way so that you know if your story is published.

We will confirm those entries which have qualified for the gift card via email and telephone confirmation. The gift card will be paid to the person mentioned in the story and will be sent via email to the address provided within 30 days of us first publishing your story.  

The Love2Shop gift card can be spent at many high street and online stores, as well as restaurants and attractions. More details can be found here. The gift card will be valid for one year from issue date. Terms and conditions for using the gift card by these companies may apply. No cash alternative is available. 

1. Entries for the Offer will be accepted via the form. This offer is open to entries from 31 October 2020 to 23:59 30 June 2021 (the Offer Period). 
   
   
2. The offer is open to residents of England, Wales and Mainland Scotland aged 65 or over. 
   
   
3. If a friend or family member completes the entry and this entry is selected, the person who receives the £50 or £250 Love2shop gift card will be the person mentioned in the story. 
   
   
4. The recipient of either the £50 or £250 Love2shop gift card will be notified by telephone using the contact details provided on entry or subsequently submitted. Any recipient of a Love2shop gift card must confirm their email address in order to claim the reward, which Legal & General will send via email. 
   
   
5. There is no cash alternative to the Love2shop gift card. Love2shop reserves the right (but is not obliged) to substitute a reasonably equivalent alternative gift card, of equal or greater value, should circumstances make this necessary. 
   
   
6. Love2shop are not a party to these terms and conditions. Additional terms and Conditions may apply to the Love2shop gift card including but not limited to specifying where and how the gift card can be spent. You must read the terms and conditions of the Love2shop gift card to understand any such requirements. Legal & General accept no liability in relation to the Love2shop gift card itself. You can find Love2shop terms and conditions here: https://www.love2shop.co.uk/site-tcs
   
   
7. Any decision of Legal & General as to eligibility to take part in the offer or the result of the offer will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. Legal & General accepts no responsibility for entries that are incomplete, delayed, lost, damaged or unreadable submission of incomplete information or any other reason. Legal & General accepts no responsibility for any Love2shop gift card if it is delayed, lost, damaged or does not work for any other reason outside the control of Legal & General. 
   
   
8. Legal & General reserves the right to delay the offer in the event of circumstances outside its reasonable control, which it considers make it necessary for it to do so. 
   
   
9. Legal & General reserves the right to not send you the Love2shop gift card should Legal & General discover or have a reasonable suspicion that you are abusing the terms of this offer. 
   
   
10. A recipient of a Love2shop gift card through the offer may be asked to take part in non-paid publicity or advertising relating to the offer, which may include having their photograph taken for promotional and press purposes. 
    
    
11. By entering the Reward Scheme, all applicants consent to the transfer of any personal data to the Data Controller for the purposes of the administration of this Reward Scheme and the referrer and referee consent to the transfer of their personal data to the Data Controller for the purposes of advertising, promotion and/or publicity in connection with the Reward Scheme. 
    
12. Legal & General Assurance Society Limited and Data Controller: One Coleman Street, London EC2R 5AA. The offer and these terms and conditions are subject to English law. Any disputes must be referred to the English courts.
    
    Legal & General Assurance Society Limited Registered in England and Wales No. 00166055. Registered office: One Coleman Street, London EC2R 5AA.
    
    Legal & General Assurance Society Limited is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority.