Winter Magic 2013 - Detailed Contest Rules and Terms
By submitting an image to the FreePhotoCourse.com "Winter Magic" 2013 Photo Contest, a contest participant agrees to the following rules and conditions.
Term of Contest:
Contest commences Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. E.S.T. and ends at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. on Thursday, February 28, 2013.
Suitable Themes:
Images that depict and celebrate the serenity, beauty, majesty, magic, playfulness, purity or stillness of the winter season.
Acceptable Genres:
Landscape, Still Life, Abstract, Nature, Environmental, Wildlife, Cityscape, Street/Urban, Macro or Night photography.
Submissions must be family-friendly.
Eligibility:
Conditions:
By submitting your photo to this contest, you agree to grant FreePhotoCourse.com, free of charge, irrevocable, perpetual, world-wide non-exclusive license to:
Other Conditions:
-This is a photography site for photographers. We will respect your copyright every time we use your photo, giving you credit!
-Display or publication of any entry does not indicate the entrant will be selected as a winner;
-You waive any moral rights that you may have in the photo;
-You indemnify FreePhotoCourse.com against any claim, demand, action, suit, or other proceedings against FreePhotoCourse.com, arising out of the use of the photo or any false or inaccurate statements;
-Copyright of your photo will remain with you. You can continue to use the photo in any way you want, including allowing others to
use it, with the exception of granting exclusive use rights to another user.
If you do not want to grant FreePhotoCourse.com the permissions set out in these rules, please do not submit your photo.
Unacceptable Submissions:
Term of Contest:
Contest commences Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. E.S.T. and ends at 4:00 p.m. E.S.T. on Thursday, February 28, 2013.
Suitable Themes:
Images that depict and celebrate the serenity, beauty, majesty, magic, playfulness, purity or stillness of the winter season.
Acceptable Genres:
Landscape, Still Life, Abstract, Nature, Environmental, Wildlife, Cityscape, Street/Urban, Macro or Night photography.
Submissions must be family-friendly.
Eligibility:
- There is no entry fee for this contest; Each participant may submit a maximum of one image for this Contest.
- Photographers at any level - from beginner to pro - may participate, and must be 18 years or older at time of submission;
- Must be a legal resident of continental US or Canada (excluding residents of Quebec); contest is void in the Province of Quebec and any other jurisdiction where prohibited by law;
- Any image submitted must be the Contest participant's own original work and the submitter must own all the rights to the photo, including copyright;
- In some cases, more than one photographer over the age of 18 may reside at the same residence. In order to allow different photographers within the same family or residence to submit, we will allow a submission from up to three different contestants living at the same address;
- Employees of FreePhotoCourse.com, contest judges and their immediate family or persons living at the same residence are not eligible to enter this Contest.
Conditions:
By submitting your photo to this contest, you agree to grant FreePhotoCourse.com, free of charge, irrevocable, perpetual, world-wide non-exclusive license to:
- reproduce, store, save, distribute, display and create derivative works of the submitted image;
- publish a photo credit including your name and city location along with your submitted photo, regardless of whether it wins one of the top two prizes;
- edit and adjust your image as necessary to meet web standards;
- publish the comments you submit with your photo, edited as necessary, along with any editorial discussion about the image;
- publish your submitted photo on the FreePhotoCourse.com website, on affiliated websites and on social media sites as necessary to feature, showcase and promote the contest and the results of the Contest, regardless of the winning or non-winning status of the image;
- publish your photo in connection with FreePhotoCourse.com editorial purposes or promotion of this or future contests, in any media throughout the world, in any manner FreePhotoCourse.com sees fit;
- publish your photo in any electronic or print/book form publications, along with photo credit, as related to the contest or to a future exhibit featuring current and/or past FreePhotoCourse.com contributors' galleries, challenges, contests and general archives;
Other Conditions:
-This is a photography site for photographers. We will respect your copyright every time we use your photo, giving you credit!
-Display or publication of any entry does not indicate the entrant will be selected as a winner;
-You waive any moral rights that you may have in the photo;
-You indemnify FreePhotoCourse.com against any claim, demand, action, suit, or other proceedings against FreePhotoCourse.com, arising out of the use of the photo or any false or inaccurate statements;
-Copyright of your photo will remain with you. You can continue to use the photo in any way you want, including allowing others to
use it, with the exception of granting exclusive use rights to another user.
If you do not want to grant FreePhotoCourse.com the permissions set out in these rules, please do not submit your photo.
Unacceptable Submissions:
- Portraits in general, or images of people, where only a single person or a few people represent the main feature of the image, will not be accepted;
- (Street or urban photo submissions that are taken in public places and which may depict people incidentally are acceptable.)
- Product or commercial images are not eligible;
- Images submitted by anyone other than the original photographer are not acceptable;
- Images that have large watermarks which obscure detail or interfere with the meaning of the photographic message may not be considered;
- Images that portray or imply any infringing, threatening, false, abusive, misleading, harassing, defamatory, scandalous, vulgar, obscene, inflammatory, pornographic or profane content shall not be accepted;
- Images that could be construed as or could constitute or encourage conduct which would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law shall not be accepted;
- Any image that infringes upon the copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property rights of any third person or entity shall not be accepted;
- Any image that contains trademarks owned by third parties or copyrighted materials owned by third parties is not acceptable;
- Images that are patently manipulated or overly processed using online photo adjustment sites or other photo editing software will not be considered; (Minor cropping and basic adjustments may be acceptable.)
- Images may not have been taken prior to 2012;
- Images may not have been previously selected for an award in another published photo contest;
- Any image that has been previously or currently offered for sale with a stock photo agency is not eligible.
Criteria and Procedure for Awarding Prizes:
Photo submissions will be evaluated by FreePhotoCourse.com's own Submissions Review Team. Criteria include technical accuracy (ie. focus and exposure), composition, suitability of content to theme, and other artistic and interest-based considerations. Judges' decisions are final. Prior to March 15, 2013, image submissions will be short-listed; some of these preselected images may appear on this website, updated periodically, along with the names of the photographers. Images not chosen to be in the short list will no longer be considered for a prize. The first and second place winners will be contacted by email or telephone prior to the end of March, 2013. Where required by law, a winning contestant may be required to answer a mathematical skill-testing question prior to receiving the prize. Prizes will be mailed via ground delivery at the expense of FreePhotoCourse.com. The prize shall be accepted as is and may not be exchanged for an amount of money, nor sold nor transferred. No requests for prize substitution will be considered. If the prize cannot be awarded as described, FreePhotoCourse.com reserves the right to substitute a prize or prize component with another of comparable value. This is a skill-based contest and chance plays no part in the determination of the winners.
Submission Method:
1. Upload one image electronically as a jpeg (.jpg) attachment to your submission details. Limit of ONE image per contestant.
2. You must use our online submission system.
3. Submissions may only be sent electronically. No submission shall be considered after 4:00 p.m. (EST) on February 28, 2013.
4. Image details: between 1-5 MB (MegaBytes) (nothing smaller; nothing larger)
5. Must include the following information: (a) photographer's full name, address, age at time of submission and phone number – address must be the valid address where a prize will be sent if the image is selected for first or second place; (b) identification of the specific scene, landmark and/or object depicted in the photo; (c) location where image was captured; (d) two to three sentences explaining why you think this image is award-worthy and any personal reflection about what motivated you to take the shot.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
By entering this Contest, you agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless FreePhotoCourse.com and its partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, agents and their employees, officers, directors, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded hereunder.
FreePhotoCourse.com assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Contest entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. FreePhotoCourse.com is not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrants' or any other persons' computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to in this Contest.
RIGHT TO CANCEL OR SUSPEND CONTEST
If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, trojan horses, denial of service attacks, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause beyond the control of FreePhotoCourse.com that corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, FreePhotoCourse.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual(s) who tamper with the entry process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Contest.
NO ASSOCIATION WITH PRIZE MANUFACTURERS
FreePhotoCourse.com has chosen in advance and at its own sole discretion, prizes for this Contest that are based on common photography-related accessories. Manufacturers of said prize merchandise are not sponsors of the Contest and are in no way affiliated with the Contest nor with FreePhotoCourse.com. There is no endorsement, implied or otherwise, regarding the manufacturers of the prizes.
PERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACY
All personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and age is collected solely for the purposes of administering this Contest and for providing photo credit when photos are published; such personal information shall not be used for any other purpose without your consent. By providing this information, you consent to it being used for the stated purposes. All data collected is governed by our Privacy Policy.
By entering, contestants agree to abide by these contest rules and conditions which shall be applied by FreePhotoCourse.com. All decisions are final.
Photo submissions will be evaluated by FreePhotoCourse.com's own Submissions Review Team. Criteria include technical accuracy (ie. focus and exposure), composition, suitability of content to theme, and other artistic and interest-based considerations. Judges' decisions are final. Prior to March 15, 2013, image submissions will be short-listed; some of these preselected images may appear on this website, updated periodically, along with the names of the photographers. Images not chosen to be in the short list will no longer be considered for a prize. The first and second place winners will be contacted by email or telephone prior to the end of March, 2013. Where required by law, a winning contestant may be required to answer a mathematical skill-testing question prior to receiving the prize. Prizes will be mailed via ground delivery at the expense of FreePhotoCourse.com. The prize shall be accepted as is and may not be exchanged for an amount of money, nor sold nor transferred. No requests for prize substitution will be considered. If the prize cannot be awarded as described, FreePhotoCourse.com reserves the right to substitute a prize or prize component with another of comparable value. This is a skill-based contest and chance plays no part in the determination of the winners.
Submission Method:
1. Upload one image electronically as a jpeg (.jpg) attachment to your submission details. Limit of ONE image per contestant.
2. You must use our online submission system.
3. Submissions may only be sent electronically. No submission shall be considered after 4:00 p.m. (EST) on February 28, 2013.
4. Image details: between 1-5 MB (MegaBytes) (nothing smaller; nothing larger)
5. Must include the following information: (a) photographer's full name, address, age at time of submission and phone number – address must be the valid address where a prize will be sent if the image is selected for first or second place; (b) identification of the specific scene, landmark and/or object depicted in the photo; (c) location where image was captured; (d) two to three sentences explaining why you think this image is award-worthy and any personal reflection about what motivated you to take the shot.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
By entering this Contest, you agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless FreePhotoCourse.com and its partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, agents and their employees, officers, directors, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded hereunder.
FreePhotoCourse.com assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Contest entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. FreePhotoCourse.com is not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrants' or any other persons' computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to in this Contest.
RIGHT TO CANCEL OR SUSPEND CONTEST
If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, trojan horses, denial of service attacks, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause beyond the control of FreePhotoCourse.com that corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, FreePhotoCourse.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual(s) who tamper with the entry process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Contest.
NO ASSOCIATION WITH PRIZE MANUFACTURERS
FreePhotoCourse.com has chosen in advance and at its own sole discretion, prizes for this Contest that are based on common photography-related accessories. Manufacturers of said prize merchandise are not sponsors of the Contest and are in no way affiliated with the Contest nor with FreePhotoCourse.com. There is no endorsement, implied or otherwise, regarding the manufacturers of the prizes.
PERSONAL DATA AND PRIVACY
All personal information, such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and age is collected solely for the purposes of administering this Contest and for providing photo credit when photos are published; such personal information shall not be used for any other purpose without your consent. By providing this information, you consent to it being used for the stated purposes. All data collected is governed by our Privacy Policy.
By entering, contestants agree to abide by these contest rules and conditions which shall be applied by FreePhotoCourse.com. All decisions are final.
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