Terms and Conditions

#IGERSCAMBRIDGE_BRIDGES PHOTO CHALLENGE

in PARTNERSHIP WITH @CAMBRIDGEPURPLE

1. DEFINITIONS

1.1 Photo Challenge: The purpose of the “#IgersCambridge_bridges” photo challenge organised by Jaroslaw Marciuk as @IgersCambridge_uk under the Terms and Conditions described herein.

1.2 Territorial scope: The territorial scope is international without any restrictions concerning the country of origin of entrants.

1.3 Winning photographs: All those photographs entered into said competition and selected as winners.

1.4 Timezone of reference: All times or dates referred to in these terms and conditions will be in relation to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+1)

2. ORGANISER

2.1 The organisation of said competition falls to Jaroslaw Marciuk, founder and admin of Instagram account @IgersCambridge_uk. Contact details jaroslaw.marciuk(at)gmail.com , based in Cambridge, hereon in the “Organiser”.

2.2 Photo Challenge Partner – Erin Frantz founder of Cambridge Purple, hereon in the “Partner”

3. PERIOD OF VALIDITY

3.1 The Photo Challenge will begin on April 27, 2019 at 00:00 GMT+1 and will end on May 5, 2019 at 22:00 GMT+1. Only those photographs uploaded to Instagram by registered users within the participation deadline will be considered valid entries.?

3.2 The Organiser reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions and/or take the measures considered necessary and appropriate to resolve any conflicts or difficulties arising from the running of the Photo Challenge, insofar as they are justified, do not unduly prejudice the participants and are duly notified. ?

3.3 In particular, the Organiser reserves the right to prolong or suspend the Photo Challenge if considered justified due to possible difficulties that may arise.

4. PURPOSE OF THE COMPETITION

4.1 The purpose of the Photo Challenge is for a panel of judges (Jaroslaw Marciuk and Erin Frants) put together for the competition to choose the best photographs from among the entries. The judges’ decisions are final.?

4.2 The Photo Challenge is aimed at any Instagram user following @igerscambridge_uk and @camridgepurple with the only restrictions applicable described herein.

5. PRIZES

5.1 The three entrants that, according to these Terms and Conditions, are selected as the three winners of the photo challenge, will receive special award founded by Cambridge Purple

5.2 Prizes are:

1 st place – Cambridge UK Postcard Set [8]

2 nd place – Cambridge UK Postcard Set [8]

3 rd place – Cambridge UK Postcard Set [8]

5.3 Entrants hereby expressly accept that any subsequent verification of a breach of these Terms and Conditions on their part gives the organiser the right to disqualify the winner, with the resulting loss of status as such, and leading to the organiser removing their photographs, without implying any right to compensation.

5.4 Photo Challenge Partner is responsible for delivering prizes to the winners.

6. CONDITIONS FOR ENTRANTS

6.1 Entrants must be registered Instagram users. Furthermore, entrants must be followers of @igerscambridge_uk and @cambridgepurple on Instagram.

6.2 Entrants who are underage in their respective jurisdiction must provide written permission from parents, guardians or legal representatives in order to participate in the competition – and if selected, accept the prize – addressed to jaroslaw.marciuk@gmail.com. If any conflict arises between the applicable legislation of the country the winner is resident of and these Terms and Conditions, the Organiser will do its utmost to reconcile both sets of regulations with its legal representatives, with the aim of allowing the winner to accept the prize.

6.3. Any persons taking part in the organisation of the photo challenge, or in the employ of the Organiser, or that of any company acting in collaboration with the Organiser, its subsidiaries, or any of the family, relatives, spouses or common-law spouses of said employees are excluded from entering the Photo Challenge. ?

6.4 Entering the Photo Challenge is free of charge.

6.5 Any breach of the Competition’s Terms and Conditions on behalf of entrants will automatically render the entry null and void. Likewise, any false statements, grounds to suspect a false identity or address has been provided and/or breach of the third party intellectual property rights will lead to immediate disqualification of the entrant, and if necessary, the loss of winning status.

6.6 Express acceptance of these terms and conditions is necessary to enter the Photo Challenge, and therefore to opt to win the prize.

6.7 The Photo Challenge will not accept entries with the following:
Photographs in breach of the third party industrial or intellectual property rights.Photographs which copy an image recognisably pertaining to third parties without their consent. ? Blurred and/or unfocused images or with any other defects.? Photographs deemed by the Organiser to be in bad taste or offensive. ? Photographs in breach of current legislation.Photographs including sexual content, nudity, political or religious appeals or which are considered racist, discriminatory or which may cause offence to individuals or groups. Photographs that impinge upon child or youth protection laws or individuals’ rights to dignity and honour. Photographs invading the privacy of third parties. Photographs which depict, induce, encourage or incite criminal, violent or degrading behaviour of any kind. Photographs whose files contain computer viruses or any other type of computer code, file or program designed to interrupt, destroy, restrict or in any way effect the functioning of any software, hardware or telecommunications equipment.

The Organiser reserves the right to apply said restrictions at its own discretion and excludes any photograph from the photo challenge that it considers to be in violation.

7. HOW TO PARTICIPATE

7.1. Any entry that does not comply with the system set forth for participation or with these Terms and Conditions will not be accepted.

7.2 Each registered user will be able to enter as many photographers as they wish on Instagram and tag them “#IgersCambridge_Bridges @IgersCambridge_uk @CambridgePurple”: The photographs should comply with the required format and technical characteristics.

8. SELECTING THE WINNERS

8.1 Winning entries will be selected from all the photographs uploaded on Instagram and tagged #IgersCambridge_Bridges @IgersCambridge_uk @CambridgePurple within the established deadline. On conclusion of the Photo Challenge, a panel of expert judges will select the 3 best photographs to be awarded along with the photographer’s name.

8.2 Furthermore, one single winner among the 3 finalists will be chosen.

8.3 The panel of judges charged with selecting the winning entries will be appointed by the Organiser, aiming to include persons with a significant contribution to the arts, communication and new technologies.

8.4 The Judges will select, from all the entries, those photographs that best meet the Photo Challenge criteria, bearing in mind quality, creativity and originality of the entered works.

8.5 The Judges’ decision will be made on the week of May 6, 2019, and from the moment of its announcement will be final.

8.6 The Organiser is authorised to resolve at its absolute discretion any circumstances not covered by these Terms and Conditions regarding the system for choosing the winning entries.

8.7 The Judges’ decision announcing the winners will be published on IgersCambridge social media and website within 48 hours of the Judges’ decision.

9. PRESENTATION OF PRIZES

9.1 The Organiser shall contact the winners within a period of 48 hours following the announcement of the Judges’ decision.

9.2 The winners must confirm their acceptance of the prize within a period of 24 hours.

9.3 Entrants’ identity may be checked, if necessary, by providing official identity documents of their corresponding countries.

9.4 If the winning entrant does not accept the prize within the stated deadline, acceptance is not provided for reasons beyond the control of the Organiser, the entrant is found in breach of the Terms and Conditions or the entrant refuses the prize, the Organiser reserves the right to declare the prize void or to select another entry as winner.

9.5 The prize is subject to these Terms and Conditions and cannot be substituted. If the winning entrant does not wish for their work to be published on IgersCambridge website and Social Media, no alternative prize will be offered. The prize is personal and non-transferable and only the entrant’s name will appear.

10. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND IMAGE RIGHTS

10.1. Each entrant in the Photo Challenge guarantees that he/she is the owner of the intellectual and industrial property rights of the work submitted to the photo challenge. The Organiser shall not be held responsible for any breach of regulations or third party rights committed by entrants in the course of the photo challenge, and entrants assume their obligation to hold the Organiser, its subsidiaries, employees or any other legal entities or individuals involved in the photo challenge harmless of any liability.

10.2. If photographs display a recognisable likeness of persons, the Organiser reserves the right to request, and therefore the entrant provides, a letter signed by said persons authorising their likeness to be used, and proving their identity.?

10.3. Entrants agree to assign rights of any work entered in the photo challenge to the Organiser, including rights to use, disseminate, exhibit, publicly broadcast, divulge or reproduce, including the right to transform to any media necessary for the publicity or promotional needs of the Organiser (always for non-profit making purposes). Said assignment is granted, non-exclusively, with no territorial restrictions and for an indefinite period of time as of the uploading of the photograph with the hashtags mentioned above, as the entrant is considered to be competing with this publication.

10.4. On acceptance of the prise, entrants automatically give their consent for the use of their image and name by the Organiser in publicity or promotion of IgersCambridge’s activities in any media, specifically in printed media, radio, television, mobile devices or the on Internet, always for non-profit making purposes as stated in the previous point.

11. EXCLUSION AND RESTRICTION OF LIABILITY

11.1 The Organiser reserves the right to remove any entrants from the Photo Challenge who:? – do not comply with the conditions set forth in the Terms and Conditions? – in accordance with applicable legislation, are in breach of third party rights or any other civil, criminal or administrative legislation or of any other kind.? – have provided false, inexact, incomplete or obsolete information.

11.2 The Organiser declines any responsibility for the loss or delay in the reception of entries; for any interruption; temporary unavailability or downtime; transmission error; loss of information; fraud; network failure; software malfunction or access, communication or response error which may affect the photo challenge due to technical problems, or of any other nature, beyond its control or that are the responsibility of network operators or third party or intermediary service providers.

12. JURISDICTION

For the resolution of any controversy, dispute or disagreement that may arise in the interpretation of these Terms and Conditions, both the Organiser and Photo Challenge entrants expressly agree to submit to the jurisdiction and competence of the Cambridge Crown Court, expressly waiving any other jurisdiction which may correspond to them. Submitting an entry to this photo challenge implies total and full acceptance of the Terms and Conditions set forth herein. British law shall apply to this photo challenge.