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sure you read, understand and accept the Rules & Terms of this Agreement
before entering into an Apogee Photo Contest.
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Entry Rules & Terms of
Agreement
By submitting photo/s to any Apogee Photo, Inc. photo
contest (d.b.a. Apogee Photo Magazine, the Internet’s Photography
Magazine ™, hereafter referred to as Apogee), you are attesting to the
fact that you have read, understand, fully agree and accept the Rules
and Terms of Agreement.
You further attest that you are over 18 years of age and
that you are fully capable, willing and able to understand and comply
with all the rules and terms of this agreement.
These contests are for amateur and intermediate
photographers, NOT for professional photographers who make 50% or more
of their income from photography.
Rules:
1. Make your Pay Pal payment
prior to sending Apogee your information & photo/s. You may
enter up to 10 photos per Contest/Subject.
If you would like to pay Apogee Photo, Inc. directly with your credit
card, just call 1-303-948-3539 (U.S.) between 9am and 6pm, MST, Monday -
Friday.
Fees per number of photos submitted to each contest subject are as
follows:
1 photo $5.00
2 photos $9.00
2. Required Information on your email entry
to a contest
(to be sure you include the following, just copy/paste it
to your email)
Subject of Contest: Be sure
you specify as to which contest subject you are entering.
Name of photo file: Same as label
below.
Your Email Address: Be sure you
use the same email address used for your Pay Pal payment.
Your Name:
Your Phone Number:
Your Address:
Your City, State/Province, Postal Code:
Your Country (If not USA):
I have read, understand & agree to the Rules & Terms of Agreement:
(type-YES)
3. Please label your photo files with:
First initial of your first name
Last name, underscore
Portion of the contest title, underscore,
One word photo title (number according to number of photo files
submitted: 1, 2, 3, etc.)
(Such as: JBrown_Toes_Baby3)
Failure to do so may result in your submission not being considered and
disqualified.
Please, do not submit photographs/titles that contain: nudity or
offensive content. They will not be eligible and discarded.
4. Entries Must Be Submitted by Electronic Email
Means ONLY
prior to the ending date/time of a specific contest (see
Submit your photos here...):
***Before you submit your photo files...
(limit 10 per Contest/Subject)
Size your images on your computer to:
72 ppi jpg
No more than 600 pixels along the longest edge.
(Such as a horizontal photo could be: 600 pixels wide and 400
pixels high).
Save at: Low compression/High quality
Send as an attachment/s (not inline images)
If your photographs do not meet the size requirements and formatting,
it/they may not be eligible to win and could be disqualified.
There are many different programs for resizing your photos,
such as Photoshop, ACDSee & iphoto, so if you don't know how to do it,
just do an online Search for your companies product and you'll probably
find a tutorial.
5. If you did not provide the required information
and/or photo size requirements and formatting (#'s 1-4 of Rules),
the contest fee/s for an ineligible/disqualified entrant
will not be returned.
6. Entries will be judged by the Apogee Photo, Inc. staff and are judged
for content, composition, image quality, and relevance to the contest
topic. All decisions by the judges will be final.
7. You may only win the Grand Prize, 1st Runner-up and 2nd Runner-up
prizes once in a one year period. There are no substitutions or
transfer of prizes.
8. Prizes must be claimed within 30 days of our notifying the winner.
All attempts will be made to contact the winner via email. Failure to
claim prizes within this time period will result in forfeiture of
prizes. All entrants should check our contest page regularly to
determine the winners of each contest. Winners who have not
received an email notification should email the magazine immediately
(see email address below).
9. Cash Prizes: do to the extremely low
participation (3 submissions) in the "Travel By Land or By Sea" contest,
no cash prizes will be given for this contest. Each participant
will receive
Power
Retouche: Photoshop plug-ins for high quality photo editing,
retouching and image editing.
10. Contest winners will be announced on the Cover Page of Apogee with a
link to the winners page the month following the end of a contest date.
11. Contributors to the magazine, advertisers, professional
photographers (50% or more of income derived from photography), or
members of the Apogee staff and their families are not eligible for
prizes.
Terms of Agreement:
1. Apogee Photo, Inc. reserves the right to make
changes to any part of this agreement and reserves the right to amend,
modify or change the prizes and/or details of any contest at any time
without any prior notification to the participants. The changes
will apply upon the posting of such changes under specific contest
details or in this agreement. It is the responsibility of the
participant to review the contest details and these Terms of Agreement
prior to submitting photo/s to any Apogee Photo Contest.
2. Apogee, at its sole discretion, will display the
details of each photo contest: the prizes, the subject of competition(s),
the starting date of new competition(s) and the ending date of the
competition(s). The Apogee management team reserves the right to
modify or make any changes to these details.
3. By submitting your photo/image file/s to the Apogee
Photo Contest, you are giving your permission to Apogee to reproduce
them and are granting Apogee the rights to publish them in the Apogee
Photo Magazine web site, or any other web site deemed necessary for
photo contest use by Apogee Photo, Inc., without monetary compensation.
This agreement constitutes a copyright release of photos and the
photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest will hold Apogee Photo, Inc.
harmless for any claims contrary to this and will indemnify Apogee Photo
for any claims by any other party.
4. Apogee Photo, Inc., warrants that all photo/image
file/s copyrights remain the property of the photographer. Apogee
Photo, Inc., shall not sell, grant the use of or give permission to use
any photo/image file/s to any third person or entity without the written
consent of the author/photographer. However, the
photographer/entrant to any Apogee Contest further understands that the
photo/image file/s shall/may remain online and become a part of Apogee’s
archives or any other site deemed necessary for use in the photo
contest, unless otherwise specified in this document.
5. The photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest
warrants that his/her/their contribution is/are their own and is their
original work and that he/they has/have the full power to make this
grant, and that the photo(s) contains(contain) no matter libelous or
otherwise unlawful or which invades the right of privacy or which
infringes any proprietary right.
6. It is the sole responsibility of the
photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest to have obtained an
appropriate model release when deemed necessary: certifies that
he/she/they has/have a written consent and/or proper permission of any
identifiable person in order to have said photo included/used/published
in an Apogee contest and on the Apogee web site or any other site deemed
necessary for photo contest use by Apogee. You further agree that
Apogee Photo, Inc. will not be held responsible for any violations of
said release/s, to either the photographer or the model.
7. You agree that Apogee Photo, Inc. is not
responsible for any violations of any intellectual property rights in
any photo/s submitted to Apogee Photo, Inc. and you further understand
that said photo/s will be available to the public. Apogee Photo,
Inc. has no obligation to prevent the unauthorized copying,
dissemination or alteration or other use of your photo/s by others.
8. The photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest
agrees to hold harmless and indemnify Apogee against any claim, demand,
suit, action, proceeding, recovery of expense of any claim whatsoever
arriving from any claims of plagiarism, libel, slander, obscenity,
unlawfulness, or invasion of privacy or copyright infringement of the
photo(s), that are finally sustained in a court of competent
jurisdiction.
9. The photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest
certifies that all aspects of his/her/their photo/s which may be
derivative have been properly cited, and that in general he/she/they
has/have not plagiarized anyone else's work. He/They further
certifies that he/they has/have proper permission to use any cited work
which is included which exceeds the Fair Use Clause of the United States
Copyright Law, such as photographs borrowed from other articles or
persons. Permission to use previously copyrighted material shall
be obtained at the photographers’ expense from the copyright proprietor.
10. The photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest
will release and hold harmless Apogee Photo, Inc. and/or any of its
Contest Sponsors, along with their officers, directors or
representatives from all losses, including costs or expenses, or damages
as a result of the photographer/entrant to the Apogee contest violating
any of the Rules or Terms of this Agreement.
11. The
photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest also recognizes acts of God
and man can cause the Internet, the World Wide Web, and/or Apogee
Photo's Internet provider or other forms of communication (such as email
transmission delays, damage, failure, loss) to suffer periods of
inoperability and inaccessibility and agrees to release and hold Apogee
Photo, Inc. blameless for such occurrences.
12. The photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest recognizes that acts
of technology or man can be the cause for typographical errors and holds
Apogee Photo, Inc. harmless. Contact Apogee Photo Contest (below)
and Apogee will make all efforts to correct such errors.
13. The
photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest will
release and hold harmless Apogee Photo, Inc. and/or any of its Contest
Sponsors, along with their officers, directors or representatives from
all losses, including costs or expenses, or damages as a result of your
accepting, possessing and/or using any prize.
14. The photographer/entrant to any Apogee contest
agrees that under any circumstance, the liability of
Apogee Photo shall be limited only to the amount of the
contest fee paid by the photographer/entrant to any specific Apogee
contest subject. You hereby waive any other damages whether
consequential or actual.
15. Apogee Photo, Inc., is a Colorado Corporation and
all agreements, upon acceptance, shall be deemed accepted and
non-cancelable in the State of Colorado, USA and governed by the laws of
the State of Colorado, USA.
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Copyright Infringement Questions:
If you feel a photo has infringed on your right of privacy and
intellectual proprietary rights, contact Apogee Photo, Inc. immediately.
Provide your name, address, phone number and email address.
Provide the location of the photo in question, along with a description
of the photo.
Provide a signed statement--state that you own the copyright to the
photo in question, that you did authorize the use of your copyrighted
photo and that your copyright has been infringed upon. Please
provide proof of the ownership of the copyright and infringement.
Your signed statement is legally binding under the penalty of perjury
law.
Once your complaint has been received, Apogee Photo,
Inc. may, at its discretion, remove the photo in question.
To Email Contest:
We respectfully ask for your help and we are hoping it will at least
slow down those most irritating spammers--spammers that make this an
extra step for you. But, it is more important to us that we do
not miss receiving your email.
HOW TO SEND AN EMAIL
via your own email server:
You can type it in or copy/paste
First
part of email to type or copy/paste:
photo.contest
Of course you know what goes in between:
the “at” symbol.
After the symbol:
apogeephoto
And we are a: .com
Subject: Apogee Photo Contest
Snail Mail Address:
Apogee Photo Magazine Contest
11121 Wolf Way
Westminster, CO 80031
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