Calling all Fiercely Independent™
Photographers...
Straub Brewery
is opening their annual Wildlife Calendar to professional and amateur
photographers across Pennsylvania. We need your help capturing the beauty of
Pennsylvania's wildlife!
Must be 21 or over to participate. No purchase necessary. Straub Brewery assumes
and requires that all entries are original and are the works and property of
the entrant, with all rights for reproduction granted therein. Artwork that contains inappropriate materials,
unauthorized photographs of people and children, and other logos/trademarks
will be disqualified. Please see full
list of rules below.
The
winning photographs will be produced and utilized in the 2020 Straub Wildlife
Calendar and be distributed to industry partners and customers of Straub Brewery
Inc. in October/November 2019.
OFFICIAL RULES – NO
PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.
TIMING: The “Straub 2020 Wildlife Calendar Contest begins
on Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 9:00 am. (all times are Eastern Time) and ends
on Sunday, August 11, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. (“Contest Period”). At the end of the Contest Period, submitted
calendar photographs will be judged and one Grand Prize winner will be featured
on the front cover of the calendar. Another 12 winners will be featured on the
inside of the calendar 1 winning photograph per month of the year. Names of
photographers will be printed next to their pictures in the calendar.
ELIGIBILITY: Contest is open only to
legal residents in Pennsylvania, who are 21 years of age or older as of the date
of entry. Officers, directors, employees, and affiliates of Straub Brewery, Inc.
(“Sponsor”) are not eligible to participate. All federal, state, and local laws
and regulations apply.
HOW TO ENTER: To enter, please submit no
more than 3 individual PA Wildlife themed photographs in a jpeg format (300dpi)
to ghasselman@straubbeer.com. Please include your First and Last Name and
description of photo in the files you submit. Entry must be produced in
English and must be the sole original work of the contestant. All participants must be 21 years of age or
older. If you upload an image containing
the likeness of anyone other than yourself, you must have prior documented permission
from that person; if that person objects to the Sponsor, Sponsor has the right
to disqualify entrant.
Entries may not include: (a) profanity, nudity or material deemed
inappropriate or offensive to the judges; (b) false or defamatory statements
about any person or any third party; (c) third party trademarks which suggest
affiliation with any trademark owner without permission of such owner or that
dilute the value of any trademark; (d) obscene, indecent, violent, sexually
explicit, abusive, discriminatory, racially inflammatory or other morally or
legally objectionable depictions of material, all to be determined solely by the
opinion of the judges and/or the Sponsor. If an entry includes any of the
prohibited elements listed above, the entry may be disqualified, along with the
contestant who submitted it. Entrant should be appropriate to the Straub
Brewery, Inc. brand image. Entry may not have earned a prize in a previous
contest or competition held by Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right to modify or
reject any entry, in its sole and absolute discretion, that does not meet the
above criteria. Once submitted, an entry cannot be modified except by Sponsor.
BY SUBMITTING AN ENTRY, CONTESTANT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HIS/HER ENTRY MAY BE
POSTED ON SPONSOR’S WEBSITE, DISPLAYED IN SPONSOR’S PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES, AND
EDITED, IN SPONSOR’S DISCRETION REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THAT ENTRY IS ADJUDGED A
WINNER.
USE OF ENTRIES: Entries become the
property of Straub Brewery, Inc. and none will be returned or acknowledged except
as provided herein. Submission of an entry grants Sponsor and its agents an
unlimited, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license and right to publish,
use, edit, adapt, modify and/or publicly perform the entry in any way, in
commerce and in any and all media worldwide now known or hereinafter developed,
without limitation and without notice or consideration of the contestant. By
submitting an entry, each contestant in the Contest further agrees that his/her
entry constitutes an assignment of all rights, including but not limited to
intellectual property rights, and title in and to such entry and the photograph
therein to Sponsor. Sponsor may require contestants to execute documents to
confirm this transfer of rights. Failure to do so may result in disqualification.
JUDGING: All entries will be judged by a panel of judges comprised of
creative professionals based on the following criteria: a.) originality b.)
creativity c.) appropriateness to Contest Theme, and d.) public appeal as
determined by public comments received. In the event of a tie, an additional
judge will be added to the panel. Decisions of the judges and Sponsor shall be
final in all matters related to this Contest.
PRIZES: One (1) Grand Prize Winner
will receive Bragging Rights, of course! And be featured on the front cover of
the calendar! (12)other winning entries will be chosen for a month on the
calendar that best represents their photograph.
WINNER VALIDATION: The selected artist's
photographs will be determined on or about 8/13/18. Winners will be determined
by in-house judging panel, whose decisions are final on all aspects of the
Contest. Potential winners will be notified by e-mail, and required to
complete an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release
(“Affidavit”) that must be returned via email, fax or mail within four (4)
days of the date and time of notification or prize will be forfeited and a
runner-up will be determined to be the winner. Please allow two days after
verification of winner eligibility for acknowledgement and notice. You are not
a certified winner until your eligibility is verified and you receive official
notification from the judging organization.
GENERAL TERMS: By participating in the Straub
2018 Calendar Contest, contestants warrant and represent that none of the
material submitted or posted infringes upon or otherwise violates the
copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other intellectual or proprietary
rights of any person or entity and that they have fully complied with the
Official Rules. Prize acceptance constitutes permission (except where
prohibited) to use winner’s name, likeness and entry (in whole or in part) for
publicity purposes in all forms of media including the worldwide Internet without
additional compensation, notification or permission. CONTESTANTS AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE OFFICIAL
RULES AND THE DECISIONS OF THE JUDGES AND TO RELEASE AND HOLD HARMLESS SPONSOR,
ITS RELATED COMPANIES,DISTRIBUTORS AND RETAILERS OF STRAUB BREWERY, INC. PRODUCTS,
AFFILIATES, ADVERTISING, PROMOTION, JUDGING AGENCIES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS,
PRIZE SUPPLIERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS FROM AND AGAINST ANY LIABILITY
WHATSOEVER FOR ANY CLAIMS, COSTS, INJURIES, LOSSES OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND
ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST, OR THE
DOWNLOADING, ACCESSING OR SUBMISSION OF ENTRY MATERIALS. By
participating in the Contest, contestants agree that Sponsor shall have the
right to use all personal information provided to Sponsor. Participants, by participating
in this Contest, hereby waive and release, and agree to hold harmless the
Sponsor, distributors and retailers of Straub products, affiliates, advertising
and promotion agencies, and all of their respective officers, directors,
employees, representatives and agents, from and against, any and all rights,
claims and causes of action whatsoever that they may have, or which may arise,
against any of them for any liability for any matter, cause of thing
whatsoever, including but not limited to any injury, loss, damage, whether
direct, compensatory, incidental or consequential, to person, including death
and property, arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from their
acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a prize in the Contest, or their
participation in the Contest, or their participation in any Contest or prize
related activity, or any travel related to the Contest, or any travel for any
prize related activity. Sponsor and its agents are not responsible for lost,
late, misdirected, damaged, incomplete or illegible entries or Internet
technical, hardware, software, telephone, or transmission failures of any kind,
which may limit a person’s ability to enter the Contest. Sponsor and its agents
are not responsible for any injury or damage to contestants’ or any other
person’s computer related to or resulting from entering or downloading any
materials in the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or suspend the
Contest on the Internet should a computer virus, unauthorized intervention or
other cause corrupt the integrity or proper conduct of the promotion. Sponsor
reserves the right to disqualify any contestant found to be disrupting the
operation of the Contest or its web site. If the integrity of the Internet
portion of the Contest is compromised in any manner, Sponsor reserves the right
to modify Contest and judge winners from valid entries received that are
unaffected by the problem. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of any
online contestant, contestant will be deemed the individual named on the online
entry form.
SPONSOR: Straub Brewery, Inc. in St. Marys, Pennsylvania
I, (Print Name)__________________________________________ hereby
state the photography I submitted for the 2020 Straub Wildlife Calendars are of
my own creation and release said photography to
Straub Brewery Inc. to be used in their 2020 Straub Wildlife Calendars;
and I agree to all above contract terms.
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