World's Best Silhouette Collection - Contest Rules

VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.  VALID WORLDWIDE ENTRY FOR OUR BEST WEDDING SILHOUETTES COLLECTION CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES.

ALL PHOTO ENTRIES FROM A SINGLE PARTICIPANT MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH A  CURRENT MEMBER ACCOUNT AT WORLD'S BEST WEDDING PHOTOS. PLEASE READ THE COLLECTION RULES IN THE ENTIRETY (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITING TO THE REQUIREMENTS ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS) BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR ENTRIES.

ELIGIBILITY.  Entries are open for our Best Wedding Silhouettes Collection to professionals wedding photographers who are current members of World's Best Wedding Photos. Employees of The Curated Lens LLC known as World's Best Wedding Photos and respective immediate family members (parents, siblings, children, spouses and life partners of each, regardless of where they live) and household members are not eligible to enter the Contest.

CONTEST PERIOD.  The Contest begins and ends at the times and on the dates set forth below (the “Contest Period”):

  • Beginning Time: 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, February 7th, 2022
  • End Time: 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, March 1st, 2022.

METHOD OF ENTRY; NUMBER OF ENTRIES ALLOWED.  To enter, complete the following steps during the Contest Period:

  • How to Enter: Participants may enter by Submitting Photos through their World's Best Wedding Photos account. They will find the Submit Photos option in the drop-down menu under their email address in the top right corner of the WBWP website. Members may also WeTransfer/Dropbox or use their preferred online gallery service to submit photos to [email protected]
  • Participants may enter up to 15 silhouettes from February 7th, 2022, through March 1st, 2022. Participants may request to remove any photo entry by emailing [email protected] before the expiration of the Contest Period.
  • Entry Fee: There is no entry fee for this contest. 
     
  • Requirements on the photographs: 
    • Created by the entrant.
    • The Entrant is the sole creator and copyright owner.
    • Photos from personal project, weddings, photo shoots are all acceptable.
    • Photographs must be submitted in .jpeg, .jpg or .gif format, edited for the web in sRGB color space and be at least 2,400 pixels long side and optimized using TinyPNG or JPEGmini for the best web experience.
    • High-quality scans of non-digital photographs are acceptable. 
    • The photographer’s name must be included in the filename as well as the venue/location.
       
  • Requirements on the entry
    Limit 15 entries total. Entries generated by a script, macro or other mechanical or automated means, and entries in excess of the entry limit will be disqualified. Entries will not be returned unless specified otherwise herein. Proof of submission does not constitute proof of receipt. All entries must be in English to the extent applicable.
     
  • Additional Requirements on the entry (and the photographs contained in the entry):
    Your entry must further comply with all of the following requirements:
    • Your entry must not violate any right of a third party including, without limitation, any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, confidentiality, publicity, privacy, and any other intellectual property right.
    • Your entry must be your original work of authorship and sole property.
    • Your entry must not contain any recognizable person or puppy, or any personally identifiable information of any person or puppy, unless you can provide proof of consent and release from the subject or the subject’s parent or guardian (if the person identifiable in the photograph is a minor), upon request.
    • Your entry must not include any content or material that depicts or incorporates unsafe behavior or situations, nudity, expletives, obscenity, defamation, discrimination, disparagement of any product, person, or organization, or any other inappropriate or objectionable content or material, as determined in the sole discretion by the judges and/or Sponsor.
    • Your entry must not introduce any software viruses, worms or other programs designed to damage software, hardware or telecommunications equipment.
       

DISQUALIFICATION.  The judges and/or Sponsor reserve the right to disqualify at any time any entry and any photograph in any entry that they determine in their sole discretion does not comply with these Official Rules. The Sponsor has the sole and absolute discretion to decide if a noncompliant photograph would disqualify any other photographs contained in the same entry.

USE OF ENTRY MATERIALS BY SPONSOR.  By submitting an entry, you agree that Sponsor has the unrestricted right and non-exclusive and royalty-free license to use your entry in whole or in part, commercially or non-commercially, in any media known or unknown, in perpetuity, worldwide, including the right to publish, display, copy, distribute, and sublicense the entry for advertising or publicity purposes, and to edit, modify, and make derivatives, all without additional review by or compensation to you.  As a condition of submitting your entry, you agree that Sponsor may post your entry on its website, blog and social media accounts, web pages, blogs and social media accounts of third party media for their editorial and other publications for advertising and promotional purposes without review by or compensation to you. For this section, any reference to “entry” includes the incident of your entering the Contest and all the information and photographs submitted at the time of entering the Contest.

Awards:  Jacqueline Tobin, the Editor in Chief and Rangefinder along with Blair deLaubenfels, the owner of World's Best Wedding Photos team will choose 30 photos to be included in the collection. Jacqueline Tobin, will solely choose the top five for inclusion in Rangefinder's Photos of the Week in March of 2022. Odds of winning the Contest depend on the number of eligible entries received and the number of photographs in each entry. 

WINNER SELECTION & JUDGING. All entries will be reviewed by our judges, Jacqueline Tobin and Blair deLaubenfels, Judging will be based on vision, creativity, composition, technical skill, lighting, timing, and processing.  All decisions regarding the winners will be made by World's Best Wedding Photos (the Sponsor) judges and will be final and binding.

WINNER NOTIFICATION. The potential winners will be notified by email on or about March 7th through their Instagram account. Sponsor will make two attempts to contact the potential winners. If Sponsor is unable to contact a potential winner, the corresponding photo entry will be deemed ineligible and the next highest scoring photo entry may be chosen. Sponsor will have no liability for any winner notification that is lost, intercepted, or not received by the potential winner for any reason. In the event of a dispute regarding any entry, the entry will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address provided at the time of entry. A potential winner may be required to provide Sponsor with proof that he/she is the authorized account holder of the email account associated with the submitted entry. If a dispute cannot be resolved to Sponsor’s satisfaction, the affected entry will be deemed ineligible to win a prize. In the event of a tie, the Sponsor will determine how to best allocate the Prize. The winners will be required to provide additional documents (such as consent and release of any person or personal information identifiable in the photographs and the original version of the winning photographs as stipulated in the rules above) and complete an Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release, and Liability Waiver which must be returned within ten (10) calendar days of notification. Failure to provide the requested additional documents or sign and return the Affidavit of Eligibility, Publicity Release, and Liability Waiver may result in a winner’s disqualification.

WAIVER OF LIABILITY; DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. BY SUBMITTING ANY ENTRY, EACH ENTRANT WAIVES ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AGAINST SPONSOR, PARTICIPATING SPONSORS, THEIR PARENT CORPORATIONS AND/OR SUBSIDIARIES, AND EACH OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, LICENSEES, AND REPRESENTATIVES (COLLECTIVELY, “RELEASED PARTIES”). FOR ANY INJURY, DAMAGE OR LOSS THAT MAY OCCUR, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST OR FROM THE RECEIPT OR USE OF ANY PRIZE. SPONSOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE COLLECTION OR ANY AWARD, AND TO THE EXTENT ALLOWABLE UNDER LAW, FULLY DISCLAIMS ALL SUCH WARRANTIES. ENTRANTS AND WINNERS ASSUME ALL DAMAGES FROM PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST OR USE OF A PRIZE, AND WAIVE ALL CLAIMS AGAINST SPONSOR OR ANY RELEASED PARTIES ARISING THEREFROM. SPONSOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MISDIRECTED, LOST, LATE, INACCURATE OR INCOMPLETE ENTRIES, AND SUCH ENTRIES WILL BE VOID. SPONSOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR: (A) ANY COMPUTER, TELEPHONE, CABLE, NETWORK, SATELLITE, ELECTRONIC OR INTERNET HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE MALFUNCTIONS, FAILURES, CONNECTIONS, AVAILABILITY, (B) GARBLED OR JUMBLED TRANSMISSIONS, (C) SERVICE PROVIDER/INTERNET/WEB SITE/USE NET ACCESSIBILITY OR AVAILABILITY, TRAFFIC CONGESTION, (D) UNAUTHORIZED HUMAN INTERVENTION OR (E) THE INCORRECT OR INACCURATE CAPTURE OF ENTRY INFORMATION OR THE FAILURE TO CAPTURE ANY SUCH INFORMATION.

PRIVACY.  Entrants agree that personal data submitted with an entry, including name, email address, and phone number may be collected, processed, stored and otherwise used by Sponsor, and its affiliates for the purposes of conducting and administering the Collection. By entering photos for consideration in the Collection, entrant agrees to the transmission, processing, disclosing and storage of this personal data by Sponsor and its affiliates. All personal information collected from the entrant is subject to Sponsor’s privacy policy (located at: https://www.worldsbestweddingphotos.com/privacy-policy). Entrants also agree that the Sponsor may collect and use the metadata of the photographs submitted by the Entrants.

CONSENT TO RECEIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND USE OF NAME, LIKENESS, AND INFORMATION. By submitting photos for consideration in the Collection, each entrant gives his or her express permission to receive promotional emails from Sponsor or from third parties directed by Sponsor. Acceptance of a Award constitutes permission to the Sponsor to use such winner’s name, likeness, biographical information, city and state of residence and all the entry photos for advertising, promotional, editorial, and publicity purposes, worldwide in perpetuity, in any media now known or hereafter created, without further compensation, except where prohibited by law.  Sponsor is not obligated to use any of the above-mentioned information or materials, but may do so and may edit such information or materials at Sponsor’s sole discretion, without further obligation or compensation.

GOVERNING LAW; ARBITRATION; VENUE. The Collection is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. The laws of the State of Washington govern the Collection without reference to choice of law principles. Any dispute regarding the rules of the Collection are exclusively subject to binding arbitration (with one (1) arbitrator sitting) in King County, WA pursuant to the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Entrants hereby irrevocably waive any and all rights to a trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to the Contest. Entrants further waive any objection to venue in King County, WA, whether such objection is based on lack of personal jurisdiction, improper venue, forum non-conveniens, or the like.

GENERAL TERMS.  Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify photos and entries that do not comply with these rules and to disqualify any individual who tampers with the Contest, as solely determined by Sponsor.  In the event the Collection is compromised by a computer virus, non-authorized human intervention, tampering or other causes beyond the reasonable control of Sponsor which corrupts or impairs the administration, security, fairness or proper operation of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the Collection at any time.  If the Collection is terminated prior to the published end date of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right to award the entrants based on the eligible entries received before the date of termination.  The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these rules shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any such provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, these rules shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if any invalid or unenforceable provision was not contained therein.

SPONSOR; WINNER LIST.  The Sponsor of this Collection is The Curated Lens, LLC, whose principal place of business is 14027 Roslyn Pl N, Seattle, WA 98177. The Sponsor expects to announce the winners on or around March 7th, 2022 on its website and on Instagram. To receive a winner list, send an email to [email protected] within 30 days after March 15th, 2022

FTC DISCLOSURE RULES.  Each winner is required to comply with the FTC’s rules governing online endorsements or any similar rules when posting online reviews or comments regarding the Sponsor or its services.

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