Terms & Conditions Fujifilm Student Awards 2012
1. The promoter is Fujifilm UK Limited, Unit 10A, St Martins Business Centre, St Martins Way, Bedfordshire, MK42 0LF (“Promoter”).
2. Entry is open to all students aged 16 or over undertaking full or part-time professional photographic training, or full or part-time graphic design training of which photography is a major part at a UK based college or university. The competition is not open to employees of Fujifilm UK Limited their families and relatives, and anyone else connected with this competition.
3. Entries are accepted from 5 October 2011. The closing date for the competition is 29 February 2012 and all entries must have been received by the Promoter in accordance with the entry process set out below. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or fail to reach the Promoter by the closing date specified above for any reason. Proof of posting or sending is not proof of receipt. Entries via agents or third parties are not valid.
4. Entry into this competition is free of charge and the number of entries is unlimited.
5. To enter, entrants must submit an image of their photograph online at www.fujifilmstudentawards.co.uk (“Website”) on the basis of the brief and information set out on the Website (“Entry”). All photographs must be taken on Fujifilm Professional film. Images taken on digital cameras will not be accepted for judging. Images must be taken between 5 October 2011 and 29 February 2012.
6. Up to 30 Merit winners from all correctly completed entries will be selected by an independent judging panel to be chosen by the Promoter. Within 14 days of the Promoter notifying each Merit winner that their Entry is a winning Merit Entry, each Merit winner must submit a final print for judging on Fujifilm photographic paper, i.e. Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper, Fujifilm Multijet inkjet paper or Fujifilm Pictrography/Pictrostat paper without a mount or folder. Entries printed on any Black & White paper will be accepted. The maximum size for prints is A4. Please note that entries not presented as stated in the rules will be rejected.
7. Merit judging takes place in March 2012 and the final judging will be completed by April 2012. The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
8. The person submitting the best individual Entry will be deemed the winner and will be awarded the title of Fujifilm Student Photographer of the Year 2012. The winner will receive a prize fund as stated on the Website and may be updated at any time.
9. Each Merit winner will receive 10 rolls of Fujifilm film.
10. The winner and the Merit winners will be notified via email or post within 28 days after the Merit judging or final judging takes place, as the case may be. The winner and each Merit winner must claim their prize within 14 working days of the Promoter sending notification. If the prize is unclaimed after this time, it will lapse and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the unclaimed prize to a substitute winner selected in accordance with the promotion rules.
11. The college or university that submits the most entries will receive £200 worth of Fujifilm film. The relevant college/university tutor will be allowed to choose their preferred type of film.
12. By entering this competition each entrant confirms that his/her Entry is their wholly-owned creation and to the extent that such Entry makes use of any third party materials that these have been fully cleared unless they are no longer protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. Entrants will keep the Promoter harmless from any claims that the Entry infringes the personal or proprietary right of any other person.
13. Copyright remains the property of the photographer at all times but each entrant grants to the Promoter a non-exclusive, sub-licensable perpetual, royalty-free, world-wide licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, distribute and display any Entry submitted as part of this competition in any media now known or hereafter invented. If you do not want to grant these rights, please do not enter this competition.
14. Prizes are not transferable.
15. If the quality of entries fall below the required standard, Fujifilm UK Limited reserves the right not to award a first prize or any merit winning prizes.
16. The winner and the Merit winners agree to take part in reasonable post event publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity.
