Term: The Photo Contest begins January 1st 2012 at midnight (12 a.m.) U.S. Eastern Time and ends February 29 2012 11:59:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time (ET) (the Contest). Information on how to enter and prizes form part of these official rules (Official Rules). By submitting an entry each entrant agrees to the Official Rules and warrants that his or her entry complies with all requirements set out in the Official Rules. This is a skill-based contest and chance plays no part in the determination of winners.
Who May Enter: Contest is open to residents from anywhere provided it is not prohibited by local laws and jurisdictions. Must be 18 or older to be eligible to participate. Employees of Truckers America LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates and their immediate family members (spouse parent child sibling and their respective spouses regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees whether or not related are not eligible.
How to Enter: Each entry consists of an entry form and a single image. Including your name address telephone number email address and photo caption; and submit along with your photograph. Sponsor may at its absolute discretion either disqualify all the entrant’s entries or select at its absolute discretion entries to go forward for judging and reject the remainder.
Each entry must comply with the following requirements (the Photograph Requirements):
Photographs must be in digital format. Only online entries will be eligible. No print or film submissions will be accepted for entry into this Contest. The photograph need not be taken with a digital camera; scanned photographic prints are acceptable. All digital files must be 5 megabytes or smaller must be in JPEG or JPG format.
High dynamic range images (HDR) and stitched panoramas are acceptable only if the combined parts are all made around the same time. Any changes to the original photograph not itemized here are unacceptable and will render the photograph ineligible for a prize.
The photograph in its entirety must be a single work of original material taken by the Contest entrant. By entering the Contest entrant represents acknowledges and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work created solely by the entrant that the photograph does not infringe on the copyrights trademarks moral rights rights of privacy/publicity or intellectual property rights of any person or entity and that no other party has any right title claim or interest in the photograph.
The photograph must not in the sole and unfettered discretion of the Sponsor contain obscene provocative defamatory or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content.
The entries will be judged via an online poll in accordance with the Judging Criteria as defined below. All entries must be submitted and received by February 29 2012 at 11:59:00 p.m. EST. Proof of submission is not proof of receipt. Entries must be made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. Authorized account holder is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider online service provider internet domain owner or other person or organization (e.g. business educational institution etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Sponsor reserves the right to examine the original photograph/source material in order to confirm compliance with these rules.
Release: If the photograph contains any material or elements that are not owned by the entrant and/or which are subject to the rights of third parties and/or if any persons appear in the photograph the entrant is responsible for obtaining prior to submission of the photograph any and all releases and consents necessary to permit the exhibition and use of the photograph in the manner set forth in these Official Rules without additional compensation. If any person appearing in any photograph is under the age of majority in their state/province/territory of residence the signature of a parent or legal guardian is required on each release.
Upon Sponsor’s request each entrant must be prepared to provide (within seven (7) calendar days of receipt of Sponsor’s request) a signed release from all persons who appear in the photograph submitted and/or from the owner of any material that appears in the photograph entry authorizing Sponsor and its licensees (Authorized Parties) to reproduce distribute display and create derivative works of the entry in connection with the Contest and promotion of the Contest in any media now or hereafter known. All releases must be in the form provided by Sponsor. Failure to provide such releases upon request may result in disqualification at any time during the Contest and selection of an alternate winner.
Similarly upon Sponsor’s request each entrant must be prepared to provide (within seven (7) calendar days of receipt of Sponsor’s request) a signed written license from the copyright owner of any copyrighted material that appears in the photograph entry authorizing any Authorized Party to reproduce distribute display and create derivative works of the entry in connection with the Contest and promotion of the Contest in any media now or hereafter known. All releases must be in the form provided by Sponsor.
Finally upon Sponsor’s request each entrant must be prepared to provide (within seven (7) calendar days of receipt of Sponsor’s request) a signed written license from the owner of any private property included in the photograph entry authorizing any Authorized Party to reproduce distribute display and create derivative works of the entry in connection with the Contest and promotion of the Contest in any media now or hereafter known. All releases must be in the form provided by Sponsor. Failure to provide such releases upon request may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner.
For the purposes of these Official Rules the entrant will be deemed to be in receipt of Sponsor’s request or notification (a) in the event that Sponsor sends the request by postal mail five business days after the request was sent by Sponsor or (b) in the event that Sponsor sends the request by email on the day that the email was sent by Sponsor.
Contest Prizes: The first-place winner prize is $400.00 U.S. Funds and a new digital camera. The second-place winner prize is $250.00 U.S. Funds. The third-place winner prize is $150.00 U.S. funds. Four random prize drawings will receive $50.00 U.S Funds.
Potential winners shall be required to sign and return within ten (10) days following an attempted notification an Affidavit Declaration or Certificate of Eligibility Liability Release and where legally permissible a Publicity Release and Warranty of Ownership and License in which the entrant warrants that he/she is the owner of the photograph (and all the intellectual property rights in the photograph submitted) and grants to Sponsor and its licensees the irrevocable perpetual nonexclusive license to reproduce distribute display and create derivative works of the entry (along with a name credit) in connection with the Contest and promotion of the Contest without additional compensation. Failure to execute and deliver any required documents to Sponsor by the specified deadline may result in disqualification from the Contest and selection of an alternate potential winner.
No prize transfer assignment or substitution by winners permitted. If a prize (or part of a prize) is unavailable the Sponsor in its discretion reserves the right to substitute the original prize (or that part of the prize) with an alternative prize to the equal monetary value and/or specification unless to do so would be prohibited by law. NONCOMPLIANCE OR RETURN OF PRIZE NOTIFICATION AS UNDELIVERABLE WHETHER BY REGULAR MAIL OR BY EMAIL MAY RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION AND SELECTION OF AN ALTERNATE POTENTIAL WINNER.
Judging: Contest consists of a public opinion poll on www.truckersamerica.com website. Participants are encouraged to vote and list the picture they like best. Judging Criteria should be based on (1) Creativity 50%; (2) Photographic quality 50% if and whenever possible. The entries that receive the most votes by the close of the contest will be the final winners. In the event of a tie the tied entries will be judged by a panel of three Truckers America LLC judges to break that tie.
License: By entering the Contest all entrants grant an irrevocable perpetual nonexclusive license to Authorized Parties to reproduce distribute display and create derivative works of the entries (along with a name credit) in connection with the Contest and promotion of the Contest in any media now or hereafter known including but not limited to: display at a potential exhibition of winners. Entrants consent to the Sponsor doing or omitting to do any act that would otherwise infringe the entrant’s moral rights in their entries. Display or publication of any entry on an Authorized Party’s website does not indicate the entrant will be selected as a winner. Authorized Parties will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such use. Additionally by entering each entrant grants to Authorized Parties the unrestricted right to use all statements made in connection with the Contest and pictures or likenesses of Contest entrants or choose not to do so at their sole discretion. Authorized Parties will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such use.
Limitation of Liability: By entering this Contest all entrants agree to release discharge and hold harmless Truckers America LLC and its partners affiliates subsidiaries advertising agencies agents and their employees officers directors and representatives from any claims losses and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities and the acceptance and use misuse or possession of any prize awarded hereunder.
Truckers America LLC assumes no responsibility for any error omission interruption deletion defect or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Contest entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. Truckers America LLC is not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines computer online systems servers or providers computer equipment software failure of any email entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website human errors of any kind or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to entrants’ or any other persons’ computers related to or resulting from participation uploading or downloading of any materials related to in this Contest.
Conditions: THIS CONTEST IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. To the extent permitted by law the right to litigate to seek injunctive relief or to make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes or claims resulting from or on connection with this Contest are hereby excluded and any entrant expressly waives any and all such rights. Certain restrictions may apply. Entries void if the Sponsor determines the photograph to not be an original or if the entries are illegible incomplete damaged irregular altered counterfeit produced in error or obtained through fraud or theft.
By entering entrants also agree (a) to be bound by these Official Rules; (b) that the decisions of the poll and Judges are final and binding with respect to all matters relating to the Contest; and (c) if the entrant wins that Sponsor may use the winning photographs and each winner’s name photograph likeness and/or voice in any publicity or advertising relating to the Contest or future promotions without compensation or approval (except where prohibited by law). All federal state/provincial/territorial and local taxes fees and surcharges and taxes (whether foreign or domestic and including income sales and import taxes) on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. In the event that the selected winner(s) of any prize is/are ineligible cannot be traced or does/do not respond within ten (10) days to a winner notification as required by the Contest Prizes Rules above or refuses the prize the prize will be forfeited and Sponsor in its sole discretion may choose whether to award the prize to another entrant.
The Sponsor reserves the right to verify the validity and originality of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant’s identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these Official Rules or who tampers with the entry process. Failure by the Sponsor to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
Right to Cancel or Suspend Contest: If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned due to infection by computer virus bugs worms Trojan horses denial of service attacks tampering unauthorized intervention fraud technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of Truckers America LLC that corrupt or affect the administration security fairness integrity or proper conduct of this Contest Truckers America LLC reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual(s) who tamper with the entry process and/or to cancel terminate modify or suspend the Contest. If Sponsor elects to cancel or terminate the Contest Sponsor will not retain any rights in the submitted photographs and will return the fees submitted with each entry.
Winners List: Entrants are responsible for complying with these Official Rules. Winners’ names will be available online at after March 12 2012.
Data Privacy: Entrants agree that personal data especially name and address may be processed shared and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the Contest and any other purposes outlined in these Official Rules. The data may also be used by the Sponsor in order to verify the participant’s identity postal address and telephone number or to otherwise verify the participant’s eligibility to participate in the Contest. Participants have the right to access review rectify or cancel any personal data held by sponsor by writing to Sponsor.