Exercise your creativity and submit a holiday card design for a chance to win by attracting the most “thumbs up” clicks and 5-star comments. Voters don’t have to sign up to vote and comment. Winners will be announced within 2 weeks of the end date.
Winners of the Holiday Card Showdown will be awarded the following prizes:
- Grand Prize: $400, a free SmugMug Pro account for two years, and a $200 gift certificate to SmugMug. Bragging rights included.
- First Prize: $200 worth of Wiley books - dive into our library and go nuts - plus free SmugMug membership for 1 year.
- Second Prize: Your selection of $100 worth of Wiley books. Technology, business, cooking, travel - we’ve got you covered. Plus, free SmugMug membership for 1 year.
To learn more about the Holiday Card Showdown, visit www.wileydesignchallenge.com. You can also visit Wiley Design Challenge on Facebook to share artwork and discuss the contest.
Wiley Design Challenge
OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
1. ELIGIBILITY: Wiley Design Challenge (the “Contest”) is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including D.C.) who are at least thirteen (13) years old at the time of entry. Entrants who are minors must get permission from their parents or legal guardians to enter the Contest. All employees of Wiley Publishing, Inc. (“Wiley”), SmugMug, Inc., all their parent and affiliate companies as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. All applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Void where prohibited or restricted.
Wiley employees may submit their entries to the gallery for eligibility in an internal competition.
Wiley employees may submit their entries to the gallery for eligibility in an internal competition.
2. CONTEST PERIOD: The Contest begins at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on Deember 1, 2008 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on December 31, 2008 (the “Contest Period”). The Contest Period consists of an image submission phase which begins at 12:00 a.m. ET on December 1, 2008 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on December 31, 2008 (the “Image Submission Phase”); and a voting phase which begins at 12:00 a.m. ET on December 1, 2008 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on December 31, 2008 (the “Voting Phase”).
3. CONTEST SUBMISSION: a.
Image Submission Phase: During the Promotion, visit WileyDesignChallenge.smugmug.com and login or create an account. Creating an account is free. Create a design that is characterized by a holiday greeting card theme and displays proficiency with one or more Adobe products (the “Design”).
Design Requirements:
- Must adhere to all listed Technical Specifications set forth below.
- Must be the participant’s original idea.
- Must not infringe on any other person’s or entity’s rights.
- Must not have been submitted previously in a contest of any kind.
- Must comply with all Content Restrictions set forth below.
- Must comply with the SmugMug Terms of Service located at http://www.smugmug.com/aboutus/terms.mg.
Follow the links and instructions to upload your Design. Each participant shall be required to click where indicated to confirm that such participant agrees to be bound by these Official Rules. Any Submission that includes content that is deemed inappropriate, indecent, obscene or otherwise does not comply with the Content Restrictions, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, shall not be eligible. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, or misdirected entries which are void.
Content Restrictions: The Design must NOT contain:
- Nudity, lewd or vulgar behavior.
- Material that violates or infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyright infringement.
- Brand names or trademarks.
- Photos of artwork that infringes another's rights, or photos of artwork that infringe another's rights.
- Material that is hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous or libelous.
- Material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
- Material that is unlawful, in violation of, or contrary to the laws or regulations in any state where the Cover is created.
Failure of any Design to comply with the above restrictions (collectively, the “Content Restrictions”), as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, shall result in disqualification.
Technical Specifications: Participant must upload files of the Design that comply with the following specifications:
1. Color: RGB only
2. All images used must be 300 dpi.
3. All layers must be present (do not flatten) and must be rasterized in original files.
4. Images uploaded must be GIF or JPEG formats and comply with SmugMug's image guidelines
Failure of any Design to comply with the above specifications (collectively, the “Technical Specifications”), as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, shall result in disqualification
Limit: Each participant may enter up to five (5) Designs during the Contest Period. Multiple participants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any participant to enter more than five (5) Designs by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations, or any other methods shall void all Designs entered by that participant and that participant, at the sole discretion of Sponsor, may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and shall result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder of the email address used to register shall be deemed to be the registrant or participant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.
License: Participant retains ownership of the copyright in any submitted Designs. However, by entering Design(s) in this Contest, participant grants Sponsor the irrevocable, perpetual right and license to edit, adapt, and publish any or all of the Design(s), and use them in any media and for any purpose without attribution or compensation to the participant, his or her successors or assigns, or any other entity. The winner shall supply, upon request, original mechanical files along with original art used to create the Design.
4. VOTING PHASE:
Voting Section: Those that enter a valid Design and continue to comply with these Official Rules shall have their Design posted at WileyDesignChallenge.smugmug.com during the Voting Phase. During the Voting Phase, visitors to the website shall be invited to vote for their favorite Design. Voting is achieved by using the "thumbs up/thumbs down" system within SmugMug and through the "star" system with SmugMug's commenting system. SmugMug's system decides the ranking of entries based upon a combination of these votes.
Limit: Visitors to the site may vote one (1) time during the Voting Phase. Voters must be at least eighteen (18) years of age.
Judging Section: A panel of judges will pick the First, Second, and Third Prize winners from the Most Popular Gallery.
5. REQUIREMENTS OF CONTEST WINNERS The winners shall be notified by email, mail, and or phone on or about December 6, 2008. Winners must comply with all contest rules as published. The winners and, if the potential winner is a minor, the potential winner's parent or guardian, may be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability and Publicity Release, where permitted, within one (1) day from the date of notification. In the event that any potential winner is disqualified for any reason, the prize shall be awarded to the participant with the next highest score. Winners agree to conduct any and all media interviews related to the Contest if requested and not disparage Sponsor during any such interviews. Failure to comply with this requirement for any reason or return of prize notification or prize as undeliverable shall result in forfeiture of any prize, and the prize shall be awarded to the participant with the next highest number of votes. Acceptance of prize shall constitute and signify the winner’s agreement and consent that Sponsor may use the winner’s name, address (city, state), likeness, Design, and/or prize information for contextual purposes worldwide, including the internet, without limitation and without further payment or consideration, except where prohibited by law. Winner agrees to modify artwork in any way dictated by Sponsor. Winner must supply all necessary files in a format that complies with the Technical Specifications.
6. PRIZES: ONE (1) FIRST PRIZE: $400.00, a 2 Year Pro Account Subscription from SmugMug and a $75 SmugMug Gift Card. ARV: $775. ONE (1) SECOND PRIZE: $100, the equivalent of $200 of books published by Sponsor, a one year Pro Account subscription from SmugMug, and a $50 SmugMug gift card. No single book’s price as listed on http://www.Wiley.com may exceed $30. ARV: $500. ONE (1) THIRD PRIZE: The equivalent of up to $100 of books published by Sponsor, a one year Pro Account subscription from SmugMug, and a $50 SmugMug gift card. No single book’s price as listed on http://www.Wiley.com may exceed $33. ARV: $300. Terms and conditions apply on gift certificates. No cash equivalent shall be made available on prizes. Prizes are non-transferable. No substitution shall be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any listed prize or prize component for one of equal or greater value if a designated prize or component should become unavailable for any reason. Prizes consist of only those items specifically listed as part of the prize – any item, feature, cost or expense not specifically listed as part of the prize is the sole responsibility of the winners.
7. DISCLAIMER AND INDEMNIFICATION: By entering or participating in the Contest, Participants agree to be bound by these Official Rules. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for electronic hardware, programming or software malfunctions, or failures, or line connections, accessibility or availability, or technical failures of any kind, or unauthorized human intervention, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of any submission or other information, or for the failure to capture any such information. Sponsor is not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by participants, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the submission process or the Contest; or (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest or the processing of entries. Further, if, for any reason, the Contest is not capable of running as planned by reason of infection by virus, bugs, worms, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, may corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, Sponsor reserves the right, at their sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest, and select the winner for the Contest, from the entries received prior to the action taken or in other such manner as deemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor.
Participants, by participating in this Contest, hereby waive and release, and agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless, Sponsor, SmugMug, Inc., all contest and advertising agencies, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents, and their respective successors and assigns (the “Indemnified Parties”), 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 or 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 the prize in the Contest; or their participation in the Contest; or the use of the Design, including without limitation any claims relating to violations of the Content Restrictions. Winner also further acknowledges that the Indemnified Parties have neither made, nor are in any manner responsible or liable for, any warranty, representation or guarantee, expressed or implied, in fact or in law relative to any prize or this Contest including but not limited to quality, condition or fitness for a particular purpose.
8. PERSONAL INFORMATION: The personal information collected through the Contest is subject Sponsor’s Privacy Policy at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-890.html.
9. RULES/WINNER LIST REQUESTS: To obtain these rules or for notification of the winner, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: “Wiley Design Challenge Official Rules/Winner List Request”, c/o Juston Payne, Wiley Publishing, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030 Requests for winner list must be received by January 31, 2009.
10. SPONSOR: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030.
ADMINISTRATOR: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030.
11. LAW AND VENUE: Except where prohibited, participant agrees that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest or any prize awarded shall be resolved under the laws of the State of New York, without respect to any conflict of law issues, and participant agrees that such shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the Federal and State Courts located in New York County, New York.
Wiley Design Challenge
Abbreviated Rules
1. ABBREVIATED RULES for RadioNO PURCHASE NECESSARY. LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES (D.C.) 18 AND OLDER. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Design image submission ends 12/31/08. Voting ends 12/31/08. For Official Rules, and complete details, visit http://www.wileydesignchallenge.smugmug.com. Sponsor: Wiley Publishing, Inc.
2. ABBREVIATED RULES for PrintNO PURCHASE NECESSARY. LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES (D.C.) 18 AND OLDER. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Design image submission ends 12/31/08. Voting ends 12/31/08. For Official Rules, and complete details, visit http://www.wileydesignchallenge.smugmug.com. Sponsor: Wiley Publishing, Inc.
3. Abbreviated rules for online Ads – Banner
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Design image submission ends 12/31/08. Voting ends 12/31/08. To participate and for Official Rules, visit http://www.wileydesignchallenge.smugmug.com.
4. Abbreviated Rules for online Ads – Not a Banner
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Legal residents of the 50 United States (D.C.) 18 years or older. Design image submission ends 12/31/08. Voting ends 12/31/08. To participate and for Official Rules and prize descriptions visit http://www.wileydesignchallenge.smugmug.com. Void where prohibited.
