Terms and Conditions
Submission
Entrants may either make a submission individually or as a team, specific to the competition. Competition entrants are prohibited from sale, assignment or transfer of any of their submission rights to a third party. Once the final submissions are sent, no additional changes, or edits can be made. Each participant will be sent a confirmation email notification within seven days upon the submission of the final entry.
Competition Disqualification
WADE journal holds the right to disqualify any submission which is non-compliant with the competition guidelines, does not meet the rules and regulations or is found to contain any identifying sign or mark that can contribute to the identity of the entrant. All submissions after the closing date for a particular competition shall be automatically disqualified. WADE journal shall be under no obligation to notify the entrant or participant of the disqualified entry or submission.
Competition Cancellation / Withdrawal
The right to cancel or suspend or alter the rules of the competition at any point in time is held by WADE journal, if deemed necessary in its opinion and if circumstances arise outside its control.
Competition Integrity
WADE journal undertakes to scrupulously protect the integrity of the competitions by providing a unique registration number to each of the submissions, which will be the only identifier for the particular submission. This means the digital board received will be stored under their registration numbers, with the complementary information kept in a separate document. Apart from the unique registration number, any drawing, illustration, or narrative should not bear any marks, logos, symbols or sign that may identify its authority or source, and infringement of these rules will lead to immediate disqualification. The jury panel may be disclosed, subject to the particular competition, before or after the evaluation and declaration of the results of the competition. The sole rights of the final decision to do so rests with WADE journal.
Winner Selection / Jury’s Decision
WADE journal’s determination of any winning entry or submission through its panel of jury members will be final. If under any circumstances a selected winning entry cannot accept, receive or is ineligible for the award for any reason, the highest ranked entry from the top shortlisted or remaining entries that meet the winning requirement shall be deemed the winner. WADE journal’s association with the jury members do not imply any legal association, affiliation, contract or partnership in any way, shape or form.
Organisation and Administration
Award and design competitions on www.wadejournal.com are organised and administered by WADE journal. WADE journal holds the rights to assign any jury, agent or other authorised administrator to administer its competitions, including making any decision or exercising such at its discretion.
Awards and Prizes
The awards and prizes shall be advertised with each competition. However, the right to add, alter or introduce additional awards and prizes will be held by WADE journal.
Student entrants will be required to submit proof of their student status for any competition, should the submission be selected as one of the winning entries. Professionals will be required to submit documentary evidence of the professional’s or team leader’s right to practise the profession in the respective country or country of residence. Failure in doing so may result in disqualification and lead to forfeit.
In case of monetary awards, all bank account details into which the prize money is to be paid must match with that of the registered individual or team leader or studio or company. All federal, state and local taxes on the value of the prize are the sole responsibility of the winner.
If there are any imposed government regulations or economic sanctions by the registered country of WADE journal, UK, that prohibit monetary transfer to the winner’s country of residence, it shall result in the prize money not being awarded to the winning entrant. At WADE journal’s discretion, the prize money may be awarded to the next most deserving entry with the highest score, however, with the mention of the original winning entry on the website in the list of winners.
If the winner chooses not to accept the prize, an alternate winner will be chosen. If the winner fails to return any award or prize notification requested within fourteen days of the attempted first notification, this may result in disqualification and the prize will be forfeited.
Registration Fees and Associated Cost
The registration fee for competitions on the website and all costs and disbursements incurred by the entrants in the preparation of a submission or entry are the sole responsibility of the entrant. All registration and submission fees are non-refundable and non-transferable once the entry is made.
Ownership and Copyright
The ownership of copyright in the work of all submissions will be in accordance with the Copyright and Patent Act 1988, which implies the copyright of any design, drawings accompanying any entry or submission rests with the author. All registered trademarks, symbols or words are owned and protected by, and property of the respective trademark owners.
No entrants or participants shall receive or be entitled to receive any payment in any form for submission or for granting WADE journal any right herein, other than for being selected as one of the winning entries of the competition.
WADE journal shall treat an entry or submission as being eligible to enter the competition under Indian Copyright Law. The competition participants agree to share their entries for making publication based on competition results by entering the WADE journal competition. Participants are solely responsible for protecting the intellectual property of any submission to WADE journal.
Plagiarism
If charges of plagiarism are made against an entrant or participant, the charges are to be addressed at the earliest by the accused entrant or participant. WADE journal holds the right to take down the content from all its channels until the matter is resolved.
Publicity
By entering the competition, the entrant acknowledges and accepts that all aspects of any submission narrative, description, details, images, illustration and animation may be used for publicity purposes by WADE journal.
Winners agree to, and shall upon request at a reasonable notice, participate in publicity or promotional activity around the competition, like interviews, personally or otherwise. Each opportunity shall be taken on merit, and each participant or entrant shall have the right to decline any such opportunity.
Publication
WADE journal holds the right to publish such material in whole or in part, or use them in any way it sees fit in connection with this website or its competition without permission of the entrant or payment for such use, subject to the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.
License
By submitting your entry to the competition, you the “entrant” provide WADE journal with a limited, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, worldwide, royalty-free license (but not the obligation), whose license is effective till perpetuity, to use, copy, modify, translate, and/or adapt, distribute, publicly display by any means and in any media and create derivative works of your entry solely in connection with the inclusion of your entry in activities related to, and the promotion of, the competition and the particular project, without any further notice or remuneration to you.
These rights shall be applied to all existing or future media, and in particular all physical, optical, magnetic, analogical, digital and electronic media, including media such as hardcopies, cd-roms, dvd-roms, hard disks, computers and servers, the internet, all private or public telecommunication networks, by cable, satellite, radio networks, etc.
By submitting your entry to the competition you also give WADE journal a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable license in perpetuity, to display and archive your entry on WADE journal’s website, www.wadejournal.com (“website”), on WADE journal’s facebook, twitter or any other social networking / media pages in relation to the competition. Any credits will be with the name you supply for the competition.