Terms and Conditions

This document (“Terms”, “Terms and Agreements”, “Terms and Conditions”, “Conditions”, “Agreement”, “Contract”, “Photo Journalism Prize Terms and Agreements”) is a legally binding agreement between you as the User (“User”, “You”, “Your”, “Yourself”, “Photographer”, “Artist”, “Photography Agency”, “Photography Team”, “Member”, “Members”, “Participant”, “Participants”), and Photo Journalism Prize (“PJP”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”, “Ourselves”). By browsing or using the Photo Journalism Prize website, you agree to fully comply with the Terms and Conditions noted in this document without any reservation and you are accepting and agreeing to these terms, which shall constitute a binding agreement between You and Photo Journalism Prize.

ACCESSING, BROWSING, SCROLLING, VIEWING, CHECKING, RETRIEVING DATA OR OTHERWISE USING PHOTO JOURNALISM PRIZE INDICATES YOUR AGREEMENT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS UNDER THESE TERMS OF USE. PLEASE READ THE TERMS AND AGREEMENTS VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING AS YOU ARE LEGALLY BOUND TO THEM.

YOUR USAGE OF PHOTO JOURNALISM PRIZE IS SUBJECT TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS DEFINED IN THIS DOCUMENT:

1. You communicate in and understand English, or a third-party translator has translated this agreement to you under oath and with full legal rights to translate legally binding contracts and agreements, in a faithful and fluent way that you understood correctly.
2. You have read and understood this contract, which is in English. You agree to each and every point of this contract, agreement, terms, and conditions.
3. You state that you have read the entire Agreement, You understand all the Terms, and You accept all the Conditions.
4. You state that You are lawfully permitted to enter into and form contracts under applicable law. Before you enter into our Terms and Conditions contract, you must be of legal age and in a reasonable, sound state of mind.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

The PJP competition is open to anyone aged 18+ residing anywhere in the world. Professional entries will be judged against other professionals and student entries against other students.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Entrants must submit their work online. An image can be a JPEG (.jpeg, .jpg) or PNG (.png). One image is for the cover photo to identify the entry and the remaining 9 are supporting images of the entry. Images must not exceed 4MB per file and a minimum of 1000 pixels wide. Please only use letters and numbers in the title of the image.

If your entry has a product specification, you have the option to upload one PDF file in A4 or letter-sized format. The PDF must not exceed 4MB.

WHO IS CONSIDERED PROFESSIONAL?

Photographers who earn, or have earned, the majority of their income from photography.

ENTRY FORMS AND SUBMISSIONS

Please note that no entry will be processed unless the entry fee has been received. Work submitted without proper forms and payment will be disqualified. After payment has been made, entries cannot be altered.

PAYMENTS AND REFUNDS

Once a submission fee has been paid, there are no refunds provided. If you have been wrongly charged for any reason, we will be happy to credit the amount that is due.

CATEGORIES

You may enter your work in as many categories as you see fit. The PJP jury and staff will not switch your entry into a different category on your behalf.

USE AND OWNERSHIP OF MATERIALS

Copyright and all other rights remain with the photographer. Any images used by PJP shall carry the photographer’s credit line. PJP may use images in any media sponsor publication. All entrants understand that any image submitted to the competition may be used by PJP for marketing and promotional purposes including in any medium such as exhibitions, print, and digital media directly related to the PJP competition only, though there may not be monetary compensation. By winning or placing in the competition, you are agreeing to be included in the winner’s annual book and social media promotions

Neither PHOTO JOURNALISM PRIZE affiliates nor partners assume any responsibility for materials submitted in violation of competition rules or for those which violate copyright regulations. PJP will investigate claims of copyright infringement to the best of its ability and will remove and disqualify submissions that are clearly demonstrated to violate copyright and/or competition policies. PJP will act to maintain the integrity of the competition and its affiliated entities but is not responsible for any damages resulting from images submitted in violation of rules and regulations.

YOU ARE FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT YOU PROVIDE TO PJP

1. Content can be any digital or physical material including but not limited to video, image, sound, photographs or other files or items that contain any data or information that might be subject to copyright.
2. It is your responsibility to ensure that any Content you upload, hand in, or provide to PJP is your own Content and/or you have full rights to provide us with a license that will satisfy your requirements to fulfill this contract; that is, you would be granting PJP an irrevocable, perpetual, unlimited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use your Content. Very importantly, you allow PJP to publicly publish, exploit, and promote your Content as well as to permit any third parties including but not limited to press partners, marketing platforms, and affiliate websites, as decided by PJP at its sole discretion, to promote, publish or exploit your Content without any obligations or dues towards you or any third parties. If any Content you have provided to PJP, and/or any Content you provided to PJP that is published on the PJP system and/or any Content you provided to PJP published by third-party websites including but not limited to press members and media that promote and publish PJP Content, results in a copyright infringement notice against PJP, PJP system, and/or PJP press partners and/or PJP media syndication network, then you agree and understand that you will be solely and fully responsible and you further understand and agree that you will indemnify, release, protect, defend, and hold harmless PHOTO JOURNALISM PRIZE, PJP owners, PJP stakeholders, PJP shareholders, PJP System, PJP Press Partners, PJP Affiliates and/or PJP Media Syndication Network for and from any claims, costs, and damages, and reimburse PJP for or bear any cost or damages including but not limited to any due fees, licensing fees, copyright infringement fees, settlement fees, mediation fees, ancillary charges, costs, dispute costs, penalties and government fees. You agree to protect, release, defend, hold harmless, and indemnify PJP and its affiliates from any and all damages arising out of or in connection with the content provided.
3. If PJP receives a copyright infringement notice or dispute in relation to your Content, PJP at its sole discretion may decide whether to take down, conceal, delete or un-publish your Content or not, without informing you, without any obligations towards you, and without seeking your permission.

PROHIBITED USES

The user undertakes to:

• not introduce, integrate, or transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, and/or libelous, vulgar, obscene, damaging to others’ privacy, racist, classist, or otherwise objectionable onto the website;
• not upload, post, transmit or distribute content onto the website that may infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other industrial and/or intellectual property rights of third parties (hereinafter, “third-party rights”);
• not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for commercial purposes the content of the website or any part thereof;
• not access, alter or delete any information contained on the website that has not been authorized to access.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The user acknowledges that the website and its content are protected by the laws applicable to intellectual and/or industrial property. The user also acknowledges and agrees that the content reported in advertisements or the information presented to the user by the website or by the advertisers are protected by the rules of copyright, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual and/or industrial property rights. Unless expressly authorized by PJP, the user undertakes not to modify or arrange in any way (either free of charge or for payment) and not to distribute, disseminate or create works based entirely or partially on the website or on any media platform.

PRIVACY POLICY

PJP is committed to protecting the confidentiality of the personal data of its users and of all those providing their information to the company in accordance with the privacy policy published on the website PHOTOJOURNALISMPRIZE.COM under the “Privacy Policy” heading. This policy is provided only for websites operated by PJP and not for the websites managed by other companies.

COOKIES

Cookies are used to facilitate navigation within the website, but the user may disable the use of cookies on their browser, however, ease of browsing will be reduced.

USER’S RIGHTS

The personal data subjects have the right at any time to obtain confirmation of the existence or otherwise of such data and to know its content and origin, verify its accuracy or request its integration or updating, or correction.

MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS

PJP reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions of Use without prior notice. The changes will be effective when published on the website. Following modifications, the user must accept them in order to continue using the website.

APPLICABLE LAW

These Terms and Conditions of Use are governed exclusively by the laws of Thailand Any disputes relating to these Terms and Conditions of Use of the website shall be governed by the Applicable Law. Use of this website implies acceptance of the Applicable Law. JPJ in compliance with the regulations concerning the processing of personal data, undertakes to preserve the IP number used by the User to access publication or consultation functions of the content.