Design Contest Legal Terms & Conditions
VETFRIENDS DESIGN CHALLENGE SUBMISSION LEGAL TERMS & CONDITIONS
By submitting your design (referred to as the "Design") to VetFriends.com, you acknowledge your understanding of the following legal terms and conditions (hereinafter known as the "Design Submission Terms and Conditions"):
1. Originality of the Design: You affirm that the Design is an original creation of your own and does not incorporate any trademarks, logos, copyrighted material, or other intellectual property belonging to third parties. Furthermore, it does not violate the rights of any third party, including but not limited to copyright.
2. Representation and Authority: By submitting your Design, you are entering into a legally binding agreement. You represent and warrant that you have the full right, power, and authority to participate in this agreement and accept the Design Submission Terms and Conditions. This agreement must not breach any other pre-existing agreement you have with a third party regarding the Design. If such an agreement exists, you must promptly notify VetFriends by sending an email to: support@VetFriends.com.
3. Ownership of the Design: You retain sole ownership of the Design, and VetFriends does not and will not claim ownership of it through your submission.
4. License Grant: By submitting the Design, you grant VetFriends a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to use, modify, reproduce, exhibit, create derivative works, distribute, sell, advertise, and display the Design in any manner, known or developed in the future. VetFriends may also sublicense this license to others. You waive any "moral rights" you may have in the Design.
5. Use of Personal Information: You also grant VetFriends the right to use your name, appearance, voice, likeness, photographic image, and biographical information in any and all media, worldwide, known or developed in the future. This right may also be sublicensed by VetFriends.
6. Termination of Licenses: VetFriends has the option to terminate these licenses by providing written notice to your provided email address. Upon receiving such notice, the licenses will terminate. However, VetFriends and its sublicensees may, at their discretion, continue to sell items bearing the Design until their inventory is exhausted.
7. Retail License Agreement: VetFriends may offer to sell or sublicense your artwork outside of VetFriends.com, subject to a separate retail license agreement with specific terms and conditions.
8. Miscellaneous Use of the Design: On certain occasions, VetFriends may use the Design in promotional items, such as calendars or books, without owing or paying any compensation to you.
9. Prizes and Awards: If the Design is selected as a winning design in a Design Challenge, VetFriends may award cash prizes and/or other prizes. The details of such prizes will be published on VetFriends.com and are subject to these Design Submission Terms and Conditions, as well as the official contest rules for that Design Challenge.
10. Responsibility for Taxes: You are solely responsible for any taxes arising from receiving payments from VetFriends.
11. Indemnification: You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless VetFriends and its sublicensees from any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from their use of the Design or your alleged breach of the Design Submission Terms and Conditions.
12. Content Restrictions: The Design must not disparage any person and should not be indecent, obscene, hateful, tortious, untruthful, inaccurate, defamatory, slanderous, or libelous. It should not promote bigotry, hatred, or harm against any group or individual or promote discrimination.
13. VetFriends' Discretion: You acknowledge that VetFriends has the discretion to decline services related to the Design, such as marketing or advertising, or to remove the Design from VetFriends.com. This can be done at any time and for any reason, as determined solely by VetFriends. You agree that VetFriends' decisions are final and binding.
14. Amendment of Terms and Conditions: VetFriends may, at its discretion, amend these Design Submission Terms and Conditions at any time, and such changes will be effective immediately and incorporated into this Agreement. It is your responsibility to review any changes, and no modification of this Agreement will be binding unless confirmed in writing by VetFriends.