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Conditions of participation
Campaign: "Excellent work. Tractors from CLAAS."
We are looking for farmers and/or contractors (male/female) who would like to make their farm and land available for this CLAAS campaign. Applications from the United States are not eligible. The campaign is being run by CLAAS KGaA mbH, Münsterstrasse 33, 33428 Harsewinkel, Germany.
The conditions of participation in detail:
Who can take part?
Participation is open to any farmers and contractors aged 18-99 who have full legal capacity. Corporate bodies cannot take part.
Only one application may be made per person.
CLAAS reserves the right to exclude anybody who infringes these conditions of participation.
How do you take part?
The application, including digital image files, must be submitted using the online form available at https://www.traktoren.claas.com.
The application documents must be submitted in full in accordance with the essential requirements specified on the form, and participants must confirm that they have read and accepted these conditions of participation.
Applications submitted in any other way, e.g. prints of photographs or digital image carriers in any format which are sent by post, will not be accepted. Any applications which are submitted in this way will not be returned and will be destroyed.
What should you submit?
Any farmer/contractor can apply to take part in the campaign by sending up-to-date images (photographs must not be more than 12 months old) of yourself and your farm, your livestock, your land and your CLAAS brand tractors and farm machinery, together with a short commentary (max. 1000 characters). The commentary should briefly describe the farm and the excellent work that you do every day.
The images and information must be submitted in a digital format using the online form via the internet portal http://www.traktor.claas.com.
Images must have a resolution of at least 72 dpi, should not exceed dimensions of 1600 x 1200 pixels for landscape format images or 1200 x 1600 pixels for portrait format images, and should be saved in JPEG format. The maximum size is 2 MB.
During the file upload, the information required for participation (address, e-mail address, brief image description, image names and date of upload) will be linked to the images and they will be saved in a special CLAAS database. The information is entered in the relevant fields on the form.
Closing date
The closing date for applications is 24:00 GMT on 30.12.2015. Images submitted after that time will not be considered.
Who will decide?
Submission of the application documents is not a guarantee and/or commitment that filming will take place on your farm.
The Corporate Marketing department of CLAAS KGaA mbH will select participants as it sees fit. The decision-making process will not be made public. There is no right of appeal.
Remuneration
The people selected by CLAAS Corporate Marketing will be notified. Further agreements and arrangements with regard to possible filming will be made directly with the farmer/contractor.
When a shoot takes place and produces a successful outcome, the film and photographs taken will be published worldwide in print, online and at trade fairs, and with CLAAS dealers.
Farmers/contractors who are selected, photographed and filmed will receive a thank-you gift from the CLAAS Fan Shop to a value of 80 euros. No cash payments will be made.
By submitting an application, participants agree that any film and photographs taken during the shoot may be used free of charge.
Copyright
By submitting image files, the participant declares that he or she holds all the rights to the images submitted, has the unrestricted right to use all parts of the image, and that no personal rights are infringed where individuals are shown. If one or more other persons are recognisable on the images, the participant declares that the persons concerned have consented to the use of those images in connection with the advertising campaign.
Image files which have been edited on a computer must not contain elements of images taken from newspapers, books, purchased CDs, etc.
If third parties nevertheless assert claims resulting from infringement of their rights, the participant releases CLAAS from all such claims, and CLAAS has the right to delete the contested image and exclude it from participation.
Assignment of rights
The participant assigns to CLAAS KGaA mbH as organiser the rights of use of the image files submitted, restricted to this campaign in terms of time, space and content (including the right to edit the images submitted for the purposes of the campaign, to report on them, to carry out publicity work, etc.).
If the participant is selected for the campaign, he assigns to CLAAS KGaA mbH exclusive rights of use, unrestricted in terms of time, space and content, of any images and any film material produced in relation to the campaign, especially the right to edit, display and copy such material in print and online media, such as advertisements, brochures, banners, etc.
Data storage
By submitting an application, participants declare that they consent to the use and storage of their data and image files solely for the purposes of this campaign.
If a shoot takes place, the personal data of the participants selected may be disclosed to third parties involved in the process, such as magazine editors, when the images are published in connection with the campaign and any associated reports, press releases, etc. are issued.
Unless expressly agreed otherwise, all image files and personal data submitted will be deleted after the end of the campaign.
Liability
CLAAS KGaA mbH assumes no liability for the loss of or any damage to the images submitted.
Other
If any single condition is or becomes invalid, the other conditions remain unaffected.
CLAAS may terminate the campaign at any time if there is good cause to do so.
There is no right of appeal.
The contractual relationship and any legal relationships arising from it will be governed exclusively by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Status: August 2014
