Entry conditions
Please only publish photos you have taken yourself. If you do not want to publish a photo, feel free to browse the gallery. You may leave your personal evaluation for photos that particularly impress you.
General Rules of Participation
Who can take part?
What may be submitted?
Deadline
Who decides?
Prizes
Identification of the image
Copyright
Liability
Rights granted by entrants
Data protection
Legal remedy
What will happen to the images after the competition?
General Rules of Participation
"Show the colour” photography competition.
The deadline for entry is 15 January 2008. All submitted images will be displayed on the CLAAS website and the busstop.claas.com CLAAS special site. From 16 January to 15 February 2008, 12:00 noon, visitors will have the opportunity to vote for their favorites among the monthly winners previously selected by the CLAAS judges.
To be eligible, images may not have previously appeared in print or received an award in another competition. Pornographic content, images depicting or glorifying violence, or other material that violates applicable laws shall be disqualified. All submitted images will be checked prior to publication.
As a matter of principle CLAAS reserves the right to exclude photos from the contest.
Who can take part?
Anyone can participate. Images must be submitted in digital form at http://www.claas.com. Visitors must log in to submit images.
Employees of the CLAAS KGaA, affiliated partner-companies and their employees are excluded from this competition.
What may be submitted?
One image may be submitted per entrant. Images must be submitted in digital form via the online form at http://www.claas.com. The online form must be filled out completely and entrants must confirm that they have read and accept the entry conditions.
Images must be in JPEG file format and the file size may not exceed 5 MB.
Prints submitted by post, or digital images on digital media of any form submitted by post, cannot be accepted. Images submitted by e-mail also cannot be accepted. Participation is possible only via the online form. Entries submitted by any other means will not be returned.
Deadline
Entries close on 15 January 2008, 12:00 noon (server time of file upload). Late submissions will not be considered. The winner will be announced on 18 February 2008 on the CLAAS website at http://www.claas.com. Prizes are non-transferable and cannot be paid out in cash.
Who decides?
Visitors to the claas.com website can vote for the grand prize winner from among the monthly winners selected by the CLAAS judges. The images on display at http://www.claas.com may be judged by all visitors from 16 January to 15 February 2008, 12:00 noon. The visitors to the site will thus determine the winner. All visitors to the site are eligible to vote. Visitors may only vote once.
Prizes
Of the photos we receive, we will be selecting several prize winners every month.
1st monthly prize – a gift certificate for the CLAAS Shop worth €100.00
2nd monthly prize – a gift certificate for the CLAAS Shop worth €50.00
3rd monthly prize – a gift certificate for the CLAAS Shop worth €25.00
4th to 10th monthly prizes – the CLAAS annual DVD
The monthly winners will be posted to our website, and as of 16 January 2008, visitors to the site will be able to cast their vote for the winner of the grand prize, a Canon Digital Ixus 960 IS digital camera.
Identification of the image
During the file upload, information provided during the mandatory user registration – username, e-mail address, brief description, image name and date of upload – will be applied to the submitted image and stored in a special claas.com database.
The information must be entered in the appropriate fields of the form. Entrants agree to the use and storage of their information for the exclusive purpose of this photography competition.
Copyright
Entrants declare that the image submitted is an entirely original work which does not infringe the copyright or any other rights of a third party. This also applies to the personality rights of depicted individuals. If one or more persons are depicted in a manner permitting their identification, the depicted persons must agree to the publication of the image.
Entrants must provide written assurance thereof on request. Entrants herewith release the organizer of any liability in case of claims by third parties with regard to the violation of their rights.
Digitally processed images may not contain image elements from magazines, purchased CDs, etc.
Liability
claas.com cannot be held liable for the loss of or possible damage to submitted images.
Rights granted by entrants
Entrants grant the organizer non-exclusive rights of use to the submitted competition images without location-, time- and content-related restrictions, including the right to edit and use them in related reporting (regardless of the media in which the reporting appears, i.e. in print or online), public relations work in connection with the photography competition, exhibition posters, invitations, exhibitions, e-cards and catalogs or books as applicable.
In case of further commercial use of images not related to the competition, e.g. in merchandising products, the entrant shall receive an offer to conclude an agreement to that effect.
Data protection
In case of publication of images within the context of the photography competition (e.g. reporting about the competition, awarding of prizes), data submitted by entrants shall be disclosed to involved third parties such as magazine editorial offices and exhibition organizers. Entrants must explicitly consent to this.
Legal remedy
The judges’ decision is final.
What will happen to the images after the competition?
After the conclusion of the competition and subsequent reporting, submitted images not subject to further use by the organizer shall be deleted from the data media of the involved partner companies.
