As we reflect back on 100 years of Nikon, we’re challenging our Instagram fans across Europe to take photos that reflect themselves and their Nikon cameras. The best ‘selfie’ one can imagine, we want to see our fans reflected in a mirror, a piece of glass, a puddle or anything else they can think of with their Nikon. We’re calling this challenge #LookBackAtNikon, and we have some great prizes for the best images:
Entries are open from now until the 15th of September. To enter, share your reflection with your Nikon camera on Instagram with the hashtag #LookBackAtNikon.
First, second, third and honourable mentions will be chosen by Nikon and a panel of guest judges including davidwallaceshoots, Palomaparrot, malthezimakoff, danielsjensen, marisahampe, nikon_photography_, mazleitner, mattiabonavida and rbs_photo.
Disclaimer: See here for full terms and conditions.
NIKON Europe B.V., whose registered address is at Tripolis 100, Burgerweeshuispad 101, 1076ER Amsterdam, The Netherlands (hereinafter “the Organiser”), registered with the Chamber of Commerce Amsterdam no. 34036589 is organising a photo contest entitled “Look Back at Nikon” (hereinafter the “Competition”). The Competition is free to enter and there is no obligation to make any purchases.
The theme of this Competition revolves around the Nikon’s 100th year anniversary. To enter the Nikon 100 Anniversary Competition participants need to share a photo of themselves together with their Nikon Camera on Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #LookBackAtNikon.
2.1 | By entering the Competition, each participant will be deemed to have accepted and be bound by these terms and conditions. |
2.2 | The Competition is open to any private individual residing in one of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom. All persons having taken part in the organisation of the Competition, either directly or indirectly, are excluded from taking part in the Competition or from winning a prize, as are members of their families. This includes, in particular, NIKON staff, and all other NIKON partners linked to the operation |
2.3 | Participants must be 18 years or older. |
2.4 | To enter the Competition participants need to share a photo of yourself reflected with your Nikon Camera on Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #LookBackAtNikon. The competition will be open to entrants at 00:01 (CEST), Tuesday 25 July 2017, and close at 23:59 (CEST) on Friday 15 September 2017. The time registered by the server running the Competition shall be decisive in determining the time of submission. No other method of participation (including, but not limited to, postal applications) is valid and will not be acknowledged. |
2.5 | This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Instagram, Facebook and Twitter shall not be liable for any loss, damage or liability caused by matters relating to this prize draw. |
3.1 |
Each participant will be identified by his or her Twitter and/or Instagram account. The participant must share a photo which fulfils the following criteria
Any photo that does not meet these conditions shall be excluded from the Competition. |
3.2 | By submitting a photo into the Competition, each participant warrants and represents that (a) the photo is original and does not infringe the rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, portrait rights, privacy, copyright and other intellectual property rights. To this end, the participant shall ensure that he or she has authorisation from any third parties who contributed either directly or indirectly to its creation and/or who may consider that they have a right upon which they may wish to rely, in particular, image rights, and shall assume responsibility for any payments that may result therefrom; (b) the participant is free to enter into and fully perform its rights under these terms and conditions and has not entered into any other arrangement, agreement or commitment which could affect its obligations hereunder; (c) the participant has not previously submitted the photo into a competition or been awarded any award in relation to the photo. The Participant shall indemnify, hold harmless, and defend (including reasonable attorney fees) the Organiser from and against any and all damages, costs, claims, arising out of or in connection with a breach of this clause 3.2. |
3.3 | By submitting a photo into the Competition, the participant irrevocably grants the Organiser a non-exclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, royalty-free, licence for a period of two years commencing on the last date on which a competition winner is announced to use the photo throughout the world for the purpose of advertising and promotional activities, including the right to reproduce, edit, adapt and publish the photo as the Organiser sees fit, including the right to publish it on a website and pages on social networking sites. |
3.4 | The participant agrees to refrain from undertaking or attempting to undertake any action in relation to their participation of the Competition that does not strictly conform to the principles of the Competition and these terms and conditions. The Organiser reserves the right to perform any checks that may be required to verify the participant’s compliance with these terms and conditions. |
3.5 | The Organiser reserves the right to disqualify any participant who interferes with the operation of the Competition or who breaches these terms and conditions. The Organiser reserves the right to bring a claim against any person attempting to defraud or harm the proper operation of the Competition. |
3.6 | The Organiser reserves the right to prolong, shorten, modify or cancel the present Competition for reasons that are not within its control. Thus, if this Competition does not take place as planned, for any reason whatsoever, e.g. following a computer virus, bug, intervention, or an external and unauthorised intrusion on the computer system, fraud, including the use of a robot allowing multiple registrations for the Competition, a technical fault or any other reason beyond the control of the Organiser that corrupts or affects the management, security, fairness and proper operation of the Competition, the Organiser reserves the right, at his discretion, to cancel, modify or suspend the Competition or further to end it without delay, without being held liable to any of the participants by virtue of this fact. |
3.7 | The Organiser reserves the right to cancel the Competition, or reject an entry, if it appears that fraud has occurred in any form whatsoever, in particular IT fraud associated with participation in the Competition or in the selection of the winners. |
3.8 |
The participant undertakes to ensure that all content (including the submitted photo and any other messages) submitted by them or posted on Twitter or Instagram as part of the competition does not in any way violate any applicable rules, laws or regulations and, more particularly (without limitation):
This list is not exhaustive. |
3.9 | The Organiser reserves the right to refuse to publish or to withdraw and/or remove any material from their Twitter or Instagram feed, without having to justify its decision and without delay or prior notification, all content (photos and/or messages) that in its opinion may breach clause 3.8 or otherwise harm the Competition or the reputation of the Organiser. |
It is agreed that the data contained in the Organiser’s information systems have probative value regarding the connections and information resulting from computer processing relating to the competition organised by the Organiser.
5.1 |
There will be one winner for first place, two winners for second place, four winners for third place and 100 honourable mentions. The winners will be eligible for the following prizes:
The prize for honourable mention will be a Nikon T-shirt The Organiser reserves the right to change or otherwise amend the prize on grounds of reasonableness and fairness. The prizes are as stated, are not transferable to another individual and no cash or other alternatives will be offered |
5.2 |
The winning photos shall be decided by a jury vote. The jury (“Jury”) shall be composed of the following 12 members:
A pre-selection of 200 pictures will be presented to the jury, as a preliminary to their deliberations for the prizes:
The decisions of the jury shall be made principally on the following criteria:
The jury’s deliberations should reach a majority decision. In the case of a tied vote, the vote of the President of the Jury shall count double. The participants are informed that the jury is not obliged to select a winner if the quality of the videos entered by the participants in the Competition is not judged to be sufficiently high. |
The announcement of the winner shall be made by 17 October 2017 via @NikonEurope Instagram account and the winners shall also be informed by PM through the relevant platform. Each winner will be asked to supply their postage and contact details.
The Organiser will notify the honorary mention winners via the @NikonEurope Instagram account. Winners of this prize will be asked to fill out a form with their address and desired t-shirt size.
The Organiser shall liaise with the winners in how the prize shall be handed over to the winner.
If the Organiser does not receive a response from the winner of a prize within 3 days of being notified, Organiser reserves the right, within its sole discretion, to deem the prize as unaccepted and to offer the prize to an additional entrant.
In the event the winner is unable to accept the prize, in whole or in part, for any reason whatsoever he or she will lose the benefit thereof without the possibility of compensation. A new choice will then be made by the Jury from amongst the other participants. If you win, the Organiser may verify that you were eligible to participate in the Competition before delivering your prize.
The prizes offered are nominative and non-transferable. The prizes may not at the request of a winner be exchanged for a cash equivalent, nor an exchange of any nature whatsoever, nor may they be replaced by a prize of equivalent nature.
The Organiser undertakes to pay the appropriate prize taxes imposed on the prizes in The Netherlands. However, the participant, where applicable, is responsible for any costs, taxes, duties or levies incurred as a result of participating in or winning the Competition in his or her country of residence in the Territory. The participant hereby unconditionally accepts to bear any such tax, duty or other levy on behalf of participant and/or an accompanying guest. With the exception of the prize taxes imposed in The Netherlands, the participant shall indemnify, hold harmless, and defend (including reasonable attorney fees) the Organiser from and against any and all costs, taxes, duties, levies and penalties imposed on the Organiser in connection with the participant taking part in or winning the Competition.
The information entered by the participant shall be binding upon him or her upon confirmation thereof. The Organiser reserves the right to verify the information provided by the participants. The participant undertakes to complete the registration form in good faith, and to provide the Organiser with correct, non-falsified information. The participant must complete all fields, except those that are not marked as required. Competition entries shall be cancelled if they are incorrect, incomplete, falsified or undertaken in a way that contravenes these rules.
Participating in this Competition, and ticking the box indicating acceptance of these rules during registration, implies total acceptance of these rules.
These terms and conditions as well as the Competition shall be governed by the laws of The Netherlands and the competent court in Amsterdam, The Netherlands shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute (including any non-contractual disputes) arising out of or in connection with these terms and conditions.
If any provision of these terms and conditions is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions will remain in full force and effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.
No claim of any sort may be brought concerning all or part of the Competition after a period of two months, commencing at the end of the Competition.
The Organiser shall process any personal data which it obtains from the participants in accordance with the Dutch Data Protection Act (Wet bescherming persoonsgegevens).
Personal Data shall be processed for the purpose of running this Competition as well as awarding and arranging the prizes. Consequently, it may be necessary to transfer Personal Data to the Organiser’s affiliates and or partners for the said purpose.
Organiser reserves the right to publish the full name of the winner on European Nikon Instagram, Facebook and Twitter pages.
By entering this prize draw you agree that your name, image, biography (including country), likeness or any other relevant information may be used by Organiser. for unpaid promotional related publicity (including photographic shots and interviews).
To the extent required by any mandatory law, by accepting these terms and conditions, participants shall consent to the processing of Personal Data as set out herein.
Participants have a right of access, modification, rectification and deletion of the data that concerns them. The participants may exercise this right by writing to: Nikon Europe B.V., Tripolis 100, Burgerweeshuispad 101, 1076ER Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Except in the case of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, the Organiser shall not be liable for any whatsoever damages whether suffered or claimed by the participants in connection with the Competition. The liability of the Organiser is strictly limited to the value of the prize pursuant to clause 5 that has been effectively and validly won, subject further to the terms and conditions set out herein.
The Organiser shall not be held liable for any problems related to the Internet itself or for any intrusion, attempted intrusion or fraud leading to failures in the administration, security, fairness, integrity or management of the challenge. In particular, the Organiser shall not be liable for any errors, omissions, interruptions, deletions or loss of any electronic mail, and more generally, the loss of any data as a result of this.
The Organiser shall not be held liable for heavy Internet traffic, the quality of the users’ equipment, or for the quality of their Internet access, which may have repercussions for the response speed or the connection time required to participate in the Competition. Thus, the responsibility of the Organiser shall not be engaged if the electronic registration forms are not recorded, are incomplete or cannot be verified.
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