Contest Rules

  1. This contest is open to all members of the CBU community. The CBU community consists of faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
     
  2. Only one picture per entrant may be chosen as a winner. Up to five entries per entrant may be submitted.
     
  3. Entries will be judged on the quality and composition of the photo, as well as the originality/creativity that best exemplifies CBU and its community. The decision of the judges is final.
     
  4. Judges of the CBU Photo Contest are ineligible to enter/win.
     
  5. All entries become property of CBU. Entries will not be returned. By submitting the photo, the entrant is granting CBU the permission to display, store, and vary the use of the image, as well as credit the entrant as photographer. All contestants acknowledge, as a condition of entry, that CBU has a right to publicize, or broadcast the winner’s name, character, likeness, voice or all matters incidental herein for purposes of credit and/or editorial purposes. CBU reserves the right to edit submitted photos as needed for publication.
     
  6. Entries must be uploaded by 11:59 p.m., CST, NOVEMBER 4, 2005 via the submission form on the CBU website.
     
  7. Winners will be selected approximately 10 days after the entry deadline, then notified by email and posted on the website. The grand prize winner will receive $100 cash, second prize winner will receive $75 cash, and the third prize winner will receive $50 cash. Three runners-up will receive gifts to be chosen by CBU (estimated retail value $10).
     
  8. Winners will have 30 days after they have been notified that they have won to pick up their prize. If the prize remains unclaimed, CBU reserves the right to grant the award to the next eligible winner.
     
  9. Prizes must be claimed in person, unless otherwise specified. Proper identification (valid driver’s license, CBU ID) required.
     
  10. In certain “unique situations”, a designated representative will be allowed to accept prize for the winner. Written authorization from the winner including representative’s name, ID, and a photocopy of the winner’s CBU ID would be required. CBU will qualify what constitutes a “unique situation.”
     
  11. Additions or deletions to these rules may be made at the discretion of CBU, and may be enacted at any time.
     
  12. All winners must be 18 years of age or older.
     
  13. All entries must be taken by the party submitting the photos and must be free of claims and rights of third parties/individuals.
     
  14. CBU absolves itself of any liability, financial or otherwise, resulting from any actions taken by faculty, staff, students, or alumni as a result of this contest.
     
  15. In the event that a winner chooses not to accept a prize, he or she forfeits all claim to that prize. CBU then has the right, at its discretion, to award that prize to a contest runner-up.
     
  16. Basic contest rules and addenda are available for review during regular business hours at the CBU ITS Help Desk, 650 E. Parkway South, Memphis, TN 38104.
     
  17. Obscene, provocative, or otherwise prurient content will not be considered. Photographs containing nudity will not be considered. Nudity is defined as the torso being completely or partially unclothed below the waist for all models and above the waist for female models. CBU retains sole discretion as to what constitutes unsuitable content.
     
  18. CBU reserves the right to reject any contest entries that do not otherwise meet the guidelines of the CBU Photo Contest.
     
  19. CBU assumes no responsibilities for entries that are not submitted or are unable to process due to phone, network, electronic, or computer hardware or software failures, or technical failures of any kind. Subject to all U.S. federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

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