ENTERING A PHOTO IS DEEMED ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

Submission of photos in the National Athletics League (NAL) photo competition (“the Competition”) and/or voting for any photo submitted is deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”).

1. PROMOTER: The Promoter is the National Athletics League.
2. ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to anyone who attends a National Athletic League fixture, except for NAL Board and Committee Members, or any person involved in judging the competition or sponsors, including the immediate families of those groups. NAL reserves the right to verify the validity of all entries.
3. HOW TO ENTER: To submit a photo for entry in the competition, the photo must meet the terms and conditions of the competition and be submitted to the NAL by emailing photocompetition@nationalathleticsleague.org.uk as detailed on the competition entry page. Entries will not be considered through any other means.
4. PHOTO SUBMISSION PERIOD: The competition will run for three months, beginning on the first day of the first calendar month and finishing on the last day of the last calendar. The period will be the 1st June 2021 through to the 31st August 2021. Photos can be submitted up to midnight on the final day of any month, any photo submitted after that will be considered in the following month’s competition or in the case of the last month become ineligible for entry. The competition period may be changed at the promoter’s discretion.
5. PHOTO REQUIREMENTS: The photo(s) must meet reasonable standards of decency and meet the following requirements.
   a. Photographs must be taken at National Athletic League fixtures and be specifically related to sport of athletics.
   b. Photographs must be submitted as a .jpg or .jpeg file with a minimum 1MB and maximum 5MB file size.
   c. Entries must not have been a winner in any other photographic competition or be currently submitted for any other competition.
   d. Photos can be landscape or portrait and must be suitable to be used as the licence
   image with the key elements of the image being as central as possible in the image
   e. The description of the photo must specify the date and venue of the photograph.
   f. All images must be originals which have not been circulated or published previously.
   g. National Athletics League retains exclusive commercial use of all images submitted, for five years from the photo submission date. The NAL can use those images for commercial and promotional activities at no cost.
   h. The NAL has the sole discretion to determine whether or not a photo meets the above requirements.
6. NUMBER OF ENTRIES: You may submit one photo per month. Once a photo has been submitted, it is unable to be re-submitted in later months within the competition.
7. HOW TO WIN: A judging panel appointed by the promoter and based upon members of the NAL Committee will decide each month the 12 best pictures received. Three photos are then chosen from the 12 through on- line voting to go forward to the Final.
   The decision of the promoter is final and no correspondence will be entered into concerning the competition’s judging and organisation. The three photographs to be put forward from the monthly competition will be decided by the greatest number of votes at the conclusion of that time period.
8. VOTING PERIOD: Each monthly competition will conclude on the last day of that particular month.
9. HOW TO VOTE: Each winning photo from the monthly competitions will be posted to the NAL Facebook page. You can vote for your choice by liking the photo.
10. NUMBER OF VOTES: A voter can only vote (like) once for an individual photo but may vote for as many photos as they like. A person may vote for their own photo.
11. SOLICITING VOTES: A monthly winner may share their photo on social media platforms, and solicit votes from their friends and family. The promoter reserves the right to discount any votes deemed invalid or to disqualify the entrant all together.
12. PHOTO WINNER NOTIFICATION: The three-monthly photo finalists to be announced on the NAL Website at the conclusion of each monthly competition. The overall winner may be contacted personally and announced on NAL Website and through social media.
13. PRIZES: The winner of the competition will receive a voucher from the sponsor to be redeemed directly with the sponsor, subject to the terms and conditions of the voucher supplied. In addition, the winners name will be engraved on the competition trophy, retained by the promoter and their winning photo will be used on the NAL Website.
14. ANNOUNCEMENTS: By submitting a photo for entry, each entrant hereby agrees to participate in any publicity related to the competition. Entrants and winners in the competition agree that their identity may be disclosed in winner announcements and promotional material. Winners also agree to have his/her image used for publicity purposes without any payment being made.
15. PRIZE ELIGIBILITY: The promoter cannot be held responsible for the winner being unable to redeem their prize.
16. PHOTO USAGE: By submitting a photo, the entrant agrees to allow the promoter permission to use the image for the purposes of promoting National Athletics League or the competition, now and into the future, at no cost to the promoter. The entrant also agrees to allow the promoter to use their photo for printed collateral, online, in store and across other marketing mediums, at the promoter’s sole discretion and at no cost.
17. PHOTO TALENT: By submitting the photo, the entrant declares that they have the permission of all individual(s) captured in photo(s) to share and publish their image (where the image shows any persons under 18, the consent of their parent/guardian has been obtained) for full usage rights by NAL and indemnify against any claims made by any third parties in respect of such infringement.
    By submitting the photo, the entrant declares that they have received any necessary permissions from the owner(s) of depicted background objects including land, and buildings included in submitted images for the usage rights required.
18. PHOTO COPYRIGHT: In submitting a photo for entry, the entrant declares that they have taken the photo and own and have sole and complete intellectual property rights to the photo. The entrant will indemnify the promoter against any claim, loss or costs incurred by the promoter where a third-party claims ownership of the rights to a photo. The promoter reserves the right to request proof of photo ownership.
19. SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS: By entering this contest you agree to release Instagram/Facebook and other social media platforms of any liability or obligation related to the entry and you acknowledge the promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram/Facebook.
20. ENTRY FORMAT: Acceptable entries will be photo files from either digital cameras or smart phone cameras or electronic scans. No images supplied in hard copy will be accepted.
21. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Entries may not be acknowledged or returned. Participants have the obligation to ensure entries are received on time. The promoter can choose to keep or remove images from the gallery on completion of the competition should they wish to do so.
    Entrants can request removal of their images via NAL.
22. CHANGES TO COMPETITION: The promoter reserves the right to change the prizes throughout the competition. Any change to prize/s will be updated in the competition terms and conditions and on the NAL website.
23. PERSONAL INFORMATION: The collection, use and disclosure of personal information provided in connection with this competition is governed by the NAL Privacy Policy.