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US Business Awards - Entry Terms & Conditions
In this document
The " Awards" or "USBA" means US Business Awards.
The"Organisers" or "We" - means US Business Awards'
employees, its contractors, promoters and agents.
"Entrants" or "You" - means those registering
for and/or participants of the Awards program.
"Award Winner" - means recipients of a US Business Award.
The "Awards" page located on this website
forms part of these Entry Terms & Conditions.
ELIGIBILITY: Entry
is open to all entities registered in America as specified in the Conditions
of Entry. Entries are accepted from officers, directors, proprietor(s), employees
or authorised agents.
AWARD CATEGORIES: The Awards recognise
and reward outstanding achievement in accordance with the award category key
criteria for each award category as outlined on "The Awards" page located
on this website. Entrants may compete in multiple award
categories. A separate entry must be submitted for each award category entered.
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATIONS: USBA utilise The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) to classify the industry of the Entrants. You may be required
to confirm your industry classification at the conclusion of the first stage
of the judging process. All Entrants will be assessed within their respective
industry group at the second stage.
ENTRY DETAILS: Entries can be completed online or submitted via post. The deadline
for entries is Thursday 28 May 2009. Date of posting on
Thursday 28 May 2009 will also be acceptable. The official entry form must be used. No responsibility
will be accepted for incomplete, damaged or corrupt entries. Proof of submission
is not proof of delivery.
JUDGING PANEL: The Judging panel is
appointed and co-ordinated by the US Business Awards. An esteemed and
diverse panel of business professionals and academics make up the judging panel.
The panel is carefully selected to ensure the selection
process is fair and objective. The
judges are bound by a strict confidentiality agreement and are required to declare
any conflict of interest in entries over which they deliberate and to stand
aside from deliberations concerning those entries.
JUDGING PROCESS: Entries will be judged on the basis of
the information provided in the completed entry form, your submission and supporting
materials. The judging process is designed to be fair and free of bias or influence.
All entries are evaluated in accordance with the award key criteria within their
respective industry group. At the end of a two-stage evaluation process, the
judges select the Winner of each award category in each industry. Entrants are
notified by confidential mail at the conclusion of the first stage of the judging
process. All Award Winners are notified by mail prior to the public announcement.
USBA reserves
the right to request additional information concerning any entry, as deemed
appropriate by the judging panel based on the award key criteria and the merits
of the entries being submitted. The judges reserve the right to transfer any
entry to a different award category that, in their view, does not meet the key
criteria for the award category nominated by the entrant. The Judges decision
is final and cannot be appealed. No correspondence will be entered into. USBA
reserves the right to refuse to accept any entry which in the Awards' opinion
does not comply with the Entry Terms and Conditions or which contravenes the
spirit of the Awards program. USBA reserves the right to make no award in any
category if the Judges are not satisfied with the standard or quality of entries
received. USBA has absolute discretion to disqualify any entry.
AWARDS AND ACCOLADES: There are award winners for each
category in each industry as determined by the USBA Judging Panel.
Award winners are honoured with a framed certificate and marketing material
which includes a customised logo with authorised licence number in recognition
of their achievement. Subject to usage guidelines the authorised logo can be
used on all your marketing and promotional material. In the event that You are
successful in your category USBA will prepare your award pack ahead of the public
announcement. In order for the organisers to be able to prepare the award pack in time for the
public announcement, all Entrants that successfully progress to the final stage
of the judging process will be required to agree to USBA's Licence Agreement & Licence Fee Schedule, which is accessible upon completion of the registration process and viewable via the official entry form.
PRIVACY: USBA collects, uses, discloses and otherwise handles
the Entrants personal information in accordance with the terms of its Privacy
Policy.
COPYRIGHT:All contributions submitted to the Awards, assign copyright ownership
to USBA in the event that the work is published or used for promotional material.
Award Winners and details of winning initiatives may be promoted by USBA. Award
Winners may also be required for media interviews. Further
information may also be sought from Award Winners to be publicised as part of
the USBA's promotion of the Awards program.
DISCLAIMER: USBA has absolute discretion to vary, amend or waive the terms and conditions of the Awards program at any time. USBA, its promoters, its contractors, employees and agents, shall not be liable for any claims, losses, damages, injury, costs and expenses suffered, sustained or incurred (including but not limited to indirect or consequential) as a result of, arising out of, or in any way connected the awards and/or it's promotional material, except for liability that cannot be excluded by law. It is a condition of entry that all terms and conditions are accepted as final and that the entrant agrees to abide by these rules.
END OF ENTRY TERMS & CONDITIONSGRANT OF LICENCE: Subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement (“Agreement”), The US Business Awards ("USBA")
grants your organisation (“Licensee”,“Award Winner”
or “You”) a non transferable, non exclusive licence ( "Licence")
to use and display USBA logos ( "Logo") in connection with your legitimate
business activities for a period of two (2) years upon payment of the Logo Licence
Fee ( "Licence Fee").
USAGE GUIDELINES: The right to use and display the Logo on your website, marketing
or promotional documentation etc. ("Materials") must comply with any
directions given by USBA regarding use of the Logo and comply with USBA's guidelines
for Logo usage. These guidelines are titled 'Logo Usage Guidelines' and may
be amended by USBA from time to time. USBA reserves the right to alter or amend
these guidelines at any time and without notice to the Licensee. Your use of
the USBA Logo constitutes your full and unconditional acceptance of these Conditions.
LICENCE FEE:The Licence Fee is a one-off payment that does
not need to be renewed. An invoice will be issued to all entrants who successfully
reach the second stage of the evaluation process. The fee is due within 14 days
of receipt of invoice and is payable in $. If payment
is not received, the entrant will no longer be considered for an Award. All
unsuccessful candidates will receive a full reimbursement of the Licence Fee.
END OF LICENCE AGREEMENT
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Changes to these Terms and Conditions: Due to the constant development of the Site it may become necessary to amend these terms and conditions and US Business Awards reserves the right to do so by posting changes online. It is your responsibility to check these terms and conditions regularly and your continued use of the Site after such changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions as amended.
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ACCURACY OF INFORMATION: Neither USBusinessAwards.com nor any of its data providers, affiliates or partners make any warranties expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, adequacy, quality or fitness for any particular purpose of the information or the services for a particular purpose or use and all such warranties are expressly excluded to the fullest extent that such warranties may be excluded by law.
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INFORMATION POSTED BY YOU: You may place information on the Site or make it available to other users by e-mail only where and as permitted by USBusinessAwards.com from time to time. USBusinessAwards.com does not monitor, approve, endorse or exert editorial control over information posted by users and does not therefore accept responsibility for or make any warranties in connection with or recommend that you or any third party rely on such information. You agree to not post (or transmit) (i) any information which is objectionable including, without limit, information which is defamatory, obscene, threatening, untrue or in breach of any applicable laws, rules, regulations or market conventions, (ii) any information which is in breach of any person's rights (including without limit, copyright and confidentiality), (iii) any information or software which contains a virus, cancelbot, Trojan horse, worm or is otherwise harmful. USBusinessAwards.com reserves the right to remove any such information from the services without warning and to inform and give assistance to the relevant bodies in respect of any transgressions. USBusinessAwards.com accepts no responsibility for and gives no warranties in connection with any information posted on its site by its users. USBusinessAwards.com recommends that you do not rely on such information. By placing a posting on the Site or making available to other users any information you hereby grant to USBusinessAwards.com a worldwide non-exclusive licence to use copy, distribute, publish and transmit such information in any manner which USBusinessAwards.com wishes (including, without limit, archiving and making available such information as part of the Site).
INDEMNITY: You irrevocably indemnify USBusinessAwards.com and its data providers, affiliates and partners from and against any and all losses, damages and costs suffered or incurred by USBusinessAwards.com, or any data providers, affiliates or partners of whatsoever nature arising out of or in connection with your use, provision or distribution of information or any part or the Site or any part or otherwise howsoever arising in relation to any breach of these terms and conditions by you.
HYPERTEXT LINKS: USBusinessAwards.com provides hypertext links to sites on the Internet which are operated by other people. Using an external hypertext link means that you are leaving the Site and USBusinessAwards.com therefore takes no responsibility for and gives no warranties, guarantees or representations in respect of linked sites.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: All intellectual property rights (including copyright, patents, trade marks) whether registered or not on the Site shall remain the property of USBusinessAwards.com and no customer or other person shall, or shall attempt to obtain any title to such rights. Information appearing on USBusinessAwards.com is the copyright of US Business Awards and must not be reproduced in any medium without licence. Users are permitted to copy some material for their personal use as private individuals only. Users must not republish any part of the data either on another website, or in any other medium, print, electronic or otherwise, or as part of any commercial service without the prior written permission of the US Business Awards. If you require any further information on permitted use, or a licence to republish any material, email us at media@USBusinessAwards.com, or mailing address provided on the contact page. If you are granted a licence to reproduce material you will be required to follow some simple guidelines about the way the information is displayed. An acknowledgement of the source must be included whenever US Business Awards copyright material is copied or published.
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LIABILITY: Due to the number of sources from which USBusinessAwards.com obtains content and the nature of electronic distribution via the world wide web neither USBusinessAwards.com nor any of its data providers nor affiliates shall have any liability (whether in contract or tort) for any losses, costs or damages resulting from or related to use of or inability to use any information contained in the Site or the provision of the Site to the fullest extent to which such liability may be excluded or avoided by law and in no event shall USBusinessAwards.com be liable to you for lost profits or for indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages arising out of or in relation to the provision of information on the Site. USBusinessAwards.com makes no warranty that the Site is free from infection by viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties.
JURISIDICTION: These terms and conditions will be governed by the laws of the United States of America and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the local courts.
END OF WEB SITE TERMS & CONDITIONS
Privacy, Security, Your Information
We have developed our own privacy principles which embody the
US Privacy Laws.
We generally only collect personal information from this website when it is
provided voluntarily by you. We will not share your personal information with
any other third party without your express permission.
We do not publish the names of companies, organisations or their
products that have not been shortlisted, nor will we disclose or reproduce any
information from your entry. Therefore if you enter the awards, but are not
successful, this will remain confidential. In addition, entrants may mark any
commercially sensitive information contained in their entry as ‘not for
publication’.
Copyright Ownership
The organisers reserve the right to use information contained
in the shorlisted and winning entries (apart from contact details and any content
marked not for publication) for subsequent publicity, promotions and
other activities relating to the awards program.
For legal reasons we must assume copyright ownership of your entry (in case
you are successful) however, as mentioned above, we will not use this information
unless you are shortlisted or win an award. Entries are accepted on the understanding
that the US Business Awards assumes copyright ownership of your entry,
and that all information contained in your entry (apart from contact details
and any content marked not for publication) can be reproduced in part or full
by the US Business Awards in relation to the awards program.
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We use a variety of physical and electronic security measures including restricting physical access to our offices, firewalls and secure databases to keep personal information secure from misuse, loss or unauthorised use or disclosure. The Internet is not a secure environment. If you use the Internet to send us any information, including your email address, it is sent at your own risk.
Access
You have a right to access most personal information we hold about you. Please contact our Privacy Officer (see below) to ask for access to your information of if you have a complaint concerning your information privacy.
Accuracy
If you think that any information we hold about you is inaccurate please contact us and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected.
Enquiries relating to our Privacy Policy should be addressed to:
Privacy Officer
US Business Awards
80 Broad Street, 5th Floor, New York City, New York 10004
privacy@usbusinessawards.com
