Photo Contest Rules

HAVE FUN. 

WHO IS ELIGIBLE: Open to anyone in the Town of Blackstone, age 13 or older. If you are between 13 and 18, you must obtain your parent’s or legal guardian’s consent to participate in this Contest. For children under 13, the parent or guardian must submit in the parent’s or guardian’s name. 

SPONSOR: Town of Blackstone, 15 Saint Paul St. Blackstone, MA 01504 

 HOW TO ENTER: You may enter up to two photos for the Contest from 12:01 a.m. on March 1, 2024, through 11:59 p.m. on March 31, 2023, by following the entry instructions on this website. By submitting your entry, you acknowledge that you have read and followed these Rules and agree to be bound by them. 

SUBMISSIONS: We are doing this for fun and to build community spirit; please only submit photos that support these goals. Each Photo must meet the following criteria: (a) must be shot by the entrant; (b) must be taken in the Town of Blackstone; (c) may not be digitally enhanced (other than minor adjustments such as sharpening, contrast, toning, slight color adjustment, or conversion to grayscale). 

To be displayed on our website, Requirements: Minimum photo width: 2200px Approximate photo size: 1 MB+ Resolution: 72 dpi+ Preferred file format: JPG 

Recommendations: Provide images that can be used during any time of year. If you want a specific landmark, sign, building, etc., to be incorporated, ensure that the element is zoomed in a manageable distance, or else you'll risk some elements being cropped out. Do not provide any photos that you would not want to be featured on the www.TownofBlackston.org website.  Photos that contain political, sexually explicit, nude, obscene, violent, or other objectionable or inappropriate content, or that may violate another party’s rights, including copyrights, as determined by the Town in its sole discretion, are ineligible. The welfare of a subject and its environment must be placed ahead of the desire to capture a photograph. By entering the contest, entrants certify that subjects were treated with respect and dignity and that no people, wildlife, or the environment were harmed in creating a photograph. You retain your rights (including copyrights) to your Photos; however, by entering the contest, you grant the Town (and those authorized by the Town) a royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to publicly display, distribute, reproduce, and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or later developed, for any purpose relating to, incidental to, publicizing or promoting this contest or its entries or results, or the Town, regardless of whether or not your entry is selected to be published. Any photograph reproduced will include photographer credit as feasible. The Town shall not be required to use or publish any Photo or entry, in its sole discretion. By submitting any entry materials, you represent and warrant that you are the sole creator and copyright owner of any submitted Photo, that such Photo is original in its entirety and that you have all necessary rights to submit such Photo hereunder, and that such Photo contains no matter that is obscene, libelous, unlawful in content or violative of the rights of any third party, including without limitation the copyrights of any third party. There is no prize associated with this contest. You are competing for bragging rights and glory among your fellow citizens. The selected photos, credited to the winners, may be used or displayed consistent with the section. By submitting any entry, all entrants agree to release, indemnify, and hold harmless the Town of Blackstone and its respective affiliates, agencies, committees, suppliers, distributors, and advertising/promotion partners, and each such entity’s officers, directors, employees, volunteers and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, violation of intellectual property rights or damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Contest, publication of any entry materials or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. The Town reserves the right to cancel, suspend, and modify the Contest, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, or any other factor beyond the Town's reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Contest, as determined by Town in its sole discretion. The Released Parties are not responsible for (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Contest; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest or the processing of entries; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.