ELIGIBILITY
All entries must be photographs taken of a festival or event on Prince Edward Island. The contest is open to all residents of Canada and the United States age 19 years and older, except directors and employees of Festivals and Events PEI, Newcap Radio and any of the sponsoring companies or affiliated companies. This includes their immediate families, cohabitants, agents or contractors. The contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law. Festivals and Events PEI reserves the right to cancel the contest or modify these rules at its discretion. Decisions of Festivals and Events PEI will be final. No purchase is necessary. Any and all disputes will be resolved in the appropriate courts in the Province of Prince Edward Island and subject to the laws of the Province. Should there be a conflict between the laws of Prince Edward Island and any other laws, the conflict will be resolved in favour of the laws of the Province of Prince Edward Island. The Festivals and Events PEI Photography Contest is subject to all Federal, Provincial and Municipal laws. Winning entrants are required to answer a mathematical skill-testing question.

FORMAT
Entries are to be digital photographs and submitted electronically as jpeg files to contest website or submitted as jpeg files burned to disk. Digital files are to be at least 1000 pixels wide for a horizontal image or 1000 pixels tall for a vertical image. Content alteration of digital files is not acceptable; including combining multiple photos. Cropping of photos is permitted, tonal or colour corrections are acceptable. Borders, frames, text or other graphic treatments are not permitted.

ENTRIES AND IDENTIFICATION
Photographs entered must not have been previously published. Entrants must own all rights to the photographs submitted. As such, entrants hold Festivals and Events PEI, Newcap Radio and the contest sponsors harmless from any breach of copyright. Photographs that have won any other contests or have been published in a magazine or newspaper (except online) are not eligible. Photographs that violate or infringe upon another person's copyright are not eligible. For a photo in which a person is recognizable, a model release is required. Model releases are the responsibility of the entrant and must be presented in the event the photo is a winner.

Entries can be received online only. Entries are to be uploaded via the Festivals and Events PEI website at www.festivalspei.com.

Festivals and Events PEI holds the right to disqualify entries with inappropriate content. Entries will not be returned.

PUBLICATION
Winners' names and photographs will be published on www.festivalspei.com. Festivals and Events PEI reserves the non-exclusive right to publish any entry and/or use any entry in promotional and advertising materials. Photos published will be credited to the photographer where possible. Winners may be asked to participate in other Festivals and Events PEI marketing initiatives related to promoting PEI’s festivals and events or PEI as a destination.

Photographs entered into this content may be used by Festivals and Events PEI and/or Newcap Radio in perpetuity.

DEADLINE
To be eligible for weekly prizes, entries must be uploaded between 12 midnight Atlantic Standard Time (AST) on Thursday and 11:59 pm AST on Wednesday.

JUDGING
The winners will be selected by a volunteer panel of judges from the PEI Photography Club in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Weekly winners will be notified by their photo being posted to the Festivals and Events PEI website by 4:00 pm AST on Thursday and through email only. Decisions of the judges is final.

RESPONSIBILITY
Festivals and Events PEI or Newcap Radio cannot be held responsible for entries that are lost, damaged, or delayed during upload. Festivals and Events PEI is not responsible for any failure of the website during this contest. Nor is it responsible for any problems or technical malfunctions of computer online systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software or any email, online or internet entry lost due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or at any website or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to an entrant’s or any other person’s computer or property related to or resulting from playing or downloading any material in the promotion.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE
With regard to any photograph submitted to this contest, the entrant, or the owner of copyright in the photograph, retains copyright. By uploading or submitting any photograph to this contest, the entrant grants (or warrant that the owner of such materials expressly grants) Festivals and Events PEI a royalty-free, world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to display, distribute, reproduce, and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or subsequently developed, for any Festivals and Events PEI purpose, including, but not limited to advertising and promotional materials, its website, exhibition, and commercial products, including but not limited to Festivals and Events PEI publications. Festivals and Events PEI will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses.