Next Top Nail Artist Contest Rules

NAILS NEXT TOP NAIL ARTIST CONTEST RULES (“Laws”)

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

The NAILS NEXT TOP NAIL ARTIST contest will likely be applied by the use of the web site: https://www.nailsmag.com/ (hereinafter, the “Web page”).

CONTEST: The Contest is composed of a competition during which the entrants must create authentic nail designs, add pictures in their nail designs and put up with their software to the Web page, following the directions given therein.

CONTEST ENTRY PERIOD: In an effort to input the NAILS NEXT TOP NAIL ARTIST contest (the “Contest” or “Promotion”) entrants will have to entire the appliance beneath no later than at 12:00 AM Jap Time (“ET”) on Monday, January 23, 2023, at nighttime PST US (the “Contest Access”). Finalists will likely be contacted by way of February 3, 2023, and will likely be introduced on-line and on social media.

By way of taking part within the Promotion, every player (“Entrant”) unconditionally accepts and consents to agree to and abide by way of those Legit Laws and the selections of NAILS Mag which can be ultimate and binding in all respects.

ELIGIBILITY: The Promotion is open to legitimate nail techs, living any place on this planet, who’re age 18 or older on the time of access. Entrants these days below contract with a qualified nail producer are now not eligible to go into. If an entrant has taken manufacturer-specific categories, they’re eligible to go into. Entrants will have to divulge any, and all affiliations (sponsorships, previous educator stories, ambassadorships, and many others.) of their software. Moreover, entrants are prohibited from searching for out sponsorship alternatives whilst taking part within the contest. Void prohibited by way of regulation, taxed or differently limited. Staff of any Sponsors, Promotional Companions and their respective subsidiaries, associates, promoting, and promotion businesses (jointly, “Sponsor Entities”), and the quick members of the family (spouses, folks, youngsters, and siblings and their spouses) of, and/or the ones residing in the similar family of every, don’t seem to be eligible to go into. Promotion is matter to all acceptable federal, state and native regulations and rules.

GRANT OF EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS: Each and every entrant within the Contest represents and warrants that they’re the landlord or have bought written task from the landlord, of their choose and with out limitation, of, and hereby grants to NAILS (and its content material sponsors) in writing, an unique and irrevocable license to milk all highbrow belongings rights (together with with out limitation, replica, distribution, newsletter, conversation to the general public and transformation) within the Pictures (and nail design(s) contained therein) that they have got submitted to the Contest to be used inside the framework of the Contest, in addition to long run editions of the mentioned Contest, in any medium, comparable to (for instance, however now not restricted thereto), direct advertising, the Web, internet sites, magazines, promoting options, and many others. with the next scope: (a) Territorial scope of the grant: International; (b) Operational scope: Chance of revealing the finalists’ Pictures in: (i) the Web page and different internet sites of NAILS dad or mum or subsidiaries; (ii) On-line world conversation of the Contest: internet sites, boards, blogs and social networks; (iii) Global legitimate publications and/or non-professional ones; (iv) Global exposure in any media; (v) Show subject matter in salons; and (c) Temporal scope: in perpetuity from the tip of the Contest. Each and every player is of the same opinion, and represents and warrants that they have got bought consent from another authors of the Pictures, to NAILS, its dad or mum or subsidiaries doing (or omitting to do) any acts in appreciate of the Pictures which might differently represent an infringement in their or different authors’ respective ethical rights.

HOW TO ENTER:

Whole the appliance beneath no later than January 23, 2023, at nighttime PST (US). Along with elementary knowledge, you’ll be required to respond to no less than one essay query and add footage and a brief video. Incomplete Contest Entries might not be permitted and are void. See programs directions beneath.

All Contest Entries with required parts will have to be won no later than January 23, 2023 at nighttime PST (US). There’s a prohibit of 1 (1) Contest Access according to individual within the Contest Duration. Each and every Contest Access will have to come with solutions to a brief essay query, authentic footage and quick video. Contest Entries submitted with prior to now submitted fabrics will likely be disqualified.

As soon as a Contest Access is submitted it can’t be changed by way of an Entrant. NAILS isn’t chargeable for misplaced, past due, incomplete, illegible, garbled, misguided, invalid, misdirected, undelivered, or behind schedule Entries. No altered or incomplete submissions will likely be permitted. As soon as the Pictures were uploaded, every access will turn out to be a part of the www.nailsmag.com area. Get right of entry to to the Pictures at the Web page will likely be limited and now not all web site customers can have get entry to to them right through the Contest.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS & CONDITIONS: All Contest Entries will have to agree to the next minimal tips to be eligible:

Brief solution essay and solutions to questions, and movies will have to be in English or sub-titled in English for right kind comprehension by way of the judges

Footage will have to display Entrant’s authentic nail artwork.

Entrant will have to put up his or her headshot.

Footage will have to comply with the layout and measurement necessities and boundaries. The utmost record measurement is 5MB (TO BE CONFIRMED)

As soon as Footage were submitted, they can’t be changed or deleted by way of Entrant.

Each and every submitted Picture will have to be authentic, on which no symbol modifying tool has been used.

By way of filing a Picture taken by way of a 3rd birthday celebration, Entrant warrants and represents that he/she has secured all rights and clearances to the Picture from the photographer.

Access and Picture can’t be profane, pornographic, sexually specific or suggestive or comprise nudity.

Access and Picture can’t be violent or advertise firearms/guns.

Access and Picture can not advertise alcohol, unlawful medication or tobacco.

Access and Picture can not defame, misrepresent or comprise disparaging remarks about folks, manufacturers, merchandise or corporations.

Access and Picture can not comprise content material that defaces or depicts any individual, emblem, product or corporate in a unfavourable or irrelevant method.

Access and Picture can’t be obscene or offensive, endorse any type of hate or hate team or be derogatory to any ethic, racial, gender, spiritual, legitimate or age team.

Access and Picture can not reference or comprise fabrics embodying copyrighted pictures, names, likenesses or different indicia figuring out any emblem, merchandise, corporate or individual, residing or useless, with out permission.

Access and Picture can not keep up a correspondence messages or pictures inconsistent with the sure pictures and/or goodwill to which NAILS need to affiliate.

Access and Picture can not depict criminality and can not itself be in violation of any regulation.

Access and Picture can not by any means reference individuals or organizations with out written permission from any individual or group whose title or likeness is used.

Access and Picture won’t come with pictures of a recognized superstar, well-known or well known individual or any symbol which violates the best of privateness or exposure of any individual.

Footage can not were submitted prior to now in a promotion of any type or received any earlier awards.

By way of filing a Contest Access, the Entrant understands and grants to NAILS (and its sponsor companions) an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive international license to make use of his/her Access, Picture, title, native land and likeness on NAILS and its sponsor’s quite a lot of internet sites and social media websites and in promoting and/or promotional actions international with out repayment, permission or notification. NAILS reserves the best in its sole and absolute discretion to vary, exchange or adjust any Contest Access, which contains the Picture.

By way of filing a Contest Access, Contest Entrant warrants and represents that: (a) Footage and nail designs are entrant’s personal advent and are 100% (100%) authentic; (b) Contest Access and Footage don’t infringe upon the copyrights, logos, rights of privateness, exposure or different highbrow belongings or different criminal or ethical rights of any individual or entity; (c) Contest Entrant owns all rights to the Picture, together with with out limitation, copyrights, and has won prior written permission from a 3rd birthday celebration if any Picture used to be photographed by way of somebody rather than the Contest Entrant him/herself; and (d) Contest Entrant will indemnify and dangle innocuous NAILS and comparable entities, brokers and assigns from any claims and damages (together with cheap lawyers’ charges) bobbing up from or with regards to the breach or alleged breach of your representations and warranties herein, the Contest Access, or Contest Entrant’s habits in developing the Contest Access, the acceptance or use of any prize or differently in reference to this Promotion.

CONTEST ENTRIES ARE THE VIEWS/OPINIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL CONTEST ENTRANT AND DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF NAILS IN ANY MANNER.

JUDGING CRITERIA: All eligible Entries won right through the Contest Duration will likely be judged by way of NAILS and invited visitors, who shall use the factors set forth beneath:

Total Design (20%)

Technical Talent (20%)

Problem Pointers (20%)

Professionalism (20%)

Creativity (20%)

WINNER NOTIFICATION & ANNOUNCEMENT: Doable winners will likely be notified by way of NAILS by the use of electronic mail (the “Notification”) on or about March 13, 2023. A possible winner will have to reply as urged to the Notification along with his/her complete title, electronic mail deal with and date of start inside 48 hours of the Notification. Any attainable winner who does now not respond to the Notification with the specified knowledge and inside the specified period of time will likely be disqualified and another winner will likely be notified.

If any notification or prize is returned as undeliverable, or if attainable winner is located to be ineligible or now not in compliance with those Legit Laws he/she will likely be disqualified.

PRIZES:

A stupendous trophy personalised with the winner’s title and appropriate for show.

Winner will obtain editorial print protection in MODERN SALON.

Winner and finalists will obtain on-line and social protection on nailsmagazine.com and modernsalon.com and on their respective Instagram platforms.

Winner will likely be interviewed by way of a NAILS editor and this profile will likely be shared on nailsmagazine.com and modernsalon.com.

Winner will likely be named an “Honorary Editor” of NAILS for 365 days. All over that point, they’ll be indexed as being at the editorial advisory staff for NAILS.

Prizes don’t seem to be redeemable for money.

PRIZE CONDITIONS:

Except for the place prohibited by way of regulation, access and acceptance of prize represent permission to make use of winner’s title, prize received, native land, likeness, pictures, and statements for functions of promoting, promotion and exposure (together with on-line posting) in any and all media now or hereafter recognized all over the sector in perpetuity, with out further repayment, notification or permission.

By way of accepting a prize, you additional comply with unencumber the Promotion Entities from any and all legal responsibility, loss or harm of any type bobbing up out of or in connection together with your participation on this Promotion or with appreciate to the awarding, receipt, ownership, use and/or misuse of any prize.

GENERAL: Taking part Entrants agree to those Legit Laws and the selections of the Administrator (NAILS) and unencumber and dangle NAILS and itsthe Promotional Spouse and their affiliated corporations, and all different companies concerned on this Promotion, in addition to the workers, officials, administrators and brokers of every, from all claims and legal responsibility with regards to their participation within the Promotion, and the acceptance and use/misuse of the prize presented. Entrants waive all rights to assert punitive, incidental and consequential damages. Winner assumes all legal responsibility for any damage or harm brought about or claimed to be brought about, by way of participation on this Promotion or use/misuse or redemption of a prize. NAILS isn’t chargeable for any typographical or different error within the printing of the be offering, management of the Promotion or within the announcement of any prize.

No confidential courting is established by way of any Contest Entrant and NAILS because of taking part within the Promotion. Not one of the knowledge submitted by way of the Contest Entrant will likely be handled as industry secrets and techniques, confidential knowledge or as safe information.

Even if next makes an attempt to put up a Contest Access on a given day could also be won, best the primary entire Contest Access won from a specific Entrant will likely be eligible; next makes an attempt by way of the similar individual to Input, together with entries submitted with another electronic mail deal with, Instagram account, or id will likely be disqualified. Within the match of a dispute over the id of an entrant, submission will likely be deemed submitted by way of the “Approved Account Holder” of the e-mail deal with submitted by way of the Contest Entrant or the Instagram account from which the access is submitted. Approved Account Holder manner the herbal individual to whom the e-mail deal with or Instagram account is registered. Any entrant or attainable winner could also be required to turn evidence of being the approved account holder to NAILS’s pleasure. Access fabrics/information which were tampered with or altered, or mass entries or entries generated by way of a script, macro or use of automatic gadgets are void. The Promotion Entities don’t seem to be chargeable for: (i) misplaced, past due, misdirected, broken or illegible entries; or (ii) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, prolong in operations or transmission, robbery or destruction or unauthorized get entry to to or alterations of submission fabrics, or for technical, community, phone apparatus, digital, pc, {hardware} or tool malfunctions of any type, or misguided transmission of or failure to obtain submission knowledge by way of NAILS because of technical issues or visitors congestion at the Web or at any internet website or any mixture thereof; or (iii) any damage or harm to entrant’s or another individual’s pc associated with or as a result of taking part within the Promotion. By way of taking part within the Promotion, you (i) comply with be sure by way of those Legit Laws, together with all eligibility necessities, and (ii) comply with be sure by way of the selections of NAILS and the Administrator, which might be ultimate and binding in all issues with regards to the Promotion. Failure to agree to those Legit Laws might lead to disqualification from the Promotion. Sponsor reserves the best to: (i) completely disqualify from any Promotion it sponsors any individual it believes has deliberately violated those Legit Laws; and (ii) withdraw any manner of access or balloting mechanism if it turns into technically corrupted (together with if a pc virus or machine malfunction inalterably impairs its skill to habits the Promotion). If, for any explanation why, the Promotion isn’t in a position to being performed as deliberate, together with however now not restricted to an infection by way of pc viruses, insects, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical screw ups or different reasons whether or not or now not past the keep an eye on of NAILS, NAILS reserves the best at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, adjust or droop the Promotion. NAILS isn’t accountable if the Promotion can’t be applied or prizes can’t be awarded because of delays or interruptions because of acts of God, acts of battle, moves, governmental motion, herbal failures, climate or acts of terrorism. Sponsor additionally reserves the best in its sole discretion to disqualify any person discovered to be violating those Legit Laws or suspected of making an attempt to disrupt or defraud the Access procedure or the operation of the Promotion. NAILS reserves the best to disqualify any Entrant at any time right through the Promotion Duration that can be discovered ineligible.

Within the match any Entrant engages or has engaged in conduct that (as decided by way of NAILS in its sole discretion) is obnoxious or threatening, unlawful or that has a tendency to harass, abuse, threaten, disparage or harass another individual or corporate together with NAILS or is differently irrelevant, NAILS reserves the best to disqualify the Entrant or winner and void any Contest Entries of mentioned individual.

LEGAL WARNING: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN INDIVIDUAL, WHETHER OR NOT AN ENTRANT, TO DAMAGE, DESTROY, TAMPER OR VANDALIZE THIS WEB SITE OR INTERFERE WITH THE OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION, IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND NAILS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND DILIGENTLY PURSUE ALL REMEDIES AGAINST ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.