Terms & conditions

Acceptance of Terms and Conditions

Using the ShinyAwards.com website in any way constitutes your acceptance of these entire Terms and Conditions. ShinyAwards.com has the right to change or amend these Terms and Conditions without further notice. If you do not agree to the Terms and Conditions set out below, including those listed in the Privacy Policy, please do not use the website.

Definitions

“The Shiny Awards", “Shiny Awards" "Shiny", "Events", “Promoter”, ”we", "us", means the company trading through shinyawards.com and registered as Shiny Awards Limited, company registration 11037108, company registered address ℅ Brown McLeod, 24 Hanover Square, London W1S 1JD

The “Shiny Awards Site" means the web-based content available at www.ShinyAwards.com

"User", “Users”, “Entrants”, “Submitters” or "You" means anyone interacting with the Shiny Awards website, Shiny communications or attending a Shiny event.

'Partners' mean individuals or organisations with whom Shiny barters promotional and other mutually beneficial activities.

“Filmmaker or Director” means the person or persons responsible for the overall artistic and creative decisions of the video content being judged.

The Shiny Awards (the “awards”) are administered by Shiny Awards Limited (the “promoter”).

1 Copyright & Intellectual Property Rights

All content and materials on the Shiny Awards website are protected under copyright and intellectual property rights laws of England and Wales and under similar international legislation. Shiny Awards owns and retains all intellectual property and proprietary rights to all materials in the Shiny Awards Site, excluding content published or linked by its members. No part of the Shiny Awards Site belonging to Shiny Awards may be copied, reproduced, distributed or published without Shiny Awards' written permission. Users confirm that all media and content published or linked to on the Shiny Awards Site is

-copyright free and/or

-copyright approved to link to the site and/or

-copyright owned by you.

It is your responsibility to understand and identify what is copyright in your content and how copyright approval can be secured.

2 Submitting entries to the Shiny Awards and other Shiny events

a. The events are open to production companies, agencies, directors, producers, commissioners, record companies, music artists and other professionals working in the video, photography and design production businesses who are aged 16 or over. There are no geographical restrictions on who may enter. Promoter reserves the right to verify the eligibility of entrants and check their identity in accordance with our privacy policy.

b. Creative work must be submitted with a link to the video.

c. The person who wins the award is the director; AKA the person who comes up with the main ideas, the person who makes the main creative decisions, and/or who has the final say on which ideas are used, how they are used, the look & feel; AKA the main person who makes the work what it is. The lead creative / maker can be more than one person, ie a partnership or collective.

d. Entries must be made by completing the entry form on the awards website (www.shinyawards.com) or at https://filmfreeway.com/ShinyAwards before the deadline of midnight GMT of the closing date of the event being entered.

e. The cost of award entries is not refundable. Entries to the awards will only be accepted when payment is received by the promoter in full.

f. The promoter does not accept responsibility for network, computer, hardware or software failures of any kind, which may restrict or delay the sending or receipt of your entry. Incomplete entries, and entries which do not satisfy the requirements of these terms and conditions, will be disqualified and will not be counted and will not be refunded.

3 Judges & winners

a. Shiny Awards: In the first round, each entry submitted will be viewed by industry professionals from the network partners published on the website. In subsequent, shortlist rounds, expert juries gather to discuss the nominations, and to select nominations & winners. Promoter reserves the right to change the format of the judging provided always that judging is done in a rigorous and fair manner. any such changes to the format of the judging will be posted on the awards website.

b. Shiny Awards: Winning entries will be those which, in the opinion and sole discretion of the jury, demonstrate the requisite artistic merit, creative contribution and technical skill in line with the category requirements.

c. Shiny Awards: The judges’ and promoter’s decisions shall be final and binding in all respects on all entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.

d. Shiny Awards: Winners will be announced at the awards event. There will be no prior disclosure.

4 Tickets

a.Event Terms & Conditions

SHINY AWARDS’ reserves the right at any time and without prior notice to change the venue of any event and/or speakers/chairs/moderators and/or programme from that described. We reserve the right in our absolute discretion and without further liability to cancel any event. We accept no responsibility for the views expressed by the speakers, chairs or participants in any event organised by SHINY AWARDS. When you register for an event, we reserve the right, with your permission, to share your data with sponsors who may then contact you directly via email, phone, or any other channel. We also collect your information in order to be able to contact you about future events, including via our newsletter. You may ask to be removed from our database at any time by emailing Caroline@shinyawards.com. Our full privacy policy is available here

b. Eligibility, booking and confirmation

Unless otherwise agreed by us in advance and in writing, all Attendees must be at least 18 years of age on the date of the event.

Your booking is not confirmed until we have received your payment and you receive an email receipt. If you do not receive email receipt within 24 hours of purchase, please contact us at the address in the website Contacts link. It is your responsibility to update us of any changes to your contact details so that we are able to contact you.

All event attendees are required to pay for and make their own arrangements for transport to the Venue. We are not responsible for any inability to attend owing to failure of transport.

All applications to register for SHINY AWARDS LTD Events are subject to availability and you making full payment. 

You will receive confirmation from us when you make a ticket booking. Physical tickets are not sent out for SHINY AWARDS’ Events. Please make a note of the confirmation in case you have any queries relating to your booking.

Please note, all prices are subject to local taxes where appropriate.

c.Bookings/Discounts

SHINY AWARDS reserves the right to amend the amounts of any bookings on which discount codes have been used incorrectly. This includes bookings paid for in advance and complimentary VIP passes. Any additional payments required will be invoiced.

d.Substitutions/Cancellations

The Shiny Awards reserve the right to alter the programme, venue or speakers of any event without prior notification and do not guarantee the attendance of any particular guest.

In the event of a cancellation of an event by the Shiny Awards, we will use reasonable endeavours to contact you using the contact details provided at the time of booking. We will also give notice of any cancellation through our website – you should check this regularly prior to the relevant event for up-to-date information.

Where we cancel an Awards event we will refund any attendance fees paid.

If you wish to cancel your attendance at an event you must email us at the address set out on the website contact page as soon as possible. If you cancel 30 or more days before the Awards event we will refund your attendance fee in full, though we reserve the right to retain an administration fee. Where you cancel less than 30 days before the Awards event there will be no refund.

In the Event of the named delegate being unable to attend, a replacement delegate may be sent. Please inform the organisers in writing of any changes to delegates 48 hours prior to the Event. In the Event of a delegate being unable to attend, please email Caroline@shinyawards.com for a refund.

The Shiny Awards will not be liable for reimbursing travelling, accommodation, or any other expenses incurred as a result of any cancellation or postponement of any event, or the moving of any event to a new venue.

The Shiny Awards will not be liable for reimbursing travelling, accommodation, or any other expenses incurred by attendees who fail to attend an event for any reason.

In the event of the Event being cancelled, a full refund for the cost of the Event ticket will be made. SHINY AWARDS cannot be held responsible for the cost of any travel or accommodation expenses incurred to reach the seminar venue if we are required to cancel, postpone or relocate any SHINY AWARDS Events as a result of an Event outside our control (including, without limitation, acts of God, floods, lightning, storm, fire, explosion, war, military operations, acts of terrorism or threats of any such acts, any strike action, lock-outs or other industrial action and a pandemic (including Covid-19), epidemic or other widespread illness).

SHINY AWARDS’ reserves the right to make changes to the programme and/or speakers without prior notice. Where we alter the date and/or location of the SHINY AWARDS Events, we will provide you with notice of the same and will offer you the choice of either the opportunity to attend the SHINY AWARDS Events as varied or a credit for a future Event of your choice (up to the value of sums paid by you in respect of the SHINY AWARDS Events).  Any credit claims must be made in writing within 14 days of the change notice given by us.

5. Your responsibilities (applicable to all Event attendees)

You agree that we will not be liable for any loss, injury or damage to any person or anything where there is no breach of a legal duty of care owed by us or in circumstances where such loss or damage is not a reasonably foreseeable result of any such breach.

We reserve the right to refuse entry or eject you from the Event or Venue for Health and Safety (including Covid-19) or licensing reasons; if you behave in a manner which has or is likely to affect the enjoyment of other persons at the Event; if you use threatening, abusive or insulting words or mannerisms; if you are found in possession of any prohibited item or substance; if in our reasonable opinion you are acting under the influence of alcohol or drugs; if you have brought in any dangerous item into the Venue; if you fail, when required, to produce proof of identity or age; if you refuse to comply with security searches or if you breach these Terms.  No refunds will be given to you if you are refused entry or ejected due to your own behaviour as outlined above.

We may prosecute you if you cause damage to the Venue, the Venue infrastructure, or cause harm to any other person at the Event and/or Venue.

You must comply with any and all instructions given to you by us, Venue and/or Event staff and stewards.

Photographic equipment is permitted provided that it is for personal non-commercial use only.

6. Use of Likeness

By attending an Event organised by SHINY AWARDS you acknowledge and agree to grant SHINY AWARDS and its partners the right at the Event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media now available or hereafter developed and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise globally to disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from you or any payment to you.

This grant to SHINY AWARDS includes, but is not limited to, the right to edit such media, the right to use the media alone or together with other information, and the right to allow others to use or disseminate the media.

Please visit our Privacy Policy for further information.

7 Liabilities

a. Persons completing entries commit that they are authorised to do so.

b. By entering work, all entrants warrant and undertake that their entry is an original piece of work commissioned either directly by the rights holders (artist, label, management or other representative of these), or created for a competition authorised by the rights holders, and does not infringe any third party rights.

c. Entrants confirm that by submitting content to Shiny events they accept responsibility for that content and that the content is neither offensive nor defamatory.

d. Shiny Awards.com is a site aimed at users over the age of 18 years of age. Shiny Awards.com is not liable for the content of linked videos and site comments. View the site at your own risk and ensure that minors are accompanied by an adult when viewing.

e. All entrants warrant and undertake that they have obtained all relevant rights and written permission from individuals featured in the entry.

f. All entrants warrant that their entry does not infringe the laws of England and Wales.

g. The views expressed by any speakers at an event are their own. We shall not be liable for the views, acts or omissions of any such speaker or any other attendee at the event. Any information given or distributed as part of the event shall not constitute advice and should not be relied upon.

h. Those entering the awards shall indemnify the promoter and its agents against all liabilities, costs, expenses, damages and losses (including any direct, indirect or consequential losses, loss of profit, loss of reputation and all interest, penalties and legal and other reasonable professional costs and expenses) suffered or incurred by the promoter arising out of or in connection with any breach of the warranties in clauses 5b, 5c, 5e and 5f of these terms and conditions.

j. Except in the case of death or personal injury arising from its negligence, or in respect of fraud, and so far as is permitted by law, the promoter and its associated companies and agents exclude responsibility and all liabilities arising from:

i. any postponement or cancellation of events;

ii. any changes to, supply of (including, without limitation, prizes which do not reach the intended recipient), or use of the prize;

iii. any error or omission by the promoter; and

iv. any act or default of any third party supplier, which are beyond the promoter’s reasonable control.

k You agree that we will not be liable for any loss or damage you incur (including but not limited to loss of profit, loss of business, loss of revenue, or any other incidental or consequential loss or damage) whether indirectly or directly caused by Shiny Awards or by the use of the site.

8 Provision and Loss of Service

Shiny Awards reserves the right to disable the site without prior notice if needed to perform maintenance on the Shiny Awards Site, or any technical service supporting or related to it.

9 Promotion

a. By entering the awards, entrants agree that any entry they submit may be used by the promoter, its agents and the judges for the purposes of judging and promoting the awards and may be viewed at the awards event without further remuneration.

b. By entering the awards, entrants agree that their image, name and likeness may be used by the promoter for advertising and publicity purposes in connection with Shiny events without additional remuneration.

10 Pricing and Price Changes

Shiny reserve the right to change or introduce charges at any time without prior notice.

11 Partners

Nothing in these terms and conditions shall be construed as constituting, or deemed to constitute, a legal partnership or agency between the individuals or organisations noted on the website as 'Partners' and neither party shall have any authority to bind the other in any way. The relationship of the parties shall be as independent contractors.

12 Contact Information

a. The promoter will use each winner’s, and each entrant’s, personal details for the purpose of administering this awards. Please see our privacy policy for further details.

b. Shiny is not responsible for the content and makes no warranty as to the accuracy of Entrant or Members' personal information. Users should always use their own judgement in deciding whether to contact or commission contacts listed on Shiny Awards.com. We shall not be liable in any circumstances for the actions of any user.

13 Mailing List

a. Your email address is automatically added to our mailing list when you enter the awards or buy an event ticket. You can unsubscribe via the link in the email or request to unsubscribe by emailing admin @shinyawards.com.

b. The promoter may use the details you give to contact you about their products and services. by entering this promotion you are indicating your agreement to this unless you tell the promoter otherwise.

14 Jurisdiction

a. The promoter reserves the right to amend these terms and conditions at any point.

b. The awards, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. You irrevocably agree that the courts of England, Northern Ireland and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with the awards.