Specific Rules
1. This promotion is open to residents of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom aged 16 years or over and residents of Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal aged 18 years or over.
2. To enter this promotion, you must upload a photograph that conforms to the specifications set out in paragraph 4 below (the “Specifications”) to www.weareplaystation.com (the “Website”).
3. This promotion opens on 28 January 2009 and closes for entries at 23:59 GMT on 31 March 2009.
4. Entry Specifications
Entries must:
- be submitted as JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF or BMP files and can be of any resolution and file size up to a maximum of 20Mb;
- not contain any indecent or obscene material (for example nudity, pornography or profanity);
- not infringe any laws or third party rights;
- not invade the privacy of any person, company or entity;
- not include or portray any activities, statements or images which are discriminatory, offensive, obscene or defamatory or which may cause offence to others on grounds of nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, faith or disability; and
- must comply with the user content provisions of the Promoter's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy that can be accessed by following the links on the Website.
5. You understand that the Promoter does not monitor all submissions to the Website and is under no obligation to do so. However, Promoter reserves the right to monitor submissions to the Website and, without notice, to edit, delete or remove any content that Promoter deems in its sole discretion to be inappropriate.
6. You may submit as many entries as you like, but you may only win one prize.
7. Visitors to the Website will be asked to rate entries to the competition by awarding them a star rating (out of five stars) and, if they particularly like a photograph, a Super Vote. The average rating for each entry will be calculated and displayed. The 111 entrants whose entries have received the highest average star rating at the closing date will have their highest rated entry put through to an independent judge for consideration for a prize. In the event that one or more entries are tied on the same average rating and such tie means that more than 111 entrants may be eligible for the next round, the entrant with the highest number of Super Votes will go through.
8. The winner will be the person whose entry is considered by the judges to be the photograph that best captures the spirit of PlayStation. Runners-up prizes will be awarded to the next 10 entries judged to be excellent. The next 100 best entries in the opinion of the judges will also win a prize. The decision of the judges is final.
9. The winners will be selected within 14 days of the closing date specified above.
10. Prizes:
- The overall winner will win a Sony digital camera and a cheque in the amount of €1,000 or the equivalent amount in the winner's local currency calculated at the exchange rate at the date of the winner's prize notification (see paragraph11).
- The ten runners up will each win €100 or the equivalent amount in the winner's local currency calculated at the exchange rate at the date of the winner's prize notification (see paragraph11).
- The 100 next best entries will each win a PlayStation® game (to be decided by the winning entrants) or a voucher to spend on the PlayStation® Network.
If the winner or any of the 10 runners-up are residents of Italy, Norway or Portugal, their prize will comprise non-money items of an equivalent value to the prizes set out above.
11. The winners will be notified by e-mail or telephone within 30 days after the closing date and must claim their prize within 30 days after the notification. Prizes shall be dispatched by registered post to the address specified by the entrant in their prize acceptance e-mail unless the entrant gives the Promoter reasonable notice of an alternative address. The Promoter will use reasonable endeavors to dispatch the prize within 14 days of notification but does not accept any responsibility for prizes that are dispatched later than this.
12. By submitting an entry to this Promotion or uploading a photograph to the Website, you grant to the Promoter a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully transferable right to use, copy, modify, publish and display any content which you post on or upload to the Website, and to incorporate it in other works. You waive any moral rights which you may have in this content. You represent and warrant that you have all rights and have obtained all consents necessary to grant the rights set out in this paragraph and elsewhere in these rules. By way of example only, possible uses of your photograph by the Promoter include, without limitation, broadcast television advertising, email campaigns, consumer brochures, print advertising, point-of-sale promotional material, packaging for PlayStation® products, public-relations material and press releases, posters and on the Promoter's websites and the PlayStation® Network and by submitting a photograph to the Website you consent to the Promoter using your entry for such purposes.
13. The Promoter may, at its sole discretion, publish the winner's name and country of residence on the Website or other of Promoter's websites. The winner's details (name and country) will be made available on request to those enclosing a stamped SAE marked “We Are PlayStation Photo Competition” to the following address: 10 Great Marlborough Street, London, W1F 7LP within 10 weeks of the closing date specified above. Do not send entries to this address.
14. General Rules apply to this promotion. Please click here to view the General Rules.
15. The Promoter is:
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited,
10 Great Marlborough Street,
London, W1F 7LP,
United Kingdom.
