Terms & Conditions

Your submission of any comments, pictures, videos or any other content (“Content”) constitutes your agreement to allow your Content—and your name, city, state and country of residence—to be published on Bil-Jac's web site and newsletter, and used for promotions of Bil-Jac including, but not limited to, publications from Bil-Jac and other organizations, exhibitions, a photo calendar, a compilation book or electronic collection of photographs, online photo features and contests, and web pages and emails providing Bil-Jac information, updates, rules and photography tips. You will retain ownership and all other rights to future use of your Content.

Legal conditions: By submitting your Content, you agree to these submission rules and the following legal conditions:

By submitting your Content, you warrant that your submission materials are original, do not infringe on any third party’s rights, and that you have obtained any necessary permissions from any third party if a third party or third party’s property appears in the photograph. Bil-Jac has sole discretion and reserves the right to disqualify or remove any submission if it finds that any of the foregoing warranties are not true. Decisions of Bil-Jac shall be final and binding.

By submitting, you release and hold harmless Bil-Jac, its affiliated organizations, and each of their directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives (collectively, the "Companies") from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, claim, action, demand or damage of any kind arising from or related to Bil-Jac, any use of the submission materials by Bil-Jac, the warranties you make, any misuse or malfunction of any prize awarded, participation in any Bil-Jac-related activity, or participation in Bil-Jac.

You agree that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved with the Companies, and causes of action arising out of or connected with the Bil-Jac, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, before a court of competent jurisdiction, which court shall apply the laws of the State of Ohio without regard for rules of conflicts of law. In any such dispute, participant shall, under no circumstances, be entitled to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than your actual out-of-pocket expenses (if any) associated with participating in Bil-Jac. You hereby waiveall rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

Any attempt by an individual to deliberately damage any web site or undermine the legitimate operation of Bil-Jac is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, the Companies reserve the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.

The Companies are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by web site users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized by Bil-Jac, or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of submissions to Bil-Jac, including but not limited to any misprints or typographical errors. The Companies assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. The Companies are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer equipment, servers, providers, computer on-line systems, software, or failure of email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, including injury or damage to your or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from uploading images or information.

In no event will the Companies, their advertising and promotional agencies, or their directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising out of participant’s access to and use of the Companies’ web sites, or the downloading or uploading and/or printing of material from said sites. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Companies’ sites is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. Some jurisdictions may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so some of the foregoing limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding these limitations or exclusions.

Your contact information may be shared with other Bil-Jac departments.

Bil-Jac is not responsible for lost, damaged, late or misdirected submissions, or for uploading connections, garbled transmissions, unauthorized intervention or technical malfunctions. Void where prohibited.