Eligibility
No purchase necessary. You must be eighteen or over to submit an entry in the contest and you may not submit a photo of anyone other than yourself without their consent. By submitting an entry, you are verifying that you are eighteen years old or older and that the photo you submitted is a photo of you or a person who has expressly consented to allowing you to post their photo on their behalf. Animal Attraction reserves the exclusive right to disqualify any entry at any time, for reasons it, in its sole discretion, believes are not in keeping with the “spirit of the contest”.
Acceptable Photos
All photos must incorporate pets to be considered for the contest. We cannot accept photos of non-companion animals. We adhere to the guidelines of the Humane Society of the United State for our definition of non-companion animals. In addition, AnimalAttraction.com will use its own judgment to determine acceptable content for the contest.
Prize Winners
Winners will be selected on a monthly basis by a committee from AnimalAttraction.com. The winner will be selected from among the photos with the highest average rating average from among the top 10 vote getters. The rating average is calculated by dividing the total score for an individual photo by the number of voters for that photo. Winners will have 30 days from notification to claim their prize.
The amount of the monthly prizes may change and will be published on the AnimalAttraction.com website at the beginning of each month’s contest period. Taxes are the sole responsibility of the prize winner. Contest entrants are only allowed to win once per calendar year.
To protect the integrity of the contest, there is a maximum of one (1) voting session per person, per day. Voters with the same IP address will receive a message that they have reached the maximum allowable daily sessions when they have done so.
Intellectual Properties
Animal Attraction owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of Animal Attraction, and its licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given written permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information. By posting information or content to any public area of Animal Attraction, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Animal Attraction and other Animal Attraction Members an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sub-licenses of the foregoing.
Content Posted on the Site
You understand and agree that Animal Attraction may review and delete photos that in the sole judgment of Animal Attraction violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Members.
You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit to other Members.
By posting Content to any public area of Animal Attraction, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Animal Attraction an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
You must use participate in the contest in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations. Specifically, you agree that:
- you will not impersonate any person or entity;
- you will not post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such proprietary rights;
- you will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in the Site;
- you will not interfere with or disrupt the Services or the Site or the servers or networks Connected to the Services or the Site;
- you will not post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- you will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Service;
- you will not "frame" or "mirror" any part of the Site, without our prior written authorization;
- you also shall not use meta tags or code or other devices containing any reference to Animal Attraction or the Service or the Site in order to direct any person to any other Web site for any purpose;
- you will not modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of the Site or any software used on or for the Site or cause others to do so.
Copyright Policy
You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our legal department with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf. Animal Attraction's legal department for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows: Legal Department, Animal Attraction Corporation, c/o Legal Department, 1734 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009
Disclaimers
Animal Attraction is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Website or in connection with the Service, whether caused by users of the Website, Members or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service. Animal Attraction is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the Service. Animal Attraction assumes 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, user or Member communications. Animal Attraction is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Website or combination thereof, including injury or damage to users and/or Members or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in connection with the Web and/or in connection with the Service. Under no circumstances will Animal Attraction be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from anyone's use of the Website or the Service, any Content posted on the Website or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the Website, whether online or offline. The Website and the Service are provided "AS-IS" and Animal Attraction expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Animal Attraction cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Website and/or the Service.
Limitation of Liability
Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will Animal Attraction be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including also lost profits arising from your use of the Website or the Service, even if Animal Attraction has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Animal Attraction's liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to Animal Attraction for the Service during the term of membership.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Animal Attraction, its affiliated companies, officers, directors, employees, agents, partners and third parties, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service, including without limitation: its, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) relating to or arising out of your use of the Animal Attraction service, including: (i) any breach of this Agreement; (ii) any allegation that any materials that you submit to us or transmit to the Site infringe or otherwise violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property or other rights of any third party; (iii) your activities in connection with the Site; and/or (iv) any act or omission of other Members or users (including unauthorized users, or "hackers") of the Service. This indemnity shall be applicable without regard to the negligence of any party, including any indemnified person.
Entire Agreement
Service, contains the entire agreement between you and Animal Attraction regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.