TERMS & CONDITIONS FULL OFFICIAL RULES Luca Memorial Photo
Contest 2025 Worldwide edition

Last updated: 24 March 2025 Rev. 0.0.0.a

The Contest hosted by Luca Memorial (the “Host”) is in no way
sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, Google, Linkedin or Pinterest. NO PURCHASE
OF LUCA MEMORIAL PRODUCTS OR SERVICES IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE
OF LUCA MEMORIAL PRODUCTS OR SERVICES DOES NOT INCREASE THE CHANCES OF WINNING.

INDEX:

1. Validity of these Rules

2. Eligibility

2.a Non-repeat Rule for Winners

2.b Originality requirement for
winners

3. Agreement to Rules

4. Contest Duration and Rounds

4.a Golden Passes to ‘Most Liked’
featured photos

4.b Other Golden Passes to FINALE

4.c TOP50
photos selection during each Round

4.d TOP15
video selection during each Round

5. Categories and Category
Requirements

6. How to participate

7. Jury and Judging Process

8. Winner Selection and
Notification

8.a. Standard Round

8.b. Yearly Final Round (FINALE)

9. Prizes

9.a. Standard Rounds

9.b. Yearly Final Round (FINALE)

10. Odds

11. Rights Granted by You

12. Further Privacy and Copyright

13. Terms & Conditions

14. Limitation of Liability

15. Sales

16. Disputes

17. Privacy Policy

18. Winners List

19. Host contact info

These rules are applicable
to the Luca Memorial Photo Contest 2025 Worldwide edition (the “Contest”):
standard rounds every 4 months and yearly final round (FINALE 2025). Rules can
be reviewed and changed without limitations before any round start as well as
before the final round start.

The below rules
prevail above any discrepancy with any other guideline or explanation reported
elsewhere in https://submit.lucamemorial.org,
https://lucamemorial.org, Facebook/Instagram post and ads,
or any other web or social network managed by Host. Any other source of
information not directly managed by Host, including Facebook shares, must be
considered null by all participants.

Any possible
discrepancy, ambiguity or misunderstanding in these rules can only be resolved
by the Host, who will update these rules accordingly to correct and
extend them accordingly to the needs to avoid such issues in future.

The
Luca Memorial Photo Contest Worldwide edition (the “Contest”) is open
only to those who sign up at https://submit.lucamemorial.org and who are 21 years of age or older as of the date
of entry. Where minimum legal age is higher, participant must comply with local
laws minimum age requirements. The Contest is void where prohibited by
law. Employees of Host, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and
promotion agencies, and suppliers, (collectively the “Employees”), and
immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees
are not eligible to participate in the Contest. The Contest is
subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void
where prohibited.

The
Contest categories explicitly include and accept:

1. CANYONS: Icy, wet and dry canyons.

2. CAVES: Rock, ice/glacier, and underwater
natural/coral caves or man-made abandoned underground structures and mines, as
well as urban caving.

Entries
must have been taken during the current year (2025) to opt to win any prize.
NOTE: Photos taken after 25th December 12:00am CET of
previous year, are considered valid when submitted in the following year
contest

To distribute the prize
among more winners, as well as to ensure that awarded photographers can
confidently submit more amazing photos without ‘hogging it all’, we have in
place some complex rules. The currently in force at any moment are stated at:  
https://lucamemorial.org/enter/#NONREPEATRULE

Entries eligible to
win any prize require to have a minimum originality and not be recognizably
similar to past winners or already participating photos. The Host might
invalidate, suspend, block or delete at any moment an Entry, when the
lack of originality might be detected or determined, including:

– before,
during or after conclusion of any Judging (Round or Finale). The Host
will document the decision to the Jury, if Judging has already concluded.

– before,
during or after conclusion of any Raffle.

The Host can at its
sole discretion consider an entry is lacking originality when:

– It
is recognizable as having been taken at the same geographical place than
another entry already submitted in another round during the current year.

– It
is recognizable as having been taken at the same geographical place than
another entry already nominated FINALIST during the current or previous rounds,
during the current or previous year.

– It
is recognizable as having been taken at the same geographical place than
another entry already nominated WINNER:

o Raffle
Winners: during the current or previous year

o Round
Winners, FINALE Winners or Brand/Product Award winners: during the last 10
years.

– The
above rules will apply even if Entry has not been taken at the same
geographical place, but still it is recognizable as very similar, clearly
inspired, or strongly mimics another entry in the described above cases.

Originality
compliance or non-compliance is determined at sole discretion and criteria of
the Host, who reserves the right to require or not require this
compliance to any entry opting to win a prize. Any taken decision is final and
not subject to discussion nor opposition by any Participant.

AI:

Use of AI on photos
and videos is not accepted: generative, corrective or whatever kind of AI
manipulation that changes the photo appearance, scene or any elements making it
visibly differ from the original scene. Such as but not limited to :

–         
enhance
the photo resolution, sharpness or improve the quality of the photo.

–         
add/remove/edit
any element in the photo that would lead to presenting a scene that never existed
in reality (with added, changed or removed elements). Including colour or image
property corrections.

PLAGIARISM:

The Host
does not have the capacity nor the obligation to detect any plagiarism of
previous year non-winning photos. Active Participant during the year who
feels their photo/s from previous years have been plagiarized, copied, or
closely mimicked, can appeal to Host to reject another participant’s photo. The
Host will at its sole discretion invalidate, accept, or
wait-and-see the appealed photo. To avoid controversy, the Host by default will
wait-and-see. If the appealed photo is having chances to become a winner, the
host might decide to tacitly invalidate the entry or contact its author and
inform about the appeal. The author will have 7 days to reply with past
evidences that might demonstrate that his or other people’s very close similar
creations were well prior to the plagiarized photo date. If an own or third person prior creation or common domain (common
typical photo spot, common typical photo layout, …) can be demonstrated, the
Host might decide to not invalidate the entry or any received prize by the
appealed photo. ´The decision taken by Host, cannot be appealed by any party.

 

By participating,
the Participant (“You”) agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these
Rules, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility
requirements. In addition, You agree to accept the
decisions of Host as final and binding as it relates to the content of
this Contest.

The contest has an annual
duration, all indicated times are Central European Time (CET).

· STANDARD
ROUNDS

Prizes and
conditions to win will be specifically announced for each Round.

The Entries will enter the
contest at the date of submission, unless explicitly indicated by Host:

For example:

a photo is taken during an outing
in January 2025

that photo is submitted to the
Contest in July 2025

THEN the photo will compete in the
May-August round of the Contest.

 

Entries received during one round (i.e.
Round January-April) can still be featured in the next Round (i.e. Round
May-August) and will account as valid participants in the Round when they are
featured.

>Round 1:
January – April 2025:

Starts at 00:00 1^st January 2025.

End at 23:59 30 April 2025.

>Round 2: May –
August 2025:

Starts at 00:00 1^st May 2025.

End at 23:59 31 August 2025.

>Round 3:
September – December 2025:

Starts at 00:00 1^st September 2025.

End at 23:59 31 December 2025.

 

 

· YEARLY
FINAL ROUND (the ’FINALE’):

Start, details and
Announcement date to be announced before 25^th January of following year by Luca
Memorial web, newsletter and Facebook/Instagram post (@lucamemorial.contest).

Standard Prizes and
conditions to enter FINALE win will be specifically announced before 1^st
April of the present year, additional Prizes (BRAND AWARDS) will be announced
before 1^st December of the present year.

Official time is
CET Central European Time, unless stated otherwise.

 

4.a GOLDEN PASSES TO FINALE TO ‘MOST
LIKED Featured Photos’:

Host will publish frequently “Daily
Featured Photos” on its social networks. The top 50 ones with higher sum of likes
on Instagram + Facebook (as per ‘4c TOP50 selection’) will enter the FINALE directly (maximum 1
entry per person). Participants will be asked to choose which entry to pass, if
more than one of their entries has reached TOP50
during the different rounds. By default, the one having received most likes
will pass.

Any photo receiving a golden pass
must still comply with the eligibility rules of ‘2. Eligibility’ . The golden
pass can be revoked at any moment if it is determined that the photo holding it
do not comply with the required eligibility.

Host might at its sole discretion
decide to assign a revoked ‘Most Liked’ golden pass to next in ranking photo,
or just considering the position deserted.

4.b OTHER GOLDEN PASSES TO FINALE (the ’FINALE’):

Host might at its sole discretion award
Photos of other contests organized or not by Host a “GOLDEN PASS” that
would benefit the photo to directly participate in the annual FINAL ROUND of
the Contest, if host considers it justified to do so.

Host might concede GOLDEN PASS as
well as to photos that did not qualify as finalists, to replace disqualified
photos or for any other justified reason.

Host will use this right with parsimony
and attempting to minimize it to only if strictly necessary and never exceeding
15 GOLDEN PASSES/year (except when substituting disqualified finalist photos
that might have generated an imbalance or vacancy). 4.c
TOP50 PHOTOS SELECTION DURING EACH ROUND

Summed Instagram + Facebook likes
count will be taken as the raking criteria, when two posts have the same total
likes, the Reach reported by Instagram+Facebook will
be accounted instead. Observation will be made between the 5^th and
15^th day of the following month after round end.

To minimize social platform
algorithm bias or changes happening with time, a sampling process per month
will be adopted.

For each category:

· the
ranking in each month will be analysed and the Top5
posts will be elected. If any author appears in multiple months, only his
highest ranked post will be kept and the rest of places will be assigned to
next author in monthly ranking. A list of 20 posts with unique authors will be
obtained in this way.

· another
5 posts from non-matching authors will be picked from the Round global ranking,

· summing
25 unique author posts for each category

>> This process will provide
25 unique author posts for each category (25 Caving  + 25 Canyoning) to be
used for the Random drawn from round TOP50.

 

Each author will be requested to
confirm which photo he selects to enter the Judging process. The author’s
selected photo can be of any of featured posts of his during the Round. With no
reply within 3 days by Participant, the mot liked post cover photo will
be used by Host.

>> This process will provide
25 unique author photos for each category to be submitted as TOP50 photos to the Round Jury (25 Canyoning + 25 Caving).

>>SPECIAL NOTE:

All unpublished entries received
during one Round, will be considered to be featured in next Rounds.

Some authors might not receive a
chance to be featured during the Round, this is specially true for late received entries.

Starting 2025, Jury evaluation is
only done at the FINALE, but Host can at it discretion
add a Jury evaluation at any Round, if it considers it necessary.

The Host, if it considers it
necessary for a more equal and fair contest for those
who have not had a chance to be featured, can at it
sole discretion make adjustments such as: – open the Jury evaluation to “ALL
PARTICIPANTS”, in stead to only to the TOP50. – announce extra random picks.

 

4.d TOP15
VIDEO SELECTION DURING EACH ROUND

Same as article ‘4.c’ applied to:

Without category differentiation:

· the
ranking in each month will be analysed and the Top3
posts will be elected. If any author appears in multiple months, only his
highest ranked post will be kept and the rest of places will be assigned to
next author in monthly ranking. A list of 12 posts with unique authors will be
obtained in this way.

· another
3 posts from non-matching authors will be picked from the Round global ranking,

· summing
15 unique author posts

>> This process will provide
15 unique author posts for to be used for the Random drawn from round TOP15 videos.

 

Entries will be
accepted in TWO categories:

1. Caving (Photos)

2. Canyoning (Photos)

Photos submitted (the Entries)
in the categories must have been taken while the below sports are being
practiced, in any circumstance or situation, but not necessarily by the
photographer:

· Caving:
Rock, ice/glacier, and underwater natural/coral caves or man-made abandoned
underground structures and mines, as well as urban caving.

· Canyoning: Icy, wet and dry canyons.

· MAXIMUM
PER MONTH: no
maximum

· MAXIMUM
PER ROUND: no
maximum · MAXIMUM PER YEAR: 5 photos per participant must be selected at year end from
ALL submitted during the year. Host will request participants to make a
selection approaching year end, as well as after year end. In case of lack of
selection, Host can at its sole discretion criteria, accept all of them, make a
selection, or fully disqualify the contestant.

Host reserves the right to reject
any submitted Entries that might not suit these subjective
considerations, at the sole discretion of Host.

Rejection of specific Entries
that Host considers to not fulfil the criteria for admission can take place at
any time, even after initial acceptation and publication in the Gallery.

§ QUORUM
requirements:

During any ROUND, a category will be
declared void if the minimum quorum is note reached.

· Caving
(Photos): MINIMUM 120 photos, MINIMUM 30 participants

· Canyoning
(Photos): MINIMUM 120 photos, MINIMUM 30 participants

If minimum quorum is not reached in
a given category, Host can at its sole discretion criteria REVOKE the
contest in that category OR EXTEND the contest in that category till next round
deadline, OR MAINTAIN the contest in that category. When a minimum quorum is
REVOKED or EXTENDED, neither PHOTO nor PHOTOGRAPHER winner will be chosen or
awarded in that category during the current round.

§ QUALITY requirements:

During any ROUND, a category can be
declared void and the contest in that category will be revoked due to lack of
quality WHEN no valid Entries complying with the category requirements
have been selected as possible winner by more than 1/3 of the Jury members. In
this case Host might, at its sole discretion, decide whether to declare the
category deserted or not.

Host might also, at its sole
discretion, declare a category deserted due to insufficient quality of
submitted Entries, if Host finds justified reasons for it, and more that
50% of the Jury members approves the decision.

In the case a category is declared
DESERTED, neither PHOTO nor PHOTOGRAPHER will be chosen or awarded in that
category. Host will erase all submitted entries and stop using any submitted
content in future.

§ ADDITIONS, CHANGES, EXCEPTIONS, DISQUALIFICATIONS:

Host might, at its sole discretion
add or change categories, add or change the accepted sports in a category, or
accept as exception the participation of submitted Entries that do not
strictly comply with the category requirements, if Host believes that doing
this is justified for whatever reason by the circumstances.

Host will limit as much as possible
the changes and additions during a standard round when already started, but
Host has complete freedom to introduce changes in the rules at any time.

Host can at its sole discretion
provide “GOLDEN PASSES” to any photo never submitted before to participate in
the final round, for whatever reason, up to 24h
before the starting date of the final round.

Host can at its sole discretion
dismiss and invalidate any photo accepted to participate in a standard or final
round, if Host believes that doing this is justified at its sole discretion
(cheating, false or misleading information, rules objection, complaints, not
worthiness, mistakes, etc.), up to 24h before the
round established closure deadline.

Invalidated photos will be deleted
from gallery and archive whenever possible, but they will not be erased from
already published Instagram posts when doing so would require the deletion of
the full post, or when the entry is embedded in an Instagram or Facebook post
that would also require its full deletion.

6.a In the
Luca Memorial Photo Contest Rounds and FINALE:

Contest is open to receive photos (the “Entries”)
submitted by photographers according to its category:

§ Entries
must have been made during an excursion while practicing the sports included in
‘5. Categories and Category requirements’, by an active participant, a
spectator, or a drone.

§ The Contest
must be entered by submitting an entry using the online form/s provided at https://submit.lucamemorial.org
and indicated
categories. The Entries must fulfil all Contest requirements, as
specified, to be eligible to win a prize. Entries that are incomplete or
do not adhere to the rules or specifications may be rejected at the sole
discretion of Host. Entries entered in the wrong category by mistake or
considered to be in the wrong category at Host discretion, might be relocated
by Host.

§ The Entries
theme is open. Any type of photography is permitted: B & W, vertical /
horizontal, selfie, group, technique, landscape, allegorical, etc. Preferably
it is invited to immortalize the natural beauty of the host region, the sports’
adventure, friendship, and shared joy: all principles and values that defined
Luca Chiarabini.

§ Entries must NOT have been digitally or
otherwise notably modified to change the original impression. Only some
adjustment in brightness, contrast and colour saturation are allowed. In dark
environments, a postprocessing digital enhancement is allowed to eliminate
noise, dust and other defects, if the overall appearance of the Entries
is maintained.

§ HDR
is allowed. Multiple expositions Entries and panoramic photo with
stitching and stacking are also accepted but only when taken consecutively at
the same location.

§ For each
entry, You must fill up and comply with what is being
requested in the entry form at https://submit.lucamemorial.org.

§ You may
not enter more times than indicated by using multiple email addresses, social
networks accounts, identities, or devices in an attempt to circumvent the
rules. If You use fraudulent methods or otherwise attempt to circumvent the
rules, Your whole submissions may be removed from
eligibility at the sole discretion of Host as well as ban the
participation of the person suspected of cheating for life, in past and future
contests.

§ Entries must be submitted according to the
deadlines. Host reserves the right to extend these deadlines at its own
criteria.

§ Members
of the Jury and those who actively organize this Contest cannot
participate in the Contest as Photographers in the same round that is
being judged. Judges can however participate as photographers in rounds that
will not be judged by them. Photographers that do not have any of their photos
competing in a round, can act as judges of that round.

§ No
responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason.

§ All
persons appearing in photographs must be at least the age of majority as of the
date of the photograph. If the subject of an image is a minor (under the age of
18), the creator must possess a written consent from parents or legal guardian
of the minor according to local law.

§ Images
that have been previously published or submitted to other contests, may be
submitted to this contest, but the participant is required to inform Host
about it by the contact email indicated on https://submit.lucamemorial.org or contest@lucamemorial.org

§ Host may disqualify any entry that
contains references which are (or promote activities that are) obscene, crude,
vulgar, or derogatory of any group, or references to illegal or inappropriate
activity, behaviour or conduct, or any other references that could be
considered inappropriate, unsuitable or offensive, as determined by Host,
in its sole discretion.

§ Each
participating Photographer represents and warrants that: (A) it owns or has the
necessary licenses, rights, consents and permissions: (1) to use all material
and content submitted in its entry (the “Content”), and (2) to grant to Host,
and hereby grants to the Host, the perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive,
royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable right to use, reproduce,
distribute and otherwise display the Content in any format; and (B) to its
knowledge, the participant Photographer declares its Content does not violate
any law or the privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights of any other
person. The above license is irrevocable.

§ Each
participating Photographer represents and warrants that all information
contained in its entry form is/are true and accurate. Each participating
Photographer grants Host the right to use its name and any information
in the registration and entry form, in the Gallery as well as written and oral
statements for advertising and marketing purposes, without compensation, unless
otherwise prohibited by law.

§ Participating
Photographers agree to be bound by these Official Rules and all decisions of
the Host, whose decisions will be final and binding.

6.b In
random draws and another raffles/contest organized by Luca Memorial, in
parallel or as stand-alone:

§ The
rules explicitly expressed for each random draw, raffle or parallel/stand-alone
contest will be provided separately and independently.

§ The
randomness of the draw will be certified by a third-party public record (i.e. www.randompicker.com)

· STANDARD ROUND:

Starting 2025, Jury
Judging is done only during annual FINALE. However, Host can at its own
discretion re-add a Judging process in any Round at any moment, if it considers
it necessary.

A jury of minimum 3
person will be designated as Jury.

Jury members can be
photographers, canyoneers, cavers or nature and photo
enthusiasts, and they will evaluate the submitted photos according to a mix of
their own personal criteria about beauty, technicality, creativity, impact, and
innovation.

The selection of
the Jury is made by Host at its sole discretion.

The #1 Entry in
each category, which also complies the specific rules cited in the 2.a “NON-REPEAT Rule for Winners”, will be nominated #1
Photo Round Winner of the category.

The #1 Entry made
by a Non-professional (AMATEUR) author in the alternate category, which
also complies the specific rules cited in the 2.a
“NON-REPEAT Rule for Winners”, will be declared #1 Amateur Photo.

‘Amateur’
participants are defined accordingly to what is reported at any moment at https://lucamemorial.org/juryconcept#AMATEURS.
Classification is made according to the moment of presenting the picture to the
contest. Unless revoked by Host, the classification is kept till year
end.

Host reserves the right to reconfirm,
check and modify the classification as NON-AMATEUR at any time, at tits sole
discretion. Host will specifically consider NON-AMATEURs

– any
photographer found to have publicly offer his photos to be bought in the past,
disregarding if an effective sell was made or not.

– Any
photographer that is a photo professional (wedding photographer etc)

– Any photographer selling photo books (main focus on the photos,
not in other contents like location, story…)

· FINAL ROUND

The Jury will be
composed by a minimum of 0% and a maximum of 30% from past edition winners or
past rounds winning photographers not competing in the final round. The
selection of the Jury is made complying the previous rule by Host at its
sole discretion, however a random and rotary turn principle will be applied
whenever possible.

Judging process
will be same as in standard rounds. Photos will participate in FINAL ROUND
competing altogether, indistinctly from category.

The winner photo
will be nominated #1PHOTO OF THE YEAR.

Winners will be
announced within maximum 20 days after the end of each deadline.

Once all winners
are confirmed, Host will make the winner announcement on websites, newsletter
and Facebook/Instagram account.

8.a.
STANDARD ROUND

8.a.1.
Winning Photographer

Starting 2025, Jury
Judging is done only during annual FINALE. However, Host can at its own
discretion re-add a Judging process in any Round at any moment, if it considers
it necessary.

Winner will be selected by Jury
selection under the supervision of Host.

Judging process result:

· 1
Winning #1 PHOTO in one category

· 1
Winning #1 AMATEUR PHOTO in the alternate category

Winning Photographer will be notified
within five (5) days following Winner selection. Host is entitled to request
all necessary information to control authenticity of participant and the
applied bonuses, if any. Host shall have no liability for Winner’s
failure to receive or reply notices, nor to provide the needed information.

Winning photographer will be
required the Photo in high resolution, Winning PHOTOGRAPHER biography and
winning photo circumstances.

Winners are required to make a
public post about their winning on their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other
social networks prior to receive any payment. Host will propose image and text.

Once all verifications have been
completed, Winner is confirmed as valid and Host will send an award
notification per email and wait for instruction of the winner where to transfer
the prize. If in 3 days after any notification was sent, the Winner fails to
timely return a completed and executed declaration and release as required, the
prize may be forfeited and an alternate Winner selected or declared deserted,
at discretion of Host.

Host reserves the right to change
the above-mentioned process, at its sole discretion and for whatever reason, if
Host believes it is justified to do so.

Any other
parallel contest to the STANDARD ROUNDS (raffles, VOTING contests, etc) will be
announced and rules set up and published separately.

8.b.
YEARLY FINAL ROUND (FINALE)

All ‘TOP50 round’ photos of each ROUND will enter the FINALE
(max 1 photo per participant). Participants with more than one photo as TOP50 during the year will be requested to select one. In
absence of selection with the communicated deadlines, Host will make a
selection.

All submitted photo
during the year (maximum 10 photos per participant) will still be pre-selected
and evaluated by a PRE-FINALE JURY (that can be the same or differ from the
FINALE JURY). ‘TOP 50 pre-finale’ photos will enter FINALE.

Host can extend or
reduce this size of ‘TOP50 round’ or ‘TOP50 pre-finale photos’ its sole discretion and for
whatever reason, if Host believes it is justified to do so.

Host can grant “GOLDEN PASSES” as
per ‘4.b Other Golden Passes to FINALE’, to enter
directly the final round to any photo not submitted, or submitted in other
contests organized or not by Host during the current year, if Host believes it
is justified to do so for whatever reason.

If any finalist
photo is disqualified or renounces to participate in final round, Host can
grant “GOLDEN PASSES” to enter directly the final round to any photo that
follows in the original ranking to occupy the competing place. The ranking
sequential order will be strictly followed during the offering.

Any other
parallel contest to the FINALE (VOTING contest, BRAND AWARDS, etc) will be
announced and rules set up and published separately.

Winning #1 Photo
of the Year will be selected by FINALE Jury selection under the supervision
of Host among all finalists’ photos, without distinction of category and round.

#1 Winning PHOTO,
which also must comply the specific rules cited in the 2.a
“NON-REPEAT Rule for Winners”, will be nominated #1 PHOTO OF THE YEAR

WARNING:

Receipt by Winners
of the prize offered in this Contest is conditioned upon compliance with
any and all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. ANY VIOLATION OF
THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY WINNER (AT HOST’S SOLE DISCRETION) WILL RESULT
IN WINNER’S DISQUALIFICATION AS WINNER OF THE CONTEST, AND ALL
PRIVILEGES AS WINNER WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED.

Host may require the prize winner to
execute an affidavit of eligibility, publicity release (except where
prohibited), liability waiver and/or IRS Form W-9 (if required by IRS
regulations) prior to the delivery of any prize (collectively, an “Affidavit”).

Host ‘s decision as to those able to
take part and selection of winners is final and irrevocable.

9.a.
STANDARD ROUNDS

Starting 2025, Jury
Judging is done only during annual FINALE. However, Host can at its own
discretion re-add a Judging process in any Round at any moment, if it considers
it necessary.

For the Winning #1 PHOTO in one category:
300 USD. Winners will be required to make a public post about their winning on
their Facebook & Instagram prior to receive the payment. Host will propose
image and text.

For the Winning #1 AMATEUR PHOTO in
the alternate category: 300 USD per photographer. THIS PRIZE IS NOT
ACCUMULATIVE: if the #1 PHOTO is made by an AMATEUR, it will be assigned to
next ranked amateur photo. Winners will be required to make a public post about
their winning on their Facebook & Instagram prior to receive the payment.
Host will propose image and text.

Other prizes: product awards,
random raffles etc as well as applying specific rules are subject to specific
announcements during the year.

Host can revoke, amend or cancel Round prizes at any time, up to 24h
before Round end.

9.b.
YEARLY FINAL ROUND (FINALE)

For the Winning #1 PHOTOGRAPHER of
the photo of the year: $3000 USD. Winners are required to make a public post
about their winning on their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social
networks prior to receive any payment. Host will propose image and text.

NOTE “Cash prizes are not
accumulative during the year”: for any winner already receiving for any reason
any sponsorship, prize or compensation during the year by Luca Memorial, the
already received sponsorship, prize, or compensation will be deducted from the
new prize, and only the additional part (if any) will be awarded to the winner.
Prizes are not accumulative, if the same person wins more than one prize, only
the maximum prize will be awarded.

Host is not responsible for inaccurate
prize details supplied to any entrant by any third party connected with this
competition.

Host can amend, modify or cancel any of
the above prizes or any of the here described rules at any moment prior to the
starting date of a Standard Round as well as the Final Round, for whatever
reason and at its sole discretion. Once a Round has started the prize changes
will not be effective on the ongoing round but will be effective on all rounds
still pending to start.

The Winner(s) of
the Contest (the “Winner”) will receive the above-mentioned prizes. No
prize substitution shall be permitted except at Host discretion. The
prize is non-transferable. Any and all prize-related expenses, including
without limitation any and all federal, state, and/or local taxes (if any),
shall be the sole responsibility of Winner. No substitution of prize or
transfer/assignment of prize to others or request for the cash equivalent by
Winner is permitted. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission for Host
to use Winner’s name, likeness, and entry for purposes of advertising and trade
without further compensation, unless prohibited by law.

The odds of winning
as a Photographer depend on the number of eligible entries received, the
quality of the photo, and the discretional taste of the Jury

The odds of winning
as a Voter/Liker depend on the number of votes casted and the discretional
taste of the voter to pick the photo that will end up being awarded by the
Jury, and the luck of being selected randomly among all other voters.

NOTE: Our contest is an International
Worldwide Contest, so we need to have our rights protected in front of a
worldwide legal environment. Any non-professional photographer will have no issue in the below
“rights granted by you”. IF for any professional compromise you cannot accept
the rules below for some of your photos, contact us at legal@lucamemorial.org
BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR PHOTOS. We will do our best to consider your special
situation, and if we found it justified, we would eventually execute in your
favour a limited partial release of the rights granted by you.

Host acknowledges that You
retain full ownership of the copyright in each Entry. By submitting Content (e.g.,
photo, video, text, etc.), You understand and agree that Host, anyone
acting on behalf of Host, and Host’s licensees, successors, and
assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish,
broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed,
in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, Your entry, name,
portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the Contest,
and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade,
advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes, without any further
compensation, notice, review, or consent. Non-winning entries may be used as
above for a period not to exceed 3 years from the end of the annual Contest.

By entering this content, You represent and warrant that Your entry is an original
work of authorship, and does not violate any third party’s proprietary or
intellectual property rights. If Your entry infringes upon the intellectual
property right of another, You will be disqualified at
the sole discretion of Host. If the content of Your entry is claimed to
constitute infringement of any proprietary or intellectual proprietary rights
of any third party, You shall, at Your sole expense,
defend or settle against such claims. You shall indemnify, defend, and hold
harmless Host from and against any suit, proceeding, claims, liability, loss,
damage, costs or expense, which Host may incur, suffer, or be required to pay
arising out of such infringement or suspected infringement of any third party’s
right.

(see
also “chapter 12. Further Privacy and Copyright”)

Host acknowledges that You
retain full ownership of the copyright in each Entry. All images submitted for
consideration remain the sole property of the photographer. Entrants retain
copyright over each of their images.

The winning images
will be transferred free of charge to the Host in high resolution for
use, as detailed below.

All images
submitted in the Contest can be freely used by the Host for
online or paper publications with a label indicating the author, according to
what stated below. Entrants grant Host and its affiliates, subsidiaries
and partners the sublicensable, non-exclusive, worldwide and perpetual right to
use and exploit the submitted images without compensation in the context of
sales, promotions, marketing, advertising, events and exhibitions of all kind.
This includes the perpetual and worldwide use of the submitted images in any
media, in particular any print-media (e.g. magazines, newspapers, books) and
electronic/digital offline and online media (e.g. Host or associated
websites and its affiliates, or social internet platforms and third-party
networks and websites). Non-winning entries may be used as above for a period
not to exceed 3 years from the end of the annual Contest. Credits will be
given according to the customary practice in the media business. Whenever
credit directly on photo will be aesthetically not viable or appropriate,
credits in accompanying text will be used.

If photo is
reproduced or used multiple time in the same unity (web site, social post,
magazine, book) Host is explicitly authorized by photographer to credit only
once his copyright. In particular circumstances Host can void totally the
credit of the photo (banners, buttons, thumbnails, …), as long as it is made
visible or available a link to a unity where the photo is duly credited
(article, web site, post, video, …)

Each Participant
is responsible for material submitted by him in the Contest.

The organizers of
the Contest disclaim any responsibility towards competitors, third
parties and any subject represented in photographs sent to the Contest.

Each competitor
must be the sole author of the photographs, and images submitted must be
original owned and not of a third party.

Authors who can
demonstrate to have been transferred the rights and benefits of the photos from
the original author (email, call, public post) will be valid. Both authors will
be cited with the photo: active rights holder and original author.

Host shall have the right, at its sole
discretion and at any time, to change or modify these terms and conditions,
such change shall be effective immediately upon posting to the link https://lucamemorial.org/ruleswwYYYYY, where yyyy is
the present year in numbers.

Host also reserves the right to cancel
the Contest if circumstances arise outside of its control.

Host reserves the right, in its sole
discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest should
virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud, or other cause beyond Host’s
control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper
conduct of the Contest. In such case, Host may select the Winner
from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the
action taken by Host. Host reserves the right, in its sole
discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with
the entry process or the operation of the Contest or website or violates
these Terms & Conditions. Host has the right, in its sole
discretion, to maintain the integrity of the Contest, to void votes for
any reason, including, but not limited to: multiple entries from the same user
from different IP addresses; multiple entries from the same computer in excess
of those allowed by Contest rules; or the use of bots, macros, scripts,
or other technical means for entering. Any attempt by an entrant to
deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest
may be a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such attempt be made, Host
reserves the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.

The Host reserve
the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend any part or all of the Contest
if the Contest cannot operate as planned due to causes beyond the
control of Host that corrupt or affect the administration, security,
fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest.

By entering, You
agree to release and hold harmless Host and its subsidiaries,
affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, partners, representatives,
agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors from any
liability, illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim, or damage that may
occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (a)
such entrant’s participation in the Contest and/or his/her acceptance,
possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (b) technical
failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunction of any
computer, cable, network, hardware, or software, or other mechanical equipment;
(c) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or Internet
service; (d) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process
or the Contest; (e) electronic or human error in the administration of
the Contest or the processing of entries; (f) risky, hazardous or
negligent behaviour of anyone taking the photo or assisting for it.

Host is not responsible for any
printing errors in any materials made available to participants. Host
shall not be responsible for lost, late, misidentified, misdirected or
incomplete entries or telecommunication or computer hardware or software
performance, errors, delays or failures. If, for any reason, the fairness or
integrity of the Contest becomes compromised, or Host’s
administration or fulfilment of the Contest becomes impracticable, Host
reserves the right to terminate or modify the Contest, and to disqualify
any individual who tampers with the administration of the Contest.

In the event a
physical media (e.g. book with semi-finalist images or digital edition thereof,
as well as permanent or itinerant exhibition ) is produced by Host, all
profits generated resulting from the sale of such media will remain within Host.

Being Host a
non-profit entity, profits (if any) will be used exclusively for new Contests:
prizes, promotion and advertising.

THIS Contest
IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF SWITZERLAND BEING LUGANO COURT THE ONLY COMPETENT,
WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating
in this Contest, Participant agrees that any and all disputes
that cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out
of or connected with this Contest, shall be resolved individually,
without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before the Court in
Lugano. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall Participant
be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to, punitive,
incidental, or consequential damages, including indirect and attorney’s fees,
other than Participant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e. costs
associated with entering this Contest). Participant further
waives all rights to have damages multiplied, increased, punitive, incidental
or consequential.

If disputes shall
be finally settled under the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber
of Commerce by one arbitrator appointed in accordance with said rules. The
place of the arbitration shall be Geneva, Switzerland.

Entrant
acknowledges that his/her personal data submitted or entered will be registered
in electronic form by methods of automated data processing by Host to
process the data as described in the privacy policy.

Information
submitted with an entry is subject to the Privacy Policy stated on the Host
website. To read the Privacy Policy: https://lucamemorial.org/privacy-policy/

Official winners
list will be published at http://lucamemorial.org and/or http://submit.lucamemorial.org/ within 20 days after the
deadline of the Contest.

To obtain the Winner’s
name or a copy of these Official Rules, mail Your request along with a stamped,
self-addressed envelope to Host. Requests must be received no later than
45 days after the Contest deadline.

The Host of the Contest is Associazione Luca Chiarabini Memorial, Via Nassa 15, 6900,
Lugano.

If any term or provision set forth
herein is invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, such
invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other term or
provision set forth herein or invalidate or render unenforceable such term or
provision in any other jurisdiction.

By clicking the [ENTER],
[SUBMIT],[VOTE],[LIKE][CONTINUE] buttons or any similar or equivalent button,
or by entering into the Contest by any other mean, will be deemed as
acceptance of these terms and conditions. You, the “Participant”
participating in this contest, have affirmatively reviewed, agreed and
accepted, all above Official Rules.

The Host reserves the right
to review and revise these Rules from time to time. You should therefore from
time to time review the current Rules because they are binding on You. In case
You object to the changes we may need to exclude Your respective submissions and
entries from the Contest. Participants in already started contests might
in some occasions be specifically notified of changes by Host, at Host
discretion. You will be deemed to have accepted any such changes if we do not
receive any objection in the two weeks subsequently to have sent the
notification.