Rules
General rules
1. FAO reserves the right to disqualify submissions which are not consistent with the Organization’s values and guiding principles.
2. FAO also reserves the right to verify the eligibility of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant’s identity and address) and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these rules, copyright and privacy, or who tampers with the entry process.
3. FAO will not pay any fees for, nor pay any costs relating to, the entry of the photograph(s) for their use as described below.
4. No logos, URLs, telephone numbers, or calls that solicit directly for monetary donations should be included in any material.
5. FAO will not be responsible, and cannot be held liable, for incomplete, lost, late, misdirected or illegible entries or for failure to receive entries due to transmission failures or technical failures of any kind, including, without limitation, malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software, whether originating with sender or for any human error, lost/delayed data transmission, or any other error or malfunction.
6. By submitting entries to this website, entrants agree that personal data, especially name and address, may be processed, shared, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of this website, FAO institutional activities, and any other purposes outlined in these Rules. The data may also be used by FAO in order to verify the entrant's identity, postal address and telephone number.
Copyright and privacy
7. Entrants must own the copyright of the material they submit. If the material contain images of a person or persons, entrants must have obtained the permission of those persons for submission of their material as well as the use of the material by FAO for the purposes described below.
8. The entrant declares that, to the best of his/her knowledge, no third party can claim any rights on the material submitted. The entrant also confirms that each person depicted in the material has granted permission to be portrayed as shown.
9. FAO will not seek additional approvals in connection with the use of the material and it will not be responsible for any claim or complaint alleging violation of the rights of third parties.
10. Copyright of the material remains with the entrants. By submitting their photograph(s), entrants grant an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide exclusive license to FAO, for non-commercial purposes, to reproduce, distribute, display and create derivative works of the entries (along with a name credit) in connection with this website and the promotion of FAO’s work, in, amongst others:
– FAO corporate website: www.fao.org;
– Corporate videos or digital recordings to illustrate the work of the Organization;
– Printed FAO publications, brochures or posters;
– Social media channels, including promotion of the contest itself;
– Any other media used by FAO to communicate