Conditions of Entry for the BookRix Free Short Story Writing Competition Travel Stories
The participation in the English BookRix Competition (hereinafter: "Competition") arranged by BookRix GmbH & Co. KG ("Provider") are subject to and governed by the conditions of entry hereinafter "Conditions and Rules") set out below:
1. Approval to Conditions and Rules by the User: The User approves and consents to the Conditions and Rules by participating in the Competition. It is possible to participate in the Competition as an author and/or as a reviewer. This consent to the Conditions and Rules is given regardless whether a User participates in the Competition as author or as reviewer.
2. Applicability of General Terms and Conditions (GTC) and the privacy policy: In general, the Competition is subject to and governed by the GTC and the privacy policy of BookRix GmbH & Co. KG (Provider) unless these Conditions and Rules provide for deviant or special rules.
3. Possible entrants: Any User registered in the Bookrix.com website can participate in the Competition. Citizens of Germany, Austria and Switzerland must not take part in the competition. The participation of minors is subject to prior consent of their legal representative(s). Personnel of the Provider or of BookRix Verwaltungs-GmbH and their respective relatives (§ 15 of the German revenue code [Abgabenordnung - AO]) must not participate in the Competition.
4. Payment: There is no fee to participate in the Competition.
5. Participation as author: An author has to register on Bookrix.com and upload his or her self-created book to the site in order to register for the Competition. An author can register more than one book for the Competition. Citizens of Germany, Austria and Switzerland must not take part in the Competition.
6. Requirements for books (rights of the author, volume and language): Only self-created books may be registered for the Competition. This means that the author must own all the rights to the registered book and the contents of the book. Books which violate the rights of Third Parties must not be registered. Moreover, books which are registered for the Competition must not contain more than 25 BookRix pages (based on the BookRix format) and must be written in English. Books must have a cover and must not contain pictures. Books that won a prize in the first, second or third BookRix Competitions, the "Web Your Book Award", "SummerWriting Contest" and "Rain Stories Contest", can not be registered for "Travel Stories Contest", the Fourth BookRix Competition.
7. Participation as reviewer: Every User can participate in the Competition as a book reviewer. Participation as reviewer requires placing a goblet in favor of a book which has been registered for the Competition. Users who participate in the Competition as reviewers automatically participate in the drawing. It is possible to vote for more than one book. However, this does not increase the chances in the drawing. Citizens of Germany, Austria and Switzerland must not take part in the Competition.
8. Notes with respect to chances to win in the drawing and to the number of votes: The chances of a User who participates in the Competition as reviewer are not increased if the User votes for more than one book registered for the Competition. In case a User votes more than once for a particular book, his or her votes count as just one vote.
9. Cancellation of the reviewer´s account The reviewer’s votes for contest entries book are valid as long as the user does not delete his account on BookRix during the competition. By deleting one’s account, the reviewer cancels his votes and his participation in the competition.
10. Recommendation with respect to voting: The Provider recommends taking into account the following criteria when rating books: creativity, design, form and style. However, these criteria are neither exhaustive nor binding. Users are free to choose to vote on books based on their own criteria.
11. Registration: deadlines for the registration of books and voting. Users can register books with the Provider for the Competition between November 4th , 2009 to November 30th , 2009, 12 p.m. EST/9 p.m. PST only. Books that are registered after this date and time will not be taken into account. Users can only vote on books that were registered for the Competition between November 4th, 2009 and November 30th, 2009, 12 p.m. EST/9 p.m. PST. Votes can only be made online on the BookRix website.
12. Limitation of prizes Users participating in the author contest in the Competition can only win one prize (place) in the author contest. In case a User registers more than one book for the Competition and more than one book from this User (author) obtains the number of votes required to be among the first three places, this User (author) will only win the prize (place) determined by the book with the largest (highest) number of votes. The author will not win any more prizes (places) from his or her other books. The Users (authors) with the next highest amount of votes for their registered books move up in the rankings.
13. Voting system: BookRix’s online voting system will determine which 10 books got the most votes. If multiple books have the same amount of votes, the selection will be decided by drawing lots. The 10 best rated books will given to an independent jury consisting of BookRix and the
Georgia Writers Association.
14. Prizes for authors: For the author contest, the 10 best rated books "TOP 10" will be given to an independent jury based on the amount of votes cast per book. The jury rates the three best books of the selection of the 10 best rated books. The jury determines the winning books. The jury will assign a ranking from 1st Place to 3rd Place.
15. Prizes for the reviewers: Ten winners will be determined among the Users participating in the Competition as reviewers. The Users that have participated in the Competition as reviewers (who have filed at least one vote) will be entered into a drawing to determine the winners.
16. Notification and publication of the names of the winners: The Provider will notify all winners on or before December, 21th 2009 via e-mail. In addition, the names of the winners will be published on BookRix as well as in the Provider's newsletter.
17. Publication of books of winners:
The winners of the three highest places of the author contest allow the Provider to use his book for promotional and advertising purposes. In this case, every User participating in the Competition as an author hereby expressly states and represents that the Provider does not owe the User any consideration, payment, compensation, transfer of profit or forbearance as a result of or in connection with the publication of his or her book. This means that every User who participates in the Competition as an author hereby grants to the Provider, free of charge, the right to publish the respective book as an electronic file which can be downloaded and saved by anybody within and/or in the context with reports covering this Competition and/or for the purposes of advertising and/or promotion of BookRix on BookRix, within the newsletter of the Provider and/or on other data carriers in case the User wins one of the three prizes within the author contest.
18. Prizes for winners in the author contest: The winners in the author contest will obtain the prizes set out below: First place: $1000, Second place: $500, Third place: $300.
19. Prizes in the reviewer drawing: There will be a drawing for ten $ 20 Amazon vouchers. This means that each of the ten winners drawn will win a $20 voucher for
Amazon purchases.
20. Payment of monetary prizes; non-assignability of claims to prices: The Provider will pay the monetary prizes to the respective winners by remitting the respective amounts to the bank accounts notified to the Provider by the respective winners. Winners must not assign their claims to prizes from the Provider to other persons.
21. Notification of winners; re-notification deadline for winners; preclusion of claim to prize: The Provider will notify winners via e-mail. Following notification, winners must notify the bank account to which the monetary prize is to be remitted and the mailing address to which the non-monetary prize is to be sent within one month of receipt of the notification that the prize has been won. Such re-notification must be made to the Provider in written form or via e-mail. In case the data/information required are not notified to the Provider within one month, the respective winner will lose their claim to the prize.
22. Bank Accounts: Use of bank account for remittance of the monetary prizes only in case winners of the Competition send their bank account related information/data to the Provider, the Provider will use such information/data to remit the monetary prize only. The Provider will not pass on such bank account related information/data to Third Parties.
23. Exclusion of Users from the Competition by the Provider: Consequences of exclusion the Provider is entitled to exclude Users which violate the GTC of the Provider, these Conditions and Rules and/or the Code of Conduct from the Competition. Users who are excluded from the Competition automatically cease to participate in the Competition.
24. Special note with respect to the limitation of liability of the Provider and certain prohibitions: Again, reference is made to sections 10, 11, 21, 22, 23 and 25 of the GTC.
25. Exclusion of legal process: Any recourse to the courts and legal steps are excluded.
