CLLCTIVLY Terms & Conditions

 
 
1.  Adaptive Village Small Grants Program ('Program:) is open to all aged 18 or over that is a resident of Baltimore City.  (“Applicants”). 

2. The Adaptive Village Small Grants program is brought to you by Morgan State University School of Community Health and Policy in partnership with the Family League of Baltimore and administered by CLLCTIVLY.

3. By entering the Program the Applicants accept these Terms and Conditions together with any specific instructions and terms for the program which may be mentioned on-air, in any electronic messages, on the website, or communicated to applicants in any other way. 

4. We may cancel or amend the Program, Program Information, or these Terms and Conditions without prior notice. Any changes will be posted either within the Program Information or these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions were last updated. 

5. Our decision in all matters to do with the Program will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Entry


6. The Application opens at 12:00 am on April 12, 2022. The application closing date is May 6th at 11:59 PM. 

7. Applicants with the most votes will win. Applicants applying for the $25,000 will enter a second round and be judged by a review panel.
8. To enter the Contest, Contestants must do the following:

 
a) Register an account and upload and submit their video entry. Video files created using most digital cameras, camcorders and mobile phones such as in the .AVI, .MOV, .WMV, and .MPG file formats, are accepted 
b) Read and accept the terms and conditions and provide additional contact details so we can contact you if you are selected as a Finalist. Your details will be used solely for the purpose of administrating the competition.

9. An Applicant's Video entry must be entirely original to the Applicant, feature only the Applicant’s voice, and not include the voice or other sounds made by third parties/people. 

10. Applications must be completed in accordance with the entry process set out above. No other method of entry will be accepted. Applications that do not meet these criteria may not be considered.

11. Entries will not be complete until Applicants have uploaded their video entry and accepted these Terms and Conditions. We reserve the right to disqualify any entries submitted and/or finalized after the application has closed.

12. The Applicant must keep a digital or hard copy of their video entry. If required, Applicants must supply the original recording of their video entry for use in connection with the Application, including (but not limited to) for potential broadcast online or transmission by any electronic means.

13. All video entries will be subject to moderation. We and/or their agents have absolute discretion to accept or reject any video entry and to remove any video entry already accepted without giving reasons for the decision. We may in particular refuse to upload any video entry for the following reasons:
 
(a) inclusion of defamatory or malicious content;
(b) inclusion of content in video entries to which someone else owns the copyright or other intellectual property rights, such as music, singing, trademarks, logos, insignia, location signage, sculpture, posters, pictures, photographs or other artwork, music tracks, snippets of copyrighted programmes, or films made by other users, without the requisite authorisations;
c) breach of these Terms and Conditions

14. By applying applicants warrant that all information submitted by them is true, current, and complete. Applicants also warrant that they are the copyright owners of their video entries which must be original works and must not infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy, or any other rights of a third party.

15. By submitting an application, Applicants understand and agree that:

(a) the Contestants grant us a worldwide, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable and transferable licence which shall be exclusive for worldwide broadcast online and non-exclusive for all other forms of media to use their entries for whatever purpose including, without limitation, in connection with (i) any Program produced in relation to the application or containing any information in relation to the Application, including, without limitation, promotion and redistributing part or all of any such Program (and derivative works thereof), and (ii) our internet websites, wireless applications, interactive television, video on demand and any other media or technology (including, without limitation, internet protocol, wireless or interactive platforms or interfaces) through which we distribute content to end users, whether now existing or hereafter developed in any and all media formats and through any and all media distribution and advertising and promotional purposes, without accounting, notification, credit, payment, or other obligation to applicants. For the avoidance of doubt, these rights include, without limitation, the absolute right to edit and/or alter any entry, distribute and synchronize all or any portion of any entry in timed relation to any other visual elements; to web cast, pod cast, re-publish, re-broadcast, re-platform, port, syndicate, route, and link to and from all or any portion of any entry; to encrypt, encode and decode, and compress and decompress all or any portion of any entry; to edit, mix, combine, merge, distort, superimpose, create or add special effects, illusions and/or other material to or of all or any portion of any entry; to create composite, stunt, comic or unusual photographs, videos, animations, motion pictures and/or voice reproductions from all or a portion of any entry; and to excerpt and/or extract portions of any entry in order to host, store, index, categorize and display entries on or through the Platforms. We reserve the right to use (or not use) applicants’ entries at all and/or as little of the entry as we so choose;
 


16. Any entries which are incomplete, incorrect, inaudible, or incomprehensible, may be void.

17. In the event of any fault, mistake, misunderstanding or dispute concerning the correctness or acceptability of the entry, or the operation of any part of the  Program, or the interpretation of these Terms and Conditions, the decision we make shall be final and no correspondence will be entered into. 

18. We will not be liable to reimburse any expenses incurred in applying for the grant. 

19. We reserve the right to disqualify any applicants and/or entries which it believes have not been made in compliance with these Terms and Conditions or to disqualify any applicant found to have tampered with the entry process or the operation of the application or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to threaten, abuse or harass any other person. 

Finalists

20.  The public will vote for their favorite applicant (“the Finalists”) from all eligible entries received. 

21. Only the Finalists will be notified. 

22. The Finalists' first names and surnames may be published. 

23. We reserve the right to select an alternative Finalist in the event that a Finalist is unable to be contacted.
 

Public Vote / Overall engagement 

24. The Public will then be invited to vote for their favorite Finalist (“the Public Vote”). The voting will open using the below factors.
 
 
- You may vote online once every 24hours. Voting is free.
- The system also counts the unique votes (to counter vote fraud) (not shown on the front end)
- Number of views 
- Number of Social shares 
- Number of comments
 
You may be subject to your standard internet access charges or data charges if you are using a web browser on your mobile phone.

25. We reserve the right to disallow votes if it has reasonable grounds to suspect that fraudulent votes have been cast (ie more votes than a human being could possibly submit in the time available without the use of software or other devices designed to make automated votes). We reserve the right to disqualify any Finalist who engages in activity which could be designed to unfairly manipulate the outcome of the Public Vote. 

26. The Finalist who receives the highest number of public votes will be the winner. Finalist in the $25,000 category will be chosen by the review panel.

27. In the event of an equal number of votes, all tied Finalists will be judged by our review panel, who will determine at its sole discretion which Finalist should win the grant.

28. We will take all reasonable steps to contact the winner using the details provided by the Finalist when they entered the competition but in the event of any failure to do so or a Finalist’s failure to respond within 48 hours of the results of the Public Vote being determined, We reserve the right, in its absolute discretion, to select an alternative winner from the Finalists.

29. The winner must be available to take part in interviews and/or any other promotional materials and/or events if requested by us.  In the event that the winner is not available when required, We reserve the right, in its absolute discretion, to select an alternative winner.

Data Protection and Publicity

30. The first names and surnames of the Finalists put through to the Public Vote and the winner may be available from the date the various Finalists are selected for a minimum period of three months. 

31. We may exercise its sole discretion to use all Finalists’ names, images, and their comments relating to the Prize and experience for the promotion of the Prize, this application, and for future promotional, marketing, and publicity purposes in any media worldwide without notice and without any fee being paid. 

32. The information applicants supply in connection with the application (including their personal details):
 
(a) may be included in a database compiled for the Program and will be used for the purposes of selecting Finalists;
(b) may also be used for inclusion and/or read out in any program produced in connection with the Adaptive Village; and
(c) will not be supplied to third parties  other than as is reasonably necessary to select Finalists and administer the application.
33. Any personal information provided by the applicants, will only be used by us for purposes of the application or as otherwise set out in these Terms and Conditions. 


Standard terms


34. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these Terms and Conditions shall otherwise remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein. 


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