Call For Art Rondout Savings Bank 2025 Calendar Contest Rules 

DETAILS & OFFICIAL RULES

  1. Eligibility 

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. This contest is open to any U.S. resident  age 18 or older, so long as the entrant and his/her entry meet the requirements of these rules (the “Official Rules”). Contest is void in Puerto Rico and U.S. territories, outside of the United States, and where restricted or prohibited by law. Being a customer of Rondout Savings Bank does not increase the chance of winning. Employees of Rondout Savings Bank, Board of Trustees and their immediate family members or persons living in the same households are not eligible.

  1. How to Enter

The Contest begins on Monday, August 5, 2024, and the entry deadline is 11:59pm Eastern Time on Monday, September 2, 2024.  To enter, visit https://ccacny.org/gallery-submissions/; complete the entry form with the information required; upload the photograph(s) and submit. There are no submission limits for each category. Persons are welcome to submit for any category or for multiple categories. There will be one (1) overall winner which will take the cover position and thirteen (13) runner-up photos which will take the monthly positions of the categories (i.e. The Winter category runner-up photos will be for December 2024, January 2025, February 2025, December 2025. The Spring category runner-up photos will be for March 2025, April 2025, May 2025. The Summer runner-up photos will be for June 2025, July 2025, August 2025. The Fall runner up photos will be for September 2025, October 2025, and November 2025.)

Categories:

  • Winter
  • Spring
  • Summer
  • Fall

Each submission must include a high-resolution, digital photograph in its original format. Photos should reflect what the Entrant thinks makes the Hudson Valley a great place to live, work, and raise a family. Photographs must be landscape (horizontal) orientation, and resolution must be 300 DPI at 10”x 8”. Digital, film, 35mm, and C-prints are all acceptable, but must be uploaded as .jpg or .pdf format without watermarks. Entrant may submit unlimited photos for consideration.

Entries which are incomplete, illegible, inaccurate, forged, irregular in any way, or otherwise not in compliance with the Official Rules, as determined in our sole discretion, will be disqualified.

Submissions must not contain obscenity, explicit sexual material, nudity, profanity, graphic violence, calls or incitement to violence, commercial solicitation or commercial promotion. Submissions must conform to law and must not contain content or images that could be considered abusive, inflammatory, denigrating, or disrespectful to any groups, individuals or institutions. The content of all submissions must be suitable for a global, public audience.

All photos must be original work, taken by the entrant. If the photograph contains any material or elements that are not owned by the entrant and/or which are subject to the rights of third parties, and/or if any persons or businesses appear in the photograph, the entrant is responsible for obtaining, prior to submission of the photograph, any and all releases and consents necessary to permit the use of the photograph without compensation and in the manner set forth in these Official Rules. Photos must not infringe upon the trademark, copyright, moral rights, intellectual rights, or rights of privacy of any entity or person. If any person appearing in any photograph is under the age of majority in their state of residence, the signature of a parent or legal guardian is required on each release. Upon our request, each entrant must be prepared to provide within 7 calendar days of receiving our request, a signed release from all persons or businesses who appear in the photograph submitted, and/or from the owner of any material that appears in the photograph entry, authorizing us and our licensees (“Authorized Parties”) to reproduce, distribute, display, and create derivative works of the entry, in any media now or hereafter known. Failure to provide such releases upon request may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner.

  1. Judging; Prizes.

Each entry will be prescreened to ensure that it complies with the Official Rules. Rondout Savings Bank reserves the right to disqualify, at its sole and absolute discretion, any entry that does not adhere to these Official Rules.

On or around September 16, 2024, a panel of judges made up of Rondout Savings Bank employees will evaluate each entry that passed the prescreening. The judges will select one (1) Grand Prize Winner from all submissions as the Best Overall winner and thirteen (13) entries from the remaining submissions. From the thirteen (13) entries, the judges will select four (4) Runners-Up in the winter category, (3) Runners-Up in the Spring category, (3) Runners-Up in the Summer category, and (3) Runners-Up in the Fall category. Decisions of the judges are final and binding.

Prizes. The one winner of Best Overall image will be awarded a Grand Prize of a $100 Gift Card and will be considered for the cover position on our 2025 Community Calendar. The thirteen Runner-Up winners in each category will be awarded a $50 Gift Card and their photos will be considered for use as a monthly photograph in our 2025 Community Calendar (December 2024 through December 2025). Gift Cards are subject to the terms and conditions specified in the Cardholder Agreement.

Notification.  The winners will be notified via email on or before October 7, 2024.  Gift Cards will be awarded by October 31, 2024. Our calendar will be available in all Rondout Savings Bank locations on or around December 1, 2024.

If a winner cannot be reached within five (5) calendar days of the first notification attempt, or a winning notification is returned as undeliverable, or a winner rejects a prize awarded, or requested releases are not provided, or Rondout Savings Bank determines, in its sole discretion, that a winner has not complied with any of the Official Rules, then the entrant’s status as a winner and any prize awarded will be forfeited, and an alternative winner will be selected from the remaining entries.  If the prize awarded is forfeited, no other compensation will be given to that forfeiting winner. By winning this contest, there is no guarantee that your photograph will be used by Rondout Savings Bank or otherwise.

Prizes are non-transferable and may not be redeemed for cash. No substitutions allowed. Combined, total value of prizes: $750.

  1. Representations, Warranties & Agreements; Use of Your Submission and Personal Information

Whether or not your entry is selected as a winner, by entering this Contest:

  1. A)  You agree to be bound by the decisions of the contest judges and by these Official Rules, and to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. All decisions by Rondout Savings Bank with respect to this Contest are final;
    B)   You agree that (i) you have read these Official Rules and meet their requirements, (ii) your photograph is original, and (iii) if the photograph includes anything that is owned or control by a third party, you have obtained written permission from the third party granting Rondout Savings Bank a perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, freely transferable (with full rights to sublicense), universal, unconditional and irrevocable right and license to copy, distribute, display and to create derivative works from such third party materials for any and all purposes relating to the promotion, marketing, advertising, distribution and/or sales activities of Rondout Savings Bank;
    C) You agree that the photograph shall be, to the maximum extent eligible, a “work made for hire” (as this term is used in the U.S. Copyright Act), with all rights therein, including without limitation the exclusive copyright being the property of Rondout Savings Bank. To the extent the photograph is not a work made for hire, you hereby unconditionally and irrevocably assign (or, if applicable law prohibits or restricts assignment, you hereby license) to Rondout Savings Bank all right, title, and interest in and to the photograph (including, without limitation, the copyright) in any and all media whether now known or hereafter devised, in perpetuity, wherever produced or located, including the right to use, copy, edit, distribute, display, exploit, publicize, reformat, reproduce and to create derivative works of the photograph for any purpose;
    D) By entering you hereby waive (i) any right to publicity, privacy or moral rights relating to the photograph or your participation in this Contest, and (ii) any right to inspect or approve uses of the photograph or to be compensated for any such uses, and to the extent these rights may not be waived legally, you agree not to assert them; and
    E)  You grant Rondout Savings Bank and its agents the right to collect, retain, and use your first and last name, likeness, picture, hometown, voice, entry and written or oral statements, for advertising and promotional purposes in promoting or publicizing either Rondout Savings Bank and its mission and services, without compensation and without need for your further permission. You agree to make yourself available for no additional compensation to pose for and make such photographs, videos, or other recordings as Rondout Savings Bank may reasonably request. You agree you shall have no right of approval, no claim to compensation, and no claim (including, without limitation, claims based on invasion of privacy, defamation, rights of integrity or attribution, or right of publicity) arising out of any use, blurring, alteration, or use in composite form of your name, picture, likeness, hometown, or entry. The rights granted under this paragraph shall extend to Rondout Savings Bank and its agents with respect to all entrants in the Contest, regardless of whether their entry is selected as a winning entry. The rights granted under this paragraph shall extend to Rondout Savings Bank and its agents with respect to all entrants in the Contest, regardless of whether their entry is selected as a winning entry.
    F)  You agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless Rondout Savings Bank, Meta (Facebook), Instagram, LinkedIn and their respective partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their respective employees, officers, directors, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of or in connection with your participation in this Contest, including without limitation the posting of your photograph online in a social media environment, or any other Contest-related activities, or arising out of the acceptance, use, misuse or possession of any prize awarded hereunder; and
    G)    You agree to indemnify, and hold Rondout Savings Bank, and its respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents and representatives harmless from and against any third-party claim (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs) arising from any use of the photograph.
  1. Right to Cancel or Suspend; Disqualification.

If the Contest cannot be conducted as originally planned for any reason (including, but not limited to, as a result of an insufficient number of entries, tampering or computer virus infection), Rondout Savings Bank, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest, without liability.  If Rondout Savings Bank elects to cancel, it will not retain any rights to the submitted photographs.

Entrants who violate these Official Rules, tamper with the operation of the Contest, or engage in any conduct that is detrimental to Rondout Savings Bank, the Contest, or any other entrant (as determined in Rondout Savings Bank’s sole discretion) are subject to disqualification.  Any person attempting to defraud or in any way tamper with this Contest (whether electronically or otherwise) and any person who does not comply with these Official Rules, will be ineligible for any prize and may be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

  1. Issues of Law.

(a) ALL FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL TAXES AND EXPENSES RELATING TO PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST OR THE AWARDING OF THE PRIZES ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ENTRANTS AND WINNERS.

(b) If any provision of these Official Rules shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law and the parties’ fundamental intentions hereunder, and the remaining provisions shall not be affected or impaired, provided, however, that in such cases the parties oblige themselves to use their best efforts to achieve the purpose of the invalid provision by a new legally valid stipulation.

(c)  This Contest is VOID where prohibited by law.

(d)  Rondout Savings Bank’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

  1. Sponsor; Winner’s List; Rules Request.

The sponsor of this Contest is Rondout Savings Bank. You understand that you are providing your information to Rondout Savings Bank. The Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Meta (Facebook), Instagram, or LinkedIn.

A copy of the Official Rules and or a winners list may be obtained until December 31, 2024 by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to “Rondout Savings Bank”, Attn: Marketing- 2024 Calendar Rules, 267 Wall St. Kingston, NY 12401.