Terms & Conditions

Pixum Diginet GmbH & Co. KG, Industriestraße 161, 50999 Cologne (henceforth called "Pixum") organizes the photo competition.

You can enter the photo competition for free. By entering the competition, you agree to these terms & conditions. You can only enter the competition via internet and until the last day of each month that it takes place in. Pixum reserves the right to end the competition in advance by publishing respective information on the Pixum websites.

Every natural person who is of age and legally capable may enter the competition, except employees and cooperation partners of Pixum. Every person who is underage or whose legal capacity is limited can only enter if a parent or rather a legal guardian agrees. The person who enters his or her email address to register for the photo competition is the sole participant of the competition. A Pixum jury chooses a winner from all participants of a month immediately after the deadline to enter ended. Every winner will get an email to the email address that was entered for the registration. By entering a photo, participants assure Pixum of first having all rights reserved of that photo, second of being allowed to exploit all parts of it unlimitedly and third of only entering photos that are free from any rights of a third party. If one or several persons are shown on the photo, the participants assure Pixum that first those persons agree that the photo is entered as well as to the ways it could be used and second that neither publication nor use violate any right, especially no personal rights, of a third party. The circumference of publication and use of photos that are entered to a Pixum photo competition are specified in the following. Participants and people shown on photos can be asked to confirm the permission of publishing and using a photo. Participants release Pixum from any legal costs that may arise from claims that third parties might make because of a violation of their rights.

As a participant of a Pixum photo competition you freely allow Pixum to:

• Irrevocably use and publish your photos on the Pixum blog, the Pixum Facebook fanpage, Twitter and Pinterest without any exceptions concerning time, space and content.
• Edit the photos you enter.
• Use your photos for reporting and publicity of the competition (independent from the kind of use, that is to say print and online as well as exhibitions and invitations.

Moreover you agree that your name is mentioned together with your photo when it is published. Pixum will not take photos of professional photographers into consideration as a winner of the photo competition. It is not possible to get the value of the prizes as cash, to change, transfer or give up any claim to prizes to another person. The course of law is not possible.