TERMS AND CONDITIONS

ORGANIZERS, JURY and PARTICIPANTS

NT-MDT Co. is an organizer and right holder of “ProIMAGE Contest 2010”

The Jury is assigned by NT-MDT and the jury’s final decision is without appeal.

The ProIMAGE Contest is open to anyone over the age of 18, currently using Scanning Probe Microscopy and being NT-MDT probes customer. All images should meet the contest’s requirements.

Members of the Jury, employees of NT-MDT Co. and its agents, retailers, distributors, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies and their families are not eligible to participate the Contest.

Each participant can submit as many images as he/she has.

IMAGES PROPERTY

The person entering the competition must be the owner of the images and be able to provide evidence of this on request.

Images may not be under consideration for publication or prizes elsewhere.

Only original work may be submitted. If the image has been published, appropriate written permission from the publisher to participate in the Contest, to post the image on a web site, or to any other activity related to this competition must be submitted along with the image.

By submission the image the author transfer the copyright to Organizers. Thereafter submitted images can be used in NT-MDT Co. advertising materials without any compensation to author.

STAGES of CONTEST

The “ProIMAGE Contest 2010” is two-stage

Stage 1.

During the Contest each participant submits as many images as he/she has.

The administration considers the image in order to accordance with the rules of the contest.

In the event of a refusal the author will receive an e-mail specifying the impossibility of submission the work. See the potential REFUSAL REASONS below.

If the image is accepted the author will receive a confirming e-mail and the image will be posted on the «ProIMAGE Contest  2010» web-site page: http://www.ntmdt-tips.com/gallery/content.html.

The participants will submit their images any day of the month using the online submission system. Throughout the next month (see RELEVANT DATES below) the on-line voting will be available. The Top-10 and the winner of the month will be announced not later than a last day of the month of voting.

Any visitor of “ProIMAGE Contest  2010” web-site may vote the image he likes the best only once[1].

The winner of the month will be announced by ProIMAGE Contest organizers from 10-top images (the most rated during the on-line voting) on contest web-site.

The authors of the Top-10 images will come through to the final and receive the prizes. The certificates to the amount of USA 1000 dollars will be awarded to month winners.

Stage 2.

In the final all images will be judged by an international Jury. SPM images will be judged on the basis of their scientific quality, originality, Imagination, visual impact and will be estimated at five-grade scale.

The authors of the best images selected by the Jury will receive the certificates as follows:

USD 2500 (First prize)

USD 1500 (Second prize)

USD 1000 (Third prize)

The information about the winners will be placed on the «ProIMAGE Contest  2010» web-site.

IMAGE SUBMISSION

Images and some additional information (author’s personal data, image description, etc) must be submitted using the online submission system. Organizers guarantee the confidentiality of the personal data. No information (except the author name and the image details) will be published without author permission.

Images are entered at the entrants risk and Organizers cannot accept liability for any loss or damage occurring to any images received.

Each image can participate in ProIMAGE Contest only once.

IMAGE FORMATS

Only electronic files will be accepted. Please do not send your images in another type (photographic prints, slides, CDs etc).

Author names, titles, references to the author or author’s group, etc., should not appear either on the SPM image or in the scientific description caption. Organizers will accept only those images without any graphics/text elements on them (scales, axis, etc).

Electronic image files must be in jpeg (.jpg) and optionally MDT (.mdt)[2] format, with good image resolution (72 dpi). The maximum jpeg file size must be 1MB per image.

ProIMAGE Contest Organizers may request to the participants images higher resolution for advertising purposes.

REFUSAL REASONS

Image will be refused in following cases:

The Image doesn’t meet the contest’s requirements specified in IMAGE SUBMISSION and IMAGE FORMATS items.

The required fields of Submission form are filled in incorrectly.

Usage of obscene words in the image description

The organizer may reject images of insufficient  quality or technical implementation without giving reasons.

RELEVANT DATES

“ProIMAGE Contest 2010” will start at 01.08.2010 and will be running till 31.01.2011

Stage 1.

Images submission		Voting		Voting results announcement
start	finish	start	finish
01.08.2010	31.08.2010	01.09.2010	20.09.2010, 12.00 GMT	21.09.2010 – 30.09.2010
01.09.2010	30.09.2010	01.10.2010	20.10.2010, 12.00 GMT	21.10.2010 – 31.10.2010
01.10.2010	31.10.2010	01.11.2010	20.11.2010, 12.00 GMT	21.11.2010 – 30.11.2010
01.11.2010	30.11.2010	01.12.2010	20.12.2010, 12.00 GMT	21.12.2010 – 31.12.2010

 Stage 2.

Operation of the Jury: 10.01.11 – 23.01.11

Declaring the winners of «ProIMAGE Contest 2010»: 24.01.11 – 31.01.11

ADDITIONAL RIGHTS

By participating, winners agree to allow the organization of the ProIMAGE Contest to post their names online as a contest winner without further compensation.

ProIMAGE Contest Organizers save the rights for changing duration of Contest.

Participate in “ProIMAGE Contest 2010”!