These Official Rules are part of the Terms of Use, including the User Agreement and the Privacy Policy that you agree to by using this Site or participating in a Contest. This Site and all Contests on it are only open to those 18 years-of-age or older.
We will post changes to these Official Contest Rules on https://ideapho.re/tos.html. If the changes are significant, we will provide more prominent notice by contacting registered Members via email 15 days before the changes take effect.
No purchase necessary. All entries must be submitted via the forms on this Site.
Open only to legal residents of the 48 contiguous United States or Washington, D.C. who are 18 years-of-age or older and not employed by Sponsor or ideaphore.
Ideation contests begin as soon as they are posted live on the Site and end either on the expiry date listed or when 50 ideas have been submitted, whichever comes last.
Sponsor must deliver at least one of each of the prizes listed within a reasonable time after the contest ends. Contests may be canceled if fewer than 10 ideas are submitted.
CONTEST JUDGING: To be considered, all entries must follow the instructions provided on the Site, including the Contest page. Winners will be selected within 6 months of a Contest’s end by a panel of Judges based on: creativity (20%); completeness (20%); originality (20%); feasibility (20%); and eloquence and the quality of any drawings, photographs, or videos submitted (20%). In the event of a tie, either more than one prize will be awarded or a tie breaking round of judging will occur, at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. In the tie breaker round, the Judges will award the prize to the entry that is most creative and original, giving no weight to the remaining criteria. Judges may ignore or give cursory review to submissions with low Rank, Feedback, and Rating as well as submissions that are from duplicate or fake accounts, users with no prior history on the site, users with a history of abuse of the Site’s Terms of Use, or submissions that appear to constitute infringement of copyright or other Intellectual Property of another user or a third party or otherwise violate the Terms of Use.
Sponsor may limit minimum qualifications to participate in a Contest based on user Rating, Rank, Feedback, or Badges.
For a list of winners to any Contest, contact info@ideapho.re.
By entering an idea into a contest on ideaphorum, You agree that, if You win a prize, Your idea, name, likeness, bio, profile picture, and photograph, may be used by ideaphore or the Sponsor of the Contest for advertising in perpetuity without further consideration and without review or consent by You. The treatment of Intellectual Property under which your idea, and any photographs, videos, drawings, or other copyrightable material submitted with your entry is explained in and governed by the User Agreement and the “Under These Terms” section of your idea submission.
The Sponsor is permitted to but not obligated to use any of the ideas, including the winners. Sponsor is not obligated to disclose which ideas it will or has used.
Contest winners are responsible for all expenses, including all taxes, incurred in collecting a prize. Sponsors are not required to offer winners the cash value of the listed prize. Prizes cannot be substituted, transferred, or combined with other offers.
If Contest winner does not respond to prize notifications within 10 days, the prize may be forfeited and a new winner may be selected.
Contests are governed by the internal laws and courts of the State of New York without regard to principles of conflict of laws. Void where prohibited.
Badges: are indicia of expertise in a particular domain listed on a Member’s profile page.
Contest: an ideation contest displayed on the ideaphorum section of this Site.
Feedback: is the collection of written reactions to a Member’s ideas displayed on their profile collected from other users as displayed who viewed that idea.
ideaphorum: the ideaphore website located at https://ideapho.re/ideaphorum and all subpages.
Judges: Individuals chosen by ideaphore and/or Sponsor (including employees thereof), at ideaphore’s sole discretion, to determine the winner of a Contest.
Sponsor: a company or person running an ideation contest on ideaphorum, as listed on the campaign page.
Rank: is a user’s “rank” as listed on their profile page; all new users stars as “beginner.”
Rating: is a shorthand indicator of prior feedback indicated as zero to five lit lightbulbs or fractions thereof on a user’s profile page.
If you have any questions or concerns contact info@ideapho.re.