Help and legal aspects

Who can participate in the competition?

Private individuals with a permanent residence in Slovenia are eligible to enter the competition. Lovers of photography who would like to contribute to Slovenia's improved recognition at home and abroad are invited to take part.

Every participant – the creator of a competition entry – must give all the necessary information (full name, address and e-mail address) so that the organisers can contact the award winners.

Employees of the competition's organiser, employees of partner organisations, members of the expert panel and family members of the persons previously listed are prohibited from entering the competition.

Photo publishing rules

By entering the competition, the authors of entries transfer irrevocably and free-of-charge non-exclusive and spatially and temporally unlimited material copyright to the competition's organiser, as set out in Article 22 of the Copyright and Related Rights Act, for all original photographs published on the Picture Slovenia portal in the competition, namely for publication on the Picture Slovenia portal and other websites of the competition's organiser as well as for promotion of the competition, including but not limited to publication in Slovenian and foreign media, web portals and inclusion in marketing campaigns of the competition's organiser.

The competition's organiser shall not transfer the material copyright to any third party for commercial purposes but solely for promotion of the Picture Slovenia competition. If the competition's organiser intends to transfer a photo to a third party for payment, the author shall be notified in writing in advance and payment of the author's fee shall be agreed.

The selected and award winning photos shall be subject to a specific copyright relationship between the competition's organiser and the award winning authors based on an author's or another appropriate contract to be concluded between the competition's organiser and the award winning authors. The award winning authors shall permit publication of the awarded photographs in the media, on web portals and as part of other communication campaigns related to the competition as well as their use for promotional purposes of the competition's organiser and related persons; the award winning authors will receive prizes but shall not be entitled to an author's fee. If the photos (material copyright) are sold by the competition's organiser to any third party, the award winning authors shall be entitled to an author's fee in the manner and amount specified in the relevant author's contracts.

Photo dimensions:
at least 3,600 x 2,400 pixels; jpg format with no compression,
100% quality, a photo should not be bigger than 1 MB.

Rules for publishing photos by submitting the photo's URL address

The authors of all photos entered in the PictureSlovenia system through links to other websites shall agree to all the rules for entering the competition and participate in the competition complying with the terms and conditions of the primary gallery where the photo has been published at a URL address.
The rules for using some of the most common services and sources from which the authors link their photos in the PictureSlovenia.com system:

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne
Panoramo: http://www.panoramio.com/terms/
Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/privacy.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/terms.php?ref=pf
Netlog: http://sl.netlog.com/go/about/legal/view=general
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.terms
HI5: http://www.hi5.com/friend/displayTOS.do

Privacy policy

Personal data entered by the user upon registration in the PictureSlovenia.com system are protected in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act. The database of contact information has been duly registered with the competent authorities. The portal's owner and organisers of competitions on the PictureSlovenia portal can only disclose such data to a third party in cases prescribed by law. Electronic addresses and other contact information shall not be available to third parties without the permission and consent of the holder of the electronic address and other contact information. The PictureSlovenia portal may keep statistics of access and other activities in photo galleries but shall not make them available to third parties in a form enabling links with the data entered upon registration.

As regards the consent of persons recognisable in photos in the sense of approving the use of data, the authors shall confirm upon publication in the PictureSlovenia system that they have obtained such consent. PictureSlovenia shall assume no liability whatsoever for any violation of the Personal Data Protection Act related to the above.

By the publication of the submitted photos in the "Vonj po domu" (A Scent of Home) competition, the participants expressly agree to the collection of personal data for marketing purposes and agree that surveys, notices about campaigns, new products and competitions may be sent to them by mail. All participants agree with the use of personal data and agree that their data may be published, if drawn, on the websites www.pictureslovenija.com, www.zito.si

Liability for damages

The owner of the PictureSlovenia portal and organiser of the Picture Slovenia competition shall assume no liability whatsoever for any material or non-material damage in or arising from use of the photo gallery. The owner of the website, the editor and organiser of the competition shall assume no liability for the actions of users of the photo gallery.

PictureSlovenia.com reserves all rights and assumes no liability. PictureSlovenia.com gives no explicit or implicit guarantee regarding the reliability, security or recommended nature of the service.

All rights are reserved, except those expressly waived. PictureSlovenia.com shall assume no liability and restricts its responsibility regarding the contents or nature of publications or any resulting damage to the minimum legally permitted scope.

PictureSlovenia.com cannot and does not guarantee the uninterrupted and defect-free operation of the PictureSlovenia.com portal. PictureSlovenia.com gives no guarantee regarding the results of use of the website either in terms of reliability or of the accuracy of the information contained. The website shall be "as is" and "as available".