The terms and conditions for The Comet and Herts Women’s Centre Photographic Competition are as follows:

Photographs entered must be taken in the UK, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

Entrants can submit up to five photos in total as prints, in colour or black and white. Entrants must state which class each photo is to be judged in. Each photo can only be entered in one class. Electronic images are desired.

Images may be digitally enhanced to remove spots or scratches, but not manipulated. Entrants can enhance the picture to make it brighter and clearer but not manipulate the content. The judges reserve the right to exclude any image they believe may have been excessively treated so as to alter its authenticity.

The competition is open to UK residents only (including residents of the Channel Islands and Isle of Man). Employees of The Comet, sponsors and staff of the Herts Women’s Centre, as well as their immediate families are not eligible to enter.

Entrants under the age of 12 years need to have parent or guardian consent to enter.

Entrants must not be professional photographers and, for the purposes of this competition, a professional photographer will be considered to be someone who makes more than half their annual income from the sale of their photographs.

Entrants must mark each photo with their name, address, contact telephone number (both daytime and evening) and which class it is being entered for.

The Comet and Herts Women’s Centre will only ever use personal details for the purposes of administering the scheme.

The competition closes at midnight on Friday 31th August 2012. Entries received after this date will not be considered.

Entries will not be returned so please remember to keep a copy. Unsuccessful entrants will not be contacted and no feedback on any entry will be provided.

In the event of a technical problem or evidence of impropriety with regard to the ‘best in show’ vote, the judges shall have the final decision. If the viewers’ vote results in a tie, the judges shall have the casting vote. The judges’ decisions will be final and no correspondence can be entered into.

All entries must be the original work of the entrant and must not infringe the rights of any other party. The entrants must be the sole owner of copyright in all photographs entered and must have obtained permission of any people featured in the entries or their parents/guardians if children under 16 are featured. Further, entrants must not have breached any laws when taking their photographs.

Prior to submission, entrants must not have offered any of their entries for sale, been paid for any publication of any of their entries or won or been a runner up in any other photographic competition with any of their entries.

Entrants will retain copyright in the photographs that they submit to the competition. By entering the competition all entrants grant to the The Comet and Herts Women’s Centre the right to publish and exhibit their photographs on television and on The Comet and Herts Women’s Centre website.

By entering, entrants will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these rules and The Comet and Herts Women’s Centre reserves the right to exclude any entry from the competition at any time and in its absolute discretion if The Comet and Herts Women’s Centre has reason to believe that an entrant has breached these rules.