MIAC
Connecting Our Spirits
Connecting our Spirits
An Indigenous Adoption and Foster Care Gathering
Logo Contest
Over $320
In Cash
CONTEST RULES
DEFINITIONS
“Entry” means a name & logo design created by
the entrant for this contest
“Entrant” means the individual that offers the
entry under the terms of this contest.
ELIGIBILITY
The contest is open only to individuals. The contest
is not open to companies, organizations, or
groups associated with such institutions.
Members of the Manitoba Indigenous Adoptees
Inc. (MIAC) Board will serve as the contest judges
and so members of their immediate family are not
eligible to enter the contest.
Entrants must be accompanied with the signature
of parent/guardian at least legal age (18 years or
older)
HOW TO ENTER
Initial entries must be submitted by email to t_gagnon@live.com. The entries must be submitted as a scalable vector graphic in EPS format, and also as a JPG. See the ‘Submission Guidelines’ below for further information. The email must include he name, age, postal address, phone number and email address of the entrant. No more than three (3) entries may be ubmitted by any one entrant. Entries must conform as close as possible to our submission guidelines. The deadline for entries is 5:00pm CST on February 16, 2015. We will attempt to acknowledge all entries within one week of receipt; However, we cannot be responsible for entries or responses lost in e-mail.
There is no fee to enter the contest.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The purpose of the contest is to come up with a logo design for the 2015 Manitoba Indigenous Adoptees Coalition Inc. 2015 Connecting Our Spirits – an Indigenous Adoptee and Foster Care Gathering. The logo will be used online, in print, on merchandise and to create a “brand” that can be placed on the report of the gathering, business cards and stationary. Flexibility and simplicity is a key requirement.
The logo does not need to contain the MIAC name within the design but should have some representation of issues related to Indigenous people whom have been adopted and placed in foster care. The winning logo entry selected may be augmented and used as the finished logo. The limit on attachment sizes for our email is 5Mb. If your submission exceeds this size, even after compression, please send the images individually and note clearly in your emails that you are doing so.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
All submitted work must be original and not based on any pre-existing design. Contestants will assign all ownership rights, including property rights of the proposed logo, and all Entries will become the sole property of the MIAC and may be displayed publicly on the MIAC web site and social media. The winning entry will be used by the MIAC as a logo for the 2015 Gathering and the entrant agrees to transfer all rights and title to the entry to the MIAC in accordance with the rules of this contest. MIAC may publish the design and name of winning contestant, and may use the logo for both advertising and marketing campaign materials.
ACCEPTANCE
Participation constitutes the entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these rules. By participating in the contest, the entrant is representing and warranting that he/she has read and understood, and agrees to be bound by these rules. Including the guides and rules referred to herein, these rules constitute the entire agreement between the entrant and the MIAC in relation to the contest. They govern the entrant’s participation and supersede any prior or other agreements between the entrant and the MIAC and relating to the contest. MIAC reserves the right to not select a winner, if, in its sole discretion, no suitable entries are received.
CONSIDERATION
The entrant agrees that the ability to participate in the contest and to compete for the prize offered in connection with the contest constitute, where required, sufficient consideration for the entrant’s obligations under these rules. If selected as the winning entry, MIAC will pay the entrant at least $320.00, and provide public acknowledgement on the MIAC’s website of the entrant’s contribution to the final logo.
PLEASE SEND YOUR SUBMISSION BY EMAIL TO:
Tiara Gagnon