Rules

  1. Entrants and entries must comply with these Rules.
  2. Individuals, groups and businesses that reside and/or operate in the city of Toronto are eligible to enter the Awards with the following exceptions: 2013 Live Green Toronto Award winners, City of Toronto employees, elected officials and Awards judges and sponsors.
  3. Youth under the age of 18 must obtain parental/guardian consent in order to submit an entry and/or appear in a video entry.
  4. More than one entry per individual/group/business/corporation is not permitted.
  5. Entries must be received by 5:00 p.m. on May 5, 2014.
  6. Entries must be relevant to the Live Green Toronto Awards and be appropriate for posting on a public government website. Entries that contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content will not be considered. The City of Toronto will determine, in its sole discretion, what constitutes such content.
  7. Entries must be submitted online. No mailed, emailed, or hand-delivered entries will be accepted.
  8. Entrants (and all of the members of the entrant’s group, small business, or organization, and any nominators) must be the original author of all of your video content, use material in the public domain, or have permission to use any copyright protected material that is included in your video entry.
  9. In the event that ownership of, or rights to, a video entry is contested in any manner, the City retains the sole discretion to disqualify the entry/video.
  10. Winners will be notified by phone and email on May 28, 2014. Winners must respond to this notification within 48 hours of receipt. Winners who do not respond within 48 hours may be disqualified, and another entrant may be declared the winner.
  11. Video entries may be displayed at City locations and used in City of Toronto print and electronic communications materials, advertising and promotional materials and on the City's website at any time in the future without remitting any fee or other form of compensation.
  12. If there is an insufficient quantity or quality of entries in an award category, an award winner may not be declared.
  13. Incomplete entries will not be accepted. A complete entry consists of: a video up to 90 seconds in length, a written submission of up to 500 words, and a completed entry form.
  14. Video entries should be no longer than 90 seconds in length. Videos that are 95 seconds in length or less will be accepted, but 5 points out of 100 will be deducted off the entrant's final score for each second the video exceeds the 90 second limit. Videos longer than 95 seconds will not be accepted.
  15. The winner in each award category will be determined by a combination of public votes and judges' scores. Public voting will account for 49% of an entrant’s score and the judges' scores will account for 51% of the total score.
  16. Votes will be audited. Fraudulent voting activities including, but not limited to, using multiple accounts to vote for a video more than once per day will not be tolerated. Fraudulent votes will not count towards an entry’s final score. The City of Toronto reserves the right to adjust vote totals should fraudulent voting activity be identified.
  17. The City of Toronto is not responsible for computer system, hardware, software or program malfunctions or other errors, failures, or delayed computer transactions or network connections that affect the Live Green Toronto Awards or participation in them. Furthermore, the City of Toronto is not responsible for lost, misdirected, misplaced, unintelligible, incomplete or late entries; or any act, failure to act, or delay regarding the transmitting or processing of entries.
  18. The City of Toronto reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel or suspend all or any portion of the Live Green Toronto Awards without notice for any reason whatsoever, without any liability to you for any costs you may have incurred in respect to the Awards.
  19. The Live Green Toronto Awards is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. These Rules are subject to change without notice in order to comply with any applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws or the policy of any other entity having jurisdiction over these Awards.
  20. The City of Toronto reserves the right to disqualify any entrant that it has reason to believe does not comply with the Rules. If, after the awarding of the prizes, a winner is disqualified or determined to be ineligible, an alternate winner will be selected using the same judging process/criteria described on the How to Enter page of the Awards website. Alternative winners are subject to all requirements set forth in these Rules.
  21. By participating in the Awards program, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the City of Toronto and its employees, agents and representatives from any and all damages, injuries, claims, causes of actions, or losses of any kind resulting from your participation in these Awards, including infringement of another person's intellectual property rights. You also release the City of Toronto and its employees, agents and representatives from any responsibility or liability for any damages, injuries, claims, causes of actions, or losses of any kind you may incur or suffer arising in whole or in part from your participation in these Awards.
  22. The City of Toronto is entitled to interpret these Rules and its decision is final.

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