Terms & Conditions of entry

1. All entries must include name, postal address, mobile phone number and email address.
2. Competition is open from 1st March 2010 until midnight on 30th June 2010.
3. Photographs entered must be taken within a forest setting and be obviously connected to forestry.
4. Each entrant is solely responsible for ensuring that he / she has permission to enter and take photographs at his / her chosen locations and that any photographs that he / she submits to this competition may be published and used in a manner that is in agreement with these terms and conditions.
5. Entrants are solely responsible for their own personal safety and the security of their own possessions while taking part in this competition.
6. All photographs submitted will appear in an online gallery at www.iop.ie/forestry
7. Entrants may submit up to a maximum of 5 photographs.
8. Where recognisable people appear in any of the submitted photographs entrants must receive the permission of these people. Neither I.F.S. Asset Managers Limited nor the Institute of Photography will take any responsibility for failure to receive this permission.
9. It is a condition of entry that I.F.S. Asset Managers Limited and the Institute of Photography will be entitled to use or reproduce winning entries for the purposes of promoting this and future competitions. All photographs will be credited to the submitting photographer.
10. The copyright of all photographs entered will remain in the ownership of the submitting photographer.
11. I.F.S. Asset Managers Limited and the Institute of Photography reserve the right to publish the name and county of the winner.
12. The winner may be asked, but is not required, to take part in publicity.
13. No personal information will be used for marketing or research purposes by I.F.S. Asset Managers Limited or the Institute of Photography nor will any personal information be passed on to third parties.
14. Employees and family members of employees of I.F.S. Asset Managers Limited and the Institute of Photography will not be eligible for entry to the competition.
15. Prizes will be awarded at a special awards ceremony to be held after the close of the competition. No cash alternatives will be offered. No purchase necessary.
16. Neither I.F.S. Asset Managers Limited nor the Institute of Photography will be liable for any circumstances beyond its reasonable control that prevent a prize being taken up by a winner.
17. There will be one winner and one second prize in the competition.
18. The winner will receive either a Beginners, Improvers, Advanced Digital Photography or Photoshop for Beginners Course at the Institute of Photography and the second prize will be a Canon ES2 Compact Printer. In relation to the second prize the prize includes delivery. No cash alternative allowed.
19. All photographs must be entered under the rules of the competition.
20. By entering this promotion, entrants are agreeing to abide by these terms and conditions.
21. No correspondence about any submitted photographs can be entered into.
22. The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.