Competition Terms

1. Skill-Based Competitions Only

Each competition must be a genuine skill-based request for work or evaluation of merit. Chance-based promotions, lotteries, raffles, sweepstakes, gambling, and similar mechanisms are prohibited. Creators are solely responsible for ensuring their competition is lawful in every jurisdiction they target or permit.

2. Creator Responsibilities

• Post only competition requirements you are authorized to publish and judge.
• Describe the requested work, restrictions, and deliverable expectations honestly and in good faith.
• Comply with consumer, advertising, procurement, labor, data protection, export control, sanctions, and intellectual-property law that applies to your competition.
• Judge in good faith and avoid sham competitions, misleading requirements, data-harvesting exercises, or competitions designed mainly to obtain free work without legitimate selection intent.
• Do not use off-platform communications or side deals to evade Service rules or fees.
• Do not request unlawful, dangerous, abusive, infringing, or malware-related work.

3. Account Responsibilities

• Submit only work you have the legal right to submit, license, and, if selected, transfer.
• Do not submit plagiarized, stolen, malicious, rights-restricted, confidential, or unlawfully obtained material.
• Do not include harmful code, credential theft tools, hidden destructive functionality, or anything designed to compromise another person or system.
• If your submission incorporates third-party, open-source, stock, model, AI-assisted, or licensed elements, you must ensure that use is lawful and must disclose any restrictions that materially affect use or transfer.
• Keep your own local copies of work and records. The Service does not promise permanent storage or download access.

4. Current Submission and Access Rules

• The current submission format allows one or more submission files, up to 500 GiB per asset, 2 TiB total per submission, and 10,000 files per submission.
• Submission deadlines are creator-configurable within current Service limits, presently from at least about one hour in the future up to about 365 days in the future, subject to later Service changes.
• Accounts must complete Stripe Connect payout onboarding, join a competition, and then submit. Hourly submission caps may apply. The current Service default is 10 per account per competition per hour.
• Accounts generally cannot browse other accounts’ submission files through standard Service interfaces during an active competition.
• Creators may view submission files as needed for evaluation while the competition is active.
• When a creator selects a winner, the Service records the winner status and starts payout processing.
• Finalized submission files remain attached to the submission and available to creators through authorized Service download flows. Short-lived download URLs and generated archive files may expire and be recreated when access remains authorized.
• Questions submitted in competition Q&A may be visible to other users and visitors depending on the competition page.

5. Winner Selection, Review Window, and Current Payout Structure

The current Service permits a creator to select a single winner. The present payout allocation model is:

• 1 winner: 100% of the opened competition prize allocation to the sole winner, before applicable Service deductions.
• Winner payout processing starts after the creator selects the winning submission and then settles through Stripe Connect.
• If a competition ends without a selected winner, it remains closed without a winner.

Creators must select a winner within the fixed winner-selection window of 7 days after the submission deadline. That window is not extendable. If the creator fails to select a winner before it ends, the competition is closed without a winner and the entire prize pool is retained by the Service as revenue; no portion is refunded to the creator. Creators remain responsible for subjective judgment, and the Operator does not guarantee that any user will be satisfied with a submission or outcome.

6. No Refunds, No Cancellations, No Extensions

Creators are not charged while merely editing a draft; payment is requested only during publish. Once publish payment is successfully confirmed and the competition opens, the payment is final. The Service does not offer creator-requested refunds, creator-initiated cancellations, or deadline extensions under any circumstance. Creators must confirm the requirements, prize amount, timeline, and submission rules before paying; the Service will not reopen, extend, or reverse an opened competition.

• If publish payment is canceled, fails, or expires before successful confirmation, no completed competition payment exists and the competition remains in draft.
• An opened competition cannot be cancelled by the creator and no portion of the prize pool will be refunded at creator request.
• Submission deadlines and winner-selection windows are fixed at publication and cannot be extended.
• A competition that reaches the end of its winner-selection window with zero submissions, or that otherwise expires without a selected winner, is closed without a winner and the entire prize pool is retained by the Service as revenue.
• Payment corrections are only considered in the narrow case of a verified duplicate charge, payment-processor error, or Service malfunction that causes a completed charge without opening the corresponding competition; not for dissatisfaction with submissions, creator indecision, or changes of mind.

7. Confidentiality, Personal Data, and Sensitive Material

Do not post or submit trade secrets, security-sensitive assets, personal data, export-restricted materials, or confidential information unless you are entitled to do so and the relevant laws, contractual obligations, and competition disclosures permit it. Invite-only status does not create a separate NDA or statutory confidentiality regime.

8. Competition-Specific Intellectual Property Rules

Non-winning submissions remain with the account except for the limited evaluation and Service-operation licenses described in the Terms of Service. A creator may not commercially exploit a non-winning submission unless the account separately agrees.

For winning submissions, the rights-transfer framework in the Terms of Service applies, including the assignment-or-exclusive-license fallback where assignment is not available, and including all carve-outs required by disclosed third-party or open-source terms.

9. Enforcement

We may reject a competition, block access, delete files, refuse publication, suspend payments, or ban accounts where we believe a competition or submission creates legal, compliance, fraud, abuse, or security risk. You may contact us directly about such issues, but we are not required to resolve every dispute or review subjective winner-selection decisions.