OFFICIAL PHOTO CONTEST RULES
1. This photo contest is run by Travel Southern Oregon Coast (TSOC), a non-profit destination management organization in Bandon, Oregon. To learn more about TSOC, visit here.
2. This contest is being administered by Travel Southern Oregon Coast and is in no way sponsored by or affiliated with Instagram/Meta. Winner releases Instagram/Meta of all responsibility regarding this prize package.
3. SHARE THE BEAUTY SOUTHERN OREGON COAST PHOTO CONTEST: How To Enter: Post your image(s) to your Instagram account starting MAY 1, 2022 through MAY 31, 2022 and use the hashtag #sharethebeauty2022 AND tag @southernoregoncoast. All photos entered must also have a location/geotag so that it is entered into the proper category (categories listed below). Entries that do not use both the hashtag the @tag, and a location/geotag will not be counted.
4. Community Categories with a $100 prize for each are as follows:
5. WINNER SELECTION: Winner will be selected by June 30, 2022. Winner will be notified on July 1, 2022. Winner will be notified via Instagram Direct Message (DM). Winner will also be announced on our Instagram account @southernoregoncoast.
6. ELIGIBILITY: If you are an individual legal resident of the United States and are at least 18 years of age at the time of entry, you are eligible to enter the contest. Employees of Sponsor, its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries, participating advertising and promotion agencies and prize suppliers (and members of their immediate family and/or those living in the same of household of each such employee) are not eligible.
7. ENTRIES: By submitting and hashtagging your photos in this contest, photographer gives Travel Southern Oregon Coast permission to use photos in social media, website, and other marketing materials in perpetuity; TSOC will credit the photographer.
8. Contest will run May 1, 2022 through May 31, 2022.
9. No purchase necessary to enter to win.
8. PRIZES: A prize of $100 will be awarded to the winners of each category (listed above). A grand prize winner - best photo overall - will win $500.
9. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION: Entrants must have a valid, public Instagram account. Entry photos must be posted as public to the main grid of the Instagram user's account. Expenses and all taxes are the sole responsibility of the winner. No transfer, assignment or substitution of a prize permitted. All federal, state, provincial, and local laws and regulations apply. Entrants agree to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules and by the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding on all matters pertaining to this contest. Winner must reply within 7 days following the first attempted notification with their full legal name, address, email address, and phone number. Failure to comply with this deadline may result in forfeiture of the prize and selection of an alternate winner. Return of any prize/prize notification as undeliverable may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. By accepting a prize, winner agrees to hold Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, representative agents, successors, assigns, officers, directors, and employees harmless for any injury or damage caused or claimed to be caused by participation in the Contest or acceptance or use of the prize. Sponsor is not responsible for any printing, typographical, mechanical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Promotion or in the announcement of the prize.
10. INTERNET: Sponsor is not responsible for electronic transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions or limitations of any kind, or inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor or presenter on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site or any combination thereof. If for any reason the Internet portion of the program is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to select winners from eligible entries received as of the termination date. Sponsor further reserves the right to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process. Sponsor may prohibit an entrant from participating in a Contest if it determines that said entrant is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair playing practices or intending to abuse, threaten or harass other entrants. Caution: Any attempt by a participant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such participant to the fullest extent of the law.
11. DISPUTES, GOVERNING LAW: Sponsor reserves the right to make all decisions in its sole discretion arising out of or relating to the Contest and the decisions by Sponsor are final and binding on all matters relating to the Contest. All disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with the Contest shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the appropriate court located in the State of Oregon. All disputes shall be governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, without regard to principles of conflict of laws. All judgments or awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket damages (excluding attorneys’ fees) associated with participation in this Contest and shall not include any indirect, punitive, incidental, and/or consequential damages.
12. ENTRANT: (a) grants Sponsor permission to use prize winner’s name, picture/likeness, and/or similar related information for promotional purposes where not prohibited by law without compensation:
(b) agrees to these rules and the decisions of the Sponsor; and
(c) agrees to release Sponsor and its agencies from all claims of liability for damages, loss, injury, or death resulting from acceptance/use of the Prize or participation in the Contest.
13. SPONSOR: Travel Southern Oregon Coast, 57744 Round Lake Road, Bandon, Oregon 97411.
Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or modify the Sweepstakes if any fraud, virus or other technical problem corrupts the administration, security, or proper play of the Contest, or for any other reason as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion.
2. This contest is being administered by Travel Southern Oregon Coast and is in no way sponsored by or affiliated with Instagram/Meta. Winner releases Instagram/Meta of all responsibility regarding this prize package.
3. SHARE THE BEAUTY SOUTHERN OREGON COAST PHOTO CONTEST: How To Enter: Post your image(s) to your Instagram account starting MAY 1, 2022 through MAY 31, 2022 and use the hashtag #sharethebeauty2022 AND tag @southernoregoncoast. All photos entered must also have a location/geotag so that it is entered into the proper category (categories listed below). Entries that do not use both the hashtag the @tag, and a location/geotag will not be counted.
4. Community Categories with a $100 prize for each are as follows:
- Brookings/Harbor
- Langlois/Port Orford/Gold Beach/Sixes
- Bandon
- Coquille/Myrtle Point/Powers
- Coos Bay/North Bend/Charleston
- Reedsport/Winchester Bay/Lakeside
5. WINNER SELECTION: Winner will be selected by June 30, 2022. Winner will be notified on July 1, 2022. Winner will be notified via Instagram Direct Message (DM). Winner will also be announced on our Instagram account @southernoregoncoast.
6. ELIGIBILITY: If you are an individual legal resident of the United States and are at least 18 years of age at the time of entry, you are eligible to enter the contest. Employees of Sponsor, its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries, participating advertising and promotion agencies and prize suppliers (and members of their immediate family and/or those living in the same of household of each such employee) are not eligible.
7. ENTRIES: By submitting and hashtagging your photos in this contest, photographer gives Travel Southern Oregon Coast permission to use photos in social media, website, and other marketing materials in perpetuity; TSOC will credit the photographer.
8. Contest will run May 1, 2022 through May 31, 2022.
9. No purchase necessary to enter to win.
8. PRIZES: A prize of $100 will be awarded to the winners of each category (listed above). A grand prize winner - best photo overall - will win $500.
9. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION: Entrants must have a valid, public Instagram account. Entry photos must be posted as public to the main grid of the Instagram user's account. Expenses and all taxes are the sole responsibility of the winner. No transfer, assignment or substitution of a prize permitted. All federal, state, provincial, and local laws and regulations apply. Entrants agree to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules and by the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding on all matters pertaining to this contest. Winner must reply within 7 days following the first attempted notification with their full legal name, address, email address, and phone number. Failure to comply with this deadline may result in forfeiture of the prize and selection of an alternate winner. Return of any prize/prize notification as undeliverable may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. By accepting a prize, winner agrees to hold Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, representative agents, successors, assigns, officers, directors, and employees harmless for any injury or damage caused or claimed to be caused by participation in the Contest or acceptance or use of the prize. Sponsor is not responsible for any printing, typographical, mechanical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Promotion or in the announcement of the prize.
10. INTERNET: Sponsor is not responsible for electronic transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions or limitations of any kind, or inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor or presenter on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site or any combination thereof. If for any reason the Internet portion of the program is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to select winners from eligible entries received as of the termination date. Sponsor further reserves the right to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process. Sponsor may prohibit an entrant from participating in a Contest if it determines that said entrant is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair playing practices or intending to abuse, threaten or harass other entrants. Caution: Any attempt by a participant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such participant to the fullest extent of the law.
11. DISPUTES, GOVERNING LAW: Sponsor reserves the right to make all decisions in its sole discretion arising out of or relating to the Contest and the decisions by Sponsor are final and binding on all matters relating to the Contest. All disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with the Contest shall be resolved individually without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the appropriate court located in the State of Oregon. All disputes shall be governed by the laws of the State of Oregon, without regard to principles of conflict of laws. All judgments or awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket damages (excluding attorneys’ fees) associated with participation in this Contest and shall not include any indirect, punitive, incidental, and/or consequential damages.
12. ENTRANT: (a) grants Sponsor permission to use prize winner’s name, picture/likeness, and/or similar related information for promotional purposes where not prohibited by law without compensation:
(b) agrees to these rules and the decisions of the Sponsor; and
(c) agrees to release Sponsor and its agencies from all claims of liability for damages, loss, injury, or death resulting from acceptance/use of the Prize or participation in the Contest.
13. SPONSOR: Travel Southern Oregon Coast, 57744 Round Lake Road, Bandon, Oregon 97411.
Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend, or modify the Sweepstakes if any fraud, virus or other technical problem corrupts the administration, security, or proper play of the Contest, or for any other reason as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion.