By selecting “I Accept” you are agreeing to all PromoIcons Submission Competition Rules with Terms and Conditions described below.

INTRODUCTION

1) With the PromoIcon and PromoIcons term below we mean and include any photo or video you create and submit in order to promote selected ArtWorks and the www.Shicon.com website.We divide PromoIcons in PromoPhotos and PromoVideos.

2) You must be 18 years or older to submit your PromoIcon. If you’re younger you can still make an PromoIcon, but it must be submitted on your behalf by a parent or guardian.

PROMOICONS CONTEST RULES – TERMS AND CONDITION

3) You acknowledge PromoIcons submitted within this Contest must be your own original work. It means they has not been previously published or being part, at the same time, of another competition. They also may not contain any intellectual property belonging to any third parties such us trademarks, logos, copyrighted materials, publicity right, privacy right or any agreement or arrangements that would interfere with their free and clear use if not licensed by relative owner. Shicon decline any responsibility for this.

4) Shicon reserves the right to decline any submission that, in it’s sole discretion, deems to be profane, offensive or inappropriate or manifestly offensive of third’s parties rights. PromoIcons accepted into the competitions may be removed from the Shicon staff at any time for any reason, including poor design. Shicon also reserves the right to terminate a user's access to the Website at any time in its sole discretion and without prior notice.

5) To join the Contest you must have purchased at least one shirt or item from Shicon.com. Then you have to dress up or show an ambient with it in the PromoPhoto and/or PromoVideo you make. So you can upload your PromoPhoto and/or promoVideo to the PromoIcons section of the Website. Apart from the Contest prizes described below, you always win 1 store credit, worth €1,00 or £0.82, the first time you post a PromoPhoto and PromoVideo with a new shirt or item you purchased, it means no more than 2 credits- €2,00 or £1.64 - for one item. When you have accumulated more then €100,00 or £82.00 store credits you can start to spend them on buying Shicon.com products, like described in clause 12. Please note You can submit no more than 3 PromoVideos and 3 PromoPhotos for each shirt or item.

All submitted PromoIcons accepted by Shicon on the Website are eligible to be chosen for the following prizes:
- PromoVideo Viral Award
- PromoPhoto Viral Award

6) After your PromoIcon is submitted it will subject to a binding option to become our property and you will agree to grant/assign the royalty free, perpetual right to use it for commercial purposes in case the PromoIcon win. If your PromoIcon is selected as a winner which includes, but it’s not limited to, the “Weekly PromoIcon”, the “Monthly PromoIcon”, the “PromoIcon Award you will receive a notification email at the address you provided on the website and upon such notification your PromoIcon will become a property of Shicon you will agree to grant/assign the royalty free, perpetual right to use it for commercial purposes and for registering the PromoIcon with the European Copyright Office in the name of Shicon.srl and you as the Author. You agree to provide Shicon with minimal information as may be required in order to register the copyright in the PromoIcon if Shicon so requests, at no cost.

7) Shicon has the temporary property of all submitted PromoIcons for a period of 90 days from the date of submission; this means that during this period you may not reproduce, sell or submit PromoIcon to others for commercial purpose. Obviously you feel free to advertise your PromoIcon in your shop, social network and through any online and offline action by referring to the Shicon.com site: share and seed your creative talent. Infact winning PromoIcons are determined by a combination of voting results and where they are coming from, participant comments and where they are coming from, Shicon staff and possibly guest judges. Final judgment is about original, innovative and viral promotion icons. Shicon feels free not to assign the winning prize to any PromoIcon as well, in its sole discretion. Once the 90 days have passed, if Shicon does not choose your PromoIcon for print, you are free to use the PromoIcon for any commercial or not-commercial purpose. In addition if the PromoIcon is used elsewhere for commercial purposes you can’t use Shicon to promote the PromoIcon or the company using the PromoIcon. As well you can’t use Shicon to promote any company that operates in competition with Shicon.

8) Winning PromoIcons, like described in clause 5, can be used from Shicon, and from third parties connected to Shicon, for any online and offline marketing and advertising actions and you grant/assign the royalty free, perpetual right to use it for commercial purposes.

9)
- Participants who win the PromoVideo Viral Award prize will receive €250,00 or £205.00 cash and 100 store credits worth €100,00 or £82.00.
-Participants who win the PromoPhoto Viral Award prize will receive €100,00 or £82.00 cash and 100 store credits worth €100,00 or £82.00.

10)If your PromoIcon win you must send to Shicon a high-resolution version and the permission to use your “Name and Surname or Username” and all details about payment within 2 working days. Please incorporate your signature in the PromoIcon.

11)After the winning prize you give to Shicon the right to use your PromoIcon in any manner on or in connection with the items. Following on from the payment of the above prizes you grant/assign the royalty free, perpetual right to use it for commercial purposes. For any reason you can pretend more than the total maximum prize we described up.

12)The prices are payable by Shicon.com through PayPal or wire transfer – please note that for wire transfers your Bank will take a few more days for clearing – within 25 working days after you send the high resolution version.

Credits expire in 12 months, that is to say we will cancel those credits from your account if you have not used them. Remember that only when you have accumulated at least 100 store credits worth €100,00 or £82.00 you can start to spend them on Shicon.com products. You can use store credits in 2 ways:
- Purchase one item from the store and pay for 60% of the selling price, excluding shipping cost, through credits, while you have to pay cash for the residual 40% of the selling price
- Accumulate credits worth at least €800,00 or £656.00 and convert them in a cash prize.

For more information about credits read All about credits

13) Your Name and Surname or Username are going to be print on the item, closed to the PromoIcon, to read “by …(your Name and Surname or Username)”. That’s the reason why after you become the winner we ask you the permission to use your “Name and Surname or Username” and you have to choose which one we can print. Remember once you give us your answer you can’t change your mind.

14) Shicon reserves the right to change these payment terms at any time, by posting them on the Shicon.com website, and changes will be effective upon posting. Payment will be based on the terms in effect when your PromoIcon is selected. You alone will be responsible for the payment of any tax that arises as a result of receiving payment from Shicon.

15) The PromoIcons who become a property of Shicon may be modified in any way whatsoever, used as a basis for additional illustrations or images (whether or not by you) and any modifications or derivatives thereof may be digitized without any additional approval being required of you, with the exception that you shall be shown such modifications and derivatives ad shall have a right to withdraw use of your name as a credit.

16) Shicon is not responsible for any entry PromoIcons that are altered, defective, delayed, deleted, destroyed, fraudulent, improperly accessed, inaccurate, incomplete, interrupted, invalid, late, lost, misrouted, multiple, non-delivered, stolen, tampered with, unauthorized or unintelligible; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server or other connections; miscommunications; failed phone, computer hardware or software or telephone transmissions; technical failures; unauthorized human intervention; traffic congestion; garbled or jumbled transmissions; undeliverable e-mails resulting from any form of active or passive e-mail filtering; insufficient space in entrant’s e-mail account to receive e-mail; or other errors of any kind, whether due to electronic, mechanical or human error or other causes, even if caused by the negligence of the Shicon.com. sole discretion and without prior notice.

17) In respect of the contents posted by you which are objectionable in any manner, infringing any rights of third party, malicious, suffering from any defect entailing civil/criminal actions, you shall be solely responsible for such contents and consequently such actions, though such contents are so used, reproduced, modified, adapted, published, translated, created derivates of, distributed, performed or displayed by us on any media at any time or place. You shall defend, protect and indemnify us in the event of such defects exist or arise or such actions are initiated.

18) No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created between Shicon and the winner or community member by this Agreement.

19) These contract shall be governed by the Laws of Italy. The Courts of law at Milan shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising under these terms. The use of Website/services thereon is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph.

For any question, problem or violation about Privacy Policy and Terms of Use please contact terms@shicon.com

Updates to Terms of Use

Terms of Use updated Sept, 2009.

According to article 1341 of the Italian Codice Civile (Civil Code) the User has read and accepts the terms contained in: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.