Awards Terms & Conditions

  1. Full payment (cheque, credit card (2.5% admin fee), BACS transfer) must be received and cleared before the entry deadline.

  2. No entry fees will be refunded under any circumstances.

  3. The entrant must, and confirms and warrants that it does, own all the rights and/or have all the permissions needed to enter the entry in the competition on these terms. If we ask it to do so, the entrant must promptly provide whatever proof of those rights and permissions Retail Enhancement Association reasonably requires. The entrant agrees to indemnify Retail Enhancement Association's against the consequences of the entrant being in breach of this clause 3.

  4. The entrant irrevocably grants Retail Enhancement Association's the right: (i) To make and reproduce images and details of the entry, and any images, text and information provided by the entrant, in any form and in any medium (including on Retail Enhancement Association's website and its printed and electronic publications); and (ii) To distribute all the aforesaid, and to display and communicate all the aforesaid to the public, anywhere in the world.

  5. If the entrant provides the relevant information with the entry, Retail Enhancement Association's will ensure that any images of the entry it reproduces will be accompanied by appropriate details of any rights related to the entry.

  6. Retail Enhancement Association's may move an entry into a different category without prior notice or consultation if it considers the alternative category is more appropriate. No entry fees will be refunded if it does.

  7. Retail Enhancement Association's reserves the right to combine, divide and change categories, and to create new categories, without prior notice or consultation.

  8. Retail Enhancement Association's may disqualify the entry if: (i) The entrant has broken any rule set out in the entry form or has breached any of these terms; or (ii) A third party challenges or disputes the entrant’s right to enter the entry in the competition and does not withdraw that challenge or dispute when invited to do so. No entry fees will be refunded if Retail Enhancement Association's disqualifies the entry.

  9. If it established that an entrant has broken the awards rules, the offending entry may be disqualified from the Awards.

  10. Retail Enhancement Association's will not provide feedback on an individual entry’s performance in the Awards.

  11. Retail Enhancement Association's reserves the right to validate any of the entry content.

  12. Client permission must have been received for an entry to compete in the Retail Enhancement Association's Awards and that the entrant holds copyright for the entry, or have written permission from the copyright holder and in this case that the copyright holder does not require recognition.

  13. By entering the Awards entrants confirm that they will abide by the rules, and that they accept the terms and conditions of entry.

  14. Where the entrant was responsible for only the manufacture & or implementation of the entry, it must be submitted with the permission of – and joint credit given to – the company responsible for the creative design concept. The awards recognise the importance of the role of the client brief, concept & strategy, technical design, manufacture & implementation.