Terms

• The intellectual and moral property rights belong to the owner of the work, and if the submitted work does not win, Kioskedia will not publish it. • By submitting the work, the participant confirms that they are the owner of the work or possess the legal authority and permission required to register, submit, have it judged, display, and publish it. If the work has been designed for an employer, company, institution, university, or third party, obtaining the necessary permissions is the responsibility of the participant. • The responsibility for obtaining permission to use any photograph, image, font, music, video, logo, trademark, map, three-dimensional model, text, software, stock content, or other elements belonging to third parties rests with the participant. The use of such elements must be clearly disclosed at the time of registering the work. • Responsibility for the originality of the work and the accuracy of all information and statements provided regarding the ownership of the work, creators, permissions, rights related to the work, and the participant’s statements regarding the work rests with the participant. The participant confirms that the uploaded images and content have not been copied from works belonging to other individuals, designers, companies, institutions, or brands and that, where content belonging to third parties has been used, the participant possesses the necessary legal permission. If a design submitted by the participant to enter the Award has been designed for another individual, company, or brand, whether a natural or legal person, the participant must have obtained permission to submit the design to the Award. Responsibility for responding to any claim made by natural or legal persons regarding ownership of the submitted work rests with the participant, and the organizer bears no responsibility in this regard. • Images uploaded by the participant must not be copied from a design belonging to another individual, company, or brand, whether a natural or legal person. Responsibility for responding to any claim made by natural or legal persons regarding ownership of the submitted work rests with the participant, and the organizer bears no responsibility in this regard. Responsibility for responding to any claim, objection, or demand made by natural or legal persons regarding the originality, ownership, authorship, permissions, or other rights related to the work rests with the participant. The organizer shall not be responsible for incorrect, incomplete, or false information provided by the participant. • If a violation of intellectual property rights (copyright), objective and substantial copying of the participant’s work from another work, unauthorized use of the work of a third party or another brand, or the provision of false information is established, the organizer has the right to remove the participant’s work from the Award and, if the work has won, to revoke the awarded ranking and title. The participant shall be required to return the received trophy and certificate to the organizer, remove the revoked title and ranking from their résumé, website, all social media pages, and media, refrain from any further use of the Award title or mark, and the organizer shall also have the right to remove the work, revoked title, and ranking from all Award platforms, including the website, Instagram, and the digital edition of the Winners’ Book. The participant shall have no right to object in this regard. If Kioskedia incurs any cost or loss as a result of false information, lack of legal permission, or breach of the participant’s obligations, the participant shall be required to compensate for such costs and losses. • Kioskedia is solely the organizer of the Award and the provider of the process for the registration, submission, and judging of works by the Jury Board and has no obligation to investigate, establish, or guarantee the originality, ownership, authorship, or legal status of the submitted works. All legal, financial, and contractual responsibilities relating to the originality of the work, its ownership, required permissions, copyright, and other rights of third parties rest exclusively with the participant and the persons associated with the work. • Kioskedia and the members of the Jury Board are not a judicial authority, an arbitral institution, an official intellectual property authority or expert body, or an authority responsible for resolving disputes between participants and third parties. Neither Kioskedia nor the members of the Jury Board shall be considered a party to any dispute, claim, complaint, or legal action concerning alleged copying, authorship, ownership, misappropriation of a work, attribution, permissions, licences, or any other third-party rights. • The role of Kioskedia and the members of the Jury Board is limited to evaluating the works based on the artistic and design criteria and the internal regulations of the Award. Any decision regarding the acceptance, suspension, removal, publication, or ranking of a work relates solely to the status of that work within the framework of the Award and does not constitute a legal judgment or confirmation regarding originality, ownership, absence of copying, or infringement of third-party rights. • In the event of any claim or complaint, responsibility for responding, defending, providing documents, and resolving the matter rests directly with the participant and the persons involved in the creation, ownership, submission, or publication of the work. Kioskedia shall not be responsible for any losses, costs, or consequences arising from incorrect information, defects in intellectual property rights, infringement of third-party rights, or disputes related to the work, and all responsibility rests entirely with the participant. • The names of all designers of the work and all persons credited for photography, rendering, or other contributions must be entered accurately on the website at the time of registration. After winning, no change, removal, or addition to the names of designers or credited persons shall be possible. If any member of the team intentionally or unintentionally fails to mention the name of a member of the design team or a credited person, the organizer shall bear no responsibility in this regard, and responsibility for responding to any claim made by natural or legal persons rests with the participants. If misuse of another person’s name or credit by the designer, team, or any member of the team is established, the organizer has the right to remove the participant’s work from the Award and, if the work has won, to revoke the awarded ranking and title. The participant shall be required to return the received trophy and certificate to the organizer, remove the revoked title and ranking from their résumé, website, all social media pages, and media, refrain from any further use of the Award title or mark, and the organizer shall also have the right to remove the work, revoked title, and ranking from all Award platforms, including the website, Instagram, and the digital edition of the Winners’ Book. The participant shall have no right to object in this regard. If Kioskedia incurs any cost or loss as a result of false information, lack of legal permission, or breach of the participant’s obligations, the participant shall be required to compensate for such costs and losses. • In group works, the person who uploads the design through their panel on the Kioskedia Award website shall be regarded as the representative of all group members and confirms that they have obtained the necessary consent and authority from all team members for registering the work, declaring the names of the members, receiving correspondence, publishing the work, and accepting the regulations. If Kioskedia provides information on any matter to the group representative or any group member, responsibility for fully and accurately communicating the information to the other members rests with that person, and they must communicate the information provided by Kioskedia exactly to the other group members. The other group members shall have no right to object to Kioskedia on the grounds that they were not informed of the information. • Works in which artificial intelligence has been used must be entered in the Artificial Intelligence Category. If generative artificial intelligence tools have been used in any way in the production, development, or editing of the main content of the work, the participant is required to enter the work in the Artificial Intelligence Category. Failure to register the work in the Artificial Intelligence Category may result in rejection of the work or revocation of the ranking. • Kioskedia has the right to freely publish works in exhibitions, printed books, promotional materials, the Award’s social media and website, and other websites for the purpose of introducing the works, and so forth. By submitting the work, the participant grants Kioskedia a non-exclusive, non-transfer-of-ownership, and geographically unrestricted license to publish and republish the work, project name, and registered information for purposes related to judging, promotion, exhibitions, printing and publication of books, websites, social media, public relations, and promotion of the Award. Ownership rights in the work shall remain with its legal owner. • Kioskedia has no obligation to enter into a contract or carry out subsequent stages of design in relation to selected works. • Kioskedia has no obligation to develop selected designs until they become buildable designs or usable products. • The judging system has been designed to a high standard to ensure fair voting, and the works are evaluated based on the announced criteria by the members of the Jury Board. The Jury Board’s decision regarding the artistic and professional evaluation of the works and determination of the results is final within the framework of the Award, and all participants are expected to respect the decision of the Jury Board, whose members are selected from around the world, and shall have no right to object to the result of the Jury Board’s decision.