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ADS Awards is an international advertising awards program operated by Farmani Group Limited, a Hong Kong company with its registered address at 20F Euro Trade Centre, 21-23 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.

References to “ADS Awards,” “we,” “us,” or “our” in these terms mean Farmani Group Limited only. Farmani Group Limited is the sole contracting party with entrants under these terms.

To operate the program internationally, Farmani Group Limited may engage third-party service providers and independent affiliated entities — which may include other Farmani Group companies, such as Farmani Group Inc. (a California corporation) — to provide operational, judging, promotional, or archival services in support of the awards program. Any such service provider acts as an independent contractor. No such service provider is authorised to enter into contracts, incur obligations, or make commitments on behalf of Farmani Group Limited or in its name, and no such service provider is entitled to a share of the revenues, profits, or income of Farmani Group Limited by reason of providing those services.

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ADS Awards is open to advertising agencies, brands, studios, production companies, designers, directors, creatives, freelancers, students, and other eligible entrants worldwide, subject to applicable laws and sanctions restrictions.

Entrants are responsible for ensuring they have authority to submit the work on behalf of all relevant parties, including clients, employers, collaborators, copyright owners, talent, photographers, directors, producers, and agencies.

Entries must be submitted through the official ADS Awards website or approved entry platform by the published deadline. Each entry must include accurate information, correct credits, appropriate category selection, required media, and payment of applicable entry fees.

ADS Awards may, at its discretion, move entries to more suitable categories, request clarification, reject incomplete entries, or remove entries that do not comply with these terms.

Entry fees are listed on the website and may vary by category, deadline, entrant type, or promotional period. All fees must be paid in full before an entry is eligible for judging.

Entrants are responsible for any applicable taxes, bank fees, currency conversion fees, or payment processor charges.

Entry fees are generally non-refundable once an entry has been submitted or processed, including where an entrant later withdraws, submits to the wrong category, misses a deadline, or does not win.

ADS Awards may consider refund requests only in exceptional cases, such as duplicate payment or technical error, at its sole discretion.

By submitting work, the entrant represents and warrants that:

• The entry is accurate, lawful, and does not infringe any third-party rights.
• The entrant has all permissions, licenses, releases, and approvals required to submit the work.
• The work does not contain unlawful, defamatory, misleading, abusive, hateful, or unauthorized material.
• The entry may be reviewed, judged, archived, displayed, and promoted by ADS Awards as described in these terms.
• All credits, client names, agency names, and collaborator information are correct and approved for publication.

Entrants retain ownership of their submitted work and underlying intellectual property rights, subject to any rights owned by clients, agencies, employers, collaborators, or third parties.

Entrants further represent and warrant that they own or control all rights, licenses, releases, permissions, and approvals necessary for the submission, judging, publication, and promotion of the work, including but not limited to rights in music, sound recordings, talent and performer likenesses, third-party trademarks, stock or licensed materials, and any client, brand, agency, or collaborator approvals required.

By submitting work, the entrant grants ADS Awards a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, display, publish, edit for format, distribute, and promote submitted materials in connection with the competition, judging, winner announcements, website archives, exhibitions, social media, newsletters, press, editorial content, publications, certificates, trophies, and promotional materials.

This license is intended to allow ADS Awards to operate and promote the competition and its entrants. It does not transfer copyright ownership to ADS Awards.

Entrants should not submit confidential or restricted material unless they have permission for ADS Awards, jurors, and administrators to view and process it. ADS Awards is not responsible for maintaining confidentiality of submitted work unless a separate written agreement has been signed.

Where work includes artificial intelligence, generative tools, synthetic media, automated production, or substantial machine-generated content, entrants must comply with category rules and disclose AI involvement where requested.

Entrants remain responsible for the legality, originality, rights clearance, truthfulness, and ethical presentation of AI-assisted or AI-generated work.

Failure to disclose AI use where disclosure is required — or the provision of inaccurate or misleading disclosure — may result in disqualification of the entry, revocation of any award received, and forfeiture of entry fees.

Entries are judged according to ADS Awards criteria, which may include idea, execution, strategic relevance, impact, craft, originality, effectiveness, and category fit.

Judging is conducted by selected jurors, committees, or awards administrators. ADS Awards may appoint substitute or replacement jurors at any time where necessary to ensure timely, fair, and complete judging — for example, in the event of juror unavailability, conflict of interest, illness, resignation, or other operational need. Jury decisions are final. ADS Awards is not required to provide individual scores, jury comments, or explanations for results.

ADS Awards may withhold, revoke, reassign, or cancel an award if an entry is found to be ineligible, inaccurate, unlawful, misleading, unethical, or in breach of these terms.

ADS Awards may recognize entries as shortlisted, finalist, winner, gold, silver, bronze, grand prize, category winner, special mention, or other distinctions as determined by the competition structure.

Award titles, seals, badges, certificates, trophies, and winner references may only be used in the form authorized by ADS Awards. Misleading use of ADS Awards marks or winner status is prohibited.

Shortlisted, finalist, winning, and selected entries may be published on the ADS Awards website, in archives, newsletters, social media, press releases, exhibitions, publications, and partner platforms.

ADS Awards may edit submitted text for length, spelling, formatting, clarity, and house style, while aiming to preserve the substance of the submitted information.

ADS Awards may disqualify or remove an entry if it determines, in its sole discretion, that the entry violates these terms, contains false information, infringes rights, breaches confidentiality, manipulates the judging process, fails payment, damages the reputation of the awards, or otherwise creates legal, ethical, or operational concerns.

Users must not misuse the website, attempt unauthorized access, interfere with security, upload malicious files, scrape the platform, impersonate others, or use the website for unlawful purposes.

ADS Awards may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms or create risk to the website, competition, entrants, jurors, partners, or public.

The website may use third-party services for payments, hosting, analytics, email, video, forms, social media, and other functions. ADS Awards is not responsible for third-party websites, platforms, or services, which may be governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, ADS Awards, its parent and affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, contractors, jurors, and partners shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, arising out of or relating to use of the website, participation in the competition, judging outcomes, technical issues, publication, disqualification, or inability to access services — whether based in contract, tort, statute, or any other legal theory, and whether or not ADS Awards has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is not permitted by applicable law.

Entrants agree to indemnify and hold harmless ADS Awards, its organizers, affiliates, jurors, partners, employees, contractors, and representatives from claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses arising from submitted work, breach of these terms, infringement of rights, inaccurate information, or unlawful conduct.

ADS Awards is not responsible for delay, cancellation, interruption, or failure caused by events beyond reasonable control, including technical failures, cyberattacks, payment processor outages, natural disasters, war, terrorism, labor disputes, government action, pandemic, venue issues, or other force majeure events.

ADS Awards may update these Terms & Conditions, category rules, deadlines, judging procedures, fees, awards structure, and website features from time to time. Updated terms will be posted on the website with a revised effective date.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Hong Kong, and the parties consent to personal jurisdiction and venue therein.

Nothing in this clause limits or overrides any mandatory statutory rights available to consumers, entrants, or data subjects under the law of their country of habitual residence.