Terms of Submission

So you want to be the winner of the second annual World's Cutest Vegetarian Kid contest? Well, we can't guarantee that you'll be the winner, but if you're one of the six finalists, we'll post your photo right here on PETAKids.com. But the best part isn't that we'd be helping you get a little bit more famous—it's that you'd be using your super-cute face to help save animals around the world. OK, so maybe the best part is a bit of both. But either way, we've got a few terms that you'll need to read and agree to before you hit "Submit." So just read away! Then go back to the form and click on the little checkbox. Yup, we really do like to make getting famous as easy as possible.

Note: If you're under 18, please make sure that your parent or guardian has read and agreed to these terms before you submit photos, text, or other content or information to PETA, 'cause we don't want to get yelled at.

• Any and all photos, text, and other content or information submitted by you will become PETA's property, and we will have no obligation to preserve, return, or otherwise make available to you or others any photos or information so submitted. So if you want a copy of the photo, drawing, etc., that you send us, you'd better make one, 'cause we don't have to share.
• You understand that because we become the owner of all photos, text, and other content or information submitted by you, PETA and its officers, directors, employees, successors, and assigns may use, reproduce, edit, display, transmit, modify, publish, prepare derivative works of, and otherwise make use of the submitted photos, text, and other content or information in any and all media—whether now known or hereinafter created—throughout the world and for any purpose, without compensation to you of any kind.
• By submitting any photo, text, or other content or information to PETA, you hereby represent and warrant that the submitted photo, text, or other content or information does not infringe on any copyright or trademark, any rights of privacy or publicity of any person, or any other right of any third party. You hereby represent and warrant that you have the right to transfer the photo, text, or other content or information to PETA free and clear of any claims or encumbrances. You don't get properly famous by stealing other people's work—it's just lame.
• You acknowledge and agree that PETA shall have no obligation to post, display, or otherwise make publicly available any photo, text, content, or other information submitted by you. So don't take it personally if we don't post your work. It's not that we don't want to—it's just that there's no way that we could possibly post all the awesome stuff that you all send us. This Web site just isn't that big!
• You further understand and intend that any photo, text, and other content or information submitted by you to PETA may be available for viewing, rating, reviewing, and commenting by the public. You understand that comments or ratings that you disagree with or are unhappy about may be published or otherwise become associated with any photo, text, or other content or information that you submit to PETA. By submitting any photo, text, or other content or information to PETA, you hereby waive any privacy expectations that you may have with respect to any such photo, text, or other content or information submitted by you to PETA. If you don't want the whole world to see it, don't send it to us.
• You hereby agree to hold PETA and its officers, directors, employees, successors, and assigns harmless from and against—and hereby waive any right to pursue—any claims of any nature arising in connection with PETA's use of the photos, text, or other content or information submitted by you to PETA and used in any manner in PETA's sole and absolute discretion.
• To submit an entry in this contest, you must be 18 years of age or older, but the child on whose behalf you are entering must be 12 years of age or younger. And you further acknowledge that you agree to the following:
• I am the parent or guardian of the child depicted in the images attached to the submission form.
• I understand that PETA may wish to publish the photos that I have submitted on PETAKids.com or GoVeg.com and in Animal Times magazine, naming my child as a finalist or as a winner of the World's Cutest Vegetarian Kid contest, and I consent to that publication.
• I also understand that PETA may make my child's full name, age, and city/state of residence available to the media via news releases and may publish my child's information in Animal Times magazine and on PETAKids.com, GoVeg.com, or any of PETA's other Web sites.
• Should my child win the contest or be a finalist, I understand that PETA will contact me to confirm my consent to this publication and to seek my consent to have my contact details released to members of the media who request to speak to my child.