Rules

1. NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR ODDS OF WINNING. Void where prohibited..

2. Introduction: GrindMedia, LLC (“Sponsor”) is offering The K2 Photo Contest described in these Official Rules (the “Contest”).

3. Timing: Contest begins 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") on July 30th 2014 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on August 15th 2014.

4. Eligibility: Entrant must be at least 13 years of age or older on date of entry and a legal resident of the fifty (50) United States, or the District of Columbia. Any entrant who is a minor in his/her jurisdiction of legal residence must obtain permission from his/her parent or legal guardian prior to entry in the Contest. Employees, contractors, directors and officers of the Sponsor and Newschoolers.com and K2 Skis and their respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, distributors, licensees and agents (collectively, “Promotion Parties”) and their immediate family members (defined as parents, spouse, children, siblings and grandparents) of each such employee, and those with whom such employees are domiciled are NOT eligible.

5. How to Enter: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Limit one entry per person/email address. Entry period: From 12:01 a.m. ET on July 30th, 2014 until 11:59 p.m. ET on August 6th 2014 individuals may enter the Contest by completing the following steps: Visit http://www.newschoolers.com and click on the link on the home page to locate the online official entry form (must become a Newschoolers’ member to enter – membership is free). Follow the on-screen directions to enter the Contest, upload your photo entry (“Photo”), complete all required fields and click submit to enter. All entries are subject to a review by Sponsor prior to posting online and the Sponsor in its sole discretion reserves the right to remove an entry/Photo and disqualify a participant if it believes that an entry/Photo fails to conform to the herein detailed requirements/restrictions.

6. PHOTO: By entering Contest and uploading a Photo, entrants agree to comply with the following Photo requirements (noncompliance will result in disqualification):
a). Photo was created solely by the entrant; entrant is the sole owner of Photo and owns or otherwise has rights to use all elements of Photo and grants all such rights to Promotion Parties.
b). Entrant has written permission of all the people appearing in the Photo to use them in the Photo, and to submit the Photo in the Contest for use as contemplated by these Official Rules and grants all such uses to the Promotion Parties.
c). Photo does NOT contain depictions or illustrations of swearwords, violence, nudity or illegal activities (any such Photo will be disqualified).

7. Photo Theme: The photo should be of you wearing your ski gear in the funniest/craziest/most ridiculous place you can think of.

8. Additional Submission Conditions: Any Contest entry/Photo which Sponsor, in its sole discretion, deems to be inappropriate for publication will be disqualified. Contest entry/Photo must NOT contain depictions or illustrations that are: (a) sexually explicit or suggestive, unnecessarily violent or profane, contain pornography or nudity or any materially dangerous activity or be derogatory of any ethnicity, race, gender, religion, profession or age group; (b) promoting alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing), promoting activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, promoting any particular political agenda or message; (c) obscene or offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group; (d) defamatory or defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks about Sponsor or its products, or other people, products or companies; (e) reproducing trademarks, logos or trade dress owned by others; (f) advertising or promoting any brand or product of any kind, without permission; (g) containing any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, e-mail addresses or street addresses of any person (living or dead); (h) containing copyrighted materials owned by others (including photographs, sculptures, paintings and other works of art or images published on or in websites, television, movies or other media); (i) communicating messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or goodwill to which Sponsor wishes to associate; and (j) depicting a violation of any law, or itself be in violation of any law. By submitting a Contest entry/Photo each entrant represents and warrants that: (i) his/her entry/Photo is his/her sole and original creation and has not been copied in whole or in part from any other work; (ii) the Contest entry/Photo does not violate or infringe any copyright, trademark/tradename, or other proprietary right of any person or entity (including but not limited to rights of privacy or publicity or portrayal in a false light); (iii) the Contest entry/Photo has not been previously published; (iv) Contest entry/Photo has not won a previous award; and (v) publication of the Contest entry/Photo via various media including Web posting, will not infringe on the rights of any third party and entrant agrees to indemnify and hold harmless, Sponsor and Promotion Parties from any claims to the contrary.

9. BY SUBMITTING A CONTEST ENTRY, ENTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HIS/HER CONTEST ENTRY/PHOTO MAY BE POSTED ON SPONSOR’S WEBSITES, IN SPONSOR’S DISCRETION. Posting of a Contest entry/Photo is not an indication that the entry/Photo has won a prize or is otherwise eligible for a prize. Entrant’s Contest entry/Photo will be the property of Sponsor, and may be displayed, used or altered by Sponsor (or anyone Sponsor authorizes) for any purpose without any kind of payment to entrant. Sponsor or any of their affiliates may produce, market, sell or otherwise distribute products based on (in whole or in part) an entrant’s entry/Photo. Entrant irrevocably and forever grants and assigns to Sponsor all worldwide right, title, and interest in his/her Contest entry/Photo (and all works derived from them) as well as all intellectual property created by participating in the Contest. Entrant waives all rights of attribution and integrity if his/her Contest entry/Photo is used by Sponsor or anyone Sponsor authorizes. Any waiver of any obligation hereunder by Sponsor does not constitute a general waiver of any obligation to entrants. By submitting a Contest entry/Photo, entrant agrees that his/her submission is gratuitous and made without restriction, and will not place Sponsor under any obligation and that Sponsor is free to disclose or otherwise disclose the ideas contained in the Contest entry/Photo on a non-confidential basis to anyone or otherwise use the ideas without any additional compensation to entrant. Entrant acknowledges that by acceptance of entrant’s entry/Photo, Sponsor does not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to Sponsor, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than an entrant. Sponsor reserves the right to, and may or may not monitor/screen Contest entries/Photos prior to posting them to a Website. In addition, by entering and/or accepting a Contest prize, the entrant/winner also waives all moral rights to those materials/assets mentioned in this section.

10. Public voting round: Submitted and eligible Contest entries/Photos will be posted on the Contest Photo gallery from 12:01a.m. ET on August 7th, 2014 until 11:59 p.m. ET on August 13th, 2014 for voting by the general public.

Judging Round: Public voting will determine the top 5 finalists. At this point, K2 representatives will choose 1 grand prize winner. The 2nd through 5th place winners will be determined by their ranking from the public vote.

11. How to Vote: Go to the Contest website and click on the link to locate the online official voting form. Follow on-screen directions to vote. LIMIT ONE (1) VOTE PER CONTEST ENTRY/PHOTO PER PERSON/E-MAIL ADDRESS. Improper, incomplete, mutilated and illegible votes will be disqualified. Any attempt by entrant and/or his/her family/friends to vote more than the number of times authorized herein using multiple names or email address and/or any other fraudulent mechanism, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, shall give Sponsor the right to disqualify entrant in its reasonable discretion and all of the ineligible votes. Sponsor reserves the right to void all votes made through any script, macro, robotic, automatic, mechanical, programmed or similar duplication method. Furthermore, entrants may not offer to buy or pay for votes or compensate a voter for a vote in any way. Any attempt by any person to fraudulently circumvent the voting restrictions in order to cast multiple votes will result in disqualification of all such votes received and may result in disqualification of the entrants for whom the improper votes were received if Sponsor determines that that entrant was involved in any way in the perpetration of such fraud.

12. Winners will be announced on August 15th 2014.

13. Prizes and Approximate Retail Values (“ARV”): Five Finalists will be selected by Public vote. One Grand Prize Winner will be selected by a K2 Representative
a) Grand Prize: One (1) GRAND PRIZE awarded (subject to sufficient entries) to winner, selected by a K2 representative will receive a prize consisting of one (1) pair of K2 Shreditor 92 skis (ARV $600), one (1) pair of K2 Spyne 110 Ski boots (ARV $550), one (1) K2 Rival Helmet (ARV $130), one (1) pair of K2 Goggles (ARV $120-145), One (1) pair of K2 Poles (ARV $30-130), one (1) K2 Pilchuck Backpack (ARV $80), and one (1) K2 Hoodie (ARV $80-90). (ARV: $1,590-1,720).
b) The 2nd through 5th place winners will be determined by their ranking from the public vote.
2nd place: The second (2nd) place winner will receive one (1) pair of K2 Spyne 110 boots (ARV $550)
3rd place: The third (3rd) place winner will receive one (1) K2 Rival Helmet (ARV $130) and one (1) pair of K2 Goggles (ARV $$120-145). (ARV ($250-275)
4th and 5th place: The fourth (4th) and fifth (5th) place winners will each receive one (1) K2 hoodie (ARV $80-90), one (1) K2 T-shirt (ARV $30), and one (1) K2 Hat (ARV $20-30). (ARV $130-150)

Total cumulative ARV of all Prizes is $2650-2845. No substitution, cash redemption or transfer of prize is permitted except at Sponsor’s sole discretion. If a prize, or any portion thereof, cannot be awarded for any reason, Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value. All applicable taxes on a prize are the sole responsibility of applicable winner. Any additional expenses/costs associated with a prize, its acceptance or use is the sole responsibility of applicable winner. Arrangements for delivery of prizes will be performed after winner validation. LIMIT ONE (1) PRIZE PER PERSON/EMAIL ADDRESS/HOUSEHOLD. At Sponsor’s discretion, unclaimed prizes may not be awarded. All prize values stated herein are in United States dollars. Visual prize depictions may not accurately represent an awarded prize.

14. Conditions: Sponsor’s decisions are final in all matters relating to this Contest. All potential winners (or winner’s parent/legal guardian) will be notified by telephone, email, regular mail or overnight mail, and may be required to complete, sign and return a declaration of eligibility, a liability release, and where lawful, a publicity release within a stated amount of time. If declarations/releases are not received by the date stated on the notification, or if any notification is returned as non-deliverable, or if a potential winner is found to be ineligible or not in compliance with these Official Rules, or does not return such other releases/forms as deemed necessary by Sponsor, the potential winner will be disqualified and at Sponsor's discretion, an alternative potential winner may be selected. Sponsor is not responsible for any change of email address, mailing address and/or telephone number of entrants. Promotion Parties assume no responsibility for lost, late, misdirected, stolen, illegible, inaccurate, damaged or incomplete entries or other communications, non-delivered or postage due mail, failure or unavailability of electronic equipment, communications or internet connections, or other errors, failures or malfunctions of any kind. Entries by automatic, programmed or like methods will be disqualified. Improper, incomplete, mutilated and illegible entries will be disqualified. Prizes will be awarded only to an address within the United States or Canada (excluding province of Quebec). This Contest is subject to all federal, state, provincial, territorial and local laws. By participating, entrants (or entrant’s parent/legal guardian) agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor. If, in Sponsor’s sole opinion, the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, the Sponsor reserves the right to modify or terminate the Contest in a manner deemed reasonable by the Sponsor, at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. In the event of cancellation of the Contest, Sponsor will randomly award the prizes from among all eligible, non-suspect Contest Entries received prior to cancellation. Sponsor reserve the right to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process or the Website or acts in a disruptive manner.

15. Personal information: The personal information collected through this Contest is subject to Sponsor’s Privacy Policy located at http://www.grindmedia.com/privacy-policy/. By entering this Contest, entrant agrees to the use of his/her personal information as described in the above Privacy Policy. Please be advised that the entrant’s entry information and Photo may be sent to another jurisdiction/country for processing and while the information is in another jurisdiction it may be accessed by the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities in that jurisdiction.

16. Damages: As a condition of entering the Contest, entrants agree (and agree to confirm in writing): (a) to release Promotion Parties their affiliates, subsidiaries, retailers, sales representatives, distributors, dealers, advertising and promotion agencies and each of their officers, directors, employees and agents, from any and all liability, loss or damage incurred with respect to the awarding, receipt, possession, and/or use or misuse of any prize, or the use of any Photo or Contest entry/Photo (b) under no circumstances will an entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and the entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental, consequential, or any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses; (c) all causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, or any prize awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; and (d) any and all claims, judgments, and award shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, excluding attorneys’ fees and court costs.

17. Release: Except where prohibited, by accepting a prize, a winner (or winner’s parent/legal guardian) grants permission for Sponsor and their agents to use winner’s name, Photo, video/photograph, voice and/or likeness, for advertising and/or publicity purposes in any and all media now known or hereinafter invented without territorial or time limitations and without additional compensation.

18. Winners’ List: To view the winners’ list for this Contest, please visit http://www.newschoolers.com. The winners’ list will be available after winner validation has been completed.

19. Sponsor: The Contest is sponsored by GrindMedia, LLC (owner and publisher of Newschoolers.com), whose address is 831 South Douglas Street, El Segundo, CA 90245.

20. Facebook: The Contest is not sponsored, endorsed or administrated by, or associated with, Facebook. By entering the Contest, the participant acknowledges and agrees that he/she is providing his/her information/Photo to the Sponsor and not to Facebook.

Prizes

See Rules and Regulations Section 13 for exact prizing.