Terms and conditions for applications for the “Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2022

1. Organizer, subject of the contest
Organizer of the awards contest is Deutsche Wellness GmbH, Columbusstraße 54,
40549 Düsseldorf  in cooperation with Deutscher Wellness Verbande.V. The Deutsche Wellness GmbH defines a wellness & spa innovation as any novelty or further development related to the wellness & spa market. This can be a product, a method, a facility, an app or a concept. A jury decides on the admission of an application for the awards contest as well as on the winners.

2. Application
In order to apply for the wellness & spa innovation awards 2022 a web form on www.wellness-innovation.eu has to be completed. Each applicant may submit a maximum of three applications. The applicant has to describe his innovation with a maximum of 500 characters. He also has to upload an illustrative picture of the innovation in jpg format (landscape format, minimum size of 754 x 361 pixels), and a pdf file containing a detailed description of the innovation (this file is presented as a download offer on the website of the organizer).

If sending the web form is not possible due to technical problems the application can be sent via e-mail to bewerbung|wellnessinnovation.eu| |bewerbung|wellness-innovation.eu. The attached documents must not be bigger than 10 megabytes. By sending the documents to the organizer the applicant agrees to the right of the organizer to promote, document, and present the innovation and all related documents on the Internet. The applicant grants the organizer all correspondent rights of use.

Participants of the awards contest have to pay a fee. The fee is 495,00 EUR plus VAT per innovation. Members of the Deutscher Wellness Verband pay 395,00 EUR plus VAT. The participation fee is charged after the jury has decided to nominate the innovation for the awards contest.
 
3. Admission of applications, nomination
A jury decides on the admission of an application to the awards contest. Experts of the Deutscher Wellness Verband constitute the jury. If an application for the awards contest is accepted and nominated the innovation will be published on www.wellness-innovation.eu what includes the presentation of the provided picture, brief summary, and pdf file with a detailed description of the innovation. Major editorial changes require written permission of the applicant.  All accepted applications are nominated for the “Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2022” contest. The nominees receive the nomination logo for any marketing purposes right after the innovation has been admitted.

4. Award winners
A jury decides on the winners of the Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2022 based on the submitted information. In addition and crucial, all nominees are invited to a 30 minutes online presentation (Zoom meeting). This presentation will be recorded for the purpose of documentation. After all nominated innovations have been evaluated the jury will decide on the winners.

5. Awards winner presentation
The verdict will be announced on the 31th of March 2022 in digital form on the internet.
 

6. Liability exclusion
The applicant assures that he is the legal creator and owner of the innovation that is subject of the application and that no opposing rights of third parties exist which would conflict with the participation in the contest “Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2022”.

Deutsche Wellness GmbH assumes no liability that the submitted innovation is the intellectual property of the applicant. Otherwise, the applicant assumes full civil and penal liability for any claims that result from unlawful use of the innovation. The applicant himself is liable as a principal towards Deutsche Wellness GmbH that he is exclusively authorized to apply the innovation for the contest “Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2022”. In advance, the applicant indemnifies Deutsche Wellness GmbH from and against any and all third party claims.

7. Postponement or cancellation of the award competition
The organizer reserves it’s right to cancel or to postpone the award competition in its sole discretion. There is no entitlement to the execution of the award competition. If the award competition is cancelled for a legal year the organizer has to repay the participation fee. Any further claims of the participant are excluded. If the competition is only postponed the organizer is not obliged to refund the participation fee.

8. Closing date for applications
Closing date for applications for the “Wellness & Spa Innovation Awards 2022” is February 18^th, 2022. Any recourse to courts is excluded. Pre-condition for application is that the applicant agrees to the abovementioned terms and conditions.

9. Data privacy protection
By sending the application form and the corresponding files to the organizer the applicant agrees to the application procedure and the related collection of personal data. The organizer collects, stores, and uses these data solely for the purpose of the award competition. The applicant has the right to revoke this consent at any time.  In this case further participation in the award contest is no longer possible.

10. Contact details
In case of any questions please contact:
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