General Contest Terms

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Last updated: September 23, 2026

These General Contest Terms (“Terms”) govern each contest, challenge, competition, or award program that zerotilt inc., doing business as RenderJuice (“RenderJuice,” “Sponsor,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), administers and links to these Terms (each, a “Contest”).

Each Contest has a separate webpage, announcement, brief, or other notice describing its specific requirements (the “Contest Notice”). The Contest Notice forms part of these Terms. By submitting an Entry, an Entrant accepts the Contest Notice, these Terms, and the RenderJuice Terms of Service.

1. Definitions

For these Terms:

• Contest Notice means the page or announcement that identifies a Contest and states its dates, eligibility requirements, entry instructions, selection method, prizes, and any additional rules.
• Entrant means an individual who enters a Contest or, where the Contest Notice permits teams, every member of an entering team.
• Entry means all material submitted or designated for a Contest, including files, images, animation, video, audio, text, links, captions, source material, and supporting evidence.
• Potential Winner means an Entrant selected for a prize before RenderJuice completes verification.
• Prize means cash, credits, services, goods, publicity, recognition, or another benefit identified in the Contest Notice.
• Platform means any third-party service used to announce, administer, enter, host, judge, vote on, or discuss a Contest.

2. Order of documents

The Contest Notice controls Contest-specific subjects such as dates, entry limits, judging criteria, voting rules, and Prizes. These Terms control general administration and legal subjects. The RenderJuice Terms of Service control use of RenderJuice accounts and services.

If the documents conflict, the following order applies to the conflict:

1. the Contest Notice;
2. these Terms; and
3. the RenderJuice Terms of Service.

Additional written terms may apply to a particular Prize or Platform. An Entrant must comply with those terms where applicable.

3. Eligibility

An Entrant must satisfy the age, residence, account, professional-status, and other eligibility requirements in the Contest Notice from the time of entry through Prize delivery. A Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law.

Unless the Contest Notice states otherwise, employees, officers, directors, judges, and contractors of RenderJuice who participated in designing or administering the Contest, together with members of their immediate households, may not enter.

An Entrant must have legal capacity to accept these Terms. If applicable law permits a minor to enter with consent, RenderJuice may require consent and verification from a parent or legal guardian before accepting the Entry or delivering a Prize.

RenderJuice may require evidence of identity, age, residence, account ownership, authority, tax status, sanctions compliance, or any other fact relevant to eligibility. RenderJuice may reject or disqualify an Entrant who provides incomplete, false, inconsistent, or unverifiable information.

4. Entering a Contest

An Entrant must follow the method, format, content requirements, and deadline in the Contest Notice. RenderJuice determines the official time of receipt using its systems or the relevant Platform’s records.

Unless the Contest Notice states otherwise:

• entering does not require a purchase or paid RenderJuice subscription;
• making a purchase does not improve an Entry’s score or chance of winning;
• RenderJuice will not accept late, incomplete, corrupted, inaccessible, or misdirected Entries; and
• an Entrant bears the cost of preparing and submitting an Entry.

RenderJuice may accept, reject, or request correction of an Entry that does not follow the Contest Notice. Acceptance by a website, bot, employee, or Platform does not confirm eligibility.

Technical failures, outages, transmission delays, incorrect account information, unavailable links, deleted posts, and Platform errors do not extend a deadline unless RenderJuice announces an extension.

5. Teams and representatives

Where the Contest Notice permits teams, the person who submits the Entry acts as the team’s authorized representative. That person confirms that every team member:

• has approved the Entry and participation in the Contest;
• satisfies all eligibility requirements;
• accepts these Terms; and
• has authorized the representative to receive notices and provide instructions for the team.

Unless the Contest Notice states otherwise, a team receives one Prize per winning Entry. RenderJuice may deliver the Prize to the representative or another team member designated in writing. Team members remain responsible for deciding ownership shares and distributing a Prize among themselves. RenderJuice does not resolve disputes among team members.

6. Entry representations

By entering, each Entrant represents and warrants that:

1. the Entrant created their original contributions to the Entry and has sufficient rights, permissions, or another lawful basis to submit and publish the Entry for the Contest and authorize the uses of those original contributions in Section 7;
2. the Entrant has followed any licence, attribution, credit, notice, or other requirements that apply to third-party material in the Entry and, to their knowledge, publishing the Entry as permitted by these Terms does not infringe copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy, contract, confidentiality, or another person’s rights;
3. the Entry complies with applicable law, the Contest Notice, these Terms, and the rules of each relevant Platform;
4. the Entry does not contain malware, unlawful material, threats, harassment, defamation, or material that exposes another person’s private information;
5. all people identifiable in the Entry have given any permission required for the Entry’s submission and use; and
6. any statement made about the Entry, its authorship, tools, process, or source material is accurate.

Unless the Contest Notice states otherwise, an Entry may include third-party intellectual property or licensed assets, including fan art, stock material, openly licensed material, or commissioned work. It may also incorporate prior work, collaboration, or commercial work. The Contest Notice may impose narrower rules on those materials and on artificial-intelligence tools.

RenderJuice may request evidence of rights, permission, licensing, or attribution. RenderJuice may remove or disqualify an Entry when it reasonably believes the Entry creates a credible copyright, trademark, or licensing issue.

7. Ownership and licence

An Entrant retains ownership of their original contributions. Third-party material remains subject to its owners’ rights.

By entering, the Entrant grants RenderJuice a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display, publish, repost, archive, and promote the Entry solely in connection with the Contest and its results. RenderJuice may use service providers only as needed to exercise these rights.

This licence does not transfer ownership or give RenderJuice rights the Entrant does not hold. It begins when the Entrant submits the Entry and continues for as long as RenderJuice maintains the Contest or its results, including Contest archives and reposts already published.

Where reasonably practical, RenderJuice will credit the Entrant or team when publishing or reposting the Entry, using the name, team name, username, portfolio link, or social link supplied with the Entry. Where law requires additional permission, RenderJuice may request a separate release before using those materials.

RenderJuice does not owe an Entrant compensation for uses authorized by this section beyond any Prize the Entrant wins.

8. Judging, voting, and selection

The Contest Notice identifies the selection method. It may use judges, public voting, a measurable result, a random process where lawful, or a combination of methods.

For judged Contests, judges apply the criteria and weighting in the Contest Notice. Judges may review supporting evidence and may seek specialist advice. For voting-based Contests, the Contest Notice identifies the eligible voters, voting period, valid vote mechanism, and counting method.

RenderJuice may audit and remove votes or activity involving bots, scripts, purchased engagement, vote exchanges, fake or duplicate accounts, impersonation, coercion, technical manipulation, or a breach of Platform rules. Inviting real people to view and vote for an Entry does not violate this section unless the Contest Notice states otherwise.

The Contest Notice may state a tie procedure. If it does not, RenderJuice may repeat the applicable selection method, apply the highest-weighted judging criterion, appoint an additional judge, or use another neutral procedure suited to the Contest.

Subject to applicable law, RenderJuice’s decisions about interpretation, eligibility, scoring, voting, ties, and selection are final.

9. Winner verification

Selection creates a Potential Winner, not an entitlement to a Prize. A Potential Winner must complete RenderJuice’s verification process within the period stated in the Contest Notice or winner notification.

RenderJuice may require:

• government-issued identification and proof of residence or age;
• confirmation of a RenderJuice or Platform account;
• source files, project files, process records, licences, releases, or proof of authorship;
• tax, banking, payment, sanctions, or export-control information; and
• an eligibility declaration, liability release, publicity release, or Prize-acceptance document where lawful.

RenderJuice may disqualify a Potential Winner who does not respond on time, cannot complete verification, refuses required documents, breaks these Terms, or cannot lawfully receive the Prize. RenderJuice may select an alternate winner using the original selection method.

RenderJuice may publish a winner’s name, team name, Entry, country or region, award, and judging result as described in the Contest Notice and Privacy Policy.

10. Prizes

The Contest Notice describes each Prize, any stated approximate retail value, quantity, restrictions, expiry, redemption process, and delivery timing. A stated value represents RenderJuice’s good-faith estimate when published. RenderJuice does not pay any difference between a stated value and a winner’s actual use or local market value.

Unless the Contest Notice states otherwise:

• a Prize cannot be transferred, sold, assigned, or exchanged for cash;
• a winner cannot substitute a Prize;
• RenderJuice may substitute a Prize with one of equal or greater stated value if the original becomes unavailable;
• a winner bears taxes, reporting duties, transfer fees, banking fees, currency-conversion costs, and incidental expenses connected with the Prize; and
• RenderJuice may withhold amounts or collect forms where law requires it.

RenderJuice credits require an eligible RenderJuice account and remain subject to the RenderJuice Terms of Service. The Contest Notice controls the credit amount, permitted use, activation requirements, and expiry. Unused credits expire without cash compensation at the end of the stated period.

Cash Prizes may be paid through a payment method selected by RenderJuice. RenderJuice may convert a cash amount into a winner’s local currency using a commercially reasonable exchange rate on or near the payment date.

11. Conduct and enforcement

An Entrant must not:

• interfere with entry, judging, voting, verification, or Prize delivery;
• obtain an advantage through deception, automation, unauthorized access, multiple identities, account sharing, or collusion;
• harass judges, other Entrants, voters, RenderJuice personnel, or community members;
• damage or disrupt RenderJuice or a Platform; or
• use the Contest for unlawful activity.

RenderJuice may investigate suspected misconduct, preserve relevant records, limit participation, remove an Entry or vote, disqualify an Entrant, revoke winner status, recover a Prize, or report conduct to a Platform or public authority. RenderJuice will consider the available evidence and the effect on other Entrants before acting.

Failure to enforce a provision in one instance does not waive that provision.

12. Personal information

RenderJuice may collect and connect information from RenderJuice accounts, Platforms, Entries, communications, verification documents, payment providers, and public sources to:

• administer and secure a Contest;
• identify Entrants and verify eligibility;
• judge Entries and validate votes;
• contact Entrants and deliver Prizes;
• publish results and authorized publicity; and
• meet tax, accounting, sanctions, recordkeeping, and other legal duties.

The RenderJuice Privacy Policy governs RenderJuice’s handling of personal information. Entering a Contest does not provide consent to unrelated marketing. RenderJuice may retain Contest records for as long as needed for administration, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, accounting, and legal compliance.

An Entrant must not include sensitive personal information in a public Entry. Information submitted through a public Platform may remain available under that Platform’s rules and practices.

13. Third-party platforms and names

Unless the Contest Notice says otherwise, a Platform, software publisher, hardware manufacturer, trademark owner, or other third party mentioned in connection with a Contest does not sponsor, endorse, administer, or accept responsibility for it.

An Entrant must follow each Platform’s terms and privacy rules. RenderJuice does not control Platform availability, moderation, data practices, account access, or content retention.

To the extent permitted by law, each Entrant releases the relevant Platforms from claims arising from the Contest, except for claims caused by a Platform’s own unlawful conduct that cannot be waived.

14. Suspension, modification, and cancellation

RenderJuice may suspend, modify, extend, or cancel a Contest when fraud, security incidents, technical failures, Platform action, insufficient eligible participation, legal restrictions, force majeure, or another event outside reasonable control prevents fair or lawful administration.

Where practicable, RenderJuice will publish a material change through the same channel as the Contest Notice. RenderJuice may select winners from eligible Entries received before the disruption, restart part of the Contest, or use another fair method consistent with the original purpose.

No amendment will retroactively remove a Prize already verified and delivered unless the winner obtained it through fraud or ineligibility or unless law requires recovery.

15. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, RenderJuice provides each Contest and Prize “as is” and disclaims warranties not stated in the Contest Notice, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

RenderJuice does not guarantee uninterrupted access to its services or any Platform. RenderJuice is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, corrupted, inaccessible, misdirected, or deleted Entries or communications when the cause lies outside RenderJuice’s reasonable control.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, RenderJuice and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, judges, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from a Contest or Prize. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that applicable law does not permit RenderJuice to exclude.

The disclaimers and limitations in the RenderJuice Terms of Service also apply to a Contest and use of RenderJuice services.

16. Indemnity

To the fullest extent permitted by law, an Entrant will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless RenderJuice and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, judges, and service providers from third-party claims, losses, liabilities, damages, judgments, and reasonable legal costs arising from:

• the Entry or RenderJuice’s authorized use of it;
• the Entrant’s breach of these Terms or the Contest Notice;
• an allegation that the Entry infringes or violates another person’s rights; or
• the Entrant’s fraud, misconduct, or violation of law.

This section does not require an Entrant to indemnify a party for that party’s own unlawful conduct where applicable law prohibits it.

17. Governing law and disputes

The governing-law and dispute-resolution provisions in the RenderJuice Terms of Service apply to these Terms and each Contest, except where the Contest Notice states different terms or applicable law requires otherwise.

Before filing a claim, an Entrant must send a written description of the dispute and requested resolution to terms@renderjuice.com and allow RenderJuice 30 days to respond. This requirement does not prevent either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief or using a remedy that applicable law makes non-waivable.

18. General provisions

These Terms, the Contest Notice, and the RenderJuice Terms of Service form the entire agreement between an Entrant and RenderJuice concerning a Contest. They replace prior statements about the same subject, except that they do not replace a written agreement signed by RenderJuice.

If a court or other authority finds part of these Terms invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply. The invalid provision will be limited or replaced to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable while preserving its purpose.

An Entrant may not assign rights or obligations under these Terms without RenderJuice’s written consent. RenderJuice may assign these Terms as part of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or transfer of the Contest or RenderJuice business.

Headings assist reading and do not change meaning. “Including” means “including without limitation.” Singular words include the plural where context permits. Electronic records and signatures have the same effect as paper records and signatures where law permits.

The English version controls unless applicable law requires a local-language version to control.

19. Changes to these Terms

RenderJuice may update these Terms for future Contests. The version linked from a Contest Notice when its entry period begins governs that Contest unless RenderJuice publishes a lawful amendment under Section 14.

RenderJuice may preserve prior versions to document the terms that applied to earlier Contests.

20. Contact

Questions and legal notices concerning a Contest may be sent to terms@renderjuice.com.

Sponsor: zerotilt inc., doing business as RenderJuice.