Runes of Magic US / AU

All the submissions should be sent from accounts e-mail address to comicstrip@runesofmagic.com
Title of the email: RoM Comic Strip Contest
Your community: (example RoM US)
Your board nickname:
Your account name:
Your e-mail address:
Your server and character name:

1st place: 25 Euro Coupon + *One of the Permanent christmas mounts of your choice
2nd Place: 20 Euro Coupon + *One of the Permanent christmas mounts of your choice
3rd Place: 15 Euro Coupons + *One of the Permanent christmas mounts of your choice
*Sugar Snow Cookie Mount, Chocolate Cookie Mount, Snowflake Mount, Colored Snowflake Mount

The following terms and conditions govern the course of the RUNES OF MAGIC Comic Strip Contest (hereafter the 'contest'). The contest is being organised by Gameforge 4D GmbH, Albert-Nestler-Straße 8, 76131 Karlsruhe (hereafter 'Gameforge').
1. Participation period
The contest starts on 23/12/2016. Deadline for participation is 08/01/2017 (hereafter 'participation period').
2. No participation fees
Participation is not dependent on the purchase of goods or bound to a purchase-based service.
3. Participation Eligibility
(1) Every user of RUNES OF MAGIC that is of full age, and who has access to a valid forum and game account as well as their place of residence being located within Europe.
(2) Gameforge employees and employees of companies associated with Gameforge, members of the RUNES OF MAGIC Team as well as their associates are excluded from participation.
4. Participants
'Participant' encompasses all users eligible for participation who submit a self-created comic related to RUNES OF MAGIC (hereafter 'submission'). Multiple submissions are not permitted.
5. Winners
(1) From all permissible submissions, Gameforge will select 10 submissions on 12/01/2017 using an internal jury, and then announce the participants for public voting.
(2) Gameforge will announce the winner on 25/01/2017 on board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com using their correspondent ingame nickname and then contact the winner by 31/01/2017 via email (hereafter the 'notification').
(3) Recourse to the courts with regard to the determination of the winner is not permitted.
6. Prize
(2) A cash payment and/or payment in goods of value, or rather the exchange of or transfer of the prize to a third party is not permitted.
7. Usage rights
(1) With the submission, participants declare that they are owners of the associated rights of their submission.
(2) Furthermore, participants guarantee that their submission does not infringe on any applicable law and does not impinge on the rights of third parties.
(3) Participants freely grant Gameforge unrestricted use and non-exclusive exploitation rights which are unlimited by time or region for the purposes of the online presentation of the submission.
(4) The granting of the usage and exploitation rights also includes full or partial sub-licensing as well as the transfer to Gameforge-affiliated companies in terms of section 15 of the AktG (German Stock Corporation Act). Also encompassed in this is the right for sub-licensing as well as the permission to transfer the necessary rights to third parties, provided this is required for the implementation of the contest and/or the final presentation of the associated submission.
(5) The participant thereby agrees that the nickname they provide may be published in instance of submission presentation and use by Gameforge as according to part 7 section (3) of these terms and that this is then sufficient as indication of their authorship.
8. Exemption from Liability
(1) Regardless of legal grounds, Gameforge, its committees, employees and agents are liable exclusively for wilful intent and gross negligence. However with slight negligence they are only liable in cases where contractual obligations are infringed upon and are limited to foreseeable damages.
(2) These limitations do not apply to the injury of life, the body or health.
9. Declaration of Consent
The participant consents to Gameforge contacting them via email as per part 5 section (2) of these terms, using the stated nickname announced on board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com and they consent to being informed of the win via email, using the email address that is associated with the submission.
10. Data Protection
(1) Gameforge will process and use personal data exclusively for the execution of the contest as well as for the distribution of the prizes in consideration of the German Federal Data Protection Act and the Privacy Policy.
(2) Handling and use of the data for any other purpose will not occur.
11. Other Points
(1) With the submission of the declaration of participation, the participant accepts these requirements for participation.
(2) Alongside the requirements for participation, the general Terms and Conditions as well as the game and forum rules also apply (together 'the rules').
(3) Eligibility can be revoked at any point should a participant infringe on the rules, or if such an infringement can be asserted retroactively.
(4) Gameforge reserves the right to end the contest without any prior notice, provided that its orderly execution cannot be guaranteed, either due to technical or legal grounds.
(5) If any provision of these requirements should be or become ineffective, the effectiveness of the remaining points of these requirements of use are not affected. Statutory rules will take the place of the ineffective provision.