No purchase necessary. This search competition is void in whole or in part where prohibited by law. To complete your entry you must read and agree to the following rules. Participation in this search competition constitutes full and unconditional agreement and acceptance of these rules. All dollar amounts are in U.S. funds. The search competition is sponsored by Credit Union Executives Society (CUES®) (the “sponsor”).
The CUES Next Top Credit Union Exec Competition (the “Search Competition”) runs from on April 26 to November 9, 2011. CUES has the right to change the dates.
Phase One: The Search
Think you’ve got what it takes to be the Next Top Credit Union Exec? Show us your stuff – tell us about yourself and fill us in on a project that you're working on with your credit union, or a new idea that you’d like to see implemented. Complete a Next Top Credit Union Exec entry form, upload a short video audition during the Video Submission Period and wait for the voting to begin!
Notice: You must comply with these rules when you submit an application and upload a video. Do not do anything in connection with creating your video which might endanger anyone, including yourself, or which could cause damage to property or your application. This may result in your video being disqualified.
1. Video Submission Period:
The video submission period on April 26, 2011 and ends at 5:00 p.m. EST time on June 7, 2011 (the “Video Submission Period”). Submissions received after that time will not be eligible for Phase Two: The Selection Period or Phase Three: Awarding the Prize, unless otherwise specified by CUES.
2. Eligibility Criteria:
This Search Competition is open only to employees of credit unions who are age 35 or under and who are legal residents of a CUES competition region.
3. How to Enter
Only one entry per person will be accepted. Multiple entries will be disqualified. Chances of winning depend on the number and skill level of Applicants.
To enter go to www.NextTopCreditUnionExec.com (the CUES Next Top Credit Union Executive website) during the Video Submission Period and fully complete an online application form and upload your audition video following the instructions there.
All videos must:
- Be no more than one minute in length
- Be intended for a business audience with content, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor, suitable for public viewing
- Not contain any nudity, sexually explicit, discriminatory, disparaging and libelous or other inappropriate content
- Not contain any copyrighted works, including music, pictures, posters etc., unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission of the rightful owner to submit the material in accordance with these rules
- Not contain images of identifiable children, unless they are your own and if your video contains images of adults, such adults must have consented to the submission of your video and be willing to sign a publication release if necessary
- Contain entirely original material
- Not contain material that infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to privacy or intellectual property rights
- Be submitted in English
In the event of a dispute, applications shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the entry (the “Applicant”).
All applications are subject entirely to the discretion of the Sponsor, whose decisions are final. Each entry that meets the criteria above and that is submitted in accordance with these Rules, will become eligible for Phase Two: Selection Period.
4. Conditions of Participation:
By entering this Search Competition, the Applicant certifies and acknowledges that:
- The video submitted is original work and that he/she is the creator
- He/she has agreed that the video, all images and ideas submitted with this application are being submitted on a non-confidential basis and may be edited and posted to a website or used in other marketing and advertising materials without compensation
- The Applicant is permitted to disclose the video and all images contained therein to the Sponsor for its use and the video, images and ideas shall become the property of the Sponsor on submission
- Submission of the video and any images and content may impact the Applicant’s legal rights to protect them
- All trademarks and copyrighted material have been properly acknowledged in the application
The Applicant acknowledges that the Sponsor or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries may already be in the process of independent development and innovation for various products and services and therefore any disclosure of information or ideas submitted by the Applicant may not be new to the Sponsor or its affiliates or subsidiaries and would not affect or impair its proprietary rights to its own innovation.
Regional Finalists agree to create at two written blogs per month and three videos updates (total) from July through October 2011 inclusive on www.NextTopCreditUnionExec.com.
The Next Top Credit Union Exec agrees to update content on www.NextTopCreditUnionExec.com monthly from November 2011 to April 2012.
5. Assignment of Rights to Submission
By entering this Search Competition, you irrevocably and exclusively assign all copyright, without limitation of time, place, medium, support or language, in the video to the Sponsor and waive all legal and moral rights to the video in favor of the Sponsor. Accordingly, you acknowledge that the Sponsor will have the unrestricted and exclusive right to use the video for any purpose, including but not limited to, publishing it in an electronic form on the Next Top Credit Union Exec website for promotional purposes without further compensation. The Sponsor also has the right to (but is not required to) use your name, image, likeness, age, and biographical information and credit union name in credit along with the video. You confirm that you are the sole author of the video and that you own all rights to it and are able to fully assign all rights to the Sponsor as contemplated above. You agree to compensate the Sponsor should any claims arise out of the use of the video by the Sponsor.
As a condition of accepting a Prize in this Search Competition, the winner agrees to a Declaration of Compliance with Rules and an Assignment, Release and Indemnity, assigning all rights to the video submission to the Sponsor, including all copyrights and moral rights and releasing CUES, its affiliates and respective advertising and promotions agencies from any liability in connection with this Search Competition or the Prizes awarded.
Phase Two: Selection Period
The Phase Two: Selection Period will begin following the search phase.
6. Identifying Regional Finalists
All application forms and video submissions will be organized into geographical regions. The six Regions are:
- U.S. West, including: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana. Alaska and Hawaii
- U.S. Midwest, including: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan
- U.S. Northeast, including: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
- U.S. Southwest, including: Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma
- U.S. Southeast, including: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida
- Canada
The applicants in each Region will compete against each other on the Next Top Credit Union Exec website; their submissions will be posted for peer review and voting on the website. Only one vote per legitimate email address is allowed.
The Applicant with the most votes in each region will be declared the Regional Finalist and will be notified that they are the Regional Finalist.
Regional Finalists agree to post at least two written blogs per month, and three video updates (total), from July through October 2011 inclusive on www.NextTopCreditUnionExec.com.
7. Determining the Next Top Credit Union Exec
The six Regional Finalists will compete for the Next Top Credit Union Exec. From mid-June until the presentation at the CUES’ CEO/Executive Team Network, in Las Vegas, November 6-90, 2011, the six Finalists will develop the idea pitched in their application video.
Finalists will blog twice a month and create three video updates from July 1 – October 31, 2011 for the www.NextTopCreditUnionExec.com website, reporting on the progress of their idea, using the website for polls, etc. At the conference in Las Vegas, each Finalist will present their idea, results, and/or work progress over the previous four months.
The six Finalists will be judged by a panel of CUES Council members, and these results, combined with in-person audience voting and voting via live-streaming online, will determine the winner, and be declared the Next Top Credit Union Exec.
The criteria the judging panel will use includes:
- Creative Thinking
- Content/Idea
- Style
The Next Top Credit Union Exec agrees to update content on www.NextTopCreditUnionExec.com monthly from November 2011 to April 2012.
Phase Three: Awarding the Prizes
8. Prizes:
Regional Finalists
The six Regional Finalists will receive a prize package from CUES valued at $5,000, including:
- Registration to CUES’ CEO/Executive Team Network
- Economy airfare
- Accommodation for three nights in Las Vegas.
If a Regional Finalist cannot continue as a Finalist, the Contest Sponsors have the option of offering the spot to an other contestant.
Next Top Credit Union Exec Winner
The winner of the Next Top CU Exec competition will receive a $20,000 educational package from CUES, including:
- Registration, economy airfare and accommodation to any two CUES’ CEO Institutes in 2012
The Prize must be accepted as awarded and is not transferable. The Prize is not redeemable for cash. If a potential winner cannot accept the Prize as awarded, his or her entry will be forfeited and another eligible contestant may be selected. Any costs associated with accepting the Prize shall be the sole responsibility of the winner.
Other Matters
9. No responsibility is assumed by the Sponsor, its respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies, its respective directors, officers, employees and assigns, for any disruption to telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software or failure of any entry to be received because of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, as well as lost, incomplete, destroyed, misdirected, illegible or late entries which for any reason are not received.
10. Submissions shall not be returned to participants.
11. No Prize substitutions will be made, except for the right of the Sponsor to make a Prize substitution of equivalent or greater value in the event the Prize, or any portion thereof, is unavailable for any reason.
12. The Sponsor reserves the right to modify or cancel this Search Competition at any time including, without limitation, in the event of technical corruption, virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or any other technical problems, which may arise from time-to-time beyond the control of the Sponsor, destroying the integrity of this Search Competition. No liability or responsibility is assumed by the Sponsor, resulting from user attempts to participate in this Search Competition or if required, download any information necessary to participate in this Search Competition. In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an on-line entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry.
13. By entering this Search Competition, participants agree to hold the Sponsor, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies, their respective directors, officers, employees and assigns, harmless from and against any and all claims and liability arising out of or in any way connected with the operation of this Search Competition and use of a Prize. Participants of this Search Competition assume all liability for any injury or damage caused, or claimed to be caused, by participation in this Search Competition or use or redemption of a Prize. By participating in this Search Competition, entrants agree to be bound by the Rules and the decisions of the Search Competition judges, which are final.
14. The Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any individual whom it finds to be in violation of these official Rules or tampering with the entry process. The Sponsor reserves the right to refuse an entry from a person whose eligibility is in question or who has been disqualified or is otherwise ineligible to enter.
15. This Search Competition and these Rules, shall be exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Wisconsin.
16. Any litigation must be initiated in Wisconsin.
17. Privacy Statement: By entering this Search Competition, each entrant also consents to CUES, its agents and/or representatives, storing, using and disclosing the information submitted or provided with each entry for the purpose of administering this Search Competition and the prize in accordance with CUES’ privacy policy at https://www.cues.org.
18. Caution: Any attempt to deliberately damage any web site or interfere with the legitimate operation of the search competition may be a violation of criminal and civil laws, and the sponsor reserves the right to seek damages and/or other relief from all responsible persons to the fullest extent permitted by law.
