Terms & Conditions

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Before The Contestant (You) Submits The Applications And Any Forms Or Orders On Our Website, Please Read All Rules And Regulations. This Terms And Conditions (T&C) Are Imposed By Global Music Artist Awards, an award service owned By Global Awards Limited, Hong Kong Company Number: 81050296 (We). By Submitting The Applications And Any Forms Or Orders, You, Or Your Parents Or Legal Guardians If You Are Under The Age Of 18, Understand And Accept These Requirements, Rules And Regulations.

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Competition Rules

1. All International Music Artist Awards are held by online video submission eg. through YouTube upload. Applications from Contestants who are under the age of 18 must be filled and submitted by a parent or legal guardian.

2. For each competition, Contestants are permitted to submit unlimited applications. Each application must specify one category and one major within that category. If the Contestant wishes to apply for multiple major within the same category, separate applications must be submitted for each major. If the Contestant wishes to apply for multiple categories using the same or different major, separate applications must be submitted for each category. Contestants are allowed to submit multiple applications for the same major within the same category, provided that each application specifies a different piece of music. The duration of the music piece must be calculated individually for each application form and it should not exceed the duration limitation specified for that category.

3. Each application is separate and subject to application fee.

4. You can only play one musical major for each application. An additional musical major will need to be submitted as another application.

5. Some categories may allow you to submit one application for several pieces. Under this type of category, it is not compulsory that pieces are submitted within one video. You can submit separate videos for different pieces.

6. All Contestants of the competition will receive an official certificate in digital format, ready for printing.

7. The competition results and decisions are final and not to be negotiated. The Jury Panel's decisions and opinions are strictly confidential and will not be published. The identities of the judges involved in each competition's evaluation process are non-disclosable.

8. Performance or work of each Contestant shall be evaluated by one or more adjudicators. The adjudicator or the set of adjudicators assigned may vary. Such adjudicator or such set of adjudicators shall evaluate and assign a final score which will be the result of the competition. The final score of the Contestant shall be determined by dividing the total score obtained by the Contestant by the total number of adjudicators assigned for scoring for that Contestant. We will rank and award the Contestants according to their final scores. There is no prescribed limitation on the number of recipients for each tier of awards.  For information regarding the score required for various award levels, as well as the details of the awards, please refer to our info page.

9. Special awards may also be awarded based on the recommendations of adjudicators.

10. For each competition, the panel of adjudicators may vary subject to the actual needs of the competitions. We may invite special guest adjudicators to evaluate the performance or work.  

11. We will publish on our website the award winners as soon as possible on or after the result date. We shall furnish Contestants with the hyperlink enabling them to procure their electronic certificates.

12.  We reserve our rights to reject any application which does not meet the competition requirements or such Contestants whose application may have negative effects on our reputation. 

13. The application fee is non-refundable. 

14. You must submit the video before the deadline. If you are willing to change the video, you must send a clear email request with one video link before the application deadline. Any irresolute instructions, indecisive, misleading information may cause the applications refused.

15. Instrumentalists other than the piano can send their performances with or without accompaniment. In the case of having accompaniment in the video, the accompanist may not be judged.

16. The competition video submitted must contain the exact pieces for the chosen category. Submitting a long video and specifically ask to use part of it for the competition is not allowed. Doing this may cause the applications refused.

17. For the professional standard, the judgement will be made exclusively upon material received. Any personal conditions or other additional accomplishments of a Contestant must not be mentioned to jury members, and will not be considered into judging. The judgement and comments will be made exclusively upon the quality of the received Contestant's performance.

18. To ensure the fairness of the competitions, contacting a jury member through any methods for any topic or matter regarding the competitions during any stage of the competition period is strictly prohibited. This is also to ensure jury members give their marks without taking any external influence and pressure.

19. If the application fee has been refused, or charged back, in any case, the application will be considered as cancelled, and any previously submitted applications will be withdrawn automatically.  

20. By agree to this T&C, you allow us to use your personal information included in the application form for the purpose of promoting the competitions, promoting the award winners and other similar marketing purposes. We may publish your personal information on our websites, our social media platforms, our digital or hardcopy publications, etc.

21. Any Contestant, his/her parent or legal guardian if the Contestant is under the age of 18, who do not want his/her personal information to be used by us as above must notify us within a reasonable period of time before the closing date of the competitions.

22. The winner of competitions may be asked to participate in publicity.

23. You will retain ownership of all intellectual property rights (including copyright) in your submission, but you, or your parents or legal guardian if you are under the age of 18, agree to grant us a licence to use it for the relevant competition and event and for any other purpose connected to the competitions and events.

24. The licence will last for the duration of the relevant intellectual property right and includes the right for us to:

(1) edit or modify his/her submission (including resizing, adjusting the colour and adding elements such as text);

(2) adapt it or incorporate it into other materials;

(3) sub-licence it to third parties or companies in our group to use for the purposes described in clause 2.13; and

(4) republish it (or any version modified in the way described above) on any media anywhere in the world.

25. You, or your parents or legal guardian if you are under the age of 18, confirm your submission:

(1) is your own original work and does not breach any third party’s intellectual property rights (for example, by including a company’s trade mark without permission);

(2) is not defamatory, offensive, threatening, discriminatory, distasteful, pornographic or illegal;

(3) can be submitted to us and used without breaching any contractual obligation to any person; and

(4) does not contain anything which may be confidential or commercially sensitive.

26. If your submission contains photographs or video images of people, you must ensure that you inform them that you intend to use the material for the purposes of the relevant competition and event and obtain their consent.

27. We may ask you for evidence of any such consent and reserve the right to disqualify the submission if you are unable to provide it or if we have doubts about its adequacy.

28. By agree to this T&C, you allow us to use your intellectual property for the purpose of promoting the competitions, promoting the award winners and other similar marketing purposes. We may publish your intellectual property on our websites, our social media platforms, our digital or hardcopy publications, etc.

29. Any Contestant, his/her parent or legal guardian if the Contestant is under the age of 18, who do not want his/her intellectual property to be used by us as above must notify us within a reasonable period of time before the closing date of the competitions.

30. You are not entitled to any fees for granting the licence and you are not entitled to terminate it unless we agree in writing.

31. We reserve the right to change the conditions from time to time. If you, or your parents or legal guardian if you are under the age of 18, continue to use the Website (or any part thereof) following such change, the continued use shall be deemed to be your acceptance of such change. It is your responsibility, or your parents or legal guardian’s responsibility if you are under the age of 18, to check regularly to determine whether the conditions have been changed. If you, or your parents or legal guardian if you are under the age of 18, do not agree to any change to the conditions then you must immediately stop using the Website.

32. While nothing in this T&C will limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraud, we will not be legally responsible to entrants or winners for any losses that were not foreseeable to us or to you at the time of entry to the relevant event or which are caused by a third party.

33. We may reserve all award winners’ competition information. For any Contestant who causes damage to our brand reputation, who is in breach of this T&C and causes distress to competition staffs, adjudicators, or other Contestants, or who owes debts to us, we reserve the right to delete all promotion information of the Contestant and cancel the scores and ranks of the Contestant from our competition record and history.

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Cross-Border Data Transfer Personal data may be stored or processed outside Hong Kong where necessary for operational purposes. In such cases, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that data is protected to standards comparable to those under Hong Kong law.

Changes to this Policy - We reserve the right to update or revise this Policy at any time. Any changes will become effective immediately upon publication on the official website.

Governing Law This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.​

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Please contact us if you have any questions about this T&C. If you wish to contact us, please send an email to info@globalmusicartistawards.com or write to us at Global Awards Limited, Office 610, Wellborne Commercial Centre, 8 Java Road, North Point, Hong Kong SAR.

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