Terms & Conditions

These Terms & Conditions govern participation in UK Fetish Awards, including applications, nominations, voting, promotional activities, website use, ticket purchases and attendance at UK Fetish Awards events.

By applying, accepting or participating in a nomination, submitting content, voting, purchasing a ticket, attending an event or otherwise participating in UK Fetish Awards activities, you agree to the relevant provisions of these Terms.

1. Eligibility and age restrictions

1.1 UK Fetish Awards is intended exclusively for adults aged 18 or over.

1.2 By applying, accepting a nomination or otherwise participating as a nominee, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old.

1.3 Information supplied to us must be accurate to the best of your knowledge.

1.4 We may request reasonable evidence of age, identity or eligibility where necessary.

1.5 We may refuse, suspend or discontinue participation where age, identity or eligibility requirements cannot reasonably be verified.

2. Applications and nominations

2.1 Applications and nominations must comply with the eligibility requirements and category descriptions published by UK Fetish Awards.

2.2 Submission of an application or nomination does not guarantee acceptance, shortlisting, finalist status, promotion, attendance or receipt of an award.

2.3 A person may nominate another person where our nomination system permits this.

2.4 A third-party nomination does not, by itself, give UK Fetish Awards unrestricted rights over photographs or other content belonging to the person nominated.

2.5 We may contact a nominated person and require confirmation, acceptance or additional information before publishing or promoting their nomination.

2.6 Anyone submitting material belonging to another person must have the necessary right or permission to provide that material to us.

2.7 We may move an application or nomination into another category where we reasonably believe that category is more appropriate.

2.8 We may reject, suspend or remove an application or nomination where:

(a) eligibility requirements are not met;

(b) materially false or misleading information has been supplied;

(d) there has been deliberate voting manipulation;

(e) there has been serious or repeated harassment, threatening behaviour, fraud or unlawful conduct connected with the awards;

(f) there has been a material breach of these Terms; or

(g) participation would place another person, the event or its operation at genuine legal or safety risk.

2.9 A nominee will not automatically be disqualified merely because another person attempts to manipulate voting on their behalf. Where disqualification is considered for voting abuse, we may take into account whether there is reasonable evidence that the nominee knowingly participated in, organised or encouraged the prohibited activity.

2.10 Making a complaint, expressing an opinion or criticising UK Fetish Awards in good faith is not, by itself, grounds for removal.

3. Photographs, video and other submitted content

3.1 Photographs, video, audio, logos, graphics, biographies, text, social-media information and other materials supplied to us are referred to in these Terms as “Submitted Content”.

3.2 You retain ownership of any copyright and other intellectual-property rights that you already own in Submitted Content.

3.3 By voluntarily supplying Submitted Content for your application, nomination or participation, you grant UK Fetish Awards a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, display, publish, distribute, communicate and adapt that Submitted Content for purposes connected with UK Fetish Awards.

3.4 These purposes may include:

(a) nominee and finalist profiles;

(b) public voting pages;

(d) websites;

(e) social media;

(f) email and digital promotion;

(g) press and public relations;

(h) finalist and winner announcements;

(i) event screens and displays;

(j) promotional videos;

(k) future promotion of UK Fetish Awards;

(l) reporting and coverage of the awards; and

(m) historical and archive material relating to previous UK Fetish Awards events.

3.5 The licence includes permission for UK Fetish Awards and suppliers acting on our behalf to make reasonable technical and creative adaptations to Submitted Content.

3.6 These adaptations may include cropping, resizing, compression, sharpening, upscaling, resolution enhancement, colour correction, exposure correction, retouching, removal or replacement of backgrounds, graphic overlays, typography, branded layouts, composites and other reasonable design or production adjustments.

3.7 Such editing does not transfer ownership of your original photograph or content to UK Fetish Awards.

4. AI-assisted editing and digital production

4.1 UK Fetish Awards may use conventional editing software, automated technology and artificial-intelligence-assisted tools as part of its creative and production processes.

4.2 By voluntarily submitting photographs or other content for use in the awards, you authorise UK Fetish Awards and service providers acting on our behalf to process that material using these technologies for the purposes described in these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

4.3 AI-assisted processing may include:

(a) image enhancement;

(b) sharpening or upscaling;

(d) background isolation;

(e) removal or replacement of backgrounds;

(f) preparation of branded voting artwork;

(g) adapting images to different dimensions or formats;

(h) improving the presentation of low-resolution material; and

(i) other reasonable creative or production assistance.

4.4 Our intention when editing an identifiable nominee photograph is to create professional promotional material and not to deliberately misrepresent the identity of the person depicted.

4.5 Where we intend to create materially altered or synthetic content that presents a person as doing or appearing in a substantially different way from the original material, additional permission may be sought where appropriate.

4.6 Our use of an AI-assisted tool to produce promotional material does not mean that UK Fetish Awards claims ownership of the person’s original image.

4.7 UK Fetish Awards uses AI-assisted services for creative and production purposes. Any technology provider processing personal information is also subject to the data-handling provisions explained in our Privacy Policy.

4.8 If a nominee does not wish their submitted images to be edited using AI-assisted tools, they should notify us as early as possible. We will consider reasonable requests and, where reasonably practicable, may use the original supplied image or conventional editing instead.

4.9 An objection to AI-assisted editing does not necessarily require UK Fetish Awards to produce an alternative type of artwork where doing so is not reasonably practicable. We may instead use the original submitted material, use a different format or choose not to use that particular image.

4.10 Nothing in this section limits any rights available under applicable data-protection law.

5. Rights in submitted material

5.1 You must only provide material that you are legally entitled to provide.

5.2 If a photographer, designer, agency or another person owns copyright in material you submit, you are responsible for ensuring that you have sufficient permission for the uses described in these Terms.

5.3 Where Submitted Content includes another identifiable person, you must have any permission reasonably required to provide the material to us.

5.4 You must not knowingly submit material that infringes another person’s copyright, trademark, privacy, confidentiality or other legal rights.

5.5 If we receive a credible complaint concerning ownership or use of Submitted Content, we may temporarily remove the material while the issue is investigated.

6. Public voting

6.1 UK Fetish Awards is determined by public voting.

6.2 Voting will take place during the official voting period published by UK Fetish Awards.

6.3 Votes must be cast through voting methods authorised by UK Fetish Awards.

6.4 Voting may be subject to reasonable technical restrictions designed to maintain the integrity of the vote.

6.5 The following are prohibited:

(a) automated voting;

(b) voting bots or scripts;

(d) use of temporary or disposable email services where these have been prohibited by the voting system;

(e) technical manipulation of the voting platform;

(f) purchasing fraudulent or automated votes;

(g) coordinated attempts to circumvent published voting restrictions; and

(h) any other deliberate attempt to artificially increase or decrease a nominee’s vote total contrary to the published voting rules.

6.6 We may use technical systems and manual review to identify suspicious voting activity.

6.7 We may invalidate votes where we have reasonable grounds to believe they were cast fraudulently, automatically, repeatedly in breach of voting rules or through deliberate technical manipulation.

6.8 The removal of invalid votes is intended to restore the genuine public-vote result and is not itself a change to the public-voting system.

6.9 UK Fetish Awards may temporarily withhold or review voting information while suspected manipulation is investigated.

7. Awards and voting results

7.1 All UK Fetish Awards winners are determined solely by valid public votes.

7.2 There are no judging panels or internal judges determining the winner unless a completely separate award or recognition is expressly advertised as non-competitive and outside the public-voted UK Fetish Awards categories.

7.3 The nominee receiving the highest number of valid public votes in their category at the official close of voting will be declared the winner, subject to verification of the voting results.

7.4 UK Fetish Awards may review voting activity before confirming a result in order to identify and remove invalid or manipulated votes.

7.5 Only valid votes will count towards the final result.

7.6 In the event of an administrative, technical or calculation error affecting a result, UK Fetish Awards may correct the result using the verified voting data.

7.7 If two or more nominees finish with exactly the same number of valid votes, a further public vote may be held between the tied nominees.

7.8 Any tie-break vote will remain a public vote. UK Fetish Awards will not select a winner internally.

7.9 Opening and closing times for any tie-break vote will be published before that vote takes place.

7.10 Once voting has been verified and the result officially confirmed, that verified result will be treated as the final result except where a subsequent material technical error or proven voting fraud requires correction.

8. Promotional participation

8.1 Nominees and finalists may be promoted through UK Fetish Awards websites, social-media accounts, voting campaigns, email campaigns, press activity and other promotional channels.

8.2 We do not guarantee that every nominee will receive identical levels of publicity, reach, social-media exposure or promotional activity.

8.3 Selection for an interview, article, podcast, video, photoshoot, social-media feature or other promotional opportunity is at our discretion unless expressly agreed otherwise.

8.4 UK Fetish Awards may tag or link to publicly supplied social-media profiles when promoting a nominee.

9. Event photography and filming

9.1 UK Fetish Awards events may be professionally photographed, filmed and recorded.

9.2 Photography and recording may include red-carpet coverage, stage activity, award presentations, performances, interviews, crowd footage and general event coverage.

9.3 Images and recordings may be used for:

(a) event reporting;

(b) social media;

(d) future event promotion;

(e) promotional films;

(f) websites;

(g) archive material; and

(h) promotion of UK Fetish Awards.

9.4 Appropriate event notices may be used to inform attendees that photography and filming are taking place.

9.5 Anyone with a particular privacy or safety concern regarding photography should contact UK Fetish Awards or a member of the event team as early as reasonably possible.

9.6 We will consider reasonable requests relating to close-up or individually focused material, subject to circumstances and applicable legal rights.

10. Tickets

10.1 Tickets are subject to the prices, booking fees, conditions and event information displayed at the time of purchase.

10.2 Tickets are non-refundable because the purchaser changes their mind, except where a refund is required by law or expressly provided under the applicable ticket terms.

10.3 If an event is cancelled, materially rescheduled or materially changed, we will provide any refund, credit or alternative required by applicable law and the applicable ticket terms.

10.4 UK Fetish Awards is not responsible for travel, hotels, transport or other external expenses resulting from an event cancellation or change except where liability cannot legally be excluded.

10.5 Tickets may not be fraudulently reproduced, altered or resold contrary to applicable law or any restrictions communicated at purchase.

11. Event admission and conduct

11.1 Admission may be subject to:

(a) possession of a valid ticket;

(b) age verification;

(d) security requirements;

(e) venue rules; and

(f) any advertised dress code or event-specific requirements.

11.2 Attendees must behave lawfully and must not deliberately threaten, harass, assault, intimidate or endanger another attendee, nominee, performer, member of staff or supplier.

11.3 Serious harassment, violence, threats, deliberate disruption, fraud or other serious misconduct may result in refusal of admission or removal from the event.

11.4 Removal for serious misconduct does not automatically create a right to a refund.

11.5 Nothing in these Terms prevents anyone from making a legitimate complaint, expressing a personal opinion or raising a concern in good faith.

12. Sponsors, partners and prizes

12.1 UK Fetish Awards may work with sponsors, commercial partners and prize providers.

12.2 Prizes may be supplied directly by third parties.

12.3 Third-party prizes may be subject to additional eligibility, delivery or redemption conditions that will be communicated where relevant.

12.4 Where a third-party supplier is responsible for providing a prize, UK Fetish Awards may assist with reasonable enquiries but cannot guarantee the performance of an independent supplier.

12.5 No cash alternative is available for a prize unless expressly stated.

12.6 Prizes cannot normally be transferred or exchanged unless the prize provider agrees otherwise.

13. Website and third-party services

13.1 UK Fetish Awards may use third-party services for functions including hosting, email, payments, ticketing, voting, analytics, security, social media and creative production.

13.2 Some third-party services have their own terms and privacy policies.

13.3 We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability of our websites, voting systems or third-party services.

13.4 We may temporarily suspend services for maintenance, security or technical reasons.

14. UK Fetish Awards intellectual property

14.1 UK Fetish Awards names, logos, website designs, original graphics, voting artwork, templates and other original material belonging to us remain our intellectual property or that of our licensors.

14.2 Nominees may normally share official voting and nomination graphics created for them for the purpose of promoting their nomination.

14.3 Participation does not give anyone the right to represent themselves as an employee, agent or official representative of UK Fetish Awards unless expressly authorised.

15. Corrections, replacement and removal requests

15.1 If you believe material published by UK Fetish Awards incorrectly represents you or infringes your rights, contact [email protected].

15.2 Please identify the relevant material and explain the issue.

15.3 We will consider reasonable correction, replacement and removal requests.

15.4 Where appropriate, we may replace a promotional image with another suitable image supplied by the nominee.

15.5 Removal from active promotional channels does not necessarily mean that all previous copies can be recovered or erased.

15.6 Material may already have been printed, distributed, reposted by third parties, included in recordings or legitimately retained as part of an historical awards archive.

15.7 Requests involving personal data will be considered in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection law.

16. Complaints

16.1 Questions or complaints relating to UK Fetish Awards may be sent to [email protected].

16.2 We may request further information where reasonably necessary to understand or investigate a complaint.

16.3 Making a complaint will not adversely affect a person’s nomination or participation merely because UK Fetish Awards disagrees with the complaint.

16.4 We may close correspondence where an issue has been reasonably addressed and repeated communications do not raise any materially new matter.

16.5 Nothing in this section restricts any statutory right or right to contact an appropriate regulator, court or authority.

17. Liability

17.1 Nothing in these Terms excludes or restricts liability where doing so would be unlawful.

17.2 Nothing in these Terms affects mandatory consumer rights.

17.3 UK Fetish Awards does not accept responsibility for losses that are not reasonably foreseeable or that result entirely from circumstances outside our reasonable control, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

17.4 We are not responsible for content, products or services supplied independently by third parties except to the extent required by law.

18. Changes to these Terms

18.1 We may update these Terms where our services, event arrangements, technology or legal obligations change.

18.2 The latest version will be published on our website with an updated revision date.

18.3 A material change will not retrospectively remove rights that a person has already acquired under applicable law.

19. Severability

19.1 If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.

20. Governing law

20.1 These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

20.2 This does not remove any mandatory consumer rights that may apply to a consumer who is legally entitled to rely on the laws or courts of another jurisdiction.