Terms & Conditions of Entry

These Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") govern entry into and participation in The Fearless Creator Search (the "Competition"), a creator competition promoted, operated and administered by Fearless Media of The Playground, Dublin, Ireland ("Fearless Media", "the Promoter", "we", "us" or "our").

By submitting an entry, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms and by the Fearless Media privacy notice published alongside them, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not enter.

The instructions, field descriptions and declarations set out on the Competition application form form part of these Terms. Where the application form and these Terms conflict, these Terms prevail.

We may update these Terms where reasonably necessary, including to correct errors, to reflect changes in law or in the requirements of a social media platform, or to respond to circumstances outside our reasonable control. Where a change is material we will notify entrants by email to the address supplied on entry and publish the updated Terms in the same place as these Terms. Continued participation after notification constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

These Terms are written in English and all correspondence relating to the Competition will be conducted in English.

Any notice, question, request or complaint under these Terms should be sent to the Promoter using the contact details in clause 20.

The Competition is promoted, operated and administered solely by Fearless Media.

The Competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with any Platform. All questions, comments and complaints regarding the Competition must be directed to the Promoter and not to any Platform.

By entering, you release each Platform from all liability arising out of or in connection with the Competition, and you acknowledge that your use of each Platform remains governed by that Platform's own terms of service.

The Competition opens on the date entries are announced as open and closes on the Closing Date. The Closing Date is stated on the application form and published on the Promoter's channels. All times are Irish Standard Time.

Entries received after the Closing Date, or which are incomplete, illegible, corrupted or otherwise non-compliant with these Terms, will not be accepted and will be treated as void. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for entries which are not received for any reason.

The Promoter's systems and records are the definitive record of the time and content of receipt of any entry.

One entry per person. Multiple, duplicate, bulk, syndicated, automated or machine generated entries will be disqualified. Where more than one entry is received from the same person, the Promoter may consider only the first entry received or disqualify all of them.

Entry is personal to you. Entries submitted by an agent, manager, agency or any other third party on your behalf will not be accepted.

The Promoter may at any time require an Entrant to provide reasonable proof of eligibility, including photographic identification, proof of age, proof of current student enrolment and proof of entitlement to work. Where such proof is requested and is not provided to the Promoter's reasonable satisfaction within five working days, the Entrant may be disqualified and any Prize forfeited and awarded to an alternative Entrant.

No purchase is necessary and there is no cost to enter, other than any costs you incur in accessing the internet, creating your Entry Content or travelling to the Final Day. You are solely responsible for those costs.

To enter, complete every mandatory field of the application form and submit it before the Closing Date, including a link to a video of between 45 and 60 seconds in duration, shot in vertical format, in which your face is visible.

Any link you supply must remain live, accessible and unrestricted to the Promoter from the date of submission until at least twelve months after the Closing Date. Unlisted links are acceptable. Private, expired, deleted and password protected links are not. The Promoter is under no obligation to request a working link and may disregard any Entry it cannot access.

You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you supply. Providing false, misleading or materially incomplete information is grounds for immediate disqualification and, where a Prize has already been awarded, for recovery of that Prize under clause 14.

It is your own original work, or you otherwise own or control all rights necessary to submit it and to grant the licence set out in clause 9.

It does not and will not infringe the copyright, trade marks, database rights, design rights, moral rights, rights of privacy or publicity, rights of confidence or any other rights of any third party, and is not defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful.

All third party elements incorporated in it, including music, sound recordings, stock footage, images, fonts, graphics and software assets, are either owned by you or licensed to you on terms permitting the commercial and promotional use described in clause 9. You acknowledge that music made available through a Platform's in-app library is generally licensed for personal, non-commercial use only, and you accept that the Promoter may mute, replace or otherwise substitute any audio before publishing your Entry Content.

Every identifiable individual appearing or audible in it has given their informed consent to appear and to the uses described in clause 9. Where any such individual is under 18, you confirm that consent has been obtained from their parent or legal guardian. You will provide written evidence of any such consent on request.

It does not contain, promote or glamorise hate speech or discrimination on any ground, harassment, bullying or threats, sexually explicit or suggestive material, graphic violence, illegal drugs, excessive alcohol consumption, self harm, criminal activity, or dangerous acts likely to be imitated.

It was not created in breach of any law, of any Platform's terms of service, of any trespass, or of any duty of confidentiality or contractual obligation owed by you to any employer, client or educational institution.

It does not use any third party brand, trade mark or logo in a manner suggesting endorsement, affiliation or sponsorship, and any commercial or paid partnership content included in it was properly disclosed in accordance with applicable advertising rules at the time of publication.

Where any material part of it has been generated or materially altered using generative artificial intelligence tools, you have disclosed this in your application. Undisclosed artificially generated material presented as your own filmed or designed work is grounds for disqualification.

The metrics, following, engagement figures and credentials you present are genuine and have not been artificially inflated, purchased or otherwise manipulated.

The Promoter is under no obligation to review, moderate, screen or publish any Entry Content, and may reject, remove, edit or decline to use any Entry Content at its sole discretion and without giving reasons.

Entries will be assessed by a judging panel appointed by the Promoter, which will include Thomas Arnold and other members of the Fearless Media team, and may include representatives of Partner Organisations.

Entries will be assessed against criteria including on camera personality and confidence, storytelling and the strength of the opening hook, originality and creative instinct, the quality and consistency of the Entrant's existing body of work, the strategic thinking demonstrated in the written answers, and overall suitability for and fit with the Fearless Media team. The weighting applied to each criterion is at the Promoter's absolute discretion.

A shortlist of Entrants will be invited to attend the Final Day. Shortlisted Entrants will be notified using the contact details supplied on entry and must confirm their attendance within three days of notification. Where an Entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable attempts, or does not confirm within that period, the Promoter may withdraw the invitation and select an alternative Entrant.

The Final Day may include live creative briefs, timed challenges, filmed tasks, interviews and group exercises. Attendance is at the Entrant's own cost and, subject to clause 15.1, at the Entrant's own risk.

Judging is inherently subjective. The decision of the judging panel is final and binding, no correspondence will be entered into in relation to it, and the Promoter is under no obligation to provide feedback or to disclose scores, notes or deliberations.

The Promoter may decline to award the Prize if, in the reasonable opinion of the judging panel, no Entry of a sufficient standard has been received.

You retain all ownership of the copyright and other intellectual property rights in your Entry Content. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of your Entry Content to the Promoter.

By submitting an Entry, you grant the Promoter a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty free, fully paid up, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and sub-licensable licence to host, store, reproduce, edit, adapt, clip, crop, reframe, subtitle, caption, rescore, translate, excerpt, combine with other material, publish, broadcast, stream, distribute, display, repost, promote and otherwise use and exploit the Entry Content, in whole or in part, alone or with other material, in any and all media and formats now known or later developed.

The licence in clause 9.2 is granted for the following purposes: operating, judging, documenting, publicising and reporting on the Competition and any future edition of it; promoting the Promoter's brand, business, services and culture, including in organic and paid social media content, on the Promoter's website, in showreels, case studies, credentials decks and pitch materials shown to clients and prospective clients, in press and public relations activity, and in recruitment and employer branding material; and internal training, archival and record keeping purposes.

You further grant the Promoter the right to use your name, social media handles, voice, image, likeness, photograph, city, college or university and course of study in connection with the purposes set out in clause 9.3, including in any announcement of the shortlist or of the winner.

No fee, royalty or other consideration is or will become payable to you in respect of the licence granted under this clause 9, and the Promoter is not required to seek your further approval before exercising it or to account to you for any revenue derived from it.

The Promoter will use reasonable endeavours to credit you by name or handle where it is customary and practicable to do so, but is under no obligation to provide credit, and the absence of credit does not constitute a breach of these Terms.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you irrevocably waive, and agree not to assert, all moral rights in the Entry Content, including the right to be identified as author and the right to object to derogatory treatment of a work, in each case in favour of the Promoter and its licensees and successors in title. This waiver is given in writing for the purposes of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000.

If you are shortlisted and attend the Final Day, you consent to being photographed, filmed, recorded and interviewed at that event. All footage, photographs and recordings created by or on behalf of the Promoter at the Final Day are owned by the Promoter absolutely, and clauses 9.3 and 9.4 apply to them.

The Promoter is under no obligation to publish or make any use of any Entry Content.

The licence granted under this clause 9 survives the end of the Competition, the withdrawal of your Entry, your disqualification and the termination of any internship, and continues in force notwithstanding any of those events.

Notwithstanding clause 9.10, if you wish the Promoter to cease making further new use of your Entry Content, you may write to the Promoter and the Promoter will use reasonable endeavours, within thirty days, to remove the Entry Content from channels within its direct control and to cease using it in new material. You acknowledge that the Promoter cannot recall, retrieve or amend material which has already been published, printed, broadcast, distributed to or reposted by third parties, embedded in advertising already placed and running, or archived in historic case studies, pitch materials and internal records, and that the licence continues to apply to that material.

You grant the licence in this clause 9 on the basis of the warranties in clause 7, and you acknowledge that the Promoter relies on those warranties in exercising it.

One winner will be selected. The Prize consists of a twelve month internship with Fearless Media, working directly with Thomas Arnold, at approximately twenty hours per week, based at The Playground, Dublin, together with a signing bonus of €1,000.

The internship element of the Prize is conditional upon, and does not commence until, the winner enters into a separate written internship agreement with Fearless Media on the Promoter's standard terms, which will address, among other things, remuneration, hours, duration, confidentiality, assignment of intellectual property created in the course of the internship, notice and termination. These Terms do not themselves create any employment, engagement, contract of service or contract for services between you and the Promoter.

The internship is further conditional upon the winner satisfying the Promoter as to their entitlement to work in Ireland, providing satisfactory references where requested, and agreeing to comply with the Promoter's policies applicable to interns. Where a winner does not satisfy these conditions or declines to enter into the internship agreement, the Promoter may declare the Prize forfeited and select an alternative winner.

The signing bonus is a gross amount and will be paid by bank transfer to an account in the winner's name within thirty days of the commencement of the internship. The winner is solely responsible for any income tax, PRSI, USC or other liability arising in respect of the Prize, and for any declaration required to be made to the Revenue Commissioners or to any body administering a grant, scholarship or social welfare payment received by the winner. The Promoter recommends that the winner takes independent advice on their own tax position.

The Prize is personal to the winner. It is non-transferable and non-exchangeable and there is no cash alternative in whole or in part, save that the Promoter may substitute a prize of equal or greater value where circumstances beyond its reasonable control make this necessary.

The Prize does not include travel, accommodation, relocation, subsistence, equipment, software, insurance or any other cost or benefit not expressly stated in clause 10.1.

The internship may be terminated by either party in accordance with the internship agreement. Where the internship ends before the end of the twelve month term for any reason, the winner has no claim against the Promoter for the residual value of the unexpired portion of the Prize.

The winner agrees to participate in reasonable post-Competition publicity, including the announcement of their name, college, handle and photograph across the Promoter's channels and in any press coverage of the Competition.

The name and county of residence of the winner will be made available for at least one month after the Final Day on written request to the Promoter.

The Competition may be supported by Partner Organisations. Only one Entrant will win the Prize, but Partner Organisations may have their own internships, placements, freelance briefs, commissions or other opportunities available to creators.

Where, and only where, you have given your separate, specific and freely given opt-in consent on the application form, the Promoter may share with Partner Organisations your name, contact details, college or university, course of study, social media handles and links to the Entry Content you have published publicly, for the sole purpose of enabling those organisations to consider you for such opportunities and to contact you about them.

Giving that consent is entirely optional. It is not a condition of entry, it forms no part of the judging criteria and it will have no effect whatsoever on your prospects in the Competition. You may withdraw that consent at any time by writing to the Promoter, and withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of any sharing carried out before withdrawal.

The Promoter does not and will not sell your personal data, share it with data brokers, list brokers or advertising networks, share it for unrelated third party marketing purposes, or share it for any purpose other than those set out in these Terms.

The Promoter will only share your details with a Partner Organisation which has undertaken to use them solely for the purpose described in clause 11.2 and to comply with applicable data protection law. Once shared, each Partner Organisation acts as an independent controller of your personal data and its own privacy notice governs its processing. The Promoter is not responsible for the acts or omissions of a Partner Organisation once your data has been lawfully shared, but will pass on any request you make to it.

The Promoter may operate an optional community group through which it shares future opportunities with Entrants. Joining is voluntary and requires your separate opt-in. You acknowledge that your name and telephone number may be visible to other members of any such group, and you agree not to use it to send unsolicited marketing to other members. You may leave the group at any time.

The Promoter is the data controller in respect of the personal data you provide in connection with the Competition. Data protection queries and requests should be sent to the Promoter using the contact details in clause 20.

The categories of personal data processed are your name, email address, telephone number, age confirmation, college or university, course and year of study, location, social media handles and links, portfolio and other links, your Entry Content and written answers, any correspondence with the Promoter, any proof of eligibility supplied, and any photographs, footage or recordings made at the Final Day.

The Promoter processes that data on the following legal bases: for the administration, judging, verification and operation of the Competition and the award of the Prize, performance of the contract constituted by these Terms and the Promoter's legitimate interests in running the Competition; for the publication and promotional uses described in clause 9, your consent given by entering together with the Promoter's legitimate interests in promoting its business; for sharing with Partner Organisations and for any community group, your separate opt-in consent; for verifying eligibility and entitlement to work, legitimate interests and, where applicable, compliance with a legal obligation; and for keeping records, resolving disputes and establishing, exercising or defending legal claims, legitimate interests and legal obligation.

Personal data relating to unsuccessful Entrants will be retained for twenty-four months from the Closing Date and then deleted or anonymised, save that Entry Content used under the licence in clause 9 and records evidencing that licence will be retained for as long as that content remains in use and for a reasonable period afterwards, and records relating to the winner will be retained in accordance with the Promoter's obligations in respect of employment and taxation records.

Your personal data may be processed on the Promoter's behalf by service providers acting as processors, including providers of form, email, cloud storage, messaging, editing and analytics services, and may be published on Platforms at your direction or under clause 9. Some of these providers are established outside the European Economic Area. Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area it will be protected by an adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism.

You have the right to request access to your personal data and its rectification or erasure, to request restriction of processing or to object to processing, to data portability, and, where processing is based on consent, to withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal. Withdrawing consent to the promotional use of your Entry Content is subject to the practical limitations set out in clause 9.11.

If you are not satisfied with how the Promoter has handled your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission, 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, www.dataprotection.ie.

Judging is carried out by human judges. The Promoter does not make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects on Entrants by automated means alone.

Content you have published publicly on your own social media profiles remains subject to the terms of the relevant Platform, and the Promoter's use of such content under clause 9 does not alter your relationship with that Platform.

Entrants attending the Final Day must behave respectfully and professionally towards the Promoter's staff, judges, Partner Organisations, other Entrants and members of the public, and must comply with all health and safety, security and venue rules in force at The Playground.

The Promoter may require any person to leave the Final Day where, in its reasonable opinion, that person's conduct is abusive, discriminatory, unsafe, disruptive or otherwise unacceptable, or where they are under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Any attempt to canvass, lobby, bribe or improperly influence a judge, or to manipulate any public facing element of the Competition, will result in immediate disqualification.

The Promoter may disqualify any Entrant, without notice, where it reasonably believes that the Entrant has breached these Terms, supplied false, misleading or incomplete information, submitted Entry Content in breach of clause 7, failed to provide proof of eligibility under clause 5.3, acted fraudulently, dishonestly or in bad faith, brought or is likely to bring the Promoter, a Partner Organisation or the Competition into disrepute, whether through their conduct, their public statements or their published content and whether before or after entry, or interfered with the proper operation of the Competition.

Where grounds for disqualification come to light after the Prize has been awarded, the Promoter may withdraw the Prize, terminate the internship in accordance with the internship agreement, and require repayment of the signing bonus in whole or in part.

You may withdraw your Entry at any time before the Closing Date by writing to the Promoter. Withdrawal after the Closing Date is at the Promoter's discretion. Withdrawal does not terminate the licence granted under clause 9 in respect of any Entry Content already used, subject to clause 9.11.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits the Promoter's liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability which cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

Subject to clause 15.1, the Promoter is not liable for entries which are lost, delayed, damaged, corrupted, incomplete or not received, any failure, interruption or unavailability of any website, network, Platform, form, hosting service or communications system, links which cease to function, any act or omission of a Platform or a Partner Organisation, or any loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of anticipated earnings, loss of data or any indirect or consequential loss, however arising.

Subject to clause 15.1, the Promoter's total aggregate liability to any Entrant arising out of or in connection with the Competition, whether in contract, tort including negligence, breach of statutory duty or otherwise, is limited to €1,000.

You participate in the Competition at your own risk. You are solely responsible for your own safety and for the safety of others when creating Entry Content, and you must not create Entry Content in any manner which is unlawful, unsafe or which places you or any other person at risk.

Nothing in these Terms affects any statutory rights you have as a consumer which cannot be excluded or limited by agreement.

You agree to indemnify the Promoter against all reasonable losses, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal costs, suffered or incurred by the Promoter as a direct result of any third party claim arising from your breach of the warranties in clause 7, including any claim that Entry Content infringes a third party's intellectual property or privacy rights.

The Promoter will notify you promptly of any such claim, will not settle it without consulting you, and will take reasonable steps to mitigate its losses. This clause does not apply to any loss arising from the Promoter's own editing, alteration or use of Entry Content beyond the scope of the licence in clause 9.

The Promoter may, acting reasonably, amend the dates, format, venue, judging arrangements, structure or Prize of the Competition, or suspend or cancel the Competition in whole or in part, where it becomes necessary to do so for reasons outside the Promoter's reasonable control or where continuing would be unlawful, unsafe or impracticable.

The Promoter will publish notice of any such change in the same place as these Terms and will notify affected Entrants by email. The Promoter will not be liable to any Entrant for any change made in accordance with this clause, save that it will not act in a way which unfairly prejudices Entrants who have already entered.

Neither party is liable for any failure or delay in performing its obligations caused by an event beyond its reasonable control, including acts of God, fire, flood, extreme weather, epidemic or pandemic, industrial action, civil unrest, failure of utilities or telecommunications, cyber attack, or the act of any government or public authority.

Any complaint relating to the Competition should be submitted in writing to the Promoter within thirty days of the Closing Date or, where the complaint relates to the Final Day or the award of the Prize, within thirty days of the Final Day. The Promoter will acknowledge complaints within five working days and aims to respond substantively within twenty working days.

Nothing in these Terms creates any employment, partnership, joint venture, agency or franchise relationship between the Promoter and any Entrant, and no Entrant may hold themselves out as a representative of the Promoter.

These Terms, together with the application form and the privacy notice, constitute the entire agreement between the Promoter and each Entrant in relation to the Competition and supersede all prior statements, representations and understandings, save that nothing limits liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable, that provision will be severed to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

No failure or delay by the Promoter in exercising any right under these Terms constitutes a waiver of that right, and no single or partial exercise of a right prevents its further exercise.

The Promoter may assign, novate or subcontract its rights and obligations under these Terms, including in connection with any reorganisation, sale or transfer of its business. Entrants may not assign their rights or obligations.

Save that each Platform and each Partner Organisation may rely on the releases and provisions expressed to be for its benefit, a person who is not a party to these Terms has no right to enforce any of their provisions.

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, their subject matter or formation, including non-contractual disputes or claims, are governed by the laws of Ireland, and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ireland. Nothing in this clause deprives a consumer of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of their country of habitual residence.

A copy of these Terms is available at the link published on the Competition application form and will be provided on written request to the Promoter.