Terms & Conditions

Terms & Conditions

 

Important notes

The Brilliance Awards is an awards series and trading name of industry’s global awarding body Digital Skills Authority.
Digital Skills Authority is a British owned multinational organization comprised of Digital Skills Authority companies (entities)
The Brilliance Awards offers award entries and gala events.  The Digital Skills Authority entity you contract with may differ through our sub-domains or corporate website, and it will be marked at time of purchase which entity you are contracting with.
BrillianceAwards.com is provided by Digital Skills Authority inc.  We have updated our terms and conditions on 22 January 2025.

Service Provider Award Entries

Brilliance Awards Team
Digital Skills Authority inc.
Brandywine Building
1000 N West St Suite 1200
Wilmington DE 19801
Delaware
United States
Phone: (302) 803 6766
International: +1 302 803 6766

Contact details  digitalskillsauthority.org/contact

In the following Digital Skills Authority inc. is called “the Company” and “we”, “us” and “our”.

Applicability of these Terms and Conditions

By using, visiting, or browsing any of our websites (the “Sites”), or by purchasing any of our products and services (“Products and Services”), you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you act on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind such entity and its affiliates to these Terms and Conditions, in which case the terms “you” or “your” shall refer to such entity and all of its affiliates.

Any breach of these Terms and Conditions will cause immediate disqualification of the subscriber’s / purchaser’s licence without any refunds.

Terms and Conditions of Award Entry or Nomination

All entries and nominations must be made by the deadline advertised and early bird rates are applicable to advertised deadlines.

Please ensure you read the criteria for the awards you are entering. Remember to use evidence such as quotes, figures, meida and statistics,  and include as much information as possible on your entry form.

We ask all entrants to supply at least one organizational logo. Please supply this in JPEG or PDF format and upload it with your entry under 2MB.

Payments must be made in full prior to submitting entries.  Entries can be started at the time or purchase and resumed later for completion and submission by the deadline.  All completed and returned entries will be acknowledged online at the time of submission, only after payment has been made..

The organisers do not accept any responsibility for the loss or damage of any entry.

The judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence or discussion will be entered, or feedback given regarding the selection of shortlisted nominations or winners.

Entrants agree not to contact any member of the judging panel directly regarding any aspect of the awards. All communications must be directed to the Brilliance Awards Team.

We reserve the right to shorten entry titles. Please try and keep your entry title concise and to the point, and follow the entry format stated in the rules here.

If your chosen category is divided into small, medium, or large company sizes, please ensure you select the correct size during the entry process on the website. We verify company sizes and reserve the right to move your entry to the appropriate category in line with our criteria.

The only publicly shared information from an entry submission will be the entry title. All other details within the submission are seen solely by the assigned judges, and  Brilliance Awards team securely deletes all entry information, including entry forms, from the system one month after the event date.

Brilliance Awards team reserves the right to extend the closing deadline, amend categories or not award categories should the standard of entries received not reach the required standard.

Brilliance Awards team reserves the right to disqualify any entry found to contain false, plagiarised, or misleading information, without refund.

By entering the awards, your details may be passed on to a third-party company that we use to apply for our award accreditations. This company will only contact you upon our instruction, and the email will only be in regard to events that you have been involved with. If you do not wish for us to include you in our award accreditation process, please unsubscribe via our platforms or contact us.

Please do call for help if you need further advice.

PAYMENT TERMS

If your payment is successful, you will receive an automatic email confirmation from Brilliance Awards team to the email address you specified when placing your entry detailing your purchase. You will be redirected back to this website when the transaction is complete, where you can also download your invoice receipt.

Full payment for award entries is required by the date and time of the entry deadline. Should payment not be received by this time, it could result in your entry being removed and not judged.

Please note: Entry fees are non-refundable once an entry has been submitted, regardless of withdrawal or disqualification.

To withdraw an entry, please contact us via BrillianceAwards.com

TERMS & CONDITIONS OF JUDGING

The judges’ decision is final, and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into, or feedback given regarding the selection of shortlisted nominations or winners.

Shortlisted entrants will be contacted by email (at the address provided in the application) on the shortlist announcement date.

In the interest of transparency, judges are ineligible to enter the awards.

Judges will not allow personal relationships or experiences to influence judging marks or decisions, and their judging will be impartial and based on the standard of entry, campaign, organisation, or product.

Judges will declare any perceived conflict of interest to the event organisers ahead of reading any entries.

All judging discussions are confidential and will not be shared or discussed with anyone outside of the judging panel ahead of the ceremony or thereafter.

Judges will not share confidential material, judging papers or entries with anyone. Judges will securely delete all judging materials immediately after the judging period or give materials to the Brilliance Awards Team, who will manage this.

Judges can only access entries that have been provided to score.

Judges will not notify anyone that they have won or that they are shortlisted ahead of the official announcements.

Judges will not provide any feedback to entrants as to why they have not won or were not shortlisted – all requests for feedback must be directed to the awards organiser, Brilliance Awards team.

Should a judge break the rules of conduct and the code is not adhered to, they will be asked to leave the panel and not be invited to judge any future awards.

Should a judge be removed from the panel due to a conflict or breach, a suitable replacement will be appointed to ensure continuity and fairness in the judging process.

The judging panel for the awards will be announced throughout the competition, and the criteria to be applied by the judges are set out in our FAQs

TERMS & CONDITIONS OF THE EVENT

The winners will be announced during the competition’s related live gala event advertised. 

Gala Award Places and Table Bookings

Individual place and table cancellations are permitted 30-days or more in advance of any event. Brilliance Awards team regrets that no cancellations are acceptable after 30 days prior to the event date, and therefore no refunds are payable after this point. However, a substitute delegate or guest can be nominated in their place.

All requests for cancellations or substitutions must be made in writing to service@brillianceawards.com

Force Majeure

Brilliance Awards team will not be liable for any failure or delay in performing their obligations where such failure or delay results from any cause that is beyond the reasonable control of that party.

Such causes include, but are not limited to: power failure, Internet Service Provider failure, acts of God, epidemic, pandemic, civil unrest, fire, flood, droughts, storms, earthquakes, collapse of buildings, explosion or accident, acts of terrorism, acts of war, governmental action, any law or any action taken by a government or public authority, including without limitation imposing an export or import restriction, quota or prohibition, or any other event that is beyond the control of the party in question.

Where an event can be postponed, this will be taken into account, and any investment already made will be transferred to the new date. Should a physical event not be possible due to causes out of our control, this event may be transferred to a virtual online event.

 

Trophies

Trophies for all winners are included in the price of entry. Trophies will be awarded at the award ceremony to the winners. If the winner is not present, Brilliance Awards team can arrange delivery post awards, but the winner must cover the cost of the delivery. Further information on trophy postage will be shared with winners after the event date via email.

All trophies are inspected prior to delivery. Brilliance Awards team will not cover the cost of a replacement due to damage during or after the delivery of awards at the live ceremony

Event photography & filming

By attending the event, attendees consent to being filmed and photographed, and for their image to be used in promotional materials related to Brilliance Awards team Projects.

PRIVACY POLICY

You can view the full privacy policy here

Digital Skills Authority inc. (“we”, “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us, and forms part of our Terms and Conditions.

This privacy policy applies to any information acquired by and/or provided to Digital Skills Authority inc’s Brilliance Awards team including but not limited to information provided through the use of the website; information provided during the course of orders, transactions, and bookings; information provided through enquiries or by the completion of any request and or invitation for information. Digital Skills Authority inc. may gather information about you when you use our website.

 

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTION

The personal information you disclose to Digital Skills Authority inc. by entering or purchasing tickets for the Brilliance Awards gives us consent to the collection, storage, and processing of information in the manner described in this policy. Personal information may include name, email, job title, company, address, contact number and similar information which identifies you. We do not sell or rent personal information to other organisations. Where necessary, our site collects credit card information for the purpose of billing the user for requested services or events. Information collected through our site may be shared with third parties that provide services on behalf of the site, such as credit card processors. Third parties may only use the data for the purpose for which it was provided.

The information you submit to Digital Skills Authority inc.’s Brilliance Awards team will be kept confidential and secure once received. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. All information you provide to us via email or our site is stored on secure servers of third parties authorised by us.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

USE OF INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
• To provide you with information regarding your registration.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To notify you about changes to our site, goods and/or services.
• We may also use your data (where you have chosen) to allow selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you, and we or they may contact you about these. Where you permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will only contact you by electronic means to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you if you have consented to this.

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes, or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us via brillianceawards.com/contact

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our customers, registered members, suppliers, partner networks, advertisers, affiliates and other third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or the content or operation of these websites. Please check these policies and the terms of the websites before you submit any personal data to these websites.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right to access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. We want to ensure that your personal data is accurate and current. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add to, or remove portions from this policy at any time. Your continued use of our site following the posting of any changes to this policy means you accept such changes.

However, if at any time in the future, we plan to use personal information in a way that differs from this policy, users will be notified by either a 30-day notice displayed prominently on the website or by email. We will provide you with the opportunity to opt out of such differing uses.

COOKIES

“Cookies” are pieces of information that may be placed on your computer by a website for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing your communication and interaction with that website. Many websites use cookies for these purposes. We, and any third parties that place materials on our site, may use cookies to customise your visit to our site and for other purposes to make your visit more convenient or to enable us to enhance our service. You may stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your computer or flush them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences, in which case you may still use our site, but it may interfere with some of its functionality. We do not use cookies to retrieve information from your computer for purposes that are unrelated to our site or your interaction.

We use a third-party site measurement service to measure our site traffic. This company may use information (not including name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visit to this site in order to help Brilliance Awards team improve the site’s content and navigation.

CONTACT

For questions or concerns relating to privacy, please contact us brillianceawards.com/contact

 

 

 

 

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Additional Event Terms & Conditions

1. Cancellation policy

Event ticket purchases from Brilliance Awards have a 30-day cancellation policy from the date when the order is placed. However, cancellations will not be accepted less than 30 days before the event.

Cancellations are only accepted in writing. Leaving an invoice unpaid does not count as a cancellation. However, in the case of event tickets, it is possible to allocate the ticket to a third party. The contact details of the new participant are to be sent to Brilliance Awards immediately, at least 30 days before the event. However, it is not possible to change the person or organisation liable for the payment.

Please note that when cancelling your purchase, your access to our other Products and Services provided within the same purchase will automatically be terminated.

For our ‘consumer customers, unless one of the exceptions listed below applies, you may cancel your book order within 14 days from the day on which you receive the book purchased or from the day of the conclusion of the contract, in the case of services or digital content not supplied in a tangible medium (e.g. DVD).

You must inform us of your decision to cancel your book order by contacting us by e-mail before the 14 days’ cancellation period has expired. We will reimburse payments received from you for the goods purchased and will also reimburse delivery charges for the least expensive type of delivery offered by us, no later than 14 days from the day on which we received the above communication.

Note that you must send back the goods by following the instructions no later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your cancellation and you will have to bear the direct cost of returning these goods. You may be liable if the value of the goods returned diminishes due to the handling of the goods.

The right of cancellation does not apply to a service if Brilliance Awards has fully performed it and you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not cancel it once delivery had started, and to the supply of digital content (including apps, digital software, e-books, etc) which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not cancel it once delivery had started.

4. Digital Skills Authority inc. is a business incorporated in the state of Delaware, USA, which does not charge sales tax.
5. Accessing our Sites and use of our Products and Services

Access is granted to our Sites and to our Products and Services, independent of their location, solely for your use of our Products and Services for personal entertainment, information, education, and communication with us. You may print the content of the Sites for your personal non-commercial use only.

We have the right to terminate your access to the Sites and/or to the Products and Services if we determine that you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.

You are solely responsible for keeping your possible password to access our Sites and/or Products and Services confidential. It is forbidden to share your password or any other information associated with the use of our Sites and/or Products and Services with anyone.

We will not be liable if for any reason our Sites and/or Products and Services are unavailable at any time or if you have internet connectivity problems for any period.

6. Grant of limited licence to use our Products and Services

6.1. General

Unless otherwise specified, the Products and Services, including any content viewed through our digital streaming and downloadable content, are for your personal use only, and we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence for that purpose. Except for the foregoing limited licence, no right, title or interest shall be transferred to you.

You may not download, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, duplicate, publish, licence, create derivative works from, or offer for sale any information contained on, or obtained from or through, our Sites, without our express written consent. You may not circumvent, remove or alter any of the content protections on our Products and Services. Any unauthorised use of the Sites will terminate the limited licence granted by us and will result in the cancellation of your access.

6.2. Additional terms for certain digital products/services

6.2.1. An Online Ticket is for the use of one person only and only one device is allowed to log on to the live stream at a time. The Online Ticket holder is not allowed to use the service for group screenings. Any unauthorised use of the service will terminate the limited licence granted by us and will result in the cancellation of your access without refunds.

6.2.2. A Group License is for groups – for example, companies, schools, and organisations. Only one device is allowed to log on to the live stream at a time, but the Group License holder is allowed to use the service for a group screening (for employees, customers, students, or others). A group screening includes any occasion where the stream or recording is displayed to multiple viewers (i.e., more than one) in the same location (office room, auditorium, etc.). However, in all event marketing, the purchaser of the Group License needs to explicitly state that the event is an “independently organised live stream event“. In addition, the marketing of the live stream event cannot start before the live stream licence has been purchased. Any unauthorised use of the service will terminate the limited licence granted by us and will result in the cancellation of your access without refunds.

6.2.3. A Remote Group License is for large groups that wish to watch our events remotely from several locations. We will provide you an iframe player, which allows you to showcase the live stream remotely to your employees. You can embed the player on your internal website. The internal website must be accessible only by your own employees, each with their unique authentication details. You must inform your employees in writing in connection with the live stream about our intellectual terms in section 8. Any unauthorised use of the service will terminate the limited licence granted by us and will result in the cancellation of your access without refunds.

6.2.4. As a user of Brilliance Awards Sites, you are granted the privilege to download both free-of-charge and chargeable eBooks and other downloadable content (“Content”) from our platform, under the following conditions.

Regardless of whether the Content is obtained free-of-charge or through purchase, you agree to use it in accordance with our Terms and Conditions, including any restrictions on copying, distribution, and modification. Chargeable Content may be subject to additional terms of use, including limitations on the number of devices on which the Content can be accessed or the number of times it can be downloaded.

7. Other terms

7.1. Order confirmation

If you haven’t received an order confirmation, please check your junk e-mail folder. If you still cannot find the order confirmation, please contact us at enquiries@Brilliance Awards.com.

7.2. Special terms for certain Products and Services

Certain Products and Services might be designed for a specific level of seniority (e.g. CEOs and/or chairpersons and/or professors and/or ranked thinkers). If a person who is not a part of that target group orders a ticket, we reserve the right to reject such an order and cancel the purchase.

7.3. Attendee and customer information

All tickets and live stream licences need to be assigned to a person in order for them to be valid. Each ticket or live stream licence can be used by only one person. In some multi-day events, it might be possible to purchase a “Split Ticket” add-on service. With the “Split Ticket” add-on, you can separate a ticket for example into “Day 1” and “Day 2” tickets for different attendees. Please ask in advance for the availability of this service and the pricing of it for the event you are attending.

The person who made the order is responsible for communicating the attendee information to us at least 30 days before the event. The person who made the order is responsible for sharing these Terms and Conditions, Code of Conduct, and Privacy Policy with the person/people using the tickets and live stream licences.

The name, organisation, and title of attendees and customers can be shared with event partners and included in our marketing and communication activities. The customer has the right to deny us permission to share their information with third parties by emailing service@Brilliance Awards.com.

We collect information about our event attendees responsibly, in accordance with the applicable data protection legislation.

7.4. Duration limitations

Your access to digital content is restricted to the duration expressed in connection with such content. We are not liable in case you have not consumed the service within the set time limit.

7.5. Organisers’ rights

In the unlikely event of an incident that prevents the event from taking place (independent of the Company), we reserve the right to make changes to the date and time of the event, and its associated activities, at least one week before the event. If this happens, we will notify the participants of the new details of the event, which will be organised within thirteen months of the original event.

We also reserve the right to make changes to the event with less than one week’s notice if there is a justified reason, such as unexpected issues with the location or government / municipal restrictions, or if a speaker is prevented from participating due to amongst others a medical emergency, cancelled or heavily delayed travel connections or restrictions by local or international officials. There are multiple speakers in events organised by us, and therefore individual changes to the list of speakers are possible.

Purchasing or assigning someone a ticket for any of our events or by making purchases of other

Products and Services on our web store automatically adds that individual’s email address to our newsletter database. By default, that individual will receive event information, Company updates, and other relevant information. An Unsubscribe link is included in each newsletter email. Consumer customers may choose to opt-out from receiving email marketing messages.

By attending any of our events, you and the person assigned to use a ticket consent to be filmed and/or photographed, and for your/their image and likeness to be used in our future promotional material without compensation.

With the ticket purchase, you agree to comply with the health requirements of the event. This includes our right to take any measures required or permitted by national law and/or official regulations that we consider to be necessary in order to organise a safe event.

8. Intellectual property

The texts, trademarks, logos, images, graphics, photos, video files, or any other digital media, the products and services available through our Sites and their arrangement on our Sites (“Company Intellectual Property”) are all subject to patent, copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property protection. Company Intellectual Property may not be copied for commercial use or distribution, nor may Company Intellectual Property be modified, processed, or reposted to other websites for commercial purposes without our prior written permission.

It is strictly forbidden to download, save and/or publish any material published within our services or authorised third parties unless agreed so in writing or specifically allowed in connection with the Content (such as a downloadable e-book).

9. Our liability

Our (our company, or our subsidiaries or any of their shareholders, directors, officers, employees, or licensors) liability for losses you suffer as a result of us breaching these Terms and Conditions, including deliberate breaches, is strictly limited to the purchase price of the Product or Service you purchased. Speeches, lectures, commentary, reviews, and other materials posted on our Sites along with the Products and Services themselves are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We, therefore, disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our Sites.

Digital content software is licensed to us and is designed to enable the streaming and downloading of digital content from us to certain devices. We do not warrant the performance of such software.

We do not warrant that any of the software used and or licensed in connection with digital content will be compatible with other third-party software nor do we warrant that operation of digital content and the associated software will not damage or disrupt other software or hardware. In addition, we do not take responsibility or otherwise warrant the performance of devices used in connection with digital content, including the continuing compatibility of the device with our service.

10. Transfer of rights and obligations

You may not transfer, assign, change, or otherwise dispose of these Terms and Conditions or a contract, or any of your rights or obligations arising under them, without our prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of these Terms and Conditions or a contract, or any of our rights or obligations arising under them, at any time.

11. Law and jurisdiction

Contracts for the purchase of Products and Services through our Sites and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, without regard to choice of laws provisions, and shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

12. Other applicable terms

Please review our Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct, which also governs your visit to our Sites, partner venues and any orders from us, to understand our processes in relation to any personal information you provide.

13. Amendment of these Terms and Conditions

We are constantly developing our Products and Services and the ways they are offered by us. In the course of our development work, we may find it necessary or mutually beneficial to amend these Terms and Conditions. In such a case we will publish an updated version of these Terms and Conditions, and inform the effective date of the amendments.

If you do not find the amendments acceptable, you should contact us within 30 days of the publication of the amended Terms and Conditions and inform us of your concerns, in which case we will consider your inquiry in good faith and work to find a solution reasonably acceptable to you. In case you continue your use of our Products and Services and/or make new purchases after the Terms and Conditions have been amended, you are deemed to have accepted the amendments.