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 last updated our terms and conditions on 1st March 2026.
Trademarks and Representation
The Brilliance Awards and Digital Brilliance Awards are established international servicemarks and trademarks created, owned, and issued by the Digital Skills Authority to recognise digital and digital business success. They operate independently and are not affiliated, associated, endorsed, or connected with any organisation or brand incorporating “Brilliance Awards” within its name or title.
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
EVENTS
As a global industry awarding body, Digital Skills Authority’s role is limited to the awards competition and issue of awards. Digital Skills Authority does not operate Brilliance Awards events and does not sell event places. Our partners Brilliance Awards Group companies operate the affiliated events from which they earn ticket or attendee revenue. Digital Skills Authority has arranged with Brilliance Awards Group, to ensure that Individual finalists are not charged to attend ceremonies.
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