Terms Check

Read a photo contest’s terms before you enter

Paste the link to any photo contest’s rules page. You get a plain read of what entering costs you: who the licence covers and for how long, the AI rule, the deadline with its time zone, the entry fee, and any red flags. Every item shows the organiser’s own words, quoted from the page.

€3 per check, VAT included where it applies

Link to the contest’s rules The page with the rules or the terms and conditions. One page per check. Email optional Where we send the link to your result. Leave it blank and the checkout page will ask for it. I have read and accept the Terms of Service and the Privacy Notice. Start straight away. I ask for the check to start as soon as payment confirms, before the 14-day withdrawal period ends, and I acknowledge that I lose my right of withdrawal once the check is complete (Art. 16(1)(a) Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU, as amended by Directive 2019/2161).

Before you pay, we check for free that the page opens and reads like contest rules. If it doesn’t, we say so and you pay nothing. Then Polar’s secure checkout page takes your card: Polar is our merchant of record, charges €3, issues your receipt and handles VAT.

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How it works

We open the page and check that it reads like a contest’s rules. This is free.
You pay €3 through Polar.
An AI model reads the page. We keep each item only if its quote is found word for word on the page; anything else shows as “not found on the page”.
We email you a link to the result, usually within minutes. If the page can’t be read, you are refunded in full, automatically.

Example

What a check shows, built from our verified record of Bird Photographer of the Year 2027 (BPOTY 12), whose rules we read on 11 October 2026. This contest is listed free; a check reads a page we don’t list.

Example

Page: https://www.birdpoty.com/rules

Red flags

4 of the 5 we look for

Covers every entry, not just winnersIrrevocableSub-licensing or transfer

“You agree to grant Bird Photographer of the Year a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence, for the full period of any intellectual property rights (including all moral rights) in the Competition entry [...] to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-licence the Competition entry [...] for any purpose connected with the Competition”
Commercial use or merchandise

From our verified record of this contest.

We look for five: covers every entry, not just winners; perpetual; irrevocable; sub-licensing or transfer; commercial use or merchandise.

What entering costs you

Who the licence covers

Every entry

“You agree to grant Bird Photographer of the Year a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable licence, for the full period of any intellectual property rights (including all moral rights) in the Competition entry [...] to use, display, publish, transmit, copy, edit, alter, store, re-format and sub-licence the Competition entry [...] for any purpose connected with the Competition”

How long the licence lasts

No end date

Same passage as above.

What else the licence allows

Sub-licensing or transfer

Same passage as above.

Commercial use or merchandise

From our verified record of this contest.

AI rule

Strict ban on AI-generated images

“The use of AI-based tools, for adjustments or image generation, is strictly prohibited in the competition, with the exception of Denoise and Sharpening tools.”

Deadline

Closes 13 December 2026

Time zone: Europe/London

“Entries must be received by 23:59 GMT on the 13th December 2026”

Entry fee

35 GBP for up to 25 images

From our verified record of this contest.

What it is not

It is not legal advice. It reads what the page says, as it stands when we read it.
It doesn’t look at your photographs, and it doesn’t say whether to enter.
It reads one page. If a contest splits its rules across pages, paste the one with the terms and conditions.
The contests we list are free to read in our Terms Report and their records; a link to one of them takes you there instead.

Refunds: refund policy. Questions: hello@winphoto.io.