Contest Rules

“Ten Scary Minutes” is an online horror movie making contest. The goal, to create a 10 minute horror movie, using a smartphone, tablet or POV camera, like GOPro etc. for the video capture – you may use any non-professional video camera! Please review the Contest Rules.

The contest is online and open to anyone world wide, with the prize of two hundred dollars ($200.00 USD) wired to the winner using Western Union.

Contest opens for submissions August 1. The deadline for submissions is October 31. Contest results will be announced November 30. The Official Judging Form can be downloaded here: The Official Judging Form

How to Submit

  1. Go to the Movie Entries page. (https://contest.tenscaryminutes.com/)
  2. The top right hand corner, click on “sign in”
  3. We use both Google and Facebook federated login. Please use your login credentials.
  4. Complete the forms, then upload your video.

Video Format and Specification:

  1. Your video production contest entry to Ten Scary Minutes, (“Submission”), must be 1080 HD resolution in a 16:9 aspect ratio.
  2. Your submission cannot exceed 10 minutes, including opening titles and credits.

Content Rules:

  1. If you are under the age of 13, you need to have a legal guardian complete the submission on your behalf. This is to ensure compliance with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act COPPA.
  2. You cannot re-use a Submission from previous years.
  3. Your Submission end title credits must include the following to be scored (see Judging Form):
    • Entered in the – www.tenscaryminutes.com online horror movie making contest must be in your credits;
    • List the type of camera used (smartphones or tablets, you may use any non-professional video camera, like GO Pro, DSLR etc;
    • List the editing software you used;
    • Credit any special effects used;
    • Credit any copyrighted images or video you used;
    • Credit any copyrighted audio elements, (music, sound bites), you used;
    • Credit Director(s):
    • Credit Actor(s):
    • Credit Production Person(s)
  4. Your Submission will not feature any explicit sexual content. Such content will disqualify the entry and the entry will not be included on the website. You agree not to use any high-risk stunts, film in high risk or restricted areas or depicted any persons (age, sex, race, religion, physical attributes) in ways that are intended to be disparaging.
  5. You have obtained written consent of any persons to use their likeness in your Submission.
  6. You cannot incorporate third-party copyrighted materials into your Submission without expressed written permission of the owner of that copyright and the copyright must be acknowledged in your credits.
  7. You own the copyright of your production and have the authority and capacity to assign the right to use the Submission.

General Terms and Conditions:

  1. To enter you accept and agree to be governed by the Production Rules and the Content Rules when producing your Submission.
  2. You grant non-exclusive worldwide rights for the use your Submission in whole or in part, to be used by the producers of the Tens Scary Minutes, (www.tenscaryminutes.com), video contest, on the website www.tenscaryminutes.com, in promotional materials, in any medium, in any streaming or broadcast service and mode, in any format, without financial consideration.
  3. You agree that the producers of “Ten Scary Minutes”, the video contest producers, sponsors, officers, directors, agents, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, companies providing services to, (“Released Parties”), are not responsible for any liabilities, expenses or loss incurred with respect to your Submission or any aspect of its production.
  4. In exchange for the right to participate by entering your Submission you agree to indemnify and defend the Released Parties, from any and all claims, demands, causes of action of any nature or kind whatsoever, whether presently known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen, that arise out of your production of your video, participation and your submission to Ten Scary Minutes, (www.tenscaryminutes.com).
  5. For clarity you shall indemnify, hold harmless and defend the producers of “Ten Scary Minutes”, the video contest producers, sponsors, officers, directors, agents, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, companies providing services to, (“Released Parties”) from any and all claims made against you and your Submission.
  6. We, the Released Parties, make no claim to copyright of your Submission and copyright shall remain with the credited producer found in the credits of your Submission.
  7. The opinions, beliefs and assertions presented in a particular Submission do not reflect those held by the Released Parties and are solely those of the producer of that Submission.
  8. The administration of Tenscaryminutes.com reserves the right to remove any submission at its sole discretion without notice or consideration.
  9. You agree that by entering the video contest your relationship to the Released Parties is exclusively as a participant in the contest.
  10. You agree not to make claims of liability loss  or otherwise to or against the Released Parties.
  11. All prizes as advertised are accepted as awarded.
  12. The Production Rules, Content Rules, General Terms and Conditions are subject to change at any time at the sole discretion of the Producers of Ten Scary Minutes.
  13. By entering your Submission, you agree to and accept without reservation the terms and conditions outlined in the Production Rules, Content Rules, General Terms and Conditions, the Agreement.
  14. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Alberta, Canada.

Contact Us:

If you need to contact use, please email: tenscaryminutes@gmail.com

Privacy and the Collection of Personal Data

Updated: February 14, 2021

1) What Personal Data do we collect and how do we collect it?

Ten Scary Minutes (www.tenscaryminutes.com) collects data in order to develop, offer, and support our services including presenting and hosting, the contest, the contest archive and related contest information, the “Services”. In the context of our Services, we may collect Personal Data from or about you. This Personal Data is collected in several ways and may include:

Personal Data you provide to us directly.

You may provide us with Personal Data voluntarily in connection with your contest entry and usage of our Services. We may collect your name, email address, information from correspondence with you, your account alias, information related to the use of our Services, and additional Personal Data you provide to us. While you are free to choose what information, you provide to us or whether you want to provide information to us at all, some information, such as your name, email, and information about your contest entry may be necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations. If you do not provide such information to us, you will not be able to use certain Services.

Personal Data collected via technology.

As you use our Services, we may collect Personal Data through the use of cookies and other technologies. For detailed information about our use of cookies, please see the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “What cookies and tracking technologies do we use?”

Personal Data we receive from others.

We may receive Personal Data about you from third parties such as social media sites, law enforcement agencies, promotional partners, and other marketing vendors. This information may include your name, company and job title (if applicable), address, email address, and phone number.

2) Why do we collect and use your Personal Data?

The reasons we collect and use Personal Data differ depending on the purpose of the collection.

We use your Personal Data in order to offer or provide Services to you.

If you use Services from TenScaryMinutes.com, we use your Personal Data to provide said Services to you. Personal Data we use for this purpose includes information we need to contact you and communicate with you, information to manage and execute your requests, and provide information about our Services.

We use your Personal Data when supported by legitimate business interests.

We may use Personal Data in connection with a legitimate business interest, such as to evaluate and review our business performance or to identify potential cybersecurity threats to our Services, networks, or systems. If necessary, we may also use your Personal Data to pursue or defend ourselves against legal claims. If you use our Services, we may use your Personal Data to provide and improve those Services.

We use your information after obtaining your consent.

In some cases, we may ask you to grant us separate consent to use your information, for example, in connection with our marketing campaigns. In that event, you are free to deny your consent or withdraw your consent at any time without any negative consequences. If you have granted us consent to use your information, we will use it only for the purposes specified in the consent. You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications at any time by sending an email to privacy@tenscaryminutes.com or clicking the “unsubscribe” link in communications you receive from us.

We use your information to comply with legal obligations.

We may be legally obligated to retain certain Personal Data.

We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we have collected it. We will not use your Personal Data for other purposes. Your Personal Data will not be used for automated individual decision-making.

3) Does TenScaryMinutes share your Personal Data with third parties?

We share your Personal Data with your consent or as necessary to provide you with Services you have requested. Additionally, we may share Personal Data with our affiliates; vendors working on our behalf; where required by law; to maintain the security of our Services; or to protect the rights or property of TenScaryMinutes. Specifically, we may share Personal Data in the following circumstances:

TenScaryMinutes Affiliates:

To support the maintenance and delivery of our Services, we may share Personal Data with our affiliate(s) including iQuid Inc.

Service providers and advisors.

Third party vendors and other service providers may have access to your Personal Data if they perform services for us or on our behalf. These providers may support our marketing efforts (including communications management, and event support), provide business productivity solutions and applications to us (such as tools for messaging, email, and document creation, accounting and payment processing, or customer relations management), offer professional services (such as tax, accounting, or legal services), or assist with network or systems support, maintenance, and security. These third-party vendors include: Amazon Web Services, Inc., Google LLC, Okta Inc.

Purchasers and third parties in connection with a business transaction.

Personal Data may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a TenScaryMinutes-related transaction, such as a merger, sale, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business, or in the event of a bankruptcy or similar proceedings.

Law enforcement, regulators, and other parties for legal reasons.

We may disclose Personal Data to third parties as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) enforce our legal claims or to protect the security or integrity of our Services; or (c) exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of TenScaryMinutes, Services users, or others.

The public.

Certain Services will make related information available to the public without charge.

4) How long do we keep your Personal Data?

We will store Personal Data as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect it, in accordance with our legal obligations and legitimate business interests. We retain Personal Data related to an entry until the expiration of any legal retention requirement or until the conclusion of that relationship. We retain contest-related information for as long as it is used in connection with the delivery, maintenance, support, and development of our Services.

5) How do we protect your Personal Data?

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, change, or damage, as well as any unauthorized access to or disclosure of Personal Data on our systems. All Personal Data we collect will be stored on secure servers. When you provide sensitive information to us (such as payment information when purchasing a Service via our website), we undertake to encrypt this information using secure socket layer (“SSL”) or similar technology. In order to benefit from these protections you must use an SSL-enabled web browser.

7) What cookies and tracking technologies do we use?

We, and our third-party partners, automatically collect certain types of usage information when you visit our Services, read our emails, or otherwise engage with us. We typically collect this information through a variety of tracking technologies, including cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, file information, and similar technology (collectively, “tracking technologies”). You may use browser controls or tools made available by third parties to control tracking technologies.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your device (such as a computer, tablet or mobile phone) when you visit a website. Cookies allow websites or ad networks to recognize a user’s internet browser. This helps websites determine whether the browsing device has visited before.

What are Cookies used for?

Cookies not only help us understand how our Services are used, they let you navigate between pages efficiently, remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure that the marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.

What types of cookies are used by TenScaryMinutes?

The types of cookies used on our Services can generally be put into one of the following categories: strictly necessary; analytics; functionality; advertising; and social media.

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies.
    These cookies are essential to the functionality of our Services. They enable you to move around the Services and use their features. Without these cookies, elements that are necessary for you to fully use our Services may not be available.
  • Analytics Cookies.
    These cookies collect information about how people use our Services. All of the information these cookies collect is grouped together to provide us with analytical information about how our Services are performing and how we can improve them.
  • Functionality Cookies.
    These cookies allow us to remember choices you make and tailor our Services to provide enhanced features and content to you. For example, these cookies can be used to remember your user-name, language choice, country selection and requested Services.
  • Social Media Cookies.
    In order to enhance your internet experience and to make the sharing of content easier, some of the pages on our websites may contain tools or applications that are linked to third party social media service providers. These social media companies may recognize you and collect information about your visit to our Services, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of those companies.

How long will cookies stay on your browsing device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your browsing device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing the website that has set the cookie. Persistent cookies will stay on your browsing device after you have finished browsing a particular website until they are deleted or until they expire.

How can I control cookies?

“First party cookies” are cookies that belong to us and that we place on your device. “Third party cookies” are cookies that are placed on your browsing device by another party when you visit our websites. Third parties who set cookies from our websites provide a service to us or a function of the website, but we do not always control how third-party cookies are used. The third-party cookies on our websites are provided by Google (including Google Ads, Google Marketing Platform, and Google Marketing Platform)

Many of the cookies we use are designed to help you get the most from our Services but if you do not wish to receive cookies, most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings in the “options” or “preferences” menu. Please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Services. Deleting or blocking cookies may not be effective for all types of tracking technologies. Although we do our best to honor the privacy preferences of our users, we are unable to respond to Do Not Track signals set by your browser at this time.

Google Marketing Platform. We use Google Marketing Platform to recognize you and link the devices you use when you visit our site or Service on your browser or mobile device, log in to your account on our Service, or otherwise engage with us. We share a unique identifier, like a user ID or hashed email address, with Google to facilitate the service. Google Marketing Platform allows us to better understand how our users interact with our Services and to tailor our advertisements and content to you. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, as well as how you can control information sent to Google, review Google’s site “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps,” located at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. You can learn about Google Marketing Platform’s currently available opt-outs, including the Google Analytics Browser Add-On, here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. We may also utilize certain forms of display advertising and other advanced features through Google Marketing Platform, such as Remarketing with Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the Campaign Manager Integration, and Demographics and Interest Reporting. These features enable us to use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick advertising cookie) or other third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and display ads based on your past visits to the Service. You may control your advertising preferences or opt out of certain Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://google.com/ads/preferences.

8) For EU Residents

  1. A) Is TenScaryMinutes a data processor or a data controller?

Where TenScaryMinutes is the data controller of your Personal Data, we are responsible for, and control, the processing of that Personal Data.

  1. B) General Data Protection Regulation rights.

If you are a resident of the European Union and we hold your Personal Data, you have specific rights under applicable privacy law:

Right of access.

The right to obtain access to your Personal Data.

Right to rectification.

The right to obtain rectification of your Personal Data without undue delay where that personal information is inaccurate or incomplete.

Right to erasure.

The right to obtain the erasure of your Personal Data without undue delay in certain circumstances, such as where the personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed.

Right to restriction.

The right to restrict us from processing your Personal Data in certain circumstances, such as where you contest the accuracy of the Personal Data.

Right to object.

You have a right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing based on our legitimate interests. You can object to marketing activities for any reason.

Additionally, EU residents have the right to lodge a complaint with their local data protection authority. Further information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

9) For California Residents

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit our California Privacy Notice.

10) How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or if you want to exercise your rights, please send an email to privacy@tenscaryminuted.com

11) Data Protection Officer

For inquiries regarding TenScaryMinutes activities, you may contact our Data Protection Officer:

TenScaryMinutes
Attn: Data Protection Officer
tenscaryminutes@gmail.com

12) Online Privacy Policy Updates

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the Privacy Policy in a material manner, we will let you know and update the “last updated” date at the top of this page. Please review our policies regularly as updated policies will apply to your future use of our Services.