Website User Agreement for ApexAwards.com and Enter.ApexAwards.com Please read this user agreement carefully before using these websites. If you don't agree to these terms of use, please don't use the sites. Check these terms periodically for any changes. Your continued use of these sites following the posting of changes to these terms means that you accept those changes. Any person accessing the APEX Awards websites (apexawards.com and enter.apexawards.com) agrees to and is bound by the following terms and conditions:
Copyright
Copyright 2025, APEX Awards. All rights reserved. All images, illustrations, designs, photos, icons, text, programs, and other materials found in these sites are intellectual property owned and controlled by APEX Awards, unless otherwise noted, and are protected by United States Copyright laws. No material from these websites may be copied, duplicated, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way (without the express written permission of APEX Awards), except that you may download one copy of the materials on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices. Modification or use of materials from these websites for any other purpose, without prior written permission from APEX Awards, is a violation of APEX Awards' copyright and other proprietary rights.
Trademarks
APEX® and APEX Awards® are registered, proprietary trademarks. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
Entry Submissions and Usage Rights
You retain the ownership, copyright, and trademark rights to any entry materials you submit to us. However, by entering the APEX Awards, you grant APEX Awards a limited, non-exclusive right to use specific elements of your submission for promotional and showcase purposes. Unless you explicitly specify otherwise at the time of entry, APEX Awards reserves the right to publish and display:
A link to your submission (if applicable).
An image of the cover or a representative visual of the submission.
A brief summary (1-3 sentences) describing the content of the submission.
If you enter confidential materials that should not be shared publicly under any circumstances, please indicate this clearly in your entry notes. We will not publish, reproduce, share, or redistribute materials marked as confidential beyond the scope required for judging.
Your Responsibility
You assume all responsibility for use of the APEX Awards websites. You waive all claims against APEX Awards, its officers, directors, staff, vendors, and programmers that may arise from using these sites.
Accuracy of Site Information
While we work hard to ensure the accuracy of site information, neither APEX Awards nor its information contributors can be held responsible by you for the accuracy of the information found on the websites. APEX Awards makes no expressed or implied warranty as to the accuracy of content or programming. Please e-mail any website inaccuracies to us. We will make every effort to correct them.
Links to Other Sites
Links on this site will bring you to other sites. We don't control those sites, their privacy policies, or their links. Their owners can change or end their sites and/or links at any time, in any way. We've looked at the sites and think the content may be useful to you. But our links to other sites are not an endorsement. We don't continually monitor the linked sites and we don't guarantee either their content or the quality of your specific experience while visiting them.
Links from this site to pages and articles within other websites are generally accompanied by a link to the site's home page, in cases where the home page URL is not obvious from the link. Links to pages and articles within sites are included as a positive reference only and no attempt is made to modify or "unbundle" the content in these links or the source websites. Links from other sites to the APEX Awards websites are welcome.