UPDATE: Got a note back from their team re: that language:

“The award organizers will only use the information, images, etc. in connection with the contest and future contest-related publications or advertisements.”

Smart to get in the habit of contributing either way :) It’s nice when you don’t notice the money being gone anymore!

Awesome!

Please let us know if you’re one of the winners!! :)

If you want you can share your essay here so it doesn’t go to waste ;)

I did not, but I’ve still got those paragraphs in a text editor on my desktop in case I change my mind!

I’m not interested in my address and likeness being blown across the interwebs by whomever they might sell their database to, so it all comes down to “do you trust that we won’t perform these actions to which we’re laying legal claim?” You’re right, tricky questions.

oh wow – yeah, that last part is hardcore!

you end up still submitting or change your mind?

i feel like at this point you either have to be off grid completely or come to the realization that our info is already out there – or will be at some point – whether we know it or not. But maybe that’s just my way of coping with it all, haha..

Each entrant further agrees that Sponsor has the unrestricted, irrevocable right, but not the obligation, to use entrant’s name, address, photograph, picture, likeness, moving image, voice, biographical material, and personal information, whether in their original form or as altered, edited, lifted or reproduced by Sponsor or its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, contractors and representatives (collectively, a entrant’s “Likeness”), in perpetuity throughout the world, whether in connection with the Contest or not, in any and all media for any and all purposes without additional consideration to, or further authorization by, the entrant.