CapCut Commerce Pro Viral Ads Marathon Challenge
Official Rules
Mission is void where prohibited. By entering, each Participant accepts and agrees to be bound by these Terms. Failure to comply with these Terms may result in disqualification.
CapCut Commerce Pro proudly presents the CapCut Commerce Pro Viral Ads Marathon Challenge campaign (this "Mission"), a promotional competition where creators are challenged to create shoppable videos highlighting their Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Holiday Deals using CapCut Commerce Pro! The Mission will be held from November 8, 2024, 12:00 AM PST (8:00 AM UTC) to December 12, 2024, 11:59 PM PST (December 13, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC). The Overall Challenge Period includes four Weekly Challenge Periods. The Week-One Weekly Challenge Period is between November 8, 2024, 12:00 AM PST (8:00 AM UTC) and November 13, 2024, 11:59 PM PST (November 14, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC). The Week-Two Weekly Challenge Period is between November 14, 2024, 12:00 AM PST (8:00 AM UTC) and November 20, 2024, 11:59 PM PST (November 21, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC). The Week-Three Weekly Challenge Period is between November 21, 2024, 12:00 AM PST (8:00 AM UTC) and November 27, 2024, 11:59 PM PST (November 28, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC). The Week-Four Weekly Challenge Period is between November 28, 2024, 12:00 AM PST (8:00 AM UTC) and December 4, 2024, 11:59 PM PST (December 5, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC) (all foregoing time periods in this paragraph are referred to collectively as the "Mission Period"). Winning participants will be selected by a panel of judges from CapCut and one (1) independent judge in accordance with the Winner Selection section 5 below and rewarded accordingly.
This Mission and all participants shall be subject to the terms and conditions set out below (these "Terms").
The Mission is sponsored and administered by ByteDance Pte Ltd., the entity that offers the CapCut Commerce Pro video-editing program ("Commerce Pro") in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom ("Sponsor", "we", "us" or "our"), which is solely responsible for this Mission. For the avoidance of doubt, this Mission is neither sponsored by nor affiliated with Apple, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, or YouTube or their parent companies.
These Terms form a binding legal agreement between us and the participants of this Mission (the "Participant" or "you"), and set forth terms and conditions for participating in the Mission available on the application owned or controlled by us, including, without limitation, CapCut, our related websites, services, applications, products, and content owned or controlled by us.
These Terms are subject to, and shall also include the CapCut Terms of Service, CapCut Privacy Policy, and other policies on Commerce Pro, as may be amended from time to time (together the "CapCut Policies"). In the event of any conflict between these Terms and the CapCut Terms of Service, these Terms shall prevail.
Any capitalized terms not defined in these Terms but defined in the CapCut Terms of Service have the meaning given to them in the CapCut Terms of Service.
1. Eligible Participants
Only the following individuals will be eligible to participate in the Mission:
- individuals who are both (1) residents of the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom and (2) at least 18 years of age or the age of majority in their country, province, or territory of residence as of the start date of the Mission.
Employees, officers, and contractors of CapCut, and their immediate family and/or household members, are not eligible to participate. Groups are not eligible to participate.
Violation of these Terms, the CapCut Policies, and/or any applicable law may result in disqualification from this Mission and CapCut account suspension.
We reserve the right to disqualify any participant who does not comply with the CapCut Policies and/or any applicable laws.
2. How to Participate in the Mission
Eligible Participants must complete all the following tasks ("Tasks") to participate in the Mission:
- Register: Log into your CapCut Commerce Pro account and agree to the CapCut Terms of Service if you have not done so already. You may enter by signing up for a free trial.
- Create: Use CapCut Commerce Pro video generators and templates to generate engaging videos that highlight your top deals.
- Post: Post your video in a public post on your personal and/or business TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, or YouTube (YouTube Shorts only) account, including the hashtags #CapCutCommercePro and #ViralAdsMarathon in your post. This step is mandatory for your entry to be eligible.
- Share with Your Friends: Let your friends know how you've made this awesome holiday ad video by sharing the link below in your description! CapCut Commerce Pro: https://commercepro.capcut.com
Once a video is posted publicly on one of the social media platforms identified in Section 2.c., above, it is referred to in these Terms as an "Entry." You may enter as many Entries as you want. Each device can only be used to participate with a maximum of three accounts, with the earliest binding time being considered.
Entries will be declared invalid if they are late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, or otherwise irregular. The sole determinant of time for the purposes of this Mission, including receipt of a valid Entry, will be the platform or platforms on which the Entry is posted (i.e., TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, or YouTube Shorts). Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means are void.
No purchase or payment is necessary to participate or win, and a purchase or payment does not increase your chances of winning.
3. Submission Requirements
All Entries must meet all of the following requirements for submission purpose:
- Videos must be created in CapCut Commerce Pro.
- Videos must be uploaded to TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook, or YouTube Shorts with hashtags as specified in section 2.c above, and must be set to public or viewable by anyone.
- Videos must follow all applicable laws, all CapCut Policies, and all policies published on the platform or platforms where the Entry is published.
- You represent and warrant that each Entry you submit must be original to you and exclusively created and owned by you (or include content that is in the public domain), and you must have all rights, licenses and authorizations necessary to all content within the Entry, including written permission from anyone appearing in the Entry (if under 18 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, written permission from their parents or legal guardians) required to grant the licenses specified herein to CapCut and the platform or platforms on which your Entry is published.
- Entries cannot be set to private within 7 days after the end of the Mission.
Any Entry deemed by CapCut to be in violation of the above, or that is otherwise inappropriate, will be disqualified by CapCut.
4. How to opt out of and re-enter the Mission
If you no longer wish to participate in the Mission after you have submitted an Entry, you can opt out of the Mission by removing your video from the platform or platforms on which your Entry is published or by contacting CapCut Customer Service via capcut.support@bytedance.com.
Once you opt out, your Entry(ies) will be disqualified and ineligible for rewards associated with the Mission.
After you opt out, you can re-enter the Mission by performing the Tasks again during the Entry Period.
5. Winner selection
Winning videos will be selected by a panel of judges who are employees of CapCut and one (1) independent judge, based on subjective and objective criteria as listed below:
Each reward ("Reward") is set out below:
- Grand Prize Winners ($12,500USD/$17,246CAD/£9,602GBP in total, and five one-year CapCut Commerce Pro subscriptions in total). Five (5) Grand Prize Winners: $2,500USD/$3,450CAD/£1,921GBP Startup Fund prize each, and a one-year CapCut Commerce Pro subscription each
- Runner-up Prize Winners ($10,000USD/$13,798CAD/£7,683GBP in total, and ten six-month CapCut Commerce Pro subscriptions in total). Ten (10) Runner-up Prize Winners: $1,000USD/$1,380CAD/£769GBP Startup Fund prize each, and a six-month CapCut Commerce Pro subscription each
- Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winners (12 CapCut Commerce Pro three-month membership awards).For the Weekly Spotlight Features Prizes, each week, three (3) outstanding submissions will be selected based on the criteria above, totaling twelve (12) winners. In addition to the rewards below, each Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winner will be featured on the CapCut Commerce Pro website.
- Three (3) Week-One Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winners: One three-month CapCut Commerce Pro subscription each
- Three (3) Week-Two Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winners: One three-month CapCut Commerce Pro subscription each
- Three (3) Week-Three Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winners: One three-month CapCut Commerce Pro subscription each
- Three (3) Week-Four Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winners: One three-month CapCut Commerce Pro subscription each
Note: If a reward, or any portion thereof, cannot be awarded for any reason, we reserve the right to substitute the reward with another reward of equal or greater value.
There will be no public leaderboard during the Mission.
Limit of one monetary reward per person. If a user qualifies for more than one monetary reward, only the higher-value monetary prize will be awarded. Users may only be awarded one Weekly Spotlight Features Prize, but they may be awarded up to one Weekly Spotlight Features Prize and one monetary reward.
Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Entry Period.
6. Rewards Conditions
You acknowledge and agree that you are not entitled to any monetary payment for your participation in the Mission.
Rewards cannot be transferred to other CapCut Commerce Pro or CapCut users, and are not otherwise exchangeable, assignable, substitutable nor replaceable.
We are not responsible for a potential winner's inability or unwillingness to accept or use a Reward for any reason.
No substitutions, redemptions for cash or money equivalents are allowed for Rewards, except by Sponsor, who reserves the right to substitute any stated Reward or any component thereof with another Reward of equal or greater value in the event of non-availability.
If you are subject to any taxes (including any penalties or interest thereon) and expenses imposed by any jurisdiction in relation to a Reward, subject to any unwaivable local consumer law rights you may benefit from, you will be responsible for the payment of such taxes (including any related penalties or interest) to the relevant tax authority.
We reserve the right to correct any unintended error and/or to disqualify any participant or Entry which does not comply with CapCut Policies and/or any applicable laws at any stage of the Mission including after determination and announcement of winners.
We reserve the right to suspend, postpone or cease the Mission at any time for legitimate reasons without prior notification and award the Rewards based on eligible Entries received prior to such cancellation, modification, or suspension.
Our decisions will be final and binding in all matters relating to this Mission, including interpretation of these Terms, selection of the winners, and awarding of the Rewards. In addition, you acknowledge and agree that we have the sole discretion to disqualify any Participant who is sufficiently acquainted with any person or entity connected with the development, administration, judging or other exploitation of this Mission such that their participation in the Mission could potentially create the appearance of unfairness or impropriety.
7. Notification and Receipt of Rewards
All Winners will be announced on the official CapCut for Business TikTok account, @CapCutforBusiness. Grand Prize Winners and Runner-up Prize Winners will be announced by 8:00 AM PST (4:00 PM UTC) on December 18, 2024. All Week-One Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winners will be announced by 8:00 AM PST (4:00 PM UTC) on November 15, 2024. All Week-Two Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winners will be announced by 8:00 AM PST (4:00 PM UTC) on November 22, 2024. All Week-Three Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winners will be announced by 8:00 AM PST (4:00 PM UTC) on November 29, 2024. All Week-Four Weekly Spotlight Features Prize Winners will be announced by 8:00 AM PST (4:00 PM UTC) on December 6, 2024.
Rewards will be distributed to each Winner within seven (7) business days for CapCut Commerce Pro membership rewards and thirty (30) business days for cash rewards.
Cash Distribution
Winning notifications will be sent to winners via internal message on CapCut. Cash reward will be shown in "Wallet" for your further actions.
Winners must follow the directions in their inbox notification (if any) to claim the reward, which may include signing an authorization letter and providing necessary IP license documentation and/or showing proof of being an authorized account holder. We reserve the right to disqualify any participant and/or entry at our sole and absolute discretion. If any potential winner cannot be contacted and confirmed as a winner as above, or in the event that any reward is not successfully claimed, the reward may be forfeited and an alternative potential winner may be selected at the sponsor's sole discretion. We are not responsible for any unsuccessful reward claims or any failed attempts to contact a potential winner.
We are obliged to make public or available information proving that a valid identification of the winners and delivery of the reward has taken place. To this end, we will share the store URL and region of the winners with anyone who contacts us within one month of the end of the Mission Period pursuant to the below Winners List section. By participating in the Mission, you grant us consent to do so. If you object to your store URL and region being made public in this way, please contact us. Please note that this information may need to be shared with the relevant regulatory bodies upon their request.
8. Personal Data
We will only process your personal data including the account ID, nickname, video related information such as viewer counts for the social media platform or platforms on which your Entry is posted for purposes related to the execution and administration of the Mission, including Tasks and the processing of the Mission Participants' personal data, in accordance with our Privacy Policy and these Terms. You may exercise your data protection rights by contacting us.
We will display each Winner's handle for the social media platform or platforms on which their winning Entry is posted on the leaderboard.
9. License
By participating in the Mission, you acknowledge that your Entry(ies) and the documents and information submitted to and in connection with the Mission are subject to the CapCut Terms of Service and include, without limitation, our rights of use and display your Entries for the purposes of administering and promoting the Mission.
For the avoidance of doubt, you further grant us an unconditional irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide license to use, exploit, copy, distribute, communicate to the public, and adapt your Entry(ies) on Commerce Pro and any other platforms and all modes, media, and formats (whether in existence now or invented in the future), including without limitation, digital and Internet platforms, live events/concerts, and all activities, products, services and platforms owned, whether or not controlled or operated by Sponsor or its affiliates, for commercial or non-commercial purposes. To the extent applicable, you waive all moral rights to the video and/or Entry when used for these purposes.
10. Abuse of the Mission
We reserve the right to disqualify you from the Mission, or to not award any Rewards, if we have reasonable grounds to believe that you:
- have tampered with or attempted to tamper with the process or the operation of the Mission;
- have breached these Terms;
- have committed acts with the intent to annoy or harass any other person;
- have engaged in any activity which is not in the spirit of the Mission that attempts to inappropriately manipulate your chances of being awarded Rewards including artificially increasing or paying to increase video views; and/or
- have made any misrepresentations in respect of, abused or employed, any illegal or criminal activity (including fraud) in connection with the Mission.
Tasks performed by agents or those automatically generated by a computer, or other automatic methods will not be eligible and will not be counted.
11. Limitation of Our Liability and Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for any event of "force majeure" (including, without limitation, natural disasters, activities of government agencies, cyberattacks, pandemics, and system failures which may in any way interfere with or impede the Mission or result in loss, damage or disappointment suffered by you as a result of your participation in (or inability to join) the Mission.
Insofar as permitted by law, we will not assume any responsibility or liability for any inaccurate or failed electronic data transmission, technical faults, failed entries nor any inaccessibility or unavailability of the internet, CapCut Commerce Pro, or any third-party platform.
The Mission and the Rewards are provided for personal, non-commercial use only and we shall not be liable for any commercial loss.
We will not be responsible for lost, late, damaged, defaced, incomplete, stolen, illegible, indiscernible, mutilated, illegally obtained, or misdirected Entries, for any computer, online, software, hardware or technical malfunctions, or for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Mission, or announcement of the Rewards and/or all Mission-related materials.
By entering this Mission, Participant agrees that it forever discharges, releases, holds harmless, and will indemnify and defend, Sponsor and each of its parent companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of their directors, officers, employees, and agents (collectively, “Released Parties”) from any and all liability, claims, losses, damages, causes of action, suits, and demands of any kind (including, without limitation, any violation of personal right such as right of publicity or privacy, and claims of intellectual property infringement) (“Claims”) arising from or in connection with the Mission, however caused. Additionally, Participant agrees to indemnify Released Parties from and against any Claims.
We assume no responsibility or liability in the event that a Mission cannot be conducted as planned for any reason, including those reasons beyond our control.
We cannot guarantee that the promotion of any Entries in connection with any Rewards will result in increased views or use of videos, or in any other results whatsoever.
12. General
If any of these clauses are found to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable then that clause shall be deleted from these Terms and the remaining clauses shall remain full in force and effect.
This Mission is skill-based and does not involve any form of luck, chance or auctions. Other than as expressly set out in these Terms, we do not make any promises or commitments about the Mission, such as the specific function of the Mission, or its reliability, availability, or ability to meet your needs.
Participants shall not assign, sell, transfer, delegate or otherwise dispose of, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by operation of law or otherwise, these Terms or any or its rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. Sponsor may assign these Terms in their entirety without your consent, to Sponsor's affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of Sponsor's assets.
If you are based in the UK, subject to the operation of local consumer laws, these Terms will be governed by the laws of England and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
If you are based in the US, you agree that the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of these Terms, and that you and TikTok are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action. This arbitration provision will survive any termination of these Terms. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules including, if you are an individual, the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes. If you are not an individual or have entered the Mission on behalf of an entity, the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes will not be used. The AAA's rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA's rules. If you are an individual and have not accessed or entered the Mission on behalf of an entity, we will reimburse those fees for claims where the amount in dispute is less than $10,000USD, unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous, and we will not seek attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous.
If you are based in Canada, subject to the operation of local consumer laws, these Terms will be governed by the laws of Ontario and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Ontario courts. However, this clause shall not deprive you from benefiting from the mandatory provisions of the law of your country, province, or territory of residence or from bringing any action in front of the competent courts of your jurisdiction of residence.
All intellectual property, including but not limited to trade-marks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, illustrations, slogans and representations are owned by Sponsor and/or its affiliates. All rights are reserved.
We reserve the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate any Mission, in whole or in part, and/or modify, amend or suspend any Mission, and/or these Terms in any way, at any time, for any reason without prior notice.
All Missions are subject to applicable federal, state, territorial provincial and local laws and regulations. These Terms are subject to change without notice in order to comply with any applicable laws or the policy of any other entity having jurisdiction over Sponsor. Your continued participation in the Mission after such changes to these Terms have become effective will be deemed your acceptance of the modified Terms.
For questions related to the Mission or if you want to report a video which violates CapCut Policies, you may contact CapCut Commerce Pro Customer Service via commercepro.support@capcut.com.
