Rules & Guidelines

1. Eligibility

1.1. Kwickdo contests are open worldwide, subject to any restriction stated on the contest page and to any law that prevents us from accepting an entry or paying a prize in your country.

1.2. Entries are judged within age divisions: Preschool (2–6 years), Children (7–15 years) and Adult (16–80 years). The division is fixed by the entrant’s date of birth on the closing date of the contest.

1.3. Where the entrant is below the age of majority in their country of residence, the account must be opened and operated by a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Rules on the entrant’s behalf and is responsible for the accuracy of what is submitted.

1.4. In some countries, including India, everyone below 18 is treated as a child for data protection purposes. Where that applies, a parent or guardian must consent to the entry even if the entrant falls in the Adult division.

1.5. Kwickdo staff, contractors, appointed judges and their immediate families may not enter a contest they are involved in administering or judging.

1.6. We may verify eligibility at any time, including before a prize is paid, and may ask for reasonable proof of age or identity.

2. Registration and entry fees

2.1. A Kwickdo account is free. Entering a contest requires either entry credits purchased in advance or an active subscription, as shown on the pricing page when you buy.

2.2. An entry is only in the contest once it has been submitted through the entry form before the deadline. Holding credits, or holding a subscription, is not an entry.

2.3. Entry fees are non-refundable. See clause 4 of the Terms & Conditions for the full position, including what happens if a contest is cancelled.

2.4. Registration does not guarantee a prize, a placing, or selection for publication.

2.5. You may hold a maximum of ten entries in any one contest division unless the contest page states otherwise.

3. What you may enter

3.1. Any handmade or digitally created artwork: painting, drawing, sketching, printmaking, collage, calligraphy, mandala and zentangle work, doodling, sculpture and clay work, paper art, origami, resin and fluid art, textile and thread work, mehndi, glass and wall painting, face painting, digital illustration, and comparable creative forms.

3.2. Photography is not an eligible medium unless a contest page expressly says it is. A photograph of your physical artwork is how you submit it, and is not itself the entry.

3.3. Unless the contest page sets a theme, there is no fixed theme, size or medium.

4. Originality, and the position on AI

4.1. Every entry must be the entrant’s own original work. Where the entrant is a young child, adult help must be limited to what is age-appropriate — setting up materials, not making the work.

4.2. Work generated by artificial intelligence is not permitted, and neither is work substantially produced by an AI tool and then traced or retouched by hand. Ordinary digital tools — layers, brushes, colour correction, undo — are permitted.

4.3. Copying, tracing, or substantially reproducing someone else’s work, a copyrighted character, or any third-party intellectual property is prohibited.

4.4. You must hold all rights necessary to submit the work. If the work depicts an identifiable person, you are responsible for having their permission, or that of their parent or guardian.

4.5. We may ask for working photographs, drafts or process evidence where originality is questioned. Failure to provide reasonable evidence may result in disqualification.

5. Submitting your entry

5.1. Contests are conducted entirely online. Entries are accepted only through the submission form on this website.

5.2. Accepted image formats are JPG, PNG, WEBP and GIF. Where a contest accepts other media, the contest page will say so. Maximum file size is 20 MB per file.

5.3. Upload a clear, well-lit, uncropped image showing the whole work. Blurred, partial, heavily filtered or unreadable submissions may be rejected.

5.4. Do not put your name, signature block, handle, watermark, studio name or social media details anywhere a judge can see them — including in the note to the panel. Doing so defeats blind judging and is grounds for disqualification. A signature that forms part of the artwork itself is acceptable.

5.5. Late submissions are not accepted. Deadlines are shown on the contest page and are absolute.

5.6. You may withdraw an entry before the deadline from your dashboard.

6. How judging works

6.1. Judging is blind. Judges and community voters see the work through a restricted view of our database that contains no name, handle, age, date of birth or contact detail. Identity is not concealed by policy alone — it is absent from the data a judge can reach.

6.2. Entries are scored against the published criteria for that contest, which typically cover originality, technique, composition and how well the work answers the brief. The weighting is shown on the contest page.

6.3. Each division is ranked separately and has its own prizes. A four-year-old is never scored against an adult.

6.4. Where a contest uses community voting, the voting weight and window are stated on the contest page.

6.5. Judging decisions are final. We do not re-run judging on request and do not correspond about individual scores. We publish panel agreement statistics so you can see how consistent a panel was.

6.6. Attempting to identify yourself to a judge, contact a judge, or otherwise influence the outcome will result in disqualification.

7. Publication, and your privacy

7.1. Your entry is private by default. When you enter, you may tick a box asking us to publish your handle alongside your result. If you leave it unticked, your entry is judged, ranked, scored and paid exactly as any other, and the result is published as an anonymous entrant.

7.2. We do not post entries to social media, feature them on the website, or include them in any publication unless you have opted in, or unless you have separately agreed in writing.

7.3. Your portfolio is a different thing entirely. Anything you publish to your profile is public because you chose to publish it.

7.4. Your consent choice is deliberately invisible to judges, so no judge can tell a consenting entrant from a private one.

8. Prizes, certificates and features

8.1. The prize structure for each contest, including division prizes and consolation awards, is published on the contest page before entries open and does not change once a contest is open.

8.2. Prizes are awarded per division and are not transferable. There is no cash alternative beyond the stated cash prize.

8.3. Where a contest offers a certificate, e-magazine feature or website feature, the contest page states it. Features that would identify you are subject to clause 7.

8.4. Winners will be contacted using the details on their account and must claim within the period stated in the notification. Unclaimed prizes may be forfeited.

8.5. You are responsible for any tax due on a prize in your own country. Where law requires it, we may withhold or report amounts, and may need identity or tax details before paying.

8.6. Where we cannot lawfully pay a prize into your country, we will tell you and, where possible, offer an alternative.

9. Fair play

The following will result in disqualification without refund, and may result in the account being closed:

• AI-generated work, plagiarism, tracing or copyright infringement;
• multiple accounts, or entering on another person’s behalf without disclosing it;
• false information about age, identity or authorship;
• self-identification inside an entry, or any attempt to influence a judge;
• vote manipulation, including coordinated or purchased votes;
• payment fraud or chargeback abuse;
• content that is obscene, hateful, defamatory, sexually explicit, or unlawful;
• abusive conduct towards other entrants, judges or staff.

10. Disqualification and appeals

10.1. Where we disqualify an entry we will tell you which rule was breached.

10.2. You may ask us to review a disqualification once, in writing to info@kwickdo.com, within 7 days. A different person will review it wherever practicable. That decision is final.

10.3. Disqualification does not entitle you to a refund.

10.4. Where a prize has already been paid and is later found to have been obtained in breach of these Rules, we may require it to be returned.

11. Official communication

11.1. Our only email address for contest matters is info@kwickdo.com, and our only website is kwickdo.com.

11.2. We will never ask you for your password, a one-time passcode, or payment outside the website. Treat any message that does as fraudulent and report it to us.

11.3. Kwickdo is organised independently and is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Meta, Google, Instagram, Facebook, X or any other platform. Anything you submit goes to Kwickdo, not to them.

12. Changes

12.1. We may change these Rules. The version in force for a contest is the one published when that contest opened, except where a change is needed for legal reasons or to correct an error.

12.2. Contest dates, prize structures and criteria are set per contest and shown on the contest page.

13. Help

For anything about registration, entries, judging, prizes or these Rules, write to info@kwickdo.com. We read every message.

These Rules sit alongside our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy. Where the Terms and these Rules conflict, the Terms prevail. This is a working version pending review by qualified counsel.