Awards, Festivals & Industry Recognition Policy

Effective Date: 2026

Last Updated: 2026

This Awards, Festivals & Industry Recognition Policy explains the rules for award claims, festival selections, nominations, wins, laurels, industry recognition, critic recognition, screening selections, official festival logos, award badges, promotional award claims, fake awards, disputed recognition, and related award or festival metadata on Playflick.com, operated by Playflick™ Media .ltd.

This policy should be read together with our Terms of Service, User Generated Content Policy, Title Metadata, Posters & Artwork Submission Policy, Trailer, Teaser & Promotional Video Policy, Content Licensing & Distribution Policy, Trademark Policy, Copyright & Takedown Policy, Advertising Policy, Consumer Protection & Fair Trading Policy, and Account Suspension & Termination Policy.

1. Who We Are

Operator: Playflick™ Media .ltd

Website: https://playflick.com

Business Address:
41 Norman Avenue
London
N22 5ES
United Kingdom

Awards & Festival Support Email: hello@playflick.com
Contact Page: https://playflick.com/contact-us

2. Purpose of This Policy

Awards, festival selections, nominations, laurels, critic recognition, and industry recognition can help users understand a title’s background, reputation, and public reception. These claims must be accurate, verifiable, lawful, and not misleading.

This policy explains:

How awards, festival selections, and recognition claims may be submitted or displayed
What evidence may be required for recognition claims
How festival logos, laurels, and award badges should be used
What fake, exaggerated, or misleading recognition claims are prohibited
How disputes about awards or festivals may be reviewed
How Playflick may remove or restrict inaccurate claims

3. Feature Availability

Award metadata tools, festival selection fields, nomination fields, win labels, laurel uploads, festival logo uploads, industry recognition badges, verification tools, dispute tools, and related features may not be available to every user, creator, country, account type, content type, device, or platform surface.

Playflick may add, remove, restrict, redesign, suspend, or discontinue awards, festival, and industry recognition features at any time.

4. Types of Recognition

Recognition information may include awards, festival selections, industry honours, official nominations, critic recognition, or screening achievements.

Recognition may include:

Award wins
Award nominations
Festival selections
Festival screenings
Official competition entries
Audience awards
Jury awards
Critic awards
Industry shortlist placements
Official recognition from recognised bodies

5. Responsibility for Accuracy

Users who submit award, festival, or recognition information are responsible for ensuring that the information is accurate, lawful, non-misleading, and supported by appropriate evidence.

Users must not knowingly submit false recognition claims, fake festival selections, fake nominations, fake awards, or misleading industry credentials.

Playflick may not independently verify every recognition claim before it appears.

6. Festival Selections

Festival selection claims should accurately describe the title’s relationship to the festival.

Users should not confuse:

Official selection
Competition selection
Out-of-competition screening
Market screening
Private screening
Online showcase listing
Festival submission
Festival acceptance

Submitting a film to a festival does not mean the film was selected, nominated, screened, or awarded.

7. Award Wins and Nominations

Award wins and nominations must be described accurately.

Users must not:

Claim a win when the title was only nominated
Claim a nomination when the title was only submitted
Claim a festival award that does not exist
Claim a category award without naming the category accurately
Claim a person won an award if the award belonged to a title or team
Claim official recognition from a body that did not grant it

8. Laurels, Badges, and Festival Logos

Laurels, award badges, festival logos, official seals, and recognition graphics must be used accurately and with appropriate permission.

Users must not:

Create fake festival laurels
Alter award badges to mislead users
Use festival logos without permission where permission is required
Use laurels from unrelated films or projects
Use fake “winner” badges
Use official logos to imply sponsorship or endorsement without permission

9. Evidence Playflick May Request

Playflick may request evidence before approving, verifying, restoring, or keeping an award, festival, or recognition claim.

Evidence may include:

Official festival pages
Official award pages
Festival acceptance letters
Award certificates
Press releases
Public announcements
Programme listings
Written confirmation from the awarding body
Distributor, studio, or rights holder confirmation where relevant

10. Misleading Recognition Claims

Users must not use awards, festivals, or recognition claims in a misleading way.

Misleading recognition claims may include:

Using “award-winning” without a real award
Using “festival selected” after only submitting to a festival
Using laurels from unrelated projects
Using fake critic quotes
Inventing award categories
Overstating minor recognition as major industry approval
Using recognition claims to mislead viewers, advertisers, sponsors, or buyers

11. Paid Awards and Promotional Recognition

Some recognitions, showcases, contests, certificates, or promotional placements may involve fees, paid submissions, paid promotions, or commercial arrangements.

Users must not misrepresent paid promotional recognition as independent editorial, jury-based, critic-based, or industry-awarded recognition where that would mislead users.

Paid promotional claims may need disclosure where required by law or Playflick policy.

12. Critic Quotes and Review Recognition

Critic quotes, pull quotes, review scores, critic awards, and press recognition must be accurate and not misleading.

Users must not:

Fabricate critic quotes
Misquote reviews
Use quotes out of context deceptively
Claim review scores that were not given
Impersonate critics or publications
Use fake publication logos

13. Industry Recognition and Professional Credentials

Users may reference industry recognition, professional memberships, official screenings, guild honours, academy recognition, or professional credentials where accurate and permitted.

Users must not falsely claim membership, accreditation, endorsement, certification, finalist status, shortlist status, or official recognition from industry bodies.

14. Recognition Metadata and Search Visibility

Award and festival metadata may affect search, recommendations, title pages, promotional placements, discovery, and user trust where features are available.

Users must not abuse recognition metadata to manipulate search, rankings, recommendations, analytics, advertising eligibility, or audience discovery.

15. Artwork, Posters, and Trailers Using Award Claims

Award and festival claims may appear in posters, thumbnails, trailers, teasers, descriptions, title metadata, social cards, and promotional videos.

Users must ensure that recognition claims in artwork and promotional videos are accurate, authorised, and not misleading.

Playflick may remove or restrict artwork or promotional videos containing false recognition claims.

16. Duplicate or Conflicting Recognition Claims

Duplicate or conflicting recognition claims may occur where multiple users submit different award or festival details for the same title.

Playflick may merge, correct, restrict, remove, or verify recognition claims where appropriate.

Playflick may prefer official sources, rights holder confirmation, festival confirmation, public award records, or reliable evidence when resolving conflicts.

17. Recognition Disputes

Recognition disputes may arise between creators, festivals, awarding bodies, studios, distributors, publicists, agencies, critics, rights holders, or contributors.

Playflick may review disputes where appropriate, but Playflick may not resolve every private contract, submission, festival rule, judging, category, publicity, sponsorship, or accreditation dispute.

Playflick may require official documents, written confirmations, court orders, or verified source materials before making certain changes.

18. Festivals, Award Bodies, and Impersonation

Users must not impersonate festivals, award bodies, industry organisations, critics, juries, sponsors, publications, or Playflick staff.

Users must not create fake festival pages, fake award accounts, fake laurels, fake judging panels, fake acceptance emails, or fake official communications.

19. Child Safety

Awards, festival claims, images, publicity materials, and recognition metadata must not be used to exploit, sexualise, identify, harass, groom, or endanger children or young users.

Users must not use award or festival claims to promote exploitative content involving minors, misrepresent child performer consent, or target children with unsafe promotional material.

Serious child-safety concerns may result in immediate account action and reporting where appropriate or required.

20. Fraud and Abuse

Users must not abuse award, festival, or recognition features.

Prohibited conduct may include:

Submitting fake awards
Uploading forged certificates
Creating fake festival laurels
Claiming false official selections
Creating fake critic reviews
Using recognition claims to defraud sponsors or buyers
Using fake recognition to obtain monetisation, grants, or partnerships
Using bots or fake accounts to manipulate audience awards where applicable

21. Reports and Support

Users, creators, festivals, award bodies, representatives, studios, distributors, rights holders, critics, or viewers may contact Playflick about false award claims, fake festival selections, laurel misuse, logo misuse, critic quote concerns, disputed recognition, or recognition metadata errors.

Contact:

Email: hello@playflick.com
Contact Page: https://playflick.com/contact-us

Please include:

The title, award, festival, laurel, logo, claim, URL, or account involved
A clear explanation of the issue
Any supporting official materials, screenshots, links, certificates, or rights information
Your relationship to the title, festival, award body, critic, or rights holder where relevant
Whether the issue involves fraud, rights, child safety, impersonation, or legal concerns

Do not send passwords, full payment card numbers, bank passwords, or one-time login codes.

22. Enforcement

Playflick may take action where award claims, festival claims, laurels, logos, critic quotes, recognition metadata, promotional artwork, or related features violate this policy or other Playflick rules.

Enforcement may include:

Correcting recognition metadata
Removing false award or festival claims
Removing laurels, badges, or logos
Restricting metadata editing tools
Restricting promotional tools
Restricting monetisation or promotional eligibility
Restricting accounts involved in recognition fraud
Removing content where rights or safety concerns apply
Suspending or terminating accounts for serious or repeated abuse
Preserving records for legal, safety, fraud, rights, or moderation reasons

23. Appeals and Review Requests

If your award claim, festival claim, laurel, badge, logo, recognition metadata, promotional content, account, or related feature was removed or restricted and you believe Playflick made a mistake, you may request a review under our Appeals Policy where available.

Contact:

Email: hello@playflick.com

Please include:

Your account email where relevant
The title, award, festival, laurel, logo, claim, URL, or feature involved
The decision you are asking Playflick to review
Why you believe the decision was incorrect
Any supporting official materials, screenshots, links, certificates, or rights information

Do not send passwords, full payment card numbers, bank passwords, or one-time login codes.

24. Privacy and Data Retention

Playflick may process and retain award metadata records, festival metadata records, recognition claim records, laurel records, logo records, verification records, dispute records, removal request records, rights records, support messages, review records, fraud signals, safety records, and enforcement records.

These records may be retained for platform operation, metadata accuracy, recognition verification, rights protection, legal compliance, moderation, appeals, audits, fraud prevention, safety, and platform integrity.

More information is available in our Privacy Policy, Data Retention Policy, and Evidence Preservation Policy.

25. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Awards, Festivals & Industry Recognition Policy from time to time.

Changes may reflect new award metadata tools, festival features, recognition systems, verification tools, rights protection practices, advertising rules, legal requirements, or platform updates.

Your continued use of Playflick award, festival, or recognition metadata features after changes become effective means you agree to the updated policy.

26. Contact Us

For award claim questions, festival metadata issues, laurel disputes, logo rights concerns, fake recognition reports, review requests, or policy enquiries, contact:

Playflick™ Media .ltd
41 Norman Avenue
London
N22 5ES
United Kingdom

Awards & Festival Support Email: hello@playflick.com
Contact Page: https://playflick.com/contact-us
Website: https://playflick.com

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