Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

2. Description of Service

3. Eligibility

• Open to high school and college students in the United States, Canada, and abroad.
• Participants must have an active, public TikTok account.
• Participants under 18 years of age must obtain parental or legal guardian consent before participating.
• Employees of DmvEdu, their affiliates, and immediate family members are not eligible.
• Previous scholarship winners are not eligible for future contest rounds.

4. Account and TikTok Authentication

• You must authenticate via TikTok Login Kit to submit a contest entry.
• By logging in, you authorize the Platform to access your TikTok display name, avatar, and public video list.
• You are responsible for maintaining the security of your TikTok account. The Platform is not responsible for unauthorized access to your TikTok account.

5. Contest Submissions

• Each participant may submit one (1) video per contest round.
• Submitted TikTok videos must remain publicly accessible through the measurement end date of the contest round. Videos that are deleted, privated, or otherwise made inaccessible will be disqualified.
• Submissions must be original content created by the participant and must address the assigned topic for the contest round.
• Participants must upload a copy of their video file to the Platform for transcription purposes.

6. Content Standards

• Profanity, hate speech, or discriminatory language
• Sexually explicit or suggestive content
• Graphic violence
• Promotion of illegal activities, drugs, or alcohol
• Personally identifiable information of third parties without their consent
• Content that violates TikTok’s Community Guidelines

7. Ranking and Winner Selection

• Submissions are ranked based on TikTok engagement metrics (views, comments, and likes), synced daily from TikTok.
• The leaderboard displays relative rankings only; the scoring formula is not disclosed.
• Scholarship-Award.com and DmvEdu.org retains full discretion over winner selection. The leaderboard informs but does not dictate winner selection. Scholarship-Award.com and DmvEdu.org may select winners from the top of the leaderboard or from anywhere in the submission pool (“editor’s picks”).

8. Likeness and Content Rights

• By submitting, you grant Scholarship-Award.com and DmvEdu.org a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to display, embed, reproduce, and promote your submitted video (including your face, voice, and likeness) on dmvedu.org, Scholarship-Award.com, and DmvEdu’s social media channels.
• You retain ownership of your video content.
• You may request removal of your content from dmvedu.org at any time after the contest round concludes by contacting us.
• For participants under 18, parental or guardian consent for likeness usage is required as part of the submission process.

9. Transcription and Publication

• The Platform automatically transcribes submitted videos and publishes the transcription alongside the embedded TikTok video on dmvedu.org.
• Safe content is published automatically. Content flagged by the automated moderation system is held for administrator review.
• Published pages include: embedded TikTok video, student profile (name, photo, school, grade level, location), transcription text, and TikTok engagement stats.

10. Prohibited Conduct

• Submit content that is not your own original work
• Use bots, paid services, or artificial means to inflate TikTok engagement metrics
• Use engagement bait tactics in your video (e.g., “like and comment to help me win”)
• Submit multiple entries per round or circumvent the one-entry limit
• Interfere with the Platform’s operation or other participants’ submissions
• Misrepresent your identity, school, or eligibility

11. Disclaimer of Warranties

12. Limitation of Liability

13. Third-Party Services

14. Modifications

15. Governing Law

16. Contact