Cat Calendar Contest

Official Rules

No Purchase Required to Enter or Win

The Baker & Taylor 2025 Cat Calendar Contest is open from June 1, 2024 at 12:01 a.m. EDT through June 30, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Participants may submit photos during the registration period through email to Meow@baker-taylor.com.

The Baker & Taylor 2025 Cat Calendar Contest is open to any individual in the U.S. or abroad. Entrants must be 13 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees and contract workers of Baker & Taylor are ineligible for this contest. Immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, children) and household members of ineligible persons are not eligible. Contest winners from the past three years are also ineligible to win.

The Baker & Taylor 2025 Cat Calendar Contest is sponsored by Baker & Taylor. This contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You are providing your information to Baker & Taylor only. The information you provide will only be used for marketing purposes at Baker & Taylor's sole discretion.

The Baker & Taylor 2025Cat Calendar Contest is subject to all applicable U.S. federal, state and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited by law.

No purchase or action – other than submitting a photo and cat information – is necessary to participate. Winners will be chosen by a designated team of judges, within the Baker & Taylor team, from those who have submitted the registration information completely. The submission of a photo does not guarantee placement in Baker & Taylor’s 2025 Cat Calendar.

Baker & Taylor, Inc. and their parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies (“Sponsors”) are not responsible for technical malfunctions of any kind which may limit or prevent the ability to participate, or for any human error which may occur in the processing of the entries within the contest. Sponsors shall have the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest at any time for any reason without notice or obligation to entrants.

The thirteen (13) winners of the contest will win photo placement in Baker & Taylor’s 2025 Cat Calendar, recognition on social media and a copy of the calendar. No substitution, transfer of prizes or cash redemption is permitted by the winners. In event of prize unavailability, Baker & Taylor may substitute a prize of equal or greater value.

All expenses of entry are the sole responsibility of entrants. All taxes (if any) on receipt and/or uses of prizes are the sole responsibility of the winners.

Winners may be required to execute an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release (“Affidavit”) and, if so, the Affidavit must be returned within fourteen (14) days of notification or another winner may be selected. If a selected winner is under 18 years of age, his/her parent or legal guardian will be required to sign the Affidavit.

Any potential winner may be required to provide identification sufficient to show that he/she is the authorized account holder or an employee of the authorized account holder of the email address in the submission. It is the sole responsibility of the entrant to notify the Sponsors in writing of any change to the entrant’s email address prior to the date winner(s) are selected. Proof of submission of entry does not constitute proof of delivery or entry into this contest. All entries and submitted photos become the property of Sponsors and will not be returned to entrant. Each entry submission must be manually key stroked and manually entered by the individual entrant; automated and/or repetitive electronic submission of entries (including but not limited to entries made using any script, macro, bot or Sweepstakes service) will be disqualified and transmissions from these or related email or IP addresses may be blocked.

By competing in the contest and/or accepting a prize, the winners grant to Sponsors the right to use their names, likenesses and biographical information in advertising and promotional materials, including posting on the Sponsors’ websites and social media sites, without further compensation or permission, except where prohibited by law. Creative rights to all submitted photos shall remain with the owner. By submitting your photo, you grant the sponsor a non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide license to use, display, download, reproduce, copy, distribute, post, publish and prepare derivative works of the photos in any and all mediums.

By competing in the contest and/or accepting a prize, entrants release Sponsors, their parent, subsidiaries or affiliated companies or the advertising agencies or any of them and the authors of any books promoted hereby from any liability, injuries, damages, cost or expense, arising out of or relating to participation in this Sweepstakes or the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prizes.

Any dispute arising from this contest will be determined according to the laws of the State of North Carolina, without reference to its conflict of law principles, and the entrants consent to the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and agree that such courts have exclusive jurisdiction over all such disputes.