Pro-Imaging

Wellness Foods Ltd t/a Dorset Cereals Ltd

About this Organisation

Wellness Foods Ltd owns a number of brands including Dorset Cereals, Orchard House Foods, and Rowse Honey. Wellness Foods say their vision is to sell tasty, wholesome, natural and healthy foods produced with minimal processing. They have a number of aspirations, one of which is to achieve a turnover of £500m by 2012.

According to the Dorset Echo, horse racing tycoons JP McManus and John Magnier, famous for their attempts to buy Manchester United, are thought to be investors in the private equity firm Lydian Capital behind Wellness Foods.

Dorset Cereals, founded in 1989 by Terry Crabb, was purchased by Langholm Capital in April 2005, then was bought by Wellness Foods Ltd in March 2008 in a deal estimated at £50m by industry sources. 

About this Report

Photo competitions and image appeals are notified to us by our contributors from around the world. Listed below are some photo competitions or image appeals promoted by the above organisation which have not met the standards set out in the Bill of Rights.

If the terms and conditions of a contest or appeal do not comply with the standards set out in the Bill of Rights a report such as this produced and a link to it is added to the Rights Off List. We have listed in this report the terms and conditions not in compliance with the Bill of Rights to help the organiser carry out a review. The extracted terms and conditions are shown below in italics.

For advice on why failing to comply with the standards set out in the Bill of Rights is a serious issue please read this article.

If at some future date a competition organiser decides to join the Bill of Rights Supporters Group, thus ensuring that all their contests will comply with the Bill of Rights, the Rights Off report for that organisation's competition(s) will be unpublished.

The purpose of the Bill of Rights Campaign is to provide education to the public about the value of rights and to encourage photography competition organisers to adopt the standards set out in the Bill of Rights.

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Dorset Cereals; Your Simple Pleasures Gallery

Ongoing; no end date.

RULES

11. By entering your wonderful photos, you give permission to Dorset Cereals to publish your pictures on the website and use them in the future for promotional purposes.

PRO-IMAGING COMMENT

1. The terms and conditions do not state that the entrant will always be credited when his work is reproduced.

2. All entrants, whether winners or not, are granting Dorset Cereals use of their work for ever, the Bill of Rights requires a time limit on usage to be set.

3. All entrants are granting the sponsor usage beyond that needed to promote the contest, images will be used for other purposes. The Bill of Rights requires usage to be restricted to promoting the contest, and no other purpose.

The reader is referred to the Bill of Rights for more detail regarding the above issues.

SPONSORS

None listed

CONTACT 

To complain to the organiser use this email address This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and mark it for the attention of Philip O'Connor, the Chief Executive Officer.

Pro-Imaging have notified this organisation about the publishing of this report.

To visit the competition website click the competition title above.

You can help the Bill of Rights campaign by complaining to the organiser urging them to change their terms and conditions.  If time is at a premium for you we have prepared a complaint email which you can copy and send to the organiser. Alternatively, or as well as, you can submit the free image we have prepared to register your complaint simply by entering the free image to the contest. The free image can also be used to test the competition to determine if it is stripping metadata and then submit the results of the test to a survey.

The Bill of Rights campaign depends on your active support, your help will make a difference.

Updated on 9 May 2010

The Bill of Rights Standards for Photography Competitions

Competitions which meet all the standards set out in the Bill of Rights do not do any of the following -

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Any text reproduced above in italics has been extracted from a competition website for the purposes of review.

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