Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions
The Manufacturer MX Awards 2026 (“Awards”) are organised by Nineteen Group Limited and The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (“Organisers”).
Conditions of Entry
• By submitting an entry, you consent to nominee data provided during entry submission, the judging process, or the ceremony being shared with the relevant category and headline sponsor(s). Personal data will be processed by Nineteen Group Limited in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
• By submitting an entry, you grant the Organisers a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable licence to review, analyse, and process the entry content for the purpose of producing anonymised or aggregated insights, trends, and data points relating to the entrant's business, products, services, or sector; save that content marked 'Not for Publication' by the entrant will not be used for this purpose. This licence does not extend to, and the Organisers will not process for this purpose, any personal data contained within the entry (including the names, contact details, or other information relating to identifiable individuals). Any insights, trends, or data points generated from entries will relate solely to businesses or sector-level trends, and will not identify any individual, business, or entrant, whether directly or in combination with other available information. The Organisers may use, publish, and distribute such anonymised or aggregated insights in any format and at their sole discretion, including in reports, marketing materials, and other content, without further reference to the entrant.
• Nominees who are nominated by others must also be informed of, and agree to, these Terms and Conditions.
• All material will remain confidential to the Judges as they are bound by a Code of Conduct covering confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and contact with entrants. Entrants may mark sensitive parts of their entry as ‘Not for Publication’. This will be respected in all instances by the Organisers.
• We cannot be held responsible for entries lost, delayed, misdirected, illegible or incomplete or which cannot be entered for any technical or other reason.
• We cannot give an award to any organisation or person that cannot be contacted after the entry has been submitted. We cannot be held responsible for any errors made when submitting your entry, so please check the contact details you provide and update us on any changes.
• The decisions of the judges and the Organisers regarding the Awards, including shortlisting and winners, are final and no correspondence or appeals will be entered into.
• A shortlist of finalists will be selected in each category from the entries submitted by the closing date. It is not possible to appeal the shortlisting.
• Shortlisted finalists will be notified by email or phone and will be invited to both participate in the second round of judging, and the Awards ceremony, where the winners will be officially announced.
• The shortlisted finalist must acknowledge this notification by no later than one week after receiving it. If the shortlisted finalist does not acknowledge the notification, we have the right to remove the finalist from the shortlist.
• Up until the date of the Awards ceremony, we reserve the right to remove a finalist from the shortlist in case the entry turns out to be false or fraudulent, or in case of circumstances concerning the participant that may cause detriment to the reputation of the Awards and/or to their related Intellectual Property Rights.
• The panel of judges will be announced on the Awards’ website and may change in the event of circumstances outside our control.
• We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Awards where reasonably necessary due to circumstances beyond our control or operational requirements.
• To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Organisers shall not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss arising from participation in the Awards.
Website Use
By accessing, browsing, or using this Site (themanufacturermxawards.com) whether as a guest or an authorised user, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our Site.
The Nineteen Group Limited Privacy Policy sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our Site and submitting an entry, you consent to such processing, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate and complete. If you would like to prevent your personal data from being processed in this way, please contact us on data@nineteengroup.com to update your preferences.
Accessing our Site
We will try to make our Site available but cannot guarantee that our Site will operate continuously or without interruptions or is error free or is virus free, and can accept no liability on account of unavailability, interruptions, errors or viruses. You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Site, and you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt any computer system, server, website, router or any other internet connected device. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
Viruses
We do not guarantee that our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our Site by introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and may be subject to civil and criminal penalties. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them.
In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.
Links to Third Party Websites or Resources
This Site may provide links to third party websites or resources. Since we do not control such websites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable for the content, products or performance of such third-party websites and resources, and you hereby irrevocably waive any claim against us with respect to such websites and resources. We reserve the right to terminate any link at any time without notice. The inclusion of a link to another website or resource does not constitute or imply an endorsement, authorisation, sponsorship, or affiliation by us of that website or resource, or any products or services provided therein. The information practices of those websites are not covered by any policies or terms applicable to our Site. We recommend that you review any terms of use and privacy policy of any linked third-party website before providing any information to that website or using its products and services.
Intellectual Property Rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all copyright, trademarks, design rights, database rights, confidential information or any other intellectual property rights (together the “Intellectual Property Rights”) in our Site and the Site Content. The Intellectual Property Rights in our Site and the Site Content is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
Site Content may be displayed, reformatted and distributed internally within your organisation only in insubstantial portions for research and related work in the ordinary course of your business. No other internal or external dissemination of any Site Content is permitted except as expressly indicated in these Terms or agreed in writing with us. You must not use any Site Content for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
We may be prepared to allow you to distribute or reproduce parts of the material contained on our Site in certain other circumstances. Please e-mail us at awards_tm@nineteengroup.com if you wish to ask for permission to do so.
Subject to the above, you must not, in any way, modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off our Site or downloaded from our Site, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics made available from our Site separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of Site Content must always be acknowledged.
If you print off, copy or download any Site Content in breach of these Terms, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option and your cost, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
No Reliance
Although we will endeavour to keep the information made available from our Site (the “Site Content”) updated and accurate, we cannot and do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the Site Content, and you agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any adverse consequences arising as a result of the inaccuracy or incompleteness of the Site Content. You further agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any trading, investment, medical, commercial or other decisions made in reliance on the Site Content.
Changes to these Terms
We may revise these Terms at any time. You are expected to check the terms on our Site from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.
These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and any disputes shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Contact Us
To contact us, please email awards_tm@nineteengroup.com.
Terms and Conditions
The Manufacturer MX Awards 2026 (“Awards”) are organised by Nineteen Group Limited and The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (“Organisers”).
Conditions of Entry
• By submitting an entry, you consent to nominee data provided during entry submission, the judging process, or the ceremony being shared with the relevant category and headline sponsor(s). Personal data will be processed by Nineteen Group Limited in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
• By submitting an entry, you grant the Organisers a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable licence to review, analyse, and process the entry content for the purpose of producing anonymised or aggregated insights, trends, and data points relating to the entrant's business, products, services, or sector; save that content marked 'Not for Publication' by the entrant will not be used for this purpose. This licence does not extend to, and the Organisers will not process for this purpose, any personal data contained within the entry (including the names, contact details, or other information relating to identifiable individuals). Any insights, trends, or data points generated from entries will relate solely to businesses or sector-level trends, and will not identify any individual, business, or entrant, whether directly or in combination with other available information. The Organisers may use, publish, and distribute such anonymised or aggregated insights in any format and at their sole discretion, including in reports, marketing materials, and other content, without further reference to the entrant.
• Nominees who are nominated by others must also be informed of, and agree to, these Terms and Conditions. • All material will remain confidential to the Judges as they are bound by a Code of Conduct covering confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and contact with entrants. Entrants may mark sensitive parts of their entry as ‘Not for Publication’. This will be respected in all instances by the Organisers.
• We cannot be held responsible for entries lost, delayed, misdirected, illegible or incomplete or which cannot be entered for any technical or other reason.
• We cannot give an award to any organisation or person that cannot be contacted after the entry has been submitted. We cannot be held responsible for any errors made when submitting your entry, so please check the contact details you provide and update us on any changes.
• The decisions of the judges and the Organisers regarding the Awards, including shortlisting and winners, are final and no correspondence or appeals will be entered into.
• A shortlist of finalists will be selected in each category from the entries submitted by the closing date. It is not possible to appeal the shortlisting.
• Shortlisted finalists will be notified by email or phone and will be invited to both participate in the second round of judging, and the Awards ceremony, where the winners will be officially announced.
• The shortlisted finalist must acknowledge this notification by no later than one week after receiving it. If the shortlisted finalist does not acknowledge the notification, we have the right to remove the finalist from the shortlist.
• Up until the date of the Awards ceremony, we reserve the right to remove a finalist from the shortlist in case the entry turns out to be false or fraudulent, or in case of circumstances concerning the participant that may cause detriment to the reputation of the Awards and/or to their related Intellectual Property Rights.
• The panel of judges will be announced on the Awards’ website and may change in the event of circumstances outside our control.
• We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Awards where reasonably necessary due to circumstances beyond our control or operational requirements.
• To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Organisers shall not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss arising from participation in the Awards.
Website Use
By accessing, browsing, or using this Site (themanufacturermxawards.com) whether as a guest or an authorised user, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our Site.
The Nineteen Group Limited Privacy Policy sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our Site and submitting an entry, you consent to such processing, and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate and complete. If you would like to prevent your personal data from being processed in this way, please contact us on data@nineteengroup.com to update your preferences.
Accessing our Site
We will try to make our Site available but cannot guarantee that our Site will operate continuously or without interruptions or is error free or is virus free, and can accept no liability on account of unavailability, interruptions, errors or viruses. You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Site, and you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt any computer system, server, website, router or any other internet connected device. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our Site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.
Viruses
We do not guarantee that our Site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our Site. You should use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our Site by introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and may be subject to civil and criminal penalties. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them.
In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.
Links to Third Party Websites or Resources
This Site may provide links to third party websites or resources. Since we do not control such websites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable for the content, products or performance of such third-party websites and resources, and you hereby irrevocably waive any claim against us with respect to such websites and resources. We reserve the right to terminate any link at any time without notice. The inclusion of a link to another website or resource does not constitute or imply an endorsement, authorisation, sponsorship, or affiliation by us of that website or resource, or any products or services provided therein. The information practices of those websites are not covered by any policies or terms applicable to our Site. We recommend that you review any terms of use and privacy policy of any linked third-party website before providing any information to that website or using its products and services.
Intellectual Property Rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all copyright, trademarks, design rights, database rights, confidential information or any other intellectual property rights (together the “Intellectual Property Rights”) in our Site and the Site Content. The Intellectual Property Rights in our Site and the Site Content is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
Site Content may be displayed, reformatted and distributed internally within your organisation only in insubstantial portions for research and related work in the ordinary course of your business. No other internal or external dissemination of any Site Content is permitted except as expressly indicated in these Terms or agreed in writing with us. You must not use any Site Content for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
We may be prepared to allow you to distribute or reproduce parts of the material contained on our Site in certain other circumstances. Please e-mail us at awards_tm@nineteengroup.com if you wish to ask for permission to do so.
Subject to the above, you must not, in any way, modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off our Site or downloaded from our Site, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics made available from our Site separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of Site Content must always be acknowledged.
If you print off, copy or download any Site Content in breach of these Terms, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option and your cost, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
No Reliance
Although we will endeavour to keep the information made available from our Site (the “Site Content”) updated and accurate, we cannot and do not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the Site Content, and you agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any adverse consequences arising as a result of the inaccuracy or incompleteness of the Site Content. You further agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any trading, investment, medical, commercial or other decisions made in reliance on the Site Content.
Changes to these Terms
We may revise these Terms at any time. You are expected to check the terms on our Site from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our Site.
These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and any disputes shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Contact Us
To contact us, please email awards_tm@nineteengroup.com.