Terms of submission

1. Who we are

“We” are Trekkit Studios Ltd., New Brunswick, Canada. You can reach us at hello@phantomprowler.com.

“The series” is the documentary series we are developing, Phantom Prowler: The Hunt for the Eastern Cougar, under that title or any later one. “Your report” is the account, photographs and video you send us.

2. Who can send a report

You must be 18 or older.

3. You keep ownership

Your report stays yours. You can use it, share it or sell it anywhere else. We do not become the owner of anything you send.

4. The licence you give us

By sending a report, you give us permission to publish and use it:

• on this website;
• on our social media accounts;
• in the series, and in the trailers, advertising and publicity for it.

That permission is a licence, on these terms.

• Non-exclusive. See section 3.
• No payment. We do not pay for reports. No fee or royalty is owed, now or later.
• Worldwide, in any format that exists now or is invented later.
• Lasting. There is no end date. Section 8 explains how to have a report removed, and what cannot be undone.
• Passed on only for the series. We may pass these rights to the broadcasters, streaming services, distributors and production partners who make, show or promote the series, for that purpose only.

Editing. We may edit your account for length and clarity. We may crop, blur and re-encode photographs and video, remove hidden file data, and add captions. We will not change the meaning of what you told us.

Credit. The website shows the name you ask for, or none if you choose to be anonymous. We cannot promise a credit in the series.

No obligation. We do not have to publish any report, and may take one down at any time.

5. What you promise

• The account is your own. The photographs and video are yours, or you have the owner’s permission to send them and to give us this licence.
• What you tell us is true to the best of your knowledge.
• Nothing is staged, altered or generated by AI. If a file has been cropped or adjusted in any way, you have said so.
• You have kept the original file if you can, and will let us see it if we ask.
• You have not given anyone else rights that would stop us from using your report.

6. Other people, private places and the animal

• Do not include identifiable people, licence plates or private property unless the people concerned have agreed.
• Do not name other people in your account without their permission.
• Do not trespass, or break any law, to get a picture.
• Do not approach, bait or follow an animal to get a picture.

7. What we do with your report

• A person reviews everything. Nothing is public until someone at Trekkit Studios has approved it.
• “As reported”, never “confirmed”. Publishing a report does not mean we have verified it, and we never present one as a confirmed cougar.
• Your email address and the exact location are never published. The site shows the county and the year only. We may take out details that would pinpoint a place or identify a person.
• Showing your report on the site is a separate choice. The form asks about it separately, and accepting these terms does not tick that box for you. If you leave it unticked, we will not show your report on the website or on social media, and we will ask before using it in the series.
• You can be anonymous. We still keep your email address, privately, so that we can reach you.
• Interviews. You may say you are willing to be interviewed. That commits neither you nor us. An interview on camera would need its own signed release.

8. Removal and correction

Email hello@phantomprowler.com, from the address you used when you reported if you can. Tell us the county and roughly when you sent it. We may ask a question or two to make sure the report is yours.

Then:

• We take the report off the website and our social media accounts, or correct it, within 10 business days.
• We stop any new use of it.
• We cannot recall copies that other people have saved or shared.
• We cannot take your report out of an episode, trailer or promotion that is already finished or broadcast.

If you appear in a report someone else sent, or it shows your property, write to the same address and we will review it.

The Privacy policy covers the information we hold about you.

9. Your responsibility

You are responsible for what you send us.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. A new version will be posted here with a new number and date. We record which version you accepted, and that version continues to apply to your report unless you agree to a newer one.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New Brunswick and the laws of Canada that apply there.