Right to Be Forgiven Policy

Supporting Your Excellence Against Administrative Oversights and Maintaining Focus on Design Merit

A' Design Award's Right to Be Forgiven Policy assist participants facing charges due to minor administrative errors. With Right to be Forgiven Policy program A' Design Award acknowledges that even the most meticulous organizations occasionally make inadvertent mistakes. Rather than punishing your errors with disqualification or permanent penalties, A' Design Award, tries its best to provide entry rescue and presentation services, which may result in small microfines, and with the Right to Be Forgiven Policy, A' Design Award further offers its participants up to three opportunities to have their negative account balances rising from such microfees and fines reduced or eliminated, of course with a set threshold.

Three Opportunities to Cancel a Threshold Amount of Negative Account Balances Arising from Microfines

A' Design Award recognizes that unexpected microfines or small administrative charges can distract from what truly matters—creating world-changing designs. A' Design Award's Right to Be Forgiven Policy and Creative Leniency Framework provides a structured mechanism for participants to request cancellation of negative account balances resulting from presentation corrections, certificate adjustments, or other minor service interventions. When your design team inadvertently includes identifying information in submissions, makes typographical errors in certificates, or encounters other small technical issues, instead of disqualifying your work, A' Design Award may implement corrections that generate microfines. Through a straightforward support request, participants can then request cancellation of these charges up to three times per account, with each request subject to the ceiling threshold detailed in the official competition documentation. The Right to Be Forgiven Policy benefits you by doing its best to create a safe environment for excellent designs to compete, without being excluded from recognition due to minor administrative oversights.

For enterprises, brands, and independent designers alike, A' Design Award's Right to Be Forgiven Policy and Creative Leniency Framework delivers meaningful safety net and financial protection by potentially preserving both your nomination fee investment and opportunities for recognition. Without A' Design Award's active involvement and help, your certain administrative errors could result in disqualification of your work, causing you to lose your entire nomination investment. Instead, with the Entry Rescue & Enhancement Program, the A' Design Award proactively implements corrections and applies nominal charges for these services, and then further provides a pathway for you to request cancellation of these charges via Right to Be Forgiven Policy and Creative Leniency Framework. Furthermore, you are given extensive control over which interventions and changes can be made via A.C.E. Settings, ensuring your excellent designs remain in consideration despite minor presentation imperfections, ultimately protecting both your financial investment and your opportunities for well-deserved recognition.

Multiple Safeguards Working Together to Help Preserve Your Design's Opportunity for Excellence Recognition

The Right to Be Forgiven Policy operates as one component within A' Design Award's holistic participant protection system. It works in coordination with complementary safeguards including customizable A.C.E. Settings (which give you control over what corrections may be made), Entry Rescue & Enhancement Program (which implements necessary fixes rather than disqualifying entries), and Preliminary Score assessments (which provide valuable pre-nomination feedback). Together, A' design Award's holistic mechanisms create multiple layers of protection, ensuring that minor administrative oversights don't prevent exceptional designs from receiving fair evaluation. Together, A' Design Award's A.C.E. Settings, Entry Rescue & Enhancement Program, Second Chance Policy and Preliminary Score System create a comprehensive safety net that transforms potential disqualification events into manageable, participant-directed processes to ensure your work is evaluated based on genuine merit and innovation.

For highly esteemed designers, corporate design departments and marketing teams, A' Design Award's participant protection framework delivers substantial benefits that transform your competition experience. By reducing concerns about minor administrative errors, your creative teams can focus their energy on showcasing design innovation rather than obsessing over procedural details. The mental freedom put forward by A' Design Award's Right to Be Forgiven policy encourages presentation of your most innovative work, allowing the true excellence of your designs to take center stage during evaluation. By offering pathways to correct administrative errors rather than automatically disqualifying entries that contain them, A' Design Award creates a competition environment where excellent designs are evaluated based on their creative merit, even when their submissions contain fixable procedural mistakes. This practical approach acknowledges that even the most professional organizations occasionally make administrative errors, and ensures these minor issues don't prevent outstanding design work from receiving the recognition it deserves.

Design Prize

Discover the A' Design Prize

A' Design Prize is a coveted, comprehensive package of services, goods, and promotional opportunities awarded to those who achieve the honor of winning the A' Design Award. A' Design Prize not only amplifies global visibility for outstanding creations but also delivers tangible benefits that recognize and celebrate your design excellence. The Right to Be Forgiven Policy, reflecting A' Design Award's dedication to supporting participants, is included within the A' Design Award's holistic approach to good design recognition. By ensuring minor mistakes don't dampen the spirit of innovation, the A' Design Award & Competition stays true to its mission of heralding designs that push our world forward.