Guidelines & Eligibility

Mom’s Choice Awards® (MCA) accepts products and services designed for infants through adults in over 150 categories.
 
MCA Judges are especially interested in products and services that help families grow emotionally, physically and spiritually; are morally sound and promote good will; and are inspirational and uplifting.
 
Eligible Items
There are three primary qualifiers for entries:
 
1) Is the item safe?
All products must comply with US product safety standards including, but not limited to the standards set forth by the US Food & Drug Administration and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.
 
2) Is the item current?
While the MCA does not require a certain manufactured / published date, entered items cannot contain content that is considered “out of date.”
 
3) Is the item easily available?
Entered items must be easily available for parents, educators, and librarians to acquire (i.e. the item is available via a major retailer such as Amazon).
 
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Ineligible Items
- Book galleys and manuscripts
- Beta prototypes
 
Content Classification Standards
MCA Judges are especially interested in products that help families grow emotionally, physically and spiritually; are morally sound and promote good will; and are inspirational and uplifting. Still, we realize there are many important works that deal with disturbing themes or contain what some may see as “objectionable” content.  We believe content should be evaluated using educational criteria, and that content must be viewed in the context of the work as a whole. Please review the MCA Content Classification Standards to learn more.
 
Resubmissions 
Products are not eligible for resubmission unless a major redesign has occurred.
 
General Notice
The Mom’s Choice Awards® (MCA) reserves the right to a) reject any entry; b) withhold awards in any category; c) reassign a product to a different category and/or d) change criteria without notice.
 
The MCA is not responsible for the loss, damage, or return of any material submitted to the competition.
 
Results of product evaluations will not be released. Products submitted to the MCA program will not be returned. Submission fees will not be refunded.
 
Legal
By the submission of the Entry Form and product samples, Entrant agrees to the following:
 
Entrant company, or it’s duly authorized representative, certifies that all information submitted in the Entry Form is true.
 
Entrant understands and agrees that the MCA has the right to grant or not grant awards in its sole and absolute discretion, which Entrant agrees not to challenge in any forum or setting, whether public or private.
 
Entrant certifies that each product that it submits to the MCA complies with all mandatory and voluntary safety standards. Entrant understands and agrees that: (a) any review that the MCA conducts will be limited solely to the guidelines and general criteria outlined herein for the sole benefit of the MCA; and (b) the MCA’s review, analysis, commentary, and/or the grant of an award shall under no circumstances be deemed to constitute any opinion, representation, or warranty as to the safety of the products by any at the MCA, its officers, trustees, directors, agents and employees.
 
Entrant agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the MCA as well as all of its officers, trustees, directors, agents, employees, successors and assigns, from and against any and all Damages and Claims. “Damages and Claims” are understood and agreed to mean: (a) damages caused by products submitted to the MCA; and (b) claims, demands, causes of action, debts, liabilities, losses or costs (including but not limited to lawyers’ fees and costs), however designated, that relate to the products Entrant has submitted to the MCA and/or any awards granted by the MCA to the Entrant.
 
Under no circumstances shall the MCA be liable to any party on account of use of the products submitted. Such limitation of liability shall apply to prevent recovery of direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special and exemplary damages, arising from any of use of the products submitted.
 
Entrant certifies to the MCA that its submission does not infringe upon any other party’s intellectual property rights.
 
By submitting the Entry Form, Entrant agrees to be bound by the Mom’s Choice Image Use Policy, should you be a recipient of an award.
 
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