PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILMING

Effective: 10 September 2026

Our events are filmed and photographed. This page says who is holding which camera, where the footage goes, what happens for anyone under 16, and how to ask us to take something down.

It covers every KongQuest event and it applies to everyone on site: spectators, participants and competitors. It sits alongside the Terms Of Entry and the Event Waiver.

1. Our cameras

We bring photographers and videographers to our events, and the host association may bring their own. They shoot the runs, the sessions, the crowd and the day around it.

Coming to the event means you accept that you may appear in that footage. If you would rather not, section 3 is how to handle it, and we would rather you told us at the start of the day than after.

2. Where our footage goes

Being at the event gives us permission to use the photos and video we take there to show the event and promote the sport. In practice that means:

• The event page, the recap and the results.
• Our social accounts, and the host association’s.
• Announcing and promoting future events, including the next year of the same event.
• Press and media coverage of the event, and reporting to the partners, sponsors and councils who supported it.

That permission is ongoing, worldwide and unpaid, and it is limited to those uses. It does not extend to selling your image, licensing it to a third party for their own advertising, or using it to endorse a product. Anything of that kind is a separate conversation and we would come and ask you.

You keep every right you already have in your own performance. Nothing here takes your own footage, your own posts or your own sponsorship deals away from you.

3. Asking us to take something down

If you are in something of ours and you want it out, email hello@kongquest.com.au with the event, roughly where in the footage you are, and a way to recognise you. We will take it down from anything we control, and we will tell you when it is done.

Say so before the event, or at check-in on the day, and we will pass it to the photographers so they can work around you from the start. That is the version that works best for everybody, because it keeps you out of the footage rather than pulling you back out of it.

Two honest limits. Footage that is already published somewhere we do not control, or already printed, is outside what we can reach. And a wide shot of a crowd or a competition floor is treated as a crowd shot rather than a shot of you.

4. Anyone under 16

1. A parent or guardian registers anyone under 16 and, in doing that, decides the media permission in section 2 for them.
2. Say no, and it costs the child nothing. They compete, they train and they are scored exactly the same. It changes what we publish, not what they get to do.
3. We publish a child’s first name only, unless a parent or guardian tells us otherwise in writing. We do not publish a child’s school, their suburb, their contact details or their social handles.
4. A parent or guardian can change their mind at any time, before or after the event, using the address in section 3. Changing your mind afterwards is a normal thing to do and we will action it the same way.

5. Clips you post yourself

Some competitions are entered by posting a clip publicly and tagging us. The Style Competition at NATGAT XX works that way today.

When you enter like that, you are the publisher. The clip is on your account, under that platform’s terms, and it is public because you posted it publicly. We can share and repost an entry as part of running and promoting the competition, and we cannot take your own post down for you. Only you can do that, on your own account.

Two things worth being deliberate about before you post. Anyone else in your clip is in it publicly too, so get their okay first. And if the entrant is under 16, the parent or guardian is the one making the call about a public post, so make that decision together.

6. Clips you send us

Where a competition takes a clip through KongQuest rather than through a public post, you send it to us and we hold it privately. We use it to judge the entry and to run and promote the competition on the terms in section 2, and it stays private until you or the competition’s own published rules make it public.

7. Everybody else’s cameras

People film at parkour events. Athletes film their own runs, friends film each other, and spectators film the day.

Two things we ask of everyone filming at our events: ask before you post a close shot of somebody you do not know, and ask a parent before you post a clip of a child. It is the same courtesy you would want.

We set that expectation and we enforce it on site, and we are honest that we do not control other people’s footage or their accounts. Tell event staff on the day if somebody is filming in a way that bothers you, and they will deal with it.

8. Drones, press and commercial shoots

1. Flying a drone at our events needs written permission from the organisers first, plus whatever the venue and the aviation rules require on the day.
2. Press and media: contact us before the event and we will accredit you and brief you on where you can work from.
3. Filming at our event for a commercial project, a brand, or a paid production needs our written permission first.

9. Your information

Photos and video of an identifiable person are personal information. What we hold, how long we hold it and how to get a copy or ask us to delete it are covered in the Privacy Policy.

10. Changes to this policy

When we change this page, the effective date at the top changes with it, and the version that applies to your event is the one published when you registered.

Questions, or a takedown request: hello@kongquest.com.au