QUADCODE HackAIthon
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
These Terms and Conditions (Terms) govern our relationship with You for Your registration, participation and attendance in the 2024 HackAIthon event hosted by QCL Quad Code Ltd, to take place on June 15th and 16th 2024, at The Warehouse by IT Quarter, in Limassol, Cyprus (Venue), as described herein (HackAIthon or Event).
We are QCL Quad Code CY Limited, a company registered in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Cyprus, with registration number HE391725 and having its registered office at Spyrou Kyprianou Avenue & Evgeniou Voulgareos 4153, Kato Polemidia, Limassol, Cyprus ( Organizer), and
You are an individual interested in and therefore registering for Your possible participation and attendance in HackAIthon (hereinafter referred to as “You”/ “Your” /“Yours”),
collectively referred to as the “Parties” and separately as the “Party”.
WHEREAS,
(a) the Organizer is hosting HackAIthon in Cyprus; and
(b) You seek to register, participate and attend HackAIthon;
BY SUBMITTING A REGISTRATION FORM THROUGH OUR WEBSITE (Preliminary Registration), YOU:
(A) CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE AWARE AND THAT YOU COMPLY AT ALL TIMES WITH THE PRESENT TERMS AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM
(B) CONSENT TO THE ORGANIZER’S PRIVACY POLICY AVAILABLE AT https://www.quadcodehackathon.com/terms-and-conditions AND TYPEFORM SL https://admin.typeform.com/to/dwk6gt/?tid=f95361f9-87ee-4140-a078-171a54afb687&typeform-source=www.typeform.comFOR THEPROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA collected via TEAM FORMATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, APPLICATIONS AND FORMS AND ANY AND ALL OTHER DOCUMENTATION YOU MAY BE REQUESTED TO AND/OR ACTUALLY SIGN/AGREE TO/ACCEPT FOR HACKAITHON AND/OR YOUR THEREIN REGISTRATION, PARTICIPATION AND ACCEPTANCE;
(C) CONFIRM THAT YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF REGISTERING, PARTICIPATING AND ATTENDING HACKAITHON AND YOU ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THESE TERMS.
1. HACKAITHON EVENT
1.1. HackAIthon is a competitive event organized and hosted by the Organizer in which You and other individuals shall work in Teams (as defined below) on software and/or hardware projects, following the instructions of the Organizer, with the goal of creating a functioning product by the end of the Event.
1.2. HackAIthon shall commence on June 15th 2024 at 09:00 a.m. and finish on June 16that 20:00 p.m.
1.3. Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon is free of charge.
1.4. In order to participate in and attend HackAIthon, must first register online at https://www.quadcodehackathon.com/ at any given time from April 15th, 2024 until May 30th, 2024.
1.5. Conditions for registration: You will be required to:
(a) submit an idea for a software project to be developed during the HackAIthon. The Idea must be related to the development of an impactful financial/trading software solution as described in the Topic section 3 of these Terms, and must adhere to the Hackathon's theme of AI-driven personalization in fintech (innovate with AI-driven education, trading chatbots, personalized trading platforms, and AR/VR environments) (Idea). Failure to do so may result in the rejection of your Preliminary Registration,
(b) state whether you have certain position as software developer, software designer, AI researcher, fintech entrepreneur, computer programmers, cybersecurity analysts, social media managers, data scientist and analysts, financial expert or any other relevant positions that have afforded you the necessary qualifications and experience to work with a team and you are interested to bring an Idea to life.
(c) fill in and submit all required data, links, information and documentation as and when requested by the Organizer. If You provide false information may result the rejection of Your Preliminary Registration or disqualification from the Event.
(d) state whether you will participate as part of a team or as a singularity. If you register as a Team, further information for the Team shall be required.
1.6. Eligibility: The Organizer will choose the Participants for the Event and confirm any Preliminary Registration at its sole discretion and will notify you via email (Registration). Your Preliminary Registration may not be accepted. Your registration, participation and attendance at HackAIthon are subject to constant review and acceptance by the Organizer. In simple words, the Organizer may at its sole discretion accept or reject Your Preliminary Registration and/or may disqualify you at any time following Registration, for any or no reason and at any time before and/or during HackAIthon, regardless Your participation submission and/or approval of Preliminary Registration. If the Organizer accepts Your Preliminary Registration, you will be considered a Participant.
1.7. Formation and Capacity: You can register as sole individual, or along with other individuals forming a Team of minimum two (2) and maximum five (5) individuals. Participants whose registration will be accepted by the Organizer must, from April 15thuntil June 14th 2024 form groups/be part of a group composed of minimum two (2) and maximum five (5) individuals as further described in these Terms (Team(s)). The words “You”/ “Your” /“Yours” “Participant” under these Terms shall and must refer to and include Your Team when and as applicable at the sole discretion of the Organizer. The Organizer shall accept maximum twenty (20) Teams of up to five (5) Participants each.
1.8. A Team Participant must, within timeframes set by the Organizer, use their Ideas and qualifications and work together to initiate, develop and finalize a Topic product/project which must comply with the requirements set by Organizer as further described in these Terms (Project(s)).
1.9. You and Your Team may ask assistance and/or guidance for your Project, from expertised people that shall be available at the venue at the Event (Mentors). Mentors shall not be part of Your Team.
1.10. For the purposes of HackAIthon, the Organizer shall appoint an evaluation committee comprised by individuals with academic and/or professional experience in regard to HackAIthon (Evaluation Committee), who by the end of HackAIthon shall evaluate the Projects and at its own discretion decide, declare, nominate and announce the best Project on evaluation criteria further described in these Terms (Winning Project). For more information on the Prize, check section 4.
1.11. The Organizer at its sole discretion defines and states the rules of HackAIthon and of Your registration, participation and attendance therein. You hereby agree that such rules shall be obligatory for You and Your Team, as well as any verbal and written statements and requirements of the Organizer. You and Your Team must observe and comply with all written and verbal instructions of the Organizer in relation to HackAIthon, including without limitation, instructions regarding access to and secure use of any related facilities, hardware, software and equipment.
1.12. You hereby acknowledge and accept that in order for the Organizer to maintain the integrity of HackAIthon and to ensure Your compliance with its safety rules, the Organizer may at any time and at its own discretion claim for compensation of the damages in addition to any rights vested in it to refuse and/or exclude and/or forbid and/or stop and/or cancel Your and/or Your Team’s use of the Website and/or content and/or registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon and/or deprive and/or remove from You and/or Your Team any and all rights may have in HackAIthon, a Project, a Prize and/or request to refund and/or return back the Prize and/or gift and/or terminate these Terms and/or claim damages, at any time without any explanation, prior warning or notification.
1.13. You hereby understand and agree that the rejection of Your Registration (preliminary or otherwise), participation and attendance in HackAIthon means and/or automatically gives all rights to the Organizer to immediately exclude You and/or forbid and/or stop and/or cancel Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon and deprive and remove from You any and all rights You may have in HackAIthon, a Project, a Prize.
1.14. Rejection reasons may include amongst others: (a) the refusal to accept and abide by the present Terms as amended/updated from time to time and/or their non fulfilment in their totality (all of them are considered vital); (b) the breach of any of these Terms at any time, (c) the subsequent inability to comply with these Terms; (d) the violation of current legislation and fair practices; (e) the inability to meet any conditions, criteria, requirements as per these Terms; (f) the breach of representations and warranties under these Terms.
1.15. Some reasons of rejection might at the sole discretion of the Organizer allow You to re-register in HackAIthon for one or multiple times, usually such reasons involving issues which You may improve in another registration. Such examples of rejection may be the rejection of an Author’s registration as the Idea does not seem to correspond/be within the scope of the Organizer’s Topics (the Idea may be amended in another registration) or the rejection of a Participant’s registration as the qualifications demonstrated are considered by the Organizer inadequate for a certain role/position (the position may change in another registration). In any case, if Your registration is rejected for a certain reason which enables Your re-registration in HackAIthon, the Organizer will inform You of such possibility accordingly. The choice of re-registering under this clause is only available to You upon Your rejection, otherwise multiple registrations are not allowed for HackAIthon and under these Terms.
1.16. The Organizer has no responsibility whatsoever to give You a reason and/or justification of Your rejection, even if it may do so at any time at its own discretion.
1.17. All data, links, information and documentation You provide at any time under these Terms and for your registration, participation and attendance at HackAIthon, must be true, valid, represent You as an existing individual and must not be in any way fake, imaginary, fictitious, created, stolen, non-existed. All data, links, information and documentation You provide at any time under these Terms and for your registration, participation and attendance at HackAIthon may be investigated, cross examined, confirmed and evaluated by the Organizer by any means and at any extend as necessary according to the Organizer alone.
1.18. In the event that You provide data, links, information and documentation which is false and/or inaccurate and/or incomplete the Organizer has the right to exclude You and/or forbid and/or stop and/or cancel Your registration, participation and attendance at any stage of HackAIthon, even after a Prize has been awarded.
1.19. The Organizer may at any time and through any communication means and channels request You to provide further, additional, substantial, supportive or other data, links, information and documentation. Your delay and/or denial and/or refusal and/or not provision of such data, links, information and documentation within any timeframes set by the Organizer may automatically, immediately and without any notice or explanation exclude You and/or forbid and/or stop and/or cancel Your registration, participation and attendance from HackAIthon.
1.20. Upon Your successful registration and acceptance notification of your registration, You automatically give the Organizer the right to use Your email and any other necessary information and personal identifiable data of Yours as it considers fit and include/add You in groups or other type of chats through any communications channels of its choice, Slack included, for the purposes of HackAIthon. You hereby understand and agree that You might be requested by the Organizer to participate in chatting, video calls and also provide through such communication channels data, links, information and documentation, and that Your denial and/or refusal and/or delay in responding to the therein requests of the Organizer may automatically and without any notice nor explanation exclude You and/or forbid and/or stop and/or cancel Your registration, participation and attendance from HackAIthon. You hereby grant Your explicit consent to the Organizer to create, receive and store recordings for any of all voice and video calls, chats, recordings that you join. You hereby grant the Organizer with such and all related rights for as long as it is considered necessary by the Organizer at its own discretion and You release the Organizer from any liability whatsoever in regard to any and all damage You may suffer as a result of Your inclusion in such chats, video calls and communication channels in general.
1.21. In order to participate in and attend HackAIthon You must physically attend HackAIthon and present Yourself at the Venue at any time specified/indicated and/or otherwise communicated to You by the Organizer, prove Your identity by showing a valid identification document (valid ID, Passport) and sign any and all documentation deemed necessary according to the Organizer (Supplementary Documents).
1.22. The Organizer may specify and You must follow guidelines on forbidding the display of trademarks and logos, clothing and gear (e.g., to help ensure a first-class production and optimal viewing experience), etc. You acknowledges that HackAIthon will have sponsors with sponsorship benefits relating to all of its aspects, including branding on the competition set, equipment, etc., and that such sponsors may compete with any sponsors You may have. All sponsored product, logos, etc. You may wish to use for/during HackAIthon may be inspected and/or approved and/or rejected by the Organizer at any time at its sole discretion.
1.23. The Organizer reserves at all times the right not to allow the posting and/or withdraw from its Website and/or HackAIthon, content as well as any other element, material, if under its sole discretion and judgment contradict the present Terms.
1.24. The Organizer reserves the right at its own discretion to modify and/or cancel HackAIthon and/or any details in relation to any and all details of HackAIthon herein addressed, including without limitation, its host, rules, Venue, time, Prizes, etc., without any limitation whatsoever, at any time and for any reason, with or without notice to You and with or without changing the present Terms.
2. TEAMS RULES
2.1. In order for Your participation and attendance in HackAIthon to be accepted by the Organizer You must be part of a Team with minimum two (2) Participants and maximum five (5) Participants. Each group must be gathered, leaded, and represented by one person.
2.2. Teams are not allowed under these Terms to be branded and/or commercial and/or represent any business or company and must not carry any logo and/or trademark and/or brand name.
2.3. Teams may be created and structured by the Participants themselves and/or by the Organizer itself in cases where individuals wish to be part of a Team but do not manage to form or be part of a Team by themselves. Individuals who are not part of a Team may be matched with other Participants, by the Organizer.
2.4. Participants shall form Teams taking into consideration/matching their Ideas and qualifications. Teams accepted by the Organizer to participate in and attend HackAIthon must work together on a Topic and create a common Project.
2.5. As an individual Participant, part of a Team under these Terms, You hereby represent and warrant to communicate and act in accordance with the following at all times and throughout Your overall registration, presence and attendance in HackAIthon:
a. Behave in an ethical manner;
b. Respect all other Participants, Mentors and the Organizer;
c. Treat others with dignity;
d. Speak and behave courteously;
e. Cooperate with others;
f. Develop positive and respectful relationships and think about the effect on relationships before acting;
g. Value the interests, ability and culture of others;
h. Negotiate and resolve conflict with empathy;
i. Care for self and others;
j. Avoid and prevent if possible dangerous behavior and encourage others to avoid and prevent dangerous behavior;
k. Not bully, harass, intimidate or discriminate against anyone;
l. Follow fair competition rules and practices;
m. Resolve conflict respectfully, calmly and fairly;
n. Take personal responsibility for behavior and actions;
o. Respect all property and premises
p. Comply with these Terms and follow the requirements and directions of the Organizer.
2.6. You hereby agree and grant the Organizer the right, at any time and at its absolute discretion, to exclude and/or forbid and/or stop and/or cancel Your and/or Your entire Team’s registration, participation and attendance and deprive and remove from You and/or Your entire Team any and all rights that may have in HackAIthon, a Project or a Prize. The Organizer may also do so in any case You do not agree/accept and/or reject and/or deny and/or delay and/or refuse for any reason whatsoever to be part of a certain/specific/indicated Team against the instructions/requests of the Organizer.
3. TOPICS AND PROJECTS
3.1. In order for Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon to be accepted by the Organizer Your Idea and/or qualifications must correspond to a Topic. The Organizer will at its own discretion decide whether Your Idea and/or qualifications correspond to the Theme of the HackAIthon and you hereby release the Organizer from all liability in this regard. This fintech personalization HackAIthon challenges participants to innovate with AI-driven education, trading chatbots, personalized trading platforms, and AR/VR environments. Additional Ideas relevant to the topic AI for personalization in fintech can be proposed but need to be approved by the organizer.
3.2. You must participate and attend HackAIthon with one Topic only and You have no right to change the said Topic during Your participation and attendance in HackAIthon. All Projects must be submitted by the Teams by the deadline on the second day of the Event.
3.3. The Topics provided by the Organizer are defined as follows:
(a) AR/VR in finance
(b) Financial Education
(c) Trading
And any other suggested topic relevant to the nature of the Event.
3.4. Based on approved/accepted Idea and qualifications You as part of a Team shall develop a Project during HackAIthon. In order for a Project to be accepted for evaluation and/or to be a Winning Project must at all times meet all the below requirements:
(a)The implementation of the Idea and the Project itself must only be designed, created, developed, finalized and submitted to the Evaluation Committee and/or Organizer during HackAIthon within specific timeframes set by the Organizer and must be a prototype and constitute an original work;
(b) In case of IP rights of third persons on the Project, You must have obtained all necessary licenses and authorizations and ensure that the licenses and authorizations can be assigned to third parties and/or the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties;
(c) The Project has not been the object of a previous competition and/or contract with a third party; Pre-existing projects or significant development work prepared before the HackAIthon’s start date are not permitted;
(d) The Project must not be intended to and/or actually contradict, encourage, contain, refer to, display, include, allow access to, violate:
any trademark, logo or other signs protected by copyright or industrial property rights;
the rights of a third person, including patents, trade secrets, rights assigned from licenses and contracts, the right to advertisement and the right to privacy, human rights, moral rights and any other rights that shall be protected according to the law;
content that is illegal or contradicts does not create or reinforce racial discrimination or nationalism or feelings of rivalry or hostility among population groups;
any pornographic, sexual explicit and discriminatory content (especially discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political orientation of individual/ groups);
violence as idealized or insignificant state or incite violence toward a living creature, or might be defined as offensive, obscene and inappropriate;
criminal acts or any threatening or other intimidating, harassing and abusive content;
any applicable law or encourage unlawful behaviors;
(e) The Project must not compromise the moral education of children and youth, not create moral standards harmful to social welfare;
(f) The Project must not contradict the values of and not affect in any way the image, brand reputation and credibility of the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties.
4. WINNING PROJECT AND PRIZE
4.1. The Evaluation Committee shall at its own discretion evaluate all Projects and decide, declare, nominate and announce three Winning Projects of HackAIthon based on its sole judgement, criteria, methods, and means.
4.2. The Evaluation Committee’s evaluation of the Projects will be based on criteria such as (not exhaustive list):
a. The originality, prototype and innovation of the Idea, work, product and of the overall Project;
b. With a minimum standard to provide a working prototype
c. The business potential of the Project;
e. The respond of the Project to specific challenges and needs;
f. The technology and solutions of the Project;
g. The financial effect of the Project;
h. The clarity, conceptual background and the overall presentation of the Project;
i. The organization and work of the Team.
4.3. A Project that does not meet the above requirements at all times, at the Organizer’s sole discretion, will not be subject to evaluation and will not have the chance to be declared as a Winning Project. You hereby acknowledge and agree that in any case Your Project is a Winning Project and You are awarded with a Prize but it is later proved and/or indicated and/or declared by the Organization at its own discretion, with or without any proof demonstrated, that the Project concerned did not meet and/or stopped meeting any of the above requirements at any time, the Organizer has and retains all rights possible to deprive and/or request a refund of the Prize and/or gift from You and/or Your Team and You and/or Your Team must return back to the Organizer all monetary amounts and/or gift You and/or Your Team have received from HackAIthon and/or the Organizer and/or the Evaluation Committee and/or the sponsors.
4.4. There will be three (3) winners at the completion of the Event. The Participants of each Team of the Winning Project will equally share amongst them the winning prizes as below (hereinafter referred to as the “Prize”):
(a) First winner Team: monetary amount of EUR30.000
(b) Second winner Team: non-monetary prize of value EUR7.500
(c) Third winner Team: non-monetary prize of value of EUR2.500
4.5. Each and all individuals who will receive a monetary amount as a Prize under these Terms and HackAIthon must and are the sole responsible persons to pay any and all taxes, expenses, fees, charges required for receiving such monetary amount. You hereby explicitly release the Organizer from any and all liability in relation to taxes, expenses, fees, charges in relation to the Prize/a Prize You may receive.
4.6. You hereby acknowledge and accept that You have no opinion, judgement or right whatsoever to argue and/or question the decision of the Evaluation Committee nor claim to the Evaluation Committee and/or the Organizer for any damage you may suffer, prize, reward whatsoever as a result of such decision.
4.7. You hereby acknowledge and accept that You have no opinion, judgement or right whatsoever to argue and/or question any possible gallop and/or public’s opinion/vote/choice and/or Winning Projects nor to claim to the Evaluation Committee and/or the Organizer for any damage you may suffer, prize, reward whatsoever as a result. You further disclaim and renounce any and all rights You may have and release the Organizer and/or the Evaluation Committee from any liability whatsoever in regards to the winning Teams, winning Projects and Prizes and gift.
4.8. You hereby understand and accept that You may only receive a prize if (a) You are a Participant of a winning Team with the Winning Project and (b) if You have not breached/were/are not in breach of any of these Terms at any time, at the sole discretion of the Organizer.
4.9. Any sponsor may, at its own discretion and at any time, decide to give non-monetary, promotional and/or any other type of gift(s) to any and/or all participants of HackAIthon. All terms concerning gifts under these Terms shall apply to any gifts provided by each and every sponsor. You hereby release the Organizer from all types of liabilities which may arise from and/or in relation to such gifts.
4.10. The individuals of a winning Team do not have the right to request financial or other exchange instead of the specific prize/gift they will be awarded/receive.
4.11. You hereby grant and accept that the Organizer has and retains, at all times, all rights possible to deprive and/or not provide and/or request a refund of any Prize and/or gift from You and/or a winning Team, in any case You and/or a winning Team is/are /found to be/has been in breach of these Terms at any time. In such a case, You hereby agree to return the Prize/all monetary amount and/or gift You have received from the Organizer.
4.13. In any case You are personally contacted by the Organization in relation to a Winning Project and Prize and gift but You fail to and/or do not reply and/or do not contact back the Organization for any reason within thirty (30) calendar days since the first communication sent to You, You understand and accept that at the sole discretion of the Organizer You may not receive a Prize and/or gift without the Organizer having any further responsibility and/or liability towards You.
4.14. In the case that You do not receive any Prize and/or gift under HackAIthon and/or these Terms, You hereby agree and confirm that the possibility given to You by the Organizer through Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon to demonstrate and/or promote Your Idea and/or qualifications and/or skills in public and/or receive any type of offers as a result constitutes valid and adequate consideration under these Terms.
5. EQUIPMENT, SERVICES AND EXPENSES
5.1. During HackAIthon, the Organizer shall offer to You, for the purpose of the Event, part of the Venue as shared workspace, work desk and access to the internet, at specified times as set by the Organizer.
5.2. The Organizer will not provide and You must have/bring Your own equipment such as a laptop, computer screen, keyboard and any other equipment necessary in order to prepare (such as AR/VR) and be able to participate and attend HackAIthon. The Organizer will not provide any inventory for HackAIthon.
5.3. Any and all expenses You may have had/realized for/because/due to Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon and the development of a Project, which may include the preparation costs (mock-up costs, pilot apps etc.), transport costs, accommodation costs and other costs, realized by You, will be undertaken solely by You. The Organizer has no responsibility whatsoever to cover any such expenses.
5.4. Hospitality, food and beverages and provision of any type of supporting services, if any, are offered on the condition that You, under and during Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon, comply at all times with all Terms and any and all obligations arising from the security policies of the Organizer, Venue and Venue’s owners and agree to undertake full responsibility for any possible damage, accident or harm caused to You and/or Your equipment and/or any other person and/or the property and infrastructures because of You and/or Your equipment. You further acknowledge that the Organizer does not accept any liability for claims of any forms of food poisoning.
6. ADVERTISING, PUBLICITY AND RECORDINGS
6.1. You hereby grant to the Organizer and its connected and/or affiliated companies, sponsors, contractors, strategic partners, affiliates, agents, licensors, licensees, successors and assigns, (collectively hereinafter referred to as the “Licensed Parties”) the unlimited right and permission to search, find, collect, receive, record, hold, maintain, use, copy, reproduce, edit, modify, disseminate, destroy and/or to authorize third parties to do the same, at their own discretion, in relation to Your and/or Your Teams’ s and/or Your Project’s Idea, data, information, documentation, material, works, practices, technology, etc., including but not limited to Your and/or Your Teams’ s and/or Your Project’s full name, initials, nicknames, pictures, images, likeness, photos, silhouette or form, animation, persona, autograph/signature, biographical information, backstory, voice, chats performance, recordings, tags, interviews, feedbacks, catchphrases, footage, tradenames, slogans, logos and trademarks, statistics, software, sources, etc., (collectively hereinafter referred to as “Your Data”), which was/is based and/or derived from any communication channels and/or Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon and/or via any other way under/from HackAIthon. The Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties may do any and all herein described actions in relation to Your Data in any way and for whatever purposes of its sole discretion, including but not limited, for HackAIthon, the Event and competition itself, promotional and marketing purposes, business operations, HR purposes, in venues, production and/or media whatsoever, advertisements, merchandise, marketing purposes, publicity materials, on websites and in social media postings (e.g., Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, etc.), in editorial content, and/or any projects, programs, etc., whether now known or hereafter devised, anywhere in the world, in perpetuity, royalty-free, for any lawful purpose.
6.2 The Organizer reserves the right to publicly announce/publish any information about You and your Team, including Your name, email, photos, videos on the Organizer’s Website and social media channels including but not limited to Slack, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook , etc. for marketing and promotional purposes.
6.3. You hereby agree and provide the Organizer the non-exclusive, without exchange, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable license for use of what is posted on HackAIthon Website throughout and/or after the duration of HackAIthon, by the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized parties, complete and/or in segments, integrated in another composition of audiovisual material, for a reasonable duration after the end of the Term, in any manner and for as many times as the Organizers deem necessary for the purposes of promotion, communication, projection and publicity of HackAIthon. You hereby agree and grant the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized parties the exclusive right to photograph You and your Team, voice and video record, publish, broadcast, show or perform, publicly show or perform, display, stream, disseminate, telecast, transmit, air, distribute, or otherwise exhibit or reproduce in any way and manner whatsoever (including via the internet, audiovisual services via use of mobile telephony networks, broadcasting, reproduction of printed material, posting on the websites of the Organizers and on the websites of their connected Companies or of other Content providers, posting on social networks and platforms etc.), any and all part of HackAIthon and/or Your and/or Your Team and/or Your Data and/or Your Project, at any time at their own discretion (collectively hereinafter referred to as “HackAIthon Content”).
6.4. You hereby understand and accept that the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized parties have the unrestricted right to record, hold, maintain, copy, reproduce, edit, modify, disseminate, destroy, publish, and/or otherwise use (including anonymously) and/or to authorize third parties to do the same in relation to the HackAIthon Content, which shall be fully owned by the Organizer as set forth below. You explicitly accept that the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized parties shall not and will not be obliged to effect any extra payments and/or actions in order to smoothly utilize Your Data and HackAIthon Content.
6.5. Should the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties receive any demands/lawsuits/claims from any third parties in connection with their utilization of Your Data and/or HackAIthon Content, and any Idea and/or Project produced by You and/or your Team in the Event, You and/or Your Team shall on Your own and for Your own account settle all such demands/lawsuits/claims in full, and compensate the Organizer and/or its Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties in full for any damages they sustained in this connection. You hereby entitle the Organizer to demand in full the compensation for any Licensed Parties’ and/or authorized third parties’ damages from You on their behalf.
6.6. You hereby acknowledge and accept that You and/or Your Team are not entitled and shall not, in any way directly or indirectly, on Your own or through any other third parties, photograph, record, publish, broadcast (including via the internet), show or perform, stream, disseminate, telecast, transmit, air, distribute, or otherwise exhibit or reproduce or do any other act for which the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties holds the rights, in any manner whatsoever, all or any part of HackAIthon, related IPs and HackAIthon Content.
6.6. In any case You receive and/or hold, through any way possible including via the Organizer itself, any Data/IP which is not Yours but of another individual, speaker, attendee, participant, visitor, sponsor, cooperation partner, affiliate, third party service provider including the Evaluation Committee, Organizer’s personnel, authorized third parties and Licensed Parties, You hereby agree to return and/or submit all such Data/IP to the Organizer and/or delete any copy you may have kept at the request of the Organizer, immediately as soon as You have received it. You hereby agree to respect and treat the Data/IP of any such and all persons in a legal and confidential manner as if it is Yours. You hereby accept and take all responsibility whatsoever for any and all claims and damages occurred from Your failure to comply with Your responsibilities under this clause.
7. OWNERSHIP AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
7.1. You shall hold all ownership rights in Your Team’s Project including codes, applications, Ideas, materials, work, inventions, designs, specifications, phototypes, data models, algorithms, domain names, patents, database, trademarks, trade secrets, derivative works and anything produced and/or created specifically for the Event,.
7.2. You acknowledge that the Organizer shall hold and maintain the unlimited right and without any permission whatsoever to use, find, collect, receive, record, hold, maintain, copy, reproduce, edit, modify, disseminate, destroy, with or without indicating Your and/or Your Team’s denominations, names or pseudonyms, and/or to authorize the Licensed Parties to do the same, at their own discretion, including but not limited, after the HackAIthon Event, for promotional and marketing purposes of the Event and the Organizer, for business operations and/or media whatsoever, advertisements, merchandise, publicity materials, on websites and in social media postings, in editorial content, and/or any projects, programs, etc., whether now known or hereafter devised, anywhere in the world, in perpetuity, royalty-free, for any lawful purpose any works, activities, inventions, trademarks, software, technology, including, without limitation, all registered and unregistered trade names, service marks, trade dress, logos, and other identifying symbols, trade secrets and other assets and materials existing or to be created, used, developed, organized, proposed, related to HackAIthon and/or the Projects (including Your and/or Your Team’s Project and the Winning Project) and/or these Terms, including, without limitation, Your Data (where applicable and to the maximum possible extend possible and/or permitted by the laws governing these Terms), HackAIthon Content, all the Projects (including Your and/or Your Team’s Project and the Winning Project), any and all of Your and/or Your Teams’ contributions to HackAIthon and Projects (collectively hereinafter referred to as the “Organizer’s Rights”).
7.3. You hereby acknowledge and accept that You and/or Your Team are not entitled and shall not without the Organizer’s permission, in any way directly or indirectly, on Your own or through any other third parties, photograph, record, publish, broadcast (including via the internet), show or perform, stream, disseminate, telecast, transmit, air, distribute, or otherwise exhibit or reproduce or do any other act for which the Organizer holds the rights, in any manner whatsoever, all or any part of the Organizer’s intellectual property and HackAIthon’s Content disseminating under these Terms and/or from the execution of the Organizer’s Rights and/or Your Data.
7.4. You and/or Your Team have no right whatsoever to stop, prevent, deprive, eliminate, terminate, rescind the granting of any rights/rights of the Organizer and/or to enjoin, restrain, seek to enjoin, restrain HackAIthon and/or the production, utilization of the Organizer’s Rights and Your Data which are herein granted and described under this clause.
7.5. Any expenses, costs, charges You may have suffered for the creation, development of the Organizer’s Rights and/or Your Data shall not forbid and/or limit the Organizer’s rights under this clause 8 and You hereby release the Organizer from any claims and refunds in relation to such expenses.
8. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
8.1. You hereby represent and warrant that:
(a) You are 18 years of age or older and agree to provide the organizer with identification to confirm your age if required to do so by the organizer. You have all rights, power and capacity to enter into and abide by these Terms and any and all Supplementary Documents which create binding contractual obligations for the purposes of HackAIthon and/or for Your therein registration, participation and attendance;
(b) You are Cypriot or Cyprus resident having permit per the laws of the Republic of Cyprus or you are currently in Cyprus and would like to attend;
(b) You and Your Team share the same responsibilities under these Terms and when a party of Your Team, Participant or Author, does not comply with the obligations under these Terms, You may and shall, at the sole discretion of the Organizer, be wholly and/or partially and/or equally and/or proportionately and/or otherwise liable and suffer consequences;
(c) All statements, data, links, information, documentation, material that You make, provide, submit at any time under these Terms and for your registration, participation and attendance at HackAIthon, must be true, valid, represent You as an existing individual and must not be in any way fake, imaginary, fictitious, created, stolen, non-existed no violate or infringe upon any third party rights;
(d) You give the Organizer an irrevocable non-exclusive right to collect, store and use at its own discretion Your personal information, data, documentation, etc. provided by You under these Terms and HackAIthon, including for Your use of the Website and/or content and/or registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon and/or for the announcing/publication of such data, information in case You are part of a winning Team/Winning Project;
(e) You will promptly respond to all communications and in no event later than within 48 hours since communicated by the Organizer, whether in text, email, phone or via any other means in which You were contacted and/or as otherwise accepted by the Organizer;
(f) You will immediately and/or as soon as possible notify us of any changes to Your contact details or of any other information, data, documentation, etc. submitted by You for HackAIthon;
(f) You will forfeit any right You may have to a Prize and/or gift if You cannot be reached at the contact details You have provided and/or if You do not contact back the Organizer within thirty (30) calendar days since the first communication sent to You;
(g) You and Your Team own and/or otherwise have and retain all rights, permits, power, authority, and capacity to provide and grant any and all rights and Project, software, development, technology, products, solutions, Ideas, works, data, information, materials and in the volume granted by You and/or Your Team under these Terms;
(h) Your and/or Your Team’s exercise of any rights under these Terms will not violate, infringe or conflict with any rights of the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized parties and/or any third party, and there are no threatened or actual claims, liens, charges, restrictions, judgments, encumbrances on or related to any of such rights granted or any of the results and proceeds of the Project that will interfere with or limit the rights of the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized parties under these Terms
(i) You will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the HackAIthon and/or the Organizer’s and/or Licensed Parties’ material, content, websites, etc.;
(j) You will not engage in any activity that violates or breaches the Organizer’s and/or Licensed Parties’ and/or any third party’s legal rights;
(k) You and Your Team will comply, in all respects, with all laws applicable regarding and/or arising out of Your obligations under these Terms and HackAIthon, including but not limited to federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations;
(l) You were and are not involved in any illegal activities and/or in any advertising or marketing practices that are deceptive, misleading or fraudulent;
(m) You will act in a legal, ethical manner and maintain the highest degree of professionalism and standards of integrity, honesty and responsibility in your dealings with the Organization, Licensed Parties and their authorized third parties, employees and representatives, Teams, other participants, visitors, attendees, Venue and Venue’s owners and personnel, overall premises and equipment and HackAIthon in general;
(n) You will not act in an unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, offensive, harassing manner or in other similar way that may disrepute and/or harm the name, goodwill and reputation of the Organizer and/or its services and/or Website and/or content and/or any of its appointed personnel, connected/related companies, partners and third party service providers and/or HackAIthon;
(o) You will not act in an unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, offensive, harassing, neglectful or intentional manner or in any other way that may or actually cause death or any type of physical, mental, psychological harm, injury to any person regardless the severity;
(p) You will comply with all security and safety rules as indicated by the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and their authorized third parties, employees and representatives, and/or Venue and Venue’s owners and personnel;
(q) You will comply with any and all health and safety and/or other requirements, instructions imposed and/or indicated by any governmental body/authority and/or the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and their authorized third parties, employees and representatives, and/or Venue and Venue’s owners and personnel;
(r) You will not override any security feature of the Website or jeopardize the security of Your or anyone else’s registration, participation and attendance (such as allowing someone else to register/participate/attend as yourself);
(s) You will not interfere with and/or manipulate the process of HackAIthon in any way, especially technical processes, or attempt to do so and/or try in any other way to influence and/or affect the Evaluation Committee and/or the Winning Project;
aa. You will not engage in any action liable to impair in any way the smooth operation of HackAIthon, the internet, the registration, participation and attendance of other individuals and/or to overload the Organizer’s systems;
bb. You and Your Team will not upload or transmit through HackAIthon any computer viruses, macro viruses, Trojan horses, worms or anything other harmful activity;
cc. You and Your Team will not use manual or automated software, devices or other means or processes to access, scrape or crawl the Website, internet or any content or information contained in other Teams’/participant’s software and will not engage in ‘framing’, ‘mirroring’, or otherwise simulate their appearance or function;
dd. You will not modify, create derivative works or copy or store any significant portion of the Organizer’s Website and/or HackAIthon and/or any related technology (unless allowed by law or expressly authorized by the Organizer);
ee. You will not use filming equipment, screen capture or recording software, or any other devices to record HackAIthon and/or any aspect, procedure, information therein;
ff. You will not attempt to grant any unauthorized access to any part or component of any website, software, HackAIthon;
gg. You will not alter or modify any part of the Organizer’s Website other than as may be reasonably necessary for its intended use and You will not copy or distribute any part of the said Website in any medium without the Organizer’s prior written consent;
hh. You will not engage in any activity that may harm in any way HackAIthon, the Organizer, Licensed Parties and their authorized third parties, employees and representatives, Venue and Venue’s owners and personnel, their websites, participants, visitors, attendees and overall premises and equipment;
ii. You will not make any defamatory remarks and/or any untrue statements or claims about or on behalf of the Organizer, Licensed Parties and their authorized third parties, employees and representatives;
jj. You will not use HackAIthon’s and/or the Organizer’s Website, content for or in connection with commercial purposes;
kk. You must follow at all times the instructions, guidelines, rules of the Organizer;
ll. You will not act in any way to actually and/or with the intention to stop, prevent, deprive, eliminate, terminate in any way the rights/granting of rights of the Organizer under the present Terms and especially as indicated in clauses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 10 of these Terms;
mm. You will not object, contradict, argue, question, accuse, bring a claim against and/or otherwise demand form the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties in relation to decisions, powers and rights vested in, granted, retained by them under these Terms and HackAIthon, whether explicitly, directly or indirectly given by You and/or Your Team;
nn. You are solely and fully responsible for any and all taxes, dues, fees, expenses, charges in relation to the Prize and/or gift under these Terms;
oo. Any and all Prizes and gifts under these Terms are provided as is and You hereby release the Organizer and sponsors from any responsibility in relation to their functionality, dysfunctionality, malfunction, etc. and you hereby indemnify the Organizer and sponsors against any and all legal actions in connection to the said Prizes and gifts;
pp. You are strictly restricted to attempt to host or organize any event, contest, HackAIthon in conjunction with, contiguous to or purporting to be related to HackAIthon or its participants without the express prior written permission and cooperation of the Organizer. The Organizer reserves their right to take such action (legal or otherwise), including a claim for damages as in is sole discretion deems appropriate in the circumstances;
qq. You must in Your best endeavor: i) ensure that any and all third parties act consistently with and do everything necessary in order for You to perform Your obligations, representations and warranties under these Terms and ii) prevent any third party from infringing the rights of the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties and if necessary take legal action to stop such infringements and protect their rights;
rr. You hereby accept that any inaction at a time where You shall act in order to fulfill the representation and warranties under this clause 9 shall constitute act of breach of these representation and warranties;
ss. In any case you are in breach of any representation and warranty, as also, of any other term of these Terms, regardless the cause of the breach, the Organizer reserves the right to refuse and/or exclude and/or forbid and/or stop and/or cancel Your and/or Your Team’s use of the Website and/or content and/or registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon and/or deprive and/or remove from You and/or Your Team any and all rights may have in HackAIthon, a Project, a Prize and/or request to refund and/or return back the Prize and/or gift and/or terminate these Terms and/or claim damages, at any time without any explanation, prior warning or notification;
tt. The Organizer maintains at all times the right to take all action as described herein if affected third parties raise or threaten to pursue claims against the Organizers and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties and/or their employees and authorized representatives and/or Venue’s owners, arising from Your breach of the aforementioned representations and warranties and/or of the present Terms. In any case of such third party claims raised, regardless if raised during or after the end of HackAIthon, You are obliged to assist in any way possible the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties and/or their employees and authorized representatives and/or Venue’s owners and assume, as a procedural guarantee, to intervene, at Your own expense during trial in favor of them in order to successfully repel the respective allegations and claims and protect them.
uu. You hereby declare that You and Your successors will entirely indemnify the Organizer against any and all third-parties claims against it in connection with the guarantees provided above.
9. PERSONAL DATA
You hereby represent and warrant that the Organizer has all rights possible to obtained from You, for HackAIthon and/or Your registration, participation and attendance therein and/or acceptance of the present Terms, Your personal data, which may include amongst others and without limitation full name, age, registration address, citizenship, gender, place of residence, telephone number, postal address, email address, employment status, education qualifications, social media links and accounts, background details and any other data making Your identification possible (collectively hereinafter referred to as “Personal Data”), as also all rights, permissions and authorizations to process Your data in accordance with the Privacy Policy available at https://www.quadcodehackathon.com/privacy-policy.
10. INDEMNIFICATION
10.1. You hereby indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Organizer and the Licensed Parties from and against any and all claims (including third party claims), liabilities, losses, costs, damages or expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, which may be/are incurred or suffered in connection with or as a result of (a) Your breach, violation, failure, default, improper fulfilment of these Terms and of Your respective responsibilities, obligations, representation and warranties hereunder. (b) improper use of a Prize and/or a gift; (c) failure of paying and/or reporting any and all required federal, state or local income, or other taxes, costs, expenses, charges; (d) improper use and/or registration, participation, attendance in HackAIthon. Should You fail to duly fulfil Your obligations hereunder and/or with all and any guarantees, representations and warranties given by You under these Terms which entailed and/or resulted in any damages, fines, penalties or obligatory payments for the Organizer, You hereby agree and must compensate the Organizer in full for all and any such damages, fines, penalties or obligatory payments incurred by the Organizer.
11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND WARRANTY
11.1. EXCEPT FOR THE EXPRESS WARRANTIES SET FORTH IN THESE TERMS AND TO THE EXTEND PERMITTED BY LAW THE ORGANIZER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL OTHER WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES FOR NON-INFRINGEMENT, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HACKAITHON AND ANY AN ALL EQUIPMENT, SERVICES, PRIZES AND GIFTS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND AT YOUR OPTION AND RISK AND THE ORGANIZER DOES NOT GUARANTEE ANY WINNING, RESULTS OR SECURITY OF ANY KIND.
11.2. YOU ASSUME ALL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR THE/USE OF THE EQUIPMENT, SERVICES, PRIZES, GIFTS AND FOR YOUR REGISTRATION, PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE IN HACKAITHON. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE ORGANIZER AND/OR LICENSED PARTIES AND/OR AUTHORIZED THIRD PARTIES OR ANY OF ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, SHAREHOLDERS, PARTNERS, LICENSORS OR AGENTS, BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF OPPORTUNITIES, ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, INCOME, PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF DATA/INFORMATION, USE OR CORRUPTION OF SOFTWARE OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS) IN CONNECTION WITH ANY CAUSE, CLAIM, LOSS, DAMAGE, ACTION, SUIT OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHATSOEVER ARISING UNDER OR OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH, THESE TERMS, THE SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF, HACKAITHON, EQUIPMENT, SERVICES, PRIZES, GIFTS AND YOUR REGISTRATION, PARTICIPATION AND ATTENDANCE IN HACKAITHON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR USE OF, RELIANCE UPON, ACCESS TO, OR EXPLOITATION OF THEM, OR ANY OF THE RIGHTS GRANTED TO YOU HEREUNDER, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF, ADVISED OR OTHERWISE ANTICIPATED THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR WHETHER THE ACTION IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), MISREPRESENTATION, RESTITUTION, INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OR OTHERWISE. IN ANY CASE, THE ORGANIZER’S MAXIMUM LIABILITY HEREUNDER SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE PRIZE ACTUALLY DUE TO THE WINNING TEAMS OF HACKATON.
11.3. Your hereby accept that temporary restrictions or interruptions cannot be ruled out as a result of technical malfunctions (e.g. interruptions to the power supply, hardware or software errors, and technical problems). The Organizer reserves the right to take any action it considers appropriate at its own discretion, as for example to shut down, restrict or change the operation of its Website and/or HackAIthon wholly or partially, at any time and for any reason, without explanation or prior notice.
11.4. You acknowledge and agree that views, Ideas, opinions, thoughts, arguments expressed by any person including Licensed Parties, authorized third parties, authorized representatives, speakers, attendees, participants, visitors, sponsor, affiliates and third party service providers including the Evaluation Committee and the Organizer’s personnel, at or in connection with HackAIthon are mere views, Ideas, opinions, thoughts, arguments owned by those individuals and the Organizer has not and does not accept any responsibility or liability for any advice given or such views, Ideas, opinions, thoughts, arguments expressed during or in connection with HackAIthon. The Organizer and HackAIthon do not offer any type of advice and such views, Ideas, opinions, thoughts, arguments expressed during or in connection with HackAIthon do not constitute legal, financial, professional, medical or tax advice and cannot be used for such purposes nor for Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon. You acknowledge and accept that all information and content accessed by You for and/or during HackAIthon and Your registration, participation and attendance therein is at Your own risk. The Organizer, Licensed Parties, authorized third parties, authorized representatives, do not provide any guarantees, conditions or warranties that the materials are complete or accurate and do not accept any responsibility or liability for reliance by You or by any other person on any aspect and/or information provided at/during HackAIthon. The Organizer expressly disclaims any liability or responsibility for usage of, implementation of, impact from, or communications of the views, Ideas, opinions, thoughts, arguments or discussions presented, expressed by any Licensed Parties, authorized third parties, authorized representatives, speakers, attendees, participants, visitors, sponsor, partners, affiliates and third party service providers.
11.5. You hereby understand and accept that the Organizer does not have any responsibility for the dissemination of Your Data and HackAIthon Content from Internet and social media users (e.g. transfer, uploading, downloading, sharing, etc.) and does not guarantee nor is responsible for any damage caused to anyone from the use of the HackAIthon Website and of its content to which use the users proceed at their own risk.
11.6. HackAIthon and/or Your registration, participation, attendance in HackAIthon may contain links to third parties and to contributions uploaded/made by other third parties, Licensed Parties, authorized third parties, individuals, companies, participants, sponsors including videos, images, descriptions, links and other content. The Organizer is not responsible or liable to these third party sites, etc. and you should review any terms and conditions when entering those sites or viewing their content.
12. CONFIDENTIALITY
12.1. You hereby agree that the present Terms are confidential. In addition, You acknowledge that in connection with these Terms and HackAIthon, You may have access to the Organizer’s and/or its Licensed Parties’ confidential information. All information disclosed to You under/for Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon and execution of Your obligations, representations and warranties hereunder, which is not known by or generally available to the public at large, whether disclosed directly or indirectly, in writing, electronically, orally or by drawings or samples, equipment or facilities, is confidential. Such confidential information includes but is not limited to any information related to the Organizer’s and/or Licensed Parties’ and/or authorized third parties’ business, plans, projects, technology, customers, costs, third parties’ personal data, information and documentation, developments, know-hows, other information specified as such by the Organizer and/or which became known to You during HackAIthon and/or Your registration, participation and attendance therein and/or through any other person/authorized representative/participant/visitor/speaker/attendee/sponsor/personnel/, system, communication channel, corporate resource of the Organizer. Confidential information also includes any notes, summaries, analyses or other material derived from such confidential information.
12.2. You must not disclose to any third parties any confidential information, and You hereby agree to take any measures to prevent disclosure of such information to any third parties. You must not distribute, publish, copy, reproduce or otherwise use the information specified as confidential pursuant to these Terms or the Organizer’s instructions.
12.3. At the Organizer’s request, You must immediately return to the Organizer all documents (including but not limited to printed, handwritten, or electronic media) either provided to You by the Organizer and/or Licensed Parties and/or authorized third parties and their representatives/personnel, or developed by the You in fulfillment of Your obligations under these Terms and/or Your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon.
12.4. Your obligations under this confidentiality clause shall survive termination of these Terms.
13.5. You hereby understand and agree to be liable to the Organizer for the failure to adhere to the terms of this clause by indemnifying the latter for the damages incurred.
12.6. You hereby agree to use the confidential information only in connection with these Terms and HackAIthon and You must not disclose any such confidential information to any third party (except as required by the applicable law), provided that the Organizer shall be promptly notified in writing and given an opportunity to object to such disclosure or seek confidential treatment of any such disclosure.
13. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR
13.1. Nothing in these Terms will be construed to place the Parties in the relationship of partners, joint ventures, principal and agent, employer and employee or any other legal or equitable relationship in which any one of the Parties will be liable for the acts or omissions of the other Party and no Party has the authority to bind or obligate the other Party in any matter whatsoever or any other relationship other than that of an independent contractor.
13.2. You acknowledge and agree that You shall be an independent contractor of the Organizer. For this purpose and in order to register, participate and attend HackAIthon You shall be required to sign/accept/consent to any and all Supplementary Documents, whose terms shall be consistent with and part of these Terms. These Terms are agreed between You and the Organizer and You agree that any payments (e.g., a Prize) by the Organizer in connection with these Terms shall be made by the Organizer to You personally. The Organizer shall make no deduction from payments to You for federal or state tax withholdings, social security, unemployment or disability insurance. You shall be responsible for Your own taxes, etc. You do not have any authority to enter into and/or make any commitments or obligations on behalf of the Organizer and/or Licensed Party and/or authorized third party and You shall not at any time represent that You have such authority.
14. FORCE MAJEURE EVENTS
14.1. You hereby agree and release the Organizer from any and all liability for the partial and/or full non-fulfillment of its obligations under the present Terms if it appeared as the consequence of force-majeure circumstances. Circumstances beyond the Organizer’s control, including force majeure events, may necessitate substitutions, alterations, postponements and/or cancellations to the content, format, themes, names, performers, hosts, moderators, services, equipment, speakers, Topics, internet, programs, sites, Venue, dates, timing, platforms of HackAIthon, even if already published and/or otherwise provided.
14.2. Force majeure events include amongst others: (a) power or server outages or issues; (b) update or maintenance periods; (c) acts of God, fire, flood, drought, earthquake or other natural disaster; (d) epidemic or pandemic; (e) terrorist attack, civil war, military actions, civil commotion or riots, war, threat of or preparation for war, armed conflict, imposition of sanctions, embargo, or breaking off of diplomatic relations; (f) nuclear, chemical or biological contamination or sonic boom; (g) any law, adopted act, regulation or any action taken by a government or public authority; (h) collapse of buildings, fire, explosion or accident; (i) any labor or trade dispute, strikes, industrial action or lockouts; (j) non-performance by suppliers or subcontractors; (k) interruption or failure of utility service and/or (l) electronic or communications failure.
14.3. The Organizer reserves the right to do any such substitutions, alterations, postponements and/or cancellations at any time without being liable to You for any cost, expenditure, damage, loss incurred by You as a result. The Organizer will try to notify You as soon as reasonably practicable of any such substitutions, postponements, or changes by communicating the information to You via any mean(s) at its own discretion.
15. MISCELLANEOUS
15.1. Any and all Supplementary Documents to be and/or actually singed/accepted/consented by You for your registration, participation and attendance in HackAIthon constitute an integral part of these Terms and including HackAIthon’s Privacy Policy. In the event of any inconsistency between these Terms and any of the Supplementary Documents, these Terms shall prevail.
15.2. These Terms, including any and all Supplementary Documents constituting an integral part of it, form the entire agreement between the Parties hereto and supersedes any and all prior agreements, arrangements or understandings between the Parties relating to the subject matter hereof. You hereby agree that in entering into these Terms You have not relied and are not relying on any representations, warranties, covenants, conditions or other statements whatsoever, whether by stature or otherwise, written or oral, express or implied, other than those expressly set out in these Terms and that You will not have any right or remedy rising out of any representation, warranty, covenant, condition or other statement in relation to these Terms and/or HackAIthon and/or to any related service not expressly set out in these Terms.
15.3. The Organizer reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to modify and/or replace any and all these Terms at any time, with or without any notice at its sole discretion. At the Organizer’s sole discretion, the Organizer may provide You with a prior notice of the changes taking effect. By continuing Your registration and/or participation and/or attendance in HackAIthon upon any relevant modification and/or replacement and/or publication and/or announcement of any terms, you automatically and immediately thereupon agree to be bound by them.
15.4. Applicable law and Jurisdiction: These Terms and all disputes or claims arising out, in connection with or with respect to HackAIthon or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Cyprus, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflicting provisions or rules. Each Party irrevocably agrees that the courts of Cyprus shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms or their subject matter or formation.
15.5. These Terms, and all rights and obligations required hereunder, may not be assigned, transferred, mortgaged, charged, subcontracted, declared a trust over or dealt in any other manner by You unless preliminary approved in writing by the Organizer. The Organizer has the right to assign and subcontract any of its rights or obligations hereunder to its Licensed Parties, authorized third parties or any other third parties as indicated by the Organizer.
15.6. If any part of these Terms is determined to be void, invalid or unenforceable, then such part shall be deemed to be separate and severable from the other portions of these Terms, and the other portions shall be given full force and effect, as though the void and invalid portions or provisions were never a part of these Terms.
15.7. A failure by the Organizer to enforce any provision of these Terms shall not be in any way construed as a waiver of any such provision nor prevent the Organizer thereafter from enforcing each and every provision of these Terms.
16. TERM
These Terms shall cover the relations arising between the parties upon Your registration for HackAIthon and shall continue in force until the end of HackAIthon event.
17. COMMUNICATION
Any notice or other communication made under these Terms shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly delivered if it is delivered by e-mail,
(a) for the Organizer: hackathon@quadcode.com
(b) for the Participant: at the email connected to its registration.
Last update: 17 April 2024
JUNE 15th-16th, 2024, The Warehouse by IT Quarter, Limassol.
Have any queries? Email us directly at hackathon@quadcode.com