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Competition regulations - AI Innovators 2024 Hackathon & Conference

§ 1 [preliminary provisions]

1. These regulations (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") define the rules and procedure for conducting the Competition under the name - AI Innovators 2024 Hackathon & Conference (hereinafter referred to as "Competition"), organized by ChallengeRocket Sp. z o.o., with its registered office in Rzeszów, Pl. Wolności 13/2, 35-073 Rzeszów, REGON: 365462321, KRS: 0000638669, NIP: 8133727946 (hereinafter referred to as the "Organizer").
2. The competition is organized online using the ChallengeRocket Platform and takes place between March 2024 and April 2024, with a stationary final in Warsaw on April 23, 2024.
3. Joining the Competition is possible only for users of the ChallengeRocket Platform after accepting the terms of these Regulations.

§ 2 [conditions for participation in the Competition]

1. The Competition is intended for natural persons who, at the time of submitting their entry into the Competition, meet the following conditions: a) are over 18 years of age, b) have their place of residence in the territory of the Republic of Poland, c) have full legal capacity, d) read the content of these Regulations and accepted its provisions.
2. Employees of the Organizer or Partners or their immediate family members cannot participate in the Competition (immediate family members are understood as: ascendants, descendants, siblings, siblings, parents of spouses, collateral relatives up to the 1st degree and persons who are adopted or related in marriage).
3. Participation in the Competition is free and voluntary.
4. In order to participate, it is necessary to fill in the appropriate registration form via the Platform.
5. The Competition may only be entered individually. Participants enter the competition on their own behalf.

§ 3 [rules of the competition]

1. The Participant's task is to create a project on the practical application of generative AI across diverse domains such as: Software Development, Finance and Banking, Media, HR-tech, Med-tech, E-commerce, Education and other.
2. Each Participant may enter the Competition and approach solving the competition tasks only once.
3. Participants who try to register for the Competition from multiple accounts and attempt the tasks more than once will be disqualified.
4. The Organizer reserves the right to check whether the entire work code of the Participant, excluding ready-made, publicly available and legal libraries, has been created by the Participant of the Competition as part of its duration.
5. In the event of a breach by the Participant of the provisions of the Regulations and generally applicable law, the Organizer will have the right to disqualify the Participant from participating in the Competition.

§ 4 [adjudication]

1. Competition participants will present their Competition Works to the Jury. 
2. Competition Entries will be judged by the Jury.
3. All Competition Entries will be assessed according to the following criteria:

• Innovation - 40% of the final score,
• Impact - 30% of the final score,
• Technological maturity - 30% of the final score.

4. The Jury's decisions are final and may not be appealed against.

5. The Organizer provides prizes to the Winning Participants / Team who are the authors of the 1 highest-rated Competition Entry: 10,000 PLN (gross).

6. The Competition winners will be announced on 23/04/2024 during the stationary component of the event in Warsaw and via the Platform.

7. The authors of the winning Competition Entry undertake to provide ChallengeRocket with complete and correct bank account details and personal data enabling the tax settlement of the prize within 14 days from the date of announcing the Winners (i.e. from 23/04/2024). The payment of each prize will be made within 14 days from the date of receipt of complete and correct data from the winner. If the above-mentioned information is not provided within 14 days from the date of announcing the Competition Winners (i.e. from 23/04/2024), the Organizer reserves the right to cancel the prize or award it to another Team.

8. ChallengeRocket, as a flat-rate personal income tax payer, will calculate, collect and deliver to the appropriate tax office 10% flat-rate income tax due on the winnings in accordance with Art. 41 paragraph. the Act of July 26, 1991 on personal income tax (consolidated text: Journal of Laws of 2000, No. 14, item 176, as amended). The value of the paid award will be reduced by the flat-rate income tax of 10%.

§ 5. [intellectual property rights to the competition entry]

1. The Participants remain the owners of all intellectual property rights, including copyrights to works and works created during the Competition.
2. The Participant declares and warrants that the Competition Entry is his sole authorship and does not infringe any rights of third parties. The Competition Participant also declares that he assumes full and unlimited liability for any claims of third parties against the Organizer regarding the Competition Entry, including claims arising in connection with the business or professional activity performed by the Competition Participant based on the Competition Entry, with use of this Competition Entry.
3. The Competition Participant gives the Organizer permission to use photographs, screenshots and other materials showing the Participant's image, page or other elements related to the Competition for internal and promotional purposes of the Organizer.

§ 6 [processing of personal data]

1. The controller of personal data of Competition Participants within the meaning of Article 4(7) of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the EU Council 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46 / EC (hereinafter "GDPR") is the Organizer.
2. The personal data will be processed in order to register participation, conduct the Competition, select the winners and transfer the prizes (if provided).
3. The Organizer may process Participants' data in order to propose the terms of cooperation to the Participant - according to legitimate interest (Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR).
4. Participants' data may be shared with entities supporting the Organiser for the purpose of the Competition (including Partners of the AI Innovators 2024 Hackathon & Conference).
5. Providing personal data by the Participant is voluntary, but it is necessary to take part in the Competition.
6. Participants' data will be kept only for the period necessary to implement the assumptions of the Competition and its conduct.
7. The Organizer provides Participants with the exercise of their rights in relation to the processed personal data, i.e. the right to access data, the right to rectify data, the right to delete data, the right to limit data processing, the right to transfer data, the right to object to processing, to lodge a complaint. to the supervisory body and the right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data at any time - to the extent that the processing is based on the consent of the Participant.
8. In order to exercise the rights listed above, the Participant may contact the Organizer at the following e-mail address: office@challengerocket.com.

§ 7 [final provisions]



1. The rules of the Competition are set out in these Regulations. All information about the Competition available in the advertising materials is for information purposes only. In matters not covered by these Regulations, the provisions of the Civil Code, the Act on the Protection of Personal Data and the Act on Copyright and Related Rights shall apply.
2. The Organizer reserves the right to amend the Regulations, provided that it is dictated by important reasons beyond the control of the Organizer.
3. The Organizer will inform the Participant about the change of the provisions of the Regulations by e-mail and will place the Regulations in the new wording on the Competition website.
4. The Organizer shall not be liable for any property or non-material damage caused by the Participant as a result of taking part in the Competition or as a result of and in connection with the intended or not intended use of the Prize. The Participant is fully responsible for the damage caused.
5. The Organizer reserves the right to change and/or remove any content that violates generally applicable law during the Competition and until the audience vote is completed.
6. The participant may submit reservations regarding the Competition.
7. Complaints may be submitted via office@challengerocket.com.
8. Complaints about the ChallengeRocket Platform should be directed to the Platform Operator in accordance with the Platform's terms of use.
9. Complaints are recognized immediately. In the event that it is impossible to process the complaint within the indicated period, the Organizer will inform the applicant about it, providing at the same time the reason for the extension of the deadline and the scheduled time of response.