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The Food Solutions Challenge (“Challenge”) is designed to increase awareness of the connections between food production and climate change. The Challenge engages participants as people who submit a solution through the Net Impact website: http://bit.ly/2l8O8ui(“Participant”). By participating in the Challenge, all Participants agree to the following rules, which must be adhered to in order to participate.
Convener and Sponsor
This Challenge is convened by Net Impact (“Convener”, located at 1333 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612) with the financial support of an outside organization (the “Sponsor”). Net Impact is solely responsible for this Challenge.
Overview
The Challenge is competition where eligible Participants (see General Rules below) submit entries in response to the Challenge prompt. The Challenge opens at 9:00 am PST on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, at which point Participants may enter the Challenge by submitting an entry in response to the Challenge prompt here: http://bit.ly/2l8O8ui. The Challenge will conclude at 11:59 pm PM PST on June 2, 2017.
General Rules
Participants are only eligible for prizes if they have attended an online Food Solutions webinar hosted by Net Impact between May 2 and June 2, 2017. Sign-ups to the webinars can be found HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Every action taken by Participants in conjunction with this contest must comply with local, state and federal laws. Participants outside the U.S. also must comply with all applicable U.S. laws.
Net Impact is a non-partisan organization and does not favor or discriminate against any political party. Net Impact does not support or oppose any candidates for public office.
Participants must be respectful that they are representing Net Impact's brand and its mission during the contest and while carrying out Challenge activities. Any activities or behavior that Net Impact, at its sole discretion, deems to be inconsistent with, or in opposition to, Net Impact's message may result in disqualification from this contest.
Participants must abide by all college and university rules, including university licensing and copyright rules and regulations. Sanctions for such violations are the responsibility of each participating college or university based on their own rules and regulations.
Participants must be 18 years of age or older as of the date of entry; residents of Alabama and Nebraska must be 19 years of age or older, and residents of Mississippi must be 21 years of age or older as of the entry date. All Participants attending a college or university in the U.S. must be currently registered as full-time students in good standing at a college or university accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency contained on the list published by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. All students attending college or university outside the U.S. must be currently registered as full-time students in good standing at a college or university determined by Net Impact to be recognized as appropriately accredited. Participants must also meet all other eligibility requirements as set forth herein.
Directors, officers, and employees of Net Impact, and the immediate family members of such directors, officers or employees, and persons living in the same household as such directors, officers or employees (whether related or not) are not eligible.
Prizes will only be awarded to eligible Participants. Prizes cannot be exchanged for alternate prizes except by Net Impact, which may substitute a prize of equal or greater value if the featured prize becomes unavailable. Not all prizes will be available to all Participants. Notably, students who attend a school not in the U.S. may not be eligible to receive the same prizes as those who attend a school in the U.S.
Participants receiving prize money or any prizes associated with Challenge are responsible for all related tax obligations.
Net Impact reserves the right to alter the Challenge Rules in any way, at any time.
Participants agree to receive email and newsletter communications from Net Impact. Participants may opt out of receiving each type of communication upon receipt.
By signing this document, Participants affirm their commitment to the Challenge Rules
Prizes and Judging:
Eligible entries will be evaluated by Net Impact staff in response to the Challenge criteria of: Impact, Innovation, and Viability.
The winner will receive a $500.00 prize. Net Impact reserves the right to offer an equivalent prize at any time.
Prize payment will be made only to the person who signs this agreement (Participant) not to anyone else. Net Impact does not take responsibility for any taxes related to any prizes earned. Participants are responsible for their own taxes. The winner will be notified within 10 day of judging via email. If a response is not received within 48 hours, the prize will be forfeited and offered to the second place submission.
Honor Code
Net Impact will verify to the greatest extent of our ability that Participants performed honestly and in good faith, but Participants are also expected to abide by the Challenge Honor Code at all times. The Honor Code states that Participants agree to represent themselves, as well as all actions they take and report, honestly and consistently with Challenge Rules.
Any Participant found to be in violation of the Honor Code will be disqualified.
Intellectual Property
Participants retain copyright ownership, if any, in the solutions generated in the Challenge, whether they are submitted at the local event, via social media, as their group’s official Challenge submission, or in any other capacity. Neither Net Impact nor Sponsor shall commercialize a solution unless express written permission is granted by the Participant. However, if the Participant’s solution is an idea or concept previously conceived of by Net Impact or Sponsor at the time of submission, whether or not such idea or concept has been commercialized, the Participant will not hold claim to that idea or concept. However, all Participants hereby grant Net Impact and Sponsor a royalty free license, without geographic or time limitation, to use and display their solution for promotional or advertising relating purposes in any and all media. Net Impact or Sponsor’s use of the solution after the Challenge for advertising and promotional purposes may or may not include the Participant’s name(s).
Participants represent, warrant and agree that they are the sole creator of their solutions of, if not the sole creator, that they have the express permission of any person who assisted them in preparing the solutions.
All solutions submitted (Submissions) will be reviewed by Net Impact to ensure consistency with intent and are subject to rejection by Net Impact. Submissions must not contain any inappropriate or offensive material, as determined solely by Net Impact. Any Submission, which in the sole opinion of Net Impact, is deemed inappropriate (e.g., defamation, nudity, pornography, gratuitous violence, inappropriate language, obscenity, illegality, racial or moral offensiveness, etc.) or is inconsistent with the theme or image of the Challenge may be rejected and will result in disqualification. Moreover, Submissions must comply with all laws, rules, and regulations including, but not limited to, those concerning copyright, plagiarism, trademark, defamation and invasion of privacy. Participants must have the legal right to use and transfer to Net Impact all photos, text and other materials used in the participant's Submissions or otherwise in the Challenge.
Participants agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Net Impact and its affiliates and Sponsors, along with each of their officers, directors, employees, agents, and contractors (collectively the “Related Parties”), from and against any and all liability, losses, costs and expenses (including attorney fees) incurred as a result of any Submission submitted to Net Impact in violation of any terms contained in these Challenge Rules.
Net Impact reserves the right to contact Participants and request copies of Submissions.
Neither Net Impact, nor Related Parties is responsible for lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, or non-delivered Submissions; or for interrupted or unavailable satellite, network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, telephone or other connections, availability or accessibility, or miscommunications, or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, or lines, or technical failure or jumbled, corrupted, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures, or technical errors or difficulties, or other errors of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic or network or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry or other information or the failure to capture, or loss of, any such information.
Disqualification
Net Impact reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any participant for any reason at any time throughout the contest, including, but not limited to, disqualifying any participant where Net Impact finds a participant to be attempting to tamper with or undermine the submission process, the website, and/or the legitimate operation of this Challenge; to violate these rules or the Challenge Rules; or to act in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person.
Net Impact can and will, at its sole discretion, disqualify and/or dock points based on any violation of the Challenge Rules, whether concrete or subjective.
Multimedia Release and Privacy Policy
Except where prohibited by law, Participants grant to Net Impact (will be confirmed in writing on request of Net Impact) and its chapter affiliates and Sponsors the right and permission to print, publish, broadcast, and use, worldwide in any media now known or hereafter developed, including but not limited to the world wide web, at any time or times, each participant's name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, and biographical information for advertising, trade, and promotional purposes (including the announcement of his or her name on television or radio broadcast) without additional consideration, compensation, permission, or notification. The winners lists will be posted on the website at the time of announcement.
Participant information will be collected via the Submission page: http://bit.ly/2l8O8ui. This Challenge and all participant information is subject to the Net Impact privacy policy: https://www.netimpact.org/about/privacy-policy.
Participation in the Challenge is voluntary and Participants will not receive financial compensation of any type associated with the taking or publication of these photographs, or participation in company marketing materials or other publications.
Participants accept full responsibility for obtaining consent to use photographs, video footage, or names of students for all content related Challenge.
Release and Limitations of Liability
By participating in this contest, Participants agree that Net Impact and the Related Parties will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by Participants against, any liability for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind to persons, including personal injury or death, or property resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from participation in this contest or any other Challenge-related activity, from acceptance, possession, misuse, or use of the prize or entry, or any claims based on publicity rights, defamation or invasion of privacy, or merchandise delivery. Participants agree that the Related Parties will not be responsible or liable for any injuries, damages, or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of access to and use of website www.netimpact.org or any other website operated by Net Impact or its affiliates, or from downloading from and/or printing material downloaded from said websites. Without limiting the foregoing, everything regarding the Challenge, including the website and all prizes, are provided AS IS without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
Participants understand and agree that agreement of the Challenge Rules prevents participant and his or her successors from bringing a lawsuit, claim or other action against Net Impact and Related Parties and from recovering monetary damages or other legal relief from Net Impact or Related Party in connection with any of the claims released above.