Terms & Conditions
CLS Engagement App Challenge
ARTICLE 1 – ORGANIZATION OF THE COMPETITION
The company BeMyApp, a French company with a capital of 1.250,00 euros, whose registered office is located 18 Boulevard Michelet, 13008 Marseille, France - company registration number B 523 824 258 (Marseille RCS) - is organizing on behalf of the company CLS Services Ltd (“CLS”), a UK company, whose registered office is 1 Harbour Exchange Square, London E14 9GE, company registration number 4132704 (hereafter referred to, collectively, as “Organizer”) a hackathon called “CLS Engagement App Challenge” (hereafter referred to as “Competition”) from 9.00am 15th November 2018 to 7.00pm 16th November 2018.
ARTICLE 2 – OBJECTIVE OF THE COMPETITION
The aim of the competition is to develop, in teams and over a limited amount of time, an innovative solution on and in relation to Employee Engagement Mobile Applications.
ARTICLE 3 – PARTICIPATION PROCESS
The Competition is free and without any purchase obligation. The Competition is open to all individuals (i) who have the age required by law in their country of residence to enter this competition, (ii) who hold a bank account in their country of tax residence, (iii) who have IT
skills, technical skills, design skills, or marketing skills and (iv) who have their own computer hardware in working order throughout the duration of the Competition (hereafter referred to as “Participants”).
Employees of CLS, CLS Bank International, and CLS Holdings, B BeMyApp and/or their affiliates, and members of their families, as well as anyone who has directly or indirectly contributed to the conception, organization or realization of the Competition, are ineligible to take part in the Competition.
The registration for the Competition is open from 10th September 2018 until 19th October 2018. The hackathon will take place from 9.00am 15th November 2018 until 7.00pm 16th November 2018.
Each registration in the hackathon is individual, and only one registration per person is allowed during the entire duration of the Competition.
Phase 1: Registration process 2
● Date: Between 10th September 2018 and 19th October 2018
● Object: Every person wishing to participate can register online on the dedicated website for the Competition accessible at the following address:
clsinnovation.bemyapp.com. Registrations will be limited to 10 startup teams for external registrants. Registrants must provide the following information: last name, first name, date of birth, address, phone number, email and their profile for the purpose of the Competition, as suggested on the website. This information is required for the completion of their application.
Each candidate guarantees that the information entered during his/her application to the Competition is complete and accurate. Any false, incorrect or incomplete information will automatically result in the application being rejected.
The Organizer reserves the right to reject an application at any time if the profile of the Participant does not comply with the Competition standards.
Phase 2: “Ideation” Online platform
● Date: On 1st November 2018
● Platform website address: projects-clsinnovation.bemyapp.com
● Object: On the “Ideation” platform, each Participant will exchange with mentors and other Participants their questions and ideas in order to mature them before the hackathon.
Phase 3: Beginning of the Competition
● Date: On 15th 2018 November at 9.00am
● Place: LABS,136 High Holborn, London WC1V 6PX
● Object: Startups will meet in teams of three (3) to four (4) Participants to focus around a single project of developing a prototype (hereafter referred to as “Teams”).
A Participant cannot be a part of more than one Team. Teams will have until 16th November 2018 at 3:00 pm to develop their prototype.
Phase 4: Start of work on the projects
● Date: From 15th November 2018 at 9.00am to 16th November 2018 at 3.00pm
● Place: LABS,136 High Holborn, London WC1V 6PX
● Object: One mission: creating a solution in the form of a mobile application to connect and engage CLS employees. During the Competition, meals will be available to Participants for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Phase 5: Evaluation and presentation of the prototype
● Date: On 16th November 2018 at 3:30pm
● Place: LABS,136 High Holborn, London WC1V 6PX
● Object: From 3:30pm, each Team will present its prototype to the jury for a duration which will be determined according to the number of developed prototypes and 3 which will not exceed 5 minutes, including 3 minutes of demo and 2 minutes of questions/answers with the jury.
Phase 6: Jury’s selection and Competition results
● Date: On 16th November 2018 at 5:30pm
● Place: LABS,136 High Holborn, London WC1V 6PX
● Object: Jury’s deliberation and announcement of winners and prizes At the end of this incubation phase, a jury made of employees from the Organizer’s company and external stakeholders will rate the projects in the incubation program. The criteria for the incubation project presentation have not been established yet.
ARTICLE 4 – DETERMINATION OF WINNERS
The one winning Team will be determined by a jury of 5 to 8 members representing CLS and other professionals. The composition of the jury will be communicated to the Participants at the latest on 14th November 2018. The jury will designate the winners on 16th November 2018 near 5:30pm.
The winners will be selected from among the Participants who actually:
- Satisfy the conditions for participation as set forth in the present rules
- Participated in the hackathon session
- Were present during the submission of their prototype at 3:30pm, or – if need be – were excused by the other members of their Team.
The jury will select the winning Teams based on the following criteria:
1) Innovation
2) Business plan
3) UI/UX interface/Aesthetics
4) Quality of prototype
Jury decisions are final and cannot be challenged.
ARTICLE 5 – PRIZES AWARDED
The Competition is endowed with one (1) prize:
1st prize: the opportunity to gain £10k to work with CLS and bring the Employee Engagement Mobile Application to a Minimum Viable Product.
The first prize (£10k) is subject to the product meeting CLS security and other internal control functions requirements.
If after the announcement of the winning team a Participant does not meet the CLS security checks, the Participant will forfeit the £10k first prize.
ARTICLE 6 – PRIZE ALLOCATION
The allocation of theprize will depend on the outcome of the event and the quality of the projects presented. CLS will manage the allocation of the prize with the winner after the event.
Following the event and the announcement of the winner, if CLS decides to withdraw from the agreement for any reason, it reserves the right to withdraw the £10k prize and progressing with developing an innovative solution in relation to Employee Engagement Mobile Application without incurring liability as a result thereof. Any further engagements in relation to this competition after the announcement of the prize will be dependent on and subject to the contractual arrangements between CLS and the Participant and/or winning Participant.
ARTICLE 7 – COMPENSATION
The Participant waives all of his/her claims regarding compensation against the Organizer due to his/her participation to the Competition (in particular with regards to costs incurred for participation such as transport, accommodation, etc.) with the exception of drinks and
meals which will be supplied by the Organizer during the duration of the Competition.
ARTICLE 8 – MODIFICATION, INTERRUPTION AND TERMINATION OF THE COMPETITION
The Organizer and CLS each at their discretion, reserve the right to shorten, extend, modify or terminate the Competition, or a part of the Competition, for any reason without incurring liability as a result thereof.
In such case, the Organizer will provide notice thereof to the Participants by any means of its choice (including e-mail and/or publication on the Website), and, if the need arises, will communicate to the Participants the new rules applicable or the new ending date of the
Competition, as the case may be. Each Participant may notify the Organizer by e-mail thats/he refuses the new conditions of the rules, in which case s/he will be excluded from participating, which s/he expressly accepts. If no refusal is communicated to the Organizer
within 72 hours, the new conditions of the rules will be deemed to have been accepted by Participants.
In case of a modification to the rules, cancellation or interruption of the Competition, or a reduction or an extension of its length, the Organizer waives all liability and Participants will not be entitled to any compensation.
ARTICLE 9 – FRAUD
The Organizer may cancel all or part of participations in the Competition if it appears that fraud has occurred in any form whatsoever, in particular computer fraud, during the Competition. The Organizer reserves, in this case, the right not to award prizes to fraudsters, to disqualify the concerned prototype project and/or to bring actions against the authors of these frauds. The Organizer shall not incur any responsibility towards the Participants because of the committed frauds.
Furthermore, the Organizer cannot be liable in case of damage, whether material or immaterial, caused during the Competition and thereafter, to the Participants, to their computing equipment, or to the data, including consequences which may ensue from it on
their personal, professional or commercial activity.
ARTICLE 10 – EXPLOITATION RIGHTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Exploitation and property rights to prototypes developed during the Competition are reserved to Participants.
If the Participants wish to assign their rights, they shall first offer to the Organizer the option to acquire the rights in their prototypes for commercial use. The conditions of this assignment of rights shall be defined by way of a separate agreement between the Organizer and the Participants.
During the Competition, the Participants shall only use elements which are clear of any rights. Any third-party elements included in the prototype, including open source software, must be clearly identified with their version, the terms of the applicable license and any
other details regarding their use. The Participant understands that this information is taken into account in the assessment for the allocation of a prize.
The prototypes shall not infringe any intellectual property right or images right. Each Participant warrants to the Organizer that their creation does not infringe in any way any third-party rights, and that s/he obtained, where necessary, the authorization of any third
party.
By joining the Competition, Participants expressly authorize the Organizer, for free, to publish, communicate, exhibit and disclose orally, graphically or in writing, projects and prototypes presented during the Competition. Each Participant agrees to be mediatized (portfolio, website, etc.) and authorizes the Organizer, for free, to present all the works realized on all the communication media used in support of this Competition as well as to mention names, first names and images of the Participants.
Under this regulation, the Participant shall not acquire any full or partial right of any kind on the name and trademark “CLS” nor on any names and/or brands associated with CLS, used alone, in association with or as part of another word or name, or any rights on trademarks, names or logos of CLS, or any of its associated or related companies.
ARTICLE 11 – IMAGE RIGHTS
The Participants may be filmed or photographed during the event. By joining the Competition, the Participants agree to the use and the distribution of their image by the Organizer, including for promotional events occurring after the Competition. The production and distribution of films and photographs of the event will not lead to any compensation of the Participants.
ARTICLE 12 - CONFIDENTIALITY
The Participant acknowledges the confidentiality of all information and documents which have been shared with him/her throughout the Competition.
During the whole duration of the Competition, the Participant will not directly or indirectly use or share any information with any third party, unless s/he has obtained a written authorization to do so, delivered by the Organizer beforehand. This applies to information shared with him/her by the Organizer or shared with him/her indirectly upon the execution of these Terms and Conditions (“T&Cs”).
The Participant commits to delivering any document containing confidential information or shared with the Participant upon the execution of these T&Cs, on the Organizer’s simple request. The confidentiality obligations as set out in this Article 12 are valid for 24 months from the start of the Phase 2 as set out in these T&Cs. .
ARTICLE 13 – PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
The collection and processing of personal data relating to the Participant by the Organizer is primarily intended to ensure that the Competition will be properly completed and in particular to allow the Organizer to contact the winner and to award them the prizes in an efficient way and, if the case arises, to publish the list of the winners.
Personal Data that a Participant submits when you participate in the hackathon will be treated in accordance with BeMyApp’s Privacy Policy http://privacy.bemyapp.com/ and applicable data protection laws.
Participants have the right to access, update and/or obtain deletion of their data by requesting directly to BeMyApp at the following address: 86 rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris.
ARTICLE 14 - RESPONSIBILITY
BeMyApp reminds Participants about the characteristics and limits of the internet network and declines any responsibility regarding any consequence that may occur while they are connected to the Internet network on the event websites and during their participation in the
Competition.
BeMyApp shall not be made responsible if Participants cannot connect to the website of the event due to a technical fault or in the event of any problem linked namely and not exclusively to (1) network overload ; (2) an electric or human error (3) any malicious intervention ; (4) an issue related to a phone line ; (5) an issue related to hardware or software ; (6) a hardware or software malfunction ; (7) a case of emergency ; (8) disruptions that may affect the smooth running of the Competition.
It is the Participant’s responsibility to take the appropriate measures to protect his/her own data and/or software located on his/her computer equipment, against any violation. The Participant’s connection to the event websites and their participation in the Competition is made under their own sole responsibility. BeMyApp shall not be held responsible for any infection by potential viruses on the Participant’s computer equipment, or of the intrusion of a third party on their system.
BeMyApp shall not be held responsible if, for any reason, data related to a Participant’s registration does not reach the company or is illegible or impossible to process.
BeMyApp and the Organizer reserve the right to exclude any Participant or person disrupting the Competition’s smooth running. They reserve the right to use any recourse, including suing anyone suspected of cheating, falsifying, or disrupting the process described in the T&Cs, or suspected of trying to accomplish such actions. Any Participant deemed by the Organizer or by BeMyApp to have disrupted the Competition in any of the ways stated above, will be deprived of the right to obtain any prize, and no claim will be accepted consequently.
Participants remain solely and entirely responsible for the damages caused by them or their equipment to goods or people during the competition. Participants will seek to cover their risks by their own insurance and renounce any right to resort to the Organizer or BeMyApp in that respect.
ARTICLE 15 – APPLICATION OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
This document is accessible on the event website clsinnovation.bemyapp.com during the full duration of the Competition.
Participation in the Competition implies full acceptance without reservation of the present regulation. Participation in the Competition is strictly personal and the Participant cannot, under any circumstances, be replaced. Any claim relating to the Competition will be barred
after the period of three (3) months from the deadline for participation stipulated in Article 1.
The T&Cs and any contractual and non-contractual disputes in connection with them shall be governed by, construed and take effect in accordance with UK law. Any dispute arising out of or in relation to the T&Cs shall be brought to amicable settlement.
In case of failure to reach an amicable settlement, the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the UK courts to decide and settle any claim, dispute or matters arising out of or in connection with the T&Cs or established by them (whether contractual or non-contractual).
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