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1. Introduction
The Epson Moverio Develop the Future App Challenge (hereinafter “Challenge”) is a competition designed by Prelaunch Labs, Inc. (herein after “Prelaunch”) to motivate and reward the development of creative and original applications by Epson Moverio application developers (“Participant” or “You”). Prelaunch is the sponsor and entity responsible for the Challenge.
ChallengePost, Inc. (hereinafter “ChallengePost”) is the administrator of the Challenge. “ChallengePost” will manage and implement the Challenge per the direction of “Prelaunch,” including but not limited to, providing the Challenge website and serving as official timekeeper.
These Terms and Conditions set forth the rules for the Challenge, such as eligibility, how to participate, and judging criteria. Participation in the Challenge constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to these Terms and Conditions. By entering, you agree that all decisions related to the Challenge that are made pursuant to these Terms and Conditions are final and binding, and that all such decisions are at the sole discretion “Prelaunch ” and/or “ChallengePost.”
The Challenge will include three rounds. The first round is open to any Participant meeting the eligibility requirements below and submitting an entry that meets the stated requirements. The second round is open to any Participant meeting the eligibility requirements below and submitting an entry that meets the stated requirements. The third grand prize round is only for entries selected as winning entries in the Second Round and gives Round Two winners the opportunity to improve or modify the application submitted for final grand prize consideration
The “ChallengePost” Terms of Service are hereby incorporated into these Terms and Conditions. The “ChallengePost” Terms of Service are located at http://challengepost.com/terms. If there is a conflict between the “ChallengePost” Terms of Service and these Terms and Conditions, the latter terms shall control with respect to this Challenge only.
2. Eligibility
The Epson Moverio Exceed Your Vision App challenge is open to developers from the USA or Canada who have become registered Epson Moverio developers including:
(1) Individual Participants
- Individuals, and teams of individuals, 13 years of age and older. If an individual, or team of individuals, has not yet reached the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry and they win a prize, a parent or guardian will need to sign an affidavit on their behalf.
- If participating in a team, the team must select one representative under whose name it will participate. The representative shall represent the team to assume all rights and responsibilities regarding “Prelaunch ”. “Prelaunch ” will fulfill its responsibilities through the representative and will not contact individual team members. If a team entry is selected as a winning entry, “Prelaunch ” or “ChallengePost” will pay the full prize money to the representative and it is the responsibility of the representative to distribute the prize money to team members. “Prelaunch” and “ChallengePost” will not become involved in any problems that occur among team members and cannot be held responsible in any way in relation to such events. Participants must have the qualifications and abilities necessary to participate in the Challenge.
(2) Corporate Participants
- Corporate Participants are eligible if, at the time of entry, they have been duly organized or incorporated and validly exist.
- Each corporate Participant must select one representative under whose name it will participate. The representative must have the legal authority necessary to participate as the representative of the corporation concerned, and shall represent the corporation to assume all rights and responsibilities regarding “Prelaunch”. “Prelaunch” will fulfill its responsibilities through the representative.
(3) Restrictions on participation
- Any application that is funded or compensated, partially or fully, by “Prelaunch” for its development is not eligible for entry.
- “Prelaunch” ,“ChallengePost,” and any other organizations involved with the design, production, paid promotion, execution, or distribution of the Challenge are not eligible to participate.
- Employees, representatives and agents of the above organizations who are involved with the design, production, promotion, execution, or distribution of the Challenge, and all members of their immediate family or household* are not eligible to participate.
- Any other individual involved with the design, production, promotion, execution, or distribution of the Challenge, and each member of their immediate family or household* is not eligible to participate.
- Any judge or company or individual that employs a judge is not eligible to participate. Individuals employed by the same organization as a judge are eligible to participate provided they meet the other eligibility requirements for individuals. Judges will recuse themselves from judging an Entry if judging the Entry would create a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest.
- Any parent company, subsidiary, or other affiliate of any organization described above is not eligible to participate. Employees of any such parent company, subsidiary, or other affiliate are eligible to participate if they meet the other eligibility requirements for individuals.
- Individuals or organizations whose participation is restricted by relevant laws of the United States, or relevant legislations, regulations and other government policies that apply to participants are not eligible to participate. Please note that the Challenge may not be available in certain countries or regions, including, without limitation the Province of Quebec, Brazil, Cuba, subject to change from time to time at “Prelaunch's” reasonable discretion and subject to the applicable laws.
- Prelaunch reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all entrants, and not award a prize (and to select an alternative winner) if Prelaunch has reasonable grounds to suspect that a winner is not eligible for these reasons.
*The members of an individual’s immediate family include the individual’s spouse, children and stepchildren, parents and stepparents, and siblings and stepsiblings. The members of an individual’s household include any other person that shares the same residence as the individual for at least three (3) months out of the year.
3. Entry Details
(1) Registration and Agreement to Terms and Conditions
- Participants must create a “ChallengePost” account on the Challenge website or another site on http://challengepost.com.
- Participants must agree to these Terms and Conditions and comply with all terms and relevant laws applicable to Participants.
- Participants must register as an Epson Moverio developer.
(2) First Round: The application should include the following:
- Participants must submit an entry on the Challenge Website within the applicable submission period(s) as stated below, including all required fields on the submission form of the Challenge Website (each an “Entry”). Participants are encouraged to submit entry materials in English or include an English translation or subtitles. Entries submitted on the Challenge website must include, without limitation:
- Up to 250 word description of your proposed application, its intended audience and benefit to them
- Brief bio of developer(s) or corporation and details of other development & app experience
- Images of proposed app screens (optional)
- Video Pitch (optional)
(2) Rounds Two and Three
- Participants must submit an entry on the Challenge Website within the applicable submission period(s) as stated below, including all required fields on the submission form of the Challenge Website (each an “Entry”). Participants are encouraged to submit entry materials in English or include an English translation or subtitles. Entries submitted on the Challenge website must include, without limitation:
- Entries submitted on the Challenge website must include, without limitation:
- Up to 250 word description of your proposed application, its intended audience and benefit to them
- Brief bio of developer(s) or corporation and details of other development & app experience
- Video Pitch (optional)
- Participants must create (or have created) a working application that must run normally on an Epson Moverio BT200 Device.
- The app must be submitted to the Epson Moverio App Market before the deadline on March 19th, 2015.
- Applications must not have been distributed on Epson Moverio Apps Market before November 17th, 2014.
- Applications must have English language support. (You are free to add versions in other languages.)
- Applications must function as depicted in the video and/or expressed in the text description or other materials submitted on the Challenge Website.
- Participants may submit more than one Entry, however, each Entry must be unique, as determined by the Prelaunch and/or ChallengePost.
- Entries, including the Application, cannot violate the intellectual property rights, reputation, privacy or any other rights of “Prelaunch ” or a third party, have obscene or violent content or contain any other material that violates relevant laws or undermines public order and morality.
(4) Third Round
- For the third round eligible participants, apps must be registered Participants in round 3 must resubmit their application to the Epson Moverio Apps Market before the deadline on March 25th, 2015.
* Prelaunch reserves the right to cancel or modify the Challenge eligibility and/or requirements at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be posted on the Challenge Website.
4. Judging Criteria
(1) Judges: The panel will consist of external judges selected by “Prelaunch ”:
Eric Mizufuku, Senior Manager, Moverio, Epson America
Anna Jen, Director, New Ventures, Epson America
Sean McCraken, Expert Developer, Moverio Evangelist
(2) Judging criteria:
- In all rounds, Entries will be assessed on the following five criteria: 1) uniqueness, 2) commercial potential, 3) functionality, 4) usability, and 5) design to determine whether they are innovative, creative, functional and original.
- In Round 2 and 3, Entries will also be assessed on the extent to which they support the latest Epson Moverio solution.
(3) Entries in each round will be ranked in order of highest to lowest scores and the highest scoring entries will receive the prizes indicated below. All scoring will be determined by “Prelaunch ” and the judges in their sole discretion.
(4) Judges and judging criteria are subject to change due to “Prelaunch” circumstances.
(5) Judges are not required to test the Application and may choose to judge based solely on the text description, images and video provided in the Entry.
5. Prizes
(1) First Round Winners
- There will be four(4) first round winners from each category (CONSUMER and ENTERPRISE) for a total of eight (8) first round winners. Each first round winner will receive a free Moverio BT200 and $1000
(2) Second Round Winners
- Two (2) prizes will be awarded for each category (CONSUMER and ENTERPRISE) for a total of four (4) prizes. Each winner will receive two thousand dollars (US$2,000).
(3) Third Round Winners
- Two (2) grand prizes will be awarded one for each category (CONSUMER and ENTERPRISE). Each winner will receive five thousand five hundred dollars (US$5,500).
(4) Additional Considerations Related to Prizing
- There is a maximum of one prize per entry in each round.
- “Prelaunch” may award fewer prizes than the number indicated above if the number of eligible Entries is less than the number of prizes available.
- Winners will be individually notified by e-mail and can also be viewed on the Challenge website on the day of winners’ announcement.
- Within seven days of receiving the notification e-mail from Prelaunch or ChallengePost, winners must reply with relevant information necessary to verify their identity and receive the prize money. Please note the prize may be canceled if there is no reply.
- Winners must pay any applicable taxes, public utility charges and remittance fees and prizes may be subject to tax withholding. Winners may be subject to tax withholding according to local laws for the Winners and/or Sponsor.
- Winners must submit documents necessary to verify their identity and receive the prize money. THE AWARD OF A PRIZE TO A POTENTIAL WINNER IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION OF THE IDENTITY, QUALIFICATIONS AND ROLE OF THE POTENTIAL WINNER IN THE CREATION OF THE ENTRY. The final decision to designate a winner shall be made by “Prelaunch” and/or “ChallengePost.”
- Winners will be able to receive the prize money only if the name of the participant matches the name of the prize recipient.
6. Matters Regarding Personal Information
(1) If participating as a team, the representative may provide “Prelaunch” and/or “ChallengePost” with personal information on team members, in order to receive a prize. In such cases, it is the responsibility of the representative to obtain consent from the members concerned in order to submit the information. Personal information on any other third party must also be provided through legitimate procedures in accordance with relevant laws.
(2) Personal information collected from participants or winners may be used by “Prelaunch ” and “ChallengePost” for the progress, promotions of the Challenge and other relevant affairs.
(3) Residents of the European Union (EU) will be notified of the following regarding data collection and processing in accordance with EU laws.
- The data controller is “ChallengePost” and the data recipients are “ChallengePost,” “Prelaunch” and their agents.
- Your data is collected in order to operate and manage the Challenge. “ChallengePost” collects personal information from you on the Challenge website when you register for and enter the Challenge. The information collected is subject to the privacy policy located here: http://ChallengePost.com/privacy.
- You have the right to access and withdraw your personal information. In certain situations, you have the right to refuse data collection.
- To exercise such rights with respect to information received by “Prelaunch ,” please contact “Prelaunch ” in writing at Prelaunch 3840 Kilroy Airport Way, Long Beach, CA 90806
- To exercise such rights with respect to information received by “ChallengePost” you may change account settings on the Challenge website, email “ChallengePost” at support@challengepost.comor contact “ChallengePost” in writing at ChallengePost, Inc, 425 West 13th Street, Suite 504, New York, NY 10014 USA.
7. Rights and Responsibilities Regarding Entries
(1) The participant retains intellectual property rights to the Entry.
(2) By entering the Challenge, the participant shall grant to “Prelaunch ”, “ChallengePost” and any other third parties acting on Prelaunch ’s behalf, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, and perpetual license to display publicly and use for promotional purposes the Entry, in perpetuity. This license includes, but is not limited to, posting or linking to the Entry on “Prelaunch ’s”, “ChallengePost’s” and partners’ websites and applications, including the Challenge website, and display and promotion of the Entry in any other media, worldwide. The name or nickname of the participant will not be displayed for the advertisement and promotion of the Challenge or “Prelaunch”.
8. Warranty and Indemnity
(1) As the sole and exclusive owner of the entries, Participants shall warrant that they will not infringe any rights of the third party including portrait rights, moral rights, design rights, patent rights, utility model rights, copyrights, program copyrights and trade secrets.
(2) “Prelaunch ” and “ChallengePost” do not have the responsibility to intervene in any dispute regarding an entry to the Challenge between a Participant and a third party. Such matters are wholly the responsibility of the individuals concerned and “Prelaunch ” and “ChallengePost” cannot be held responsible or accountable in any way.
(3) If a participant violates these Terms or relevant laws and a dispute against “Prelaunch ” arises or is likely to arise, the participant (all team members for team participants, the corporation as a whole for corporate participants) shall defend “Prelaunch ” at their own expense and responsibility, compensate “Prelaunch ” for any losses suffered by “Prelaunch ” as a result and take all appropriate measures requested by “Prelaunch ” in relation to the event.
9. Miscellaneous
(1) Individuals or organizations who are not eligible to participate, participated in an abnormal or illegal manner or otherwise breached these Terms or relevant laws may be excluded from receiving any prizes or have their prize canceled. If a participant disrupts implementation of relevant tasks or is deemed likely to do so such as by disrupting the progress of the Challenge or threatening other participants, “Prelaunch ” or judges, likely disruptive to the implementation of the Challenge and/or other administrative process, “Prelaunch ” may restrict the participant’s participation in the Challenge, exclude the participant from receiving any prizes, cancel any prizes, and take any other necessary measures.
(2) “Prelaunch ” and/or “ChallengePost” may take any action including but not limited to requesting additional verification of the identity, age and other relevant details when reasonably necessary in order to protect “Prelaunch ” from fraud and other false claims. Participants who refuse any such requests may be excluded from receiving any prizes or have their prize canceled.
(3) The Challenge may be terminated or have any relevant details changed in accordance with “Prelaunch ” circumstances, and “Prelaunch ” cannot be held responsible without causes attributable to “Prelaunch ”.
(4) Matters not specified herein shall be in accordance with the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy of “Prelaunch” or, where applicable, the “ChallengePost” Terms of Service at http://challengepost.com/terms. If there is a conflict between the ChallengePost Terms of Service and these Challenge Terms and Conditions, the latter terms shall control with respect to this Challenge only.
(5) These Terms of Use shall form a binding legal contract between the participant and “Prelaunch ”.
(6) The laws of the state of Texas shall apply to the Challenge.
(7) Notwithstanding anything stated herein or elsewhere to the contrary, these Terms and Conditions and the Challenge may be subject to change by “Prelaunch ” from time to time at “Prelaunch ’s” reasonable discretion, subject to the applicable laws and/or other obligation(s) “Prelaunch ” may owe to third party(s). In such cases, an announcement will be made on the challenge website. “Prelaunch ” reserves all rights and remedies available to it at law or in equity. Any prize money or payment payable hereunder may be subject to deduction, set-off or discount as “Prelaunch ” reasonably deems necessary under the applicable laws, including without limitation, any applicable tax codes.
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ChallengePost, Prelaunch Labs Inc., and Epson America do not retain ownership of software submitted to challenges on their respective platforms. Participants of this app challenge retain full IP rights, including but not limited to ownership and commercialization. ChallengePost, Prelaunch Labs, Inc. and Epson America's only rights are to use participant's submission content for marketing related to promoting the challenge and our community.
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