Name: Bell Labs Hackathon
Start: 2016-01-23T08:30:00.000-05:00
End: 2016-01-23T17:00:00.000-05:00
Location: Bell Labs Hackathon

BELL LABS HACKATHON TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

SPONSOR INFORMATION AND DEFINITIONS:
The Bell Labs hackathon (the “Contest”) is offered by the Bell Labs Organization of Alcatel Lucent USA Inc., with offices at 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974 (“Sponsor”) pursuant to the Terms of Service and Community Guidelines posted on www.devpost.com (incorporated herein by reference) and these terms and conditions (collectively, the “Offer”). The individual accepting the and seeking to participate in the Offer by is referred to as “You” or “you.” “Application” means all submissions, proposals, original ideas, documents, or other materials or information submitted to Sponsor in connection with your participation in the Offer.

PRIZE(S):
Subject to the Offer, the winners designated on the basis of skill in relation to the criteria for judging submissions found below will receive the following prizes listed below (the “Prizes”).
Best of Show (first, second and third place prizes)
First Place prize only for:
Most Innovative Buddy
Most Practical Buddy
Developer’s Choice (participant vote)
Funniest Buddy
Most Complete Buddy

Sponsor reserves the right to award fewer than the anticipated number of Prizes or different Prizes. All Prizes will be non-cash awards of tangible items of value of less than five hundred Untied States dollars (U.S. $500). Payment of, and compliance with, any and all applicable taxes on Prizes and other official charges will be the responsibility of the winners..

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:
The Offer is a pure skill competition, without an element of chance. The odds of winning the Offer depend on the number of Applications received and the relative strength of each Application as determined by the Jury (as defined below) applying the evaluation criteria set forth in herein. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.. YOUR APPLICATION IS VOID IF THIS OFFER OR YOUR APPLICATION IS PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED IN ANY WAY BY NATIONAL, FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL LAW OR REGULATION, EITHER IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR IN YOUR HOME JURISDICTION. BY REGISTERING FOR THE CONTEST, YOU AGREE TO COMPLY WITH ALL OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE OFFER.

Under no circumstances shall any Application, the awarding of a Prize or anything in this Offer be construed as an offer or contract of employment with Sponsor or any of its affiliates. All Applications must be in English. Applications received and the winners’ rights are not transferable and may not be assigned.

ELIGIBILITY:
To participate you must (i) be eighteen (18) years of age or older and legally able to accept this Offer or have the permission of your parent or guardian as evidenced by their signature on this Offer and (ii) attend the Bell Labs Hackathon event in Murray Hill, New Jersey on January 23, 2016 for the entire duration of the event. Applications may not be submitted by businesses or government entities.

This Offer is void in, and not open to legal residents or citizens of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, or any other nation, state, province, or territory where it is void or restricted by law. The Offer is not open to any other individuals restricted by U.S. export control laws or economic sanctions and/or by any other applicable export control laws.

Employees, directors, members, partners, agents, and consultants of Sponsor and its affiliates and their immediate family members as well as the supplier of goods or services in connection with the Contest are not eligible to participate in the Contest. “Immediate family” is defined as the spouses, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, brothers, sisters, (but excludes children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren) of the employee and his or her current and former spouse, if applicable. This definition also includes individuals for whom an employee is the current legal guardian or individuals who are not legally related to but who reside with an employee. (“Step” relationships also are covered by the definition “immediate family”). Further, individuals to whom an offer of employment with Sponsor or one of its affiliates is outstanding are also not eligible to participate.

Teams of up to five (5) eligible persons are allowed to participate, provided each member of the team meets the eligibility and other criteria above, and the team follows the additional rules applicable to teams, discussed below. Membership on any particular team will be finalized at 1 p.m. (ET) on the Contest Final Day.

Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify or remove any Application for any reason or no reason within its sole and absolute discretion. Sponsor may reject or remove from consideration any Application which might be considered offensive, defamatory, obscene, illegal, harmful, in violation of Sponsor’s Site use or privacy policies, or that otherwise falls short of Sponsor’s standards.

HOW TO ENTER:
In order to enter, you must take the following steps:
• You must register for the Contest at http://bell-labs-hackathon.eventbrite.com (registration is limited and is open until 9pm ET January 10, 2016). You must also submit, on or before January 23, 2016, a copy of this Offer executed in writing by you (and if you are under eighteen (18) years of age or legally unable to accept this Offer, the signature of your parent or guardian on this Offer as well).
• You must follow the Contest procedures as outlined on http://bell-labs.devpost.com/rules.
• You must attend the Bell Labs Hackathon event in Murray Hill, New Jersey on December 23, 2016 for the entire duration of the event

As part of your participation in the Contest you may previously have downloaded, or during the contest will download, certain software and other materials. By participating the Offer, you hereby agree to abide by the terms and conditions of the license associated with such software and other materials. Likewise you may be required to have access to a server, register on Sponsor website or undertake other activities to participate in the Offer. You are responsible for complying with all other requirements, terms and conditions associated with such activities at your own risk.

EVALUATION AND JUDGING:
Each Application will be reviewed by Sponsor, its affiliates, the Applicants (in the case of the Developer’s Choice prize) or one or more third-party subject matter experts selected at the sole discretion of Sponsor or affiliates (collectively, the "Jury") based on creativity, completeness, innovation, technical excellence, and feasibility (“Criteria”). At the close of the Contest Day, winners will be selected by the Jury, in its sole discretion taking into account the Criteria. Winners are expected to be announced at the close of the Contest Day. All decisions of the Jury are final, non-appealable and binding, and there is no legal recourse against any such decision.

EXPORT CONTROL, PERMISSIONS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
You must abide by all applicable export control laws including but not limited to those of the United States, the European Union, and your country of residence.

By accepting these Terms and Conditions you are giving explicit irrevocable consent to Sponsor and its affiliates, and without additional financial or other compensation, to disclose your name, picture, video image, biographical information, place of residence or relevant quotes for inclusion, worldwide, in any and all media without limitation, in the list of winners, for advertising and promotional purposes by Sponsor without any requirement of seeking your additional review or approval. You also consent to processing your personal data as submitted by you in participating in the Offer, by Sponsor for the purposes of your participation in the Contest.

Except as explicitly granted to you, nothing in the Offer is a license grant or right to you to use anyone else’s, including Sponsor’s, ideas, submissions, or Intellectual Property Rights. All intellectual property rights created by you remain your property. You are advised that laws in your home jurisdiction may require that you make applications for Intellectual Property Rights in your home jurisdiction before you do so elsewhere and that your submission of an Application may result in rendering it ineligible for intellectual property protection under the laws of your home jurisdiction under certain circumstances. You remain responsible for complying with applicable legal requirements and protecting any intellectual property contained in your Application.

You grant to Sponsor and its affiliates an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive unrestricted license, for the maximum term permitted under the applicable law (with a right to sublicense and transfer, in full or in part) under any and all of your Intellectual Property Rights pertaining to your Application to copy, display, use, create derivative works of and distribute any or all portions of your Application for marketing and demonstration purposes in any media whatsoever. As a condition of participation in the Offer and to the fullest extent permitted by the applicable law, you expressly agree not to exercise any moral rights you may have in relation to your Application against Sponsor or any of its affiliates, licensees or assignees.

WINNERS LIST: A list of winners will be posted on http://bell-labs.devpost.com/.

SURVIVAL: The permissions, restrictions and other terms of this Offer which would naturally survive, shall survive expiration or termination of the Offer.

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