Smart Cities Challenge par Philips Lighting
Imaginez les solutions et services de demain par la lumière !
Règlement
Philips France, a French Simplified Joint Stock Company (Société par Actions Simplifiée,or SAS) with a share capital of 159 990 000 euros, registered within the Commercial and Companies Register of Paris under number 402 805 527, and has its registered office at Nanterre (92) Suresnes, 33 rue de Verdun.
(hereinafter referred to as the “Partner company”),
has decided to entrust
Agorize, a French Simplified Joint Stock Company (Société par Actions Simplifiée,or SAS) with a share capital of 71,146 Euros, registered within the Commercial and Companies Register of Paris under number 530 774 439, and has its registered office at 34 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine 75012 Paris,
(hereinafter referred to as the “Service Provider”),
with the organization of a Challenge as set out below; the Challenge shall take place from April 17, 2018 to September 30, 2018 via the website available at https://www.agorize.com/philips-challenge,
(hereinafter referred to as the “Challenge”).
The Service Provider shall act in the name and on behalf of the Partner Company as part of their assignment.
The Partner Company and the Service Provider shall be considered as the joint organizers of the Challenge
(hereinafter jointly referred to as the “Organizers”).
Article 1 DEFINITIONS
“Award”: refers to the prizes awarded to the Winners at the end of the Challenge.
“Brief”: refers to the specifications determined by the Partner Company, which may include the deadlines, the awards, the guidelines and themes to be complied with by all Participants contributions.
“Challenge”: refers to the challenge that is the subject of the Rules, as organized by the Organizers.
“Confidential Information”: refers to the information set out in the Article 17.
“Competition Rules, Terms and Conditions” or “CRTC”: designate the general terms of use of the Service provider’s website, accepted by every Participant during the creation of a Agorize user account and readable on agorize.com
“Deliverables”: jointly refers to the Pre-Selection Deliverable and to the Final Deliverable.
“Final Deliverable”: refers to the deliverable described in these Rules, which is submitted at the end of the Selection stage.
“Final Jury”: refers to the jury responsible for ranking the finalists.
“Participant”: refers to any person registered in accordance with the Rules who takes part in the Challenge.
“Pre-Selection”: refers to the first stage of the Challenge, as described in the Rules.
“Pre-Selection Deliverable”: refers to the deliverable described in the Rules, which is submitted during the Pre-Selection.
“Pre-Selection Jury”: refers to the jury responsible for selecting the Participants during the Pre-Selection.
“Project”: refers to the Participant and all of his Deliverables.
“Registration”: refers to the registration of a Challenge Participant in accordance with the Rules.
“Ranking”: refers to the attribution of an Award per theme by the Final Jury at the end of Selection.
“Rules”: refers to these rules, which apply to the Challenge.
“Selection”: refers to the second stage of the Challenge.
“Selection Jury”: refers to the jury responsible for selecting the Participants during the Selection.
“Winner” or “Winners”: refers to the members of the three (3) Projects that reach the final stage of the Challenge, and are ranked by the Final Jury as winning teams.
Article 2 PURPOSE OF THE RULES
2.1. Rules are intended to define, according to article L. 121-15-2 of the French Code de la Consommation, terms and rules of participation in the Challenge organized by the Partner Company in association with the Service provider. Rules are destined to complete the Competition Rules, Terms and Conditions of the Service provider, which can be downloaded through the following link: <https://www.agorize.com/en/terms> In the event of inconsistency between these terms and regulations and those of the CRTC, those Rules will prevail.
2.2. The Participant acknowledges being aware of, and agrees to the fact that the proposed Challenge calls on his/her wisdom, skill, and ingenuity during extremely difficult trials. The Challenge shall not depend, even partially, on chance and luck under any circumstances, and can therefore not be considered as, or resemble a lottery.
Article 3 CONDITIONS FOR ENTERING THE CHALLENGE
3.1. Participation in this Challenge is free and without purchase obligation and can be subject to a reimbursement of participating costs in the conditions specified in Article 15.
3.2. The Participant must read these Rules, and fully accept their terms in their entirety without reservation before its Registration and participation in the Challenge.
3.3. Participation to the Challenge is under the conditions of
being a company:
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registered on the trade register of the country in which their headquarters are based
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with a valid professional insurance policy
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able to supply a registration certificate issued within last three (3) months
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certifying that they comply with the social and tax legislation to which they are subject
3.4. Employees and representatives of the Service provider and of the Partner company and/or the members of their families (parents, children, spouses) cannot participate in the Challenge.
3.5. The Participant shall certify to abide by the terms aforementioned. The delivery of the Award will be conditional upon the capacity of the Participant to justify the conditions aforementioned.
3.6. There is only one entry per person in the Challenge
3.7. Participants must sign up online and create a user account for their company.
3.8. Any Participant and/or team who doesn’t abide by the terms of the Rules during his/her Registration and at any time during the Challenge will be automatically and without previous notification, disqualified from the Challenge and shall not be awarded any Award. In the case where an Award would have been given to a Participant and/or team who doesn’t or didn’t comply with the Rules at the time of his/her Registration or during the Challenge, the Organizers have the discretionary right to demand the return of the Award received.
Article 4 REGISTRATION AND ACCESS TO THE CHALLENGE
4.1. For his/her Registration to the Challenge, the Participant must open a user account on agorize.com and must indicate the following:
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Last name;
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First name;
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A valid email address;
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A valid password.
To validate his Registration, the Participant must accept the Competition Rules, Terms and Conditions provided by the Service provider
The Participant must provide the information listed below:
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Company’s registered name;
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Company’s logo;
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Elevator pitch;
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Company’s formation date;
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Development state;
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City;
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Phone number;
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Industry;
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Company’s website;
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Company’s Facebook page;
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Company’s Twitter page.
A confirmation email containing an activation link is sent to the Participant’s listed email address.
Once his/her account is activated, the Participant can freely complete further information on his profile in the account settings.
To end his Registration in the Challenge, the Participant must opt-in on the box indicating that he/she accepts the Challenge Regulations
4.2. Any Registration containing wrong, dubious, or incomplete information shall not be taken into account and shall disqualify the Participant and/or the Participant’s team.
4.3. By registering, the Participant accepts to be contacted through emails sent by Organizers during his/her participation in the Challenge. He/she also accepts to be contacted by phone, if he/she is part of the preselected Participants or the Winners.
4.4. The use of a computer is needed to access the Challenge with the minimal material configuration and device hereinafter:
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Processor 1 Ghz or higher with 1 Go RAM or higher;
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A 1024x768 pixels screen definition with 65 536 colors;
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Operating system: Windows XP and Vista;
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A browser which accepts cookies and Javascripts functions execution: Using Internet Explorer 7 or higher, or Firefox 3.5 is recommended;
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Version Flash Player 9.045, except any specified case which will be informed to the Participant on the homepage of the Challenge;
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The sound card is recommended but is not necessary.
4.5. The Challenge is available 24 hours a day on the https://www.agorize.com/philips-challenge subject to possible maintenance operations on servers or dysfunctions such as those mentioned on the Article 16.
Article 5 DURATION OF THE CHALLENGE
5.1. The Challenge shall take place from April 17, 2018 to September 30, 2018.
5.2. Every date clearly defined in these rules and the challenge is in the Paris time zone (GMT +1).
5.3. Where necessary due to operational requirements, the Organizers reserve the right to alter the duration of the Challenge by a reasonable amount of time, which will be conveyed to Participants
Article 6 PRINCIPLE OF THE CHALLENGE
6.1. The Challenge consists of making contributions formed by two (2) Deliverables which are in accordance with the requirements listed in Article 7 and Article 8, during the two steps of preselecting and selecting.
6.2. Those Deliverables must absolutely respond to the Challenge issue and rules described in the tab “Brief” on the Challenge page on the website https://www.agorize.com/philips-challenge. Those Deliverables must be written in French or English; no other language will be accepted.
6.3. Each recommendation is exclusively composed of two (2) Deliverables:
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The preselection Deliverable mentioned in Article 7 subjected to the terms of this disposition;
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The Selection Deliverable mentioned in Article 8 subjected to the terms of this disposition;
The Organizers will not accept and will not take into account any other documents submitted by the Participants.
Article 7 PRE-SELECTION STAGE PROCEDURE
7.1. The Pre-Selection is scheduled from April 17, 2018 to June 10, 2018 at 11.59PM.
7.2. During this period and until June 10, 2018 at 11.59PM, the Participants will have to send by upload on the platform, their Pre-Selection Deliverable, which is composed of:
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Their Project presentation based on the template downloadable from the dedicated page on https://www.agorize.com/philips-challenge.
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A presentation of the Participant using the form on his participation tab accessible once he his registered.
7.3. The preselection of the Projects will be realized on the basis of this Preselection Deliverable, in accordance with Article 11.
Article 8 SELECTION STAGE PROCEDURE
8.1. The Selection is scheduled from June 26, 2018 to July 22, 2018 at 11.59PM.
8.2. Only the 20 Projects selected at the end of the Pre-selection stage will be able to participate to the Selection stage.
8.3. These teams of participant should send before July 22, 2018 at 11.59PM, by uploading on the platform their Final deliverable, which composed of:
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A 20-slide document describing their project and for example, the problem they address, the solution they bring, its impact and business model.
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A presentation video (3 minutes maximum) explaining the project
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Any other optional support
8.4. A selection of the Projects who participated in the Selection stage will be carried out on the basis of the Final Deliverable in accordance with Article 11
Article 9 FINAL STAGE PROCEDURE
9.1. Only the 5 Projects selected at the end of the Selection stage, will be able to participate in the final stage in accordance with Article 11.
9.2. This final stage consists of an oral presentation of their Project by the Finalists. Event location will be communicated to the Participants later on.
9.3. Only the 5 Projects selected participating in the final stage will be ranked on the basis of the oral presentation, in accordance with Article 11. The Organizers might shoot an institutional movie presenting the final ceremony, the selected Participants understand that they must to their best to take part in this movie.
Article 10 CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THE DELIVERABLES
10.1. Those Deliverables must absolutely respond to the Challenge issue and rules described in the tab “Brief” on the Challenge page on https://www.agorize.com/philips-challenge.
10.2. Deliverables must be sent in a common digital format such as: DOC/DOCX/PDF/PPT/MP4 and be written in English.
10.3. In case of difficulties or failures to read the Deliverable, Participants of the concerned Project will be notified and have the responsibility to re-submit it before the Deliverable deposit end date of the current step. If the delay is passed, the Project in question will be disqualified from the Challenge.
10.4. Each Participant grants that the content of the deliverables are only their contributions from their team. If it appeared that contribution are from a third party all participant from concerned team may be disqualified.
The use of photos or images must be free copyright. In any case, the organizers will not be held responsible for the use of works on which third parties have rights.
Article 11 SELECTION PROCESS
11.1. The challenge is divided in two selection processes:
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Preselection: this stage ends with the preselection of Projects;
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Selection: this stage ends with finalist Projects selection;
11.2. Each of these selection steps is based on the criteria of:
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Relevance;
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Originality;
- Feasibility.
Under no circumstances are taken into account factors relating to the person's appearance, religious or trade union, political opinions or sexual orientation of the participants. The selections will not result in any way, whether directly or indirectly, by chance or luck.
11.3. A Pre-Selection Jury composed of members from the Partner Company, having the necessary qualifications to make the preselection, will be responsible for selecting up to 20 Projects on the basis of the Pre-Selection Deliverable submitted.
11.4. A Selection Jury composed of members from the Partner Company, having the necessary qualifications to make the preselection, will be responsible for selecting up to 5 Projects on the basis of the Selection Deliverable submitted.
11.5. The Service Provider will, via an email sent to the address entered at the time of account creation on Agorize.com and via a notification on their Agorize.com account, inform all Participants of the Pre-Selection results by June 26, 2018 at the latest and of the Selection results by July 23, 2018 at the latest. The Organizers will be free to alter the dates on which results are released should this become necessary due to the number of Projects to be assessed.
11.6. Each pre-selected or selected Participant must respond to the email sent by the Service Provider announcing the selection of the team before the deadline specified in the message. Otherwise, the Organizers reserve the right to disqualify the defaulting Participant’s Project.
11.7. A Final Jury will be in charge in charge, at the end of the finale, of ranking the 5 Selected Projects based on their presentation and to nominate the 3 Winning Projects.
11.8. The Ranking made by the Final Jury will be announced on the day of the oral presentations.
Article 12 AWARDS
12.1. Awards referred to in this Article are awarded in consideration of:
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The delivery of Deliverables which quality has been recognized by the different Jurys;
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Acceptance and respect of Article 13 on Intellectual Property for each Winner;
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Acceptance and respect for each Winner of Article 14 on use of Winners information.
No Award can be delivered to the Winners if they do not meet these three conditions, as well as entirely comply with these Rules.
12.2. Any award of an Award at the end of the challenge is subject to, and is performed only when subjected to:
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The full respect of the Rules set out for the Challenge;
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The presentation by each winner of documents justifying that he respects the conditions of Article 3.
12.3. Only the winners of the 3 Projects that are selected and then ranked by the Final Jury will receive an Award.
12.4. Every Participant recognizes and accepts that the Award cannot give rise to no contesting of any kind, to a request of delivery neither of their monetary exchange value, nor to their replacement or exchange for another Award whatever the reason is. The Award is not transferable and the Participants are informed that the sale or the exchange of the Award is forbidden.
12.5. Every Participant recognizes and accepts that the Partner Company is only committed to the delivery of the Award awarded to the Winners. As a consequence, all the extra costs relative to these Awards or the overheads linked to the accession to ownership of these Awards will stay, unless otherwise stipulated of the Rules, chargeable to the Winners. Neither coverage nor refund will be owed as such.
12.6. Winners will be informed by email of their award sent by the Service Provider to the address communicated for their inscription of their account on www.agorize.com by 15 days maximum following the day where the final ranking is made by the jury. The Participant commits himself to respect directives indicated in the email. In the case where a Winner did not succeed to take his prize, for independent reason from the Organizers, in a delay of 2 months from the reception of this email, the Partner Company has the right to declare this Award not attributed to this winner.
12.7. Winners of the 3 Projects will be awarded with the following prizes, according to their ranking, with the precision that Project n°1 is better than Project n°3, which is considered the last of the 3 ranked by the Final Jury.
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Awards for Project n°1
The first project will be rewarded with an International Marketing Campaign, worth maximum €20,000
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Awards for Project n°2 and n°3
Depending on their sector of industry, the second and third winning projects will be invited to important event to showcase their business without any commercial value. Travel expenses and accomodation are covered up to €3000 per start-up.
Article 13 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
13.1. Each Party shall remain the owner of its own Background IP. Unless otherwise agreed between the Participant and Partner Company, the Partner Company shall not be assigned the ownership of the Deliverables or any Intellectual Property contained therein.
13.2. Each Participant:
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When contributing its Selection Deliverable and Final Stage Deliverable: hereby grants to the Partner Company a limited license to access and use such Selection and Final Stage Deliverables for the sole purpose of evaluating the same during the respective Selection and Final stages;
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When winning and accepting the Award: hereby grants to the Partner Company and its affiliated companies a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual and irrevocable license to exercise all rights (including Intellectual Property Rights) in the Deliverables. Such license shall include, without limitation, the right to reproduce, copy (in any number of copies and by all means), modify, correct, improve, translate, develop, adapt, update, add, upgrade, compile, decompile, reverse-engineer, delete, incorporate, rewrite in any language, create derivative works, either directly or through third parties, display, market, exploit and/or use the Deliverables for any implementation in and/or association with products and/or services to be offered by the Partner Company and its affiliated companies to its customers.
13.3. Each Participant represents and warrants that it possesses all rights, consents, licenses and authorizations necessary to fulfil the obligations stated in these Rules. Participants also warrant that the use of the Deliverables in compliance with the Rules is not dependent on any third party’s Intellectual Property Rights. In particular, all Participants undertake to obtain and secure all permission and rights of persons participating in any way within the development or creation process of the Deliverables, so to meet the obligations stated in these Rules.
13.4. Each Participant shall defend, indemnify and hold the Partner Company harmless from and against any third party claim, action or suit and any liability, loss, costs, damages or expenses (including, without limitation, legal costs and counsels fees) filed, brought or awarded at any time against Partner Company and/or its affiliated companies alleging that the Deliverables provided by such Participant or any part thereof infringe or misappropriate any Intellectual Property Rights owned by or licensed to such third party, provided that the Partner Company shall (i) notify the concerned Participant of such claim in a reasonable time upon receipt of the same, given that, however, failure to provide timely notice shall not affect the rights of Partner Company to seek for indemnity so long as such failure does not adversely affect the Participant’s ability to defend the claim against such third party, (ii) provide reasonable assistance for the defense or settlement of the same at Participant’s entire expense, and (iii) permit Participant, to the extent legally feasible, to take full control over proceedings related to such claim and employ counsel reasonably acceptable to the Partner Company, and (iv) have the right to provide for its separate defense at its own expense. Participant shall undertake, at its own expense, the defense of any such claim brought against the Partner Company and its affiliated companies. If Participant has not, within a reasonable time after receiving notice of a claim from the Partner Company, employed counsel to assume the defense of such claim, Partner Company shall have the right upon written notice to Participant to employ counsel to represent it in any such claim in respect of which it plans to seek indemnity pursuant to this Article, in which event the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of such counsel shall be borne by the Participant until such time as counsel is employed by the Participant in accordance with this Article. If the Participant does not respond within five (5) business days of Partner Company’s written notice that it will engage in such defense, the Partner Company shall have the right to proceed as indicated above. Should the Partner Company wish to independently obtain counsel for such claim, such shall be at Partner Company’s sole expense. Participants shall not settle any claim in a manner that adversely affects the Partner Company’s and its affiliated companies’ rights without Partner Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
13.5. Participants shall notify the Organizers immediately as they become aware of any possible infringement claim from third parties arising from or in connection with the exercise of the rights granted herein under the Deliverables provided within the Challenge.
13.6. If all or part of the Deliverables is or, in the Partner Company’s opinion is likely to be, held infringing, the concerned Participant shall at its own expenses apply one of the following options, without prejudice to any other obligation that arises from Article 12.4 hereinabove:
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procure for the Partner Company and its affiliated companies, the rights to exercise and continuing exercising the rights granted herein; or,
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substitute or modify the infringing Deliverables (or the infringing part thereof) with any non-infringing equivalent deliverables, provided that such substitution or modification does not result in a material degradation of the performance or quality of the Deliverables; or,
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withdraw its Deliverables from the Challenge and, whenever applicable, return the Award to the Partner Company.
Article 14 COMMUNICATION
14.1. Every Participant authorizes
Applicant Participants authorise the Service Provider and the Partner Company to reproduce their trademark free of charge on communication materials about the Challenge including but not limited to the Service Provider’s or the Partner Company’s intranet and external websites, email signatures/newsletters, press releases, posters/banners at trade fairs, Facebook pages and on Twitter.
Participants also authorise the Service Provider and Partner Company to display their registered name and trading names in the same ways, together with their logo as displayed in their applications.
This permission is strictly limited to the same purposes as those stipulated in Article 13 and the Service Provider and Organisers undertake to cease use of trademarks once the circumstances relating to those purposes come to an end, unless the Participant expressly agreed otherwise in writing in advance.
The permission herein comes into force commencing on the Challenge start date for the duration required stipulated in the abovementioned purposes.
Article 15 REFUND OF ENTRY EXPENSES
15.1. The Participants can obtain the refund of postage incurred in the claim of reimbursement and/or any written application for the settlement (based on the going rate – slow rate 20g applicable in France).
15.2. All requests for refund by the Participant must be sent in writing before September 30, 2018 (date as postmark), to the following address:
AGORIZE
34, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine
75012 PARIS.
Or by email to quynh@agorize.com
15.3. To be admissible, the request will mandatory contain:
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Full contact details of the Participant (name, first name, address, zip code, city, Agorize login and e-mail);
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Valid bank details or account details;
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Where applicable, the precise request of communication of Rules and repayment of the stamp used in the aforementioned price rate.
15.4. Any request of repayment over the deadline, incomplete, dubious or inaccurate will be refused in whole or part.
15.5. Only one reimbursement per Participant will be accepted.
15.6. The reimbursement will be processed by bank transfer on the account indicated during the request after the check of the legitimacy of the request and in a deadline the Organizers of which have the whole discretion.
Article 16 LIABILITY
16.1. The responsibility of the Organizers cannot be engaged in case of breakdown or dysfunction of the used telecommunications network, whatever the cause is, which would especially have the effect of damaging or preventing the identification or the access of the Participant on agorize.com or any other useful web site for the participation in the Challenge.
16.2. The participation in the Challenge implies knowledge and acceptance of the characteristics, limitations and risks of the internet network and the technologies which are linked to it, particularly in consideration of the performances, in response time, in the security of the software and the computer hardware towards diverse potential attacks such as virus, logic bomb or Trojan horse and in the loss or in diversion of data. As a consequence, the Organizers cannot be held responsible, in any case for the damages caused to the Participant because of these accepted characteristics, limitations and risks.
16.3. The Organizers cannot, in any case, be held responsible for any damage caused by the defect or the delay of delivery of the Deliverables, especially for the refusal to consider these Deliverables because of a late submission, or for any damage caused by an impossibility to connect to the relevant websites or to upload/download correctly any Deliverable, the defect or the delivery time of any e-mail sent during the Challenge, or for any damage caused by any hurdle preventing the Participant to attend or participate to whole or part of the Challenge.
16.4. The Organizers cannot be held responsible in case of total or partial modification, suspension, interruption, adjournment or cancellation of whole or part of the Challenge for reasons beyond their control or as defined in Article 19. In such case, the Service Provider will inform as soon as possible the Participants by a mention on agorize.com or by any mean it sees fit.
16.5. The Organizers cannot be held responsible for the consequences of a disqualification of a Participant, and/or a team, due to a violation of the Rules, and/or in case of rejection of a Deliverable due to noncompliance with the Rules.
16.6. The Organizers shall not be liable for any trouble, action, claim, objection, claim related to the use of the Deliverables of the Partner Company not foreseen by the Regulations or in connection with the negotiation, execution or performance of contracts that the Partner company would sign with the Participants, therefore there was no direct intervention of Service.
Article 17 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
17.1. Is “Confidential Information” in the sense of the present arrangement, all the material or immaterial information of whatever nature, in particular administrative, commercial, scientific, technical, financial, fiscal, which was, is or will be communicated by the Partner Company to the Participant, directly or indirectly, and in a non-exhaustive way, orally, in writing whatever the support is, by delivery of paper or electronic documents.
Is not Confidential Information:
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The currently accessible information or becoming accessible to the public without breach at the terms of the Regulations from the Participant,
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The information legally held by the Participant before their disclosure by the Partner Company,
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The information not resulting either directly or indirectly from the use of all or part of the Confidential Information,
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The information validly obtained close to a third party authorized to transfer or to reveal the aforementioned information.
17.2. During the duration of the Challenge and during a period of five (5) years after the end of the Challenge such as planned in Article 5, The Participant makes a commitment to:
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Not using the Confidential Information for any other purposes than the participation in the Challenge in the conditions of the Regulations;
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Taking any necessary, useful and reasonable precaution to protect the Confidential Information;
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Not Revealing the Confidential Information to whomever, by any means whatsoever, except to the other members of his/her Team;
17.3. The Organizers may disclose Participants’ Information wholly or in part to all its subsidiaries in the sense of Article L.233-‐1 of the French Commercial Code or to a service provider acting on its behalf or that of its subsidiaries.
17.4. At the end of the Challenge, because of the emergence of their term indicated to Article 5 or of their cancellation, the Participant will immediately have to put back to the Partner Company all the Confidential Information, whatever their support is, obtained during the Challenge. The Participant forbids himself from keeping copy in any form whatsoever, except with an on purpose, preliminary and written agreement by the Partner Company.
Article 18 INFORMATION AND LIBERTIES
18.1. The participation in the Challenge requires the communication of the Participant’s personal data mentioned in Article 4.
18.2. This data can be modified at any time by the Participant.
18.3. This data mentioned in the present Article is subjected to an automated processing in the sense of the law n°78-17 of January 6th, 1978 for which the Service Provider and possibly the Partner Company, is alone to define the means and the purpose, and is responsible, in this respect, for this processing in the sense of the aforementioned law.
The purpose of this processing is:
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To organize the intermediation between the Participant and the Partner Company;
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To ensure identification, communication and preservation of the exchanges with the Participant;
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To realize anonymous market studies by the Service Provider or a third-party.
18.4. The addressees of this data are the Service Provider and the Partner Company.
18.5. According to provisions of the law n°78-17 of January 6th, 1978, the Participant is informed that the personal data processing made was subjected to a statement in the Commission Nationale de l'informatique et des Libertés from which the receipt was delivered under the number 1856312v0.
In this respect, the Service Provider made a commitment to protect all the personal data of the concerned people. These data are collected and handled in by the Service Provider with the strictest confidentiality according to the law of January 6th, 1978.
18.6. According to the provisions of the articles 38, 39 and 40 of the law n°78-17 of January 6th, 1978, the Participant has, at any time, the right to:
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Oppose to the collect and process of personal data carried out by the Service Provider;
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Oppose to the communication of these data to third-parties;
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Get access to all personal data handled by the Service Provider;
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Rectify, update and delete his personal data handled by the Service Provider.
To exercise his rights in conformance with the law n°78-17 of January 6th, 1978, the Participant has to send a registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt mentioning clearly his identity and the object of his request to:
AGORIZE
34, rue du faubourg Saint-Antoine
75012 PARIS
18.7. Concerning the possible installation of cookies (or witnesses of connection) on the Participant’s computer during his browsing on the Service Provider’s website, the Participant is invited to consult the Regulations and Competition Rules, Terms and Conditions present on the website www.agorize.com and that he/she has to accept previously during the opening of an account necessary to participate in the Challenge.
Article 19 RULES
19.1. The participation in the Challenge and the awarding of the Award require the acceptance purely and simply and the full respect for the Rules in all its terms. The Organizers reserve the right to disqualify, immediately and without compensation, every Participant and/or Project not satisfying in full with the Rules.
19.2. The Organizers reserve the right to modify at any time the terms of the Rules, and during the Challenge without the requirement of notification to the Participant, concerning the application and the validity of these modifications. The Participant is invited to consult regularly the Rules. The Participant gives up expressly any complaint or contesting linked to any modification brought to the Rules by the Organizers.
19.3. Regulations are registered with SCP Bornecque Winandy - Bru Nifosi, huissiers de justice associés 15, Passage du Marquis de la Londe- 78000 - Versailles.
Rules are available for consultation online on agorize.com
A copy of these Rules can be asked for free and with the reimbursement of the stamp used in the conditions of Article 15.
Article 20 CANCELLATION AND SUSPENSION OF THE CHALLENGE
20.1. The Service Provider and Partner Company reserve the right to cancel, shorten, suspend the Challenge without prior notice:
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In cases of force majeure;
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If it appears that fraud has occurred in any form whatsoever;
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In the case of the Article 11.
20.2. The Organizers cannot be held responsible for cancellation or for suspension of the Challenge according to the present Article and no allowance nor compensation will be due to the Participant.
Article 21 INDEPENDENCE
21.1. The registration and the participation in the Challenge are not, in any way, for effect to create a link of subordination between the Organizers and the Participant.
Article 22 CLAIMS
22.1. Any claim of the Participant must be sent in writing during the last 30 days after ending date of the Challenge.
22.2. Claims linked to the functioning of the website www.agorize.com must be formulated in writing at the following address:
AGORIZE
34, rue du faubourg Saint-Antoine
75012 PARIS
22.3. Claims linked to the progress of the Challenge and to the sending of the Award must be formulated in writing at the following address:
AGORIZE
34, rue du faubourg Saint-Antoine
75012 PARIS
22.4. At the risk of being rejected, any claim has to contain:
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Full contact details of the Participant (name, first name, address, zip code, city, Agorize login and e-mail);
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The identification of the concerned Challenge;
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The clear and elaborate presentation of the motives for the claim.
Article 23 PRELIMINARY RECONCILIATION
23.1. In case of persistent dispute after the Participant has made a complaint in accordance of Article 22, the Organizers and Participants agree to submit their dispute to an amicable settlement before any court proceedings.
23.2. The party eager to initiate conciliation must inform the other party through a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt in which it will make him know his intentions and it will specify the cause.
23.3. If no agreement is reached between the parties within 30 days of the registered letter reception, parties regain their freedom of action.
Article 24 APPLICABLE LAW
The Regulations and the Challenge are under the French law.
In case of disagreement on the application or interpretation of the Rules, and the absence of agreement, any dispute will be submitted to the competent court, according to the legal rules of territorial jurisdiction.