NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN A PRIZE IN THIS CONTEST. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. THIS IS A CLOSED PROMOTION OPEN ONLY TO INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES (DEFINED BELOW).
WINNERS MAY BE REQUIRED TO RESPOND TO WINNER NOTIFICATION AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS FROM HOST OR SPONSOR WITHIN SEVEN (7) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF NOTIFICATION (OR OTHER SPECIFIED TIMEFRAME) OR CAN BE DISQUALIFIED FROM RECEIVING THE PRIZE, AS MORE FULLY DETAILED BELOW.
BY ENTERING THIS CONTEST, YOU AGREE TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES (“RULES”), WHICH ARE A CONTRACT, SO READ THEM CAREFULLY BEFORE ENTERING. WITHOUT LIMITATION, AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, THIS CONTRACT INCLUDES INDEMNITIES TO THE SPONSOR (DEFINED BELOW) FROM YOU, AND A LIMITATION OF YOUR RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. BY PARTICIPATING, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE RULES AND REPRESENT THAT YOU SATISFY ALL OF THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.
OVERVIEW: The AR/VR Innovation Contest (“Contest”) is sponsored by Facebook Singapore Pte Ltd, 9 Straits View, Level 29, Marina One Singapore 018937 (“Sponsor”) and hosted by Artificial Intelligence Institute Seoul National University, Research Park Building 942, 2 Fl. 1 Gwanak-ro Gwanak-gu Seoul 08826 Korea (“AIIS” and/or “Host”). Contest begins at 00:00:01 a.m. Korean Standard Time (“KST”) on June 30, 2022 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. KST on August 24, 2022 ("Contest Period"). During the Contest Period, eligible individuals and businesses are invited to enter the Contest by submitting an application form and a written proposal (in English) (as further defined below). The three (3) entries receiving the highest scores will be the potential winners, subject to verification, as described in more detail below. Entries received in accordance with these Rules will be evaluated by a panel of Sponsor-selected Judges (defined below), all in accordance with the judging procedures detailed under the “Winner Selection/Notification” section below.
ELIGIBILITY: This Contest is open only to individuals and businesses during the Contest Period who meet the following criteria: (a) individuals who are natural persons and as of the date of entry, at least eighteen (18) years old and the age of majority in his or her jurisdiction of residence, and are faculty or postgraduate researchers focused in computer science, engineering or other related disciplines employed by an accredited university in the countries or regions in the Asia Pacific region as shown in the Annex (“Territory”) (each and any, an "Individual"); and (b) business entities that are, as of the date of entry, in the business of software and/or hardware development at the start-up or scale-up stage and legally formed or recognized by a jurisdiction within the Territory and have a principal place of business in the Territory and where each person participating for, with, or on behalf of such business entity is at least eighteen (18) years old and the age of majority in his or her jurisdiction of residence ("Business"). Government officials, political figures, and businesses politically affiliated (all as determined by Sponsor) are not eligible to participate in the Contest. Where distinction is not necessary, any Individual or Business that applies or attempts to enter this Contest is referred to in these Rules as a "Participant." Individuals or Businesses are not eligible to participate if they are located in any area, country, state, territory, or province where United States or local laws prohibit participating or receiving a prize in the Contest or any country or jurisdiction that is the target of U.S., EU, United Nations, UK, or Republic of Korea’s comprehensive trade sanctions (e.g., Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Syria, as such list may be amended). Individuals and Businesses are not eligible to participate if they are the target of any trade sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S., EU, United Nations, UK or Republic of Korea, or are acting on behalf of entities that are the target of such trade sanctions.
If required by law, Sponsor reserves the right to void Entries or other participation at any stage of the Contest including after determination and announcement of winners.
Employees, officers, directors, members, managers, agents, and representatives of Sponsor or any other entities participating in the design, promotion, marketing, administration, or fulfillment of this Contest, or any of their respective corporate partners, parent companies, divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors in interest, and advertising, promotion, and public relations agencies (collectively, the “Released Parties”) and any family member or member of the same household (whether or not related) of any such persons are not eligible to enter or win a prize in this Contest. For purposes of this Contest, the term “family member” is defined as any spouse, partner, parent, legal guardian, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or in-law.
By participating as part of a Business, Individual, or on behalf of your employer, you agree: that these Rules are binding on you, individually, and your company; that you are acting within the scope of your employment/contract/agency, as an employee, contractor, or agent of the Business/employer; that you warrant that you have authority to do so; and that your Business/employer has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your Business’s or employer's policies and procedures.
Participation in this Contest constitutes Participant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Rules and the decisions of Sponsor and Administrator, which are final and binding in all matters.
HOW TO ENTER: To enter the Contest, Participants must send to sunny11s@snu.ac.kr an email to which they attach the Contest application form ("Entry Form") and a written proposal that 1) Identifies a challenge in the adoption or use of AR/VR technologies relating to one of the three key policy areas (i.e. privacy, safety & wellbeing, and equity & inclusion); and 2) Proposes an innovative & practical solution, either at hardware or software level, to address the challenge (the “Proposal”) during the Contest Period. Proposals must be submitted in pdf format, written in English and consist of no more than seven (7) pages, and Entry (defined below) must include the following:
For Individuals:
Full name (same as in government-issued ID document)
Date of birth
Office address
Job title
Phone number
Email address
Names of university and faculty/department
Disciplines of study (undergraduate & postgraduate)
The Individual Winners will be required to submit a copy of staff card or proof of employment issued by their universities. The universities affiliated with Individual Winners will be required to submit: copy of (1) government-issued document of registration/incorporation (or equivalent), and (2) bank statement.
For Businesses:
Company name (as shown in incorporation or business registration document)
Brief description of the business
Place of incorporation/registration
Year of establishment
Number of employees
Full name of contact person (as shown in government-issued ID document)
Phone number
Email address
Company correspondence address
Company website address (if any)
The Business Winners will be required to submit: Copy of (1) incorporation / business registration document, (2) bank statement.
The Entry Form, (including the Proposal), and any other content submitted to Sponsor or Host during this Contest (including without limitation photographs, images, drawings, text, graphics, and videos) are collectively referred to as "Participant Content." All Participant Content must comply with the "Submission Requirements" detailed in that section below and otherwise comply with these Rules. Once an Entry Form and Proposal is actually received by Sponsor or Host, they are referred to collectively in these Rules as an "Entry."
In this Contest, there is a limit of one (1) Entry per Individual or Business. In the event that more than one Participant submits the same Proposal in connection with an Entry, only the first Entry will be accepted and Host reserves the right to verify that the submitting Participant has the right and authority to submit the Proposal into this Contest. Entries must be submitted and received by Host during the Contest Period and in strict accordance with these Rules. Sponsor or Host is not responsible and will not be liable for any disputes between or among Participants with respect to any Entry or other participation in this Contest. The Host’s clock will be the official timekeeper for this Contest. Entries must be submitted and received by Host during the Contest Period in accordance with the requirements in this HOW TO ENTER Section and all participation must be in strict accordance with these Rules. For purposes of this Contest, only Entries that actually arrive at sunny11s@snu.ac.kr on the related mail servers during the Contest Period will be considered. Other proof of submitting or attempting to submit an Entry (such as, without limitation, a printed, saved or copied automated receipt confirming entry receipt, a "Thanks for submitting" screen or message) does not constitute proof of actual receipt of the Entry for purposes of this Contest. Those who do not abide by these Rules and the instructions of Sponsor or Host and provide all required Participant Content may be disqualified. Entries or participation may not be acknowledged and will not be returned. Entries (or participation that does not qualify as an Entry) that are incomplete, lost, late, misdirected, mutilated, fraudulent, illegitimate, incomprehensible, garbled, or generated by a macro, bot, or other automated means will not be accepted and will be void. Entries or participation made on behalf of a Participant by a third party not affiliated or associated with that Participant or originating through any commercial promotion subscription, notification, or entering services will be declared invalid and disqualified for this Contest. No Released Party will have any responsibility or liability for any dispute regarding any Participant, including the identity of any Individual Participant, or the distribution of any prize received by a Business Participant. In the event that any dispute regarding an Entry or Participant (including those regarding the identity or members of a Business Participant or any Participant’s rights in any Participant Content) cannot be resolved to Sponsor's satisfaction, the Entry may be deemed ineligible and the Participant disqualified. As a condition of entering the Contest, without limiting any other provision in these Rules, each Participant gives consent for Sponsor, Host and its agents to obtain and deliver his/her name, address and other information and Entry to third parties for the purpose of administering this Contest and complying with applicable laws, regulations, and rules. ENTRIES MAY NOT BE ACKNOWLEDGED AND, IN FACT, MAY BE DESTROYED AFTER THE CONTEST PERIOD. KEEP A COPY OR THE ORIGINAL OF EACH ELEMENT OF THE ENTRY. ANY ENTRY THAT DOES NOT CONFORM TO THE REQUIREMENTS IN THESE RULES MAY BE DEEMED INELIGIBLE.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Participant Content must meet all of the following requirements or the associated Entry may be disqualified:
If any part of a Participant’s Participant Content depicts, identifies, or includes any person that is not Participant itself/himself/herself, Participant must have all permissions and rights from the individual depicted, identified, or included (and, if such individual is a minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) and agrees to provide Sponsor with written confirmation of those permissions and rights upon request.
Participant must have all necessary permissions and rights to submit the Participant Content in this Contest and agrees to provide Sponsor with written confirmation of those permissions and rights within the timeframe requested, if requested.
Participant Content must not create or imply any association between Sponsor and any individual or entity or his, her, or its products or services, including the Participant.
Participant Content must not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any rights of any third party including, without limitation, copyright (including moral rights), trademark, trade secret, or rights of privacy or publicity.
Participant Content must not include information or content that is false, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, defamatory, libelous (including trade libel), disparaging, harassing, threatening, profane, obscene, pornographic or otherwise adult-oriented, hateful, indecent, inappropriate, or injurious to any Released Party or any other party.
Participant Content must not contain or describe any harmful or illegal activity or content or in any way violate any federal, provincial, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations.
Participant Content must be suitable for presentation in a public forum.
Participant agrees that his, her, or its participation in the Contest and agreement to these Rules and any Released Party’s reproduction, display, and use of the Participant Content in accordance with these Rules will not violate any agreement to which Participant is a signatory or party.
Participant agrees to indemnify the Released Parties against any and all claims from any third party for any use or reuse by any Released Party of the Participant Content authorized under these Rules.
Participant certifies and confirms that the Prize amounts granted for his, her, or its participation are the result of his, her, or its participation in the Contest in the country of residence or establishment provided at the time of Contest entry.
Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify from the Contest any Participant whose Entry refers, depicts, or in any way reflects negatively upon a Released Party, the Contest, or any other person or entity or does not comply with these Rules, including any of the above Submission Requirements.
WINNER SELECTION/NOTIFICATION:
All Entries received in accordance with these Rules will be judged by a panel of judges based upon the following criteria (“Criteria”): Significance and imminence of the challenge identified in the proposal - 10%, Originality and innovativeness of the proposed solution - 25%, Effectiveness, practicability and timeliness of the proposed solution - 40%, Impact on user experience by the proposed solution - 25%. In the event of a tie in the selection of the winner of a prize, the Participant whose Entry received the highest score in the criteria of effectiveness, practicability and timeliness will be a winner, subject to verification. Potential winners will be notified in or around mid-September 2022.
The Judging will occur in early September 2022. All Judges’ decisions are final and binding in all matters relating to this Contest. Each Participant acknowledges that other Participants may have created ideas and concepts contained in their Entry that may have familiarities or similarities to his/her/its Entry, and that he/she/it will not be entitled to any compensation or right to negotiate with the Released Parties because of these familiarities or similarities.
Host, Sponsor or its designee will attempt to notify the potential winners in or around mid-September 2022, at the email address included in the Entry Form. Potential winners will be required to respond to Host, Sponsor or its designee as instructed within seven (7) days of Sponsor sending the notification.
Each potential winner may be required to complete, execute, have notarized (if applicable), and return one or more of the following, including an Affidavit/Declaration of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release (unless prohibited by law), tax documents, and related prize-acceptance documents (collectively, “Winner Documents”) within ten (10) days or other time frame specified and in the form provided by Sponsor, without revision, or prize may be forfeited. If any Participant refuses to comply with the foregoing requirements and other requirements of Sponsor, his/her Entry may be disqualified at any time. The Winner Documents, if applicable, must be received by Sponsor from the potential winners within ten (10) days of Sponsor sending the documents to the potential winners (or other time frame as stated in the Winner Documents) or the potential winner may be disqualified and an alternate winner may be selected. If any notification or other Contest-related communication is returned as undeliverable, or if a selected potential winner cannot be reached or does not respond as instructed after Sponsor has attempted to notify that potential winner, that selected winner may be disqualified and an alternate winner may be selected (time permitting). Sponsor reserves the right to modify the notification procedures in connection with the selection of any alternate potential winner, if any. The prize claim and Winner Documents are subject to verification by Sponsor. The prizes, if legitimately claimed, will be awarded. Sponsor will not be obligated to pursue more than three (3) alternate winners (time permitting) for the prizes for any reason.
PRIZES AND QUANTITY:
Three (3) winners will be selected by a panel of judges to receive a grant in the amount of $50,000 USD, which may be used to further develop the solutions proposed by the Winners. Prizes will be fulfilled via check or wire transfer approximately in November 2022 following winner verification. Total value of all prizes: $150,000 USD. If winner is a Business, the prize will be awarded to the Business, not the representative who entered on behalf of the Business. If a prize winner is an Individual, grant amount will be awarded to the Individual’s university. No funds will be awarded directly to the Individual.
The winning Entries may be introduced in the press release of the Contest and Winners will be expected to present their proposals or solutions at the XR conference to be held by Sponsor in collaboration with Host tentatively in April 2023. Winners are responsible for any costs and/or travel required to attend the conference.
By entering this Contest and accepting the prize, Participants (including, without limitation, anyone associated with a Business winner) agree to maintain his/her/their behavior in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations and generally accepted social practices in connection with participation in any Contest- or prize-related activity. Sponsor is not responsible for any inability or unwillingness of any winning Participant to accept or use the prize (or portion thereof) for any reason. Prize elements delivered by mail, if any, will only be mailed to the winning Participant’s address within the Territory. Prize details not specifically stated in these Rules, will be determined by Sponsor. To the fullest extent allowable under applicable law, all taxes (including, without limitation, national, federal, state, provincial, territorial, prefectural, and/or local taxes), as well as any expenses arising from acceptance or use of the prize and not specified in these Rules as being provided as part of the prize, are the sole responsibility of the Winners. Sponsor may, in compliance with the relevant law, withhold taxes (including, without limitation, national, federal, state, provincial, territorial, prefectural, and/or local taxes) from the prize. Sponsor is not responsible for and will not replace any lost, mutilated or stolen prize or prize element or any prize that is undeliverable or does not reach a winner because of incorrect or changed contact information. If a winner does not accept or use the entire prize for any reason, the unaccepted or unused part of the prize will be forfeited and Sponsor will have no further obligation with respect to that prize or portion of the prize. No transfers, prize substitutions, or cash redemptions will be made. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any stated prize or any component thereof with another prize or component of equal or greater value for any reason. No more than the stated prizes will be awarded. Participants waive the right to assert as a cost of winning the prize, any and all costs of verification and redemption and any liability and publicity that might arise from claiming or seeking to claim said prize.
LICENSE
By entering, except where prohibited by law, each Entrant grants to the Released Parties (and their agents, successors, and assigns) the royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable right and permission to use, edit, modify, copy, reproduce, and distribute their Participant Content solely to the extent necessary to administer the Contest. For the avoidance of doubt, the Released Parties would not be permitted to use the Participant Content for any other purpose.
Each Participant hereby acknowledges and agrees that the relationship between the Participant and each of the Released Parties is not a confidential, fiduciary, or other special relationship, and that the Participant’s decision to submit his/her Entry for purposes of the Contest does not place any of the Released Parties in a position that is any different from the position held by members of the general public with regard to elements of the Entry, other than as set forth in these Rules. Each Participant understands and acknowledges that the Released Parties have wide access to ideas, text, images, code, applications, software, and other creative materials. Each Participant also acknowledges that many ideas for applications and online services may be competitive with, similar to, or identical to his/her Participant Content and/or each other in idea, function, components, format, or other respects. Each Participant acknowledges and agrees that such Participant will not be entitled to any compensation as a result of any Released Party’s use of any such similar or identical material that has or may come to such Released Party from other sources. Each Participant acknowledges and agrees that Sponsor does not now and will not have in the future any duty or liability (direct or indirect; vicarious, contributory, or otherwise) with respect to the infringement or protection of the Participant’s copyright or other proprietary rights in and to his/her Entry, including the Participant Content contained or described therein. Each Participant acknowledges that, with respect to any claim by Participant relating to or arising out of a Released Party’s actual or alleged exploitation or use of any Entry or other material submitted in connection with the Contest, the damage, if any, thereby caused to the applicable Participant will not be irreparable or otherwise sufficient to entitle such Participant to seek injunctive or other equitable relief or in any way enjoin the production, distribution, exhibition, or other exploitation of any Released Party materials, service or other property, and Participant’s rights and remedies in any such event are strictly limited to the right to recover damages, if any, in an action at law.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Nothing in these Rules limits, excludes, or modifies or purports to limit, exclude, or modify any statutory consumer guarantee or any implied condition or warranty, the exclusion of which from these Rules would contravene any statute or cause any part of these Rules to be void (“non-excludable guarantees”). Subject to the limitations in the preceding sentence and to the maximum extent permitted by any mandatory provisions of applicable law, the Released Parties exclude from these Rules all conditions, warranties, and rules implied by statute, general law, or custom, except for liability in relation to a non-excludable guarantee. Subject to any non-excludable guarantees, each entrant agrees to release, hold harmless, and indemnify (i.e., defend and/or reimburse) the released parties from any liability whatsoever for injuries or damages of any kind sustained in connection with the use, acceptance, possession, misuse, or awarding of a prize or while preparing for, participating in, and/or traveling to or from any Contest- or prize-related activity, including, without limitation, any injury, damage, death, loss, or accident to person or property (however (but only if required by law in your jurisdiction), this release, hold harmless, and indemnification commitment does not apply to cases of bodily injury or loss of life or to the extent that any death or personal injury is caused by the negligence of sponsor or other third party, where liability to the injured party cannot be excluded by law). Further, entrant agrees that the released parties are not responsible in any way for any additional expenses, omissions, delays, or re-routing resulting from any acts of any government or authority. Each winner agrees that the prize is provided as-is without any warranty, representation, or guarantee (express or implied, in fact or in law), whether now known or hereinafter enacted, relative to the use or enjoyment of the prize, beyond any non-excludable guarantees.
ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMERS: To the extent permitted by applicable law, Released Parties are not responsible and/or liable for any of the following, whether caused by a Released Party, the entrant, or by human error: entries that are submitted by illegitimate means (such as, without limitation, by an automated computer program) or entries in excess of any stated limit; any lost, late, incomplete, illegible, unintelligible, garbled, mutilated, or misdirected entries, email, mail, or Contest-related correspondence or materials or postage-due mail; any error, omission, interruption, defect or delay in transmission or communication; viruses or technical or mechanical malfunctions; interrupted or unavailable cable or satellite systems; errors, typos, or misprints in these Rules, in any Contest-related advertisements, or other materials; failures of electronic equipment, computer hardware, or software; lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled or delayed electronic communications or entry information. Released Parties are not responsible for electronic communications that are undeliverable or do not reach entrant as a result of any form of active or passive filtering of any kind, or insufficient space in a person’s account to receive messages. Released Parties are not responsible, and may disqualify you, if your email address or other contact information does not work or is changed without prior written notice to Sponsor. To the extent permitted by applicable law and without limiting any other provision in these Rules, Released Parties are not responsible or liable to any entrant or winner or any person claiming through such entrant or winner for failure to supply the prize or any part of a prize in the event that any of the Contest activities or Released Parties’ operations or activities are affected by any cause or event beyond the sole and reasonable control of the applicable Released Party, including, without limitation, by reason of any acts of God, any action, regulation, order or request by any governmental or quasi-governmental entity (whether or not the action, regulations, order or request proves to be invalid), equipment failure, threatened or actual terrorist acts, air raid, blackout, act of public enemy, earthquake, war (declared or undeclared), fire, flood, epidemic, pandemic, explosion, unusually severe weather, hurricane, embargo, labor dispute or strike (whether legal or illegal), labor or material shortage, transportation interruption of any kind, work slow-down, civil disturbance, insurrection, riot, or any law, rule, regulation, action, order or request adopted, taken or made by any federal, state or local governmental or quasi-governmental entity (whether or not such governmental act proves to be invalid), or any other cause, whether or not specifically mentioned above.
GENERAL RULES: By entering this Contest (except where prohibited by law), each entrant grants the Released Parties the irrevocable, sublicensable, absolute right and permission to use, publish, post or display their name, photograph, likeness, voice, prize information, biographical information, any quotes attributable to him or her, any other indicia of persona, and any information or content provided in or submitted as part of their entry (regardless of whether altered, changed, modified, edited, used alone, or used with other material n) for advertising, trade, promotional and publicity purposes without further obligation or compensation of any kind to him or her, anywhere, in any medium now known or later discovered or devised (including, without limitation, on the Internet), world-wide, without any limitation of time, and without notice, review, or approval and each entrant releases all Released Parties from any and all liability related to Released Parties' use, publishing, posting or displaying. Nothing contained in these Rules obligates Sponsor to make use of any of the rights granted in these rules and winner waives any right to inspect or approve any such use.
Sponsor’s decisions will be final in all matters relating to this Contest, including interpretation of these Rules, determination of any winner, and awarding of any prize. All entrants, as a condition of entry in this Contest, agree to be bound by these Rules and the decisions of Sponsor. Failure to comply with these Rules may result in disqualification from this Contest. Entrants further agree not to damage or cause interruption of this Contest and/or prevent others from entering and/or participating in this Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to restrict or void entries or participation from any IP address or other identifiable source if any suspicious entry and/or participation is detected. Sponsor reserves the right to void entries of any entrants who Sponsor believes have attempted to tamper with or impair the administration, security, fairness, or proper play of this Contest. Sponsor’s failure to or decision not to enforce any provision in these Rules will not constitute a waiver of that or any other provision. In the event there is an alleged or actual ambiguity, discrepancy, or inconsistency between disclosures or other statements contained in any Contest-related materials, and/or these Rules (including any alleged discrepancy or inconsistency within these Rules), it will be resolved by Sponsor. Entrants waive any right to claim ambiguity in the Contest structure, any Contest materials, or these Rules. If Sponsor determines, at any time, that a winner or potential winner is disqualified, ineligible, in violation of these Rules, or engaging in behavior that Sponsor deems obnoxious, inappropriate, threatening, illegal or that is intended to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person, Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify that winner or potential winner, even if the disqualified winner or potential winner may have been notified or displayed or announced anywhere. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Rules will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these Rules will otherwise remain in effect and will be construed in accordance with their collective terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained in these Rules. If this Contest is not capable of running as planned for any reason, Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, modify or suspend this Contest and award the prize from eligible entries received prior to cancellation, modification, or suspension or as otherwise deemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor. If any person supplies false information, obtains entries by fraudulent means, or is otherwise determined to be in violation of these Rules in an attempt to obtain any prize, Sponsor may disqualify that person and seek damages from him or her and that person may be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. No Released Party will have any responsibility or liability for any dispute regarding any entrant, including the identity of any individual participating on behalf of a business or organization, the affiliation, employment, membership, and/or agency of individuals of a business or organization, or the distribution of any prize. In the event of a dispute regarding an entry or participation (including those regarding the identity or affiliation, employment, membership, and/or agency of an individual or entrant, who submitted an entry, and/or who should receive a prize) cannot be resolved to Sponsor’s satisfaction the entry will be deemed ineligible and the entrant disqualified. Caution: Any attempt to damage any online service or website or to undermine the legitimate operation of a Contest may violate criminal and civil laws. If such an attempt is made, Sponsor may disqualify any entrant (or purported entrant) making such attempt and may seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.
DISPUTES/GOVERNING LAW:Except where prohibited, as a condition of participating in this Contest, each entrant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the entrant and any Released Party, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with the entry, this Contest, or the prize awarded, or the determination of a winner must be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will an entrant be permitted or entitled to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than entrant’s actual out-pocket expenses (if any), not to exceed ten dollars ($10), and entrant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased, to the extent permitted by law.
This Contest, these Rules, and any dispute arising under or related to the entry, this Contest and/or Rules (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct or otherwise) will be governed, construed, and interpreted under the laws of the Republic of Korea, without reference or giving effect to its conflicts of law principles or rules that would cause the application of any other state’s laws. Any legal actions, suits, or proceedings related to this Contest (whether for breach of contract, tortious conduct, or otherwise) will be brought exclusively in courts of competent jurisdiction located in the Republic of Korea, and each entrant irrevocably accepts, submits, and consents to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of these courts with respect to any legal actions, suits, or proceedings arising out of or related to this Contest. You waive any and all objections to jurisdiction and venue in these courts and hereby submit to the jurisdiction of those courts.
RULES/WHO WON?A copy of these Rules is available by sending an email with the subject line “AR/VR Innovation Contest - Rules” to sunny11s@snu.ac.kr During the Contest Period, the Rules will also be available by visiting https://aiis.snu.ac.kr/xrhub/rules.php Information about who won is available by sending an email with the subject line “AR/VR Innovation Contest - Who Won?” to sunny11s@snu.ac.kr Rules requests must be received no later than the end of the Contest Period. Requests for winner information must be received no later than three (3) months after the end of the Contest Period.
SPONSOR:Facebook Singapore Pte Ltd, 9 Straits View, Level 29, Marina One Singapore 018937.
AnnexQualifying countries and regions for the Contest:
Afghanistan
Australia
Bangladesh
Brunei
Cambodia
China
Fiji
Hong Kong, China
Indonesia
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Macau, China
Malaysia
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nauru
Nepal
New Zealand
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Samoa
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Tonga
Tuvalu
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vietnam