Terms and Conditions:
BY SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION TO AMAC 2014 AND BY CLICKING “YES” AT THE END OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THE TEAM MEMBER SUBMITTING THIS APPLICATION ATTESTS THAT HE/SHE ACCEPTS THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS (BOTH ON HIS/HER BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF EACH TEAM MEMBER):
1. A “contestant” competing in AMAC 2014 will consist of teams meeting these criteria:
- At least one (1) member of your team must hold a passport from the Pan-Arab Region
- All members of your team must be over the age of eighteen (18)
2. The mobile app submitted by your team can relate to one or more of the following sectors:
- Education
- Health
- Other
3. Factors that may be considered as it relates to your entry include:
- How effective will the app be in filling an existing gap in current mobile apps?
- Is your mobile app commercially sustainable?
- How many people will benefit from your mobile app and in what regions?
4. By participating in this competition, you agree to abide by the guidelines relating to any visa, travel, accommodation or other arrangements made for you in the event of travel. For example, and not limited to:
- AMAC is not responsible for visa, travel, accommodation or other of family/friends
- You are responsible for your own visa arrangements to the MWC in Barcelona, Spain should you qualify, and in the instance this is not organised AMAC reserves the right to nominate another team.
- AMAC will cover the cost of one team member to MWC.
5. Your team should not have received more than One Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($100,000 USD) in seed funding in order to qualify. AMAC reserves the right to request clarification from the team.
6. The judging panel will comprise of an appropriate balance from industry leaders. The judging panel decision will be final and binding.
7. It is the teams’ responsibility to submit their mobile app details by the submission deadline. All teams that have submitted will be notified if they have been qualified or not to continue to the semi finals/finals round.
8. AMAC reserves the right to disqualify teams not following guidelines.
9. Each team member agrees and understands that their entry and participation in AMAC 2014 gives the founders and their agents, representatives and contractors permission and full authority to use their name, likeness, and photograph in connection with the Arab Mobile App Challenge.
10. None of the founders claim ownership rights in or title to intellectual property associated with your mobile app entry. However, by entering the Competition, you and your team grant and give the founders, agents and each of AMAC 2014’s sponsors, hosts and partners the right to use, refer to, describe, photograph, film, and publish in any form and in any medium (as examples only, in print, websites, social media networks, television and signage) information, photographs, likenesses, diagrams, data, and any other materials or information relating to your mobile app for all purposes relating to the Arab Mobile App Challenge and the advertising, promotion and publicizing of AMAC 2014. This grant is provided without further notice, approval, or authorization from you or compensation to you.
11. The founders, agents and contractors may share with third parties, including media and the general public, and place into the public domain, the name, likeness, data, and all other information concerning team members and the team’s mobile app entry. Teams are solely responsible for legal protection of their mobile app entry before submitting this application, including as it relates to intellectual property rights.
12. None of the founders, agents, contractors will be considered in violation of or infringing upon any trademark, copyright, patent or other intellectual property licenses, ownership rights or interests in and to the mobile app and all materials and information submitted to AMAC 2014 by your, your team members or your representatives at any time, including at any point after AMAC 2014 has concluded.
13. Each team member releases, indemnifies and holds harmless the founders, agents and contractors, and their directors, employees, contractors and affiliates, as well as all partners, hosts and sponsors of AMAC 2014, from and against any and all liability, claims, causes of action, damages and judgments resulting from or in connection with the mobile app entry submitted by you or participation by you and your team members in AMAC 2014, including from and against alleged acts of wilful or other negligence, fraud, intellectual property infringements, omissions or misconduct, unless prohibited by law.
14. Failure to meet deadlines or miss any required events may result in disqualification of your team and your team’s mobile app entry.
15. Employees and consultants of founders, partners, agents, contractors and members of their immediate families are not eligible to enter AMAC 2014.
16. The laws of the UAE apply to these Terms and Conditions and all aspects of AMAC 2014. In case of disputes, all matters will be resolved by arbitration, to be conducted by one (1) arbitrator, to be held in the English language, with the arbitration taking place in Dubai, UAE.
Check the box if you agree to the above Terms and Conditions, on behalf of yourself and each of the team members associated with this application.