Competition Official Rules
By submitting an application form and entering this Competition, candidates agree to abide by all terms and conditions of these Intango AdTech Startup Competition 2018 official rules (the "Official Rules” or “Rules”)
Applications will be considered if submitted according to these rules and by the submission deadline. Late submissions will be disqualified.
Organizer
The Competition is organized and sponsored by Intango Ltd’s - AdTech Accelerator located at 38 HaBarzel St., Tel-Aviv (the "Organizer")
Aim of the Competition
YThe aim of the Competition is to promote and develop the entrepreneurial creativity of “early-stage” Israeli startups in the in the online advertising and digital media space.
Eligibility
The Competition is open to Israeli based early-stage startup, comprised of a fully dedicated founding team of between 2-3 founders (one of which with technical orientation), who have yet to raise funds, or have raised since their incorporation and to date of submission of the application less than $250K in external funding
Applicant must be engaged in research and development of technologies in the in the online advertising and digital media space. A team with a working prototype is a huge advantage.
Individuals cannot be members in more than one team of applicants.
A team or organization may have professional advisors, consultants, entrepreneurs or other business professionals with relevant expertise. Any such individual will not participate in any presentation of the achievements nor shall in any way win a Prize.
The Process and Schedule
To enter the Competition a team must submit an application (at https://intango.com/competition/) until May 24th 2018.
All applications will be asked to attend a qualification phone call, and a face to face meeting by the Organizer and thereafter reviewed by a committee of experts.
On May 31st 2018, chosen applicants (who passed the application and qualification process) will be announced and Finalists which will then be required to present their Development to a committee composed of industry experts at the Competition’s main event, which will be held on June 11th, 2018 at 18:00 at the Intango Offices.
The identity of the winner of the Competition will be announced at the Competition’s main event.
Prize
The winning team of the Competition will be awarded a $10,000 Prize, comprised of $5,000 Cash Prize and additional $5,000 worth of Media Budget (to be provided by Intango Ltd.) (the “Prize”).
The Prize is sponsored by the Organizer of the Competition.
The winning team will be required to provide Organizer with any and all information and documentation necessary to facilitate the foregoing, as a condition to materialization of the Prize.
The description of the Prize in these Official Rules or in any of the Organizer's advertisements is for illustrative purposes only and does not bind the Organizer or anyone on its behalf.
The Organizer shall have the sole discretion to make any decision with regard to the grant of the Prize, including, the determination of the date of grant, the date of realization of the Organizer, and any other details regarding the Prize. The winner shall not have any demand, claim or arguments in this regard.
In the event where the winning team will be disqualified, the expert Committee may replace them with another team or may not give away the Prize at its sole discretion.
Eligibility for the Prize is personal; it is not assignable or transferrable.
The Organizer or anyone on its behalf shall not be held responsible in any way for the quality or nature of the Prize, abnormality or discrepancy of the Prize, the delivery of the Prize, the consequence arising from the realization of the Prize or non-realization of the Prize, or any other matter relating to the Prize, and will not be held responsible for an event, damage, expense or loss that the winning team may incur, directly or indirectly, including financial damages, physical damages or any other damages in connection with the Prize, its realization or non-realization for any reason, and the winning team shall not have any argument, demand or claim against the Organizer or anyone on its behalf.
The Prize includes only as described in these Official Rules. Any additional expenses, including any taxes, deduction or demand for payment will be at the sole expense of the winning team, and will be a condition as for the realization of the Prize. If required by law, the Organizer may transfer to the tax authorities’ personal information of the winning team or to withhold tax at source as may be required by applicable law. The Organizer will not be responsible for any tax charges with regard to the winning.
The Organizer may not grant the Prize to the winning team, cancel the Prize or the Competition, in whole or in part, in any case where it is suspected that a candidate or a participant, including the winning team, directly or indirectly acted (in this matter) against the Official Rules, in bad faith or committed an offense or act which is not lawful, in connection with their participation in the Competition, in all stages, all at the discretion of the Orgenizer, and no candidate or participant shall have any arguments, demands or claims in this regard.
Use of personal information
The personal information of the participants in the Competition (including the winning team), will be saved in the Organizer’s offices, which will use the personal information according to the privacy and use of information policy used by the Organizer.
By participating in the Competition, the candidate provides the Organizer a right to use any non-confidential information provided by the participating team in scope of the Competition, in any way, at its' sole discretion, including for the purpose of publications and presentation of the information by the Organizer or anyone on its behalf (including commercial and advertising information), in accordance with any applicable, including the Privacy Protection Law 1981.
The Organizer reserves the right to publish the winning teams', or the other participants' personal information provided as part of the Competition, in all media channels, including, but not limited to, in newspapers, newsletters, television, radio, Facebook, Linkdin (or other social media platforms), or in any other websites (including the Competition's or Organizer’s website), all – at Organizer’s sole and absolute discretion.
The participants shall have no arguments, demands or claims against the Organizer with regard to the use of details or information that the participant provided as part of the Competition, including their publication.
By participating in the Competition, all of the participants agree: (1) to deliver to the Organizer their full information and to be interviewed in the matter of winning the Competition; (2) that the Organizer shall be entitled to cover, publish, photograph and otherwise use, in accordance with any applicable law and regulations, their names, photograph, or winning of the Prize in different media channels, including television, newsletters, radio, Facebook, Linkdin, or in any other social media platforms, websites, or newsletters, free of charge and without any restriction, including time-restriction, and all for the publication, public relations and promotion or for any other purpose as shall be determined by the Organizer.
The participants hereby waive, for no consideration, any right or claim with regard to the use of their photographs, names or their information by the Organizer in scope of any publication concerning the Competition. For the avoidance of doubt, it is clarified that the foregoing does not impose any obligation on the Organizer to publish the photos, names, products, information and/or the wining itself.
Guarantees and Indemnities
By accepting these Official Rules to the request of participation, any participant participating in the Competition hereby states and guarantees that the startup submitted: (a) is original and, in its respect, the participant has the rights to participate in the Competition; (b) it is not in breach of third party rights, including rights related to trademarks, patents, and industrial secrets, copyright, rights arising from agreements or licenses, rights related to privacy, moral rights, rights of publicity or image rights; (c) is not intrinsically defamatory or outrageous nor it has any content capable of damaging the name, the honor or the reputation of the Organizer, or of any subject involved in the Competition; and (d) does not contain characteristics aimed to promote offensive, threatening, harassment and intimidation behavior.
The participants in the Competition shall state, upon submission of candidature, to fully indemnify and hold harmless the Organizer from any proceeding or claim made by any third-party, for infringement of one of the provisions, and for the maximum term permitted by law.
Without prejudice to the above, upon submission of candidature, the participant hereby authorizes the Organizer to: (a) use its/his/her name, company name and image for promotional and advertising purposes, as well as the name, the image and the symbols identifying the project submitted; (b) make available for the public the material of the project on any of its websites or on third-party website/s; (c) exhibit the project and related material during possible conferences, conventions and seminars; and (d) notify to third-parties interested the information required to invest in development, marketing and economic exploitation of the project.
Miscellaneous
The results of the Competition, or any matter relating to them, will be final, definitive and not open to appeal.
For the avoidance of doubt and without derogating from the generality of the foregoing, it is clarified that the Organizer holds the sole and exclusive discretion in any matter whatsoever pertaining to the Competition, including the Official Rules, the duration of the Competition and the identity of the nominees (including in relation to any “alternative candidate” – it being the participant who was rated after the unqualified candidate), and the beginning and the end of the participation in the Competition.
The Organizer shall decide upon any controversy, matter or issue with regard to the Competition, including in the event of a violation of these Official Rules, disqualification of participants, and in any case of a misunderstanding, doubt or difficulty in connection with the Competition including the interpretation of these Official Rules or with connection to the violation of the Official Rules. The decisions and resolutions of the Organizer said in these Official Rules will be final, definitive and not open for appeal, and the participants will have no claim or demand against the Organizer or his representatives in these regards.
Organizer may at any time, at its sole discretion and for any reason, terminate or cancel the competition, to modify the Official Rules, modify the conditions of competition and participation, extend or shorten the competition or other dates and/or the number of nominees selected in the competition and/or the number of winners chosen and/or the Prize, including in an event where it turns out that there have been a malfunction, disruption, prevention or interruption which may prevent or delay the ability to participate in the Competition, including technical failure, mechanical failure, and/or human error (hereinafter: the Disruption), including due to constraints that do not depend on the Organizer and/or if it transpires that the fairness or appropriateness of participation in the contest have been jeopardized and/or any other reason.
Each participant agrees that in any case these Rules will be canceled or modified as provided in Section above, the Participant will have no claim or demand regarding the cancellation or modification against the Organizer or its representative. The Organizer will publish the revocation or modification (as applicable) of the Competition in any way it sees fit, at its sole discretion. For the avoidance of doubt, the execution of the cancellation or any such change shall be deemed as a supplement or modification to these Official Rules and shall bind the participants.
In any event where a participant (including the winner) will violate these Official Rules, including whether it turns out that he was among those forbidden to participate in the Competition according to these Official Rules or that he had violated the terms and conditions of these Official Rules, in whole or in part, or that he violated any law provisions or that he was not supposed to make it to the final stage or the next stage of the process or to win the Prize, the Organizer may, at its discretion, cancel his participation and the participant shall have no argument, demand or claim in this regard.
For the avoidance of doubt, these Official Rules are purely for the purpose of a marketing Competition and shall not be considered as a Competition as defined in section 224 of the Israeli Panel Code, due to the fact that the winning does not depend on fate.