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Impact AI Challenge
Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Inclusion Challenge

Terms and Conditions

Treatment and Use of Intellectual Property  

Applicant Representations and Warranties  

You, in your individual capacity or on behalf of your organization and/or coalition, represent and warrant the following with respect to your Entry:  

  1. You and/or your organization, as applicable, are the sole author, creator, and owner of your Entry and the contents thereof. If your Entry includes any third-party content or intellectual property that you and/or your organization, as applicable, do not own (such as open-source code) (“Third-Party Content”), you represent and warrant you possess all required licenses and other rights necessary to use such Third-Party Content fully as described in your Entry, and to provide the Challenge Partners with all necessary licenses to such Third-Party Content for purposes of operating and promoting the Challenge. In the event you do not possess and/or cannot provide all such rights to any Third-Party Content contained in your Entry, the Challenge Partners reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify your Entry.  
  1. Your Entry and the contents thereof are not the subject of any actual or threatened litigation or claim.  
  1. Your Entry does not and will not violate or infringe upon the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights of any third party.  
  1. Your Entry does not and will not contain any harmful computer code (sometimes referred to as “malware,” “viruses” or “worms”).  
  1. Your Entry and any use of your Entry that can be reasonably anticipated by submitting it to this Challenge does not and will not violate any applicable laws or regulations, including, without limitation, applicable export control laws and regulations of the United States and other jurisdictions.   

License to Entry  

By submitting an Entry to the Challenge, you hereby grant the Challenge Partners each a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, and display your Phase 1 Entry, in any way and through any media whatsoever, including, but not limited to, on the data.org website, in data.org press releases or promotions, and through sharing with data.org partners, for charitable and non-commercial purposes only such as research and informing opportunities for their charitable initiatives (the “Entry License”). Under this Entry License, data.org and the Challenge Partners may profile your Entry as an example of the great potential of data science for social impact and may share your Entry with other organizations in the Challenge Partners’ networks that may wish to support your work. However, the Challenge Partners will have no obligation to do so.  

If you do NOT wish to grant the Challenge Partners an Entry License, at Phase 1, you will have an opportunity to opt out of it, and your choice will not affect your Entry’s chances for award selection. However, please note that if your Entry is selected to advance to Phase 2 of the Challenge, you must grant the Challenge Partners each an Entry License in order to continue participating in the Challenge.  

Even with the licenses above, the Challenge Partners will not share your Entries or any of the information or materials contained therein without first notifying you and providing you with an opportunity to decline such sharing.    

You will not receive any compensation or credit for use of your Entry arising out of the foregoing licenses. Data.org is not obligated to use, share or display your Entry for any purpose, even if you have been selected as an Awardee. Personal data and financials you and/or your team provide while participating in this Challenge will not be shared or displayed and will only be used by Challenge organizers and their agents internally, for the administration and operation of this Challenge.  

Notwithstanding the foregoing, data.org may display the names of individuals and individual team members who are Challenge Finalists and Awardees on the data.org Website.  

Additional Terms  

  • By submitting an Entry on behalf of an organization, the applicant represents and warrants that they are authorized to do so. Applicants invited to submit a Phase 2 Entry will be required to provide formal documentation of this authorization at that time.   
  • This Challenge is subject to and governed by the laws of Washington, District of Columbia in the United States of America.  
  • By submitting your Entry, you (and, if applicable, your organization and/or coalition) release, discharge and hold harmless the Challenge Partners and their respective employees, agents, officers, directors and representatives (“Representatives”) from any and all claims, liability losses, costs and expenses (each, a “Claim”) arising out of or relating to your participation in the Challenge and/or your acceptance and use of any Award. With respect to the Challenge, the Challenge Partners assume no responsibility for any errors, omissions, interruptions, deletions, defects, or delays in operation or transmissions; communication line failures; theft or destruction of, or unauthorized access to, Challenge Entries or entry forms; or alteration of Entries or entry forms. You acknowledge and agree that the Challenge Partners are not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any Entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to competitors’ or any other persons’ computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to this Challenge.   
  • If for any reason the Challenge is not capable of operating as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, Trojan horses, denial of service, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Challenge Partners that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Challenge, data.org reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual(s) or organization(s) who tamper with the process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Challenge without liability to Challenge participants.  
  • data.org reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any competitor who is found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the data.org Challenge; to be acting in violation of these Rules; to be acting in an unfair or disruptive manner, or with the intent to disrupt or undermine the legitimate operation of the data.org Challenge; or to be threatening or harassing any other Challenge participant(s) or individuals.  
  • data.org also reserves the right to disqualify any participants who violate any other term contained in these Rules and any standards of behavior expressed or implied herein.  
  • Entry into the data.org Challenge does not constitute entry into any other challenge or promotion operated or promoted by any Challenge Partners.  

You may contact us with any questions or comments about these Rules at challenge@data.org. Please enter Rules in the subject line of your email.