The zkOS Use Case Challenge: Official Rules
Official Rules
Terms of Participation for The zkOS Use Case Challenge
Please read these Terms of Participation (“Terms”) before entering and participating in this zkOS use case challenge (“Contest”). By participating in this Contest, you (“you”, “your” or “Participant”) agree to be bound by these Terms.
I. Overview and Responsibility
The entity responsible for the organization of the Contest is Aleph Zero Foundation domiciled at Bergliweg 15, 6300 Zug, Switzerland (“Aleph Zero”, “we” or “our”). No purchase or payment of any kind is necessary to enter or win this Contest. A purchase or payment will not improve your chances of winning the Contest.
II. Eligibility and Exclusion
Subject to the additional restrictions below, you may enter the Contest if you:
i) are at least eighteen (18) years of age as of the date of entry and participation of the Contest and have the right, authority, and legal capacity to accept these Terms;
ii) participate in the Contest for your own personal use;
iii) will not participate in the Contest if the laws of your countries of residency and/or citizenship prohibit you from doing so in accordance with these Terms;
iv) are not subject to personal sanctions issued by the UN, US, EU or Switzerland; and
v) are not accessing the Contest from one of the countries embargoed or restricted by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), including, but not limited to: Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, DPRK (North Korea), Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar (Burma), Republic of South Sudan, Russia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, or Zimbabwe (“Prohibited Jurisdictions”).
In case local regulations prohibit the Contest, participation in the Contest and/or prohibit class action waivers, you may not enter the Contest.
Employees or agents of Aleph Zero and its affiliates or business partners involved in the provision of the Contest (collectively, “Aleph Zero Parties”), as well as the members of their respective family members (i.e. parents, children, siblings or spouse) or those persons living in the same household of the Aleph Zero Parties, are ineligible to enter or win.
We have the right to exclude individual persons from participation at our discretion and for any reason, such as violation of these Terms, attempted manipulation, or unauthorized support from third parties. We reserve the right to take action against such individuals and to deny or reclaim any prizes that have been distributed to such individuals.
III. Contest Period and Goal
The Contest starts at 14:00 am (Central European Time, CET) on October 18, 2024, and ends at 11:58 pm on October 23, 2024 (“Contest Period”). The goal of the Contest is to create a tweet that:
1. Answers the question “How could zkOS be used in web3?”.
2. Tags the @Aleph__Zero official account.
3. Contains a hashtag #SubSecondZK.
How to Enter the Contest
During the Contest Period, and subject to Section 3 above, you may enter the Contest by completing the steps listed below:
1. log in to your X account;
2. post your tweet on X; and
3. don’t forget to include the hashtag #SubSecondZK which guarantees your participation in the contest (“Submission”).
IV. Submission Guidelines and Restrictions
By submitting your Submission, you represent and warrant that you and your Submission comply with the following guidelines and restrictions:
- Your Submission may not contain any untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading information;
- Your Submission may not infringe the intellectual property or other rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, moral rights, trade secrets or rights of privacy and publicity;
- Your Submission may not include and/or depict any personal rights of third parties, such as their voices, names, images, without the prior written consent of such third party. You agree to promptly provide such written consent to Aleph Zero upon request;
- Your Submission may not pursue and/or facilitate the violation of any applicable laws and regulations;
- Your Submission may not include, feature, engage and/or promote hate speech, child exploitation, illegal distribution of personal or confidential information, sexually explicit or any sexual or pornographic material, harassment, bullying, violence, abusive, insensitive, defamatory, discriminatory, mean-spirited, offensive, defamatory or harmful content, impersonation or deceptive behaviour, or spam;
- Your Submission may not violate the X terms of use;
- You must own all the rights in connection with the content of your Submission and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you are able to grant to Aleph Zero the license to your Submission pursuant to Section 8 below;
You must access and use your X account for your own personal use.
V. Prize
The Contest will have ten (10) winners. Each winner can receive one hundred (100) Aleph Zero tokens (AZERO) (“Prize”). Additionally, the authors of the best three submissions will receive a swag box that contains: hoodie, t-shirt, hat, notebook, pen, toiletry bag.
The Prize can only be transferred to a wallet address that is compatible with the Aleph Zero blockchain. Cash payments, exchanges or substitutions of the Prize are not possible. The Prize is non-transferable and non-assignable to any other person including relatives or friends, unless permitted in writing by us. Any attempt to transfer, assign, or sell the Prize without our express written consent may result in forfeiture of the Prize at our sole discretion.
You are solely responsible for all direct or indirect taxes, duties, charges, levies, contributions and withholdings or other fees of any kind payable under the laws of any relevant country, as well as all penalties, interest, surcharges and other costs related thereto, imposed on the Prize. We assume no liability for legal and/or material defects of the Prize.
VI. Selection of the Winners
Winners will be selected and ranked at the sole discretion of Aleph Zero based on the following evaluation criteria and scoring (“Judging Criteria”):
- creativity;
- accuracy; and
- relevance.
We have the right to monitor the activities and, at our sole discretion, to disqualify any Participants who violate these Terms, attempt manipulation, get unauthorized support from third parties or influence the Contest in any other unauthorised manner. If a Participant who would have qualified as a winner is disqualified from the Contest, the next Participant in line will be selected based on the Judging Criteria.
The winners will be notified via X direct message (“Prize Notification”). The winners will have seven (7) days from the time of issuance of Prize Notification to respond to the Prize Notification (“Required Response Time”). During the Required Response Time, the winner will be required to provide us all information necessary to deliver the Prize, including but limited to name and domicile address (“Required Information”). In the event that a winner does not respond to the Prize Notification within the Required Response Time, declines the Prize or any portion thereof for any reason and/or fails to submit the Required Information, the next Participant in line will be selected based on the Judging Criteria.
VII. License to Us
By submitting your Submission, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, distribute, modify, run, copy, display, translate, and create derivative works of your Submission for any business purpose in connection the Contest and/or the Aleph Zero network. You will not be entitled to compensation for any use of the license by Aleph Zero, or its agents, licensees, or assignees.
VIII. Interruption or Termination
If the operation or integrity of the Contest is compromised or the Contest cannot be held or continued for technical reasons, we may suspend, modify, or terminate the Contest at any time without prior notice and without providing any explanation. In this case, we may decide to not award a Prize to any Participants. All our decisions are final and binding on all matters relating to the Contest.
IX. Privacy Notice
Please see our Privacy Notice https://alephzero.org/privacy-policy to understand how we collect and use and disclose your personal data.
X. Intellectual Property Rights
You accept that any and all rights (including copyrights, design rights and/or other intellectual property rights) of ours (in particular but not exclusively in the Aleph Zero trademark and the Aleph Zero logo) shall remain in our sole property. We do not assign any right, title and interest in any and all work results created or developed by us under these Terms.
XI. Limitation of Liability and Indemnification
You agree that we shall not be responsible or liable for any losses, damages or injuries of any kind resulting from your participation in the Contest or any related activity unless such damages are caused by gross negligence or wilful misconduct. By participating in the Contest, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to fully indemnify us from and against any liability, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs, and expenses resulting from any breach by you of these Terms.
XII. Miscellaneous
You shall not have the right to assign or transfer the rights and obligations under these Terms, in full or in part, to any third party without our prior written and express consent. You understand and agree that any assignment or transfer in violation of this Section shall be null and void. We are entitled to assign or transfer the rights and obligations under these Terms to any third party.
If any provision of these Terms should be invalid in any jurisdiction under applicable law, the legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. In such an event, the parties commit themselves to compose a legally valid replacement rule which approaches the invalid provision as closely as possible within the economic intent of these Terms. With this in mind, these Terms will be interpreted as though the invalid clause had been omitted from the outset.
If any party to these Terms waives the enforcement or exercise of its contractual right in a particular case, this may not be considered a general waiver of the respective right or any other contractual right or the exercise and enforcement thereof.
XIII. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Swiss law, excluding the Swiss conflict of law rules. Any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the breach, termination, existence, legal competence, or invalidity thereof, shall be exclusively settled by the courts of Zug, Switzerland.
XIV. Class Action Waiver
Any claim must be brought in the respective party’s individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, representative, multiple plaintiff, or similar proceeding (“Class Action”). The parties expressly waive any ability to maintain any Class Action in any forum. Any claim that all or part of this Class Action Waiver is unenforceable may be determined only by a court of competent jurisdiction.
XV. Contact
Any questions or requests related to the Contest and these Terms can be sent to [email protected].