Rules Installux Competition

Installux Contest Rules (English Version)

Reference of the contest : To The Gate Project

Article 1 - Purpose of the competition

This contest is organized by INSTALLUX, a limited liability company with a capital of €4,564,576, whose registered office is located at chemin du bois rond 69720 Saint Bonnet de Mure, France, registered with the Lyon Trade and Companies Register under number 963 500 905 ("The Organizer") through Educatia, a one-person simplified joint stock company with its registered office at 1 square d'Urfé, 75016 Paris, registered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 908 943 723 ("The Provider").

This is a completely free contest with no obligation to buy.

The objective of this competition is to encourage students to participate in a call for innovation projects for The Organizer, regardless of their academic background and professional experience. Students will be able to propose innovative ideas on the theme of the intelligent, eco-responsible and aesthetic portal of tomorrow.

The purpose of these rules is to define the rules and conditions for participation in this contest.

Article 2 - Eligibility criteria

This competition is open to any student who meets the requirements listed below:

- any natural person over the age of eighteen (18) years;

- currently enrolled in an institution of higher education or a recent graduate of higher education for less than 2 years in relation to the academic year 2022 who can prove it by a student card or certificate of attendance;

- residing in France at the time of registration to the challenge;

Only one entry per person will be allowed in the contest.

Article 3 - Acceptance of the Regulations

All persons entering the contest must read and expressly accept the Rules.

All entries and participation in the Contest imply full and unconditional acceptance of these rules and regulations and the decisions regarding any aspect of this Contest, which shall be final and binding.

Any registration and participation in the Contest implies full, complete and unconditional acceptance of the laws and regulations in force in France.

Failure to comply with the rules will result in immediate cancellation of the application, participation and possible awarding of prizes.

Article 4 - Conduct of the competition

The contest begins on September 1, 2022 at 9:30 am UTC+1 and ends on December 23, 2022 at 11:59 pm UTC+1.

1. Registrations

The registration phase of the competition is open from 01/09/22 at 09:30 (UTC+1) to 25/11/22 at 23:59 UTC+1.

To participate, applicants must log on to the web page www.educatia.com/challenge_installux to:

Fill out a registration form,
create a team
submit their deliverable no later than 5/11/22 at 23H59 UTC+1.

Participants must form a team (the "Team") of (2) two to (5) five members maximum.

Each participant may be a member of only one team during the Contest period.

Any form that is incomplete or contains inaccurate, erroneous or false information, or more generally does not comply with these provisions, will not be taken into consideration and will be considered invalid.

2. selection phase

This phase of project selection will be held from 28/11/22 to 02/12/22.

A maximum of 3 projects will be selected by the Jury on the basis of the evaluation criteria designated in Article 5.

At the end of this selection phase, 3 teams will be designated to go to the next stage.

Participants will be informed of the results of the first selection stage by 06/12/22

3. Final

Teams selected to participate in the Final Stage will be contacted directly by the Organizer and the Provider.

The Organizer reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any team that does not confirm its participation in the Final stage after the results are announced. This disqualification, if any, will not give rise to any compensation from the Organizer.

This Final will consist of an oral presentation of the projects selected by the Participants selected for the Final.

Teams are required to produce a digital presentation aid for their oral presentation. This digital support must be given to the Organizer at the end of the presentation.

The rules of presentation during the Final will be communicated at the announcement of the results.

At the end of the Final, the Jury will rank the finalist teams and determine the winners based on their project and their oral presentation.

Article 5 - Jury and Evaluation Criteria

The composition of the Jury will be freely determined by the Organizer.

The jury will be sovereign and will not be required to provide reasons for the choice of the teams selected during the different stages and the attribution of the prizes.

The jury will evaluate, rank and select the projects submitted for this competition based on the following criteria:

Feasibility of the solution: speed of implementation of the proposal in the context of an experiment
ROI approach: market launch and product adoption
Coherence of the project: relevance of the solution according to the issues of the 3 themes addressed (Environmental, Aesthetic, Digital & Connected)
Satisfaction: of functional and technical requirements, enhancement of usage
Innovative nature of the solution: use of innovative technologies

At the end of the selection phase and with the exception of the provisions set out below, a maximum of 3 projects with the best evaluations by the jury will reach the Final.

At the end of the Final and with the exception of the provisions set out below, the 3 finalist teams will be ranked by the jury. This ranking will lead to the awarding of the prizes provided for in Article 7.

Article 6 - Deliverables

During the registration phase of the contest, participants may upload, via the Contest Site, any document or file to present their solution or project as a response to the contest.

Participation is limited to one deliverable per team.

Any incomplete, non-compliant or late application will not be accepted.

The deliverable must:

answer the specific problem posed in the context of the said competition;
be in one of the following formats: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .ppt, .pttx, .mp3, .mp4 ;
be written in French or English;
and comply with the conditions set out in the Regulations.

If a Deliverable cannot be uploaded, is not in the correct format, or is incompatible, illegible or unintelligible, it will be disqualified.

By submitting a Deliverable, Participants represent and warrant that the Deliverable consists solely of contributions from the team in question.

If third party content has been used in the development of the Deliverable, all rights, permissions and agreements necessary to submit the Deliverable and grant the rights herein have been obtained.

The existence of a third party contribution in violation of these rights will result in the disqualification of the Deliverable and the Participants concerned.

No other individual and/or legal entity in any form may claim any right to the Deliverable submitted in the Contest.

The content of the Deliverable does not and will not violate any rights of any third party, including (but not limited to) intellectual property rights, privacy rights, competition law, confidentiality, or any other contractual or non-contractual rights.

Any Deliverable suspected of violating third party rights and/or law(s) will be ineligible for the contest.

Participants are responsible for all costs and expenses related to the preparation and submission of Deliverables. Participants are solely responsible for damaged, lost, delayed, incomplete, invalid, incorrect or misdirected Deliverables.

Article 7 - Prizes

The prizes refer to the prizes awarded to the winners of the contest defined below.

The winners will receive the prizes described below according to their ranking.

The prizes are awarded to the winners of the contest and are conditional upon the following cumulative conditions being met:

Compliance by the winning Participants with the eligibility criteria set forth in Article 2.
The delivery by the team of a Deliverable that meets the criteria set forth in Article 6 ;
The acceptance and respect, by each Participant of the team, of the present Rules;

Winners will receive:

Lot for the 1st team:

Each participant will receive 300€ net in gift certificates

Lot for the 2nd team:

Each participant will receive 200€ net in gift certificates

Lot for the 3rd team:

Each participant will receive a net 100€ gift certificate

Each Participant of a team will receive its own prize. The prize offered is strictly nominative and cannot be transferred to another person. No assignment or transfer of the prizes by a winner is permitted between winners.

No prize will be awarded to a winner who does not meet the above conditions.

The prizes offered may not give rise to any dispute as to their nature, nor to the delivery of a consideration of any kind whatsoever.

In the event that a prize is awarded to a Participant who does not meet the conditions of participation at the time of registration or at any time during the contest, the Organizer reserves the right to require the Participant to return the prize awarded.

The Organizer reserves the right to proceed with all verifications, to request any necessary proof in order to ensure the use of the endowment.

Article 8 - Intellectual Property

Definitions.

For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:

- Intellectual Property Rights" means any copyright or other rights relating to a trademark, design, patent and, more generally, any item (including trade secrets and know-how) that may be protected by national and/or international laws or conventions relating to intellectual property ("Intellectual Property Rights");

- Prior Rights" means any intellectual property rights and/or associated know-how owned by Participants prior to the Contest start date ("Prior Rights");

- Creations": any software (including source code and object code), database, technical specification, text, design, model, information, knowledge, method, process or product, as well as any element and/or process resulting therefrom, developed by a Participant as part of a Deliverable submitted in the course of the Contest and which may be protected or may be susceptible to protection under applicable national and/or international laws and conventions relating to intellectual property ("the Creations")

Non-Infringement Guarantee. By submitting a Deliverable at any stage of the competition, each Participant warrants to the Organizer that he/she is the co-owner and/or co-owner of the Intellectual Property Rights to all or part of the Creations contained in the Deliverables, and/or that he/she has obtained all necessary rights and permissions to such pre-existing or third-party Creations.

Each participant declares that he/she owns all the rights to his/her personal production and guarantees the organizer against any opposition, action or claim from third parties.

He declares in particular that his work is original and free of any borrowing from another work that could engage the responsibility of the organizer.

Under no circumstances may the production contravene the legislation in force, nor incite hatred or be insulting.

Each participant guarantees to the Organizer that each of the projects does not constitute an infringement, an act of unfair competition or any other violation of a right belonging to a third party.

Participants must reference the source of all pre-existing Creations included in the submitted Deliverables.

Any Deliverable that has been developed by more than one Participant constitutes a collaborative work and should be treated as such under the applicable regulations in force.

Responsibility.

The Organizer shall not be held liable in any way for any violation by Participants of the above provisions. Each Participant shall indemnify the Organizer in the event of claims, oppositions, actions, or attempted eviction by a third party, relating to any of the Creations contained in the Deliverables (including the associated intellectual property rights).

It is further specified that no provision of these Rules may be interpreted as conferring on participants any right of ownership over the trademarks, names, logos and other distinctive signs owned by the Organizer.

Each Participant remains the owner of his or her prior rights and of all intellectual property rights relating to his or her creations (hereinafter the "Creations").

License to use

By participating in this contest, Participants agree to grant to the Organizer a license to the Designs comprising the Deliverable and the Deliverable itself for a period of one (1) year following the Contest Final.

This license is full and exclusive, worldwide, transferable within the Organizer's group of companies and royalty-free.

This license includes the right to use, exploit, reproduce (in whole or in part), represent, display (in whole or in part), analyze, adapt, modify, disseminate, arrange, transform, translate, including for commercial purposes, any element contained in the Creations, as well as any prior rights necessary for the exercise of the rights thus granted.

Promise of transfer of rights (purchase option)

By accepting the Rules, the Participants who are winners of the Challenge grant to the Organizing Company a unilateral promise to transfer all or part of the intellectual property rights associated with the Deliverables and the Creations that comprise them submitted during the competition.

This promise is subject to the following cumulative rules:

The Organizer will benefit from a unilateral promise of exclusive transfer for a period of twenty-four (24) months from the date of the announcement of the winners of the Challenge;
It is understood that the partners and/or subsidiaries of the Organizing Company may benefit from this purchase option;
The Organizer will notify the Participant in writing of its intention to exercise the option
Negotiations will be conducted in good faith between the parties involved;
If the parties agree, the amount of the endowment may be considered part or all of the purchase price.

Article 9 - Image rights

For the duration of the Contest and for a period of one (1) year following the Final, the Organizer will be free to communicate within its company and its subsidiaries but also for advertising and marketing purposes on the progress and nature of the projects in any format, means and medium (website, banner ads, social networks, newsletter, press release, etc.), known or unknown to date, free of charge or against payment.

The Organizer may also communicate, in particular, the identity of the participants, subject to the prior consent of the participants obtained when they registered for the Contest.

The image of the participating teams and participants may be used by the Organizer subject to their prior authorization. In such a case, the Organizer will inform the persons concerned beforehand, and will communicate to them the terms and documents required for this purpose.

Article 10 - Limitation of liability

The Organizer and the Provider cannot be held responsible for any disruptions, both on the Internet network or access difficulties related to a large number of connected or Participants. They cannot in any way be held responsible for communication or access interruptions, loss of data, computer viruses or any direct or indirect prejudice whatsoever that may be suffered by a Participant before, during and after his/her participation in the contest.

The Organizer and the Provider shall not be held responsible for any facts or damages that are not directly or indirectly attributable to them, in particular resulting from errors or delays in the submission of the Deliverables by the Participants, including the refusal to accept these Deliverables due to their submission outside the scheduled dates, damages resulting from errors or delays in the sending of e-mails by the Participant in the context of the contest, as well as damages resulting from any alteration made to the Deliverables beyond the control of the Organizer and the Provider, or from an event of force majeure likely to disrupt, modify or cancel the contest.

Consequently, Participants waive any recourse against the Organizer and the Provider for damages and/or prejudices they may suffer in the context of the contest, except for direct damages caused by the Organizer or the Provider.

The Organizer and the Provider shall not be liable for any incident that may occur in connection with the services provided for the prizes, and any liability in this regard shall be borne by the third party company or companies with which the winners contract directly.

The Organizer and the Provider shall in no event be liable for the consequences of a Participant's disqualification due to the Participant's violation of the Rules.

Article 11 - Confidentiality

Participants in the Contest agree not to disclose any information about their projects before the announcement of the winners by the Organizer.

They undertake to guarantee the strictest confidentiality of any data, information or confidential documents that they may have knowledge of in the context of the Contest, or that have already been communicated to them directly or indirectly by the Organizer for the purposes of the Contest.

All information and/or data is considered confidential, regardless of its purpose (technical, financial, commercial, etc.), nature (know-how, methods, processes, etc.), medium (written documents, printed matter, samples, drawings, etc.) or method of transmission (written, oral, computerized).

Participants in the Contest also agree, as of their receipt :

To apply the same safeguards to the Confidential Information they receive as they would apply to their own Confidential Information, if any;
To use the confidential information only for the execution of the Contest;
To transmit the confidential information received only to the members of their team who will strictly need it for the exclusive accomplishment of their mission within the framework of the Competition;
Not to divulge directly or indirectly all or part of the confidential information without the express prior consent of the Organizer;
To inform the Organizer of any loss of confidential information as soon as possible and in compliance with the regulations in force;
At the request of the Organizer and for any reason whatsoever, to return all Confidential Information;
To ensure that this obligation of confidentiality is respected, particularly with regard to team members and potential partners (if any).

This obligation of confidentiality will not apply to information that Participants can prove, including:

that they were, at the time of their communication by the Organizer, already in the public domain;
or that they have fallen, after their communication by the Organizer, into the public domain without any fault on their part;
or that they were, at the time they received them from the Organizer, already in their possession;

The confidentiality obligations in this section will be effective upon registration and will remain in effect for a period of three (3) years following the end of the Contest.

Article 12 - Protection of personal data

Participation in the Contest requires the provision of the Participant's personal data ("Personal Data").

The Participant's Personal Data is subject to computer processing within the meaning of the regulations on the protection of personal data (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 known as the "RGPD") for which the Organizer defines the purposes and means and is, as such, responsible for this processing within the meaning of the RGPD. The Provider is, as such, designated as a Subcontractor within the meaning of the RGPD.

The purposes of this processing are:

to meet the organizational needs of the Competition;
to organize the intermediation between the Participant, the Organizer and the Provider;
to ensure the identification, communication and conservation of exchanges with the Participant;

In accordance with the provisions of the RGPD, the Organizer undertakes to implement organizational and technical security measures to protect all of the Participants' Personal Data. Similarly, the Organizer undertakes to allow Participants to exercise their rights under the RGPD.

The personal information collected by the Organizer from the participants will be used exclusively for the management of the contest.

Thus, the recipient of the personal data is the Marketing and Communication Department of the Organizer.

Their recipients are the contest organizers and the Provider. No data will be transmitted to an external organization.

Personal data is not transferred outside the European Union and Switzerland.

They will be kept for the duration of the contest and will be kept for one (1) year after the contest has ended (prize-giving).

In accordance with the French Data Protection Act (Loi Informatique et Libertés) of No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978, as amended, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Law for a Digital Republic of October 7, 2016, participants in the contest have the right to access, rectify, limit, oppose, delete, the right to portability of their data, to transmit instructions on their fate in the event of death, as well as the right to file a complaint with the CNIL.

These rights can be exercised by contacting the Organizer by email at contact@installux-aluminium.com or at this address: Installux Aluminium - Chemin du Bois Rond - 69720 ST BONNET DE MURE - France, indicating in the subject line ''personal data - Installux contest''.

The Participant may also file a complaint with the supervisory authorities, and in particular with the CNIL (https://www.cnil.fr/fr/plaintes).

As the data collected is necessary for the proper conduct of the Contest, any request for deletion of information relating to these data is likely to result in the automatic cancellation of his participation.

Article 13 - Complaints

Any complaint from a Participant regarding the contest must be sent no later than (30) thirty days after the end date of the contest to the email address contact@installux-aluminium.com

All complaints must include full contact details (name, address, email address and telephone number), the competition reference and a clear and detailed explanation of the complaint.

Article 14 - Applicable Law and Dispute Resolution

These rules are subject to French regulations.

If any provision of these rules is found to be invalid, the remaining provisions and the rules themselves shall continue to apply.

Any dispute regarding the application and/or interpretation of the rules will be decided by the Organizer. No telephone inquiries regarding the interpretation or application of these rules, the mechanics or terms of the Contest or the winners will be answered.

In the event of a dispute, only a registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt sent within a maximum of (30) thirty days after the date of the end of the Competition to the following address will be accepted Installux Aluminium - Chemin du Bois Rond - 69720 ST BONNET DE MURE - France, to the attention of Mrs Mélanie Martinez.

Any dispute or claim that would reach the hands of the Organizer after this period would not be taken into account except in the case of obvious errors, it is agreed that the information resulting from the Organizer has probative force in any dispute, particularly with regard to the elements of connection and computer processing of said information relating to the Contest.

Prior to any legal action related to or in connection with these rules, participants agree to make an amicable and informal appeal to the Organizer. Any dispute that cannot be settled amicably will be submitted to the competent courts of the Organizer's head office, unless otherwise provided by public order.

Article 15 - Legal Deposit

The rules are deposited via www.reglement.net, at the SELARL 812 - HUISSIERS, associated bailiffs, 88 boulevard de la Reine, 78000 Versailles.

The Rules may be modified at any time in the form of an amendment by the organizer, in compliance with the conditions set forth, and published by online announcement on the site.

The amendment is registered with the SELARL huissiers de justice associés, custodian of the rules, before its publication. It will come into force as soon as it is published online and any Participant will be deemed to have accepted it simply by participating in the Game, as of the date on which the amendment comes into force. Any Participant refusing to accept the modification(s) must stop participating in the Game.

The rules are sent free of charge to anyone who makes a written request by email, before the closing date of the competition, to the following address: contact@educatia.fr

The full rules can also be viewed online at the game site.