Official Rules - Calling All Innovators UK

Official rules of the Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators UK contest

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR RECEIVE A PRIZE. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE CHANCES OF RECEIVING A PRIZE.

The Forum Nokia “Calling All Innovators Contest ("Contest"), brought to you by Nokia Corporation ("Sponsor"), is governed by these “Official Rules”. The Contest begins on 24th September 2009 and ends at midnight (GMT) on 30th November 2009 (the "Contest Period").

ELIGIBILITY:
This Contest is open to legal residents of all countries. Participants must be age 18 or older as of 24th September 2009 (Collectively, “Entrant(s)”). Employees and directors of Sponsor, and Sponsor’s respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, retailers, agencies and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, "Released Parties"), and members of their immediate families (parent, child, sibling, spouse and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and households, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter or win.

By entering, participants agree to release, discharge, indemnify and hold harmless Released Parties from any and all liability, claims, judgments, losses, injuries, demands, damages, actions, and/or causes of actions, whether direct or indirect, which may be due to or arise out of participation in the Contest or any portion thereof, or the acceptance, use/misuse or possession of any prize or Released Parties’ use of any of the rights granted herein. The Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and independent judges are final and binding in all respects. All applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. The Contest is void wherever prohibited or restricted by any mandatory national, state or other government laws in form and language as provided herein and is subject to all applicable mandatory federal (national), state and local laws.

By participating, Entrants agree to these Official Rules and to the decisions of the Judges, whose decisions are final and binding in all respects. If you do not accept these Official Rules, you are not eligible to participate in the Contest. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to amend, withdraw or revise these Official Rules and the Prizes at any time without notice and in such event the Sponsor shall not have any liability whatsoever.

All entries (“Entry”) shall remain the property of Entrants. However by submitting an entry, Entrant acknowledges that Sponsor may obtain many entries under this Contest and that such entries may be similar or identical in theme, idea, format or other respects to others submitted under this Contest and/or other contests or otherwise involving the Sponsor, and agrees to waive any and all claims he/she may have had, may have, and/or may have in the future, and that any composition, and/or works accepted, reviewed and/or used by the Sponsor (or its designees) may be similar to his/her entry. Entrant acknowledges and agrees that the Sponsor does not have now, nor shall it have in the future, any duty or liability, direct or indirect, vicarious, contributory, or otherwise, with respect to the infringement or protection of any copyright in and to his/her entry.

With regard to Entry submissions, you understand and agree that you are solely and fully responsible for any and all aspects of the Entry and content submitted, including but not limited to its legality, appropriateness and non-infringement of third party intellectual property rights, and the Sponsor shall not be liable in any way for such Entry. The Sponsor shall have no obligation to monitor any Entry provided by you to the Sponsor, but may do so at its discretion.

HOW TO ENTER:
LIMIT: One submission per category per Entrant for the length of the Contest Period. Any Entries exceeding this limit will be ineligible and will not be considered.

Call to Entry: To enter the Contest, the participant must go to the Contest web site at the URL www.callingallinnovators.com/uk (the "Site") during the Contest Period and register their contact information. Once the registration page is complete, users will then be directed to the contest upload page where they will then select the category for which they will submit their application. The categories include e.g. Social Location, Business & Productivity, Communications & Social networking, Games, and Just for Fun.

Specific criteria for each category may be found in the Site. Nokia has the right at its sole discretion to add, change, amend, withdraw or revise such categories at any time without notice and in such event the Sponsor shall not have any liability whatsoever.

Once the category has been selected, users will then be able to upload their application; submit in an open text field, upload a video or whitepaper explaining the purpose of their application.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
For a qualified Entry, the Entrant must submit a digital copy of the application being entered in usable form. The executable file and any additional files required for installation or use should be included. The description submitted must be 100 words or less. The optional supporting documentation must be in .doc, .pdf. .xls, .ppt, .rtf, or .txt format and the optional videos must be 2 minutes or less and no larger than 3 megabytes.

All Entry materials must be in the English language to qualify.

The decisions of the judges are final and binding. Sponsor reserves the right to not award all prizes if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of eligible and qualified entries. Entries cannot be revised or altered once submitted. Throughout the Contest Period, Sponsor specifically reserves the right, exercisable at its sole election, to screen any and all entries and to disqualify from prize consideration those entries that Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate, obscene, not in keeping with Sponsor’s image or that otherwise do not comply with these Official Rules. Entries must also comply with the following guidelines:

Cannot be sexually explicit or suggestive, unnecessarily violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group, profane or pornographic, or contain nudity;
Cannot promote alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing), any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any particular political agenda or message;
Cannot be obscene or offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group;
Cannot promote terrorist acts such as providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other such weapons or provide instructional information about illegal activities;
Cannot defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging or slanderous remarks about Sponsor, Sponsor's partners, or its products, or other people, products or companies;
Cannot contain patents, trademarks, logos or trade dress owned by others, or advertise or promote any brand or product of any kind, without permission, or contain any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, e-mail addresses or street addresses;
Cannot contain copyrighted materials owned by others (including photographs, sculptures, paintings and other works of art or images published on or in Web Sites, television, movies or other media) without permission;
Cannot contain materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or other indicia identifying any person, living or dead, other than participant, without permission;
Cannot communicate messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or goodwill to which Sponsor wishes to associate; and
Cannot depict, and cannot itself, be in violation of any law;

Sponsor reserves the right to, and may or may not, monitor/screen Entries prior to posting them to the Site. By participating, you acknowledge that Sponsor has no obligation to use or post any Entry you submit. Submission of an Entry grants Sponsor and its agents an unlimited, worldwide, perpetual, license and right to publish, edit, use, publicly perform, or display the Entry in any way, worldwide, in any and all media, without limitation, and without consideration to the participant.

INFORMATION REGARDING ENTRIES:
OWNERSHIP: Each Entrant retains ownership of all intellectual property rights in and to the Entry that Entrant had before submission, including the right to distribute the Entry application commercially at any time. However as a condition of Entry, Entrant hereby grants Sponsor (NOKIA) perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully sub-licensable, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, copy, adapt, publicly perform, communicate to the public, make available and publicly display any Entry that Entrant submits to this Contest, throughout the world in any media, product and/service, including, without limitation, advertising, marketing and promotional materials, and digital reproductions, without compensation, restrictions on use, acknowledgement of source, accountability or liability, and with waiver of all moral rights and rights of attribution, integrity and identity to the extent permitted by mandatory laws, solely to the extent necessary to fulfill Sponsor’s obligations under the Contest (e.g. allowing Sponsor to evaluate the Entry for purposes of the Contest) and for marketing and promotional purposes only (e.g. to advertise, display or otherwise promote Sponsor's (Nokia's) platforms). Entrant understands Sponsor and its designers may reproduce, publicly perform, and publicly display the Entry including, but not limited to the right to make screenshots and video clips available for promotional purposes in any and all forms of media, whether now known or hereafter devised (including www.forum.nokia.com and/or www.callingallinnovators.com), throughout the world, in perpetuity, without any type/form of notice to Entrant or any third party and without payment or permission or compensation of any kind or amount. By no means will the Entrant’s Entry and all accompanying personally identifiable information be used for non-Contest related purposes.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES: Each Entrant hereby represents and warrants that (i) Entry is his/her original work and was created by himself/herself, (ii) has not won previous awards; (iii) the Entry is original to such entrant and does not violate or infringe the intellectual property, proprietary or other rights of any third party, (iv) such Entrant possesses and controls all rights necessary to submit the Entry irrevocably and without restriction to Sponsor, and (v) Entry only contains Asset Library Materials, and (vi) that publication of the Entry via various media including Web posting, will not infringe on the rights any third party rights. Any such Entrant will indemnify and hold harmless, Sponsor from any claims to the contrary.

GENERAL CONDITIONS: All Entries may be posted on the Site at any and all times during the Contest. In no event shall the Released Parties be responsible for any late, lost, illegible, indecipherable, incomplete, stolen, garbled, delayed, inaccurate or misdirected entries or commercials, all of which are invalid and will not be able to be selected for any prize hereunder.

Entry will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at time of Entry and he/she must comply with these Official Rules. The authorized account holder of an email address is defined as the natural person who is assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses or the domain associated with the submitted email address. A potential prize winner may be required to provide proof (to Sponsor’s satisfaction) that he/she is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the potentially prize-receiving Entry. Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means will be disqualified. Entries that are incomplete, illegible or corrupted are void and will not be accepted. Information collected from the entrant is used for the purpose of the notification of potential prize winners, and such information will not be re-used for future marketing communications, sold or shared in any manner by Released Parties or any third parties unless the Entrant has elected to receive additional information and promotional material from Sponsor or a third party. By entering the Contest, each Entrant agrees to all of the terms and conditions of the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy, which is available at http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/general/privacy_policy.html

The Contest Judging: The Contest Judging begins on 1 December 2009 at 12:00:00 AM GMT and the winners will be announced and notified by email on or before 31st December 2009. All eligible entries received will be judged by the Sponsor, industry experts and its Contest Entities based on the following criteria:

25% Uniqueness/Creativity (Innovativeness)
25% Ease of Use/Design (Superior UI/Graphical design)
25% Quality/Functionality (Applications must be fully functional on a Nokia device).
25% Commercial Viability/Market Potential

PRIZES:
Grand Prize The one grand prize winner to be selected among all contest categories will receive:

20,000 GBP in cash.
Paid travel and a ticket to a Nokia developer event in the spring 2010.
Nokia’s practical assistance to help the winner to become an Ovi Store publisher and to get the winning application into Ovi Store.
One-year membership in Forum Nokia Launchpad (value of 300 EUR).

Other prizes

The best entry in each of the other four categories will receive:

2,500 GBP in cash.
Nokia’s practical assistance to help the winner to become an Ovi Store publisher and to get the winning application into Ovi Store.
One-year membership in Forum Nokia Launchpad (value of 300 EUR).

In addition, the winning applications in all categories will be reviewed by Nokia for possible preload on future Nokia devices.

PRIZES MAY BE SUBSTITUTED BY THE SPONSOR FOR ITEMS OF EQUAL OR GREATER ARV. In addition, the winning applications in all categories will be reviewed by Nokia for possible preload on future Nokia devices.

PRIZE WINNER MUST BE AVAILABLE TO COMPLY WITH THE SCHEDULE OF THE NOKIA SPECIFIED EVENT. NO PRIZE WINNER HEREUNDER SHALL BE PERMITTED TO (A) REPLACE HIS/HER DESIGNATED PRIZE WITH ANOTHER PRIZE OR ITEM, (B) TRANSFER OR ASSIGN HIS/HER DESIGNATED PRIZE TO ANOTHER PERSON, OR (C) REDEEM HIS/HER PRIZE FOR CASH. RELEASED PARTIES RESERVE THE RIGHT, EXERCISABLE AT ANY TIME IN THEIR SOLE DISCRETION, TO SUBSTITUTE A PRIZE (OR PORTION THEREOF), PROVIDED THAT THE SUBSTITUTE PRIZE IS AN ITEM OF COMPARABLE OR GREATER VALUE. PRIZES ARE AWARDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTY OR GUARANTEE, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED BY THE RELEASED PARTIES. ALL PRIZE DETAILS ARE AT SPONSOR’S SOLE DISCRETION. SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT, IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION, TO SUBSTITUTE A PRIZE OF EQUAL OR GREATER VALUE, IF PRIZE, OR PORTION OF PRIZE, BECOMES UNAVAILABLE. ANY COSTS AND EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH PRIZE ACCEPTANCE AND USE NOT SPECIFIED HEREIN AS BEING PROVIDED ARE EACH WINNER’S SOLE RESPONSIBILITY, INCLUDING ANY AND ALL FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL TAXES.

PRIZE AWARDING: Limit of one (1) prize per Entrant. Prizes will only be awarded upon a potential winner’s verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules, any other country specific legislation based on winner’s domicile, and final approval by Sponsor. Potential winners will receive prize notification via telephone, electronic mail, Royal Mail and/or overnight mail. All prizes will be fulfilled 4 to 6 weeks after the recipient of that prize has been verified. If a potential winner of any prize cannot be contacted; is ineligible; fails to claim prize; if prize or prize notification is returned undeliverable; or if a potential winner otherwise fails to fully comply with these Official Rules, he/she will forfeit that prize and, at Sponsor’s discretion, the prize will be awarded to a runner-up. Potential Grand Prize winner will have three (3) days from date notification is issued to confirm that the notification has been received or, at Sponsor’s discretion, the prize will be awarded to a runner-up. After confirming notification receipt, the potential Grand Prize winner will be sent an Affidavit of Eligibility/Compliance & Publicity (unless prohibited)/Liability Release forms. These forms must be completed, signed, notarized and returned to Sponsor within three (3) days of date of issuance or prize will be forfeited and, at Sponsor’s discretion, the prize will be awarded to a runner-up. Each winner (and, if an eligible minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) grants Sponsor and its designees the right to use and publish his/her proper name and city and County of residence, and to use his/her name and likeness solely for advertising and promotional purposes for this Contest, in and on all media now or hereafter devised worldwide without limitation and without notice or further compensation or permission, except where prohibited by law.

PRIVACY:
All information collected will be treated in a manner consistent with Sponsor’s privacy policy, available by accessing the following URL: http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/general/privacy_policy.html. This includes sharing information about Entrants with affiliates who are prize suppliers.

DISQUALIFICATION:
Released Parties are not responsible for technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunctioning of any computer, cable, network, hardware, software or web site. Released Parties are not responsible for lost, interrupted or unavailable network server or other connections, miscommunications, failed telephone or computer or telephone transmissions or technical failure, jumbled, scrambled or misdirected transmissions, for incorrect or inaccurate entry information, howsoever caused, the incorrect entry or transmission, or other error of any kind whether human, mechanical or electronic, including but not limited to any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation in this Contest; typographical, printing or other errors in these Official Rules, in any Contest-related advertisements or other materials; the administration of the Contest, the judging of entries, the announcement of the prizes; the unavailability of Asset Library Materials; or any problems related to the administration of the Contest. Entrants found tampering with or abusing any aspect of this Contest, as solely determined by the judges, will be disqualified and all associated entries will be void. If disqualified for any of the above abuses, Sponsor reserves the right to terminate entrant's eligibility to participate in the Contest. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be in violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right (among other causes of action and remedies) to seek damages (including attorneys’ fees) from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, cancel, suspend and/or modify the Contest (or any portion thereof) if any fraud, bug, virus, non-authorized human intervention or other technical problem corrupts the administration, security, or proper play of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. In such event, Sponsor reserves the right to determine the winners from among the eligible entries received up to the time of the impairment using the judging procedures outlined above.

TAX INFORMATION:
All federal, state, local, and other taxes on prizes are the sole responsibility of the applicable winner.

GENERAL INFORMATION:
Except where prohibited, all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Contest, shall be governed exclusively by, and construed exclusively in accordance with, (a) the laws of the State of Finland (b) and all other eligible countries laws.

This Contest is conducted in English (which will be given its everyday ordinary meaning), and any and all disputes will be resolved in accordance with the laws of the State of Finland.

NAME OF WINNER/COPY OF RULES:
For a copy of the Official Rules or the name of the winner, send a self-addressed stamped envelope (to be received by 1 December 2009 for the official rules; between 1 January 2010 and 31 January 2010 for the winner’s announcement) to: Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators Contest, Keilalahdentie 2-4, P.O. Box 100, FIN-00045 Nokia Group, Finland; please specify “Winners Announcement” or “Rules Request”.

Sponsor: Nokia Corporation, Keilalahdentie 2-4, P.O. Box 100, FIN-00045 Nokia Group, Finland