On this page are published the terms and conditions ("Terms") under which you may submit a product/service/technology startup entry ("Entry") for consideration in the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2007 ("Awards") at the nomination web site of the Awards (the "Web Site").

Please read this page carefully. The Terms govern your chapter's Entry. By using the Web Site, you are indicating your agreement to be bound by the Terms.
 

1 - PURPOSE OF THE GLOBAL PEER AWARDS 2007
The scope of the Awards is

(a) rewarding and recognizing innovation and excellence in the global mobile industry;

(b) to give light to those companies, individual developers and/or innovative products/services/technology that bring new ideas to the mobile industry;

(c) to give international publicity to the global mobile sector and its innovations.


2 - ENTRANTS
An Entrant eligible to the Awards is:

(a) A startup company: Smaller, lesser-known, unestablished company.
(b) A company willing to show off mobile-related innovations (products,services, technologies, concepts).
(c) A company willing to travel to the event at its own cost.
(d) The legal owner of the Entry, or the person/company holding the Entry's economical rights to business use ("Owner")

The following Entrants are NOT eligible:
(a) Members of the Awards Evaluation Committee and their relatives to the second degree.
(b) Awards Organizers, their companies and their employees.

Entrants are responsible for their own information and all the consequences of submitting an Entry.


3 - CATEGORIES
Among all the finalists at least 3 Awards will be given:

(a) Expert Jury Award;
(b) MobileMonday Community Award (MobileMonday organizers from each chapter on site will choose their winner);
(c) Audience Award (all participants will vote for their winner via SMS).


4 - ENTRIES ELIGIBLE FOR THE AWARDS
An Entry, in the frame of these Awards, is a product or a service that complies with the following criteria:
(the list is not exhaustive and is given for example only)

(a) to have a link with the mobile industry
(b) to be a completely new product/service/technology or to bring a concrete improvement to existing products/services/technology
(c) to have a business model that could be developed on the global market
(d) to be in final form

A submitted Entry may NOT:
(e) be copyrighted or use copyrighted material, unless Entrant owns the copyright or has the written permission of the copyright Owner to submit it
(f) contain material that reveals trade secrets, unless Entrant owns the trade secrets or has the written permission of the Owner to reveal them
(g) contain material that infringes any intellectual property rights of others or their privacy or publicity rights
(h) contain material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to any person or entity
(i) contain material that constitutes a sexually-explicit image or statement
(l) contain material that impersonates another person

The Entrant warrants to the Awards Organizers that all information, communications, software, photos, text, video, graphics, music, sounds, images and other material submitted by Entrant for consideration for the Awards are solely owned by Entrant or are provided with the express authority of the applicable owner(s) and do not infringe upon any other individual or organizational rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights).

The Awards Organizers have an exclusive right to decide which Entries are eligible for the Awards. Uneligible Entries will be rejected.


5 - ENTRY AND SUBMISSION DEADLINE
All Entries must be submitted as described in the Registration Process paragraph by 23:59 on the 31st of January 2007.

There will be no deadline extensions given and no exceptions.


6 - REGISTRATION PROCESS
(a) Each Entry linked to a local chapter must be registered to the competition on momo.mobilemonday.it/award,
(b) As a result of the registration, each Entry gets the Awards Registration Number - ARN.

(c) The local MobileMonday chapter chooses from all Entries the one Entry that represents the chapter in Awards as a Finalist.


7 - EVALUATION PROCESS

Each local MobileMonday chapter is free to apply any methodology in selecting its candidate from the Entries. The chosen candidate, max. one from each chapter, will travel to Barcelona as a representative of its home chapter. These candidates from diverse chapters will compete against each others as finalists in the Global Peer Awards competition.

The Finalist Entries provided later by the local chapters to the Awards are subject to a preliminary review by Awards Organizers prior to the competition event. This review is to ensure that:
(a) The Entry is complete. Incomplete or late Entries will be disqualified.
(b) The Entry meets all eligibility criteria. Awards Organizers reserve the right to disqualify an Entry if Entry does not meet the necessary qualifications.
 

The winners are voted in the Global Peer Awards event in Barcelona on the 12th February 2007.

 

The winner Entries are the first in the ranking in three categories:
(a) Expert Jury;
(b) MobileMonday Community;
(c) Audience on the site.

 

The Awards results are final and incontestable. The Entrants waive any recourse against the Awards Organizers, its employees, the Jury or its members by reason of any decision taken by the Jury.


8 - AWARDS BENEFITS
The Winners will receive the following benefits:

(a) Worldwide recognition, media attention and prestige.
(b) All winners will receive a separate, special "winners" icon, which can be used in own promotion activities.
(c) All winners will be invited to participate in the Innovation Pad activities at the MobileMonday Global Summit in Helsinki in May.

All Entries submitted by local chapters will receive the following benefits:

(a) A finalist status at the MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2007
(b) Worldwide recognition, media attention and prestige.
(c) Promotion on the MobileMonday global website.
(d) Promotion at the event in Barcelona
(e) The opportunity to present their innovations live, in front of the audience and jury.
(f) Valuable feedback from the expert jury.
(g) An official MobileMonday Global Peer Awards 2007 Finalist digital icon, which can be used in own promotion activities.

All travelling and accommodation expenses are in charge of the startup entries.


9 - GRANTS OF LICENCE
(a) Use of Entries and Entry Material: General Use

By submitting an Entry for Awards consideration, Entrant automatically grants to the Awards Organizers a royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive right and license to use and display such Entry, which shall include any Web Site Entry and any Entry Material, in whole or part for a period of five (5) years from the date of submission (the "License Period"). Awards Organizers will make a reasonable attempt to limit duplication of the Entry Material to that number of copies necessary for the limited purposes of reviewing Entries for assignment to Awards and judging Entries. Notwithstanding the license granted during the License Period, Awards Organizers will remain the owner of the Entry and any information supplied on the Online Entry Form or document submitted.

(b) Use of Entries and Entry Material: Finalist and Winning Entries

If an Entry is selected as a Awards finalist, Entrant automatically grants Awards Organizers a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive right and license to promote, publish or display the Entry, in printed and electronic formats, which include but are not limited to, trade publications, press releases, electronic posting to the Web Site, the Awards Organizers web site, electronic hyperlinks to the web site of the Entrant, and any display format selected by Awards Organizers during the Awards ceremony. Entrants that submit winning Entries automatically grant Awards Organizers a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive right and license to promote, publish or display the Entry, in printed and electronic formats, which include, but are not limited to, trade publications, press releases, electronic posting to the Web Site, the Awards Organizers web site, and electronic hyperlinks to the web site of the Entrant.

All intellectual property rights will remain assets of the Owner of the Entry. Submitted Entries rights protection is the responsibility of each Entrants using the copyright notice or patent deposit to the local or international patent offices.
 

10 - DISCLAIMER
Awards Organizers have no obligation to screen an Entry or Entry Material in advance, and are not responsible for monitoring Entries, to prevent violation of intellectual property ownership rights, or violations of any law, rule or regulation. If Awards Organizers are notified of submissions or materials that allegedly do not conform to the Terms, Awards Organizers may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and in its sole discretion whether to eliminate an Entry from consideration for any Awards Category. Awards Organizers have no liability or responsibility to Entrants or other users of the Web Site or Entry Material for performance or non-performance of such activities. The web site, online entry form and documents submission method are provided on an "as is" basis without any warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Awards Organizers disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Without limiting the foregoing, Awards Organizers specifically disclaim any warranty (a) that the web site, online entry form or documents submission method will be uninterrupted or error-free, (b) that defects will be corrected, (c) that there are no viruses or other harmful components that exist on the web site, online entry form or pdf entry form (d) that the security methods employed to protect the disclosure of information will be sufficient, and (e) regarding correctness, accuracy, or reliability. If Entrant's use of the web site, online entry form or documents submission method results in the need for servicing or replacement of Entrant's or another's equipment or data, Awards Organizers are not responsible for those costs.


11 - LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND REMEDIES Entrant and any party that accesses the web site, online entry form or documents submission method (individually the "Visitor") agree that neither Awards Organizers nor its third party content or service providers will be liable to Visitor for any loss or damages, either actual or consequential, arising out of or relating to these terms, Visitor's use or inability to use the web site, Visitor's submission of an entry to the web site, or to Visitor's reliance upon information obtained from or through the web site, online entry form or documents submission method. In particular, neither Awards Organizers nor its third party content or service providers will have liability for any consequential, indirect, punitive, special or incidental damages, whether foreseeable or unforeseeable (including, but not limited to, claims for defamation, errors, loss of data, or interruption in availability of data), arising out of or relating to these terms of use, Visitor's use or inability to use the web site, online entry form or documents submission method, or to Visitor's reliance upon information obtained from or through the web site, whether based in contract, tort, statutory or other law, except only in the case of death or personal injury where and only to the extent that applicable law requires such liability.


12 - INDEMNIFICATION
Entrant hereby indemnifies, saves and holds Awards Organizers, its successors and assigns, harmless from any and all liability, claims, demands, loss and damage (including legal fees and court costs) arising out of or connected with any claim or actions by a third party which is inconsistent with any of the above warranties and representations made by Entrant and shall reimburse Awards Organizers for any loss, costs, expense, or damage to which said indemnity applies. Awards Organizers shall give Entrant prompt written notice of any claim or actions covered by this indemnity, and Entrant shall have the right, at its own expense, to participate in any such action.


13 - HEADINGS
The headings of the Sections hereof are for convenience of reference only and shall not modify, define, or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.


14 - GENERAL
Awards Organizers are MobileMonday Oy (PO Box 1361 - 01001 Helsinki - Finland), Mobile Monday Italy, Mobile Monday Barcelona, Mobile Monday London and Mobile Monday New York.

Awards Organizers make no claims that the Web Site or documents submission method may be lawfully viewed or downloaded outside of Finland. Access to the Web Site or documents submission method may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If Visitor accesses the Web Site from outside of Finland, Visitor does so at his or her own risk and is responsible for compliance with the laws of his or her jurisdiction. The Terms are governed by the internal substantive laws of Finland without respect to its conflict of laws principles. Jurisdiction of any claims arising under the Terms will lie exclusively with the state or federal courts of Helsinki, Finland, and Visitor consents to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of such courts if there is a dispute between Visitor and Awards Organizers. Visitor may not institute any action in any form arising out of use of the Web Site or documents submission method or the Terms more than three (3) months after the cause of action arises. If any of the Terms is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, that invalidity will not affect the validity of the remaining Terms, which will remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any Term will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such provision or any other provision. The Terms constitute the entire agreement between Visitor and Awards Organizers with respect to the use of Web Site. No
changes to the Terms may be made except by a revised posting by Awards Organizers on this page, and no waiver of any Term will be effective unless it is in writing and signed by a representative of Awards Organizers.