Terms & Conditions for Participants.

1. General

The Hackathon is organized by More & More B.D LTD and its partners, sponsors, mentors, judges, service providers, and representatives.

The purpose of the Hackathon is to provide participants with a structured environment for building, learning, presenting ideas, receiving mentorship, and developing demo projects related to blockchain, AI, data, real-time applications, infrastructure, user experience, and related technologies.

Participation in the Hackathon does not create any employment, partnership, agency, investment, advisory, service provider, or commercial relationship between the participant and the organizers, sponsors, mentors, judges, or partners.

2. Participation

The organizers may approve, reject, remove, or limit participation at their sole discretion.

Participants may join individually or as part of a team. Teams may be formed before or during the Hackathon.

The organizers may change the number of participants, the team structure, the event format, the tracks, the schedule, the mentors, the judges, or the judging process at any time.

Participation may be physical, online, hybrid, or a combination of formats, according to the final event structure.

3. No Commitment or Obligation by Organizers

The Hackathon provides access to general mentorship, guidance, networking, exposure, and educational support only.

The organizers, sponsors, mentors, judges, and partners do not guarantee:

• funding
• grants
• prizes
• investment
• employment
• business opportunities
• partnerships
• customer introductions
• technical support
• product launch
• incubation
• acceleration
• future cooperation
• access to any company, protocol, sponsor, investor, or partner
• any commercial, legal, financial, technical, or business result

Any feedback, introduction, mentorship, meeting, prize, grant, award, or follow-up opportunity is provided at the sole discretion of the relevant organizer, sponsor, mentor, judge, or partner.

4. Participant Responsibility

Each participant is fully responsible for their own conduct, project, code, content, materials, claims, expenses, travel, equipment, safety, legal compliance, and decisions.

Participants must comply with all applicable laws, venue rules, platform rules, and event instructions.

Participants may not submit, promote, or present any project, content, or activity that is illegal, misleading, harmful, infringing, abusive, discriminatory, unsafe, or in violation of third-party rights.

Participants are responsible for ensuring that their project does not violate any law, regulation, intellectual property right, data protection obligation, financial regulation, gambling regulation, securities regulation, consumer protection rule, or platform policy.

5. Project Submission

Projects must be submitted according to the instructions, deadlines, formats, and requirements announced by the organizers.

The organizers may reject, remove, disqualify, or refuse to present any project at their sole discretion, including projects that are incomplete, unsafe, offensive, unlawful, technically non-functional, misleading, or inconsistent with the Hackathon’s goals.

The organizers are not responsible for failed uploads, technical issues, internet failures, lost files, corrupted submissions, platform outages, late submissions, or any issue affecting a participant’s ability to submit or present a project.

6. Judging and Awards

Projects may be reviewed by judges selected by the organizers.

Judging criteria may include, among other things:

• relevance to the selected track
• innovation
• technical quality
• feasibility
• user experience
• team execution
• impact
• presentation quality
• sponsor or track alignment

The judging process, scoring method, winner selection, and award decisions are final and at the sole discretion of the judges and organizers.

Judges and organizers are not required to explain or justify any decision.

The organizers may change, cancel, replace, or withhold prizes, awards, grants, or recognitions at their discretion, including in cases of technical issues, misconduct, ineligibility, sponsor changes, or event changes.

7. Intellectual Property

Each team or participant remains the owner of the project, code, ideas, materials, and submissions they create, subject to any third-party rights, licenses, open-source obligations, employer obligations, or prior agreements that may apply.

By participating, each participant confirms that they have the right to use and submit their project, code, designs, content, and materials.

Participants acknowledge that a hackathon is an open and public environment where ideas may be discussed, presented, developed, or exposed to other participants, sponsors, mentors, judges, and attendees.

Participants are solely responsible for protecting their own confidential information, trade secrets, inventions, filings, source code, business plans, and intellectual property.

The organizers, sponsors, mentors, judges, and partners are not responsible for any similar ideas, projects, products, companies, features, or developments that may exist before, during, or after the Hackathon.

8. Open Source and Third-Party Tools

Participants are responsible for complying with all licenses and terms related to any open-source code, SDKs, APIs, datasets, models, tools, libraries, platforms, or third-party materials they use.

The inclusion of any sponsor SDK, API, tool, documentation, grant, or technical resource does not create any warranty, guarantee, endorsement, obligation, or liability by the organizers or sponsors.

9. Confidentiality

Participants should not share confidential information unless they are comfortable doing so.

The Hackathon is not a confidential environment. Presentations, demos, discussions, online messages, project materials, and submissions may be visible to organizers, sponsors, mentors, judges, participants, attendees, media, or the public.

The organizers do not guarantee confidentiality of any idea, product, code, business model, presentation, or submission.

10. Media, Photos, and Marketing

By participating, participants grant the organizers permission to photograph, film, record, publish, and use their name, image, voice, likeness, project name, team name, company name, logo, project description, demo, presentation, and event participation for marketing, PR, social media, websites, reports, videos, articles, sponsor materials, and future event promotion.

Participants who do not wish to appear in media materials must notify the organizers in writing before the event. The organizers will make reasonable efforts to respect such requests, but cannot guarantee removal from all group photos, recordings, live streams, public posts, or third-party media.

11. Data and Communications

By registering, participants agree that the organizers may contact them by email, messaging apps, online communities, forms, event platforms, and social channels regarding the Hackathon, logistics, updates, partners, sponsors, follow-up opportunities, and related events.

Participant information may be shared with event partners, sponsors, mentors, judges, and service providers for Hackathon-related purposes, including communication, judging, mentorship, follow-up, reporting, and partner engagement.

Participants may request removal from non-essential communications, subject to operational and legal requirements.

12. Safety, Equipment, and Personal Belongings

Participants are responsible for their own equipment, devices, wallets, accounts, keys, passwords, travel, accommodation, personal belongings, health, and safety.

The organizers are not responsible for loss, theft, damage, injury, technical failure, cyber incidents, wallet loss, private key loss, account compromise, or any damage connected to participation.

Participants must follow venue rules and reasonable instructions from organizers, staff, security, and venue representatives.

13. Prohibited Conduct

The organizers may remove or disqualify any participant or team for conduct including:

• harassment, abuse, threats, or discrimination
• illegal conduct
• plagiarism or IP infringement
• cheating, manipulation, fake submissions, or false information
• unsafe technical behavior
• unauthorized access to systems, wallets, networks, accounts, or data
• spamming, phishing, malware, exploits, or harmful code
• disruption of the event
• conduct that may harm the event, organizers, sponsors, partners, participants, or the public

Removal or disqualification may occur without refund, compensation, prize eligibility, or further obligation.

14. Event Changes and Cancellation

The organizers may change, postpone, relocate, shorten, extend, reformat, move online, cancel, or modify the Hackathon, agenda, tracks, sponsors, mentors, judges, prizes, venue, timing, rules, or format at any time.

The organizers are not liable for any cost, loss, travel expense, accommodation cost, lost opportunity, or damage resulting from any change, delay, cancellation, or modification.

15. No Professional Advice

Any mentorship, feedback, presentation, workshop, technical session, judging comment, sponsor material, or discussion is provided for general informational and educational purposes only.

Nothing in the Hackathon constitutes legal, financial, investment, tax, regulatory, security, technical, business, or professional advice.

Participants should obtain their own professional advice before launching, using, investing in, publishing, or commercializing any project.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the organizers, sponsors, mentors, judges, partners, service providers, venue, and representatives shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or economic damages, including loss of profit, loss of data, loss of business opportunity, loss of reputation, technical failure, security issue, legal exposure, regulatory issue, or third-party claim.

Participation is voluntary and at the participant’s own risk.

17. No Warranty

The Hackathon is provided “as is” and “as available.”

The organizers make no warranties regarding the event, mentorship, sponsors, judges, tools, APIs, SDKs, venue, internet connection, prize availability, business results, technical results, or any participant outcome.

18. Indemnity

Each participant agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the organizers, sponsors, mentors, judges, partners, service providers, venue, and representatives from any claim, demand, loss, liability, cost, damage, or expense arising from:

• their participation
• their project or submission
• violation of these Terms
• violation of law
• violation of third-party rights
• misuse of tools, APIs, SDKs, data, or platforms
• misconduct, negligence, or unauthorized activity

19. Acceptance

By registering, attending, submitting, presenting, joining the online community, or participating in any part of the Hackathon, the participant confirms that they have read, understood, and accepted these Terms & Conditions.

The organizers may update these Terms at any time. Continued participation after an update constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.