"The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge"
Terms & Conditions
PROMOTER
The promoter of the initiative is Codemotion srl, with registered office in Rome, via Marsala 29/H, taxpayer identification number and V.A.T. number 12392791005 (the “Promoter”).
TYPE OF INITIATIVE AND OBJECTIVES
"The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge" (hereinafter the “Coding Challenge”) is the initiative promoted by Microsoft that groups together 3 programming challenges to be carried out online, aiming to reward the skills and merit of the best operating minds, whether at a professional level or at an amateur level, in the field of computer programming.
RECIPIENTS AND PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS
Participation in the Coding Challenges is free of charge and is addressed to all individuals who, at the registration date, are at least 18 (eighteen) years of age (hereinafter the “Participants” or individually the “Participant”).
The ability to program codes at a professional or amateur level is required to take part in the competition.
REGISTRATION FOR THE COMPETITION
The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge is open from September 30, 2019 to December 30, 2019.
Participants can participate in the Coding Challenge through the link:
https://extra.codemotion.com/m
(hereinafter the “Website”).
The Coding Challenges will be held on the website www.hackerrank.com (hereinafter referred to as "HackerRank").
In order to carry out the Coding Challenge, Participants are required to register with HackerRank and accept these Terms & Conditions and gives the consent to the processing of personal data.
For any further technical requirements, Codemotion will reserve the right to change the dates of the Coding Challenge, as well as to cancel it, giving notice of it to the Participants.
The participation to the Coding Challenge is individual, free and requires the registration. Indeed, each Participant should fill out the online form with the information required.
Each Participant shall ensure that the personal data given when registering are true and correct.
The Promoter reserves the right to exclude from the Coding Challenge, at any stage, all subjects who have entered during the registration phase or subsequently communicated, personal information that is not true.
CONDUCT OF THE COMPETITION
The Coding challenge will be on Software Development and it’s divided into 3 challenges.
The Participant will have to solve sets of problems within 3 days.
Each Participant may only perform each Coding Challenge once.
Duplicate accounts can be created to this competition for the sake of learning. In the score only the 1st real try at the challenge will count. Plagiarism is banned immediately.
EVALUATION
The Participants’ work will be automatically evaluated by HackerRank, which will assign a score to each Participant based on the number of tests that code they produced successfully passes. The detailed mechanics of the scoring system can be found on https://support.hackerrank.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006676188-Scoring-acoding-question. In case of a tie among multiple Participants, preference will be given to the Participant who submitted his solution in the shortest time.
SPONSORS AND PRIZES
The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge rewards the Winners (hereinafter the "Winner" or "Winners") with a total prize pool up to €1,150.00 (one thousand one hundred fifty) offered by Codemotion.
All the prizes will be delivered within 60 (sixty) days from the date of awarding by the email address provided at the registration.
- Main Prize
The Winner of the Coding Challenge will receive a prize of €500.00 (five hundred) in Amazon Vouchers if he/she doesn’t have an Azure account at the time of registration.
The Winner of the Coding Challenge will receive a prize of €1,000.00 (one thousand) in Amazon Vouchers if he/she have an Azure account at the time of registration.
Azure accounts will be checked before awarding the price. In case of false Azure accounts the Participants will be excluded from the Challenge and will not be eligible to receive any prize.
- Referral Program Prize
The participant who, by the closing date of the Challenge, has invited the largest number of friends to participate in the Challenge, will win the "All time friend referrer" prize of €150 (one hundred fifty) in Amazon Vouchers.
In the case Codemotion will be unable to award one or more prizes due to delivery problems attributable to the participant (including but not limited to cases in which the address stated during registration is incorrect, incomplete or deactivated), Codemotion will award the prize to the second one in the rank and so on until the fifth.
SCIENTIFIC WORK PRODUCED (IT CODES)
Each Participant expressly declares that each string of code written as part of the Competition is original and does not in any way infringe, in whole or in part, upon the intellectual property rights of third parties: for such purpose, each Participant undertakes to hold the Promoter harmless from any and all liability, loss, claim for damages, and/or compensation as may be brought by third parties in such regard.
Each Participant maintains the right to the authorship of the intellectual property work concerning the IT codes developed as part of the Competition. It is understood that the right of exploitation and use, for any purpose, of the IT codes developed will be transferred to the Promoter, against the prize paid out by the latter to the relevant Participants as remuneration for their work.
The Promoter will assume no liability in case of use and/or abuse of the IT codes produced by the Participants or of any exploitation of the same by anyone who may have become aware of such codes.
Therefore, the Participants hereby waive any claims for damages and/or indemnification against the Promoter in any capacity, for any reason and/or cause.
REQUIREMENTS, WARRANTIES, AND LIABILITIES
Registration with and participation in The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge implies the Participants’ adhesion to, and complete acceptance of, this Regulation without reservations.
If the Promoter finds that the law in question has been violated by a Participant, he or she will have the right to exclude the Participant from the event immediately.
Any Participants who may, according to the unquestionable judgment of the Promoter, have taken part herein in violation of the provisions of this Regulation or may have become the winners by means and tools capable of circumventing the procedures for participation and conduct of the initiative, will be excluded from the The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge and will not be awarded.
Each Participant will be solely liable for his/her own programming activity. Therefore, no liability will be attributable, by third parties, to the Promoter, in relation to such activity. The Participant commits itself to keep the Promoter undamaged from any injury, prejudice, loss, cost, spending (legal expenses), a penalty in which he would incur due to the demand or action of a third party that will lead himself to breach these Terms & Conditions or due to his negligent and made deliberately behavior.
Before awarding the prizes, the Promoter reserves the right to perform all the necessary checks to ascertain the appropriate progress of the competition, including verification of the Participants being over 18 (eighteen) years of age.
The Promoter will assume no responsibility for problems of access, impediments, malfunctions or difficulties concerning technical tools, telephone line, cables, electronics, software and hardware, transmission and connection, an Internet connection that may prevent a Participant from accessing the site and therefore participating.
The Promoter will not be held responsible for failure to receive, or incomplete receipt of, the registration, for any whatsoever reason.
The Promoter will assume no responsibility for cases of non-delivery of e-mails not attributable to the same, including, but not limited to, cases in which the address stated during registration is incorrect, incomplete or deactivated.
PRIVACY
Since the registration, the personal data given from the Participants and collected by Codemotion will be processed with the EU Regulation 2016/679 and the Personal Data Protection Code (Decree n. 196/2003), as well as in accordance with the provisions contained in the Privacy Policy.
The Personal Data given by the Participants could be communicated to third parties for the purposes described in the Policy.
The Privacy Policy is available at this URL: https://goo.gl/BxmN3J.
VALIDITY OF THE REGULATION
These Terms & Conditions will be valid with immediate effect and all the instructions contained herein, except for clauses with retrospective effectiveness, will be considered effective for the entire duration set out herein and for each The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge stage.
These Terms & Conditions is available on the Website and may be changed by the Promoter at any time. In the event of a conflict between the Regulation and any subsequent amendments, the latter will prevail. The amended Regulation will come into force once it has been published on the Website and it is understood that each Participant has accepted the amendments solely for the fact of their participation in The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge, without prejudice to the possibility to delete the subscription if there are changes that are not shared by the Participant, by sending an email to the following address: info@codemotion.it.
EXCLUSION FROM THE SCOPE OF PRIZE EVENTS
The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge is a competition outside the scope of the rules governing prize events, pursuant to and in accordance with Article 6, paragraph 1, sub-paragraph a), of Presidential Decree No. 430/2001, since it should be deemed as an initiative that does not require any prior purchase or payment by Participants and is aimed at rewarding, as payment for performance of work and/or recognition of personal merit, the skills and abilities of the Participants in the programming of computer codes (to be understood as scientific work), of which the Promoter will retain the exclusive use.
JURISDICTION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION
These Terms & Conditions and the entire The Microsoft Azure Coding Challenge are subject to Italian law.
All disputes that may arise in relation to the Regulation, including those concerning its validity, effectiveness, interpretation, execution, and termination, will be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Rome.
If a provision of these Terms & Conditions is not valid in accordance with law rules and regulations of a particular country, the provision will be applied within the permitted limits.
COMMUNICATIONS
Any complaints, communications, or requests for information must be sent by email to the following address info@codemotion.it