Terms of use
General
The following terms and conditions of participation apply to the use of the AnyIdea platform, accessible under the domain anyidea.ai, and to participation in campaigns and challenges (hereinafter referred to as "campaigns") organized by AnyIdea and customers of AnyIdea (hereinafter referred to as "operators"). By registering on the platform, each participant (hereinafter referred to as "User") expressly and bindingly acknowledges these general conditions of participation.
It should be noted that each campaign may also have special conditions of participation, which are expressly and bindingly agreed to by participating in the campaign.
Platform
Registration allows users to participate in campaigns, submit ideas, approaches and proposed solutions (hereinafter referred to as "content") or make comments. The campaigns take place on the AnyIdea platform. As a user, you have the possibility to communicate with other users and to interact in campaigns, e.g. through Likes.
Interaction and communication
The platform provides commenting and other interactive capabilities that allow users to share comments with other users on the platform. A comment is visible depending on the campaign type (private, hybrid with access request, public), public or for users participating in the campaign. Messages between users (private comments), are private and are not publicly accessible. The operators do not assume any responsibility or liability in this regard. Furthermore, the operators reserve the right to remove offensive or insulting comments from the platform.
Links to other websites
The platform contains links to other websites. AnyIdea is not responsible for the content, privacy policies or other provisions of other websites. If you visit a website linked in AnyIdea, please inform yourself about the terms and conditions and usage notices applicable there.
Participation, account and account
Users must first register and accept the terms and conditions before they can participate in campaigns and submit content.
Users may terminate their participation in campaigns at any time by sending an e-mail to service@anyidea.ai. If, in addition, deletion of the account and personal data is desired, this must be stated in the e-mail - with the "request for account and data deletion". Rights and obligations that have arisen prior to the time of termination and deletion remain unaffected by a termination and deletion of the account.
Depending on the special conditions of participation of campaigns, ideas submitted here are not affected by the deletion and remain with the operator.
Users are not entitled to reuse trademarks or service marks used on the Platform as a result of participating in the Contest.
Rules of conduct
Information and conditions can be found in the details of each campaign. The following rules apply to all campaigns and must be observed. In case of non-compliance, the operator reserves the right to exclude users from campaigns, to delete individual content or an entire user account from the platform. E.g. if content...
- contain inappropriate, obscene, defamatory, offensive, vulgar, unlawful or otherwise indecent content,
- infringe intellectual property rights, misappropriate trade secrets or contain confidential information of third parties,
- "hate speech" or involve discrimination of race, gender, religion, national origin, religious affiliation, or sexual orientation,
- contain suspicious or harmful files, such as viruses, worms, corrupted files, cracks or other suspicious content that may damage the AnyIdea platform or other software or hardware, or violate security measures of AnyIdea or third parties,
- encourage or facilitate illegal activity,
- contain confidential information about trade secrets of active other users.
AnyIdea is neither responsible for the content nor responsible for the consequences of content on the platform.
If two identical or very similar contents are submitted, the first submitted content will be accepted. Whether content is judged to be similar is at the sole discretion of Operator.
Content that is incomplete, damaged or unrecognizable may be declared invalid and deleted.
User agrees to the general conditions of participation, terms of use and rules of conduct when registering with AnyIdea and to the specific conditions of participation when participating in a campaign, at the latest by submitting content to such a campaign. Non-compliance may lead to exclusion from campaigns, data deletion or even account deletion.
Users further agree to accept and abide by the decisions made by Operator, which are final and binding.
Operators endeavor to provide individual feedback on submitted content, but are not obligated to do so. Users have no right to an explanation or detailed information regarding the evaluation, assessment, evaluation and decisions of and on content submitted by users by operators.
Operators are generally not obliged to respond to any correspondence from users.
Profit claim
Ideas have the opportunity to be recognized and awarded as winners according to the specifications in the respective campaign.
A team of experts and operators evaluates the submitted ideas according to defined criteria and determines the best submissions. Ratings of individual ideas based on the evaluation criteria are not published. Users are not entitled to individual feedback or an explanation of the experts' and operators' decision. An appeal against the decision of the operators is inadmissible. Legal recourse is excluded.
You will be contacted by operator after the announcement of the prize. A claim to a prize expires 30 days after the first email is sent if the winner cannot be reached twice, if the winner does not respond or if the winner does not accept the prize, regardless of the cause. After the expiration of the deadline, Operator reserves the right to name a new winner and award the prize to this person.
Notifications
When registering on the AnyIdea platform, you as a user provide your e-mail address. You will be informed by e-mail, among other things, about the points listed below:
- encourage or facilitate illegal activity,
- Launch of new campaigns,
- Updates and information on ongoing campaigns,
- Interactions such as likes, comments on ideas you submit,
- Results of completed campaigns,
- Notification of a possible win,
- News and information about the platform, updates and features,
- News about AnyIdea.
You hereby consent to AnyIdea sending such notifications to you via email. You may withdraw your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link, in the email sent to you, to unsubscribe or by contacting us by email(daten@anyidea.ai).
Intellectual property rights and rights of use
1. general granting of rights through participation in campaigns
By participating in a Campaign, User assigns to Operator, to the extent legally possible, the exclusive, perpetual, perpetual, transferable and sublicensable right to use the Content, including all rights to the title, description and any other subject matter submitted in the Campaign (hereinafter "Submissions"), including, but not limited to, rights to patentable inventions. The right to use applies to all currently known and unknown uses.
It includes in particular:
- encourage or facilitate illegal activity,
- the storage of the content on servers of Operator or on servers of third parties contracted by Operator,
- their duplication, processing, publication and dissemination as well as, if applicable, making them publicly available by displaying them on the platform (or parts thereof) and on websites operated by the operator, in social networks and similar platforms,
- the processing and reproduction, insofar as this is necessary for the provision or publication of the respective content,
- the right to commercially exploit, promote, distribute and sell all products comprising the Submissions worldwide.
By uploading content, User agrees that posts may be shared, linked and/or embedded.
These rights are transferred to AnyIdea customers at the end of the campaign. These property rights include, among others, design rights and rights to patent-worthy inventions.
User guarantees by uploading content that he/she owns all rights necessary for this use and for granting rights according to these conditions of participation (especially copyrights), that no third party rights (intellectual property rights, industrial property rights, copyrights, trademark rights, patent rights, industrial property rights, trade secrets, data protection, personal rights) exist that prevent the aforementioned use of the Submissions and that no further licenses, authorizations, consents or payments in connection with intellectual property rights of third parties (including payments to collecting societies) are required for operators to use the Submissions as intended.
User shall indemnify Operator without limitation against all actions, claims, costs, charges, losses, demands and expenses incurred by Operator as a result of the infringement or alleged infringement of third party rights.
This right of use includes all types of use, for example the right to copy, make available, publish, distribute via any medium, whether in physical or non-physical form, exploit, translate, transform and/or modify Submissions. This right of use also includes the right to use submissions online and mobile on the Internet. Operators shall also have the right to commercially exploit, advertise, distribute and sell all products containing Submissions worldwide. The right of use shall furthermore grant operators the right to use parts of submissions, to modify or redesign it or to have submissions modified or redesigned by third parties and/or to combine submissions with other submissions, which either originates from operators, commissioned companies or other users participating in the campaign or has been acquired under license from third parties. The resulting works are considered Submissions that belong to Operator and are not subject to User's consent or payment by Operator to User.
The operators, as the owners of the exclusive rights of use, have the sole right to assert infringement of property rights arising from the submissions against third parties. The right of users to claim infringement of property rights is excluded.
By participating, User acknowledges that Operators may independently design templates or receive Submissions that are similar or even identical to the Submissions User has submitted. User hereby waives any claim that Operator accepts, reviews and/or uses any template or Submission that is similar to any Submission submitted by User to Operator. User expressly waives its right to be named as the author in connection with any Submissions.
Operators have the right, at their own discretion, to use inventions or protectable ideas contained in provided submissions for technical purposes, to file a patent application and to file and enforce other intellectual property rights in any country in their own name. This also includes the right to maintain such rights or to abandon them at any time. Industrial property rights that arise as a result of such registration belong to operators. If the registration of an intellectual property right requires the cooperation of User, who has sent the submission, User shall assist Operator by providing the necessary declarations, documents or other available materials.
All rights granted to User AnyIdea may be transferred to other affiliates and to AnyIdea customers.
2. reassignment / waiver of licenses of ideas that did not win.
With the exception of winning Submissions (see Section 1.), at the end of a Campaign Operator will return to User any intellectual property rights previously transferred in Section 1.
Operators will internally evaluate Submissions that have not won for feasibility of implementation. Therefore, for a period of six months after the end of the campaign, User should not give ownership rights to third parties, i.e. any right, title or interest of any nature you may have in Submissions. Furthermore, no rights to use the Submissions should be granted to third parties. During this time, User agrees to negotiate and discuss a license transfer or the granting of a license operator.
3. special rule for submissions that have won
For the sake of clarity, it is noted that Section 2. does not apply to ideas and submissions that have won.
Winners have no right to demand implementation of parts of their submission. Operators are allowed to share the rights of winning submissions with third parties. Also, third parties may contact users after the contest.
Consent to publication / data protection
Users who participate in campaigns and submit ideas on the AnyIdea Platform or other platforms operated by AnyIdea agree that:
- Operators may use the submissions for PR purposes, this includes but is not limited to advertising,
- the submissions are published on the Internet and are available there to an unlimited circle of users,
- their name is mentioned in the event of a win,
- They waive their rights or compensation in connection with the described handling.
Operators will use personal data of users only for purposes related to the campaign and submissions. Personal data is subject to the data protection regulations of the Republic of Austria and the EU during processing.
Data protection
AnyIdea takes the handling and protection of personal data very seriously. Details and information on data protection at AnyIdea can be found on the AnyIdea website under the point Data protection and the general data protection declaration of AnyIdea(https://www.anyidea.ai/privacy-policy).
Disclaimer
Operator is not responsible for non-received or misdirected submissions, whether due to a lost, delayed, or dropped connection or other disruption.
Operator is further not responsible for inaccurate or false submissions, whether posted by User or due to equipment or program error or human error in the processing of submissions.
Most of the information posted on the AnyIdea platform comes from third parties. AnyIdea is not liable for this information originating from third parties. This is the sole responsibility of the person who created and/or submitted it. AnyIdea does not monitor the information created by third parties and is not responsible for it.
Operator is not liable for the accuracy, reliability, completeness, usability or quality of the information or for the non-infringement of intellectual property rights by this information, regardless of who provided this information. The user is aware that he bears the risk if he relies on or uses this information.
In addition, the AnyIdea platform and campaigns may contain links and references to third-party websites. AnyIdea bears no responsibility for the content of these websites and will not adopt these websites or the content as its own, as AnyIdea cannot exercise any control over the information and content posted there. Furthermore, AnyIdea is also not responsible for the quality, accuracy or completeness of the information contributed and submitted by third parties.
Special conditions of participation
If a campaign includes special and individual conditions of participation, these conditions of participation will be presented recognizably in the campaign.
Other
It is the sole responsibility of the winner to pay any taxes or other duties in connection with the receipt of any prize. The receipt of a prize in connection with a campaign is subject to any applicable legal or regulatory requirements.
These Terms and Conditions of Participation, the conduct of Campaigns, and the interpretation and enforcement of any Terms and Conditions of Participation shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the Republic of Austria, Austrian law.
Operator reserves the right to change these conditions of participation at any time without prior notice and/or to interrupt, suspend or cancel campaigns without giving reasons and without assuming liability. Operator also has the right to exclude a user from participation at any time and without assuming liability if he does not comply with the conditions of participation.
Status: Linz, January 2023
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