Project 10100
Terms of Service
Google created this call for submissions to engage Google users and the global community in a discussion about how to change the world. Participants are invited to submit proposals about how best to improve our world in a variety of key areas. Users are asked to vote on their favourite proposal. The most popular ideas will be put before a panel of experts to be considered for implementation by Google.
By participating, you agree to be bound by the Google Terms of Service (http://www.google.co.uk/accounts/TOS) and the Google Privacy Policy (http://www.google.co.uk/privacypolicy.html), both documents herein incorporated by reference, as well as the following additional terms (altogether "Terms"). If you choose to include a video, you also agree to be bound by YouTube's Terms of Use (http://www.youtube.com/t/terms).
1. Participation: Google will post instructions, restrictions and guidelines for this call for submissions on the Project 10100 website. You agree to adhere to these materials. Google reserves the right to reject your proposal or terminate your participation should you not adhere to these materials or the Terms. Google will email you if your idea is chosen as a finalist.
2. Intellectual property rights: You warrant and represent that any content you submit is your original creation and does not infringe any third-party rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy and publicity, and that the content is not otherwise illegal or made or submitted in violation of any contractual obligation you might have with a third party.
As between you and Google, you retain ownership of any intellectual and industrial property rights (including moral rights) you have in and to your submission.
As a condition of participation, you grant Google, its subsidiaries, agents and partner companies, a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create a derivative work from and publicly display your submission and the proposal provided therein (1) for the purposes of allowing Google, the advisory panel and users to evaluate your idea for purposes of the call for submissions, (2) in connection with advertising and promotion via communication to the public or other groups, including, but not limited to, the right to make screenshots, animations and video clips available for promotional purposes and (3) for the purposes of putting your submitted proposal into effect.
You agree that Google has final authority regarding this call for submission and the selection of the ideas to be considered for implementation. You acknowledge that your submission might be similar to ideas submitted by other participants and/or proposals independently developed by Google, and that Google does not need to recognise your submission should your idea not be the source of the proposal or proposals ultimately implemented. You further acknowledge that even if your proposal is selected by Google, Google is not compelled to implement your proposal in its entirety, or at all. Google reserves the right at its sole discretion to incorporate your proposal or any other ideas into the project or projects finally selected for implementation
3. Privacy: You agree that personal data you disclose as part of this call for submissions, including name, phone number and email address, may be processed, stored, shared and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the call for submissions. This data will also be transferred into the United States. By participating, you agree to the transmission, processing, sharing and storage of this personal data in the United States. You have the right to access, review, rectify or cancel any personal data held by Google in connection with this call for submissions by writing to Google at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043 USA. All personal information that is collected from the participant is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy, located at http://www.google.co.uk/privacypolicy.html.
4. Not an offer or contract of employment: Under no circumstances shall the submission of an idea, its use by Google or anything in these Terms be construed as an offer or contract of employment with Google. You acknowledge that you have submitted your idea voluntarily and not in confidence or in trust. You acknowledge that no confidential, fiduciary, agency or other relationship or implied-in-fact contract now exists between you and Google and that no such relationship is established by your submission of an idea under these Terms.