We (Venture Cup) run competitions with the purpose of developing Ideas to successful Startups. We do this via a brilliant digital platform, Idea Hunt, and we would love it if you use it to develop your idea or share your thoughts to other entrepreneurs and the community. We highly recommend you to be responsible in what you publish. In particular, make sure that none of the prohibited items (like spam, viruses, or serious threats of violence) appear in the material you submit to our platform. If you find an user that you believe violate these Terms of Service, please contact info@venturecup.se. The Agreement The following terms and conditions govern all use of the www.venturecup.ideahunt.io website and thereby all content, services, and products available at or through the website (taken together, our “Services”). Our Services are offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, our Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time by us (collectively, the “Agreement”). You agree that we may automatically upgrade our Services, and these terms will apply to any upgrades. Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using our Services. By accessing or using any part of our services, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access or use any of our services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by us, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. Our Services are not directed to children younger than 13, and access and use of our Services is only offered to users 13 years of age or older. If you are under 13 years old, please do not register to use our Services. Any person who registers as a user or provides their personal information to our Services represents that they are 13 years of age or older. Use of our Services requires an VentureCup.IdeaHunt.io account. You agree to provide us with complete and accurate information when you register for an account. You will be solely responsible and liable for any activity that occur under your username. You are responsible for keeping your password secure.
Your VentureCup.IdeaHunt.io Account. If you create an Idea to any of our competitions, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the idea. You must immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your idea, your account, or any other breaches of security. We will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions. Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate an idea, comment on an idea, post material to VentureCup.IdeaHunt.io, post links on VentureCup.IdeaHunt.io, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available (any such material, “Content”), you are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content or your conduct. That is the case regardless of what form the Content takes, which includes, but is not limited to; text, photo, video, audio, or code. By using VentureCup.IdeaHunt.io, you represent and warrant that your Content and conduct do not violate these terms. Venture Cup and all of its affiliated companies respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users and content partners to do the same. The unauthorized posting, reproduction, copying, distribution, modification, public display or public performance of copyrighted works constitutes infringement of the copyright owner’s rights. As a condition of your use of Venture Cup, you agree not to use any Venture Cup sites to infringe the intellectual property rights of others in any way. We will terminate the accounts of any Venture Cup Users, and block access to Venture Cup Sites of any Users who are repeat infringers of the copyrights, or other intellectual property rights, of others. We reserve the right to take these actions at any time, in our sole discretion, with or without notice, and without any liability to the User who is terminated or to the User whose access is blocked. If you believe that your copyrighted work or trademark has been uploaded, posted or copied to Venture Cup and is accessible on Venture Cup in a way that constitutes copyright or trademark infringement, please provide properly constituted notice to info@venturecup.se, including the exact location of the infringing content, your basis for claiming ownership, your full contact information and a screenshot of the reported infringement. Any such communication we receive shall not be confidential or privileged in any way. You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide licence and right to use the Content on our site(s) and use, copy, distribute, amend and disclose to third parties your Content as described in these terms and Venture Cup’s Privacy Policy. Our license to your Content ends when you delete your Content, except for your Content that has been shared with others on the site(s) and has not been deleted by the other user(s) in question. Copies of your Content may persist for some time after you delete it due to caching, back-ups and other technical aspects of running the site(s). You warrant that you have and continue to have all necessary rights, licenses, permission and consent to provide your Content to our site(s). You warrant that none of your Content, including but not limited to anything provided as Application Question Responses contains any confidential information, and that all of your Content is non-confidential and publicly available. We may be required to inspect your Content on the site(s) to confirm compliance with the terms, which will not constitute monitoring of your Content. We will not have been put on notice of any of your Content by virtue of having the rights set out in the terms or for any other reason. Any information that we may obtain from reading your Content will be treated in accordance with the then current version of our Privacy Policy. You warrant that Content is and will be true and accurate. You warrant that your Content complies with applicable law in the Sweden and/or in any country from which you provide your Content. By participating in an idea campaign you give the campaigner rights to contact you via e-mail outside of the Idea Hunt service. Advertisements. We reserve the right to use your idea in advertisements for Venture Cup. Obviously we will not reveal any intangible assets in such advertisements.
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The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth (Tillväxtverket) is a financier of this activity which you are able to participate in via [sponsor]. It’s important to us to monitor and evaluate how well the actions we finance work, and the contribution they make. One of the best ways of establishing this is to ask those who participated in the activity. We are therefore requesting your contact details so that we can contact you in the future. To be able to produce the statistics that we are tasked with reporting, we also need your enterprise’s corporate identity number. If you are participating as a private individual, we need your personal identity number instead. You are under no obligation to provide this information. The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, or the party that we contract as the processor of personal data on our behalf, will only use the information you provide to monitor and evaluate our activities. Statistics and any results from evaluations will be published in the form of depersonalised data in reports and the Agency’s annual report. The statistics will be requisitioned from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and consist of sex, foreign background, and age. SCB only releases depersonalised data and it will be impossible for us to link these details to you personally. This personal data is particularly important for us to have because we see diversity as an asset and an important issue for the future. In our view, it’s important to utilise all of our community’s resources, and we believe that diversity in Sweden’s economy contributes to more sustainable growth. If you would like to know what personal data about you is processed by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, you can write to us with your request at: Tillväxtverket Personuppgiftsansvarig Box 4044 SE-102 61 Stockholm SWEDEN If you want to request a correction to erroneous or misleading data that we have about you, you can contact us at the same address.
You agree to give Venture Cup and Venture Cup’s partners the possibility to distribute relevant information and offers to you. If you study or have studied at any of Venture Cup’s Academic Partners Venture Cup have the rights to distribute your contact information to those Partners.
As a trusted user of the system you agree on Venture Cup’s non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Trusted user means that you will be able to see non-public fields in idea descriptions and non-public feedback from other Trusted users and admins. Venture Cup have the full right to decide which users that will be promoted to trusted users and will contact these individually.
https://venturecup.ideahunt.io/page/Confidentiality-agreement-and-ethical-commitment