Terms and Conditions of Participation

A: Definitions

Challenge: Building Together Challenge described in detail in point 1 below, which is part of the “BT21 Event”. The specifications for Building Together Challenge works are set out in Annex 1 to present Terms and Conditions.

Goal of the Challenge: First and foremost, the goal of Challenge is team building among participants and secondarily is marketing objectives, to promote the slogan “Building Together”.

Participant: Online registration required to participate in the Challenge. The Challenge interface is freely accessible to all natural person over 18 years of age and all legal entity at https://buildingtogether.graphisoft.com, free of charge, hereinafter: “Participant”.

Important: Only those can participate in the Challenge, who submitted the Work specified in Annex no. 1., in accordance with rules specified in the present Terms and Conditions on website https://buildingtogether.graphisoft.com. Deadline for the submission of Work(s) is September 24, 2021, 23:59.

The Player acknowledges that the date of receipt of the registration is the date registered at the time of receipt of the registration in the Organizer’s processing system (electronic mailbox).

The Participant may participate in the Challenge only once during the duration of the Challenge, with a single e-mail address chosen and registered by the Participant, and may not submit an application on behalf of another person (i.e. may not register on behalf of another person).

In order for the Participant to register or submit a valid application in the Challenge, the following conditions must be met in full:

  • the Participant has read the Data Processing Information Notice (see section C), which is part of the present Terms and Conditions, has understood and accepted the information contained therein, acknowledges that it is binding in its entirety and expressly consents to the data processing and to being contacted by the Organizer either for the purposes of the Challenge.
  • The Participant has read the Terms and Conditions in full and accepts the provisions contained therein as binding upon him/her in their entirety. If the Participant does not accept or objects to any of the provisions of the Terms and Conditions, and notifies the Organizer in writing of the fact of the objection, or breaches any of its provisions, or withdraws his consent to the processing of data as provided for in the Data Processing Information, he/she will be excluded from the Challenge and may no longer participate in it.

How to play:

  1. registration on website https://buildingtogether.graphisoft.com/design_challenge
  2. submission of Participant’s tender works on website https://buildingtogether.graphisoft.com/design_challenge
  3. Organizer will put the submitted works together in an Archicad file and make a digital installation in BIMx
  4. Participant, who registered and submitted a Work, can collect votes on community portal: https://community.graphisoft.com and can receive badge(s)
  5. evaluation of the works on the community page, selection of the winning works by the community vote on the website: https://community.graphisoft.com
  6. criteria for the selection of the winner(s): https://community.graphisoft.com
  7. winner(s) are those who get the most votes (top 50 places)
  8. notification of the Winner(s) is by email
  9. Due to their special relationship with Graphisoft, Graphisoft and Partners are welcome to participate in the Challenge, but cannot win prizes.

Winner: the winner Participant(s) will be selected by community voting on the website community.graphisoft.com, to win one of the prizes determined by Graphisoft and who accepted these Terms and Conditions. Winner(s) are those who get the most votes (top 50 places).

Duration of the Challenge: The Challenge will run from September 6 2021 12:00 (CET) until September 24, 2021, 23:59 (CET).

Selection Date- deadline for submission and deadline for voting: 24th of September, 2021 23:59. (CET)

Prizes: Prizes defined at https://community.graphisoft.com

B: Terms and Conditions

  1. Challenge Description
    The Challenge is organized and managed by Graphisoft SE.
    All the information about the Challenge the Participant applies to can be found at Graphisoft’s website. For more information please visit the following https://buildingtogether.graphisoft.com and see the latest details about the current Challenge updated by the GRAPHISOFT.
  2. General
    1. You acknowledge and agree that you have applied to the Challenge organized by Graphisoft. These Terms and Conditions regulate Your application to and participation at the Challenge. By submitting Your application to the Challenge You expressly agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. This is an irrevocable condition of applying too and participation at the Challenge.
    2. You must be at least 18 years of age or the minimum legal age applicable to you.
    3. You accept that GRAPHISOFT shall – without any legal consequences – unilaterally decide on the acceptance or rejection of Your application until the Selection Date.
    4. During the Challenge the Participant cannot behave in a way that would harm or endanger Graphisoft’s reputation, legitimate economic or organizational interests.
    5. Neither GRAPHISOFT nor its officers, directors, employees, agents, successors, or assigns shall be liable for any warranty, costs, damage, injury, or any other claims incurred as a result of the usage of information obtained by the Participant during or related to the Challenge.
    6. Participants should fulfil all requirements for immigration and health insurance in Hungary in relation to the Challenge. Failure to do so may result in the termination of participation. Acceptance of these Terms and Conditions Participation indicates adherence to the relevant legal regulations in the Place of the Challenge.
  3. Rights to Intellectual Property
    1. All works, materials, ideas created by Participant and submitted to GRAPHISOFT in course of the application procedure or in relation to the Challenge (in particular the project) are and will remain the intellectual property of the Participant (“Participant IP”). The Participant hereby declares that he/she is the creator and single Intellectual Property right owner regarding all the Participant IP submitted. Participant acknowledges that GRAPHISOFT shall – according to the prevailing rules of statutory law – indicate the name and country data related to the Participant whenever the Participant IP will be used by Graphisoft or its authorized network. By registering to the Challenge the Participant grants to GRAPHISOFT and its partner network enlisted at https://www.graphisoft.com/info/where_to_buy/ an exclusive, royalty free, sublicensable license right unlimited in time, territory and usage mode without any restrictions to the use, adaptation, modification of the Participant IP by Graphisoft and its authorized partner network without any time limitation. The license right granted herein includes the inclusion of the Participant IP into Graphisoft’s products, services and into marketing materials furthermore the publishing of the Participant IP in press releases and in social media platforms of GRAPHISOFT and its authorized partner network .
    2. By applying to and registering to the Challenge the Participant expressly accepts that GRAPHISOFT and its licensors shall retain all right, title and interest in the GRAPHISOFT product(s), services, knowledge either disclosed to the Participant during or in relation to the Challenge or otherwise throughout the world, including without limitation, patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret rights related thereto (“GRAPHISOFT IP”). Except as expressly set forth by Graphisoft, neither this document, nor any license shall be construed as granting to Participant any license or other right in or to any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary right of GRAPHISOFT or its licensors. Participant shall take all reasonable measures to protect Graphisoft’s proprietary rights in the GRAPHISOFT IP and shall not copy, use or distribute the GRAPHISOFT IP or any part of it, or any derivative thereof, in any manner or for any purpose, except as expressly authorized in this document. Participant shall not disassemble, decompile, or reverse-engineer the GRAPHISOFT IP, including any source codes, or otherwise attempt to discover any GRAPHISOFT trade secret or other proprietary information.
  4. Confidentiality
    1. The Participant shall treat and keep confidential any business secrets learnt at or in connection with the Challenge or beyond that any information or data related to GRAPHISOFT or Graphisoft’s affiliated companies or the activities of these (“Confidential Information”).
    2. Graphisoft’s Confidential Information includes without limitation all information related to, Graphisoft’s know-how and all information relating to Graphisoft’s business, products, services, finances, plans, opportunities, designs, research, development, know-how, personnel, distributors, suppliers, and customers, confidential information disclosed to GRAPHISOFT or its affiliates by third parties, in all cases whether acquired or developed by subcontractors or disclosed by Graphisoft employees.
    3. The Participant must not use or disclose the Confidential Information neither directly nor indirectly, neither solely nor through any other person, company, association, firm, enterprise or any other legal person in any way, furthermore shall not enable any form of usage or disclosing of these information and is obliged to do everything he/she is capable of to prohibiting the leakage of the Confidential Information, and in case he/she perceives the possibility of violation of this confidentiality or the danger of leakage of the Confidential Information, he/she is obliged to forthwith inform GRAPHISOFT.
    4. The Participant is obliged to treat the Confidential Information determined above confidential after the termination of the Challenge, thus the obligations stated in this Article may bound the Participant without time limit.
  5. Liability
    1. GRAPHISOFT and/or its authorized partner network does not assume any liability and responsibility for and in relation to the prizes provided by Graphisoft related to the Challenge. GRAPHISOFT does not guarantee to the Participant that he/she will reach the goals set as the goals of the Challenge. Nor GRAPHISOFT is responsible for the use of the knowledge gained at the Challenge or the applicability of this knowledge.
    2. To the extent permitted by the applicable rules of law GRAPHISOFT excludes any and all liabilities related to damages suffered by Participant caused by breach of Graphisoft’s obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Graphisoft cannot limit or exclude its liability for premeditated non-performance of an obligation resulting in loss of life, or harm to physical integrity or health.
    3. Force Majeure. Neither the Participant nor GRAPHISOFT shall be liable for any failure or delay in performance of its obligations under these Terms and Conditions arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of God; earthquakes; fires; floods; wars; civil or military disturbances; acts of terrorism; sabotage; strikes; epidemics; riots; power failures; computer failure and any such circumstances beyond its reasonable control as may cause interruption, loss or malfunction of utility, transportation, computer (hardware or software) or telephone communication service; accidents; labor disputes; acts of civil or military authority; governmental actions; or inability to obtain labor, material, equipment or transportation; provided, however, that in the Challenge of a failure or delay GRAPHISOFT shall use its best efforts to ameliorate the effects of any such failure or delay. In case of force majeure GRAPHISOFT reserves the right to unilaterally decide on the cancellation or modification or on the postponing of the Challenge without any obligations to the compensation for damages or expenses.

C: Data Protection Information Notice

Please read this section carefully. By participating at the Challenge, You as the Participant to and/or Participant of the Challenge approve the processing of your personal data described herein and in the relevant Challenge Data Processing Policy available at https://www.graphisoft.com/info/legal/privacy_policy/ constituting inseparable part of these Terms and Conditions.

The data processing described herein takes place  in compliance with the applicable rules of law, in particular with theEuropean General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC) (“GDPR”).

  1. Legal base of the data processing: for c)1-c)5 the performance of contract by the Participant and the Participant according to point b) of Article 6(1) of GDPR, while for c)6 the consent of the  Participant according to point a) of Article 6(1) of GDPR
  1. The personal data processed by Graphisoft:
  • First name
  • Last name
  • Country
  • Email
  • Telephone number
  • Company name
  • Business Title

hereinafter referred to together as “the Data” – 

GRAPHISOFT hereby informs the Participants/Participants that the Data collected by Graphisoft during the application of the Participants to the Challenge and during the participation of the Participant at the Challenge qualify as personal data. 

Regarding the Data GRAPHISOFT and its Partners located in the country of Participant / Participant (https://www.graphisoft.com/info/where_to_buy/) – which consist of Graphisoft’s subsidiaries, distributors and resellers) are the data controllers. 

  1. Purpose of data processing
    1. Participating at the Challenge and verifying eligibility,
    2. Informing and handing over the prizes to the Winners;
    3. Publication of Participant IP on the webpage: www.graphisoft.com/
    4. Transferring Participants’ personal data to the local GRAPHISOFT Partners for further data processing;
    5. Using the Participant IP for marketing purposes in social media and in other channels by Graphisoft SE and by Graphisoft Partner located in the same country as the Participant;
    6. For direct marketing purposes based on the consent of Participant.
  2. Recipients of personal data

The user name of the Participant is available for the public, while all personal data are available for GRAPHIOSFT and its Partners, and to the internal members of the selection panel.

  1. Period of data processing

Once the Challenge has been completed, the data will be deleted or till withdrawal of the consent. 

  1. Data processors

GRAPHISOFT involves the following data processors:

  1. Marketing agency: Nextnine Communications Kft., Progressive Stúdió Kft. 
  2. Members of the selection panel: for the purposes of selecting the Winner from among the Participants.
  1. Data Security:

GRAPHISOFT undertake to treat personal data in a manner that ensures their adequate level of security and confidentiality, inter alia in order to prevent unauthorized access to personal data or unauthorized use of devices used for the processing of personal data and unauthorized use of these. 

Participants as Data Subjects have the right to access the personal data processed by Graphisoft, to obtain the updating or rectification of such data. Data Subjects also have the right to obtain the erasure of any personal data if, for instance, such data have either been processed unlawfully or are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed. In certain cases, such as when the processing is unlawful and Data Subjects oppose the erasure of their data, Data Subjects have the right to obtain from GRAPHISOFT the restriction of processing. Data Subjects also have the right to receive the personal data concerning them which Data Subjects provided to GRAPHISOFT, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller. Further information on data processing and the Principal’s privacy policy are available at https://www.graphisoftpark.hu/system/files/gs-park-gdpr-1_1-adatkezeles tajekoztato.pdf and https://graphisoft.com/hu/legal/privacy-policy. If Data Subjects consider that the processing of personal data by Graphisoft infringed the GDPR, please contact us first at privacy@graphisoft.com; GRAPHISOFT SE Business Compliance Manager; Záhony utca 7. Budapest, H-1031 Hungary so we can remedy the issue. Of course, in such cases Data Subjects also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Hungarian Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority (http://naih.hu/general-information.html) or another data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.

D: Miscellaneous Provisions

  1. GRAPHISOFT reserves the right to unilaterally modify the present document or any part thereof. Participants will be informed of any such modifications via e-mail sent to their registered e-mail addresses. 
  2. Any questions not governed by this document shall be resolved pursuant to the applicable Hungarian legislation, and in particular pursuant to the Hungarian Civil Code. The parties agree that all disputes arising from, or in connection with, the present document shall be decided by, and all claims concerning this document will belong to, the exclusive jurisdiction of the ordinary courts of Hungary.
  3. This document may be translated into other languages. In case of any discrepancies between the original English language version and any other language translations the English language version prevails.

GRAPHISOFT SE

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