The Co-hosts cannot be held responsible for a problem of communication, network connection, computers or faulty connection. The Co-hosts cannot be held responsible for the malfunction of the platform Agorize for a given browser.

The Co-hosts are not responsible for any malfunction of the platform Agorize or any late, lost, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, illegible, undeliverable, or destroyed applications due to system errors, failed, incomplete or garbled computer or other telecommunication transmission malfunctions, hardware or software failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections or technical malfunction(s), which may limit a Candidate's ability to participate.

The Co-hosts do not warrant that the platform Agorize will operate without interruption or that it does not contain any computer errors, or that any defects found shall be corrected. The Co-hosts do not warrant that the platform Agorize, the servers giving access to it and/or the third party sites with which it has links do not contain viruses or other components which may cause damage to property.

In no event will the Co-hosts be held responsible for a loss of data or a deterioration of this data. The Co-hosts cannot be held responsible if the data relating to the registration of a Candidate for a project did not reach it for any reason or it could be illegible or impossible to process (for example, if the participant has computer hardware or an inadequate software environment for registration or an Internet connection problem).

The Co-hosts shall not be held responsible if, for any reason (including notably but without being exhaustive computer fraud, virus, fire, flood, strike, force majeure, pandemic such as COVID-19 or any other reason) this Challenge has to be shortened, modified, postponed or canceled. In fact, the Co-hosts reserve the right to shorten, modify or cancel the Challenge if the circumstances so require, without any obligation to reimburse a participant for any damage, loss, cost or expense such as transportation and accommodation it may incur. Any amendment to these rules may be the subject of information to the participants.

Any false statement or data in an application or other document automatically results in the disqualification of the start-up. The proven fraud or attempted cheating of a Candidate may be sanctioned by the Co-hosts without notice. 

Startups participating in the Challenge allow and license the Co-hosts to:

• Use the logo, brand and other distinctive features of their Company for the duration of the Event (ie Future of Sport) and for any promotional campaign organized by the Co-hosts (before the Event), during the Event and for three (3) years from the end of the Event. In particular, they allow and license the Co-hosts to reproduce and represent the logo, brand and other distinctive features of their project on all promotional and other advertising for the Challenge, whatever the media (notably print, internet, audio-visual, social media), used to promote the Event. 
• Reproduce and represent their image and other elements of their person (name, voice) and/or words recorded on one or more photographs and/or multimedia or video storage media, within the framework of the Co-hosts and intended to be used for, during the Event and after in order to present and promote the Event. This authorization entitles the Co-hosts to apply such additions, deletions, modifications or dubbing to the original recording of images and/or words as the Co-hosts deem useful, provided that they are in keeping with the spirit of the camerawork.
• Use the above mentioned image or abovementioned audio-video recordings, on a non- exclusive basis, in whole or in part, on any present or future storage media (paper, graphic, video, photographic, digital, electronic, etc.) for purposes of promoting Future of Sport, Viva Technology or Global Sports Week particularly for publication via any mode of transmission whatsoever in the press or audiovisual media (all channels combined, including terrestrial, satellite, cable, etc.), on television, in press kits, in publishing, in educational or commercial documents (catalogs, brochures, posters, point-of-sale advertising) disseminated at the initiative of the Co-hosts, on the Internet and particularly on the websites published by Viva Technology or Global Sports Week,  on the Co-hosts social networks and/or on ECHOS SOLUTIONS and PUBLICIS GROUP social networks and on any interactive websites particularly in trade fairs, conferences and exhibitions.

9.1 Principle

Participation in the Challenge requires the submission of personal data relating, in particular, to the identity of the Candidates (including names, mailing and correspondence addresses, phone numbers, etc.). Personal data will be processed in compliance with the French Act on Data Protection n°78-12, as modified. The data are processed by the co-hosts for the treatment of the participation to the Challenge.

The Candidate retains the right, at all times:

• to object to the collection of personal data by Viva Technology; GSW will have access to the participating startups via the Agorize platform or via email send by the VivaTech team
• to access, review or rectify any personal data collected by Viva Technology in connection with the Challenge by accessing its personal space on www.agorize.com ;
• to receive his personal data from Viva Technology  in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller, and
• to delete any personal data collected by Viva Technology in connection with the Challenge by sending a request to startups@vivatechnology.com

Unless marked as optional, if the Candidate disagrees to provide or asks for the deletion of the personal data, this may result in the non-registration at the Challenge.

Data relating to unsuccessful Candidates will be deleted by Viva Technology two years after the 2023 Future of Sport Event. Data relating to the Selected Candidates will be retained by Viva Technology for five years following your registration for an event. Here are the details of VivaTech’s privacy policy: https://vivatechnology.com/data-privacy

9.2 Purpose and recipients

The Candidates are informed that their data will be transferred by Viva Technology to the Jury and the co-host Global Sports Week. The Candidate is invited to read the privacy policy of the Global Sports Week available at the following address https://gsw.world/mentions-legales/.

The collection and processing of such personal data will be transferred by Viva Technology to Global Sports Week:

• to verify that the Candidate is eligible to be selected to participate in the Challenge he/she applied for and complies with the Challenge Rules; and
• to communicate with the Candidate for the purpose of its participation in the Challenge.

The recipients of the data are specifically designated employees of MSL France, Agorize being a subcontractor of MSL France for the purpose of the collection of such data in the context of the Selection.

10.1 Governing law

These Challenge rules shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with French law. 

10.2 Settlement of disputes

Parties shall endeavor to resolve amicably any dispute or difficulty arising between them regarding the drafting, interpretation, performance or termination of these Challenge Rules. If all prior attempts to reach an amicable solution fail, any dispute or problem arising from the drafting, interpretation, performance or termination of these rules shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Paris.

Any Notice or correspondence in relation to a dispute should be addressed to: startups@vivatechnology.com.

10.3 Contact details

Any correspondence with Agorize  with respect to the functioning of the platform and data collection should be addressed to startups@vivatechnology.com.