Launching the Nomination Stage Until 11/07/2024
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Terms and Conditions
1. Preamble:
The Ministry of Culture hereby launches the second cycle of the National Cultural Awards Platform (hereinafter referred to as the “Platform”) with the aim of providing services from the Ministry of Culture, as detailed below.
2. General Provisions:
By registering and using the Platform, the Participant agrees to the following:
The Participant shall comply with these Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as the “Terms and Conditions”) with regard to the Platform’s usage and shall benefit from all the services contained therein and provided by the Ministry of Culture.
The Participant’s use of the Platform or Services shall be subject to all applicable or related regulations.
The Ministry of Culture reserves the right to modify, halt, temporarily or permanently suspend the Platform or any features, services, options, or parts thereof without prior notice.
The Ministry of Culture reserves the right, at its sole discretion and without prior notice, to amend and revise the Terms and Conditions or any of other policies thereof that it may publish from time to time, and the Participant shall, accordingly, review any updates hereto, as the Ministry of Culture shall not announce the changes that it makes hereto or any of other policies thereof, that it may publish from time to time.
These Terms and Conditions shall apply regardless of the type of device the Participant uses to access the Platform (including PCs, laptops, mobile phones, or tablets). These Terms and Conditions shall also apply if the Participant accesses the Platform through third party websites or applications.
3. Platform Services:
The services provided by the Ministry of Culture shall include providing any information, initiatives or programs about the projects adopted thereby through the Platform, and also include the opportunity for users to submit submissions to various projects that are subject to review - nomination - evaluation - voting, then selecting the winning submission, as well as other features and options that it shall offer from time to time through the Platform (hereinafter referred to as the “Services”).
4. Accounts and Registration:
Terms of Usage and Registration on the Platform:
The Participant shall create an account on the Platform.
The Participant shall provide the personal information thereof, which shall be collected and used in accordance with any applicable or related regulations.
The Participant shall maintain accurate and complete information in account thereof at all times, and shall maintain the security and confidentiality of the account thereof by not sharing the password with others, restricting access to the account thereof, computer and device, and agrees to accept all risks of unauthorized access.
The Participant shall notify the Ministry of Culture immediately in case of discovering or suspecting that there may be security breaches related to the Platform or the account thereof. In case that the Participant is unable to do so, this may result in failure thereby to access and use the Platform, and the Ministry of Culture shall reserve the right to exclude the Participant from registration and use of the Platform.
The Participant may not create or use an account of any person other than his, provide an email address or a mobile number other than the email or mobile number thereof, or create multiple accounts for any purpose. In the event that the Participant allows others to access the account thereof, it shall be an acknowledgment of the Participant’s responsibility for ensuring the compliance thereof herewith and acknowledging that the Participant bears responsibility for the activities and conduct thereof while using the Platform, and shall disclaim the Ministry of Culture from the same.
As part of the Participant’s use of the Platform to receive from time to time electronic communications or notices from the team of the National Cultural Awards Initiative thereto, either by email or mobile number or by sending notices relating to the Platform or Services or both, the Participant agrees that such communications may include notices about the Participant’s account (such as password changes, confirmation of registration, or a transaction-related notice) or any other communications relating to the Participant’s use of the Platform, and that the Participant agrees that any notices, agreements, disclosures or other communications the team sends to the Participant electronically shall meet any legal requirements for correspondence.
The Participant agrees that the Ministry of Culture shall have the right to send future correspondences or notices about other projects relating to the operator.
In the event that the Participant’s account is disabled, the Participant may not be able to create a new account without the approval of the Ministry of Culture.
5. Limitations of Usage:
The Participant agrees and acknowledges that, when using the Platform, he shall not be authorized or permitted to do any of the following:
Use, copy, adapt, modify, reproduce, prepare works derived therefrom or based on the same, distribute, license, sell, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, broadcast, stream or otherwise exploit the Platform or any Content.
Attempt to have unauthorized access to harm any aspect of the Platform or use the same, including user accounts, in any way that may harm, disable, overburden, spy, damage servers, networks or related systems, or may interfere with any third party’s use and enjoyment of the Platform.
6. Submitting Submissions:
Prior to any submissions being submitted on the Platform by the Participant, the Participant hereby agrees to the following:
The Participant and the licensees thereby shall remain the owner of any submission on the Platform (including any texts, photos, files, videos or audio recordings) (hereinafter referred to as the “Content”), and shall grant the Ministry of Culture the perpetual, non-exclusive, sub- right and without any claim to be made for copyright rights around the world, and shall also authorize the Ministry of Culture to use, reproduce, modify, publish, translate and derive works from the distribution, operation, display, communication with the public and exercising all copyright and advertising rights in connection with that content and/or merging the same with other works in any media currently known or subsequently developed for the entire term of any such rights granted to such content, in compliance with the privacy restrictions as stipulated in the applicable or related regulations, and that the Participant shall be responsible for any submission to be submitted thereby on the Platform, and submitting any submissions shall mean that the Participant acknowledges the following:
The Participant undertakes and acknowledges having the legal capacity to agree hereto and to submit the submission.
The Participant undertakes that this submission and content is the work thereof and that the Participant has the right to submit the same to the Ministry of Culture for use in all the purposes mentioned herein, applicable regulations or related regulations, and agrees to waive any moral rights in the submission for the purposes of submitting and publishing the same on the Platform and for use by all the above purposes.
The Participant undertakes that the submission thereof shall not violate any rights of a third party or restrict or prohibit the use and enjoyment of the Platform thereby, and that the Ministry of Culture shall not bear any responsibility as a result of the violation thereof of the rights of any third party, and these Terms and Conditions shall be considered a discharge of liability in respect thereof.
The Participant undertakes that the usage of and submission to the Platform thereby is lawful and in accordance herewith and does not cause any harm or inconvenience to others and that it does not contain any offensive or insulting material or impede the normal course of dialogue in the Platform.
The Participant undertakes not to submit or publish any submission similar to the one submitted via the Platform or include the same content on any other site or program without the approval of the Ministry of Culture.
The Participant’s submission and content thereof shall not include the use of language that is unacceptable, degrading, offensive, threatening, violent or intolerant (with respect to religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, origin, age, disability, or physical or mental condition).
The Participant’s submission and content shall not include discussions that encourage, motivate or provide harmful information related to criminal or illegal practices (including, without limitation, pornography, explosives, weapons, violence, drugs, viruses, piracy or copyright infringements).
The Participant’s submission and content thereof shall not include placing the addresses of other websites, applications, services, or any other content containing materials that infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party.
The Participant’s submission and content thereof shall not include exchanging phone numbers or home addresses or harassing other users of the Services (either privately or in public forums).
The Participant’s submission and content thereof shall not include impersonation of Ministry of Culture employees, celebrities or any other personalities or persons.
The Participant’s submission and content thereof shall not include the presentation of false or misleading facts.
The Participant’s submission and content thereof shall not include any acts that may disrupt or disable the effectiveness, stability or security of the Services (including without limitation viruses, crashes, worms, trojans, or any other form of virus), or may conduct reverse engineering, tracking, recording or otherwise listening to communications or traffic within or between the Services or users thereof.
The Participant’s submission and content thereof shall not include advertisements, offers or unsolicited spam methods, or use of the Services for unauthorized commercial purposes.
The Participant’s submission and content thereof should not include any references that may offend the Ministry of Culture or the Services offered thereby.
The Participant’s submission and content thereof shall not include any content that may cause harm to the Ministry of Culture.
The Ministry of Culture shall have the absolute right to determine the existence of a breach of the Terms and Conditions related to the Participant’s use of the Platform. Therefore, the Ministry of Culture, in the event that there is any breach hereof, may take the measures it deems appropriate, including:
Immediate withdrawal, whether temporary or permanent, of the Participant’s right to use the Platform, the Services and/or any of the components thereof.
Take all legal measures against the Participant to compensate the Ministry of Culture for all costs incurred as a result of the infringement.
Take any other measures that the Ministry of Culture deems appropriate.
7. License Granted by the Participant:
The Participant acknowledges and warrants that he has the right to grant the Ministry of Culture a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, free, transferable, copyright license with the right to sub-license, use, review, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, stream, broadcast and exploit the content created thereby on or through or by means of the Platform or the Services or both, in accordance with applicable or relevant regulations, and that such a license is non-exclusive, except for the Participant’s consent to grant the Ministry of Culture the exclusive right to exercise the same to the extent of merging the content created thereby with the content created by other users for the purposes of creating or filling out a database.
The Participant hereby acknowledges and agrees to be solely responsible for the content created and made available thereby via the Platform, and accordingly, warrants and guarantees that:
The Participant shall be the sole and exclusive owner of all the content created and submitted thereby, which is available through the Platform and shall have all the rights, licenses, approvals and issuances necessary to grant the Ministry of Culture the rights in this content created thereby.
The Participant shall not exploit the content created thereby, or publish, upload, submit or otherwise send the same or the Ministry of Culture’s use of the content created thereby (or any part thereof) in, through or by means of the Platform or Services or both as all of this shall be deemed as an infringement or violation of a patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral right, intellectual property right, copyright, or privacy or may result in a violation of any applicable law or regulation.
The Participant shall compensate the Ministry of Culture against any liability that may arise as a result of the breach thereby of declarations and undertakings thereof and these Terms and Conditions. The Ministry of Culture disclaims any liability that may arise or relate to the content.
The Participant acknowledges and agrees that content obtained or received from the Ministry of Culture thereby, the employees, contractors, operators thereof, or by patent holders, sponsors, advertisers, licensees, operators, or otherwise through the Services are for the purpose of the Services provided by the Platform.
The Participant acknowledges that all rights, including, but not limited to, copyright, database rights and trademarks in the Platform and contents thereof, whether audio, text, images, videos or any other form, shall be the property of the Ministry of Culture and licensed thereto, and the content thereof shall be protected by laws and copyright agreements around the world, so that all such rights shall be reserved.
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