1. General
This General Terms and Conditions (“GTC”) of the Global Investment Contest ("GIC") applies to anyone who chooses to participate in the Global Investment Contest or Challenge (the “Contest”) according to the manner described under the Contest home page at its official website (each of such person, an “Contest Participant”). This GTC, together with the Contest Rules (the “Rules”), constitute the complete contract applicable to each Contest Participant. Capitalized terms not defined under this GTC shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the Rules. In the event of any inconsistency between this GTC and the Rules, the Rules shall govern. Contest organizer will select a third party Investment Competitions Site Provider (Site Provider) to perform the Contest. The site links will be provided to the participants after YOUR SUCCESSFUL registration with the Contest Management.
2. Disclaimer
THIS SITE OR ANY PART OF THE CONTEST DOES NOT OFFER, SOLICIT OR ARRANGE FOR THE SALE OR PURCHASE OF SECURITIES. THE SITE AND ITS CONTESTS ARE PART OF A STOCK MARKET SIMULATION. NO ACTUAL SECURITIES ARE PURCHASED, SOLD OR TRADED AS PART OF THE CONTEST. ALL INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.
The Contest is for entertainment purposes only. The site is limited to personal, non-commercial use and the content contained therein may not be copied, modified, duplicated or distributed in any form or for any reason without the express written consent of GIC. GIC or Site Provider offers no investment advice by organizing and hosting the Contest.
The Contest is void wherever prohibited and subject to all federal, state, provincial and local laws and may be restricted to certain states or provinces.
GIC and the Site Provider make no guarantee that the information on this site is up to date, accurate, or complete and you should not rely on it for any decision or to take any action. By being a Contest Participant, you agree to waive any right to claim any ambiguity or error in the TGC or the Rules or the Contest itself and agree to be bound by these Rules and by all decisions of GIC, which are binding and final.
GIC or Site Provider is not liable for any delay or failure of the site or the Contest to perform. There is no guarantee that Participants will be able to access the site whenever and wherever desired. There may be extended periods of time when you cannot access the site for various reasons, many beyond our control. No corrections or adjustments will be made for trades, attempted trades or missed trades affected by the site's operation or downtime.
CONTEST ORGANIZER OR SITE PROVIDER SHALL BEAR NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER IN CONNECTION WITH THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT OR ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONTEST OR IN ANY OTHER RESPECT IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR INTERACTION WITH THE SITE OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY CONTEST. This GTC or the Rules is subject to changes by GIC without prior notice. GIC reserves the right to cancel the Contest at any time, without prior notice, for any reason.
3. GIC's Proprietary Right to Content
Winners of any phase of the Contest waive all rights of privacy and publicity and expressly allow GIC to publicize their names, prizes, photos and videos as it sees fit. Such winners also agree to make available photographs in a format acceptable to GIC and pertinent biographical information for such publicity.
By entering in the Contest, you agree that GIC may disclose your first name, last name, and state these at any time during the course of, or after, the Contest, either on the site, or through email notification, at the discretion of GIC, except where prohibited by law.
You hereby agree that any information transmitted to the site in connection with the Contest is not confidential and acknowledge that you have no expectation of privacy with respect to such information, subject to the terms of the applicable Privacy Policy. By completing a registration, you hereby agree that any and all information that you supply in the registration process is current, truthful and complete. To the extent that any such information is not current, truthful and complete, you may be disqualified from the Contest. GIC reserves the right to post any and all of your portfolios and transactions details. Any information posted to or on any area of the site, including simulated portfolios, becomes the exclusive property of GIC for use, reproduction or disclosure at GIC’s sole discretion.
You understand and agree that GIC may review and edit or delete any content, messages, photos or profiles that in the sole judgment of GIC, violate this GTC or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any Contest Participants or be harmful to GIC in general.
4. Indemnification
You must be age of 18 or above at the time when the Contest begins, or be age of 16 or above under specific requirement by the organizer. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GIC, its officers, directors, employees, agents and affiliates from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to any violation of this GTC or any other wrongful activity related to use of the site (including but not limited to infringement of third parties' worldwide intellectual property rights or negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the site using your user name and password. You assume all liability for any injury or damages caused or claimed to be caused by your participation in the Contest and/or the acceptance and/or use of any prize, and release GIC and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents and assigns and advertising and promotional agencies and their respective officers, directors, and employees (collectively "Released Parties") from any such liability. Released Parties assume(s) no responsibility for any injury or damage to Participant's or to any other person's computer relating to or resulting from the Contest.
Portfolios created through the Contest will be publicly visible to all participants under participants’ registered name or screen name.
5. Intellectual Property
The contents of the Contest, editorial content, notices, software (including HTML-based computer programs) and other material, are protected under both United States and foreign copyright, trademark and other laws. These contents belong or are licensed to GIC. We hereby grant you the right to view and use the site subject to this GTC. You may download or print a copy of the information site contains for your personal, internal and non-commercial use only. Permission to reprint or electronically reproduce any document or graphic in whole or in part for any other purpose is expressly prohibited without GIC's prior written consent.
6. Prohibition
You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, any Contest Participant to buy or sell any products or services through the GIC and the Contest website. Although GIC or the Side Provider cannot monitor the conduct of its Participants off the site, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service to harass, abuse or harm another person or to contact, advertise to, solicit or sell to any Participant without their prior explicit consent.
The Contest is made available strictly and exclusively for your personal, non-commercial use only. Businesses, organizations or other legal entities may not use the GIC service for any purpose.
You may not use the GIC service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. International users agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, including laws regulating the export of data from the United States or your country of residence.
You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links and other content that you submit, post, and display during the participation of the Contest.
GIC reserves the right, but shall have no obligation to, remove materials that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable, or infringes or violates any party's intellectual property or other proprietary rights or these GTC.
7. Termination of Registration
GIC reserves the right to prevent access or suspend participation by any Participant for any reason or for no reason. GIC, at our sole discretion, may terminate or suspend your participation in the Contest for any reason or for no reason. If you are penalized or disqualified from the Contest(s) as a result of any rules infraction all prizes will be forfeited.
8. Tax Withholding
All taxes, fees, and surcharges on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. GIC reserves the right to withhold applicable taxes with respect to the winning prize payable to winners of the Contest.
9. Electronic Communications
By registering for the Contest, you agree to receive Contest updates in the form of emails throughout the duration on the Contest. By registering with us, you also agree to conduct business with us electronically and via the internet and to receive all required notices and disclosures in electronic format, including but not limited to email messages to an authorized email address that you have provided us.
10. Severability
If any term or provision of this GTC is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, such term or provision shall not affect the GTC's other terms or provisions, or the whole of this GTC, but such term or provision shall be deemed modified to the extent deemed necessary to render such term or provision enforceable, and the rights and obligations of the Parties shall be construed and enforced accordingly, preserving to the fullest permissible extent the intent of the parties and the GTC's purposes.
11. Limitations of Liability
You are giving up any right you might have to commence or participate in any class or group litigation or proceeding against GIC. GIC reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest without notice.
12. Links
While GIC welcomes links to our site from other websites, we, in no way, operate, control or endorse linking sites and reserve the right to disallow any such link at any time in our sole discretion. Should you wish to link to our site, you must link to the Contest home page.
13. No Third-Party Beneficiaries
A person who is not a party to this GTC has no rights under this GTC.
14. Governing Law
This GTC shall be governed by the laws of New York, without regard to the conflict or choice-of-law principles thereof.
15. Travel and Events
To compete at the Contest Global Final Competition or the Regional Final Competitions, the Contest candidate may require a visa to travel to the related countries or regions. It is each candidate’s own responsibility to apply for the visa to the extent necessary and bear all related expenses by himself or herself. If a finalist applicant fails to attend any competition event in person for any reason, his/her finalist position might be deemed forfeited and GIC shall have full discretion to nominate another qualified candidate as replacement.
16. Personal information protection
We will abide by relevant laws and regulations, and take corresponding security measures to ensure that information security protection reaches a reasonable level of security, so as to prevent personal information from being illegally accessed, copied, modified, transmitted, destroyed, processed or otherwise accidentally and without authorization.
This General Terms and Conditions (“GTC”) of the Global Investment Contest ("GIC") applies to anyone who chooses to participate in the Global Investment Contest or Challenge (the “Contest”) according to the manner described under the Contest home page at its official website (each of such person, an “Contest Participant”). This GTC, together with the Contest Rules (the “Rules”), constitute the complete contract applicable to each Contest Participant. Capitalized terms not defined under this GTC shall have the meaning ascribed to it under the Rules. In the event of any inconsistency between this GTC and the Rules, the Rules shall govern. Contest organizer will select a third party Investment Competitions Site Provider (Site Provider) to perform the Contest. The site links will be provided to the participants after YOUR SUCCESSFUL registration with the Contest Management.
2. Disclaimer
THIS SITE OR ANY PART OF THE CONTEST DOES NOT OFFER, SOLICIT OR ARRANGE FOR THE SALE OR PURCHASE OF SECURITIES. THE SITE AND ITS CONTESTS ARE PART OF A STOCK MARKET SIMULATION. NO ACTUAL SECURITIES ARE PURCHASED, SOLD OR TRADED AS PART OF THE CONTEST. ALL INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FOR ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.
The Contest is for entertainment purposes only. The site is limited to personal, non-commercial use and the content contained therein may not be copied, modified, duplicated or distributed in any form or for any reason without the express written consent of GIC. GIC or Site Provider offers no investment advice by organizing and hosting the Contest.
The Contest is void wherever prohibited and subject to all federal, state, provincial and local laws and may be restricted to certain states or provinces.
GIC and the Site Provider make no guarantee that the information on this site is up to date, accurate, or complete and you should not rely on it for any decision or to take any action. By being a Contest Participant, you agree to waive any right to claim any ambiguity or error in the TGC or the Rules or the Contest itself and agree to be bound by these Rules and by all decisions of GIC, which are binding and final.
GIC or Site Provider is not liable for any delay or failure of the site or the Contest to perform. There is no guarantee that Participants will be able to access the site whenever and wherever desired. There may be extended periods of time when you cannot access the site for various reasons, many beyond our control. No corrections or adjustments will be made for trades, attempted trades or missed trades affected by the site's operation or downtime.
CONTEST ORGANIZER OR SITE PROVIDER SHALL BEAR NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER IN CONNECTION WITH THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT OR ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONTEST OR IN ANY OTHER RESPECT IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR INTERACTION WITH THE SITE OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY CONTEST. This GTC or the Rules is subject to changes by GIC without prior notice. GIC reserves the right to cancel the Contest at any time, without prior notice, for any reason.
3. GIC's Proprietary Right to Content
Winners of any phase of the Contest waive all rights of privacy and publicity and expressly allow GIC to publicize their names, prizes, photos and videos as it sees fit. Such winners also agree to make available photographs in a format acceptable to GIC and pertinent biographical information for such publicity.
By entering in the Contest, you agree that GIC may disclose your first name, last name, and state these at any time during the course of, or after, the Contest, either on the site, or through email notification, at the discretion of GIC, except where prohibited by law.
You hereby agree that any information transmitted to the site in connection with the Contest is not confidential and acknowledge that you have no expectation of privacy with respect to such information, subject to the terms of the applicable Privacy Policy. By completing a registration, you hereby agree that any and all information that you supply in the registration process is current, truthful and complete. To the extent that any such information is not current, truthful and complete, you may be disqualified from the Contest. GIC reserves the right to post any and all of your portfolios and transactions details. Any information posted to or on any area of the site, including simulated portfolios, becomes the exclusive property of GIC for use, reproduction or disclosure at GIC’s sole discretion.
You understand and agree that GIC may review and edit or delete any content, messages, photos or profiles that in the sole judgment of GIC, violate this GTC or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any Contest Participants or be harmful to GIC in general.
4. Indemnification
You must be age of 18 or above at the time when the Contest begins, or be age of 16 or above under specific requirement by the organizer. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GIC, its officers, directors, employees, agents and affiliates from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to any violation of this GTC or any other wrongful activity related to use of the site (including but not limited to infringement of third parties' worldwide intellectual property rights or negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the site using your user name and password. You assume all liability for any injury or damages caused or claimed to be caused by your participation in the Contest and/or the acceptance and/or use of any prize, and release GIC and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents and assigns and advertising and promotional agencies and their respective officers, directors, and employees (collectively "Released Parties") from any such liability. Released Parties assume(s) no responsibility for any injury or damage to Participant's or to any other person's computer relating to or resulting from the Contest.
Portfolios created through the Contest will be publicly visible to all participants under participants’ registered name or screen name.
5. Intellectual Property
The contents of the Contest, editorial content, notices, software (including HTML-based computer programs) and other material, are protected under both United States and foreign copyright, trademark and other laws. These contents belong or are licensed to GIC. We hereby grant you the right to view and use the site subject to this GTC. You may download or print a copy of the information site contains for your personal, internal and non-commercial use only. Permission to reprint or electronically reproduce any document or graphic in whole or in part for any other purpose is expressly prohibited without GIC's prior written consent.
6. Prohibition
You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, any Contest Participant to buy or sell any products or services through the GIC and the Contest website. Although GIC or the Side Provider cannot monitor the conduct of its Participants off the site, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service to harass, abuse or harm another person or to contact, advertise to, solicit or sell to any Participant without their prior explicit consent.
The Contest is made available strictly and exclusively for your personal, non-commercial use only. Businesses, organizations or other legal entities may not use the GIC service for any purpose.
You may not use the GIC service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. International users agree to comply with all local rules regarding online conduct and acceptable content, including laws regulating the export of data from the United States or your country of residence.
You are solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links and other content that you submit, post, and display during the participation of the Contest.
GIC reserves the right, but shall have no obligation to, remove materials that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable, or infringes or violates any party's intellectual property or other proprietary rights or these GTC.
7. Termination of Registration
GIC reserves the right to prevent access or suspend participation by any Participant for any reason or for no reason. GIC, at our sole discretion, may terminate or suspend your participation in the Contest for any reason or for no reason. If you are penalized or disqualified from the Contest(s) as a result of any rules infraction all prizes will be forfeited.
8. Tax Withholding
All taxes, fees, and surcharges on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. GIC reserves the right to withhold applicable taxes with respect to the winning prize payable to winners of the Contest.
9. Electronic Communications
By registering for the Contest, you agree to receive Contest updates in the form of emails throughout the duration on the Contest. By registering with us, you also agree to conduct business with us electronically and via the internet and to receive all required notices and disclosures in electronic format, including but not limited to email messages to an authorized email address that you have provided us.
10. Severability
If any term or provision of this GTC is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, such term or provision shall not affect the GTC's other terms or provisions, or the whole of this GTC, but such term or provision shall be deemed modified to the extent deemed necessary to render such term or provision enforceable, and the rights and obligations of the Parties shall be construed and enforced accordingly, preserving to the fullest permissible extent the intent of the parties and the GTC's purposes.
11. Limitations of Liability
You are giving up any right you might have to commence or participate in any class or group litigation or proceeding against GIC. GIC reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest without notice.
12. Links
While GIC welcomes links to our site from other websites, we, in no way, operate, control or endorse linking sites and reserve the right to disallow any such link at any time in our sole discretion. Should you wish to link to our site, you must link to the Contest home page.
13. No Third-Party Beneficiaries
A person who is not a party to this GTC has no rights under this GTC.
14. Governing Law
This GTC shall be governed by the laws of New York, without regard to the conflict or choice-of-law principles thereof.
15. Travel and Events
To compete at the Contest Global Final Competition or the Regional Final Competitions, the Contest candidate may require a visa to travel to the related countries or regions. It is each candidate’s own responsibility to apply for the visa to the extent necessary and bear all related expenses by himself or herself. If a finalist applicant fails to attend any competition event in person for any reason, his/her finalist position might be deemed forfeited and GIC shall have full discretion to nominate another qualified candidate as replacement.
16. Personal information protection
We will abide by relevant laws and regulations, and take corresponding security measures to ensure that information security protection reaches a reasonable level of security, so as to prevent personal information from being illegally accessed, copied, modified, transmitted, destroyed, processed or otherwise accidentally and without authorization.