FlutterFlow AI for Good Hackathon Official Rules 

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. CONTEST IS OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND WORLDWIDE, EXCEPT FOR MEXICO, ITALY, BRAZIL, QUEBEC, AND COUNTRIES CURRENTLY UNDER EXPORT SANCTIONS BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (INCLUDING CRIMEA, CUBA, IRAN, SYRIA, NORTH KOREA, SUDAN, RUSSIA, DONETSK, AND LUHANSK). 

ENTRY IN THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES.

 

The FlutterFlow AI for Good Hackathon (the “Contest”) is a skill contest where participants (“Participants” or “entrant”) must build 1 core user flow in FlutterFlow aligned with the AI for Good theme. The app that you develop will be evaluated by judges, who will choose the winner(s) in accordance with these Official Rules. The prize(s) will be awarded to participant(s) with the highest score for the judging criteria.  See below for the complete details.

1. BINDING AGREEMENT: In order to enter the Contest, you must agree to these Official Rules (“Rules”). Therefore, please read these Rules prior to entry to ensure you understand and agree. You agree that submission of an entry in the Contest constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit an entry to the Contest and are not eligible to receive the prizes described in these Rules unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and FlutterFlow with respect to the Contest.

2. ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible to enter the Contest, you must be: (1) above the age of majority in the country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence (or at least twenty years old in Taiwan) at the time of entry; (2) not a resident of Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Quebec, or any country currently under export sanctions by the United States government (including Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or Sudan); (3) not a person or entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions; and (4) have access to the Internet as of 7/29/24. Contest is void in Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Quebec, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Russia, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk and where prohibited by law. Employees, interns, contractors, and official office-holders of FlutterFlow and their parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, advertising and promotion agencies, representatives, and agents (“Contest Entities”), and members of the Contest Entities’ and their immediate families (parents, siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each, regardless of where they live) and members of the households (whether related or not) of such employees, officers and directors are ineligible to participate in this Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time.

If you are entering as part of a company or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and/or your employer.  If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a prize.  You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer’s or company’s policies and procedures.   

3. SPONSOR: The Contest is sponsored by FlutterFlow, Inc.  (“Sponsor”), a Delaware corporation with principal place of business at 607 W Dana Street Ste A Mountain View, CA 94041.

4. CONTEST PERIOD: The Contest begins at 12:00:00 A.M. Pacific Time (PT) Zone in the United States on 7/29/24 and ends at 11:59:59 P.M. PT on 8/25/24 (“Contest Period”). ENTRANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE CORRESPONDING TIME ZONE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS.

5. HOW TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. To enter the Contest, visit hackathon.ffdc.io (“Contest Site”) during the Contest Period and follow the instructions for developing and submitting a FlutterFlow app core user-flow built with FlutterFlow (available at https://app.flutterflow.io//) that utilizes AI and is aligned with the “for good” theme of making a positive impact (“Submission”). You must submit your entry via the official form on Contest Site. The Submission must: be created with FlutterFlow and be licensed with an appropriate open source license (BSD aka University of California license, MIT license or Apache 2.0 license are recommended) (hereinafter, “Requirements”).  Written parts of entries must be in English to be eligible.  The Submission must, at a minimum, support English language use.

 

LIMIT ONE (1) ENTRY PER PERSON or Team. Subsequent or updated entries will be permitted up until the end of the Contest Period, but any entries or updates submitted after the Contest Period will be disqualified, meaning that any updates to entries submitted after the Contest Period will not be considered. All entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. (PT) on 8/25/2024.  Entries are void if they are in whole or part illegible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late. All entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry, and the potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder for that email address. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person assigned to an email address by an Internet service provider, online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email address for the domain.

 

During the Contest Period, the Sponsor, its agents and/or the Judges (defined below) will be evaluating each Submission to ensure that it meets the Requirements.  The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant who submits a Submission that does not meet the Requirements. 

 

6. JUDGING: The winner and two runner-ups will be evaluated by a diverse panel comprising FlutterFlow employees. Audience Favorite category will be evaluated by public engagement. The competition involves four primary categories of judgment:

  • Impact
    • What is the project’s potential for positive impact and contribution to the greater good?
  • Technical implementation
    • How effectively has the team implemented the idea using FlutterFlow and AI?
  • Design
    • How well-designed and visually appealing is the project?
  • Creativity
    • How creative is the project’s concept and implementation?

Expert Judging Panel: During the week of August 25, 2024, our expert judging panel will conduct the first round of evaluations, carefully assessing each submission based on the following criteria:

  • Social Impact
  • Technical implementation
  • Design
  • Creativity

Each entry will be rated on a scale from 0 to 10 for each criterion, contributing to its total score.

Audience Favorite: This category relies on the public voting for the top apps via a Google Form which will be shared after 8/25/2024. Participants are encouraged to promote their projects to garner audience support.

Following the initial evaluation, the top submissions with the highest scores in each category from the expert judging panel will proceed to the final round. In this round, all judges will collaboratively review the finalists to determine the winning submissions.

Winners will be announced on or about September 17, 2024, and will be contacted via telephone and/or email, at the discretion of the Sponsor. It is the responsibility of each participant to ensure their contact information is accurate and up-to-date.

Potential winners may be required to sign and return a Declaration of Eligibility, Liability Release, and Publicity Release, as well as provide any additional information that may be required by the Sponsor. All required documents must be returned within four days of the notification attempt; failure to do so will result in forfeiture of the prize, and the next highest-scoring submission will be selected as the potential winner. In cases where the potential winner is a minor, all required documents must be signed and returned by their parent or legal guardian.

All decisions made by the judges are final and binding. In the unlikely event that no eligible entries are received, no prizes will be awarded.

7. PRIZES: 

Each of the three competition categories—Winner, two runner-ups, and audience award —will have the following prizes:

First Place (1 winner per category): $5,000 cash prize, and a feature at the FlutterFlow Developer Conference (FFDC) on September 17th and on FlutterFlow’s social media channels.

Runner-ups (2 per category): $2,500, 6 months of Pro FlutterFlow, swag

Audience Favorite: $2,000, 6 months of Pro FlutterFlow, swag

The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Contest Period and the skill of the entrants. Prizes will be distributed within approximately 8 weeks of the Sponsor receiving the final prize acceptance documents from the winners.Prizes are non-transferable, and no substitution or cash equivalent is allowed, except at the Sponsor's sole discretion. The Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize, in whole or in part, with another of equal or greater monetary value if a prize cannot be awarded as described for any reason.

The cash value of the prizes is subject to market conditions, which can fluctuate. Any difference between the actual market value and the advertised value will not be awarded.The winners are solely responsible for any costs, fees, taxes, or expenses associated with prize receipt, ownership, and/or use. All prize details are at the Sponsor's sole discretion.

Team Submissions: In the event that a team is selected as a winner, the prize money will be distributed equally among all registered team members, unless all members agree in writing to a different distribution before the prize is awarded. It is the responsibility of the winning team to decide how the prize will be allocated amongst its members.

Contest Entities make no warranties, and hereby disclaim any and all warranties, express or implied, concerning any prize furnished in connection with the Contest. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE PRIZES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND THE CONTEST ENTITIES HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

8. TAXES: PAYMENTS TO POTENTIAL WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO THE EXPRESS REQUIREMENT THAT THEY SUBMIT TO FLUTTERFLOW, INC. ALL DOCUMENTATION REQUESTED BY FLUTTERFLOW TO PERMIT IT TO COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE STATE, FEDERAL, LOCAL AND FOREIGN (INCLUDING PROVINCIAL) TAX REPORTING AND WITHHOLDING REQUIREMENTS. ALL PRIZES WILL BE NET OF ANY TAXES FLUTTERFLOW IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO WITHHOLD. ALL TAXES IMPOSED ON PRIZES ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WINNERS. In order to receive a prize, potential winners must submit the tax documentation requested by FlutterFlow, Inc. or otherwise required by applicable law, to FlutterFlow, Inc. or the relevant tax authority, all as determined by applicable law, including, where relevant, the law of the potential winner’s country of residence. The potential winner is responsible for ensuring that (s)he complies with all the applicable tax laws and filing requirements. If a potential winner fails to provide such documentation or comply with such laws, the prize may be forfeited and FlutterFlow may, in its sole discretion, select an alternative potential winner.

9. GENERAL CONDITIONS:  All federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations apply. FlutterFlow, Inc. reserves the right to disqualify any entrant from the Contest if, in FlutterFlow’s sole discretion, it reasonably believes that the entrant has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices or annoys, abuses, threatens or harasses any other entrants, FlutterFlow, or the Judges.  

10. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: By submitting a Submission in this Contest, the entrant warrants and represents that the Submission, including the programming and related material, is open source and is released subject to an appropriate open source license (BSD aka University of California license, MIT license or Apache 2.0 license are recommended) and not subject to the proprietary rights of any person or entity. If subjecting the Submission to an appropriate open source license fails for any reason, then the entrant warrants and represents that (s)he owns all of the intellectual and industrial property rights in and to the Submission.  Further, the entrant agrees that if any portion of the Submission should be deemed to be owned by the entrant that (s)he will, as a condition of entry, grant FlutterFlow a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, publicly perform, publicly display and create a derivative work from, any entry or Submission that Participant submits solely for the purposes of allowing FlutterFlow to test and evaluate the Submission for purposes of the Contest and to advertise, display, demonstrate, or otherwise promote the Submission in relation to the Contest (and future similar contests). Participant specifically agrees that FlutterFlow shall have the right for up to 12 months after the Contest Period to use, reproduce, publicly perform, and publicly display the Submission in connection with the advertising and promotion of the Contest (and future similar contests) and the application, via communication to the public or other groups, including, but not limited to the right to make screenshots, animations and video clips available for promotional purposes.

11. PRIVACY: Participant acknowledges and agrees that FlutterFlow may collect, store, share and otherwise use personally identifiable information provided during the registration process and the contest, including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. FlutterFlow will use this information in accordance with its Privacy Policy (https://flutterflow.io/pp.html), including for administering the contest and verifying Participant’s identity, postal address and telephone number in the event an entry qualifies for a prize. 

Participant’s information may also be transferred to countries outside the country of Participant's residence, including the United States.  Such other countries may not have privacy laws and regulations similar to those of the country of Participant's residence.

 Participant acknowledges and agrees that Participant’s data may be shared with co-sponsor. The use of the data by co-sponsor is subject to co-sponsor's privacy policy.

If a participant does not provide the mandatory data required at registration, FlutterFlow reserves the right to disqualify the entry. 

Participants have the right to request access, review, rectification or deletion of any personal data held by FlutterFlow in connection with the Contest by writing to FlutterFlow at this email address support@flutterflow.io.

12.  PUBLICITY.  By accepting a prize, entrant agrees to Sponsor and its agencies use of his or her name and/or likeness and Submission for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.

13. WARRANTY, INDEMNITY AND RELEASE: Entrants warrant that their Submissions are their own original work and, as such, they are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of the submitted Submission and that they have the right to submit the Submission in the Contest and grant all required licenses.  Each entrant agrees not to submit any Submission that (1) infringes any third party proprietary rights, intellectual property rights, industrial property rights, personal or moral rights or any other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity or confidentiality obligations; (2) otherwise violates the applicable state or federal law; (3) is derogatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, disparaging, libellous or contains any content that is inappropriate, indecent, sexual, profane, tortuous, slanderous, discriminatory in any way, or that promotes hatred or harm against any group or person, or otherwise does not comply with the theme and spirit of the contest; (4) contains any content, material or element that displays any third party advertising, slogan, logo, trademark, or representation of characters indicating an unauthorized sponsorship or endorsement by a third party or commercial entity or that is not within the spirit of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion; (5) contains, incorporates or otherwise uses any content, material or element that is owned by a third party or entity; (6) is the subject of any actual or threatened litigation or claim; or (7) includes any disparaging remarks relating to the Sponsor or a third party.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, each entrant indemnifies and agrees to keep indemnified Contest Entities at all times from and against any liability, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and expenses resulting from any act, default or omission of the entrant and/or a breach of any warranty set forth herein. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each entrant agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Contest Entities from and against any and all claims, actions, suits or proceedings, as well as any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) arising out of or accruing from: (a) any Submission or other material uploaded or otherwise provided by the entrant that infringes any copyright, trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual property right of any person or defames any person or violates their rights of publicity or privacy; (b) any misrepresentation made by the entrant in connection with the Contest; (c) any non-compliance by the entrant with these Rules; (d) claims brought by persons or entities other than the parties to these Rules arising from or related to the entrant’s involvement with the Contest; and (e) acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any prize or participation in any Contest-related activity or participation in this Contest.

Entrant releases FlutterFlow from any liability associated with: (a) any malfunction or other problem with the Contest Site; (b) any error in the collection, processing, or retention of entry information; or (c) any typographical or other error in the printing, offering or announcement of any prize or winners.

14. ELIMINATION: Any false information provided within the context of the Contest by any entrant concerning identity, mailing address, telephone number, email address, ownership of right or non-compliance with these Rules or the like may result in the immediate elimination of the entrant from the Contest.

15. INTERNET: Contest Entities are not responsible for any malfunction of the entire Contest Site or any late, lost, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, illegible, undeliverable, or destroyed Submissions or entry materials 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, typographical or system/human errors and failures, technical malfunction(s) of any telephone network or lines, cable connections, satellite transmissions, servers or providers, or computer equipment, traffic congestion on the Internet or at the Contest Site, or any combination thereof, including other telecommunication, cable, digital or satellite malfunctions which may limit an entrant’s ability to participate.

16.  RIGHT TO CANCEL, MODIFY OR DISQUALIFY.  If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Contest, FlutterFlow reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. FlutterFlow further reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who tampers with the submission process or any other part of the Contest or Contest Site.  Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any web site, including the Contest Site, or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, FlutterFlow reserves the right to seek damages from any such entrant to the fullest extent of the applicable law.

17. NOT AN OFFER OR CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT: Under no circumstances shall the submission of a Submission into the Contest, the awarding of a prize, or anything in these Rules be construed as an offer or contract of employment with either FlutterFlow, or the Contest Entities. You acknowledge that you have submitted your Submission voluntarily and not in confidence or in trust. You acknowledge that no confidential, fiduciary, agency or other relationship or implied-in-fact contract now exists between you and FlutterFlow or the Contest Entities and that no such relationship is established by your submission of a Submission under these Rules.

18. FORUM AND RECOURSE TO JUDICIAL PROCEDURES: These Rules shall be governed by, subject to, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States of America, excluding all conflict of law rules. If any provision(s) of these Rules are held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions hereof will remain in full force and effect. To the extent permitted by law, the rights to litigate, seek injunctive relief or make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes or claims resulting from or in connection with this Contest are hereby excluded, and all Participants expressly waive any and all such rights.

19. ARBITRATION: By entering the Contest, you agree that exclusive jurisdiction for any dispute, claim, or demand related in any way to the Contest will be decided by binding arbitration. All disputes between you and FlutterFlow of whatsoever kind or nature arising out of these Rules, shall be submitted to Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. (“JAMS”) for binding arbitration under its rules then in effect in the San Jose, California, USA area, before one arbitrator to be mutually agreed upon by both parties. The parties agree to share equally in the arbitration costs incurred.

20. WINNER’S LIST: You may request a list of winners after 8/25/24 but before 02/25/25 by send a self addressed stamped envelope to:

FlutterFlow, Inc

607 W Dana Street Ste A Mountain View, CA 94041

 

(Residents of Vermont need not supply postage)