Rules of the Awards Competition: Best Solution of the Year
Organizer/Sponsor
The competition is organised by a company Photoneo s. r. o., Plynárenská 6, 821 09 Bratislava, Slovakia, ID No. (IČO): 47 353 309, registered with the Commercial Registry of District Court Bratislava I, Section: Sro, File No.: 91452/B (“Photoneo” or “Organiser”), email: marketing@photoneo.com, tel number: [+421 948 766 598], supervised by Slovak Trade Inspection, Bajkalská 21/A, P. O. BOX č. 5, 820 07 Bratislava, Slovakia, email: ba@soi.sk.
Dates of the competition
The competition will be open starting 18.07.2021. After the official announcement by Photoneo on their web page www.photoneo.com, the competition is considered open. The collection of the applications will be open for 3 weeks from the day of the official start of the competition. After 3 weeks, the competition will be officially closed and Photoneo will commence with the evaluation of the applications. The evaluation of the applications will be completed within one week after the official closing of the competition. The results will be announced on the Photoneo Awards web page and social media after judges select the winner. The winner will be notified by Photoneo.
Eligibility
Eligible for participation in the competition are natural persons with the legal capacity to enter the competition that are older than 16 years (“Applicants”). The individuals affiliated with the Organiser, i.e. Photoneo employees, contractors or representatives or their close persons as defined under Sec. 116 of Act No. 40/1964 Coll., the Civil Code, as amended are not eligible for the competition. All Applicants must comply with the Rules of the competition and Photoneo reserves the right to disqualify any Applicant that is not eligible or does not comply with these Rules.
Entry into the Awards Competition
To enter the competition, one must fill out the form at www.photoneo.com. All questions in the form are compulsory and have to be filled out properly. Applications generated by script, macro, mechanical, or other automated means and applications which by any means subvert the application process and these Rules of Competition are void. Photoneo reserves the right to disqualify the Applicant in case all questions are not filled out properly or sufficiently enough as defined above. After submitting the filled out form, one is officially registered for the competition. Only solutions that were delivered to customers in the years 2023 or 2024 and were not yet published at https://www.photoneo.com/use-cases/applications/ will be considered.
Evaluation of the entries and selection of the winner
After the closing of the competition, a panel of judges will review each case study and compare them with each other. The selection will be based on the consensus of the judging panel and in order for it to be considered valid, all judges will have to pass judgment/give a vote. The panel will consist of 5 judges who have a strong background in vision and automation fields. The winning solution/case study has to receive a total of 3 votes at a minimum. The results will be announced on the Photoneo web page and social media. After the announcement of the winner Photoneo team will contact the winner via their application email address/contact details and finalise the handover of the prize. If there is no response from the winner to Photoneo notification in the defined time period or the winner will not take over the prize in the defined time period, Photoneo reserves the right to pass the prize to the Applicant selected in the second place. This shall not constitute any right for compensation for the winner.
Prize
The winner of the competition will have the opportunity to select one device from the Photoneo product range, specifically from the available 3D scanners and MotionCam-3D cameras. The selected device must not exceed a total value of 16,000 € (sixteen thousand euros). Should the winner choose a device whose value is less than 16,000 €, the winner will not be entitled to receive the remaining balance in cash, credit, or any other form. The selected device prize is non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash or any other products or services beyond the specified Photoneo product range. The decision regarding the selection and awarding of the device will be final and binding as per the competition's terms and conditions. Demo Device conditions apply.
Use of Personal Data and Intellectual Property
Any data submitted with the application that constitutes personal data, such as name, surname, email address, filled out data from the submission forms are processed under the terms defined in Photoneo Privacy Policy based on the consent of the Applicant or legal obligations of the Organiser (where applicable).
If any of the activities, data, or materials submitted by the Applicant in the competition shall be protected by the applicable intellectual property law (as “work” subject to copyright or otherwise), the Applicant agrees by entering the competition under these Rules that such works or any part thereof are used by Photoneo free of charge for promotional and marketing communication and purposes without any restriction (as regards the substantive and territorial scope) for all uses known.
Law
The competition is organised under Slovak law. The competition has a promotional character and is not considered a gambling game under Slovak law. The competition is void where prohibited by local law. Pursuant to Sec. 845 of Act No. 40/1964 Coll., the Civil Code, as amended, the Applicants or winners have no title to recover the prize.
All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation, and enforceability of the Rules of Competition or the rights and obligations as between the Applicant and the Organiser in connection with the competition shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Slovak law.
These Rules may be subject to change that will be duly notified at Organiser’s webpage www.photoneo.com.