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Every application receives scores and comments from five Evaluation Panel Judges. Scores are normalized to ensure a Level Playing Field for everyone. Please review carefully the traits the judges will use to score your application.

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Why Water Innovation?

The New Arizona Prize aims to create the Arizona of tomorrow, a place where innovation thrives, where ingenuity is supported, and where the best thinking is harnessed to create long-term solutions to persistent needs, including safeguarding our precious water resources. The following references may help you develop your application based on facts cited from credible sources.

Rules

Thank you for your interest in the Water Innovation Challenge. By participating in this Competition and in accordance with these Rules you are eligible to receive various forms of recognition and a possible cash Prize of $250,000 for your winning Entry, in the form of a grant from the Arizona Community Foundation. Please read the following Rules and Terms & Conditions carefully.

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As you participate, you may periodically be asked to recognize your acceptance of these RULES and the Terms by clicking "accept" at various pages on this website, but by continuing any use of this website you expressly consent to all of these RULES and the Terms. The Rules governing this competition are stated here as an extension of theTerms for use of this website. The full Terms are available for your review by accessing them at the foot of various pages on this website. The RULES constitute "Competition Terms and Conditions" under Clause 2.3 of the Terms. Capitalized words used but not defined in the RULES have meanings given to them in the Terms.

1. Subject to the limitations set out herein and in the Terms, any individual representing an organization, business entity (such as a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, nonprofit agency, etc.), government or public agency may participate (“You”). Employees of the Arizona Community Foundation, as the Competition Host, RAMPIT, and any of their subsidiaries and/or affiliates of those entities and their immediate family members (spouse, parent, child, sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees from those entities, are not eligible. You must complete registration to participate. Individuals representing organizations, business entities, government or public agencies must be 18 years of age or older to participate. You can neither reside in nor be governed by countries that are prohibited by law, regulation (including United States or other applicable export laws and regulations), treaty or administrative act from entering into trade relations (including export of technology) with the United States of America or its citizens.

2. Your Entry should meet the application requirements stipulated on this website. You are required to register in advance of any deadlines for the submission of an Entry, and You must comply with all other deadlines and other information posted on this website. Your Entry may not contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, or sexually explicit content; any content that violates privacy or other third-party rights or any otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content may be grounds for termination. Further, Your Entry may not involve work to be conducted, or monies to be expended, in countries that are prohibited by law, regulation (including United States or other applicable export laws and regulations), treaty or administrative act from entering into trade relations (including export of technology) with the United States or its citizens.

3. The Content created or provided by You must be your own. You represent and warrant that your Entry is an original work created solely by You, that You or Your represented organization, business entity, government or public agency own all Intellectual Property in and to the Entry, and that no other party has any right, title, claim or interest in the Entry, except as expressly identified by You to us in writing.

4. You may participate by registering, and You may not register more than one true and uniform identity; multiple registrations for any participant using multiple identities are not allowed. We reserve the right to disqualify any Entry made by a participant violating this limitation, regardless of whether all of the respective parties had knowledge of such violation.

5. The application requirements for your Entry are clearly described on this website. Your Entry will be reviewed initially by five Judges (Evaluation Panel members), who will be randomly assigned to score your Entry using the scoring rubric and judging criteria that are also described on this website. In cases where an Evaluation Panel member indicates any potential conflict of interest, the Entry may be assigned to another Evaluation Panel member. Those Evaluation Panel members will be responsible for scoring and providing feedback to your Entry. All Judges are permitted to communicate with Participants solely for the purposes of carrying out due diligence for evaluating your Entry and assigning values during any review process.

6. Once the rank order of Entries has been calculated by those scores, the top Competitors will be presented before a separate group of Judges (Selection Committee). Those Selection Committee members will meet to review and discuss the top Entries and will determine a Winner using an internal process that may or may not involve the Trait Scoring Rubric and normalization routines described on this website. At least one of the Evaluation Panel members assigned to score the total pool of Competitors will be independent of the Arizona Community Foundation, and at least one member of the Selection Committee will be independent of the Arizona Community Foundation.

7. By submitting an application, you agree to the Arizona Community Foundation’s and RAMPIT’s ability to publicize any portion of your submission (text, graphics, photos, videos, etc.) in an effort to market the competition, the entries, and ultimately the winners, and to promote Arizona Community Foundation. This includes but is not limited to posting elements of your submission on social media channels, sharing them with traditional and social media outlets for potential publication, posting to the Arizona Community Foundation or other related websites, etc. The license to your submission granted herein is perpetual and royalty-free.

8. Should You be selected as the Winner, a $250,000 grant (subject to terms specified in a separate grant agreement with the Arizona Community Foundation) may be awarded to You, so long as your eligibility and compliance with these Rules are confirmed by the Arizona Community Foundation. The winning team may also receive up to $50,000 in technical assistance from the WaterNow Alliance, an operating division of T4CI, also known as the Trust for Conservation Innovation, to support and accelerate the development and implementation of their winning solution. It may be determined other finalists who achieve funding may be eligible for technical assistance resources from the WaterNow Alliance after the competition ends. You may not submit any petitions for a division of the Prize, beyond those terms which will be included in the grant agreement. If the Prize is awarded to a team of participants, then the team will designate a team leader, and that organization, business entity, government or public agency will be responsible for negotiating the terms of the Grant Agreement with the Arizona Community Foundation. If the team consists of a wide variety of organization, business, government or public agency types, then the team must be represented by those with the legal authority to negotiate on behalf of the team to execute a grant agreement with the Arizona Community Foundation. The Winner will be announced on this website and on the Arizona Community Foundation’s website.

9. While RAMPIT, LLC (“RAMPIT”) is providing an online platform for your participation, RAMPIT is not responsible for the payment of any Prize. Payment of a Prize is the sole responsibility of the Arizona Community Foundation, and under the Terms each participant has agreed to look solely to the Arizona Community Foundation for the payment of any Prize. Please note that the Winner of a Prize may be subject to certain taxes. Under the Terms, any Winner of a Prize will be solely responsible for paying such taxes. Neither the Arizona Community Foundation, as the Competition Host, nor RAMPIT and/or its affiliates will accept responsibility for paying such taxes.

10. By submitting your Entry, you agree to release, discharge and hold harmless the Arizona Community Foundation and its partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors and representatives from any Loss arising out of your participation in the Water Innovation Challenge and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any Prize. The Arizona Community Foundation assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Competition entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. The Arizona Community Foundation is not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrants’ or any other persons’ computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to this Competition.

11. THIS COMPETITION IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Entrants agree that this Competition shall be subject to and governed by the laws of the United States of America. To the extent permitted by law, the right to litigate, to seek injunctive relief, or to make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedures in case of disputes or claims resulting from or in connection with this Competition are hereby excluded and any entrant expressly waives any and all such rights. Certain restrictions may apply.

12. If for any reason the Competition is prohibited from running as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, Trojan horses, denial of service, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of RAMPIT and/or the Arizona Community Foundation that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Competition, the Arizona Community Foundation reserves the right to disqualify any Users who may tamper with the process, or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Competition.

13. The Arizona Community Foundation, as the Competition Host, reserves the right to disqualify any participant who violates these RULES, the Terms and any standards of behavior expressed or implied in them. We look forward to receiving your most thoughtful and creative Entry.

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You may contact us with any questions or comments about these RULES.
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You may reach us directly at: info@azprizes.org

The Competition Host is the Arizona Community Foundation, with a place of business at:

2201 East Camelback Road, Suite 405B, Phoenix, Arizona 85016.

A Level Playing Field

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Once an application has been submitted, a minimum of five Evaluation Panel members will be assigned to score each submission. Those judges will offer both scores and comments against each of four distinct traits. Each trait will be scored on a 0-5 point scale, in increments of 0.1. Those scores will combine to produce a total normalized score. Examples of possible scores for a trait are… 1.4, 3.7, etc.

The most straightforward way to ensure that everyone is treated by the same set of standards would be to have the same judges score every application; unfortunately, due to the number of applications that we may receive, that is not possible.

Since the same judges will not score every application, the question of fairness needs to be explained carefully. One judge scoring an application may take a more critical view, giving any assigned candidate a range of scores only between 1.0 and 2.0, as an example; meanwhile, another judge may be more generous and want to score every submission between 4.0 and 5.0.

For illustrative purposes, let’s look at the scores from two hypothetical judges:

The first judge is far more generous, as a scorer, than the second judge, who gives much lower scores. If your application was rated by the first judge, it would earn a much higher total score than if it was assigned to the second judge.

We have a way to address this issue. We ensure that no matter which judges are assigned to you, each application will be treated fairly. To do this, we utilize a mathematical technique relying on two measures of distribution, the mean and the standard deviation.

The mean takes all the scores assigned by a judge, adds them up, and divides them by the number of scores assigned, giving an average score.

Formally, we denote the mean like this:

The standard deviation measures the “spread” of a judge’s scores. As an example, imagine that two judges both give the same mean (average) score, but one gives many zeros and fives, while the other gives more ones and fours. It wouldn't be fair, if we didn’t consider this difference.

Formally, we denote the standard deviation like this:

To ensure that the judging process is fair, we rescale all the scores to match the judging population. In order to do this, we measure the mean and the standard deviation of all scores across all judges. Then, we change the mean score and the standard deviation of each judge to match.

We rescale the standard deviation like this:

Then, we rescale mean like this:

Basically, we are finding the difference between both distributions for a single judge and those for all of the judges combined, then adjusting each score so that no one is treated unfairly according to which judges they are assigned.

If we apply this rescaling process to the same two judges in the example above, we can see the outcome of the final resolved and normalized scores. They appear more similar, because they are now aligned with typical distributions across the total judging population.

We are pleased to answer any questions you have about the scoring process. You are able to ask questions related to the scoring process on the discussion forums once you register and begin developing your application.

INNOVATE TO SHAPE ARIZONA’S WATER FUTURE

The Arizona Community Foundation, Republic Media and ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy are pleased to announce the next challenge being offered under The New Arizona Prize. The Water Innovation Challenge will award a $250,000 prize to a collaborative team in an Arizona community that develops the most innovative and scalable market-based, technological or entrepreneurial solution to advance the sustainability of its water future. In addition, the winning team may also receive up to $50,000 in technical assistance from the WaterNow Alliance to support and accelerate the development and implementation of their winning solution. “Community” may be defined as a town or city, county, tribal area, or an entire region.

Solutions must be scalable to address the defined community’s needs and, if successful, should also be replicable in other Arizona communities. Community collaborations are required, and new, pilot and shovel-ready projects will be accepted.

Teams should be comprised of community/citizen leaders, local government or elected officials, colleges/universities, a business association (i.e., local chamber of commerce) or a leading company based in the community, the local water provider, local nonprofit leaders, and if rural, an agricultural or ranching cooperative/association or a leading agricultural business or ranch.

Teams should have the authority, organizational and community support to execute their proposed solution.

It is critical that teams be comprised of members who have the professional authority and organizational/community support to execute the proposed solution at the community level. Because government participation, agreement and/or formal approval may be necessary in order to implement the solution, teams are required to have at least one government partner to ensure that the proposed solution represents the broader community and has the necessary backing for successful implementation and/or expansion.

The innovations possible are wide-ranging, and a few examples include water collection and reuse, wastewater management, water banking and trading, water efficiency improvements, water apps and smart technology centered on conservation or reuse and innovative pricing algorithms. Refer to the Rules for additional details.

About The New Arizona Prize

The New Arizona Prize, a philanthropic prize competition aimed at attracting new and innovative thinking to solve some of Arizona’s most pressing problems, was launched in 2014. The first challenge offered under The New Arizona Prize banner was the Water Consciousness Challenge and the $100,000 prize purse went to Beyond the Mirage, a team of videographers and marketers from the University of Arizona and Arizona Public Media. Their winning idea is a three-part, consciousness-raising digital strategy that includes an interactive web experience designed to educate and engage Arizonans about our water future, a full-length documentary film airing this spring on public television, and a classroom educational component. Learn more about their winning program at www.beyondthemirage.org.

Application

To apply, first, Register. Then, create your submission using the application guidelines below. There are three sections in the application: Your Team, Your Solution, and Resource Requirements. Please be sure to carefully review the entire application before beginning your submission.

Application Guidelines

The New Arizona Prize: Water Innovation Challenge will award $250,000 to a collaborative team in an Arizona community that develops the most innovative and inventive market-based, technological or entrepreneurial solution to advance the sustainability of its water future. In addition, the winning team may also receive up to $50,000 in technical assistance from the WaterNow Alliance to support and accelerate the development and implementation of their winning solution.

Solutions must be scalable to address an entire Arizona town/city, county, tribe, or region’s needs, and – if successful – solutions should be replicable in other Arizona communities. Community collaborations are required, and new, pilot, and shovel-ready projects are all acceptable. Teams may be comprised of community/citizen leaders, local government, or elected officials, colleges/universities, a business association (i.e., chambers of commerce) or a leading company based in the community, local water providers, local nonprofit leaders, and – if rural – agricultural or ranching cooperatives/associations, or a leading agricultural business or ranch.

We welcome a range of other public and private partnerships and encourage you to build a team that includes one principal organization (either for-profit or nonprofit) that is prepared to enter into a grant agreement with the Arizona Community Foundation for $250,000 in order to implement the proposed solution. Every team must include at least one government (state, county, or municipal) partner.

Please take time to read all of the following application requirements before completing each section.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (150 words)

Provide a 150-word summary of the problem and the solution your team is offering. Focus on delivering a compelling overview that engages the judges. If your team is accepted as a Finalist, your Executive Summary, along with other portions of your submission, may be extracted from the application and used in public communications to describe your concept. Therefore, your Executive Summary should not require any other context to explain clearly what your team is offering. This is your opportunity to make a strong first impression.

A. YOUR TEAM

The following information is required in order to capture a basic understanding of the leadership, structure, vision, and capabilities of your team.

TEAM LEADERSHIP

Each team must identify a specific Point of Contact who will serve as the team leader. The Point of Contact takes responsibility for completing the application and assumes final accountability for the content of the team’s completed application. The Point of Contact may delegate responsibilities to others but will act as the primary lead, coordinating responses to any questions and having knowledge of all decisions made by the team.

YOUR POINT OF CONTACT

Please provide the name and title of your Point of Contact. If your team does not use formal titles, then the Point of Contact may simply indicate “team leader” and later describe how that role relates to other partners or team members. While one person may be a member of or adviser to multiple teams, each team’s Point of Contact must be unique and no one person can serve as the Point of Contact for more than one team. While the Point of Contact’s organization may be responsible for sharing resources with other partners, s/he must have a working knowledge of the roles of each partner and must be authorized to speak on behalf of those partners. Please only designate a Point of Contact from the organization that would potentially be responsible for entering into a grant agreement with the Arizona Community Foundation for the $250,000 prize purse.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Please provide phone number(s), email address(es), and a physical address for the designated Point of Contact. The information will not be used for any purpose other than direct communication about the competition from the Prize sponsor (the Arizona Community Foundation). Please only provide information that allows the Prize sponsor to contact the team leader directly.

TEAM COMPOSITION & STRUCTURE

Teams must collaborate to develop the most innovative and inventive market-based, technological, or entrepreneurial solution, to advance the sustainability of the defined community’s water future. Teams may be comprised of community/citizen leaders, local government or elected officials, colleges/universities, a business association (i.e., chambers of commerce) or a leading company based in the community, local water providers, local nonprofit leaders, and – if rural – agricultural or ranching cooperatives/associations, or a leading agricultural business or ranch. We welcome a range of other public and private partnerships and encourage you to build a team that includes one principal organization (either for-profit or nonprofit) that is prepared to enter into a grant agreement with the Arizona Community Foundation for $250,000 in order to implement the proposed solution. Every team must include at least one government (state, county or municipal) partner.

To further define these terms:

Public partners may include government (county or state) agencies, municipalities, and/or elected officials. Examples include the mayor, mayor’s staff or other designee, city manager, elected tribal leader, town or city council member, county supervisor, and other similar roles where the individual represents a state, county, municipal or tribal district in a governing capacity. Public partners may also include public water resources, community utility representatives, or private companies with controlling authority over public infrastructure.
Private partners may include community/citizen leaders and representatives of a wide range of organizational types, including for-profit businesses, nonprofit organizations, business associations, ranching cooperatives and agricultural operations.

AUTHORITY TO ACT (250 words)

It is critical that your team be comprised of members who have the professional authority and organizational/community support to execute the proposed solution at the community level. Because government participation, agreement and/or formal approval may be necessary in order to implement the solution, each team is required to have at least one government partner to ensure that the proposed solution represents the broader community and has the necessary backing for successful implementation and/or expansion.

Please indicate in narrative form how your team has been organized to achieve these objectives, including each member’s name, professional title and affiliation, their role on the team, and their level of authority in the community and with respect to the proposed solution. Describe why each partner was chosen, the specific structure of any relevant partnerships where that structure has a material impact on the proposed solution, and any informal relationships that exist between partners. Describe how your team will be managed on a daily basis to plan, develop and gain the consensus needed in order to implement the proposed solution if chosen as the winner.

HOW WAS YOUR TEAM FORMED? (200 words)

Please tell how the team was formed, describing how the leaders came together and under what circumstances the most critical partners agreed jointly to develop the proposed solution. Emphasize where any longstanding relationships may imply stability and strength among the partners, and showcase as necessary where new relationships have emerged and under what conditions any new partners agreed to participate. We are seeking teams that offer innovative and inventive proposals to achieve scalable solutions, and we define innovative as either new and breakthrough concepts or tried and tested methods that, when applied in new and interesting ways, will yield greater results. Explain how your team is positioned to offer either of those approaches based on the relationships between the partners.

LETTERS OF SUPPORT (OPTIONAL)

The Water Innovation Challenge seeks engagement and support from a broad array of community stakeholders. Among the many local community leaders you assemble for your submission, it is important that your elected state representatives are aware of your plans and support the water innovation you are proposing. While this is not mandatory – and letters of support, or the lack thereof, will not in any way influence judging and scoring – teams are encouraged to solicit them so that your elected state representatives have the opportunity to be informed and engaged with your team’s vision for a sustainable water future. If you are able to secure letters of support, please upload them with your other submission materials. If you were unable to secure letters of support, please upload a letter explaining the reason you were given for why your state representative(s) chose not to provide a letter, or, indicate that you did not request them. To reiterate: letters of support from elected state representatives, or lack thereof, will not in any way influence judging and scoring.

B. YOUR SOLUTION

In this section, you will focus on the details of your proposed solution, emphasizing how your proposed solution aligns with the four traits that will be used to score your application (see Trait Scoring Rubric). You will be asked to define the underlying problem that your solution is designed to address in your community and how your solution offers enduring and meaningful progress toward your community’s sustainable water future. You will also be asked to underscore both the specific strengths of your solution and how it represents broader potential to achieve results beyond the initial proposed implementation.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Each team must start with a clear understanding of a problem that currently inhibits a sustainable water future. To achieve a deeper understanding of your solution, aim to convince our judges that you can articulate the problem you propose to address. Show that you understand the underlying environmental and economic challenges before explaining how you intend to address them. Explain the circumstances that led to the problem and set the stage for how your proposed solution will offer meaningful change.

LOCAL CONDITIONS (200 words)

Please provide a broad description of the specific problem in your defined community that you will address through your team’s proposed solution. Show that you understand specific operational or tactical hurdles that you are ready to overcome in the defined community. This is your opportunity to reveal the depth of your appreciation of local issues and how you will work through local partnerships to implement the solution.

Offer an explanation of the current resources that are available to address the water challenge. Explain any previous attempts to address your community’s water challenge as described in your Problem Statement and why the challenge persists within the current environment.

ADAPTABILITY (200 words)

Now that you’ve established the specific local conditions in which you plan to implement your proposed solution and why, please provide a broad description of the statewide challenges that your solution might resolve. Explain clearly the degree to which your proposed solution could be adapted for implementation in other towns/cities, counties, tribes, or regions across Arizona, or throughout the entire state, if applicable. Offer an explanation of the current resources that are available across Arizona to make implementation and expansion a reality.

YOUR TECHNICAL APPROACH

Provide a description of your underlying strategy and the specific scope of any proposed project plan(s).

YOUR STRATEGY (200 words)

Briefly describe the operating principles you will employ to address the water challenge. Why have you chosen this particular solution, and what does your team feel represents the best argument for why this technical approach deserves funding over potential alternatives? Focus on the broader goals that you seek to achieve before describing any tactical or operational plans you will employ. Your explanation should provide a core philosophy behind the solution in order to illustrate the guiding principles or factors that may differentiate your technical approach from other competing teams or solution providers.

YOUR TACTICS & TECHNOLOGY (250 words)

Explain exactly how you will deliver and implement the proposed solution and the circumstances in which you will you achieve optimal results. Judges are looking for strong signs that you have the talent, resources, and expertise to execute your plan. You are welcome to cite any previous experience or noteworthy achievements that may demonstrate your team’s ability to successfully deliver promised results. Be as specific as possible.

PROJECT PLANNING

In this section, you are asked to list the activities or core tasks that you must complete to implement and manage your solution. Please focus on those core tasks that best represent the larger goals of your project plans rather than detailed lists of minor tasks. This exercise is important for the judges to understand how you will implement your approach and to assess the feasibility of your delivery/implementation model. Where possible, describe tasks that complement the tactics and technology that you have previously described in the application.

· The following tool will help you document your plans. It requires you to indicate core tasks by number and name. You will be assessed based on the level of detail you are able to provide. Be sure to identify any subtasks that will support primary core tasks. Again, do not focus on details that do not represent the achievement of larger goals.

· Please list each core task chronologically by entering start dates and end dates accordingly.

· For tasks that start at the same time, please begin with the most essential core tasks and continue the list in order of importance.

DEFINING YOUR OBJECTIVES (250 words)

Describe the specific outputs and intended outcomes of your proposed solution, utilizing common water terms (e.g., savings, banking, managing, planning, and/or controlling usage, flow, storage, etc.). You are asked to describe two measures of your performance goals, so that the judges can better understand what you intend to measure:

· Outputs are the most direct measures of a process or activity (e.g., numbers served, units produced, volumes of service or product, etc.). Name your most important outputs and in the strategic sequence in which they will be derived. Explain why those outputs are indicators of your success.

· Outcomes are the direct results of a sustained project, including long-term effects and results and/or any related products or services, within the control of the sustained project, service, or intervention. Outcomes may be expected or unwanted. Therefore, describe any intended benefits of your outcomes and include any expected outcomes which might dilute or detract from those intended benefits.

Explain these two measures of your performance goals in a clear narrative description.

PERFORMANCE METRICS AND TRACKING (250 words)

Describe how you will calculate performance metrics and the methodology through which you will track your progress against those metrics. While each solution will vary according to specific goals and individual definitions of success, our judges will assess your description of your metrics and your plan to track progress and report on performance. To the greatest extent possible, use precision in predicting results and be realistic about your methods and resources for tracking success in achieving those results.

OTHER SUPPORT (150 words)

Teams are encouraged to seek support and expertise within or outside of their community. Describe the use of any volunteers, advisers, research or other in-kind resources by defining those contributions against relevant tasks identified in the project plan. Your description of any necessary project support is intended to show where difficult tasks will be supported through means other than funding. In your response, you may refer to partnership(s) that have been previously identified.

PROJECT RISK MANAGEMENT (250 words)

Please describe any threats to the proposed solution and your plan to address them. While every project plan is different, we expect you to raise all assumptions of risk and address how you intend to manage it.

VIDEO PITCH

You are required to submit a video presentation which captures your “pitch” for why your solution should be funded. You will upload a short digital film to serve as a “commercial” for your solution. Your video may be extracted from your submission and may made available to the public through this website or other media if you are chosen as a Finalist. Please appeal to a broad audience. Video submissions should follow these guidelines:

A length of approximately 30-120 seconds (no more than 2 minutes).
One person (two, at maximum) should present him/herself during the video.
Focus on providing a personal connection; it is not necessary to produce a sophisticated video.
It is expected that your presentation will be in English, but if your team intends to present in another language please utilize technology that provides subtitles on the video so that our judges and the broadest segment of the audience can follow along.

Video submissions that do not follow these guidelines may be removed from the application.

Logistical and technical suggestions:

Video cameras, digital cameras, phones, or laptops are easy-to-use devices for recording video.
If possible, set to a low-resolution to reduce your file size; this enables easier video uploading.
If you are having difficulty uploading your video file, try logging out of the application and logging back in using another Internet browser (Google Chrome browser is preferred).

General suggestions for delivering a high-quality video pitch:

Introduce yourself and your organization and team.
What is the problem that you are committed to solving?
What is your proposed solution?
What is unique about your proposed solution?

Hone your content:

Keep your description and language simple.
Demonstrate passion through your words and enthusiasm.
Practice numerous times and solicit feedback from colleagues, family, and friends.

C. RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS

While the information that you provided in the previous sections is intended to reveal team composition, strategic and practical implementation plans for your solution, we also require other information necessary for our judges to assess the financial health and sustainability of your project.

FINANCIALS

Provide a detailed budget and narrative explaining how the $250,000 prize purse will be allocated toward the development and implementation of your proposed solution. If your total costs and capital needs exceed $250,000, please detail these resource requirements and project your total costs and capital needs. Please note that we anticipate some teams may have already secured other funding to support a project, and we are accommodating those situations by offering a tool for documenting any other capital contributions from other parties.

PROJECT COST

What is the total cost to implement your team’s solution within the timeframe revealed in your project plan? This includes capital (e.g. equipment, facilities) and operational (e.g. personnel, overhead, marketing) expenditures. Please list each cost category in the following table and provide notes for those cost categories that require further explanation at the end of the table. Please clarify whether each cost category is a capital expenditure or an operational expenditure. Also, please note that your total projected costs should equal $250,000, unless you have already secured additional capital that is exclusively dedicated to funding the solution. If you arrange additional funding to justify total costs greater than $250,000, those additional funding commitments must be represented in the TOTAL CAPITAL NEEDS section of your application (see below).

TOTAL CAPITAL NEEDS

Please indicate the amount of funding secured to date, if any. Enter the source of any secured funding as line item description(s) in the following table. Also, please indicate any remaining capital required to implement the proposal. Identify this amount by entering “OUTSTANDING CAPITAL” in the last line item description. The amount of “OUTSTANDING CAPITAL” should not be greater than $250,000, which is the total maximum amount of the prize purse available through this competition. If “OUTSTANDING CAPITAL” exceeds $250,000, you must provide a clear explanation for how you plan to secure the balance of any necessary funds in the OTHER CONSIDERATIONS section of your application (see below). Please note that for some teams this chart may only include one line item (OUTSTANDING CAPITAL of $250,000) if no additional funds have been raised or will be needed.

ADAPTATION AND PROJECTIONS (250 words)

Explain how your team’s solution could be replicated or adapted in other communities or across all of Arizona and the resources and conditions required to do so. Describe the steps a community would need to take and the primary principles leaders would need to adhere to in order to implement this same solution in their local community. Project, to the best of your ability, how your proposed solution could grow and/or increase in effectiveness over time across other communities and at what costs. You may refer to previous content that you have provided under “Adaptability” to make your most succinct but evidence-based response. However, please go further in this section by rooting your projections in the costs necessary to adapt your solution from one community to another.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS (150 words)

The implementation of your solution may require other resources or partnerships, and you are welcome to explain them here. You may offer any contingency planning based on specific issues raised in the risk section of your proposal. This is also your opportunity to describe more completely any outstanding issues that you could not address in other sections, such as any plans for raising additional necessary capital.

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This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is a part of the Terms. Capitalized terms used, but not defined in this Privacy Policy, have the meanings given to them elsewhere in the Terms. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, as it describes what information we gather from you, and how we may use and disclose that information. By registering a User Account and/or by accessing or using this Website, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this Privacy Policy.

The Information RAMPIT Collects:

1. User-Provided Information: You may provide to RAMPIT what is generally called "personally identifiable" information (such as your name, email address, postal mailing address, home/mobile telephone number, etc.) while using this Website, such as when you register, when you submit Entries and/or when you provide information in order to compete to receive any Prizes.

2. "Cookies" Information: When you use this Website, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer. RAMPIT may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to this Website. Persistent cookies can be removed. Please review your web browser "Help" file to learn about the proper way to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies from this Website, you may not be able to utilize the features of this Website to their fullest potential.

3. "Flash Cookies" Information: Flash and other browser plugin applications use technology similar to cookies to enable the storage and recall of settings, preferences and usage data, and other information. Because they are stored in separate software applications, these types of cookies are not managed through your web browser's cookie management interface. RAMPIT may employ such techniques, including Adobe Flash Cookies (also called "Local Shared Objects") to track information related to your interaction with features of this Website through which Flash-based content is provided. You can access various Flash Cookie management tools and configure certain privacy and security settings for your Flash Player from Adobe's web site directly.

4. "Automatically Collected" Information: When you use this Website or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from your web browser by using different types of technology, including "clear gifs" or "web beacons." This "Automatically Collected" information may include Internet Protocol address ("IP Address") or other device address or ID, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after this Website, the pages you view on this Website, and the dates and times that you visit this Website.

5. Linked Website Information: When you link an account you may have on a third party service (such as your third party social networking site) to your Account on this Website, RAMPIT may store the access credentials you provide, and will have access to and may collect any information you may have stored in connection with that account that you have configured that service to make available, including personally identifiable information and friends lists. By linking your accounts in this manner, you are authorizing RAMPIT as your agent to access and use your account on the third party service in connection with your use of this Website.

6. Third Party Web Beacons: We may also implement third party content, such as advertising, on this Website that uses "clear gifs," "web beacons," or other similar techniques, which allow the third party content provider to read and write cookies (including Flash Cookies) to your browser, or implement similar tracking mechanisms, in connection with your viewing of that third party content displayed on this Website. This information is collected directly by the third party, and RAMPIT does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by third parties in this manner is subject to that third party's own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.

7. Information from Other Sources: We may also obtain information, including personally identifiable information, from third parties and sources other than this Website, such as advertisers, or other Users who import your email address from their address book. We may also receive information from third party service(s) that provide a mechanism to expose information you have provided to such third party through the use of an application program interface (API), such as Facebook Connect and the Google API. If we combine or associate information from other sources with personally identifiable information that we collect through this Website, we will treat the combined information as personally identifiable information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

The Way RAMPIT Uses Information:

1. RAMPIT uses the information that you provide or that we collect to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on this Website. We will use your email address to contact you with respect to Entries, Prizes, and otherwise in connection with Competitions, for any administrative and customer service purposes, to address intellectual property infringement, rights of privacy, or defamation issues, or regarding Postings.

2. RAMPIT uses all of the information that you provide or that we collect to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our Users, to improve the way this Website works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.

3. RAMPIT may use "Automatically Collected" information and "cookies" information to: (a) personalize our services, such as remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit this Website; (b) provide customized third party content and information; (c) monitor and analyze the operation and effectiveness of this Website and related activities; (d) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and, (e) track your status in any Competitions or other activities.

4. RAMPIT may use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send you: i) messages about this Website or communications from other Users; ii) promotional messages related to this Website and the activities of third parties with whom we work; and, iii) messages on behalf of other Users, who think that you may be interested in this Website. You will have the ability to opt-out of receiving any such communications, either through links provided in the messages, or by updating your Account settings through this Website.

When RAMPIT Discloses Information:

We are not in the business of selling your information. We do, however, disclose your personally identifiable information in a variety of circumstances in connection with developing and maintaining this Website and operating or supporting Competitions. For example:

1. By its nature, this Website enables Users to communicate in a variety of ways. This also applies to information you choose to make available through features that connect to third party services, if applicable. Once you make your personally identifiable information available, it may be collected and used by the recipients without restriction. We urge Users to exercise common sense, prudence and good judgment about what personal information to make available to others through this Website.

2. RAMPIT may disclose your personally identifiable information to the Competition Host and/or Competitors, as applicable, to enable your participation in and the operation of Competitions.

3. RAMPIT works with third party service providers to provide general website hosting, specialized Content hosting (e.g. the hosting of video Content), maintenance, and other services. These third parties may have access to or process your personally identifiable information as a result of performing the services they were engaged to perform.

4. RAMPIT may also disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary or useful to comply with applicable laws, to respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena or warrant, or to otherwise assist or cooperate with law enforcement activity or other similar activities in connection with internal or coordinated fraud detection and prevention, and the protection or enforcement of third party rights.

5. RAMPIT works to promote a safe and reliable service for all Users. We reserve the right to disclose your information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; to protect RAMPIT and others from fraudulent, abusive, predatory, or unlawful uses or activity; to investigate and defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations; to protect the security or integrity of this Website; or to protect or vindicate the rights, property, or personal safety of RAMPIT, our Users, or others.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to share certain personally identifiable information with RAMPIT, in which case RAMPIT may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality found on this Website. Please note that we may retain all information you submit for a variety of purposes, including backups and archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, and analytics.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you account access or making corrections to your information. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE SECRECY OF YOUR UNIQUE PASSWORD AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION AT ALL TIMES.

We may now or in the future make certain tools and features for configuring your privacy settings available to you through this Website, but any such features and settings we may provide do not guarantee the anonymity or confidentiality of any information, including personally identifiable information and Postings you provide or submit to this Website.

Third Party Websites:

This Website contains links to Websites and services provided by third parties. Any personally identifiable information you provide on third party sites or services is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party's policies, if any, governing privacy and security. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of third party sites or services to which links are displayed on this Website. We encourage you to learn about third parties' privacy and security policies before providing them with personally identifiable information.

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy:

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. For that reason, RAMPIT does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from persons under 13 years-of-age, and no part of this Website is directed to persons under 18 years-of-age. IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THIS WEBSITE AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER. If RAMPIT learns that personally identifiable information of persons less than 13-years-of-age has been collected on this Website without verifiable parental consent, then RAMPIT will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 13 has obtained a User Account on this Website, then you may alert RAMPIT at privacy@RAMPIT.com and request that RAMPIT delete that child's personally identifiable information from its systems.

Our Commitment to Data Security:

RAMPIT uses a variety of physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to improve the security of our systems and your personally identifiable information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to RAMPIT, nor can we guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. You transfer your information to RAMPIT at your own risk.

If RAMPIT learns of a security systems breach, then we will attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. If you'd like to receive such a notice please notify us at privacy@RAMPIT.com

International Visitors:

Your information may be stored and processed in any country in which RAMPIT and its affiliates maintain facilities. In this regard, or for purposes of sharing or disclosing data in accordance with this Privacy Policy, RAMPIT reserves the right to transfer, store, and process your information outside of your country. Your acceptance of the Terms includes your consent to any such transfer, storage, and processing of your information outside of your country.

In the Event of Merger or Sale:

In the event that all or a portion of RAMPIT or its assets are acquired by or merged with any other entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from Users in connection with such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy:

Please revisit this page periodically to stay aware of any changes to this Privacy Policy, which may be revised at RAMPIT's sole discretion, as provided in the Terms. Note that our amended Privacy Policy will become effective on a going forward basis as set forth in the Terms, except that: (i) unless you agree otherwise, we will use your personally identifiable information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy in effect when we received that information; and, (ii) if you do not agree with any changes to the Privacy Policy, you must terminate your participation and cease use of this Website. Your continued use of this Website after a revised Privacy Policy has become effective indicates that you have read, understood, and agreed to the current version of the Privacy Policy.

RAMPIT Contact Information:

Please contact RAMPIT with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personally identifiable information, our use and disclosure practices, or your consent choices by email: privacy@RAMPIT.com

Terms & Conditions

RAMPIT, LLC (“RAMPIT”) provides an online platform for skill-based competitions through various websites, including but not limited to this website, which are subject to the following terms and conditions. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE.

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THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT THE TERMS OF A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND RAMPIT FOR YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE AND THE RELATED SERVICES. BY RECOGNIZING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS, EITHER BY REGISTERING A USER ACCOUNT AND/OR BY ACCESSING AND USING THIS WEBSITE, AS APPLICABLE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, YOU MUST CEASE USING THIS WEBSITE AND THE RELATED SERVICES.

1. Definitions and interpretation

In this document, the following terms have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:

1.1 "Agreement" means:

these terms and conditions;
any amendments subsequently made to these terms and conditions;
any replacement or novation of this Agreement;
terms and conditions incorporated into this Agreement by reference; and,
any policies (including the Privacy Policy), Rules, terms, conditions, Competition Terms and Conditions, notices and disclaimers contained elsewhere on this Website or provided by RAMPIT in connection with the Services.

1.2 “Competition" means any challenge or contest posted on this Website, however expressed. While the New Arizona prize may consist of multiple challenges or contests, the challenge or contest identified in these Terms and Conditions is the Water Innovation Challenge.

1.3 "Competition Information" means all Content provided in relation to a particular Competition, including the Competition Terms and Conditions.

1.4 "Competition Host" means in relation to any Competition posted on this Website, the person or entity responsible for the Competition or those procuring RAMPIT and/or its owners to post the Competition. For this Competition, the Competition Host is the Arizona Community Foundation, with a place of business at 2201 East Camelback Road, Suite 405B, Phoenix, Arizona 85016.

1.5 "Competition Terms and Conditions" has the meaning given to that term in Clause 2.3.

1.6 "Competitor" means in relation to any Competition posted on this Website, a person, a team of persons, a corporate entity, and/or a public agency who submits or proposes to submit an Entry to the Competition.

1.7 "Content" means any information, files, text, code, material, images, data, sounds, graphics, software, photos, designs, software downloads, goods, services documents, layouts, applet, CGI interfaces, descriptions, illustrations, catalogues, advertisements, audio and video material or specifications contained in or referred to in this Website, obtained through or via this Website or available to be viewed by accessing any part of this Website (which may be out of date or superseded), whether it be obtained directly or indirectly, in any machine or human readable format. Without limiting the foregoing, “Content” includes any Entry submitted via this Website.

1.8 "Entry" means an entry by a Competitor in response to a Competition.

1.9 "Entry Content" means any text, code, map, proposal, plan, materials, designs, documents, descriptions or specifications used, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, in describing, drafting, developing, devising, calibrating, testing, evaluating, analyzing or generating an Entry, or which itself constitutes the whole or part of an Entry. The term "Entry Content" may include physical copies of the foregoing in addition to electronic copies.

1.10 "Intellectual Property Rights" means all intellectual property rights of any type whatsoever throughout the world including all rights which subsist in copyright, patent rights, or trademark rights, whether or not such rights are registered or capable of being registered.

1.11“Judge” means any individual, organization or other entity represented on this website as responsible for the subjective assessment of Entry Content, either for the purposes of determining or informing the determination of any Prize(s) or designation(s) of Winner(s) in the Competition.

1.12 "Loss" means any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential liabilities, damages, claims, losses, costs, expenses, actions, demands or suits, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), statute or otherwise and whether pecuniary or non-pecuniary. This includes, but is not limited to, loss of profits, legal costs and defense or settlement costs.

1.13 "Posting" means any addition, insertion or uploading of content to this Website, as well as any submission or communication made through or via this Website. For the avoidance of doubt, this includes (in the case of a Competitor) all Entries and Entry Content posted by that Competitor.

1.14 "Privacy Policy" means RAMPIT's privacy policies and notices posted on this Website, specific pages thereof, and/or provided by RAMPIT in connection with the Services.

1.15 "Prize" means any cash award or other forms of recognition and/or benefits to declared or selected Winner(s) or others, as set out in the Competition Terms and Conditions. The Water Innovation Challenge includes a Prize that would consist of the award of a grant through the Arizona Community Foundation for $250,000, based solely on the discretion of the Competition Sponsor to enter into such a separate agreement, as described under Section 9.2.

1.16 "RAMPIT" means RAMPIT, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company, with a place of business at 1004 Hickory Lane, Suite 8, Hermitage, Tennessee 37076.

1.17 "RAMPIT Affiliate" means an entity affiliated with RAMPIT by ownership or common ownership (including The Common Pool, LLC, and 23Com Software, LLC) or any subsidiary of RAMPIT.

1.18 "Services" means the services provided by RAMPIT on or via this Website and includes all Competitions.

1.19 "Third Party Sites" means sites and resources located on servers maintained by others over whom RAMPIT has no control.

1.20 "User" means any person who has registered a user account on this Website. The term "User" includes all Competitors.

1.21 "User Account" means Your online account with RAMPIT which enables You to use this Website and includes (but is not limited to) Your username, password, any assessment scores and feedback.

1.22 "Website" means any web pages contained within this domain and any sub-domains and all underlying software and infrastructure which permits the holding of Competitions. Where the context permits, 'website' includes the Services provided on the Website.

1.23 "Winner" means, in relation to any Competition posted on this Website, the Competitor(s) whose Entries are selected by the Competition Host as winner(s) of the Prize. Competitors may disqualify their Entries from this selection by expressly informing the Competition Host of their decision within 48 hours after the close of the competition. Subject to the Competition Terms and Conditions, there can be more than one Winner in relation to any Competition.

1.24 "You" the person or team using the Website, including a User.

2. Agreement to be bound

2.1 Use of this Website is subject to this Agreement. You agree to be bound by this Agreement and any subsequent amendments to this Agreement, as set forth below.

2.2 RAMPIT reserves the right to amend or modify this Agreement at any time, provided that if such modifications materially limit Your rights and/or expand Your obligations hereunder, RAMPIT will notify You electronically, such as by email or through the Website. Such material modifications will take effect on the earlier of the date You indicate Your assent (by clicking "Accept" or otherwise) or 30 calendar days after RAMPIT's notice. No modification of the Agreement will apply to any dispute between You and RAMPIT that arose prior to the effective date of the modification. If at any time You disagree with the Agreement or any modifications thereof, You may terminate this Agreement and shall cease using this Website. Your continued use of the Website after the revised Agreement becomes effective (such as following notice as set forth above) indicates that You have read, understood, and agreed to the revised Agreement. Any new or different terms supplied by You are specifically rejected by RAMPIT unless RAMPIT agrees to them in a signed writing specifically including those new or different terms.

2.3 Competitions may be subject to additional terms and conditions ("Competition Terms and Conditions"). Competition Terms and Conditions will apply in addition to this Agreement and will not limit this Agreement in any way unless RAMPIT notifies the parties to a Competition that this Agreement is amended by the Competition Terms and Conditions. If RAMPIT does not provide such notification to the parties, this Agreement will prevail in the event of any inconsistency between it and the Competition Terms and Conditions.

2.4 RAMPIT may alter this Website from time to time by adding or removing features. This Agreement will not be affected by any alterations to this Website.

2.5 Users may use this Website in the capacity of a Competitor. This Agreement will apply to Your use of the Website in either or both of those capacities.

3. Participation

3.1 In order to participate as a Competitor in this Competition, each team must identify a specific Point of Contact who must register as a User. Other team members may register, but full team registration is not required. Participation on this Website is free.

3.2 Participation is available only to persons and entities who are able to form legally binding contracts under applicable law. If You do not accept this Agreement, You will not be permitted to participate in any Competition or otherwise access or use the Website in any way.

3.3 Without limiting Clause 3.2 above, participation is not available to:

Individuals under the age of 18 years;
Persons whose participation has been permanently suspended or terminated under Section 4;
Persons who are or reside in countries that are prohibited by law, regulation (including United States or other applicable export laws and regulations), treaty or administrative act from entering into trade relations (including export of technology) with the United States or its citizens.

3.4 When registering as a User, You warrant to RAMPIT that:

if You are an individual, You are 18 years of age or older and You are registering as a User on Your own behalf and in Your own name (and not on behalf of and/or in the name of a third person);
if You are representing a corporation or other business entity, including but not limited to any public or government organization (agency), You are duly incorporated or organized under the laws of the place of Your incorporation or organization and have full legal capacity and power to enter into and perform Your obligations under this Agreement on behalf of that agency; and
You agree to act in good faith and in accordance with this Agreement.

3.5 No individual or entity may register more than once (for example, by using a different username/email). Your participation may be terminated if you area found either attempting to or acting on behalf of multiple registered User Accounts.

3.6 Acceptance of registration is at the sole discretion of RAMPIT. If RAMPIT believes that any registration has been made in contravention of clauses 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5 above (or otherwise in breach of this Agreement), it may refuse to accept or terminate the registration.

3.7 You are responsible for all use of this Website made using Your User Account (and/or username/email or password), whether or not You are aware of that use or could reasonably have been aware of that use. You agree to notify RAMPIT immediately if You become aware of any unauthorized use of Your User Account.

3.8 Your User Account is personal to You and may not be sold, assigned, or transferred to a third party. If You attempt to sell, assign, or transfer Your User Account to a third party, RAMPIT may suspend or terminate Your participation, at its sole discretion.

3.9 RAMPIT may communicate with You through the username/email that You provide at registration. You agree to notify RAMPIT within a reasonable time, if there are any changes to Your details. If You fail to notify RAMPIT of any changes to Your details, You agree to waive any objection, claim, defense, or recourse You might have had as a consequence of RAMPIT failing to communicate with You. If You change Your email address and fail to notify RAMPIT of the change, RAMPIT will be deemed to have communicated with You on the date on which it communicated with the email address most recently provided by You.

3.10 You warrant that any Content provided or posted by You (through registration or otherwise):

is not false, inaccurate, misleading or fraudulent;
does not infringe any third party's Intellectual Property Rights or other rights arising at law or otherwise;
is not obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening or harassing;
does not violate any applicable law;
does not contain or describe pornography and is not otherwise harmful to persons under the age of 18 years; and
will not create liability for RAMPIT or cause it to lose the services of its internet service providers or other suppliers (in whole or in part).
will not create liability for the Competition Host of any kind.

3.11 If RAMPIT believes that any Content contravenes Clause 3.10 (or any other provision of this Agreement), it may remove that Content and/or take any other steps as it deems necessary to protect itself or third parties against any Loss. To the maximum extent permitted by law, RAMPIT and the Competition Host will not be liable for any Loss to any person arising from the removal of Content under this Section.

4. Terminating Your Participation

4.1 Subject to Clause 4.2, You may terminate Your participation at any time and without cause by notifying RAMPIT through this Website.

4.2 If You terminate Your participation, this Agreement and any other applicable terms and conditions will continue to apply to any Postings made by You prior to giving the notice described in Clause 4.1 above.

4.3 RAMPIT may, in its absolute discretion, terminate or suspend Your participation at any time and without notice if it believes that:

You have breached this Agreement or any other applicable terms and conditions;
You have acted in a way which is unlawful, or which may create liability for RAMPIT, the Competition Sponsor, our Users, our internet service providers or any other supplier;
RAMPIT is unable to verify any information provided by You; or,
Other Users give negative feedback about You which RAMPIT determines in its absolute discretion is worthy of termination.

4.4 If RAMPIT terminates Your participation, RAMPIT may in its absolute discretion withdraw any Postings submitted or made by You. If RAMPIT terminates Your participation, RAMPIT may, at its sole discretion, immediately withdraw Your Entries, which will have no force and effect from the date on which Your participation was terminated.

4.5 Subject to Clause 4.4, if RAMPIT suspends Your participation, any entries or other Postings submitted or made by You will be suspended for the period in which Your participation is suspended.

4.7 If Your participation is terminated, either by You or by RAMPIT:

You are no longer authorized to access this Website;
all restrictions imposed on You, licenses granted by You and all indemnities, disclaimers and limitations of liability set out in this Agreement (including clauses 11 (Limitation of Liability) and 12 (Indemnities)) will survive, along with clauses 14 (Intellectual Property), 16 (Arbitration) and 18 (Miscellaneous).

5. Use of this Website

5.1 You must not use the Website to facilitate or participate in any illegal activity or engage in any activity which RAMPIT, in its absolute discretion, considers inappropriate. RAMPIT reserves the right to terminate or restrict Your access to this Website immediately and indefinitely if it suspects that You are engaging in any such behavior or are in breach of any terms of this Agreement. You agree that You will only use Your User Account and this Website for the purposes of using the Services and for no other purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, in using Your User Account and accessing the Website, You agree not to:

use Your User Account in a fraudulent or illegal manner, or email or otherwise send any materials from Your User Account which are offensive, unlawful, harassing, libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable;
use Your User Account to stalk or harass another person;
use Your User Account to impersonate any person in any way whatsoever;
use Your User Account to infringe the copyright, trademark, patent or other Intellectual Property Rights of any person or entity;
use Your User Account to send advertising, chain letters, junk mail, spam or any other type of unsolicited electronic communications;
use Your User Account to send or distribute any Content of any kind which contains a virus, spyware, malware or other harmful, disruptive or destructive component;
intentionally or negligently use Your User Account in a way that degrades performance of this Website to other persons;
manipulate, or attempt to manipulate, any Competition;
use Your User Account or any mechanism, software or other scripts in relation to the Website which could disrupt or interfere with the Website or any servers, software, hardware or equipment connected to or via the website;
restrict or inhibit any other User from using or enjoying the Website;
distribute any pornographic, extremist or racist material or any material which might otherwise be harmful to persons under the age of 18 years;
violate any applicable law relating to Your use of the website.

6. Terms specific to Competition Hosts

6.1 The Competition Host will have ultimate responsibility for oversight and decision-making related to the Competition and Competition Terms and Conditions on the Website.

6.2 The Competition Host requires RAMPIT to upload and manage the Water Innovation Challenge, and the Competition Host has entered into a separate agreement with a RAMPIT Affiliate to provide the Services.

6.3 When the Competition Host posts on the Website or directs RAMPIT to post on the website, the Competition Host warrants that any Content provided by the Competition Host has not been obtained:

by fraud;
in breach of any copyright, trademark or other Intellectual Property Right;
in breach of any right of privacy or other right arising under applicable law or any agreement entered into by You;
without limiting any of the foregoing, in breach of any other applicable law; or
in any way that may create liability for RAMPIT, its Users, its internet service provider or any other suppliers.

6.4 If You are registered as a Competition Host and are acting as a User on behalf of the Competition Host, for example as a participation in the discussion forums or by interacting with other Users, You further agree when posting to the Competition:

to be bound by this Agreement and all Competition Information (including the Competition Terms and Conditions) relating to the Competition;
to be bound by any representations made in relation to the Competition (including the Competition Information and Competition Terms and Conditions), whether made directly or indirectly, in writing or orally, by or for You;
that You may only post information related to the Competition that supports the goals of offering a skills-based challenge to resolve bona fide problems and not, for clarity, any games of chance;
that You will select the Winner according to the criteria set out in the Competition Information;
that RAMPIT does not guarantee the quality of Entries or any minimum number of Entries, nor the Competitors' title to the Intellectual Property Rights therein; and,
to inform RAMPIT of any additional Competition Terms and Conditions that will govern the relationship between You and Competitors.

6.5 You agree and warrant that You will not cancel a Competition initiated by You for the purpose of contracting separately with any User or Competitor or to avoid paying any Prize.

6.6 If You wish to withdraw a Competition, You must notify RAMPIT in writing.

7. Terms specific to Competitors

7.1 If You are registered as a Competitor, You agree and further acknowledge and agree that:

in making an Entry, to be bound by this Agreement and all Competition Information (including the Competition Terms and Conditions) relating to the Competition;
RAMPIT does not guarantee the accuracy of the Competition Information (or other Content posted on the Website), ownership of any Content, or the availability of any Prize;
any leader board appearing in connection with a Competition is indicative only and makes no representations and creates no entitlements in relation to any Prize;
RAMPIT does not control the decisions of the Competition Host and that any claims You may have in relation to the decisions of the Competition Host (including the selection of the Winner and ranking of Competitors) may be taken solely against the Competition Host, including any defamation or other claims arising from its ranking of Competitors;
RAMPIT is not responsible for any Postings provided by other Users or for the accuracy of Content provided by other Users;
RAMPIT is not liable to pay any Prize, and You will look solely to the Competition Host for payment of any Prize;
in the event that You have any dispute with another User, You release RAMPIT from all claims of any kind arising from that dispute;
You will not initiate contact with a Competition Host for the purpose of contracting separately with the Competition Host and/or circumventing any Competition; and,
an Entry will be deemed to have been logged at the time that it is received by RAMPIT. You agree that neither RAMPIT nor the Competition Host is responsible for any Entry not being received due to technical reasons or otherwise.

7.2 Judges are permitted to interact with Competitors to carry out due diligence, as necessary, to evaluate Entries against judging criteria. It is the responsibility of each Competitor to respond to inquiries from Judges in a timely manner.

7.3 The Competition Host reserves the right to conduct an administrative review of any Entry in order to screen for completeness and other Entry Content requirements (as described in the Competition Terms and Conditions) before distributing approved Entries to Judges.

7.3 Competitors permit RAMPIT and/or the Competition Host to publish any Entry, Entry Content, or Content to other Competitors, Judges or other designees, as necessary, to promote greater transparency, collaboration, and follow-on investment for Competitors during the Competition. For further information regarding the sharing of Entries, Entry Content, and Content, please refer to Section 14, Intellectual Property, the Rules, and the Privacy Policy.

8. RAMPIT's relationship with Competitor and Competition Host

8.1 RAMPIT is not involved in any way in the formation of any contract between the Competitor and the Competition Host. RAMPIT at no time acts as an agent for a Competitor or a Competition Host.

8.2 RAMPIT will not be liable to any Competitor in any respect if a Competition Host or Competitor fails to perform its obligations under this Agreement or the Competition.

8.3 The Competition Host will at all times be liable to pay Prize(s) to the Winner(s) in accordance with the Agreement and the Competition Terms and Conditions. RAMPIT will have no liability whatsoever in respect to the failure of a Competition Host to pay Prize(s) to Winner(s), and You acknowledge and agree that You will not take action of any kind against RAMPIT in respect to any claim for a Prize that You may or may not have or wish to make.

9. Terms specific to Winners and Competition Hosts

9.1 The Winner(s) agree that payment of any Prize(s) is conditional upon receipt by the Competition Host of any Entry Content used or consulted by the Winner in generating the winning Entry and that Prize(s) will not be paid until this condition has been satisfied.

9.2 The Winner and the Competition Host acknowledge and agree that once the Winner has been chosen and notified, the Winner will enter into a separate, binding and direct agreement (a grant agreement) with the Competition Host in accordance with the Competition Terms and Conditions and in relation to the provision of the Entry, the Prize and the rights of the Winner(s). This grant agreement will provide the terms for use of the Prize money, as well as the metrics that will be used to evaluate the proposed measure(s) of an Entry’s success. The grant agreement will state that the Prize money must be used to further the plan proposed in the Entry as part of the competition and will include a detailed budget. That budget may be used to stipulate the schedule upon which any funds are paid to the Winner. RAMPIT and its third party providers will not be a party to this separate agreement and will have no responsibility or liability whatsoever in relation to the performance or failure to perform under the separate agreement.

9.3 Each Competition Host acknowledges that RAMPIT does not make any warranties or representations as to the accuracy or utility of any Entry or associated Entry Content.

10. Taxes on Prizes

10.1 You will be responsible for any tax, levy, or other charge that may arise under any applicable law from the use of this website, including from the award of any Prize. You acknowledge that You will not be entitled to demand any additional payment by reason of any Prize being subject to any tax, levy, or other charge in any jurisdiction.

11. Limitation of liability

11.1 THIS WEBSITE AND SERVICES, AND ALL CONTENT ASSOCIATED THEREWITH, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, RAMPIT (ALONG WITH THE COMPETITION SPONSOR) AND ITS OWNERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. RAMPIT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE AND RELATED SERVICES AND THE CONTENT PROVIDED THROUGH IT, INCLUDING THE ENTRIES AND ASSOCIATED ENTRY CONTENT, TO BE AVAILABLE, ACCURATE, USEFUL, OR FREE OF ERRORS, VIRUSES, OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER HARM THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE (INCLUDING THE SERVICES).

11.2 UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE COMPETITION HOST NOR RAMPIT NOR THEIR OWNERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OR RELATED TO THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, EVEN IF RAMPIT OR A RAMPIT AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THESE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, You agree that neither RAMPIT nor the Competition Host is responsible for any Loss arising out of, or in any way connected with:

delay or inability to access or use this Website;
reliance on any Competition Information or other Content;
the transmission of any computer virus, however occurring;
any unauthorized access to, modification or alteration of Content;
any Content sent or received or not sent or received;
any transaction entered into through this Website;
any infringement of rights, including Intellectual Property Rights;
any threatening, defamatory, obscene, offensive, harmful, inappropriate or illegal Content or conduct of any party;
any Content sent by any third party using and/or included in this Website;
termination of Your participation; or
any delays, interruptions, inaccuracies, errors, omissions or cessation of services.

11.3 For the avoidance of doubt, You acknowledge that RAMPIT is a provider of an interactive computer service and not a publisher under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, and therefore not responsible for any of the Users' Postings. If, notwithstanding the provisions of this Clause 11.3, a court of competent jurisdiction holds RAMPIT liable in respect of any matters arising under or incidental to this Agreement, RAMPIT'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR RELATED SERVICES (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE) WILL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR USING THIS WEBSITE DURING THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING YOUR CLAIM, OR, IF NO AMOUNT WAS PAID, SUCH LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO $100.

11.4 You agree that RAMPIT and its third party providers will not be liable or responsible for any failure in, or delay to, the provision of the Services or in RAMPIT complying with its obligations under this Agreement where such failure or delay has arisen as a direct or indirect result of:

fire, earthquake, storm, flood, hurricane, inclement weather or other act of God, war, terrorism, explosion, sabotage, industrial accident or industrial strike;
telecommunications failure, hardware failure or software failure;
the failure of any third party to fulfill any obligations to RAMPIT; or
any other circumstance or event which is or is not within the reasonable control of RAMPIT.

12. Indemnity

12.1 You agree to indemnify and hold RAMPIT and the Competition Host, its owners, officers, employees, agents and suppliers, harmless from all claims and Losses (including legal fees) due to or arising out of or in connection with Your Postings, Competition, Competition Information and other Content (as applicable), Your use of this Website, or Your breach of this Agreement.

13. Access to the Site outside of the United States

13.1 RAMPIT does not represent or warrant that the content on this Website complies with the laws of any country outside of the United States. If You access this Website from outside the United States, You do so at Your own risk.

14. Intellectual property

14.1 You acknowledge that, as between the parties, RAMPIT is the owner of all Intellectual Property Rights in and to this Website (excluding Postings). You acknowledge that You have no Intellectual Property Rights in or to this Website except for a limited license to use as necessary to participate in a Competition or evaluate the possibility of such participation.

14.2 You acknowledge that all text, graphics, user interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, and artwork, including the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, look and feel, and arrangement of such Content, provided by RAMPIT or its licensors on this Website, is owned or licensed by or to RAMPIT and is protected by applicable copyright, patent, and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws. No such Content can be copied, publicly displayed, modified, sold, licensed, or distributed in any way by You without RAMPIT's prior written consent.

14.3 You acknowledge that all components of your Entry (text, graphics, photos, videos, etc.) can be used by the Competition Host and RAMPIT in promotional efforts that support the Water Innovation Challenge and the use of the website. This includes but is not limited to posting elements of your Entry on this website, social media channels, or sharing them with traditional media outlets for potential publication, posting to the Arizona Community Foundation or other related websites, etc.

15. Third party sites

15.1 From time to time, RAMPIT may provide, or any Content may contain, links to Third Party Sites and resources (e.g., www.youtube.com). You acknowledge that:

RAMPIT has no control over Third Party Sites and resources;
RAMPIT is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources; and,
RAMPIT does not endorse and is not responsible for any content, advertising, products, services, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources.

15.2 You acknowledge and agree that RAMPIT will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any Loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with Your use of or reliance upon any Content or material available on or through any Third Party Sites or resource.

16. Arbitration

16.1 In the interest of resolving disputes between You and RAMPIT in the most expedient and cost effective manner, You and RAMPIT agree that any and all disputes arising in connection with this Agreement shall be resolved by binding arbitration. Arbitration is more informal than a lawsuit in court. Arbitration uses a neutral arbitrator instead of a judge or jury, may allow for more limited discovery than in court, and can be subject to very limited review by courts. Arbitrators can award the same damages and relief that a court can award. Our agreement to arbitrate disputes includes, but is not limited to, all claims arising out of or relating to any aspect of this Agreement, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory, and regardless of whether the claims arise during or after the termination of these Terms. You understand and agree that, by entering into these Terms, You and RAMPIT are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action.

16.2 You and RAMPIT agree that nothing herein shall be deemed to waive, preclude, or otherwise limit either parties’ rights to: (i) bring an individual action in small claims court; (ii) pursue enforcement actions through applicable federal, state, or local agencies, where such actions are available; (iii) seek injunctive relief in a court of law; (iv) file suit in a court of law to address intellectual property infringement claims.

16.3 Any arbitration between You and RAMPIT will be governed by the Commercial Dispute Resolution Procedures and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (collectively, "AAA Rules") of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA"), as modified by these Terms, and will be administered by the AAA. The AAA Rules and filing forms are available online at www.adr.org or by calling the AAA at 1-800-778-7879.

16.4 Any party who intends to seek arbitration must first send a written notice of the dispute to the other, by certified mail or Federal Express (signature required), or in the event that we do not have a physical address on file for You, by electronic mail ("Notice"). RAMPIT's address for Notice is: RAMPIT, LLC, 1004 Hickory Lane, Suite 3, Hermitage, TN 37076 or support@rampit.com. The Notice must: (a) describe the nature and basis of the claim or dispute; and, (b) set forth the specific relief sought. We agree to use good faith efforts to resolve the claim directly, but if we do not reach an agreement to do so within 30 calendar days after the Notice is received, You or RAMPIT may commence arbitration proceedings.

16.5 Any arbitration hearings will take place at a location to be agreed upon in Nashville, TN, provided that if the claim is for $10,000 or less, You may choose whether the arbitration will be conducted solely on the basis of documents submitted to the arbitrator, through a non-appearance based telephonic hearing, or by an in-person hearing as established by the AAA Rules. Regardless of the manner in which the arbitration is conducted, the arbitrator shall issue a reasoned written decision sufficient to explain the essential findings and conclusions on which the decision and award, if any, are based. The arbitrator may make rulings and resolve disputes as to the payment and reimbursement of fees or expenses at any time during the proceeding and upon request from either party made within 14 calendar days of the arbitrator's ruling on the merits.

16.6 YOU AND RAMPIT AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Further, unless both You and RAMPIT agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

16.7 If only Clause 16.6 is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this Section 16 shall be null and void and, in such case, the parties agree that the exclusive jurisdiction and venue described in Section 18 shall govern any action arising out of or related to the Agreement.

17. Digital Millennium Copyright Act

17.1 If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any Content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by providing RAMPIT's copyright agent (the "Copyright Agent") with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

17.2 RAMPIT's designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is Copyright Agent, RAMPIT, LLC, 1004 Hickory Lane, Suite 3, Hermitage, TN 37076, email: support@rampit.com. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section 17, your DMCA notice may not be valid.

17.3 If you believe that your Content that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the material in your Content, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Copyright Agent:

Your physical or electronic signature;
Identification of the Content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the Content appeared before it was removed or disabled;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the Content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the Content; and
Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

17.4 If a counter-notice is received by the Copyright Agent, RAMPIT may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that it may replace the removed Content or cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the Content provider, member or user, the removed Content may be replaced, or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at RAMPIT's sole discretion.

18. Miscellaneous

18.1 As defined in Clause 1.1, this Agreement is the entire agreement between You and RAMPIT relating to the subject matter herein, and supersedes all previous communications, representations, understandings and agreements, either oral or written, between You and RAMPIT with respect to said subject matter. This Agreement shall not be modified except in a writing signed by both parties, or by a change made as provided in Clause 2.2. If any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability will not affect the remainder of this Agreement, which is severable from said provision and will remain in full force and effect.

18.2 If You breach any provision of this Agreement and RAMPIT has knowledge (either actual or constructive) of that breach, a failure to pursue legal action or to enforce any remedy against You will not constitute a waiver of its legal rights. Any waiver of rights under this Agreement must be in writing and signed by RAMPIT.

18.3 All matters relating to this Website and this Agreement are governed by and are to be construed according to the laws applicable in the state of Tennessee, United States (without regard to any rules governing choice of law). If one or more of the exceptions from arbitration expressly set forth in Section 16 above apply, You agree unconditionally to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Davidson County, Tennessee, in relation to all matters arising out of or in any way connected with this Agreement or this Website.

18.4 RAMPIT may assign its rights and novate or transfer obligations which arise under this Agreement. You must not assign, novate or otherwise transfer Your rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of RAMPIT. Any assignment attempted in violation of this Clause 18.4 shall be void.

18.5 The parties agree that no rule of construction applies to the disadvantage of a party because that party was responsible for the preparation of this Agreement or part of it.

18.6 Unless otherwise requested in writing by You, RAMPIT may refer to You and Your corporate or represented identity (if applicable) as part of promoting this Website and RAMPIT in the marketplace.

18.7 RAMPIT accepts content uploaded from Users in good faith and on the basis of warranties provided by Users. It is Your responsibility at all times to investigate and become satisfied as to the accuracy of the information provided by any other party (including all Users) on this Website. RAMPIT at no time makes any representations as to the accuracy of any information provided on this Website.

18.8 You acknowledge and agree that to the extent that this Agreement relates to a Competition, a prospective Competition or any Posting, this Agreement is intended to also be for the benefit of the Competition Host, the Competitors and other Users, who are entitled to enforce the provisions of this Agreement.

18.9 All notices, requests, demands, consents, approvals, offers, agreements or other communications given by You to RAMPIT must be emailed to RAMPIT at support@rampit.com.

18.10 In the interpretation of this Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears:

the words 'includes' or 'including' mean 'includes without limitation' or 'including without limitation';
a reference to a 'person' or 'entity' includes a reference to an individual, group of individuals, corporation, firm, association or other entity, a government or public 'agency';
the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
an agreement, representation or warranty made by two or more persons is made by them jointly and by each of them severally, and headings are inserted for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.

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