(c) harasses or advocates harassment of another person;  

(d) involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," "spam," or any other unsolicited mass mailing, e-mailing, or other communication; 

(e) includes any information that the participant knows is false or misleading, promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, or is threatening, obscene, defamatory, or libellous;  

(f) constitutes or includes any illegal or unauthorized copy or infringement of another person's work and/or intellectual property;  

(g) displays obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind; 

(h) includes material that exploits people in a sexual or violent manner; 

(i) is illegal and/or provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses; and/or 

(j) is materially false or misleading. 

6. Personal Data

6.1 By participating in this Competition, participants consent to the collection and processing of their personal data. Insofar as a participant’s entry contains personal data of any individual other than the participant, the participant also represents and warrants that the participant has the consent of the individual or other valid legal authority to provide the individual’s personal data.   The processing of personal data will comply with the Privacy Notice. 

6.2 By participating in this Competition, participants agree to allow L’Oréal reproduce their personal data (including but not limited to your name, images, career and/or background information) in any publicity or promotional material relating to the Competition.  

7. Intellectual Property 

7.1 Intellectual Property Rights (“IPR”) means all intellectual property rights related to the materials used by any participant in the course of this Competition (“Submission”) including, without limitation, patents (including utility models), pending patent applications, copyrights (including copyrights covering software or firmware), designs (whether or not capable of registration), trade marks and any other form of statutory protection of any kind and applications for any of the foregoing as well as any trade secrets or other intellectual property rights, whether in existence now or created, invented or developed in the future. 

7.2 Participation in this Competition shall not modify, transfer or otherwise affect the title, right or ownership of any copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade names, logos or any other IPR existing in any Submission unless otherwise provided for in these Terms and Conditions. Any and all such rights shall remain the exclusive property of the respective party and/or participant owning such rights unless otherwise provided for in these Terms and Conditions. 

7.3 By participating in this Competition, you agree that L’Oréal shall have the right to use the content of any Submissions in any publicity or promotional material relating to the Competition. You further agree in your personal capacity and/or on behalf of the company you represent that L’Oréal may use the images, photos and videos and a description of the ideas or concepts shared in the Competition in any publicity or promotional material relating to the Competition without any royalties or any other fee. L’Oréal is not granting any IPR protection in connection with the Competition and makes no warranties of any kind related thereto. Participants are solely responsible for protecting any and all IPR in or related to any Submissions. Despite all efforts taken by L’Oréal to keep the submitted solutions confidential prior to the publication of the product or prototype, each participant understands and agrees that L’Oréal does not assume any liability for any damage resulting from the submitted product or prototype becoming public. 

7.4 For the avoidance of doubt, Clause 7 only relates to the use of intellectual property. The use of personal data is governed by the Privacy Notice, which is made available on the Competition website. 

8. Limitation of Liability 

8.1 To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Organiser shall not be liable for any damage, loss, or injury suffered by reason of applying and participating in this Competition. The Organiser excludes liability for loss of income, loss of opportunity, personal injury, and damage to property, whether direct or indirect, consequential or foreseeable due to some negligent act or omission or otherwise. 

8.2 The Organiser shall not be liable or responsible for any late, lost, incomplete, incorrectly submitted, delayed, illegible, corrupted or misdirected entries or correspondence whether due to error, omission, alteration, tampering, deletion, theft, destruction, transmission interruption, technical difficulties, communications failure or otherwise, regardless of their material cause. 

9. General 

9.1 In the event of any inconsistency between these Terms and Conditions and the terms of any advertising, marketing or promotional materials distributed in relation to the Competition, the Terms and Conditions herein shall prevail. 

9.2 The Organiser, its agents, sponsors and/or representatives shall not be liable to perform any of their obligations in respect of the Competition and the Terms and Conditions where they are unable to do so as a result of circumstances beyond their control and shall not be liable to compensate any participant in any manner whatsoever in such circumstances. 

9.3 Any names, trademarks or logos used and or reproduced in any materials (including marketing and promotional materials) used by the Organiser in connection with this Competition are the properties of their respective owners. Unless otherwise communicated, this Competition and the Organiser are not affiliated with, or endorsed or sponsored by, the relevant owners, and such owners are not part of the Organiser’s group of companies. 

9.4 Participants shall not be entitled to assign any of the rights or sub-contract any of the obligations herein. The Organiser shall be entitled to assign or sub-license the whole or any part of its rights hereunder to any third party as may be determined by the Organiser. 

9.5 The invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of any terms hereunder shall not affect or impair the continuation in force of the remainder of the Terms and Conditions of the Competition. 

9.6 By participating in the Competition, participants agree to be bound by the decisions of the Organiser. Participant(s) who violate any rule, gain unfair advantage in participating in the Competition, or using fraudulent means for any reasons will be disqualified. Unsportsmanlike, disruptive, annoying, harassing or threatening behaviour is prohibited. The Organiser will interpret these rules and resolve any disputes, conflicting claims or ambiguities concerning the rules or the Competition and the Organiser’s decisions concerning such disputes shall be final. If the conduct or outcome of the Competition is affected by unintentional interference or any event beyond the control of the Organiser, the Organiser reserves the right to terminate this Competition, or make such other decisions regarding the outcome as the Organiser deems appropriate. All decisions will be made by the Organiser and are final and binding.  

9.7 The Organiser reserves the right to modify, suspend or cancel this Competition in the event that it becomes incapable of running as planned, or interrupted or corrupted due to the effect of any computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Organiser, despite the best efforts of the Organiser. 

9.8 Each Winner is solely responsible for any other costs, liabilities (including tax), applications, processes or arrangements incidental or related to any prizes which are not explicitly made the responsibility of the Organiser in these Terms and Conditions. The Organiser excludes all warranties and liabilities in connection with the prizes to the fullest extent permitted by law. 

9.9 The Organiser and/or its representatives shall not be liable to any participant in respect of any loss or damage whatsoever which is suffered, including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss, or for personal injury suffered or sustained by the participant arising out of or in connection with the participation by the participant in the Competition, as well as the redemption and/or utilisation of any prizes won. 

9.10 The Terms and Conditions of the Competition shall be construed, governed and interpreted in accordance the laws of Singapore. Any dispute in relation to and/or arising from the Terms and Conditions shall exclusively be referred to the courts of Singapore.