Google AI- Language Team DATASET CONTESTS TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Welcome to Google Language team's competition!

These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") apply to Google language datasets and all related Google research language team’s contests sponsored by Google LLC and its affiliates (each referred to as a "Contest"). Please read these Terms carefully as they form a binding legal agreement between you and Google LLC, located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google") with respect to the Contest. Our contests vary and we may post specific rules ("Rules") for a Contest on the Contest website, which become part of these Terms and your agreement with us with respect to the Contest. YOU MAY NOT SUBMIT AN ENTRY TO A CONTEST AND ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE PRIZES UNDER A CONTEST UNLESS YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. YOUR SUBMISSION OF AN ENTRY IN A CONTEST CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS. The words "include" and "including" as used in these Terms mean "including but not limited to."

1. Eligibility.

• 1.1 VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. The Contest is void in Crimea, North Korea, Syria, Quebec, and where prohibited by law.
• 1.2 NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. You do not need to purchase any Google product or service to enter or win the Contest.
• 1.3 Ineligible Individuals.
  • (A) You cannot participate in the Contest if you are, and will be immediately disqualified and forfeit all of your prizes if you become:
    • (1) a resident of Crimea, North Korea, Syria, or Quebec or anywhere that the Contest is prohibited by law;
    • (2) restricted by applicable export controls and sanctions programs;
  • (B) If you gained information on a problem / contest while working as an employee (including intern), contractor, student innovator, director, officer, or other official office-holder of Google, you will be disqualified from a Contest if you attempt to gain points on that problem. You may also be disqualified if Google learns you acquired information on a problem from an employee (including intern), contractor, student innovator, director, officer, or other official office-holder of Google.
• 1.4 Requirements to Enter.
  • (A) In order to enter the Contest, you must have
    • (1) access to the Internet, and
    • (2) a valid email address.
  • (B) In order to receive a prize (if there is one), you must provide your name, phone number, a valid mailing address, and any other information Google may need to contact you. (C) If you are a government official, you may only enter the Contest in your personal capacity. "Government officials" include any government employee; candidate for public office; and employee of government-owned or government-controlled companies, public international organizations, and political parties.
• 1.5 Verifying Eligibility. Google reserves the right to verify your eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. You agree to provide Google with any proof of eligibility requested by Google and your refusal or failure to provide such proof within 10 days of Google's request will result in your disqualification from the Contest.
• 1.6 Communications. All communications between Google and you, including the Contest website and email communications, will be in English.

2. How to Enter.

• 2.1 Registration. To enter the Contest, you must register at the Contest website and provide the required information about yourself.
  • (A) You must register for each contest before you can participate in that Contest. For example, if you registered for one dataset competition, and wanted to participate in other, you would still need to register that contest separately.
  • (B) You may only register for the Contest with one valid email address. If you compete in the same Contest with multiple email addresses, you may be disqualified.
• 2.2 Screen Names. Google reserves the right to change or omit contestant screen names or nicknames for purposes of publication on Google websites or listserv, particularly if they are, in Google's sole opinion, obscene or violate the intellectual property rights of others.

3. Contest Structure.

• 3.1 Overview. Google Ai’s language team’s dataset contests are designed in such a way that each dataset can have multiple contests. Each contest for a dataset consists of participants submitting the model or code adhering to guidelines described on the website.
• 3.2 Problem for competition The contest problem definition varies per dataset. You will be awarded a position depending on your performance on each problem or sub-problem.
• 3.3 Submissions. You must submit your solutions for problems through the Contest website.
  • (A) Your submission must be in the format specified by the problem, the Contest website, and these Terms (with precedence given in that order). Deliberately obfuscated source code is not allowed.
  • (B) You should submit your solutions that follows the guidelines mentioned on the contest website. If there is a time limit for a contest you should allow enough time remaining in each time period to avoid latency issues between your computer and Google servers. Solutions submitted after the applicable time period expires will not be accepted.
• 3.4 Modifying the Contest. Google may cancel or modify the structure, location, and times of the Contest to run the Contest in accordance with these Terms or to prevent an unfair result.
• 3.5 Practice Sessions. A Contest may offer a practice session before the qualification round. It is your responsibility to obtain all practice session details from the Contest website. Performance in a practice session has no impact on your scores in a qualification round or any other round of the Contest. You are not required to participate in a practice session. You understand these sessions are only provided to you as a courtesy and Google will only provide limited support during any practice session.

4. Judging and Scoring. The solutions you submit will be judged as follows.

• 4.1 Score . Each dataset contest scoring mechanism may vary depending on the type of dataset and problem we are solving with solutions requested. Google internally will evaluate the performance of your submission and will create one or more scores for your submissions. Details of how your submission will be scored will be on respective Contest website.
• 4.2 Ranking Contestants.
  • (A) Highest Score First. Contestants will be ranked in order of the highest score first and lowest score last.
  • (B) Tie Breaking. In the event of a tie between contestants, we reserve the right to break ties when necessary depending upon the type of contest. Details may be specified in the Contest Rules, the Contest website, or in the problem statement.

5. Notice of Winners.

5.1 Announcement of Winners. The results of the Contest will be posted on the Contest website after its completion or a leaderboard if the contest is open ended. Posted results will include a list of the contestants' names or nicknames in ranked order based on their scores.

6. Prizes.

6.1 Money Prizes. There are no monetary prizes awarded at this time for these contest. However, contest website will have the details for each case.

7. Disqualification.

• 7.1 You may be disqualified from the Contest and forfeit any prizes you may be eligible to receive if Google reasonably believes that you have attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest, including:
  • (A) Providing false information about yourself during registration or concerning your eligibility;
  • (B) Breaching or refusing to comply with these Terms;
  • (C) Tampering or interfering with administration of the Contest or with the ability of other contestants to participate in the Contest;
  • (D) Sharing or using from others any information about a problem (including its content or solution) before the end of a contest unless expressly permitted by the Contest Rules or these Terms;
  • (E) Submitting content that:
    • (1) violates the rights of a third party,
    • (2) is lewd, obscene, pornographic, racist, sexist, or otherwise inappropriate to the Contest, or
    • (3) violates any applicable law.
  • (F) Threatening or harassing other contestants or Google, including its employees and representatives. Harassing behavior includes, offensive, threatening, and/or hateful comments directed toward an individual or protected class (gender, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, age, race, religion, ethnicity, veteran status), the use or display of sexual images in public spaces, deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, taking unwelcome photos/videos, sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, unwelcome sexual attention, and developing and/or promoting any applications designed to encourage any of these behaviors.
• 7.2 You may report to Google at natural-questions@google.com any harassment, cheating, or violation of these Terms by another contestant. Google may investigate any such allegations and all decisions by Google in these matters are final and binding. If you are asked to stop any harassing behavior, you are expected to comply immediately.

8. Ownership; Rights in Your Submissions; Privacy.

• 8.1 License to Use Content; Reservation of Rights. You may use the code, data and content made available on the Contest website solely to prepare for and compete in the Contest. Google retains all rights in such code and content not explicitly granted by these Terms.
• 8.2 Ownership of Submissions. You retain all rights to your submitted source code and any other work product that you had before submitting them to the Contest.
• 8.3 License to Submissions. For any submission you make to the Contest, you grant Google a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, free license (with the right to sublicense) to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, and otherwise use such submission. Your submitted source code, models, data may be made available for anyone to view on the Internet and download and use.
• 8.4 Privacy.
  • (A) How Google May Use Your Information.
    • (1) Google will use the information you provide during registration and in any subsequent communications to administer the Contest (including verifying your eligibility to participate in the Contest and delivering prizes if there is any). This data may be transferred into the United States and will be maintained in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy.
    • (2) If there are prizes, By accepting a prize, you agree that Google and its agents may use your name, likeness, and statements without compensation to promote the Contest, including displaying it on the Contest website.
  • (B) Sharing Your Information. Your name and nickname you create during registration and the country of residence you specified during registration may be displayed publicly on the Contest website. If you win a prize, Google may share your name, phone number, e-mail address, and mailing address with third parties to fulfill awarding a prize, in case of a contest with prizes.
  • (C) Accessing Your Information. You may access, review, and update any of your personal data held by Google in connection with the Contest by emailing natural-questions@google.com or writing to Google (Attention: ML-Jam) at the address listed above.
  • (D) Permission to contact You. If you participate in a Contest, you give permission to Google to contact regarding your submissions if we have any questions regarding your submissions.

9. Your Representations, Warranties, Indemnities.

• 9.1 Representations and Warranties. You represent and warrant that:
  • (A) the information you provide about yourself while registering or in subsequent communications with Google is truthful and accurate;
  • (B) except as permitted by these Terms, your submissions to the Contest are original and not created with the assistance of any information about the problems not provided by Google;
  • (C) you own all rights in your submissions or otherwise have the right to submit your submissions to Google and grant to Google the licenses granted in these Terms without violating any rights of any other person or entity or any obligation you may have with them; and
  • (D) your submissions do not violate any applicable laws.
• 9.2 Indemnities. You will indemnify Google and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees against all liabilities, damages, losses, costs, fees (including legal fees), and expenses relating to any allegation or third-party legal proceeding to the extent arising from:
  • (A) your acts or omissions in relation to the Contest (including your use or acceptance of any prize and your breach of these Terms); and
  • (B) your submissions violating any rights of any other person or entity or any obligation you may have with them.

10. Disclaimers.

THE CONTEST WEBSITE AND ALL CONTENT (INCLUDING SOURCE CODE) IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. GOOGLE DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES (EXPRESS OR IMPLIED), INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. GOOGLE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INCOMPLETE, FAILED, OR DELAYED TRANSMISSION OF YOUR APPLICATION INFORMATION OR SUBMISSIONS DUE TO THE INTERNET, INCLUDING INTERRUPTION OR DELAYS CAUSED BY EQUIPMENT OR SOFTWARE MALFUNCTION OR OTHER TECHNICAL PROBLEMS. YOU USE ALL SOURCE CODE AND DATA AVAILABLE ON THE CONTEST WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

11. General.

• 11.1 Not an Offer or Contract Of Employment.
  • (A) You acknowledge that your participation is voluntary.
  • (B) You acknowledge that no confidential, fiduciary, agency or other relationship or implied-in-fact contract now exists between you and Google and that no such relationship is established by your submission of an entry to the Contest.
  • (C) You understand and agree that nothing in these Terms, any Rules, a submission into the Contest, or an award of a prize may be construed as an offer or contract of employment with Google.
• 11.2 Severability. If any term (or part of a term) of these Terms is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the rest of the rules will remain in effect.
• 11.3 Translations. In the event of any discrepancy between the English version of these Terms and a translated version, the English version will govern.
• 11.4 Governing Law. ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS WILL BE GOVERNED BY CALIFORNIA LAW, EXCLUDING CALIFORNIA'S CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES, AND WILL BE LITIGATED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, USA; THE PARTIES CONSENT TO PERSONAL JURISDICTION IN THOSE COURTS.