Event Terms and Conditions

  1. These terms and conditions (“Conditions”) apply to any and all tickets (“Tickets”) to, and your attendance and participation in The PayPal Charity Hack Weekend due to be held at PayPal’s UK offices at Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1EH (“Premises”) on 19th and 20th September 2009 (or such other date as may be nominated by PayPal) (the “Event”).
  2. The Event is organised by and Tickets are issued by PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. & Cie, SCA, a limited liability partnership registered as number R.C.S. Luxembourg B 118 349, the registered office of which is at 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449, Luxembourg (“PayPal”).
  3. Any person who obtains, holds or uses a Ticket (“Ticket Holder”) and any person who initiates the Registration process as described below acknowledges and agrees that he or she is bound by these Conditions. No one under the age of 18 years may attend the Event.
  4. To obtain a Ticket, you must register for the Event via www.webticketing.net/charityhack (“Registration”).  Your Ticket (which may be in the form of a Ticket code) will be sent by email prior to the date of the Event to the email address you submitted during Registration.
  5. Tickets are subject to availability. We can only accommodate requests for Tickets on a first-come, first-served basis.
  6. Tickets must not be used for competitions, and/or given away as prizes, refunded, exchanged or sold for profit, commercial gain or used for promotional purposes.
  7. To attend the Event a Ticket Holder must have a valid Ticket.  Any Ticket Holder who is not on PayPal’s list of intended attendees at the Event, as notified to PayPal by the person(s) that purchased that Ticket Holder’s Ticket at the time of purchase or prior to the Event) shall not be deemed to have a valid Ticket and shall not be permitted to attend the Event or enter the Premises.
  8. PayPal or its agents at the Event shall be entitled, but not obligated, to:
    1. carry out identity and security checks (including photographic ID checks) upon presentation of the Ticket by a Ticket Holder at the Event; and
    2. search all persons and personal property on the Premises.
  9. PayPal or its agents at the Event may at any time and for any reason at their sole discretion (i) refuse to admit (or permit the re-entry of) any person to the Premises or the Event or (ii) remove any person from the Event or the Premises (“Right to Exclude”).  The list below serves only to provide examples of when the Right to Exclude may be exercised against you (and is not meant to be an exclusive nor exhaustive list):
    1. You breach these Conditions (whether such breach is actual or apparent);
    2. You refuse to be searched by any person acting on behalf of PayPal;
    3. You possess any Prohibited Items;
    4. You fail to comply with instructions from PayPal or any person acting on behalf of PayPal; or
    5. You are found to be causing damage to the Premises, the infrastructure of the Premises, causing harm to any other person on site, behaving in an illegal, anti social or aggressive manner or appearing to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  10. The following articles (without limitation) are not permitted on the Premises and shall be Prohibited Items for the purpose of these Conditions:
    1. knives, fireworks, smoke canisters, air-horns, flares, weapons, dangerous or hazardous items, illegal substances, laser devices, glass vessels, cans, poles and any article that might be used as a weapon and / or compromise public safety;
    2. animals (other than guide dogs for blind and/or deaf attendees);
    3. photographic/film/audio recording equipment without the prior written consent of PayPal; and
    4. food or alcohol (with the exception of personal supplies of water in plastic containers with unbroken seals (up to 1 litre)).
  11. Smoking is forbidden within the Premises.
  12. By attending the Event, Ticket Holders give their express consent to being filmed and/or recorded and to the use of their actual or simulated likeness in connection with the production, exhibition, advertising or exploitation of any film, video and / or audio recording of this Event and / or any element thereof in any / all media throughout the world.
  13. PayPal reserves the right to cancel this Event at any time, if deemed necessary in its sole opinion, or if circumstances arise outside its control. PayPal also reserves the right to alter or change the programme and line-up of the Event at any time without prior notification and to withdraw, cancel or void any Ticket issued to the Event at any time. Should the Event be cancelled or should the programme or line-up be changed, PayPal will not be liable for the payment of any compensation or for any loss of money and/or expenses incurred.
  14. PayPal shall not be liable, in contract or tort (including negligence) or the breach of statutory duty or in any other way, for the loss, damage, cost or expense howsoever arising suffered by you directly or indirectly from the subject matter of these Conditions. Nothing in these Conditions shall limit PayPal’s liability for death, personal injury or fraud.
  15. In these Conditions:
    1. “Application” means a third party software application that contains embedded calls to a PayPal API.  An Application may run on a web-based or non web-based platform.
    2. “API” means application programming interface, which is used by developers to interface with PayPal’s Services.
    3. “Developer’s Tools” means the API, SDK, Documentation, Sandbox, developer portals, technical support, and all other tools, services, and information made available to you by PayPal at the Event, or any other means.
    4. “Documentation” means all written information provided or made available by PayPal including but not limited to information related to the PayPal Services and Developer’s Tools.
    5. “PayPal Services” means the Developer’s Tools, and any other products, services, features, technologies and/or functionalities offered by PayPal on a PayPal owned or operated website or through any other means.
    6. “Sandbox” means the PayPal test environment.
    7. “SDK” means PayPal’s downloadable software developer kit including a package of libraries, applications, Documentation, and sample code.
  16. If you attend the Event as a valid Ticket Holder:
    1. subject to these Conditions, you may access and use the Developer’s Tools in the Sandbox for the duration of and for the sole purpose of your personal (and non-commercial) participation at the Event (“Permitted Activity”).   All accounts and transactions made in the Sandbox are not real and no real money will be transferred.  The Sandbox is provided to you on an “as-is” basis and PayPal does not guarantee up-time or availability.  The Sandbox is solely for testing and cannot be used for any other purpose, including but not limited to tampering, hacking, modifying or otherwise corrupting the security or functionality of the PayPal Services.
    2. PayPal grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use:
      1. the Developer’s Tools in the Sandbox; and
      2. the trademarks (including registered and common law trademarks), trade names, service marks, logos, domain names and designations of PayPal or its products and services, for the duration of and for the sole purpose of the Permitted Activity.
  1. PayPal may provide you with a unique confidential identification code, certificate, and User ID (together the “User ID”) that may permit you to carry out the Permitted Activity.  The User ID is PayPal’s property and may be immediately revoked or terminated by PayPal if you disclose it to a third party or for any other reason deemed necessary by PayPal.  You may not sell, transfer, sublicense, or disclose your User ID to any third party.
  2. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device to create Sandbox accounts, and you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure.  PayPal may close your Sandbox account at any time for any reason in its sole discretion.
  3. PayPal retains all rights, title and interest in all intellectual property embodied in, derived from or associated with the Developer’s Tools, technology and any content created or derived there from. There are no implied licences under these Conditions, and any rights not expressly granted are reserved by PayPal. Except as licensed herein, these Conditions do not transfer any intellectual property rights between the parties.
  4. Subject to these Conditions, PayPal and its licensors grant you a limited nonexclusive license to use PayPal’s software in accordance with the documentation, including all updates, upgrades, new versions and replacement software, as PayPal may provide from time to time, for your personal use only. You may not rent, lease or otherwise transfer your rights in the software to a third party. You must comply with the implementation and use requirements contained in all PayPal documentation accompanying any of PayPal’s software. If you do not comply with PayPal’s implementation and use requirements you will be liable for all resulting damages suffered by you, PayPal and third parties. You agree not to alter, reproduce, adapt, distribute, display, publish, reverse engineer, translate, disassemble, decompile or otherwise attempt to create any source code which is derived from the software. You acknowledge that all rights, title and interest to PayPal’s software are owned by PayPal or its licensors.
  5. The URLs representing the PayPal website(s), “PayPal,” and all related logos of our products and services described in our website(s) are either copyrighted by PayPal, trademarks or registered trademarks of PayPal or its licensors. In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts are either copyrighted by PayPal, service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of PayPal. You may not copy, imitate, modify, alter, amend or use them without our prior written consent. You may not alter, modify or change any HTML logos provided by PayPal in any way, use them in a manner that is disparaging to PayPal or the PayPal Service or display them in any manner that implies PayPal’s sponsorship or endorsement. All right, title and interest in and to the PayPal website and any content thereon is the exclusive property of PayPal and its licensors.
  6. You agree that:
    1. Confidential Information means all information that PayPal provides to you under these Conditions, including but not limited to the following: (i) the Developer’s Tools and all access IDs and passwords, (ii) all information disclosed in writing and marked “confidential”, proprietary”, or with a substantially similar marking, (iii) all information disclosed orally and identified as confidential at the time of the disclosure, and (iv) any other information that by its very nature you understand to be PayPal’s confidential information.
    2. You shall maintain PayPal’s Confidential Information in confidence and shall not disclose it to third parties or use it for any purpose other than as necessary for the Permitted Activity.  In the event that Confidential Information is required to be disclosed by a court, government agency, regulatory requirement, or similar disclosure requirement, you shall immediately notify PayPal and use reasonable efforts to obtain confidential treatment or a protection order of any disclosed Confidential Information. Your obligations hereunder shall survive the termination of this Agreement for a period of three (3) years.
  7. You shall indemnify PayPal (and its employees, directors and agents) against any liability, damage, expense, claim or cost (including reasonable legal fees and costs) suffered by PayPal arising from any breach by you of clauses 15 to 22 (inclusive) of these Conditions.
  8. PayPal reminds Ticket Holders of the nature and limitations of the Internet and is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunctions of any communications network, online system or computer hardware or software that may affect their participation in the Event.
  9. PayPal is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunctions of any communications network, online system or computer hardware or software failure that may affect PayPal’s operation of the Event.
  10. PayPal may use third parties to facilitate one or more elements of the Registration process or the Event or any other event covered by these Conditions and PayPal may provide some of your personally identifiable information to them. These third party service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit the use of the information we provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced PayPal related operation. See the PayPal Privacy Policy for further information.
  11. English Law governs these Conditions.


API Competition Terms

  1. The API Competition (the “Competition”) is open to all UK residents aged 18 years or over, except any employees (and their families) of any PayPal company, its affiliates, subsidiary companies (”PayPal”), any representatives or agents of those companies and anyone else who may be professionally involved with the Competition or the Event (as defined below). PayPal reserves the right to verify the eligibility of entrants.
  2. By entering the Competition you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (“Terms and Conditions”). The paypal.co.uk User Agreement and the terms and conditions of The PayPal Charity Hack Weekend also apply to this Competition and are incorporated into these Terms and Conditions.
  3. To enter the Competition you must:
    1. attend the Event as a Ticket Holder (“Event” and “Ticket Holder” are defined in the terms and conditions of The PayPal Charity Hack Weekend);
    2. create an original API at the Event; and
    3. submit to the PayPal Competition representative attending the Event by 2.00 pm on 20th September 2009 a fully completed entry form containing, without limitation, details of that API.  You can obtain the entry form from the PayPal Competition representative at the Event.
  4. Competition categories: You must state clearly on your entry form which category you are applying for.  You can obtain full details of the categories that you can apply for athttp://charityhack.org/ and from the PayPal Competition representative attending the Event.
  5. You may only submit one entry to the Competition, in one category.
  6. Your API must be your own work and must not be copied. If PayPal has reason to believe your API is not your own work, then PayPal may invalidate your entry into the Competition.
  7. The Competition prizes: You can obtain full details of the prizes for each category at http://charityhack.org/ and from the PayPal Competition representative attending the Event.
  8. An entrant may not win more than one prize. The prizes are not transferable.
  9. A panel of judges will choose the winning entries for the Competition. You can obtain full details about the judges athttp://charityhack.org/ and from the PayPal Competition representative attending the Event.  There will be one winner in each category.
  10. When choosing the winning entries, the judges will be looking for the most functional and innovative application in the relevant category.
  11. The judges’ decision will be made and announced at the Event before the close of the Event. The decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
  12. PayPal reserves the right to appoint new/substitute judges for reasons outside its reasonable control (including, but not limited to, in the case of illness, unavoidable absence, or conflict of interest of any of the judges).
  13. Winners of the Competition will be notified at the Event (or if not present at the time of announcement of winners at the Event, by telephone or email to the telephone number or email address provided to PayPal within 10 working days of 20 September 2009). The prizes (or as the case may be, the means by which the prizes may be claimed) will be sent to each winner within 14 working days of notification.
  14. Entrants shall be responsible for ensuring that the contact details associated with their entry are up to date and accurate so they can be contacted if they win. If PayPal or its authorised agents are not able to contact the winner by midnight 14 days after the first attempted notification, an alternative winner may be chosen by the judges and the original winner’s entitlement will lapse.
  15. PayPal may ask for proof from winners to verify their identity. PayPal may also ask winners to provide proof of their age and/or country of residence.
  16. A full list of prizes and winners’ names and counties will be available by 25 September 2009 on the prize page at http://charityhack.org.
  17. If PayPal has suspicions or knowledge that any entrant has been involved in any fraudulent or illegal activity, PayPal reserves the right to disqualify that entrant and any related entrants.
  18. PayPal may also disqualify any entrant that does not act in accordance with these Terms and Conditions or PayPal’s rules and policies.
  19. Entries, lists and or prizes may be withdrawn by PayPal from people using the Competition in a way in which PayPal deems inappropriate at its sole discretion.
  20. Each entrant’s PayPal account must be in good standing at all times.
  21. In the event of circumstances arising outside of PayPal’s control, which in PayPal’s opinion make it necessary to suspend, change or cancel the Competition, PayPal reserves the right to suspend, change or cancel the Competition at any time. This includes the ability to substitute any prize of equivalent value, change the specification of the prize if circumstances require it or change the entry methods.
  22. PayPal or the prize providers reserve the right to add additional terms and conditions for certain prizes awarded as a part of this Competition.
  23. English Law governs these Terms and Conditions.
  24. PayPal shall not be liable, in contract or tort (including negligence) or the breach of statutory duty or in any other way, for the loss or damage howsoever arising suffered by the entrant resulting directly or indirectly from entry to this Competition. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall limit PayPal’s liability for death, personal injury or fraud.
  25. By entering, each winner irrevocably grants PayPal permission to use his or her name, likeness, biographical and PayPal related information for advertising, promotional or publicity purposes, including on the prize winners page at http://charityhack.org. The winner may also be required to sign a Publicity Release Form.
  26. PayPal does not accept, and is not responsible for, any lost or delayed entries. PayPal reminds entrants of the nature and limitations of the Internet and is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunctions of any communications network, online system or computer hardware or software that may affect entry to the Competition or receipt of prizes.
  27. Although PayPal will use reasonable efforts to ensure that all information relating to the Competition (”Promotional Material”) is accurate, PayPal is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunctions of any communications network, online system or computer hardware or software failure that may affect PayPal’s operation of the Competition or the PayPal site, including without limitation the accuracy of any Promotional Material.
  28. PayPal may use third parties to facilitate one or more elements of this Competition and may provide some of your personally identifiable information to them. These third party service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with PayPal and other legal restrictions that prohibit the use of the information PayPal provides them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced PayPal related operation. See the PayPal Privacy Policy for further information.
  29. The promoter is PayPal (Europe) Sàrl & Cie, SCA, a limited liability partnership registered as number R.C.S. Luxembourg B 118 349, the registered office of which is at 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449, Luxembourg.