AI BUILDER HACKATHON - TERMS AND CONDITIONS

LAST UPDATED: 10.07.2026

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern participation in the AI Builder Hackathon ("Hackathon").
1.2. The Hackathon is organized by Victoria VR Group, a.s., with its registered office at Vaclavske namesti 796/42, Nove Mesto, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic, company identification number: 21924945, registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague, file no. B 29030 ("Organizer", "Victoria VR", "we", "us" or "our").
1.3. By registering for, accessing, participating in, submitting a project to, or otherwise taking part in the Hackathon, each participant agrees to be bound by these Terms.
1.4. These Terms are intended to protect the integrity of the Hackathon, the rights and legitimate interests of the Organizer, other participants, judges and third parties, and to ensure that submissions can be reviewed, tested, presented, promoted and evaluated in a legally compliant manner.
1.5. Participation is voluntary.

2. HACKATHON OVERVIEW

2.1. The Hackathon is an online international developer competition focused on AI Builder.
2.2. The Hackathon will be conducted fully online unless the Organizer announces otherwise.

2.3. The expected timeline is as follows:

2.3.1. registration opens: 10 July 2026, exact time and time zone: 16:00 CEST (UTC+2)
2.3.2. registration closes: 08 September 2026, exact time and time zone: 16:00 CEST (UTC+2)
2.3.3. build period: 11 September 2026 to 11 November 2026, exact start and end time and time zone: 16:00 CEST (UTC+2)
2.3.4. submission deadline: 11 November 2026, exact time and time zone: 16:30 CEST (UTC+2)
2.3.5. winner announcement: 25 November 2026, exact time and time zone: 16:45 CEST (UTC+2)

2.4. The Organizer may change the dates, deadlines, format, winner announcement date, announcement time, prize payment schedule or any other operational aspect of the Hackathon if reasonably necessary or appropriate, including for technical, legal, compliance, operational, security, business, low-participation, force majeure or other legitimate reasons.
2.5. Participants acknowledge that the announced timeline is indicative and that no participant has any claim against the Organizer arising from any delay, postponement, change or cancellation of any date or deadline, including the winner announcement date, except where liability cannot be excluded under applicable law.

3. ELIGIBILITY

3.1. The Hackathon is open only to individuals who:

3.1.1. are at least 18 years old on the date of registration;
3.1.2. have full legal capacity to accept these Terms and participate in the Hackathon;
3.1.3. are legally permitted to participate under the laws applicable to them;
3.1.4. are not excluded under these Terms; and
3.1.5. comply with all requirements communicated by the Organizer.

3.2. Minors are not eligible to participate. The Organizer may disqualify any participant if it determines or reasonably suspects that the participant is under 18 years old.
3.3. Employees, contractors, consultants, advisors and investors of the Organizer or its affiliates, and their immediate family members, are not eligible to participate.
3.4. Companies, studios, universities, associations, institutions or other legal entities may not participate as competing participants. Participation is limited to individuals and informal teams of individuals.
3.5. The Hackathon is open globally in principle. The Organizer may, however, refuse participation, disqualify a participant, withhold a prize or refuse prize payment if participation or payment would be prohibited, restricted or impractical under applicable law, payment rules, tax rules, sanctions, export-control rules, banking restrictions or the Organizer's compliance assessment.
3.6. The Organizer is not required to maintain or publish a fixed list of excluded countries or territories. Eligibility and payment ability may be assessed individually.

3.7. The Organizer may refuse registration, suspend participation, disqualify a participant, withhold a prize or cancel prize payment if the Organizer reasonably determines or suspects that the participant:

3.7.1. is ineligible;
3.7.2. is located in, resident in, ordinarily resident in or participating from a country or territory where participation or payment would be legally or practically restricted;
3.7.3. is unable to receive payment lawfully or practically;
3.7.4. fails to provide requested verification information;
3.7.5. provides false, incomplete, misleading or unverifiable information; or
3.7.6. otherwise creates legal, tax, payment, compliance, reputational or operational risk for the Organizer.

4. REGISTRATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

4.1. Participants must register through the official registration platform designated by the Organizer.
4.2. During registration, participants may be required to provide information including name, email address, country, GitHub profile, Discord handle, team name, company or organization if applicable, selected category and other application or submission details.
4.3. Participants must provide accurate, complete, current and non-misleading information. The Organizer may request additional information at any time to verify eligibility, identity, age, tax status, payment eligibility, team authority, submission ownership or compliance with these Terms.
4.4. Registration is not complete unless the participant accepts these Terms through the required registration mechanism.
4.5. The Organizer may reject, suspend or cancel any registration at its discretion if it reasonably believes that the participant is ineligible, has breached these Terms, has provided inaccurate information or may expose the Organizer to legal, compliance, payment, tax, technical, security, reputational or other risk.
4.6. The Organizer is not responsible for failed, delayed, incomplete, misdirected, corrupted, unavailable or technically defective registrations, communications, uploads, submissions, links, accounts, repositories, forms or platform interactions.

5. TEAMS

5.1. Participants may participate individually or as part of an informal team.
5.2. There is no maximum team size, unless the Organizer later announces otherwise.
5.3. Each participant is able to join only one team for judged submissions.
5.4. Each team may submit a maximum of three judged submissions only.

5.5. Each team must designate one authorized team representative. The team representative is responsible for:

5.5.1. submitting the project on behalf of the team;
5.5.2. ensuring that all team members are eligible to participate;
5.5.3. ensuring that all team members have read, accepted and will comply with these Terms;
5.5.4. ensuring that all team members agree to the submission and to the license granted to the Organizer under these Terms;
5.5.5. ensuring that the team has all rights, approvals and permissions necessary for the submission;
5.5.6. communicating with the Organizer;
5.5.7. providing winner verification and payment information if the team wins;
5.5.8. receiving and distributing any prize if paid to the representative; and
5.5.9. ensuring that, if the Organizer decides to split a prize between individual team members, each relevant team member provides the payment, tax and verification information required by the Organizer.

5.6. The Organizer is entitled to rely on the team representative's acts, confirmations and submissions as binding for the whole team.
5.7. The Organizer is not responsible for disputes between team members, including disputes regarding ownership, authorship, contribution, authority to submit, license grant, entitlement to a prize, prize allocation, prize distribution, tax treatment or future cooperation.
5.8. If any team member breaches these Terms, the Organizer may disqualify the entire team, withhold or revoke any prize, remove the submission or take any other measure available under these Terms.
5.9. The Organizer may require written confirmation from all team members or may disqualify a team if team authority, authorship, ownership, acceptance of these Terms or consent to the submission is disputed or unclear.
5.10. Subject to these Terms, the first ten (10) eligible registrations, whether submitted by an individual participant or by a team, as determined by the Organizer in its sole discretion based on the time of successfully completed registration, may receive financial support intended to facilitate their participation in the Hackathon during the official build period ("AI Development Credit").
5.11. The AI Development Credit is intended solely to assist participants with access to AI development tools or services selected or approved by the Organizer. The maximum value of the AI Development Credit provided to each eligible registration shall not exceed the equivalent of EUR 400 in total for the entire Hackathon build period, or such lower amount as corresponds to the actual cost of the selected subscription or service.
5.12. The Organizer intends to provide the AI Development Credit by bank transfer to the eligible participant or the authorized representative of an eligible team before the commencement of the official Hackathon build period. The recipient shall be solely responsible for selecting, purchasing and managing any AI tools, subscriptions or services using the AI Development Credit. The Organizer shall have no responsibility for the availability, functionality, pricing, licensing terms or continued provision of any AI tools or services selected by the recipient. The expected payment period is between 8 September 2026 and 11 September 2026, although the Organizer may reasonably adjust this period where operational, legal, banking or compliance reasons so require.
5.13. As a condition for receiving the AI Development Credit, each eligible individual participant or the authorized representative of an eligible team shall fully complete and submit the Organizer's AI Development Credit Request Form, together with any information, declarations and supporting documentation reasonably requested by the Organizer, including payment details and any information necessary for identity verification, compliance or payment purposes. The Organizer shall have no obligation to pay the AI Development Credit until it has received a properly completed AI Development Credit Request Form and all required information within the deadline specified by the Organizer. Failure to comply with these requirements may result in forfeiture of the AI Development Credit.

6. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

6.1. Participants must build and submit a browser-based AI Builder project that turns plain language into 3D scenes and working logic using any 3D web browser rendering technology.

6.2. Each submission must include:

6.2.1. public code repository;
6.2.2. hosted browser demo link;
6.2.3. demo video under three minutes;
6.2.4. short written description;
6.2.5. the selected focus category; and
6.2.6. any other materials required by the Organizer.

6.3. The project must be accessible and fully functional through a web browser. The backend may be hosted separately in the cloud, on-premises or in any other hosting environment, provided that it is operational and available for judging throughout the evaluation period.
6.4. Participants may not make material changes to submitted projects after the submission deadline unless expressly permitted by the Organizer. The Organizer may disregard, reject or disqualify any late, altered, incomplete, inaccessible or non-compliant submission.
6.5. Public repositories and demo links must remain accessible throughout judging and publication. Participants must keep public repositories and demo links accessible for the period specified by the Organizer.
6.6. The Organizer's license under these Terms survives even if a participant later removes, hides, disables, privatizes, modifies or deletes a repository, demo, link, video or other submitted material.

7. THIRD-PARTY MATERIALS, OPEN SOURCE AND AI TOOLS

7.1. Participants may use open-source libraries, pre-existing tools, templates, paid marketplace assets, AI coding assistants, AI-generated code or assets and other third-party materials only if:

7.1.1. they have all necessary rights, permissions and licences;
7.1.2. use is lawful;
7.1.3. use is permitted for commercial, promotional, public demo, research, evaluation and internal business use by the Organizer;
7.1.4. use does not restrict or conflict with public repository availability, public demo availability, judging, testing, publication, marketing, promotion, product research, internal evaluation or the licence granted to the Organizer under these Terms;
7.1.5. use does not require the Organizer to disclose, open-source, license, assign or otherwise make available any of its own software, products, know-how, confidential information or proprietary materials;
7.1.6. use complies with all applicable licences, terms of use and third-party requirements;
7.1.7. required attribution, notices, licence texts or source references are included; and
7.1.8. use is clearly disclosed where required.

7.2. Participants must not include or use any component, asset, code, model, dataset, API, tool, service or other material that:

7.2.1. is subject to licence terms incompatible with the Organizer's intended use under these Terms;
7.2.2. is limited to non-commercial, personal, educational, evaluation-only or otherwise restricted use, unless expressly approved by the Organizer in writing;
7.2.3. is subject to copyleft, share-alike, source-available or similar obligations that could require disclosure, licensing or restriction of the Organizer's own software, products or proprietary materials;
7.2.4. is obtained from an unlawful, unreliable, unverified or unauthorized source;
7.2.5. contains or is reasonably suspected to contain malware, spyware, backdoors, credential harvesting tools, tracking mechanisms, malicious code, intentionally introduced vulnerabilities or other harmful elements;
7.2.6. creates unreasonable cybersecurity, supply-chain, privacy, data protection, sanctions, export-control, reputational or compliance risk for the Organizer;
7.2.7. is provided by or connected with a person, entity, country, territory or source that is subject to legal restrictions, sanctions, export-control restrictions, payment restrictions or similar compliance concerns; or
7.2.8. otherwise prevents or materially limits the Organizer from using the submission in accordance with these Terms.

7.3. Participants remain solely responsible for all third-party, open-source, paid, marketplace, AI-generated, employer-provided, university-provided, client-provided, confidential, proprietary or pre-existing materials included in or used for their submission.
7.4. Participants must clearly identify and credit all third-party materials used in their submission, including open-source libraries, paid marketplace assets, AI-generated code or assets, models, datasets, APIs and other external components. The disclosure must include the source, author or provider where available, applicable licence or terms, and any required notices or attribution.
7.5. Use of AI tools does not reduce the participant's responsibility for originality, legality, non-infringement, quality, security, safety, attribution, licence compliance and suitability for the Organizer's use under these Terms.
7.6. The Organizer may require participants to provide additional information about any component, library, asset, model, dataset, API, tool, service or other material used in a submission, including licence terms, source, provenance, security information and evidence of permission to use it.
7.7. The Organizer may remove, hide, disable access to, reject or disqualify any submission at any time if it reasonably believes that the submission or any part of it breaches these Terms, infringes rights, creates legal, technical, cybersecurity, privacy, sanctions, export-control, reputational or other risk, or is otherwise unsuitable for the Hackathon or the Organizer's intended use.

8. ONLINE PARTICIPATION AND THIRD-PARTY PLATFORMS

8.1. The Hackathon is conducted online. Participants are responsible for their own equipment, internet access, software, hardware, accounts, development tools, communication tools, hosting services, repositories, demo infrastructure, licenses, security and compliance with third-party terms.
8.2. The Hackathon may use or reference third-party platforms, including Discord, GitHub, registration platforms, hosting providers, payment providers, analytics tools, social media platforms and other online services.
8.3. The Organizer does not control third-party platforms and is not responsible for their availability, security, performance, terms, privacy practices, outages, restrictions, account suspensions, content removals, data loss or technical failures.
8.4. If Discord is used for support or community communication, participants may be required to join the official Discord channel. Misconduct on Discord or any other public or private communication channel related to the Hackathon may result in removal, disqualification and prize withdrawal.

9. JUDGING

9.1. Submissions will be judged by judges designated by the Organizer. The Organizer is not required to publish the identity of the judges.
9.2. Judging is discretionary. The Organizer and judges may take into account any factors they consider relevant, including technical quality, originality, usefulness, user experience, working functionality, presentation, compliance with these Terms and the overall value of the submission.
9.3. Participants acknowledge that there is no legal entitlement to win, to receive a prize, to be shortlisted, to receive feedback, to receive a particular score or to challenge the judges' decision.
9.4. Judges may test submissions using their own prompts, including prompts outside the participant's chosen focus area.
9.5. Judges' decisions are final, binding and non-appealable.
9.6. The Organizer may decide not to award one or more prizes if, in its discretion, the submissions do not meet the expected standard, are not eligible, are not compliant with these Terms, or if awarding the prize would create legal, tax, payment, compliance, reputational or operational risk.
9.7. Judges should disclose conflicts of interest where reasonably identifiable. The Organizer may adopt any reasonable measure to address an actual or potential conflict of interest, including recusal, replacement of a judge, additional review or internal documentation of the decision.

10. PRIZES

10.1. Subject to these Terms, the expected prizes in the Hackathon are as follows:

10.1.1. 1st place: EUR 10,000;
10.1.2. 2nd place: EUR 5,000;
10.1.3. 3rd place: EUR 3,000;
10.1.4. 4th place: EUR 1,500; and
10.1.5. 5th place: EUR 500.

10.2. The Organizer may publish the same prizes, additional details or operational information on the Organizer's official Hackathon website, platform, registration page or other official Hackathon communication channel designated by the Organizer ("Official Hackathon Page").
10.3. The prize amounts stated in these Terms represent the official prize amounts awarded by the Organizer. Subject to these Terms and applicable law, the Organizer intends that each eligible winner or eligible team member receives the full amount of their respective prize or prize share.
10.4. The Organizer may update, change, reduce, substitute, reallocate or decide not to award any prize in accordance with these Terms, including where there are fewer eligible submissions, submissions do not meet the expected standard, a winner is disqualified, or payment would create legal, tax, payment, compliance, reputational or operational risk.
10.5. Where the Organizer is required by applicable law to withhold or account for withholding tax in connection with a prize payment, the Organizer may, at its own expense, bear such withholding tax so that the eligible winner or eligible team member receives the full prize amount or applicable prize share stated in these Terms, unless applicable law prevents such treatment.
10.6. The winner is responsible for any tax, reporting, filing, registration or other obligations arising in the winner's country of residence, tax residence or any other relevant jurisdiction. The fact that the Organizer withholds tax in the Czech Republic does not necessarily mean that the winner has no further tax obligations in another country.
10.7. The Organizer may issue a confirmation of the prize payment stating, where applicable, the prize amount awarded, any withholding tax accounted for by the Organizer where required by law, the amount transferred to the recipient, the payment currency and other payment information reasonably available to the Organizer. Such confirmation is provided solely for administrative or tax purposes.

10.8. The Organizer may require a winner, potential winner, team representative or any team member entitled to receive a share of the prize to provide, before payment, any information or documents reasonably necessary for prize payment, accounting, tax, legal or compliance purposes, including:

10.8.1. full legal name;
10.8.2. date of birth or confirmation of age;
10.8.3. residential address;
10.8.4. country of tax residence;
10.8.5. tax identification number, if applicable;
10.8.6. tax residency certificate, if requested;
10.8.7. bank account or other payment details agreed with the Organizer;
10.8.8. identification document or other identity verification document, if requested;
10.8.9. declaration of eligibility;
10.8.10. declaration of entitlement to receive the prize or a share of the prize on behalf of a team or as a team member, if applicable;
10.8.11. confirmation that the relevant person is not legally restricted from receiving the prize; and
10.8.12. any other document reasonably requested by the Organizer.

10.9. The payment method will be agreed individually between the Organizer and the winner. The Organizer is not obliged to support any specific payment method.
10.10. Any bank charges, payment provider fees, currency conversion fees, intermediary bank fees or similar costs connected with receiving the prize are borne by the winner and may be deducted from the amount received by the winner.
10.11. If a team wins a prize, the Organizer will allocate the prize equally among all eligible team members unless the Organizer decides otherwise or unless the Organizer and the relevant team members agree otherwise. Each eligible team member must provide all information and documentation reasonably required for eligibility verification, payment, tax and compliance purposes before their respective prize payment is made. The Organizer shall pay each eligible team member directly and shall not be responsible for any dispute regarding team membership or entitlement to receive a share of the prize.
10.12. The Organizer will use reasonable efforts to pay prizes within one month after winner selection, provided that all required information, documentation, verification, tax, payment and compliance checks have been completed to the Organizer's satisfaction.
10.13. Unless the Organizer decides otherwise, prizes will be paid in EUR. If the winner is a Czech tax resident or if Czech tax or payment rules require or justify payment in CZK, the Organizer may pay the prize in CZK. Any exchange rate used for calculating withholding tax, accounting or tax reporting will be determined in accordance with applicable Czech tax and accounting rules.
10.14. The winner is responsible for ensuring that the bank account or payment method provided to the Organizer is able to receive the prize in the relevant currency. The winner bears any currency conversion differences, exchange rate losses, intermediary bank fees, payment provider fees and other costs connected with receiving or converting the prize.

10.15. The Organizer may withhold, suspend, reduce, refuse, substitute, reallocate or not award a prize if:

10.15.1. the winner is ineligible;
10.15.2. the winner fails to provide required information or documents;
10.15.3. the winner provides false, incomplete, misleading or unverifiable information;
10.15.4. payment is legally, technically, commercially or practically impossible;
10.15.5. tax, payment, banking, sanctions, export-control or compliance restrictions apply;
10.15.6. the winner fails to provide an account or payment method to which the prize can be lawfully and practically transferred;
10.15.7. payment is not reasonably possible due to sanctions, payment restrictions, instability of the banking system, restrictions in the winner's country, restrictions of intermediary banks or payment providers, or similar circumstances outside the Organizer's reasonable control;
10.15.8. fraud, cheating, plagiarism, infringement, misconduct or breach of these Terms is suspected or confirmed;
10.15.9. the team representative's authority or a team member's entitlement to receive a prize share is disputed; or
10.15.10. the Organizer reasonably determines that payment would create legal, tax, payment, compliance, reputational or operational risk.

10.16. If, after payment, the Organizer determines that a winner was ineligible, breached these Terms, infringed third-party rights, committed fraud, cheating, plagiarism or other misconduct, or provided false or misleading information, the Organizer may require repayment of the prize in full or in part. The winner must repay the relevant amount within the period specified by the Organizer.
10.17. Each winner may be offered an interview with the Victoria VR team and may be considered for a possible cooperation contract. No interview, cooperation, employment, contractor relationship, investment, acquisition, partnership or future engagement is guaranteed.

11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

11.1. As between the participant and the Organizer, participants retain ownership of the intellectual property rights they hold in their submissions, subject to the license granted to the Organizer under these Terms.
11.2. Participants are solely responsible for ensuring that they own or have all rights necessary to submit their project and grant the license under these Terms.
11.3. If multiple team members contributed to a submission, the team is solely responsible for determining ownership, authorship, contribution shares, licensing authority and internal arrangements between team members.
11.4. By registering for the Hackathon, submitting a project or making submission materials available to the Organizer, each participant grants to the Organizer a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, copy, store, host, display, perform, publish, communicate, make available, distribute, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative materials from, test, evaluate, demonstrate, archive and otherwise use the submission and related materials for the licensed purposes described in these Terms.

11.5. The licensed purposes include:

11.5.1. organizing, running, administering, documenting and archiving the Hackathon;
11.5.2. registration, submission review, judging, testing, technical review, security review and compliance review;
11.5.3. demonstrations to judges, advisors, internal teams, affiliates, service providers and relevant stakeholders;
11.5.4. publication of Hackathon results;
11.5.5. marketing and publicity relating to the Hackathon, Victoria VR, AI Builder and related products or services;
11.5.6. website publication, social media, Discord, GitHub references, YouTube, paid advertising, newsletters, press materials and hackathon platforms;
11.5.7. investor materials, business presentations and commercial presentations;
11.5.8. product research, business research, market testing, benchmarking, internal product evaluation and commercial evaluation;
11.5.9. internal review, learning, ecosystem development, technical analysis and product development assessment;
11.5.10. use for the Organizer's commercial, business, promotional, research, evaluation and strategic purposes, provided that such use does not constitute an assignment of ownership of the submission to the Organizer;
11.5.11. legal defence, dispute handling, fraud prevention, audit and compliance; and
11.5.12. any other use reasonably necessary or related to the Hackathon and the Organizer's legitimate business, commercial, legal, compliance, marketing, promotional, research and evaluation purposes.

11.6. The Organizer may sublicense or otherwise make submission materials available to its affiliates, officers, employees, contractors, judges, advisors, legal advisors, tax advisors, marketing vendors, agencies, platform providers, payment providers, technical service providers and other recipients where reasonably necessary for the licensed purposes.
11.7. The license survives the end of the Hackathon, removal of a submission from public access, deletion of a repository, withdrawal from the Hackathon, disqualification or termination of participation.
11.8. The license does not require the Organizer to use, publish, promote, maintain, host, review or continue displaying any submission.
11.9. Any further development, acquisition, exclusive license, assignment, employment, contractor relationship, commercial product integration, support obligation, maintenance obligation or other cooperation between the Organizer and a participant requires a separate written agreement. No such relationship is created by participation, submission, judging, winning, finalist status, interview or prize payment.
11.10. The licence granted under this Article is provided to the Organizer free of charge. The Participant acknowledges and agrees that no additional fee, remuneration, compensation or other payment shall be due to the Participant in connection with the grant or exercise of this licence.

12. PARTICIPANT WARRANTIES AND INDEMNITY

12.1. Each participant represents and warrants that:

12.1.1. the submission does not infringe or misappropriate any intellectual property, privacy, publicity, moral, confidentiality, contractual, employment, university, client or other third-party rights;
12.1.2. the submission does not contain illegal, unsafe, malicious, harmful, offensive, discriminatory, defamatory, misleading, fraudulent or otherwise prohibited content;
12.1.3. they have complied with all open-source licenses and third-party terms;
12.1.4. they have properly credited third-party and AI-generated materials where required;
12.1.5. they have not used confidential information or proprietary materials of an employer, client, university or third party without authorization;
12.1.6. participation and submission do not breach obligations owed to an employer, client, university, sponsor, investor, collaborator or other third party;
12.1.7. the submission does not contain malware, spyware, viruses, harmful code or security vulnerabilities intentionally included by the participant;
12.1.8. they will cooperate reasonably with the Organizer in relation to verification, IP claims, compliance checks, prize payment and dispute handling; and
12.1.9. the submission does not include any software, source code, models, datasets, technology, documentation or other materials whose export, transfer, disclosure or use by the Organizer would violate applicable export-control laws, trade sanctions or similar legal restrictions.

12.2. The Organizer may require evidence supporting any warranty in this clause and may disqualify a participant or withhold a prize if such evidence is not provided to the Organizer's satisfaction.

12.3. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, each participant agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Organizer, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, advisors, judges, service providers and representatives from and against any claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, penalties, costs and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in connection with:

12.3.1. the participant's breach of these Terms;
12.3.2. ineligibility or false information;
12.3.3. infringement or alleged infringement of third-party rights;
12.3.4. misuse of open-source, paid, third-party, AI-generated, confidential, employer, client, university or proprietary materials;
12.3.5. unlawful, unsafe, malicious, harmful, offensive or non-compliant submissions;
12.3.6. cheating, plagiarism, fraud, misconduct or code of conduct violations;
12.3.7. disputes between team members;
12.3.8. tax, payment or compliance issues caused by the participant;
12.3.9. breach of third-party platform terms;
12.3.10. any other act or omission by the participant in connection with the Hackathon.
12.3.11. any breach of applicable export-control laws, trade sanctions or similar legal restrictions in connection with the participant, the submission or any materials included in it;

12.4. If indemnity is not fully enforceable under applicable law, the participant remains responsible to the maximum extent permitted by law for losses, damages, costs and expenses caused by their breach, misconduct, unlawful act, negligence, infringement or non-compliance.

13. PUBLICITY, MARKETING AND PRIVACY

13.1. By accepting these Terms, each participant consents, to the extent required under applicable civil law, to the Organizer's use of the participant's name, username, GitHub profile, Discord handle, team name, project name, project description, repository link, demo link, demo video, screenshots, interviews, testimonials, statements and other submitted or Hackathon-related materials for the purposes of presenting, documenting, announcing and promoting the Hackathon, the Organizer, AI Builder and related products or services.
13.2. The Organizer may use the materials referred to in clause 13.1 on its website, social media, Discord, YouTube, newsletters, press materials, paid advertising, hackathon platforms, investor materials and other promotional or business communication channels.
13.3. This consent is granted free of charge, worldwide, for the duration of the intellectual property rights or personality rights concerned, unless a shorter mandatory period applies under applicable law.
13.4. Participants may promote their own participation and submissions publicly, provided that they do not imply endorsement, partnership, employment, investment, acquisition, sponsorship or official relationship with the Organizer beyond participation in the Hackathon, do not misuse Victoria VR names, logos, trademarks, brands, visuals or materials, and do not damage or adversely affect the reputation, goodwill or public image of Victoria VR, the Organizer, AI Builder, related products or services, or any affiliated or connected persons.

14. CONDUCT, CHEATING AND DISQUALIFICATION

14.1. Participants must behave respectfully, lawfully, fairly and professionally in all Hackathon-related activities, communications, submissions, demos, public posts, repositories, Discord channels and interactions with the Organizer, judges, participants and third parties.

14.2. The following conduct is prohibited:

14.2.1. harassment, hate speech, discrimination, threats, abusive or harmful communication, spam, fraud, cheating, plagiarism, impersonation, submission of copied projects, IP infringement, malicious code, illegal or unsafe content, misuse of third-party platforms, disruption of Hackathon operations, attempts to manipulate judging, unauthorized access to systems, accounts, repositories, demos, platforms or data, reputationally harmful conduct, and any other conduct the Organizer reasonably considers inconsistent with the Hackathon.

14.3. The Organizer may investigate suspected violations and may request information, evidence, explanations, repository history, commit history, license information, identity verification, team confirmations or other materials.
14.4. The Organizer may compare submissions with public repositories, prior projects, online materials, third-party tools, AI-generated outputs, marketplace assets and other sources.
14.5. If cheating, plagiarism, fraud, misconduct or any other breach of these Terms is confirmed or reasonably suspected, the Organizer may take any reasonable measure, including warning, content removal, access restriction, removal from Discord or other channels, submission rejection, disqualification, prize withholding, prize revocation, repayment request, reporting to authorities and other remedies available under these Terms or applicable law.
14.6. The Organizer is not required to resolve intellectual property, authorship, ownership or licensing disputes between Participants or between Participants and third parties and may act based on the information reasonably available to it.
14.7. Reports of misconduct should be submitted through [email protected] or, where applicable, through the official Discord channel.

15. CHANGES, CANCELLATION AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

15.1. The Organizer may modify, suspend, cancel, postpone, shorten, extend, terminate or otherwise change the Hackathon, these Terms, deadlines, judging, prizes, communication channels, submission requirements or any other aspect of the Hackathon if the Organizer reasonably considers it necessary or appropriate. Reasons may include technical failures, platform outages, cyber incidents, security issues, fraud, cheating, plagiarism, manipulation, low participation, insufficient quality of submissions, legal, tax, accounting, payment or compliance issues, force majeure, business reasons, reputational risks or circumstances outside the Organizer's reasonable control.
15.2. The Organizer is not liable for cancellation, modification, suspension, postponement or termination of the Hackathon except to the extent liability cannot be excluded under applicable law.
15.3. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Organizer is not liable for lost profits, lost revenue, lost opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss of data, loss of business or indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary or consequential damages.
15.4. The Organizer is not liable for technical failures, outages, delays, corrupted files, inaccessible links, repository issues, hosting failures, internet failures, platform restrictions, third-party service failures, participant mistakes, late submissions, incorrect information, tax, payment or banking restrictions, disputes between team members, third-party claims relating to participant submissions, unauthorized use of submissions by third parties after public publication, or any event outside the Organizer's reasonable control.
15.5. The Hackathon, platforms, communications, judging and any related materials are provided "as is" and "as available". The Organizer does not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free operation, availability of third-party platforms, successful submission, prize payment, employment, cooperation, commercial success, investment, acquisition or any particular outcome.

16. FINAL PROVISIONS

16.1. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Czech Republic, excluding conflict-of-law rules to the extent permitted.
16.2. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with the Hackathon or these Terms shall be submitted to the competent courts of the Czech Republic, unless mandatory law provides otherwise.
16.3. Nothing in these Terms limits any mandatory rights that cannot be excluded or restricted under applicable consumer, data protection, minor protection, tax or other mandatory laws.
16.4. The Organizer may update these Terms where reasonably necessary, including for legal, tax, payment, operational, technical, security or business reasons. Updated Terms will be made available through official Hackathon channels. Continued participation after publication of updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
16.5. If any provision of these Terms is invalid, unenforceable or ineffective, the remaining provisions remain in full force and effect.
16.6. Failure by the Organizer to enforce any provision does not constitute a waiver.
16.7. The English version of these Terms is controlling. Any translations are for convenience only, unless the Organizer expressly states otherwise.
16.8. Questions regarding the Hackathon should be sent to:
16.9. Victoria VR Group, a.s.
16.10. Email:

[email protected]

16.11. Contact address: Vaclavske namesti 796/42, Nove Mesto, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic