Article 1. ORGANISATION
The "Organising Company" hereinafter The EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY (ESC), registered at the following address: Maison Européenne du Cœur, 2035 Route des Colles – Les Templiers – CS80179 Biot, 06903 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS Cedex France represented by its Managing Director (CEO) BARDINET Isabel, is organising during the ESC Congress 2021- The Digital Experience from 27 to 30 August 2021 a prize contest (hereinafter the “Quiz”) for ESC Professional Members, Fellows of the ESC (FESC), its specialty Associations Ivory, Silver, Gold Members and fellows who are registered to the ESC Congress 2021. The Quiz will be available from the ESC Congress 2021 digital platform in a dedicated webpage called “Member Home”. The Quiz is called:
“The Ultimate ESC Quiz”
Below are the Terms and Conditions applicable to this Quiz.
Article 2. PARTICIPATION
Participation in the Quiz is open to all ESC Professional Members fellows of the ESC (FESC), specialty Association Ivory, Silver, Gold Members and Fellows who have registered for ESC Congress 2021. Employees and staff of the Organising Company are not eligible to participate in the Quiz nor win prizes.
The Participant confirms that any data provided as part of his/her participation is accurate. Any misrepresentation or incorrect and / or incomplete declaration automatically results in the cancellation of his/her participation.
Article 3. DURATION AND PRINCIPLE
The Quiz opens on Friday, 27 August and closes 12:00 CEST on Monday, 30 August 2021.
The Quiz is accessible from the Member Home page of ESC Congress 2021 – The Digital Experience, through a dedicated link. Daily questions will be released from Friday, 27 August to Monday, 30 August. Each day, five questions will be presented so there are a total of twenty questions (four days of Congress).
Points will be allocated to participants based on correct answers.
Depending on the difficulty of the question, the maximum of points which could be won range from 100 to 300 points per question. A leaderboard ranking will be made among participants, based on the points and speed of response for each question. The nominative leaderboard ranking will be displayed on the Quiz webpage.
When the Quiz closes, the top three participants displayed on the leaderboard will be the winners of the Quiz (hereinafter the “Winners”) and will receive a prize, as defined in Article 4.
Article 4. THE PRIZES
The three Winners will each receive a free registration for ESC Congress 2022. The Winners will have the choice of either a registration to the in-person or online 2022 ESC Congress. The free registration is not transferrable and is nominative. The prizes do not include travel and hosting costs.
Any false identity or email address provided will result in the Winner’s elimination. Similarly, the Organising Company reserves the right to take legal action, by all means necessary, against anyone attempting to abuse these Terms and Conditions.
The prizes may not give rise, on the part of the Winner, to any dispute of any kind, nor to the award of their equivalent value in money, nor to their replacement or exchange for any reason whatsoever.
In case of force majeure (as defined in Article 8), or if the circumstances so require, the Organising Company reserves the right to replace the prize won by a prize of equal or greater value.
Article 5. DESIGNATION OF THE WINNER
The Winners will be notified directly by e-mail within one month after the closing of ESC Congress 2021.
The Organising Company may not be held responsible for any misdirected e-mails.
Article 6. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION - DATA PROTECTION ACT
The information provided by Participants is subject to computerised processes to handle the organisation of the Quiz.
The data controller is the Organising Company.
For the organisation of the Quiz, the Organising Company will collect the following personal data: Name, email and contact details.
Personal data are collected and processed for the following purposes: management of the Quiz, information of the Winners, display of the participant names on the leaderboard, promotion of the Winners (including on social medias), grant of the free registrations for the ESC Congress 2022, management of claims in relation with the Quiz.
Personal data that are collected and processed for the abovementioned purposes are retained for a period covering the organisation of the Quiz and the management of the prize delivery. The Organising Company undertakes to delete all personal data that are no longer necessary, after the accomplishment of the purposes.
Personal data of participants may be transferred to third party service providers of the Organising Company for the management of the Quiz and prize delivery.
In accordance with the chapter 3 of the European Regulation 2016/679 with regards to data protection, participants have the right to request from Organising Company, access to and rectification or erasure of their personal data or restriction of processing concerning their data or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability. For such, please send a request to the following e-mail address: dataprivacy@escardio.org or to Data Privacy, European Society of Cardiology, Les Templiers, 2035 Route des Colles, CS 80179 Biot, 06903 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS CEDEX, France. Please be aware that a proof of identity may be required during the process.
Participants have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, and for information, the Organising Company has appointed a Data Protection Officer that can be reached at dpo@escardio.org.
ARTICLE 7. LIABILITY / FORCE-MAJEURE / EXTENSION / APPENDICES
The responsibility of the Organising Company is limited to the maximum overall amount of the prize involved.
The Organising Company cannot be held liable for any damage of any kind to a participant arising out of his/her participation in the Quiz.
The Organising Company cannot be responsible for any direct or indirect damage resulting from an interruption, a malfunction whatsoever, a suspension or the end of the Quiz, regardless of the reason.
The Organising Company cannot be held liable, in the event the Quiz operation is modified, shortened or cancelled due to a force majeure (as defined by French law) or to any event beyond its control.
In all cases, the Organising Company reserves the right to extend or reduce the participation period.
Additions, or in case of force majeure, modifications to these Terms and Conditions may occur during the Quiz. However, any changes in this respect will be notified beforehand by the Organising Company, using all appropriate means, in particular through its website.
The Organising Company reserves the right to use any recourse against, and in particular to prosecute anyone who makes use of cheating, fraud, falsification or disrupting the operations described herein, or, who may have attempted to do so.
Any Quiz participant who is considered by the Organising Company to have disrupted the Quiz operation in any of the aforementioned ways will immediately lose his/her rights to receive any winning prize, without being entitled to any claim.
Article 8. COMPLAINTS
Any dispute or claim must be made by e-mail to the Organising Company to the following address: membership@escardio.org.
The email must specify the participant’s full details and the exact reason for the claim. Any other means of contestation or claim may not be considered.
Article 9. ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES
Participation in the Quiz implies full acceptance of these Terms and Conditions
Any issue arising out of the interpretation or application of these Terms and Conditions shall be resolved at Organising Company’s discretion
Requests by telephone regarding the interpretation or application of these Terms and Conditions, the mechanisms or the terms of the Quiz or on the designation of the Winners will not be answered.
Article 10. AVAILABILITY OF THE RULES
The present Terms and Conditions are available on web address
Article 11. APPLICABLE LAW
The Quiz, the Terms and Conditions and their interpretation are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts and governed by French law.
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