TikTok Shop Developer Challenge

Official Rules

No Purchase Necessary

Challenge is void where prohibited. By entering, each Participant accepts and agrees to be bound by these Terms. Failure to comply with these Terms may result in disqualification.

TikTok proudly presents the TikTok Shop Developer Challenge (this "Challenge"), a promotional competition where developers are challenged to create apps and app concepts. The Challenge will be held from February 1 - March 21st at 11:59PM PT, 2024 (the "Challenge Period"). Winning participants will be selected by a panel of judges including team members from TikTok and a third party judge in accordance with the Winner Selection section below and rewarded accordingly.

This Challenge and all participants shall be subject to the terms and conditions set out below (these "Terms").

The Challenge is sponsored and administered by the TikTok entity that offers the TikTok video platform (the "Platform") in your country ("Sponsor","we", "us" or "our") which is solely responsible for this Challenge.

If you are resident in the United States, the Platform is provided by TikTok Inc; if you reside in the United Kingdom or EU, the Platform is provided by TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited; if you reside in any other location, the Platform is provided by TikTok Pte Ltd., a Singapore entity.

These Terms form a binding legal agreement between us and the participants of this Challenge (the "Participant" or "you") in the Challenge, and set forth terms and conditions for participating in the Challenge available on the application owned or controlled by us, including, without limitation, TikTok, our related websites, services, applications, products and content owned or controlled by us.

These Terms are subject to, and shall also include, TikTok Shop Partner Center Terms of Service, TikTok Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, as may be amended from time to time (together the "TikTok Policies").

1. Eligible Participants

Only the following individuals or groups will be eligible to participate in the Challenge:
- individuals who are at least 18 years of age or the age of majority in your country of residence as of the start date of the Challenge;
- You are a resident of a jurisdiction where entry in the Challenge is not prohibited by law, regulation, or similar;
- Your participation in the Challenge is not in violation of any law or regulation applicable to you;
- You are not a resident of, citizen, or located in a geographic area that is subject to UN-, US-, EU-, Swiss or any other sovereign country sanctions or embargoes;
- You, nor, if applicable, any third party entities that you represent is (i) listed or associated with any person or entity being listed on any denied persons or sanctions list of any government, (ii) is a person identified as a terrorist organization or any other relevant lists maintained by any governmental authority;

Employees, officers and contractors of TikTok, and their immediate family and/or household members, are not eligible to participate.

Violation of these Terms, the TikTok Policies and/or applicable law may result in disqualification from this Challenge and TikTok Shop Partner Center account suspension.

We reserve the right to disqualify any participant who does not comply with TikTok Policies and/or any applicable laws.

2. How to Participate in the Challenge

Eligible Participants must perform all the following tasks ("Tasks") to participate in the Challenge:
1. Sign-up for the Developer Summit on the Challenge Page
2. Sign-up to TikTok Shop Partner Center: https://partner.tiktokshop.com/account/sign-up
3. For Category 1, submit an app as described on the Challenge Page through TikTok Shop Partner Center
4. For Category 2, submite an app concept as described in the Challenge Page.

Once an App or concept is actually received by us, they are referred to in these Terms as an "Entry". You may enter as many Entries as you want.

Entry(ies) must be submitted between February 1 - March 21st at 11:59PM PT ("Entry Period").

Entries will be declared invalid if they are late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, or otherwise irregular. The sole determinant of time for the purposes of this Challenge, including receipt of a valid Entry, will be the Challenge computer servers. Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means are void.

No purchase or payment is necessary to participate or win, and a purchase or payment does not increase the chances of winning.

3. Submission Requirements

All Entries must meet all of the following requirements:
- Entries must follow the instructions on the Challenge Page.
- Entries must follow all applicable laws and all TikTok Policies.
- You represent and warrant that each Entry you submit is original to you and exclusively created and owned by you (or include content that is in the public domain or assets from within TikTok Shop Partner Center, and that you have all rights, licenses and authorizations necessary to all content within the Entry, including written permission from anyone appearing in the Entry (if under 18 or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, written permission from their parents or legal guardians) required to grant the license specified herein to TikTok.

Any Entry deemed by TikTok to be in violation of the above, or that is otherwise inappropriate, will be disqualified by TikTok.

4. Winner selection

Winning Entries will be selected by a panel of judges including team members from TikTok and a third party judge based on subjective and objective criteria as listed below:

Category 1 (Connector App):

Scoring Criteria

Scoring Criteria

Category 2 (Innovation Concepts):

7 winners ("Winners") will be eligible to obtain a Reward. Limit one (1) Reward per person/group for each of Category 1 and 2. For Participants who enter multiple Entries in a given Category, only the highest scoring entry (according to the above criteria) will be taken into consideration.

Each reward ("Reward") is set out below:

Contest Prizes

Evaluation will occur between March 22 - March 28th ("Scoring Period").

There will be no public leaderboard during the Challenge.

Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Challenge Period.

If travel to the TikTok Shop Developer Summit is not possible, we will notify you in writing on March 29th.

5. Rewards Conditions

You acknowledge and agree that you are not entitled to any monetary payment for your participation in the Challenge.

Rewards cannot be transferred and are not exchangeable, assignable, substitutable nor replaceable.

We are not responsible for a potential winner's inability or unwillingness to accept or a Reward for any reason.

If you are subject to any taxes (including any penalties or interest thereon) and expenses imposed by any jurisdiction in relation to a Reward, subject to any unwaivable local consumer law rights you may benefit from, you will be responsible for the payment of such taxes (including any related penalties or interest) to the relevant tax authority.

We reserve the right to correct any unintended error, remove and/or to disqualify any participant or Entry which does not comply with TikTok Policies and/or any applicable laws at any stage of the Challenge including after determination and announcement of winners.

We reserve the right to suspend, postpone or cease the Challenge at any time for legitimate reasons without prior notification and award the Rewards based on eligible Entries received prior to such cancellation, modification, or suspension.

Our decisions will be final and binding in all matters relating to this Challenge, including interpretation of these Terms, selection of the winners, and awarding of the Rewards. In addition, you acknowledge and agree that we have the sole discretion to disqualify any Participant who is sufficiently acquainted with any person or entity connected with the development, administration, judging or other exploitation of this Challenge such that his or her participation in the Challenge could potentially create the appearance of unfairness or impropriety.

6. Notification and Receipt of Rewards

All Winners will be announced at the TikTok Shop Developer Summit on March 28-29, 2024.

Rewards will be distributed to each Winner within ten (14) business days after the Winner has been successfully contacted and fulfilled all requirements.

If you object to your name or company name profile picture being made public in this way, and you do not wish to participate in the Challenge, you can opt out of this Challenge.

We may notify Winners to claim the Rewards via email. Winners must follow the directions in their notification (if any) to claim the Reward, which may include signing an authorization letter and providing necessary IP license documentation and/or showing proof of being an authorized account holder. We reserve the right to disqualify any Participant and/or Entry in our sole and absolute discretion. If any potential winner cannot be contacted and confirmed a Winner as above, or in the event that any Reward is not successfully claimed, the Reward may be forfeited and an alternative potential Winner may be selected at TikTok's sole discretion. We are not responsible for any unsuccessful Reward claims or any failed attempts to contact a potential winner.

We are obliged to make public or available information proving that a valid identification of the Winners and delivery of the Reward has taken place. To this end, we will share the surname and region of the Winners with anyone who contacts us within one month of the end of the Challenge Period pursuant to the below Winners List section, in this regard, through your participation in the Challenge, you grant us consent to do so. If you object to your last name and country being made public in this way, please send us a Privacy Report. In this regard, please note that this information may need to be shared with the relevant regulatory bodies at their request.

7. Personal Data

We will only process your personal data for purposes related to the execution and administration of the Challenge, including Tasks and the processing of the Challenge Participants' personal data, in accordance with our Privacy Policy and these Terms. You may exercise your data protection rights by contacting us via the Privacy Report.

We will display Winners' username, profile picture and Entry on the Challenge page, in accordance with our Privacy Policy. If you do not want your username, profile picture being displayed, you may opt out of the Challenge at any time.

If Winners are not willing to provide the necessary personal information for Reward delivery (such as name and address for delivery of physical rewards), we may not be able to deliver part or whole of the Reward. By choosing to not provide such personal data, you acknowledge that you will not receive any relative Reward from this Challenge and will release and discharge us from any obligations in relation to it, and undertake to not submit any claim to us with respect to any matter related to this Challenge.

8. License

By participating in the Challenge, you acknowledge that your Entry(ies) and the documents and information submitted to and in connection with the Challenge are subject to TikTok Policies and include, without limitation, to our rights of use and display your Entries for the purposes of administering and promoting the Challenge. By participating in this Challenge, you accept the potential requirement to sign an authorization letter.

For the avoidance of doubt, you further grant us an unconditional irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable, perpetual worldwide license to use, exploit, copy, distribute, communicate to the public, and adapt your Entry(ies) and the demo video(s) thereof on the Platform, and any other platforms and all modes, media and formats (whether in existence now or invented in the future), including without limitation, digital and Internet platforms, live events/concerts, and all activities, products, services and platforms owned, whether or not controlled or operated by TikTok or affiliates, for commercial or non-commercial purposes. To the extent applicable, you waive all moral rights to the and/or Entry when used for these purposes.

9. Abuse of the Challenge

We reserve the right to disqualify you from the Challenge, or to not award any Rewards, if we have reasonable grounds to believe that you:
- have tampered with or attempted to tamper with the process or the operation of the Challenge;
- have breached these Terms;
- have committed acts with the intent to annoy or harass any other person;
- have engaged in any activity which is not in the spirit of the Challenge that attempts to inappropriately manipulate your chances of being awarded Rewards; and/or
- have made any misrepresentations in respect of, abused or employed, any illegal or criminal activity (including fraud) in connection with the Challenge.

Tasks performed by agents or those automatically generated by a computer, or other automatic methods will not be eligible and will not be counted.

10. Limitation of Our Liability and Indemnification

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we are not responsible for any event of "force majeure" (including, without limitation, natural disasters, activities of government agencies, cyberattacks, pandemics, and system failures which may in any way interfere with or impede the Challenge or result in loss, damage or disappointment suffered by you as a result of your participation in (or inability to join) the Challenge.

Insofar as permitted by law, we will not assume any responsibility or liability for any inaccurate or failed electronic data transfer, technical faults, failed entries nor any inaccessibility or unavailability of the internet or TikTok.

The Challenge and the Rewards are provided for personal use only and we shall not be liable for any commercial loss.

We will not be responsible for lost, late, damaged, defaced, incomplete, stolen, illegible, indiscernible, mutilated, illegally obtained, or misdirected Entries, for any computer, online, software, hardware or technical malfunctions, or for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Challenge, or announcement of the Rewards and/or all Challenge-related materials.

By entering this Challenge, Participant agrees that it forever discharges, releases, holds harmless, and will indemnify and defend, Sponsor and each of its parent companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of their directors, officers, employees, and agents (collectively, “Released Parties”) from any and all liability, claims, losses, damages, causes of action, suits, and demands of any kind (including, without limitation, any violation of personal right such as right of publicity or privacy, and claims of intellectual property infringement) (“Claims”) arising from or in connection with the Challenge, however caused. Additionally, Participant agrees to indemnify Released Parties from and against any Claims.

We assume no responsibility or liability in the event that a Challenge cannot be conducted as planned for any reason, including those reasons beyond our control.

11. General

If any of these clauses are found to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable then that clause shall be deleted from these Terms and the remaining clauses shall remain full in force and effect.

This Challenge is skill-based and does not involve any form of luck or auctions. There is no charge for participation in the Challenge. Other than as expressly set out in these Terms, we do not make any promises or commitments about the Challenge, such as the specific function of the Challenge, or its reliability, availability, or ability to meet your needs. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify these Terms or to cancel, modify, terminate, or suspend the Challenge (except where prohibited by law) at any time, and in such event, to select Winners as we deem equitable in our sole discretion.

Participants shall not assign, sell, transfer, delegate or otherwise dispose of, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by operation of law or otherwise, these Terms or any or its rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent.

If you are based in the US, you agree that the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of these Terms, and that you and TikTok are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action. This arbitration provision will survive any termination of these Terms. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules including, if you are an individual, the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes. If you are not an individual or have entered the Challenge on behalf of an entity, the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes will not be used. The AAA's rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778- 7879. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA's rules. If you are an individual and have not accessed or entered the Misison on behalf of an entity, we will reimburse those fees for claims where the amount in dispute is less than $10,000, unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous, and we will not seek attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous.

All intellectual property, including but not limited to trade-marks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, illustrations, slogans and representations are owned by TikTok and/or its affiliates. All rights are reserved.

TikTok reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate any Challenge, in whole or in part, and/or modify, amend or suspend any Challenge, and/or these Terms in any way, at any time, for any reason without prior notice.

All Challenges are subject to applicable federal, state, territorial provincial and local laws and regulations. These Terms are subject to change without notice in order to comply with any applicable laws or the policy of any other entity having jurisdiction over TikTok.

For questions related to the Challenge, you may send an email to partner.us@tiktokshop.com.

12. Winners List

All Winners of this Challenge will be announced on the Challenge Prompt Page.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, AS A CONDITION OF ENTRY INTO THE COMPETITION, ALL ENTRANTS AGREE TO RELEASE, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP, ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARY, AFFILIATED, RELATED AND SUCCESSOR COMPANIES, AND EACH OF THE FOREGOING ENTITIES’ RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES AND EMPLOYEES, FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITY, CLAIMS OR ACTIONS OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER FOR INJURIES, DAMAGES, OR LOSSES TO PERSONS OR PROPERTY WHICH MAY BE SUSTAINED IN CONNECTION WITH: PARTICIPATING IN ANY ASPECT OF THE COMPETITION; THE RECEIPT, OWNERSHIP OR USE OF ANY PRIZE AWARDED, OR; ANY TYPOGRAPHICAL OR OTHER ERROR IN THESE OFFICIAL RULES OR ANY CTA POSTS OR OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO THE COMPETITION. THE WINNERS SHALL BEAR ALL RISK OF LOSS OR DAMAGE TO THEIR PRIZE AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN DELIVERED. PARAMOUNT MAKEs NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE APPEARANCE, SAFETY OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY PRIZE(S).