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Terms and Conditions 鈥� 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Nature Positive Challenge 2024

The 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Nature Positive Challenge 2024 (the 鈥楥丑补濒濒别苍驳别鈥�) is organised by 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 (ABN 51 194 660 183) of International Towers Sydney, Tower 3, Level 38, 300 Barangaroo Avenue, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia (鈥�乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网鈥�, 鈥榳e鈥�, 鈥榦ur鈥�, 鈥榰s鈥�).

In these terms, all references to 鈥楢辫辫濒颈肠补苍迟鈥� and 鈥榶辞耻鈥� refer to an applicant participating in the Challenge.

By participating in the Challenge, you accept these terms and conditions, both on your own behalf and on behalf of any company or partnership through which you enter the Challenge.

1 Entry requirements

General participation

In order to participate in the Challenge, you must:

1. Complete an Application Form and optional supporting document before midnight AEST on Friday 8 Nov 2024 (the 'Closing Date'); and
2. be available to attend a virtual pitch event during the week commencing 9 December 2024, if your entry progresses to that stage. Shortlisted Applicants will be informed of further details of this event in due course.

You may not submit more than one entry. There is no charge for participating in the Challenge.

2 Who can enter?

In order to participate in the Challenge, an Applicant must:

• reside in Australia, PNG or Fiji;
• be aged 18 or over (in the case of a director or manager of a corporate Applicant, and also in the case of an Applicant who is a natural person);
• hold an Australian Business Number (or equivalent in PNG or Fiji); and
• demonstrate positive outcomes for this year鈥檚 themes of regenerative economy or sustainable food systems.

The following persons are ineligible to participate in the Challenge:

• 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Partners, employees, contractors and their immediate family members; and
• 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 audit clients, their related entities and each of their affiliates.

For the purposes of this clause 2:

• a 鈥溊钟悖↙eyu）体育官网 audit client鈥� is a client of 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 for which 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 has provided audit services; and
• 鈥渞elated entity鈥� has the meaning given to it in the Corporations Act 2001 and APES 110 (Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants).

By participating in the Challenge, you warrant that you meet the eligibility requirements set out in this clause 2.

3 Assessment process

Applications submitted through the online application form will be assessed after the Closing Date. 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 will evaluate applications against the criteria referred to in the application form, including: impact, team, innovative solution and business model.

Subject to 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网鈥檚 applicable screening and independence checks, five finalists will be shortlisted and invited to pitch their solutions to an expert panel comprised of both 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 and non-乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 members. One of these finalists will be a First Nations business (according to Supply Nation鈥檚 definition, an Indigenous business is one that is at least 50% owned by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person/s.)

The panel鈥檚 selection of the winner will be final, and Applicants will be notified of the result in writing. Finalists will be provided with written or verbal feedback on their pitches. The winners will be notified in writing by close of business (AEST) on 24 January 2025.

乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Partners and staff will vote to determine which of the finalists will receive the People鈥檚 Choice Prize. The prize is a no strings attached cash injection. The winner of the People鈥檚 Choice Prize will be notified in writing before close of business (AEST) on [7 February 2024].

4 Prizes

Finalist prizes:

To assist with scaling up their businesses, and subject to applicable conflict and independence checks, the five finalists will each receive up to A$50,000 worth of pro-bono services from 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Australia. Finalists will be entitled to access these pro-bono services from the date they are selected as finalists, until 31 December 2025. Finalists will also be entitled to identify their business as 鈥渁 finalist in the 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Nature Positive Challenge鈥�.

First prize:

The winner will receive a cash prize of A$100,000.

Subject to any written directions from 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 from time to time, the winner will be entitled to identify their business as 鈥渢he winner of the 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Nature Positive Challenge鈥�. For the avoidance of doubt, this does not include any right to reproduce or publish the 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 logo or brand.

People鈥檚 Choice Prize:

The winner of the People鈥檚 Choice Prize (as voted by 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Partners and staff) will be entitled to identify their business as 鈥渢he winner of the People鈥檚 Choice Prize in the 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 Nature Positive Challenge鈥� and will also receive a cash prize of A$20,000.

In all instances, prizes are not transferable.

5 Costs

Applicants are solely responsible for ensuring that they have the necessary technology and internet access to participate in all virtual and online aspects of the Challenge.

乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 takes no responsibility for any fees or costs that may be incurred by Applicants in participating in the Challenge (including expenses, travel, taxes and currency conversion costs). Such costs remain the full responsibility of the relevant Applicant.

6 Privacy

All personal information that we collect, use or disclose in connection with the Challenge will be handled in accordance with our privacy policy.

7 Intellectual Property and Publicity

By participating in the Challenge, each Applicant:

• warrants that all material that it provides to 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 as part of the Challenge is its own original work;
• warrants that all material supplied to 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 as part of the Challenge does not infringe any intellectual property rights of any other person; and
• grants to 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use any intellectual property included in their pitches and submissions, including their name, logo, brand and image (including of any corporate entity or partnership participating in the Challenge), for the purpose of administering the Challenge and for 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网鈥檚 own internal purposes. This may include:
  1. sharing application content with judges within and external to 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 for the purpose of judging and evaluating submissions, including within its network of 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 member firms;
  2. sharing pitch content with 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 staff for the purposes of voting for the People鈥檚 Choice Prize; and
  3. using Applicants鈥� names, logos and pitch content to promote the Challenge on 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网鈥檚 internal and external websites and social media channels, including to promote the impact of prizes provided to Applicants under clause 4.

8 Breach of terms

乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 may, at its sole discretion, reserve the right to exclude you and/or your company from participating in the Challenge and any future challenges or competitions operated by 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 if:

• you breach these terms or conditions, or if 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 suspects that you have breached these terms and conditions;
• you infringe a third party鈥檚 intellectual property rights; or
• you do anything which (in 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网鈥檚 discretion) could bring 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网鈥檚 reputation into disrepute.

Notwithstanding anything else in these terms, 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 reserves the right to suspend, cancel, or vary the Challenge and/or the prizes referred to in clause 4, where it (in its absolute discretion) deems it necessary to do so.

9 General

To the extent permitted by law, we will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate a winner or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of you entering or taking up a prize in this Challenge, except where it is caused by our negligence or that of our employees. Nothing in these terms and conditions affects your statutory rights.

These terms and conditions shall be governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the parties irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that State.

漏 2024 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网, an Australian partnership and a member firm of the 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 global organisation of independent member firms affiliated with 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 International Limited, a private English company limited by guarantee. All rights reserved. The 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 name and logo are trade marks used under license by the independent member firms of the 乐鱼（Leyu）体育官网 global organisation. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.