CONTEST IS OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF SAUDI ARABIA, EGYPT, JORDAN, LEBANON, UAE, AND OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES 

Hajjathon (the “Contest”) is a skill contest where participants must develop an application to transform the Hajj experience.  The solution that you develop will be evaluated by judges, who will choose the winner(s) in accordance with these Official Rules.  The prize(s) will be awarded to the entrant(s) with the highest score for the judging criteria.  See below for the complete details. 

1. BINDING AGREEMENT: In order to enter the Contest, you must agree to these Official Rules (“Rules”). Therefore, please read these Rules prior to entry to ensure you understand and agree. You agree that submission of an entry (“Entry”) in the Contest constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit an Entry to the Contest and are not eligible to receive the prizes described in these Rules unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and EVC with respect to the Contest.

2. ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible to enter the Contest, you must be: (1) above the age of majority in the country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence (or at least eighteen years old in Saudi Arabia) at the time of entry; (2) not a person or entity under U.S. export controls or sanctions; and (3) have access to the Internet as of January 18, 2022.  

If you are entering as part of a company or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and/or your employer.  If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a prize.  You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer’s or company’s policies and procedures.   

3. OPERATIONS: The Contest is operated by Expert Vision Consulting Company in partnership with The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques Institute for Hajj and Umrah Research. 

4. CONTEST PERIOD: The Contest begins on February 24, 2022 and ends on March 10, 2022 (“Contest Period”). ENTRANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE CORRESPONDING TIME ZONE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS.

5. HOW TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. To enter the Contest, visit the Contest website located at https://testhajjathon.evcinitiatives.com/ (“Contest Site”) during the Contest Period and follow the instructions for developing an application that transforms the Hajj Experience.   

Submission Requirements. Entries to the Contest must meet the following requirements:

  • Include a text description that should explain the features and functionality of your Solution.

  • Access must be provided to an entrant’s working Solution for judging and testing by providing a link to a website, functioning demo, or a test build. If an entrant's code repository is private, entrant must include login credentials in its testing instructions. The Solution must be public. 

All Entries must be received by 2:59 p.m. (PT) on February 26, 2022.  Entries are void if they are in whole or part illegible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late. All Entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry, and the potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder for that email address. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person assigned to an email address by an Internet service provider, online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email address for the domain.

 During the Contest Period, the Hajjathon team, its agents and/or the Judges (defined below) will be evaluating each Entry to ensure that it meets the Requirements.  The Hajjathon Team reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant who submits an Entry that does not meet the Requirements. 

 

6. JUDGING: Each Entry will be judged by a panel of experts who are employees of Hajjathon Team (“Judges”). Entry will be evaluated by the Judges based on the following criteria:

 Stage One: The first stage will determine via pass/fail whether the Entry meets a baseline level of viability, in that the Entry reasonably fits the theme.

Stage Two: All Entries that pass Stage One will be evaluated in Stage Two based on the following equally weighted criteria:

  • UI/UX

  • Execution

  • Creativity 

  • Educational Content 

  • Quality

 

Judges will evaluate and attribute a score to each Entry made up of scores based upon the above-listed criteria. The Entries that receive the highest overall scores will be selected as the potential winner(s). In the event, the Entry that received the higher score from the Judges will be selected as one of the potential winner(s). In the event a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, the Entry that received the next highest total score will be chosen as the potential winner. 

7. PRIZES: 

  • Up to 100,000 Saudi Riyals for the top 3 winners

  • Custom certificates given to all entrants 

 

12. PRIVACY: Entrant acknowledges and agrees that Hajjathon may collect, store, share and otherwise use personally identifiable information provided during the registration process and the contest, including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. Hajjathon will use this information, including for administering the Contest and verifying entrant’s identity, postal address and telephone number in the event an Entry qualifies for a prize. 

If an entrant does not provide the mandatory data required at registration, Hajjathon Team reserves the right to disqualify the Entry. 

13.  PUBLICITY.  By accepting a prize, entrant agrees to Sponsor and its agencies use of his or her name and/or likeness and Entry for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.

14. WARRANTY, INDEMNITY AND RELEASE: Entrants warrant that their Entries are their own original work and, as such, they are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of the submitted Entry and that they have the right to submit the Entry in the Contest and grant all required licenses.  Each entrant agrees not to submit any Entry that (1) infringes any third party proprietary rights, intellectual property rights, industrial property rights, personal or moral rights or any other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity or confidentiality obligations. 

15. ELIMINATION: Any false information provided within the context of the Contest by any entrant concerning identity, mailing address, telephone number, email address, ownership of right or non-compliance with these Rules or the like may result in the immediate elimination of the entrant from the Contest.