terms/submission-agreement.md

FormulaOne AI Coding Challenge - Submission Agreement v1.2

Last updated: 6 Aug 2025

1. Definitions

"Submission" means the code file you upload for a listed problem.

"Organiser" means the FormulaOne Team, c/o <legal entity and address>.

"Competition Site" means the leaderboard hosted at <HF URL>.

2. Licence to Organiser You retain all IP in your Submission. You grant the Organiser and its academic partners a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to: a) copy, run, test and modify the Submission solely to evaluate it against public and private test cases; b) store the Submission on secure servers; c) manually review the Submission for non-commercial, scientific research; d) reproduce small code excerpts (<= 25 lines) in research papers or blogs; e) contact you via the email linked to your platform account to ask clarification questions, explore collaboration, or publicise notable results.
3. Security, Integrity and Acceptable Use

• You confirm the Submission contains no deliberately malicious code, back-doors, attempts to exfiltrate data, or calls to external network resources beyond what the submission guidelines permit.
• You will not attempt to discover, reconstruct, scrape, or share private test cases, nor to probe the sandbox environment.
• The Organiser may refuse, delete, re-run or disqualify any Submission at its sole discretion for suspected abuse, tampering or rule violations.

4. Competition Rules

• One account per team.
• You must own or have rights to your Submission.
• We may re-execute Submissions to confirm scores; ties may be broken by earliest valid submission or additional hidden tests.
• We may correct or withdraw scores if errors or rule breaches are discovered later.

5. Leaderboard and Publicity Your chosen display name, organisation (if provided), total score and ranking may be shown publicly and archived indefinitely. You may use a pseudonym.

6. Ownership of Benchmark Assets All evaluation code, problem statements and test data remain (c) 2025 FormulaOne Team and are licensed under Apache 2.0 (code) and CC BY 4.0 (content) as described in the public repository.

7. Export Control and Sanctions Compliance You represent that your participation is not prohibited by applicable export-control or sanctions laws and that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any country or person embargoed by relevant authorities.

8. No Warranty The benchmark and infrastructure are provided "as is." To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Organiser disclaims all warranties, express or implied.

9. Limitation of Liability The Organiser's total liability arising out of or in connection with the Competition will not exceed USD 100.

10. Changes to Rules We may update these terms and technical rules from time to time. Material changes will be posted on the Competition Site and apply to submissions made after the effective date.

11. Governing Law and Venue This Agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of London, UK, have exclusive jurisdiction.

12. Contact Questions about these terms: legal@formulaone-ai.org