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Hackathon Privacy & Confidentiality Terms

In order for us to be able to evaluate your application, we need you to provide us with certain information.

The submitted applications, together will all the information contained therein, will be shared with the Hackathon Jury for them to review the applications and make the final selection of successful participants.

If you are one of the successful participants, we will use the contact details you provided to:

  • Communicate with you
  • Confirm your participation at the Hackathon
  • Confirm your presence at the venue at which the Hackathon will take place
  • Provide assistance with your visa application (if required)
  • List you as one of the successful participants on the Hackathon's webpages and social media
  • Make the necessary attributions on GitHub, where the developed source code will be publicly licensed after the event

Unless you instruct us otherwise, we might share your contact details with the third parties providing the services described above. Also, we will keep your name and/or other information for a longer period than the duration of the Hackathon. The purpose of this is to maintain an administrative record of the Hackathon participants and to make it possible for us to communicate with you regarding expense claim reimbursement if you were selected to receive a travel  grant, etc.

If you were not selected as a Hackathon participant, we will delete your application two months after the Hackathon takes place.

For further details on how we process the personal information you provide, and instructions on how to access and change your information, please refer to the RIPE NCC Privacy Statement.