MeetVirtualMe CES 2023 : Competition Rules

ARTICLE 1: CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

The Competition is open to all Dassault Systèmes followers on Instagram and Twitter (the “Participants”).
The Competition is strictly limited to Participants as defined above, to the exclusion of all persons listed hereunder:

• Residents of countries subject to trade sanctions;
• Residents of Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the Canadian province of Quebec;
• Residents of any other country or territory where participation in this Competition and the terms of these Rules would violate any local law in force;
• Employees of Dassault Systèmes or its subsidiaries, and their immediate family (spouse/partner, parents, siblings, children and their respective spouses/partners, etc.) and members of the household of said employees;
• Employees of any company associated directly or indirectly with this Competition, including their spouse/partner and family
• Must be over 18 years old to participate

No purchase or payment is required to enter the Competition; Participants must have internet access.
Participants must have their social media accounts public to enter the Competition.

The Promoter reserves the right to take all necessary steps to verify full compliance with the terms of entry.

Participants acknowledge and agree that the Competition shall at all times be subject to compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and administrative requirements, including without limitation, export control laws and regulations, and sanctions programs. In particular, the Promoter shall not be held liable in the event Participants are prohibited and/or otherwise restricted from participating to the Competition in order to comply with export control laws and regulations, and sanctions programs or to avoid potential exposure to any international sanctions or penalties that could be imposed by any governmental authority.

ARTICLE 2: DURATION OF THE COMPETITION
The Competition will extend from January 5, 2023 at 9:00am (Pacific Standard Time, USA) to January 8, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Standard Time, USA).

ARTICLE 3: MODALITIES OF THE COMPETITION
THE COMPETITION WILL TAKE PLACE DURING CES 2023. PARTICIPANTS NEED TO SHARE A VISUAL (PHOTO, GIF OR VIDEO) OF OUR BOOTH ON INSTAGRAM OR TWITTER WITH THE FOLLOWING TAGS: #MEETVIRTUALME #CES2023 @DASSAULT3DS ON TWITTER @DASSAULTSYSTEMES ON INSTAGRAM.
The Competition will take place on Instagram and Twitter, although the Competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by INSTAGRAM AND TWITTER or otherwise associated with it. As a result, INSTAGRAM AND TWITTER cannot be held liable for any damages and/or disputes arising from the Competition.

ARTICLE 4: SELECTION OF WINNERS
Participants will be rewarded with prizes in the following conditions:
At the end of the Competition, 2 posts using the #MeetVirtualMe and #CES2023 will be selected as follows:

• The Instagram prize: 1 winner will be drawn from all Instagram posts using both #MeetVirtualMe and #CES2023 posted during the contest dates from an account following Dassault Systèmes’ Instagram account. The social media Instagram account of the winner must be public to enter the contest.
• The Twitter prize: 1 winner will be drawn from all tweets using #MeetVirtualMe and #CES2023 posted during the contest dates from an account following Dassault Systèmes’ Twitter account.

The draw will take place on January 11, 2023 at 12pm (time zone FRANCE) at 10 rue Marcel Dassault 78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay.
The list of winners will be announced on January 13, 2023 by 5pm (time zone FRANCE).
Winners will be rewarded with the prizes described in the “Prize Values” section of these Rules.

ARTICLE 5: VALUE OF PRIZES
Competition winners will be rewarded as follows:

• Instagram Prize: The Participant randomly selected shall receive Withings Connected Health Kit (Body + Scale, Smartwatch ScanWatch and Sleep Analyzer) with a unit value of €550 incl. taxes.
• Twitter Prize: The Participant randomly selected shall receive Withings Connected Health Kit (Body + Scale, Smartwatch ScanWatch and Sleep Analyzer) with a unit value of €550 incl. taxes.

The value of prizes as specified in these Rules cannot give rise to any contestation of any kind. The Promoter reserves the right, should an event beyond its control occur, in particular in connection with its suppliers or unforeseeable circumstances, to replace the original Prize announced with a Prize of equal value. Winners will be informed of any changes and waive in advance any claims in this respect.

ARTICLE 6: MODALITIES OF ATTRIBUTION
The Promoter will close Participation in the Competition on January 8, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Standard Time, USA) (the “Closing date”).
Within 3 DAYS of the Closing date, all Participants who have won a prize will be informed of their win by direct message in the platform (Twitter or Instagram). They will be asked to provide postal address, phone number and email for the purpose of receiving their award.
Prizes will normally be awarded to the winners within 30 DAYS of the above direct message being sent.
If, after a period of 7 DAYS, any winner has not provided their postal address, or if they choose to forfeit their prize, said prizes will not be redistributed.
Participants, should they win, undertake to accept their Prize as offered; Prizes may not be exchanged or redeemed for cash, other goods or services of any kind, or transferred to a third person. Similarly, no claims for compensation will be accepted regarding the Prizes.
In the event that a winner should not wish or be in a position to accept all or part of their Prize, for any reason whatsoever, they will be deemed to have entirely forfeited the benefit of said Prize.

ARTICLE 7: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
7.1 Participants undertake not to harm the brands, reputation and image of 3DS and its subsidiaries. In addition, each Participant acknowledges and agrees that all materials, data and content provided by 3DS, are the property of 3DS and its subsidiaries, and cannot be used by the Participants without 3DS prior authorization. All rights not expressly granted to the Participant under these Rules or in the conditions of use of the Promoter’s website(s) are reserved.

ARTICLE 8: PERSONAL DATA
8.1 Winners of the Competition may need to provide their postal address and phone number in order to receive their prize.
Said Personal Data are collected and processed by the Promoter solely for the purpose of managing and promoting the Competition. The Promoter’s policy on privacy and the use of Personal Data is available at the following address: https://discover.3ds.com/privacy-policy. This policy will apply to each use, collection and processing of Personal Data in connection with this Competition. As a result, Participants explicitly consent to the collection and processing of Personal Data for the purposes mentioned above.
 

8.2 Any Personal Data collected in the context of the Competition will be processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter “GDPR”)
Personal Data may be collected through the Promoter’s Website(s), email, TWITTER and INSTAGRAM social media platforms used in connection with the Competition, and subsequently disclosed and used by a 3DS subsidiary and other 3DS entrusted third parties for the purposes set out in this article. The Promoter may transfer all or part of the Participants’ Personal Data outside the European Union, provided that prior to the transfer of such Personal Data, it has verified that all entities (including subsidiaries of 3DS) receiving such Personal Data and non-European entities offer sufficient security guarantees and adequate levels of protection, in accordance with all applicable laws.
8.3 Participants in the Competition are entitled to access their Personal Data, and have a right to request correction, update or deletion thereof.
Participants also have the right to obtain a copy of Personal Data about them held by the Promoter. Participants may exercise their rights of access to and correction of Personal Data by writing to: 3DS.Compliance-Privacy@3ds.com or directly through any social media platforms TWITTER and INSTAGRAM involved.

ARTICLE 9: IMAGE RIGHTS – PERSONALITY ATTRIBUTES
Through their participation in the Competition, Participants grant the Promoter permission, without such permission conferring any rights to any form of compensation, benefits or any other rights, to use, reproduce, represent, display, disseminate, publish and adapt on any media by means of a mounting, directly or through a third party authorized to do so by the Promoter, in whole or part of their last names, first names, and/or image and/or voice, for communication and/or promotional and/or internal or external marketing purposes, provided that they have communicated them as part of the Competition under the following conditions:

• on any medium and material, including in particular print, audio-visual, digital or electronic, whether existing (press, internet, posters, etc.) or future;
• by all means and in all formats;
• for all modes of exploitation known or unknown to date, including, but not limited to, dissemination via the Internet (in particular via websites and social networks);
• worldwide;
• for a period of five (5) years following the Competition start date;

Participants acknowledge that any content created and/or operated in accordance with this authorization will not require any other approval by the Participants.
The Participations waive any action or recourse against the Promoter in relation to any content created and/or exploited in accordance with this authorisation.
The Participants acknowledge that this authorisation is enforceable against their legal successors.
Should a Participant object to one or more uses of their last name, first name and image under the above-mentioned conditions, they must make themselves known to the Promoter by sending an e-mail to the following address: externalcoms.social@3ds.com with the subject line “#MeetVirtualMe CES 2023 COMPETITION”.

ARTICLE 10: ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES
Participation in the Competition implies express and unreserved acceptance of these Rules, of ethical rules in force on the Internet, of the terms and conditions of use of the Promoter’s website(s) used by Participants to enter the Competition as may be required, as well as all applicable laws and regulations in force, particularly with respect to games and lotteries.
The Promoter reserves the right, should circumstances require, to modify, prolong, shorten, suspend, defer or cancel the Competition, and to take any measures deemed necessary for the application and interpretation of these Rules.
As a result, any violation of the foregoing and of these Rules, incomplete or erroneous entry form, fraud or attempted fraud, false or inaccurate statement, or other violation of any other applicable provisions will disqualify the Participant and forfeit any right to a Prize. Any cheating or attempted cheating will result in the exclusion of the offending Participant or any other sanction that the Promoter will deemed appropriate to the violation of the Rules.
The Promoter will thoroughly investigate any action that may be deemed cheating, or akin to cheating, including unauthorized means of increasing the Participant’s chances of winning a prize, notably by using the services of specialized companies. For instance, Participants who create multiple TWITTER accounts under false names and with false email addresses to obtain votes for their Project and thus increase their chances of winning one of the Prizes may be excluded from the Competition and will forfeit any Prize they may have won.
The Promoter alone shall be competent to independently judge, based on evidence gathered, any suspected fraud, cheating or violation of these Rules. The Promoter reserves the right to take all appropriate measures to ascertain full compliance with these Rules.

The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify Participants should they be deemed:

• manifestly offensive;
• manifestly unlawful or unconstitutional in nature;
• pornographic, paedophile, racist or xenophobic in nature;
• defamatory or likely to harm the image, privacy, honour, reputation and/or consideration of any natural or legal person in any way whatsoever;
• to promote crime, hatred, violence, suicide;
• to be accompanied by (and/or contain) slanderous, denigrating, insulting, offensive, abusive, defamatory, injurious statements prejudicial to the honour and/or consideration of persons;
• in violation of public law and order;
• to contravene moral standards;
• to fail to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

This list is not exhaustive.

ARTICLE 11: LIABILITY
The Promoter cannot be held liable for any lost or undelivered communications.
Furthermore, the Promoter reserves the right, in the event of fraud, to take legal action in any competent court against any Participant or winner deemed to have committed said fraud.
The Promoter cannot be held liable if, due to force majeure or any event beyond its control, the Competition should be cancelled, extended, shortened, deferred or modified. Likewise, the Promoter cannot be held liable, and no action may be taken against it, in the event of cases of force majeure (strikes, weather, etc.) which partially or totally deprive Participants of the possibility to enter the Competition and/or deprive winners of their prizes.
No answer will be given by telephone or in writing concerning the interpretation or application of these Rules, or of the mechanisms or procedures of the Competition, nor the list of winners.
The Promoter accepts no responsibility in the event of any incident and/or accident that may occur as a result of the use or enjoyment of the Prize and/or through its improper use by the winners (it should be noted that any insurance obligations are the winner’s responsibility).
The Promoter may under no circumstances be held liable for any incidents arising from the use of Prizes once the winners have taken possession of them. Likewise, the Promoter cannot be held liable for the loss or theft of Prizes after the beneficiaries have taken possession of them.
The Promoter shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damage, whatever its cause, origin, nature or consequences, even if it has been informed of the possibility of such damage occurring due to:

• Malfunction of the Internet or computer equipment (hardware and/or software and/or databases and/or data) of a Participant or, more generally, to any other problem related to telecommunications networks, resources and services, computers (online or offline), servers, Internet access and/or hosting providers, computer equipment or software, databases and data of any kind;
• Any person accessing the Promoter’s Website(s) or official pages on social media platforms: TWITTER and INSTAGRAM or inability to access them;
• Use or inability to use the Promoter’s Website(s), including any damage or viruses that may infect the Participant’s and/or Promoter’s computer hardware or any other equipment.
• The Promoter shall not be bound by the foregoing, and Participants shall therefore not be entitled to any compensation or indemnity of any kind whatsoever
• Any claims or complaints arising from the Competition (i) must be made in writing to Dassault Systèmes, 10, rue Marcel Dassault - 78496 Vélizy Villacoublay Cedex - FRANCE and (ii) shall not be considered if sent more than thirty (30) days after the Closing date of the Competition.

ARTICLE 12: RULES
These Rules may be consulted at the following address: https://www.3ds.com/virtual-twin/life-sciences-healthcare/virtual-twin-series/ces-2023-contest-settlement.

A hard copy of these Rules can be sent by post free of charge to any person requesting this at the following address: Global Corp. Social Media Team 10 rue Marcel Dassault 78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay France.

Each Participant can only be sent one copy of the Rules. Postage used to request a copy of the Rules will be refunded at current second-class rates upon request (one refund per Participant). Please send your request to: Global Corp. Social Media Team 10 rue Marcel Dassault 78140 Vélizy-Villacoublay France.

The Promoter reserves the right to modify these Rules at any time in the form of an amendment made in compliance with conditions stated and published on line at https://www.3ds.com/virtual-twin/life-sciences-healthcare/virtual-twin-series/ces-2023-contest-settlement.

These Rules remain the property of the Promoter. To this end, any reproduction, representation and use of all or part thereof is strictly prohibited.

ARTICLE 13: APPLICABLE LAWS – ASSIGNMENT OF JURISDICTION
All Participants are subject to the laws of France, in particular to French regulations in force relating to competitions.
Any claims must be addressed in writing to the Promoter’s registered offices, as specified in the preamble to these Rules, within thirty (30) days after the Closing date of the Competition, to the exclusion of any other method. After this date, no claims will be accepted.
Any dispute arising during the Competition period will be the subject of an attempt to reach an amicable settlement between Promoter and Participant. Failing agreement, the dispute will be submitted to the competent courts in accordance with the provisions of the French Code of Civil Procedure.
This Rules are provided in English and may be provided, for informational purposes only, in a language other than English.  The English version shall be the only binding and enforceable version of this Rules.