Polygon Advocate Terms and Conditions

1. Introduction

These Polygon Advocate Terms and Conditions (these “Terms”), together with the Terms of Use (the “Terms of Use”), Community Guidelines, the Brand Guidelines, and any other applicable guidelines, policies, and procedures (collectively, “Other Rules”, and together with the Terms of Use, Community Guidelines collectively, the “Agreement”), govern your application to and participation in the Polygon Advocate program (the “Program”), and constitute a binding agreement between you (“you” or “your”) and Polygon Labs UI (Cayman) Ltd. (together with its affiliates, “Polygon Labs,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

When used in these Terms, (a) “Advocate” means a technology expert on the Polygon blockchain protocols who has been accepted into the Program, and (b) “Content” means information, images, pictures, data, text, photographs, graphics, messages, or other materials you may provide to us in connection with your participation in the Program.

In the event of a conflict between the Terms of Use, on the one hand, and these Terms and the Other Rules, on the other, these Terms and the Other Rules will prevail. Polygon Labs may make changes to these Terms and the Other Rules from time to time. If we make changes, we will provide you with notice of such changes, such as by sending an email or updating the date at the top of these Terms and the Other Rules. Unless we say otherwise in our notice, the amended Terms will be effective immediately.

BY APPLYING TO OR PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM, YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, PLEASE DO NOT APPLY TO OR PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM.

2. Application

In order to become an Advocate, you must complete and submit the application for the Program. All information provided in your application must be true and accurate.

3. Eligibility

In order to participate in the Program, as of the date that you submit your application and, if accepted, throughout your participation in the Program:

• You must be of legal age in the jurisdiction in which you reside and must have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms and be bound by them;
• You must not be under investigation for or convicted of a crime involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or deliberate violence unless you have disclosed the circumstances of such investigation or conviction to the organizers of the Program;
• You must not be a resident, national, or agent of Ukraine Regions of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, or any other country to which the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union embargoes goods or imposes similar sanctions (collectively, “Restricted Territories”); and
• You must not be a member of any sanctions list or equivalent maintained by the United States government, the United Kingdom government, the European Union, or the United Nations (collectively, “Sanctions Lists Persons”).

Further, Polygon Labs reserves the right to limit or refuse your eligibility to participate in the Program at any time for any reason in its sole discretion, including where your participation is prohibited by any domestic or foreign law, rule, statute, regulation, by-law, order, protocol, code, decree, or another directive, requirement, or guideline, published or in force that applies to or is otherwise intended to govern or regulate any person, common law or equity (collectively, “Applicable Laws”). If Polygon Labs becomes aware of any violation of these Terms and/or the Terms of Use, Polygon Labs may elect to, among other things, prohibit you participating in the Program.

By participating in the Program, you represent and warrant that you meet the requirements contained in these Terms. If you do not meet the requirements contained in these Terms, you cannot participate in the Program.

6. Content

You give us a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferrable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use any content you create or provide to us in connection with your participation the Program for any purpose, and you represent and warrant that you have secured all permissions necessary for us to do so without compensation to you or any third party.