The following Competition Rules derive from ESA's Advanced Concepts Team and their Kelvins platform. In the event of any inconsistency or conflict, these Competition Rules shall take precedence over the General Competition Rules described in Sec. B below. ### Code of Honor The following general rules apply to all users of the website and participants in the competitions. Not following these rules can and will have consequences such as disqualification from competitions, banning, and deactivation of accounts. ### Single Account Only one single account per user is permitted. You cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot submit from multiple accounts. ### Cheating Any form of cheating competition rules is considered a threat and will be treated as such. ### Etiquette All users shall respect their fellow competitors and not engange in any activity leading to any form of harm to others. ### Eligibility "Detect Leaking Data: Safeguarding AI for Space Applications" competition is open to everybody, including space experts, data-mining experts and citizen scientists. However, the following restrictions apply. ### Winners and prizes Anyone can win the Competition, but prizes can be awarded only to on-site participants of AI STAR 2025 conference. The final ranking and the winner is determined after the deadline, based on the private leaderboard. The final decision on the winner(s) is subject to whether the participants conformed to the rules as checked by the Competition Organisers and Sponsor. This competition does not count towards Kaggle ranking points or medals. ### License By submitting, the authors grant to the organizers a license to use the submission files for the purpose of verifying and publishing the challenge results. ### Submission Before the competition deadline, solutions, notebooks, code snippets may only be shared publicly. Private sharing between teams is thus not allowed. The submission limit is 10 submissions per team. ### Teams The limit on the number of members in a team is 3. The daily submission limit is based on teams, not on users. Thus, each team will have 10 submissions. ### Competition Timeline Competition Timeline dates (including Entry Deadline, Final Submission Deadline, Start Date, and Team Merger Deadline, as applicable) are reflected on the competition’s Overview > Timeline page. ### Competition-specific terms **Competition title**: Detect Leaking Data: Safeguarding AI for Space Applications **Competition sponsor**: European Space Agency **Competition website**: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/detect-leaking-data-hackathon **Data licence type**: Released under [CC BY 3.0 IGO](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode.en) **Entry in this competition constitutes your acceptance of these official competition rules.** ### B. General Competition Rules #### **1. Binding agreement** To enter the Competition, you must agree to these Official Competition Rules, which incorporate by reference the provisions and content of the Competition Website and any Specific Competition Rules above (collectively, the "Rules"). Please read these Rules carefully before entry to ensure you understand and agree. You further agree that submission of an entry in the Competition constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit an entry to the Competition and are not eligible to receive the prizes associated with this Competition (“Prizes”) unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and the Competition Sponsor with respect to the Competition. #### **2. Eligibility** A. To be eligible to enter the Competition, you must be a registered account holder at Kaggle.com. B. Unless otherwise stated in the Specific Competition Rules above or prohibited by internal policies of the Competition Entities, employees, interns, contractors, officers and directors of Competition Entities may enter and participate in the Competition, but are not eligible to win any Prizes. "Competition Entities" means the Competition Sponsor, Kaggle Inc., and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. If you are such a participant from a Competition Entity, you are subject to all applicable internal policies of your employer with respect to your participation. #### **3. Sponsor and hosting platform** The Competition is sponsored by Competition Sponsor named above. The Competition is hosted on behalf of Competition Sponsor by Kaggle Inc. ("Kaggle"). Kaggle is an independent contractor of Competition Sponsor, and is not a party to this or any agreement between you and Competition Sponsor. You understand that Kaggle has no responsibility with respect to selecting the potential Competition winner(s) or awarding any Prizes. Kaggle will perform certain administrative functions relating to hosting the Competition, and you agree to abide by the provisions relating to Kaggle under these Rules. As a Kaggle.com account holder and user of the Kaggle competition platform, remember you have accepted and are subject to the Kaggle Terms of Service at [www.kaggle.com/terms][2] in addition to these Rules. #### **4. Competition period** For the purposes of Prizes, the Competition will run from the Start Date and time to the End Date and time (such duration the “Competition Period”). The Competition Timeline is subject to change, and Competition Sponsor may introduce additional hurdle deadlines during the Competition Period. Any updated or additional deadlines will be publicized on the Competition Website. It is your responsibility to check the Competition Website regularly to stay informed of any deadline changes. *YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE CORRESPONDING TIME ZONE IN YOUR LOCATION.* #### **5. Competition entry** NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. To enter the Competition, you must register on the Competition Website prior to the Entry Deadline, and follow the instructions for developing and entering your Submission through the Competition Website. Your Submissions must be made in the manner and format, and in compliance with all other requirements, stated on the Competition Website (the "Requirements"). Submissions must be received before any Submission deadlines stated on the Competition Website. Submissions not received by the stated deadlines will not be eligible to receive a Prize. Submissions may not use or incorporate information from hand labeling or human prediction of the validation dataset or test data records. Submissions are void if they are in whole or part illegible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late. Competition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entrant who does not follow these Rules, including making a Submission that does not meet the Requirements. #### **6. Individuals and teams** A. *Individual Account*. You may make Submissions only under one, unique Kaggle.com account. You will be disqualified if you make Submissions through more than one Kaggle account, or attempt to falsify an account to act as your proxy. You may submit up to the maximum number of Submissions per day as specified on the Competition Website. B. *Teams*. If permitted under the Competition Website guidelines, multiple individuals may collaborate as a team (a "Team"); however, you may join or form only one Team. Each Team member must be a single individual with a separate Kaggle account. You must register individually for the Competition before joining a Team. You must confirm your Team membership to make it official by responding to the Team notification message sent to your Kaggle account. Team membership may not exceed the Maximum Team Size stated on the Competition Website. C. *Team Merger*. Teams may request to merge via the Competition Website. Team mergers may be allowed provided that: (i) the combined Team does not exceed the Maximum Team Size; (ii) the number of Submissions made by the merging Teams does not exceed the number of Submissions permissible for one Team at the date of the merger request; (iii) the merger is completed before the earlier of: any merger deadline or the Competition deadline; and (iv) the proposed combined Team otherwise meets all the requirements of these Rules. #### **7. Competition data** "Competition Data" means the data or datasets available from the Competition Website for the purpose of use in the Competition, including any prototype or executable code provided on the Competition Website. The Competition Data will contain private and public test sets. Which data belongs to which set will not be made available to participants. A. *Data Access and Use*. *Competition Use and Commercial*: You may access and use the Competition Data for any purpose, whether commercial or non-commercial, including for participating in the Competition and on Kaggle.com forums, and for academic research and education. The Competition Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any participant who uses the Competition Data other than as permitted by the Competition Website and these Rules. B. *Data Security*. You agree to use reasonable and suitable measures to prevent persons who have not formally agreed to these Rules from gaining access to the Competition Data. You agree not to transmit, duplicate, publish, redistribute or otherwise provide or make available the Competition Data to any party not participating in the Competition. You agree to notify Kaggle immediately upon learning of any possible unauthorized transmission of or unauthorized access to the Competition Data and agree to work with Kaggle to rectify any unauthorized transmission or access. C. *External Data*. You may use data other than the Competition Data (“External Data”) to develop and test your Submissions. However, you will ensure the External Data is publicly available to use by all participants of the Competition for purposes of the competition at no cost to the other participants. The ability to use External Data under this Section 7.C (External Data) does not limit your other obligations under these Competition Rules, including but not limited to Section 11 (Winners Obligations). #### **8. Submission code requirements** A. *Private Code Sharing*. Unless otherwise specifically permitted under the Competition Website or Competition Specific Rules above, during the Competition Period, you are not allowed to privately share source or executable code developed in connection with or based upon the Competition Data or other source or executable code relevant to the Competition (“Competition Code”). This prohibition includes sharing Competition Code between separate Teams, unless a Team merger occurs. Any such sharing of Competition Code is a breach of these Competition Rules and may result in disqualification. B. *Public Code Sharing*. You are permitted to publicly share Competition Code, provided that such public sharing does not violate the intellectual property rights of any third party. If you do choose to share Competition Code or other such code, you are required to share it on Kaggle.com on the discussion forum or kernels associated specifically with the Competition for the benefit of all competitors. By so sharing, you are deemed to have licensed the shared code under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see [www.opensource.org][2]) that in no event limits commercial use of such Competition Code or model containing or depending on such Competition Code. C. *Use of Open Source*. Unless otherwise stated in the Specific Competition Rules above, if open source code is used in the model to generate the Submission, then you must only use open source code licensed under an Open Source Initiative-approved license (see [www.opensource.org][2]) that in no event limits commercial use of such code or model containing or depending on such code. #### **9. Determining leaderboard** Each Submission will be scored and ranked by the evaluation metric stated on the Competition Website. During the Competition Period, the current ranking will be visible on the Competition Website's public leaderboard. 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