## ENTRY IN THE **F1 RACER DIET PLANNING** COMPETITION **Competition Sponsor:** Mohamed Bassat ### ENTRY IN THIS COMPETITION CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL COMPETITION RULES. **[See Section 3.18 for defined terms](rules#18.-terms)** *The Competition named above is a skills-based competition to promote and further the field of data science. You must register via the Competition Website to enter. 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 herein (collectively, the "Rules"). Please read these Rules carefully before entry to ensure you understand and agree. You further agree that submission in the Competition constitutes agreement to these Rules. You may not submit to the Competition and are not eligible to receive the prizes associated with this Competition unless you agree to these Rules. These Rules form a binding legal agreement between you and the Competition Sponsor with respect to the Competition. Your competition submissions must conform to the requirements stated on the Competition Website. Your submissions will be scored based on the evaluation metric described on the Competition Website. Subject to compliance with the Competition Rules, prizes, if any, will be awarded to participants with the best scores, based on the merits of the data science models submitted. See below for the complete Competition Rules.* **You cannot sign up to Kaggle from multiple accounts and therefore you cannot enter or submit from multiple accounts.** --- ### 2. COMPETITION-SPECIFIC RULES In addition to the provisions of the General Competition Rules below, you understand and agree to these Competition-Specific Rules required by the Competition Sponsor: #### 1. TEAM LIMITS a. The maximum Team size is five (5). b. Team mergers are allowed and can be performed by the Team leader. In order to merge, the combined Team must have a total submission count less than or equal to the maximum allowed as of the Team Merger Deadline. The maximum allowed is the number of submissions per day multiplied by the number of days the competition has been running. #### 2. SUBMISSION LIMITS a. You may submit a maximum of five (5) submissions per day. b. You may select up to two (2) final submissions for judging. #### 3. COMPETITION TIMELINE a. 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. #### 4. COMPETITION DATA a. **Data Access and Use.** *Competition Use only is checked*: You may access and use the Competition Data only for participating in the Competition and on Kaggle.com forums. 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.** 1. 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. 2. You agree not to transmit, duplicate, publish, redistribute, or otherwise make available the Competition Data to any party not participating in the Competition. 3. 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 the situation. #### 5. WINNER LICENSE a. Under Section 2.8 (Winner’s Obligations) of the General Rules below, you hereby grant and will grant the Competition Sponsor the following license(s) with respect to your submission if you are a Competition winner: 1. *Non-Exclusive:* You grant to Competition Sponsor and its designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, and import your winning submission and the source code used to generate the submission, in any media now known or developed in the future, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without further approval by or payment to you. b. You may be required by the Sponsor to provide a detailed description of how the winning submission was generated, including methodology, architecture, preprocessing, loss function, training details, hyperparameters, and a link to a code repository with reproducible instructions. #### 6. EXTERNAL DATA AND TOOLS a. You may use data other than the Competition Data (“External Data”) to develop and test your submissions. However, you must ensure the External Data is either publicly available and equally accessible at no cost to all participants, or satisfies the Reasonableness criteria in Section 2.6.b. b. Use of external data and models is acceptable unless specifically prohibited. Their access must be reasonably open and of minimal cost. c. Automated Machine Learning Tools (“AMLT”) may be used, provided you have appropriate licenses and comply with all Rules, including reproducibility and winner obligations. #### 7. ELIGIBILITY a. Unless otherwise stated, employees, interns, contractors, officers, and directors of the Competition Sponsor, Kaggle Inc., and their affiliates may participate but are not eligible to win prizes. Participants from Competition Entities are subject to their employer’s internal policies. #### 8. WINNER’S OBLIGATIONS a. As a condition to being awarded a prize, a prize winner must: 1. Deliver to the Competition Sponsor the final model’s code used to generate the winning submission and associated documentation (training code, inference code, environment description). 2. Grant the license to the winning submission as described above. 3. Sign and return all required prize acceptance documents, including eligibility certifications, licenses, releases, and applicable tax forms. #### 9. GOVERNING LAW a. All claims arising out of or relating to these Rules will be governed by California law, excluding its conflict of laws rules, and litigated exclusively in the Federal or State courts of Santa Clara County, California, USA. If any provision is held invalid, the remainder shall remain in full force and effect.