Terms of service

Your account

• You need an account to apply to an event or take part in one. Hold one account only, and don't share it or let someone else use it.
• Give us accurate information and keep it up to date. Much of what you enter is used to decide an application or to cater for you at an event, and inaccurate information affects both.
• You're responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us at hackmed-directors@mit.edu if you think someone else has access to it.
• You can delete your account yourself at any time from your profile page.

Applying and taking part

• Applying is not acceptance. We decide applications on their merits, we are not obliged to explain a decision, and places are limited.
• An offer of a place may be withdrawn if the information you gave turns out to be inaccurate, or if you behave in a way that breaches an event's code of conduct.
• Confirming your attendance is a commitment we plan around — catering, space, mentor and judge time. Tell us as early as you can if you can no longer come.
• Roles granted for an event — participant, mentor, judge, sponsor, crew — are granted for that event and can be withdrawn by the organizing team.

Acceptable use

When using this site, don't:

• Impersonate anyone else, or misrepresent your affiliation with an organization.
• Collect, scrape or republish other attendees' details from the event directory, or use them to market anything. The directory is there so people at an event can find each other.
• Upload or submit anything unlawful, or anything you don't have the right to share — including confidential information belonging to your employer or institution.
• Attempt to access accounts, applications or areas of the site you haven't been given access to, or probe, scan or disrupt the service.
• Use the site to harass anyone, or in any way that breaches an event's code of conduct.

We may suspend or remove an account that breaches these terms, and may report unlawful activity to the appropriate authorities.

What you submit, and who owns it

• You keep ownership of everything you submit — your application, your profile, and anything your project creates. These terms don't transfer any intellectual property to MIT, to MIT Hacking Medicine, or to a sponsor.
• You grant us permission to use what you submit as far as running the event requires: showing your application to reviewers, your project to mentors and judges, and your profile to other attendees as you've chosen to make it visible.
• We may describe event outcomes publicly — including in case studies and summaries — and will ask your explicit permission before featuring you or your project by name.
• You confirm you have the right to submit what you submit, and that doing so doesn't breach anyone else's rights or an obligation you owe someone else.

An individual event may publish additional arrangements about project intellectual property — for example where a sponsor's challenge is involved. Those will be stated in that event's own rules before you take part.

Availability

We run this site for our own events and make no promise that it will be available uninterrupted or error-free. We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it, and we'll avoid doing so during an event wherever we can.

Liability

The site is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law. To that same extent, neither MIT nor MIT Hacking Medicine is liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the site, from any decision made about your application, or from any interruption to the service.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page is when they last changed, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms. If a change materially affects you, we'll make that clear on the site.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

Contact us

Questions about these terms go to MIT Hacking Medicine at hackmed-directors@mit.edu. How we handle your personal information is covered separately by our privacy policy.