1. Competition – this shall be understood as the Competition organized by the Organizer in accordance with the provisions of these Terms and Conditions;
2. Discord – this shall be understood as instant messaging and social platform accessible at https://discord.com/, provided by a third party not affiliated in any way with the Organizer;
3. Match-Trader – this shall be understood as the trading platform developed by the Organizer and made available to the Participant on the basis of separate agreements with third parties;
4. M-TT entity – this shall be understood as an entity within the Match-Trade Technologies LLC group (under the control of the same natural persons or related by capital);
5. Organizer – this shall be understood as Match-Trade Technologies LLC, with its registered office at 2372 Morse Avenue, Irvine, California 92614, United States, Company Number 5298324;
6. Participant – this shall be understood as defined in paragraph 3;
7. Terms and Conditions – this shall be understood as these Terms and Conditions of the Match-Trader Thought Leader Competition accessible on Discord via the link included in the post announcing the Competition.

§ 3 Eligibility

1. By entering the Competition, the Participant declares that he/she has read and accepts the Terms and Conditions.
2. Adult natural persons with full legal capacity are eligible to participate in the Competition, provided they meet conditions indicated in the Terms and Conditions at the time of entry and throughout the duration of the Competition.
3. The following persons are excluded from participation in the Competition:
   1) members of the Organizer’s statutory bodies and the Organizer’s employees or contractors,
   2) members of statutory bodies of M-TT Entities and M-TT Entities’ employees or contractors,
   3) family members of persons indicated in points 1 and 2,
   4) persons who have signed a contract of mandate with the Organizer under which they perform promotional or informational activities on behalf of the Organizer.
4. The Organizer decides on the admission of a Participant to the Competition. The Organizer reserves the right to refuse entry or to exclude a Participant from the Competition in the event of reasonable suspicion of a breach of these Terms and Conditions.
5. There is no entry fee and no purchase necessary to enter the Competition.

§ 4 Competition rules

1. The start of the Competition will be announced by means of a post published by the Organizer on Discord.
2. The Competition is not sponsored, endorsed, conducted, administered or affiliated with the entities that own or operate Discord or any other social media platforms used to promote the Competition. The Participant is solely responsible for the use of Discord and for any issues or inadequacies occurring on this platform.
3. The Organizer may promote the Competition throughout its duration to increase interest among potential Participants on Discord (including closed groups), the Organizer’s website, or other social media platforms.
4. The Competition task consists of completing the Organizer’s survey containing questions concerning the use of Match-Trader. To complete the Competition task, the Participant must access the survey form provided by the Organizer and answer the questions contained therein.
5. The Participant is required to complete the Competition task independently, without the assistance of third parties or other Participants.
6. Applications for participation in the Competition may be submitted to the Organizer via Discord by completing the survey, which constitutes the Competition task, by 23.04.2025. The Organizer bears no responsibility for any surveys submitted after this date.
7. Each Participant may participate once in the Competition, i.e., he/she may complete one survey during the Competition.
8. A Competition Jury, selected by the Organizer, will oversee the proper conduct of the Competition, select the winners, announce the results, and handle any complaints.
9. From among the correctly submitted and non-disqualified surveys, the Competition Jury will select five individuals who, in its opinion, provided the most substantive and valuable feedback in the survey (whether positive or negative), particularly by providing thoughtful answers to help shape the future of Match-Trader (hereinafter referred to as the “Winners”).
10. The Organizer reserves the right to make the final decision in the Competition at its sole discretion, although objectively and without favoring any group of Participants.

§ 5 Prizes and announcement of results

1. Participants are not entitled to any remuneration for participating in the Competition.
2. The prize in the Competition is Amazon eGift Card with a value of $50 (fifty US dollars) for each Winner, previously purchased by the Organizer (hereinafter referred to as the “Prize”).
3. The official results of the Competition will be announced by the Organizer on Discord on 28.04.2025 at 10 a.m. Central European Time. In addition, the Organizer will notify the Winner individually.
4. The Prize will be delivered to the Winner via direct message on Discord or via email after verification, no later than 30.04.2025.
5. If the winner cannot be contacted or does not claim the prize within 48 hours of notification, the Organizer reserve the right to withdraw the Prize from the Winner and pick a replacement Winner.
6. The Prizes cannot be exchanged for cash and are not transferable. The Organizer does not provide consolation prizes, prizes for honorable mentions, or cover any costs other than the cost of purchasing the Prizes referred to in point 1.
7. Due to the value of the Prize, it shall not be subject to tax, pursuant to Article 21(1)(68) of the Polish Personal Income Tax Act of 26 July 1991.

§ 6 Personal data

1. The personal data of the Competition Participant will be processed in accordance with the principles set out in the Privacy Policy, attached as Annex No. 1 to these Terms and Conditions
2. The Participant is solely responsible for how Discord or the third parties who have access granted to Discord processes their data. The Participant acknowledges that the Organizer is not responsible for the processing of personal data by the owner of the Discord platform or by any third party with access to this platform. The Participant is solely responsible for how Discord or such third parties process their personal data.

§ 7 Licences and third party rights

1. The performance of the Competition Task must not infringe upon the copyrights of third parties or be fraudulent. In the event of any infringement of third-party rights or fraud, the Competition Jury is entitled to disqualify the Participant.
2. The Competition Task prepared by the Participant may constitute, in whole or in part, a work within the meaning of Article 1 of the Polish Act of 4 February 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights.
3. By submitting the survey to the Organizer, the Participant hereby grants the Organizer a limited, non-revocable, non-transferable, sub-licensable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, territorially unrestricted, and free-of-charge license for an unlimited period of time to use the content submitted in the survey in the following fields of exploitation:
   1) use of the work or any part thereof, either personally or by third parties authorized by the Organizer;
   2) fixation and multiplication of the work by all available techniques, including printing, reprography, magnetic recording and digital technique, in an unlimited number of copies;
   3) make changes to the works, either personally or with the participation of third parties authorised by the Organizer.
4. Upon delivery of the Prizes to the Winners, the Organizer acquires the copyrights to the winning works in the fields of exploitation indicated in point 3. For the avoidance of doubt, the transfer of copyrights is effective without the need for any additional declaration from the Winner. The Participant declares that, at the time of the transfer of copyright, he or she holds the copyright to the work or parts thereof and has the right to authorize the exercise of subsidiary rights enabling further distribution by the Organizer. Upon the transfer of copyright, the Organizer also acquires ownership of the copies and the media on which the work has been recorded. Apart from the Prize, the Participant shall not be entitled to any additional remuneration for the transfer of these rights.

§ 8 Final provisions

1. Complaints related to the Competition may be only in electronic form e-mail address dsc@match-trade.com within 14 days from the date of publication of the final results.
2. The complaint should contain the name, surname, the Participant’s e-mail address, as well as a detailed description and indication of the reason for the complaint.
3. A lack of technical access to the Competition, whether on the part of the Participant or any third party, shall not constitute grounds for submitting a complaint to the Organizer. This does not preclude the right to file a complaint in the ordinary manner provided for in this clause.
4. Complaints will be reviewed within no more than 14 calendar days from the date of receipt at email address specified by the Participant.
5. The Organizer may suspend the Competition due to circumstances beyond its control, provided that Participants are informed in advance via a post published on Discord, unless doing so is not technically possible.
6. This Competition is governed by Polish law

Annex No. 1 to the Terms and Conditions

Privacy policy

• We kindly ask you to read the following information regarding processing of your personal data.
  Your personal data related to the competition will be processed by the data controller – Match-Trade Technologies LLC (hereinafter “M-TT`”, “Administrator“, or “we“, “us“), in accordance with current provisions of applicable law on the protection of personal data, including the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter “GDPR“).

1. Who is responsible for your personal data?
   The Administrator of your personal data is M-TT, company no. 5298324, address: 2372 Morse Avenue, Irvine, California 92614, United States.
2. How to contact the Administrator?
   In matters regarding the processing of your personal data by the Administrator, you can contact the Data Protection Officer appointed by the Administrator’s e-mail address: legal@match-trade.com.
3. On what basis and for what purpose we process your personal data?
   We undertake to process your personal data in a lawful manner based on one of the following conditions:
   
   a) for the purpose of implementing marketing activities, selecting and contacting the winners – in order to fulfill the legitimate interest of the M-TT consisting in direct marketing and
   settlements related to the competition (Article 6 para. 1 letter f) of the GDPR);
   
   b) in so far as it is necessary to establish an investigation or defend claims in court, administrative proceedings or other out-of-court proceedings – in order to fulfill the legitimate interest of the Administrator consisting in determining, investigating or defending against such claims (Article 6 para. 1 letter f) of the GDPR).
4. What are your rights in the area covered by the Privacy policy?
   Based on the provisions of the GDPR, you have numerous rights with respect to your personal data. Below is a general description of your rights:
   
   a) Access to personal data.
   You have the right to access your data at any time.
   
   b) Correcting and supplementing the data.
   You have the right to request the Administrator to promptly rectify your personal data that is incorrect, as well as to request supplementation of incomplete personal data.
   
   c) The right to delete data.
   You have the right to request the Administrator to delete your personal data immediately in any of the following cases:
   i. where personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed,
   ii. when you object to the processing of data referred to in point e) below and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for processing such data,
   iii. where personal data are processed unlawfully,
   iv. when personal data must be removed in order to comply with the legal obligation provided for in generally applicable regulations.
   
   However, the Administrator will not be able to delete your personal data to the extent to which their processing will be necessary to:
   i. exercising the right to freedom of expression and information,
   ii. complying with a legal obligation that requires processing under generally applicable regulations,
   iii. statistical purposes according to the rules set out in the GDPR,
   iv. establishing, investigating or defending claims.
   
   d) The right to limit data processing. You have the right to request the Administrator to limit the processing of personal data in cases where:
   You have the right to request the Administrator to limit the processing of personal data in
   cases where:
   i. you question the correctness of personal data – for a period allowing the Administrator to check the correctness of such data,
   ii. processing is against the law, and you oppose the deletion of your personal data, requesting instead to limit their use,
   iii. the administrator no longer needs personal data for processing, but it is necessary for you to establish, investigate or defend claims,
   iv. you objected to the processing referred to in point e) below – until you find out whether the Administrator’s legally founded grounds override your grounds for objection.
   
   e) Right to object.
   You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in the event that the Administrator processes these data in a legitimate interest, including for the purpose of direct marketing. To the extent that the data is processed for purposes other than direct marketing, the Administrator may not accept the objection if it demonstrates the existence of legally valid grounds for processing, superior to your interests, rights and freedoms, or grounds for establishing, investigating or defending claims.
   
   f) The right to withdraw consent.
   To the extent that the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing which has been carried out on the basis of consent prior to its withdrawal.
   
   g) The right to transfer data.
   To the extent that your data is processed for the purpose of conclusion and performance of the contract or processed on the basis of consent and data processing takes place in an automated manner – you have the right to obtain from the Administrator in a structured, commonly used machine-readable format your personal data in the form image. You also have the right to send this personal data to another administrator.
   
   h) The right to complain.
   You have the right to file a complaint to process your personal data by the Administrator to the supervisory authority.
   
   The rights referred to in points a) – h) above, may be performed by contacting the Administrator in the
   manner specified in point 2 of this Privacy policy
   
5. Providing personal data
   Providing your personal data is voluntary but necessary for the purpose of awarding a prize in the competition.
6. Who do we share your personal information with?
   We may share your personal information with the following recipients or categories of recipients:
   a) if such an obligation results from the mandatory provisions of law, the Administrator may share your personal data with third parties, in particular authorized state bodies,
   b) entities acting as information, journalistic, with whom the cooperation serves marketing purposes of M-TT.
7. Transfer of personal data to third countries
   In the case of transfer of your personal data to third countries, i.e. recipients based outside the European Economic Area or Switzerland, in countries which, according to the European Commission, do not provide sufficient data protection (third countries that do not provide an adequate level of protection), the Administrator transfers them, using mechanisms in accordance with applicable law.
8. How long do we keep your personal data?
   The Administrator makes every effort to ensure that your personal data is processed in an adequate manner and for as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which they were collected. With this in mind, the Administrator processes your personal data for the duration of marketing activities and in order to comply with applicable laws, in particular the period of limitation of claims.