Applicant terms & conditions

1. By submitting an application, you are deemed to have read and accepted the fund guidelines and these terms and conditions. ChangeX.org reserves the right to disqualify any entries which do not comply with the Fund Guidelines and Terms and Conditions.
2. In the event that circumstances beyond the reasonable control of ChangeX effect, or could effect, the proper operation of this fund, ChangeX reserves the right to cancel or amend the fund or these terms and conditions at any time but will make every effort to avoid causing undue disappointment to applicants where such action is deemed necessary.
3. If you are a successful fund awardee, you agree that ChangeX, the funding partner, and the social innovator behind the Idea you replicate, may use your name, image and location for any reasonable and related promotional purposes. You further agree to participate in any reasonable publicity required by ChangeX, the funding partner, and the social innovator behind the Idea you replicate. Any motivation statements, descriptions of your project and updates you post to your ChangeX project page can be used for reasonable and related promotional purposes by both ChangeX, the funding partner, and the social innovator behind the Idea you replicate. This includes newsletters, social media, blog posts, and other promotional materials.
4. Your fund application and any accompanying material submitted to ChangeX (such as motivation statements, group or impact photos, action plans) will become the property of ChangeX on receipt, and may be used for any reasonable and related promotional purposes.
5. Funding provided for your project through ChangeX can be used to cover direct costs for the set-up or maintenance of the project. Funding can not be used to cover any of the following:
   • Cost of work that has already been carried out or anything that is not related to the setup and maintenance of the community project.
   • If applying to start a proven idea, payments to group members for their work on the project.
   • Promotion of religious causes, non-charitable activities, sponsorship or fundraising events.
   • Promotion of or engagement in criminal acts of violence, terrorism, hate crimes, discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, religion, military and veteran status, disability, sex, age, gender identity or sexual orientation, destruction of any state, or support of any entity that engages in these activities.
6. Any images or videos shared on ChangeX must meet our criteria:
   • Parental/guardian consent must be secured for any images or videos featuring children, and any images uploaded to ChangeX will be presumed by ChangeX to have parental/guardian consent. Individual children should not be identified by name on the ChangeX site.
   • You have permission from all people featured in an image or video to share their image or feature them in the video.
   • You own the image/video OR you have secured the photographer’s permission/videographer's permission to share it with ChangeX and our partners.
   • You have the rights/appropriate permissions for any music used in your video.
   • In the event that we need to check any of the above, you will be able to provide evidence that the necessary permissions are in place.
7. ChangeX shall not be held liable to reimburse any costs that are incurred by applicants, prior to the release of funds by ChangeX. In exceptional circumstances, applicants may seek written approval from ChangeX to incur costs ahead of the release of funds. Written approval will be granted at the sole discretion of ChangeX. Payments will only be made if ChangeX finds that all relevant requirements are met.
8. If you are successful in receiving funding, you are required to comply with all applicable laws including those governing the use, accounting, management and maintaining records of the grants received from ChangeX. Any potential tax consequences, reporting requirements, and consents from third parties are solely the responsibility and liability of the recipient of the funding.
9. ChangeX, at its sole discretion, decides which applicants will be accepted, what the funds can be used for, documentation requirements, and whether the relevant criteria for payment have been met, prior to the approval of a project. ChangeX may request further information and documentation as it reasonably deems necessary, and can set further reasonable requirements or criteria during the application process or throughout the project.
10. Family and close relatives of ChangeX employees or the funding partner are not eligible to apply for funding.
11. ChangeX is solely responsible for the management of the fund, including the selection of applicants, starter support, fund distribution and impact tracking.
12. It is very important that you keep all receipts and records of how any funding you might receive is spent as ChangeX will collect and review these receipts before releasing the second instalment of funding. If receipts cannot be shown, if the funds are found to have been spent on costs other than those relating to the set-up or maintenance of the new community project, or if the project has not met the requirements of the initial project plan, no further funds will be allocated to this project and ChangeX reserves the right to retrieve the funds that have already been distributed. The applicant will be indefinitely ineligible to apply for any subsequent grants through ChangeX.
13. By applying to this fund, you:
    • Agree that any personal information provided by you with the fund application may be held and used only by ChangeX and any supporting partner to administer the fund and for any other purposes to which you have expressly consented;
    • Understand that you may withdraw such consent at any time by contacting ChangeX at [email protected]
    • Are deemed to have read, understood and accepted the ChangeX privacy policy, a copy of which can be found at https://www.changex.org/ie/sites/privacy.
14. Insofar as is permitted by law, ChangeX will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate applicants or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury or death occurring as a result of taking part in the fund except where it is caused by the negligence of ChangeX or its employees.
15. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall operate to limit or exclude its liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraud (including, but not limited to, fraudulent misrepresentation) or for that which cannot lawfully be excluded.
16. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall impact the awardee’s statutory rights.
17. If any provision of these terms and conditions is held by a competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions will not be affected and will remain valid.
18. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall confer any rights on any third person owing to the rule of privity of contract.
19. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Ireland. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions (whether such disputes or issues are contractual or non-contractual in nature, such as claims in tort, for breach of statute or regulation or otherwise) shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Republic of Ireland.

1. By subjecting yourself to these terms and conditions you declare that you have performed all corporate acts, obtained all necessary corporate and any other applicable authorisations, and complied with all applicable legal requirements necessary to subject yourself to these terms and conditions. You further represent that: (i) there is no legal or any other impediment to participate in the process for the raising of funds by ChangeX, as well as to obtain and apply the same; and (ii) your compliance with these terms and conditions, as well as the execution and fulfilment of all and any acts deriving from them does not violate your bylaws -if applicable-, law, decree, regulation, circular, award, order, any judgment applicable to you or any provision of any act, contract, agreement or any other contractual provision to which you are a party or which is applicable to you.
2. No Employment Relationship/Non-Association. The Applicant and ChangeX hereby agree and recognise that there does not exist and will not exist any labour relationship between them, between the workers of ChangeX and the Applicant, nor between the workers of the Applicant and ChangeX. The Applicant and ChangeX declare to be totally independent, reason for which there does not exist any nexus or labour-employer relationship between them, nor any form of society, association, joint venture, mandate, representation, agency, consortium, joint liability, labour relationship or any other similar relationship, nor between any of them and any suppliers and/or subcontractors of the other. In such virtue, it is understood that Change X and the Applicant will be independently responsible parties for the payment of salaries, legal benefits, contributions, taxes, rights and any type of obligation stipulated by law, with respect to their corresponding workers.
3. Parental/guardian consent must be secured for any images or videos featuring children, and any images uploaded to ChangeX will be presumed by ChangeX to have parental/guardian consent. Individual children should not be identified by name on the ChangeX site. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the consent of the minors or incapacitated persons parent or guardian must be obtained through a privacy notice and authorisation agreement form. You must ensure all parent or guardian signed the Appearance Release form for minors found here. 
4. You must ensure all adults that appear in any image have signed the  Appearance Release form found here.
5. The applicant and ChangeX will each assume, at their own expense, the civil, fiscal, administrative, regulatory and any other obligations and responsibilities that each one may have, derived from the present terms and conditions, from the participation of the funds and/or the implementation and execution of the projects. In this regard, the applicant agrees to indemnify and hold harmless ChangeX, its subsidiaries and/or affiliates as well as its respective officers, directors and employees, from any claim by third parties and/or a governmental authority resulting or related to any actions or omissions of the Applicant and/or its respective officers, directors and employees and indemnify and hold harmless ChangeX, its subsidiaries and/or affiliates as well as its respective officers, directors and employees from any from any damages, claims, demands, complaints, fines, sanctions or claims that derive from or are a consequence of: (i) the failure of the applicant to comply with any of the obligations arising from these terms and conditions; (ii) the falsity or inaccuracy of any of the statements made by the applicant; and (iii) any claims of any nature including but not limited to civil, administrative, regulatory, tax, labour and/or any other nature; it being understood, however, that the applicant shall not be obligated to indemnify ChangeX for any damages, claims, demands, complaints, fines, penalties or claims arising out of or resulting from ChangeX’s wilful misconduct or gross negligence.
6. The applicant undertakes to obtain, process, renew, request and have at all times any license, permit, authorisation and/or concession before any competent governmental authority that may be necessary to use and apply the funds and implement and execute the project to be developed. Likewise, it is obligated to submit any notices, applications and/or notifications that may be necessary for the same purposes, before any governmental authorities. In general, the applicant agrees to comply with the applicable legal framework; recognising in this act that ChangeX only provides resources for the implementation of the projects, without acquiring or undertaking any type of responsibility for the development and execution of the same which shall be the sole and exclusive responsibility of the applicant.
7. By applying to this fund you:
   • Agree to comply at all times and at your own expense with the applicable regulations on the protection of personal data held by individuals. In the event that you collect personal data from any natural person who is involved in the development of the project (including, without limitation, any employee or agent of the Applicant or any third party natural person) and/or who is the beneficiary of the same, you must obtain the consent of such persons and inform them of the corresponding privacy notice. For such purposes, you must use the privacy notice and authorisation agreement form found here. In case you already have a privacy notice that is applicable to the purposes related to the project, you agree to verify that at all times such notice has all the elements described in the linked privacy notice format and in the authorisation agreement; in particular, it must contemplate the transfer of personal data, including the consent of the owner for such transfer. In any case, you are obliged to communicate to ChangeX the privacy notice and the purposes to which the owner of the personal data has subjected them;
   • Acknowledge and agree that ChangeX International is and shall be the sole and exclusive owner of all right, title and interest in and to: (i) the development, implementation, participation and application of resources and support for the realisation of the projects that ChangeX undertakes; (ii) the filming, recording and photographs made and obtained (by me or any other third party) in relation with, and in connection with, ChangeX’s projects that ChangeX carries out (including all films, photographs and other recordings, including discarded footage and behind-the-scenes material); and (iii) all information - including information that identifies an individual, such as name, image, appearance, voice, biographical, professional and personal information, signature, other personal characteristics, private information- and/or all materials obtained and/or created by me and/or by third parties in connection with the projects that ChangeX carries out, including all copyrights and other intellectual property rights therein, for the longest period permitted by law and throughout the world. I hereby undertake to take all such acts and actions as may from time to time be necessary to protect, respect, safeguard and enforce the right that I recognise that ChangeX has; including, but not limited to, the assignment, transfer, waiver and/or revocation of any title or rights from time to time to which I may be entitled and which may be necessary for such purposes and the confirmation that no additional consideration is owed to me in connection with such actions or under any other capacity. Likewise, I commit myself to carry out the actions that are necessary and that correspond to me to cause that the persons involved in the realisation of the projects to recognise the right that Change X has.

• Political figures and/or political organisations are not eligible to apply.
• Religious figures and/or religious organisations are eligible to apply as long as projects are inclusive of all community members regardless of religious beliefs or lack thereof.
• Applicants must provide a certificate of clean criminal record or equivalent or in the case of organisations, registration of the legal entity.

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