$4.5M for innovative housing solutions addressing homelessness in LA County

Help us find scalable,
low-cost solutions.

The Housing Innovation Challenge awards new, scalable housing solutions for those experiencing homelessness in LA County with up to $4.5 million in funding at the $500,000 or $1 million level.

How to Participate

Share your creative development or financial model to expand permanent housing options for our most vulnerable residents.

FAQs

Learn more about joining the Housing Innovation Challenge.

News & Updates

Meet the Judges

Timeline

Trait Scoring Rubric

A Level Playing Field

Once a registrant has completed an application, a minimum of five Evaluation Panel members (judges) will be assigned to score each valid submission. Judges will offer both scores and comments for each of four distinct traits. Each of the four traits will be scored on a 0-5 point scale, in increments of 0.1. Those scores will combine to produce a total score. Examples of possible scores for a trait are: 0.4, 3.7, 5.0, etc.

The most straightforward way to ensure that everyone is treated by the same set of standards would be to have the same judges score every application; unfortunately, due to the number of applications, that is not possible.

Since the same judges will not score every application, the question of fairness needs to be carefully explained. One judge scoring an application may take a more critical view, giving every assigned submission a range of scores only between 1.0 and 2.0, as an example; meanwhile, another judge may be more generous and score every submission between 4.0 and 5.0.

For illustrative purposes, let’s look at the scores from two hypothetical judges:

The first judge is far more generous in scoring than the second judge, who gives much lower scores. If your application was rated by the first judge, it would earn a much higher total score than if it was assigned to the second judge.

We have a way to address this issue. We ensure that no matter which judges are assigned to you, each application will be treated fairly. To do this, we utilize a mathematical technique relying on two measures of distribution, the mean and the standard deviation.

The mean takes all the scores assigned by a judge, adds them up, and divides them by the number of scores assigned, giving an average score.

Formally, we denote the mean like this:

The standard deviation measures the “spread” of a judge’s scores. As an example, imagine that two judges both give the same mean (average) score, but one gives many zeros and fives, while the other gives more ones and fours. It wouldn't be fair, if we didn’t consider this difference.

Formally, we denote the standard deviation like this:

To ensure that the judging process is fair, we rescale all the scores to match the judging population. In order to do this, we measure the mean and the standard deviation of all scores across all judges. Then, we change the mean score and the standard deviation of each judge to match.

We rescale the standard deviation like this:

Then, we rescale mean like this:

Basically, we are finding the difference between both distributions for a single judge and those for all of the judges combined, then adjusting each score so that no one is treated unfairly according to which judges they are assigned.

If we apply this rescaling process to the same two judges in the example above, we can see the outcome of the final resolved scores. They appear more similar, because they are now aligned with typical distributions across the total judging population.

We are pleased to answer any questions you have about the scoring process. Please feel free to ask any questions on the discussion board. Register today to begin developing your application.

Rules

Thank you for your interest in the Housing Innovation Challenge (the “Competition”). The Competition is sponsored by the County of Los Angeles, with support provided by RAMPIT. Please know that by participating in this Competition and in accordance with these Rules you are eligible to receive various forms of recognition and a possible Award of either $500,000 or $1 million in the form of a forgivable loan. So, it is important to define the conditions of your participation. The Rules governing this Competition ("Rules") are stated here as an extension of the Terms & Conditions ("Terms") for use of this website. The full Terms are available for your review by accessing them on this website. Also, please note that other language contained on this website is an extension of these Rules and the Terms. The Rules constitute "Competition Terms and Conditions" under Clause 2.3 of the Terms. Capitalized words used but not defined in the Rules have meanings given to them in the Terms.

Please read these Rules and the Terms carefully, as they describe the conditions under which you are allowed to participate. As you participate, you may periodically be asked to recognize your acceptance of these Rules and the Terms by clicking "accept" at various pages on this website, but by continuing any use of this Website you expressly consent to all of these Rules and the Terms.

Eligibility

We welcome applications from Entities that have a recognized legal structure under applicable law and in good standing in the jurisdiction in which they are organized. Eligible organizations may include either nonprofit, government, or for-profit Entities. Universities and colleges, including those that may have been organized under State or federal charter, are eligible to apply.

Ineligible persons or entities

Individuals are not eligible to submit applications. Individuals who submit applications on behalf of an eligible organization and are also government officials or employees will be responsible for ensuring that their participation in the Competition is permitted by the rules and regulations relevant to their position and that they have obtained any authorization that may be required by virtue of their government position. Entities are also ineligible to submit applications if they are suspended, debarred, ineligible, or excluded or whose principals are suspended, debarred, ineligible, or excluded from securing federally funded contracts. RAMPIT and/or the Competition Sponsor may terminate your participation at any time based on their discretion alone.

Applications by collaborations or groups of organizations

Organizations may join together in a single application subject to these Rules. However, any Award must be distributed to a single legal entity that will maintain the responsibility and authority for the use of (and reporting on) any funds and that will exercise in fact direction, control and supervision of the proposed project (“Principal Organization”).

Separate Agreement

Any Winner will be expected to enter into a separate agreement with the Competition Sponsor, containing key terms and conditions which are separate from these Rules and Terms posted on this website for this Competition. The Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles (Commission) will be administering the County of Los Angeles Housing Innovation Challenge Agreements on behalf of the County. The Commission will execute a Promissory Note and Loan Agreement Secured by Deed of Trust as well as any other related documents (Agreements) which will outline the terms of the loan provided to the Awardee. The loan, together with any outstanding interest and any other sums payable under the Agreements, shall be due and payable on the tenth (10^th) anniversary of the date of the Agreements. The Commission will also monitor the project. Provided Awardee does not default in its obligations under the Agreements, as of each anniversary of the date of the Agreement, an amount equal to one tenth (1/10) of the initial loan amount shall be considered conditionally forgiven so that by the tenth (10^th) anniversary of the date of the Agreements the initial loan balance shall be considered forgiven in full. However, if there is a default under the Agreements this loan forgiveness may be revoked by the County.

Supporting Documentation

Any applicant organizations may be required to submit additional documents or materials before final consideration of any Award, in addition to the application requirements published on this website; those documents or materials may include but are not limited to:

Articles of Incorporation, Charter, or similar documentation
Tax Determination Letter, if applicable
A reporting and evaluation plan, to track progress towards the implementation of your proposal.
Existing policies, if any, addressing conflicts of interest, whistleblower, internal controls, anti-money laundering, intellectual property, code of conduct, ethics, gifts, and any similar policies governing the principal organization and partners.
If you are not a public charity, a statement that any Housing Innovation Challenge funds will not be used for lobbying purposes.

Financial and Organizational Capacity

All applicants must demonstrate their financial and organizational capacity to carry out the proposed project and to appropriately manage any Award, should they be designated as a Winner.

The Competition Sponsor reserves the right to perform any background checks on key individuals associated with any proposed project, and the refusal by the key individuals to provide necessary authorizations may be a reason to reject any application for further consideration. The Competition Sponsor also may request official or audited financial statements from any organization scheduled to receive any funds.

Treatment and Use of Content Submitted by Any Competitor

Competitors permit RAMPIT, the Competition Sponsor, and/or any entity designated by the Competition Sponsor, to publish any Entry, Entry Content, or Content to other Competitors, Judges, the public, or other designees, as necessary, to promote greater transparency, collaboration, and follow-on investment for Competitors during and after the Competition. RAMPIT, the Competition Sponsor, and/or any entity designated by the Competition Sponsor may use content submitted by any Competitor in any way in order to promote the Housing Innovation Challenge, including publishing any such content to the public (including but not limited to posting such content on this website or other websites), to increase interest in any Application (and related content) to other potential funders, and to more broadly expose such content to the press and the general public for any purpose.

Reporting

Any Winner who enters into a separate agreement to receive funding will be required to report progress towards milestone and other goals. Those reporting requirements will vary, based on the proposed project.

Other Rules

As a representative of an applicant, You must complete registration to participate in the Competition. Individuals must be 18 years of age or older at the time of entry to participate by representing an applicant organization. You cannot reside in nor be governed by countries that are prohibited by law, regulation (including United States or other applicable export laws and regulations), treaty or administrative act from entering into trade relations (including export of technology) with the United States of America or its citizens.

Your Entry should meet the application requirements stipulated on this website. You are required to register in advance of any deadlines for the submission of an Entry, and You must comply with all other deadlines posted on this website. Your Entry may not, in the sole and unfettered discretion of RAMPIT, the Competition Sponsor, or any designated representative of RAMPIT and/or the Competition Sponsor contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content. Your application and all related parts or copy must be submitted in English. RAMPIT and/or the Competition Sponsor reserve the right to cancel, modify or suspend the Competition in whole or in part without liability to You. RAMPIT and/or the Competition Sponsor also reserves the right to disqualify You from participating.

The Content created or provided by You must be your own. You represent and warrant that your Entry is an original work created solely by You, that You own all Intellectual Property in and to the Entry, and that no other party has any right, title, claim or interest in the Entry, except as expressly identified by You to us in writing. You retain all right, title and interest in any inventions or work of authorship You invent or create but grant RAMPIT and/or the Competition Sponsor the right to distribute and display Your Entry.

You may participate by registering, but You may not register more than one true and uniform identity; multiple registrations for a participant using multiple identities are not allowed. RAMPIT and/or the Competition Sponsor reserve the right to disqualify any Entry made by a participant violating this limitation, regardless of whether all of the respective parties had knowledge of such violation.

The application requirements for your Entry are clearly described on this website. Your Entry will be assessed initially by ten (10) reviewers, who will be assigned to score your Entry either randomly or after considering any potential conflicts of interest, using the scoring rubric and any other judging criteria that are also described on this website. In cases where a Judge indicates any potential conflict of interest, the Entry will be assigned to another Judge. Those Judges, some of whom are named on this website, will be responsible for scoring your Entry. Judges are permitted to communicate with Participants solely for the purposes of carrying out due diligence for evaluating Your Entry and assigning scores during the review process, but those Judges are not required to contact directly any individual.

Once a rank order of Entries has been calculated, the top Competitors will be presented before designees of the Competition Sponsor for final consideration. Those senior leaders will meet to review and discuss the top Entries and will determine any Finalists and/or Winners, using criteria that may not incorporate the same scoring rubric employed by any previous assessment(s). Final determination of Winners rest with the Competition Sponsor.

While RAMPIT is providing an online platform for your participation, RAMPIT is not responsible for the payment of any Award(s). Payment of any Award(s) is the sole responsibility of the Competition Sponsor, and under the Terms each participant has agreed to look solely to the Competition Sponsor, for the payment of any Award through a separate agreement.

By submitting your Entry, you agree to release, discharge and hold harmless RAMPIT, the Competition Sponsor, and their partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors and representatives from any Loss arising out of your participation in the Competition and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any Award(s). Neither the Competition Sponsors nor RAMPIT assume responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Competition entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms. Neither RAMPIT nor the Competition Sponsor is responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or any website, human errors of any kind, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrants’ or any other persons’ computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to this Competition.

THIS COMPETITION IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Entrants agree that this Competition shall be subject to and governed by the laws of the state of California and the forum of any dispute shall be in the courts of Los Angeles County, California, United States of America, subject to any limitations contained in any documents, instruments or agreements entered into in connection with the Competition which require that disputed be resolved in any forum or proceeding other than the courts in the relevant jurisdiction. To the extent permitted by law, the right to litigate, to seek injunctive relief or to make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes or claims resulting from or in connection with this Competition are hereby excluded and any entrant expressly waives any and all such rights. Certain restrictions may apply.

If for any reason the Competition is not capable of running, as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, Trojan horses, denial of service, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of RAMPIT that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Competition, RAMPIT reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual(s) who tamper with the process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Competition. If the Competition Sponsors and/or RAMPIT terminate the Competition, it will not retain any rights in the submitted Entries.

The Competition Sponsor and/or RAMPIT reserve the right to disqualify any participant who violates these Rules, the Terms and any standards of behavior expressed or implied in them.

We look forward to receiving your most thoughtful and creative Entry.

Contact Information:

You may contact us with any questions or comments about these Rules. Please enter Housing Innovation Challenge in the subject line of your email. You may reach us at: questions@housinginnovationchallenge.com.

About the Challenge

Discovering permanent housing solutions for those experiencing homelessness.

The Housing Innovation Challenge will award $4.5 million to new, creative, and scalable housing solutions for those experiencing homelessness in LA County. The Housing Innovation Challenge is offered by the LA County Homeless Initiative, created by the LA County Board of Supervisors and charged with combatting and preventing homelessness throughout the County.

Focused on Change

On March 7, 2017, the voters of LA County passed Measure H, a 1/4-cent sales tax generating an estimated $355 million annually for ten years exclusively for homeless services and programs. On June 13, 2017, the Board of Supervisors approved funding for 21 Measure H-funded strategies, including a one-time Housing Innovation Fund to spur creative, scalable permanent housing solutions for those experiencing homelessnes.

The Housing Innovation Challenge will award $4.5 million to the best and brightest proposals aimed at achieving the goal of creating permanent housing faster and more cost effectively than is currently possible.

Seeking creative housing solutions to combat homelessness in LA County – join the movement!

The Award

Awarded proposals will receive $500,000 or
$1 million and up to 24 months to implement the proposed project. Awardees will enter into a contractual agreement with the County of Los Angeles that will include specific terms and conditions regarding the timeline, deliverables, and compliance. Most importantly, your proposed project must result in the creation of one or more units of permanent housing for homeless families or individuals in LA County. Please see the application and the rules for more information on requirements and additional information that may be collected.

We are excited by the opportunity to make real, measurable impact on communities throughout LA County, and to help our fellow Angelenos have a place to call home. Be part of the movement to combat and prevent homelessness in LA County.

Application

Welcome to the County of LA’s Housing Innovation Challenge application! We are excited to award a total of $4.5 million to transformational, scalable solutions building or financing cost-effective housing for families, youth, and individuals experiencing homelessness throughout LA County.

We want the best and brightest proposals that can deliver the most promising results for those facing homelessness in LA County. Applications will be accepted at either the $500,000 or $1 million level. All awardees will have up to 24 months to complete their proposed projects. You may only submit one application per organization (as a principal lead or as part of the team). Most importantly, your proposed project must result in the creation of one or more units of housing for homeless families or individuals in LA County.

Please take time to read all application requirements before starting your submission. We encourage you to review the Rules, the Review Process, and the Trait Scoring Rubric to emphasize how your approach aligns with the four traits used to assess each valid application. Applications must be submitted in English. Portions of your application may be published on this website (such as Organization Name, Proposal Title, Executive Summary, Video Pitch, and Connection to Homelessness).

Before submitting, be sure to review your application and confirm your changes have been saved. When you have completed all of the required questions, a message will be displayed on the screen. At that point, you can submit your final application. Once you have submitted the application, you will no longer be able to make changes.

Applications are due no later than Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 5:00 PM Pacific.

All fields are required unless indicated otherwise.

A. Quick Pitch

Here is your opportunity to establish a strong first impression. Any summary of your proposal should stand-alone—please avoid jargon and assume that the reader is not yet versed in the technical aspects of your strategy. Convince any reader that you’re confident in your solution and persuade them to want to read more.

Proposal Title (25 words)

Provide a single statement that describes your overall proposal.

Executive Summary (75 words)

Provide a concise summary of the most powerful aspects of your proposal. Keep your summary to one paragraph. We may use this content to describe the most promising solutions on our website.

B. Capacity

Help us capture a basic understanding of the structure, capacity, and leadership of your organization. If applying as a Team, please provide information specifically for the principal organization responsible for entering into a contractual agreement for the Housing Innovation Challenge.

Operating Budget (75 words)

Provide your organization’s total annual operating budget by selecting from the options below.

<$1M
$1M-$5M
$5M-$10M
$10M-$25M
>$25m

Your Track Record (200 words)

Describe your organization’s prior success, achievements, and/or specific experience indicating you are well-positioned to implement your proposed solution. Include endorsements and other examples of support that speak to your ability to deliver results. Emphasize credibility of your team members and any specific front-line experience, specifically as it relates to addressing homelessness in LA County.

Leadership (200 words)

Describe your management structure with name/title for each team member and the key roles to oversee delivery of the proposal. Explain how team members share responsibilities and hold one another accountable.

Partnership (150 words)

List key partners integral to your project’s success. If participating as a Team of two or more organizations, list partner organization(s) and specific roles in the direction, control, and/or supervision for implementation. Teams may include one or more nonprofit organizations, for-profit ventures, and/or government entities, and the principal organization must be authorized to represent all relevant partner(s), disclose information on behalf of any partner(s), and propose any operational or financial information that is binding to any partner(s).

Stakeholder Management (100 words)

In order to be effective, your approach will need support from the impacted community including decision-makers, funders, local leaders, residents, media, and others. Exhibit an understanding of your stakeholders and your plans to engage and work with them.

Connection to Homelessness (150 words)

This is your opportunity to share any context for your engagement in this movement. While we understand some applicants may not have specific experience in the homelessness sector, please share your rationale for committing talent and resources to support this proposal.

C. Your Solution

Showcase your plan, tactics and other technical aspects to create one or more units of housing for a homeless family or individual in LA County. Please note: You may submit one application at either the $500,000 or $1 million level and you will have up to 24 months to implement and complete your proposed project.

Unit Type

Please select one:

Single, free-standing unit
Multi-unit
Combination of single, free-standing unit and multi-unit
Please explain: [TEXT BOX: 10 words]

Siting Strategy

Please select one of the following ways you can demonstrate the feasibility of siting your unit(s):

Site control / ownership
One or more property owners have agreed to site the project on their property
One or more property owners have been identified to potentially site the project on their property
Could be sited as an accessory dwelling unit on private property
Other innovative strategy. Please explain: [TEXT BOX: 15 words]

Purpose Statement (200 words)

Set the stage and describe the specific need you aim to address. Include data to demonstrate this need, as well as information to describe your understanding of local conditions. While you may offer general context for the problem of homelessness, focus on any discrete issues your solution is specifically designed to overcome.

Approach (200 words)

Introduce and detail your approach and proposed solution. If applicable, be sure to describe your pathway to site control, demonstrate clear understanding of building code and land use regulations for your selected jurisdiction, and if the project does not conform to any codes or regulations applicable to permit approval, indicate what actions are needed in order to obtain a building permit and how the actions will fit within the overall 24-month completion requirement.

Innovation (200 words)

Share how your approach will more quickly and/or more cost effectively lead to more affordable housing, and how it differs from, improves upon, and/or bolsters existing methods/practices to build housing for those experiencing homelessness in LA County. Highlight any unique features of the housing you will develop, and any other information demonstrating creativity and innovation in your approach and projected solution.

Project Plan (250 words)

Provide a detailed implementation plan and timeline (up to 24 months) leading to development of housing units. Describe the chronological sequence of key tasks, identify important milestones, highlight efficiencies, and specify deliverables essential to achieving measurable results.

Risk Assessment (150 words)

Identify any specific operational or tactical hurdles, principal risks or challenges to the short- and long-term success of the project and your plans to address them.

Housing Features

Housing units developed as part of the Housing Innovation Challenge are required to have a Certificate of Occupancy or include specific features of habitability. Please indicate that your unit(s) will include the following features (select more than one).

Obtained a Certificate of Occupancy
Ability to be hooked up to water/plumbing
Ability to be hooked up to electricity
Private kitchen/kitchenette
Private bathroom
Communal kitchen/kitchenette (for multi-unit projects)
Communal bathroom (for multi-unit projects)

D. Your Impact

Illustrate what success looks like. Be sure to emphasize how your project aligns with the four traits used to assess all applications (see Trait Scoring Rubric).

Target Population

Please select one primary community/population experiencing homelessness who will be served by the proposal:

Anyone experiencing homelessness
Disabled (physical, developmental)
Families with children and youth (under age 18)
LGBTQ
Mental Health Challenges
Transition-aged Youth (age 18-25)
Single Adults (age 26-54)
Older adults (age 55 and older)
Substance Use Disorder
Veterans
Women
Please explain: [TEXT BOX: 5 words]

Target Beneficiaries (150 words)

Demonstrate an understanding of who you are serving. If you’ve chosen a priority population or demographic within the larger homelessness community, please describe them, their needs, and the aspects of your service solution that are responsive to these needs.

Geographic Area Served

All projects, in their entirety, must be delivered and impact communities within the boundaries of LA County. Please select the service planning area(s) (SPA) where your project will be located (may select more than one).

SPA 1: Antelope Valley
SPA 2: San Fernando Valley
SPA 3: San Gabriel Valley
SPA 4: Metro LA
SPA 5: West
SPA 6: South
SPA 7: East
SPA 8: South Bay
Please explain: [TEXT BOX: 15 words]

Projected Impact (250 words)

Define success, including measurable results and outcomes such as number of housing units, cost per unit, efficiencies/time savings, number of beneficiaries (i.e. individuals, households), specific impact on beneficiaries, and long-term effects. Explain how this project complements existing efforts, partnerships, and initiatives in LA County. Include other intended outcomes, such as neighbor perception or regard for your residents, or impact of onsite support, such as access to transit and clinics. Offer any relevant data to back up claims of effectiveness.

Tracking & Metrics (150 words)

Identify your projected goals and objectives, and the methodology you’ll use to track results and measure overall impact. Include how precisely your methodologies will produce meaningful outcomes and how closely your metrics are linked to a realistic assessment of your performance.

Scalability (250 words)

Share your vision and explain how your solution is prepared to expand after completion of the proposed project for the Housing Innovation Challenge. Describe plans to scale your solution as a model that can be applied or adapted to meet diverse needs of LA County’s many communities. Include any internal or external information or data that helps indicate that your plan to scale will deliver concrete results. With Measure H and various new capital funding streams for affordable and/or homeless housing, LA County will address homelessness at an unprecedented scale. The Housing Innovation Challenge is seeking solutions designed to grow as more resources are deployed to expand available housing.

Other Considerations (100 words)

This is your final opportunity to raise any other considerations. Here, you may emphasize or expand upon a previous point or provide new information, as necessary.

E. Budget

Please provide a detailed budget at either the $500,000 or $1 million funding request level. Use language that is consistent across your application, so that any cost categories or line-item descriptions are referenced elsewhere. Your application should read as one unified narrative, and the budget must explain and/or clarify the efficiency with which you intend to use resources.

Funding Request

Select one of two award sizes.

$500,000.00 (US DOLLARS)
$1,000,000.00 (US DOLLARS)

Budget Form

Using the following table, please list and describe all line item and administrative costs to implement your proposal within your specified duration (up to 24 months). This budget should not exceed your selected award amount – you will have opportunity in Budget Narrative to identify and describe any additional costs and funding sources secured by the time of the award.

It is incumbent upon each applicant to deliver a clear and compelling budget, identifying cost categories that are described in your previous project plan. While administrative expenditures are eligible, please note: we do not accept general line item descriptions, like “Overhead” – you must specifically describe what costs are incurred as part of each line item.

Unit Cost of Development or Rehabilitation

Please enter the calculated unit cost of development or rehabilitation (in US dollars).

Budget Narrative (250 words)

Offer a narrative description of your budget. If applicable, provide information on the amount and type of costs required above the selected funding request amount in order to complete your project within the 24-month timeline, as well as the secured and/or potential resources to allocate towards these expenses (including name of funder, status of request, amount, and type – cash or in-kind). Explain your contingency plan should you not secure these additional resources. If additional resources have already been secured, please reference those sources of funding. Please also include the potential to leverage additional resources to scale your project once it has been completed as part of the Housing Innovation Challenge (including name of funding prospect, amount, and type – cash or in-kind).

F. Video Pitch

Make a personal connection by offering an overview of your proposal in a 90-second video. It is not our intention to solicit highly produced or expensive video content. In our experience, the most effective videos are the most authentic. Capture your commitment with a clear, compelling explanation that anyone can understand and appreciate. Please don’t hesitate to send us an email for guidance on your video pitch.

Your Video Pitch must follow these guidelines:

Do not exceed 90 seconds (exceeding 90 seconds may disqualify you from this Challenge).
One or two person(s) should present himself and/or herself during the video (make it sincere).
Focus on delivering a personal connection; it is not necessary to produce a sophisticated video.
Your video must be in English.

Here are some logistical and technical suggestions:

Laptop cameras and smart phones are easy-to-use tools for recording your video.
If possible, reduce your file size - video uploading is easier at lower resolutions.
If you are having difficulty uploading your video file, try logging out of the application and logging back in using another Internet browser (Google’s Chrome browser is preferred).

Here are general suggestions for delivering a high-quality video pitch:

Introduce yourself and your organization or team.
What is the specific problem you are solving?
What is the solution you’re offering, and how does it align with the four traits that our judges must consider when assessing your proposal?
Focus on describing the projected impact on your target beneficiaries. Illustrate the long-term and/or scalable benefits of investing in your solution.

Hone your content:

Keep your description and language simple.
Demonstrate passion through your words and enthusiasm.
Thoroughly prepare. Practice numerous times and solicit feedback from colleagues, family, and friends before submitting.

You will record your video and upload to YouTube; then, you will enter your YouTube Video ID.

G. Additional Information

The County of Los Angeles has designated the Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles (Commission) to administer the Housing Innovation Challenge under a forgivable loan structure. The Commission will execute agreements which will outline the terms of the loan provided to the Winner, and will also monitor the project. Please review our Rules and Terms & Conditions for more details.

If you are chosen as a Winner from the County of Los Angeles, from the County of Los Angeles, you will be required to provide additional information in order to enter into a contractual agreement for the Housing Innovation Challenge. The following list is only intended to illustrate some of the basic requirements, and the County of Los Angeles reserves the right to require other information, as necessary.

Articles of Incorporation, Charter, or similar documentation
Tax determination letter, if applicable
A more detailed work plan, timeline, specific site location details, pro forma, audited financial statements, and/or an evaluation plan.
Evidence of site control, except for housing that could be sited as an ADU or unless the County otherwise agrees to execute the contract without evidence of site control.
Evidence of additional funding and resources secured to implement and complete the Housing Innovation Challenge project.
Existing policies, if any, addressing conflicts of interest, whistleblower, internal controls, anti-money laundering, intellectual property, code of conduct, ethics, gifts, and any similar policies governing the principal organization and partners.
If you are not a public charity, a statement that Housing Innovation Challenge funds will be spent only for the purpose of this challenge, and that the award will not be used for lobbying purposes.
If you are a public charity under the Internal Revenue Code, a statement sharing a lobbying budget in which you specify the amount of lobbying expenses and non-lobbying expenses.
If you are a Team, a formal agreement (MOU, contract) authorizing the principal organization to represent the partner organizations and enter into a contract on their behalf.

The County of Los Angeles reserves the right to perform background checks on key individuals associated with the proposal, and the refusal by key individuals to provide necessary authorizations will be a reason to reject any application for further consideration. Background information and the results of any background checks will be kept confidential.

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User-Provided Information: You may provide to RAMPIT what is generally called "personally identifiable information” (such as your name, email address, postal mailing address, home/mobile telephone number(s), etc.) while using this Website, such as when you register, when you submit Entries and/or when you provide information in order to compete to receive any Award(s).
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"Flash Cookies" Information: Flash and other browser plugin applications use technology similar to cookies to enable the storage and recall of settings, preferences and usage data, and other information. Because they are stored in separate software applications, these types of cookies are not managed through your web browser's cookie management interface. RAMPIT may employ such techniques, including Adobe Flash Cookies (also called "Local Shared Objects") to track information related to your interaction with features of this Website through which Flash-based content is provided. You can access various Flash Cookie management tools and configure certain privacy and security settings for your Flash Player from Adobe's web site directly.
"Automatically Collected" Information: When you use this Website or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from your web browser by using different types of technology, including "clear gifs" or "web beacons." This "Automatically Collected" information may include Internet Protocol address ("IP Address") or other device address or ID, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after this Website, the pages you view on this Website, and the dates and times that you visit this Website.
Linked Website Information: When you link an account, you may have on a third party service (such as any third party social networking site) to your Account on this Website, RAMPIT may store the access credentials you provide and will have access to and may collect any information you may have stored in connection with that account that you have configured and those services to make available, including personally identifiable information and friends lists. By linking your accounts in this manner, you are authorizing RAMPIT as your agent to access and use your account on the third party service in connection with your use of this Website.
Third Party Web Beacons: We may also implement third party content on this Website that uses "clear gifs," "web beacons," or other similar techniques, which allow the third party content provider to read and write cookies (including Flash Cookies) to your browser, or implement similar tracking mechanisms, in connection with your viewing of that third party content displayed on this Website. This information is collected directly by the third party, and RAMPIT does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by third parties in this manner is subject to that third party's own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.
Information from Other Sources: We may also obtain information, including personally identifiable information, from third parties and sources other than this Website, such as other Users who import your email address. We may also receive information from third party services that provide a mechanism to expose information you have provided to such third party through the use of an application program interface (API), such as Facebook Connect and the Google API. If we combine or associate information from other sources with personally identifiable information that we collect through this Website, we will treat the combined information as personally identifiable information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

The Way RAMPIT Uses Information

RAMPIT uses the information that you provide or that we collect to operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on this Website. We will use your email address to contact you with respect to Entries, any Award, and otherwise in connection with Competitions, for any administrative and customer service purposes, to address intellectual property infringement, rights of privacy, or defamation issues, or regarding Postings.
RAMPIT uses all of the information that you provide or that we collect to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our Users, to improve the way this Website works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.
RAMPIT may use "Automatically Collected" information and "cookies" information to: (a) personalize our services, such as remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit this Website; (b) provide customized third party content and information; (c) monitor and analyze the operation and effectiveness of this Website and related activities; (d) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and, (e) track your status in any Competitions or other activities.
RAMPIT may use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send you: i) messages about this Website or communications from other Users; ii) promotional messages related to this Website and the activities of third parties with whom we work; and, iii) messages on behalf of other Users, who think that you may be interested in this Website. You will have the ability to opt-out of receiving any such communications, either through links provided in the messages, or by updating your Account settings through this Website.

When RAMPIT Discloses Information

We are not in the business of selling your information. We do, however, disclose your personally identifiable information in a variety of circumstances in connection with developing and maintaining this Website and operating or supporting Competitions. For example:

By its nature, this Website enables Users to communicate in a variety of ways. This also applies to information you choose to make available through features that connect to third party services, if applicable. Once you make your personally identifiable information available, it may be collected and used by the recipients without restriction. We urge Users to exercise common sense, prudence and good judgment about what personal information to make available to others through this Website.
RAMPIT may disclose your personally identifiable information to the Competition Sponsor and/or Competitors, as applicable, to enable your participation in and the operation of Competitions.
RAMPIT works with third party service providers to provide general website hosting, specialized Content hosting (e.g. the hosting of video Content), maintenance, and other services. These third parties may have access to or process your personally identifiable information as a result of performing the services they were engaged to perform.
RAMPIT may also disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary or useful to comply with applicable laws, to respond to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena or warrant, or to otherwise assist or cooperate with law enforcement activity or other similar activities in connection with internal or coordinated fraud detection and prevention, and the protection or enforcement of third party rights.
RAMPIT works to promote a safe and reliable service for all Users. We reserve the right to disclose your information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; to protect RAMPIT and others from fraudulent, abusive, predatory, or unlawful uses or activity; to investigate and defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations; to protect the security or integrity of this Website; or to protect or vindicate the rights, property, or personal safety of RAMPIT, our Users, or others.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to share certain personally identifiable information with RAMPIT, in which case RAMPIT may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality found on this Website. Please note that we may retain all information you submit for a variety of purposes, including backups and archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, and analytics.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting account access or making corrections to your information. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE SECRECY OF YOUR UNIQUE PASSWORD AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION AT ALL TIMES.

We may now or in the future make certain tools and features for configuring your privacy settings available to you through this Website, but any such features and settings we may provide do not guarantee the anonymity or confidentiality of any information, including personally identifiable information and Postings you provide or submit to this Website.

Data Rights

Summary:

You may have the right to exercise your data protection rights, including to request that RAMPIT deletes, amends, or provides you access to your information.
You have the right to opt out of receiving RAMPIT’s promotional messages, but you may still receive other communications.
You can complain to your local data protection authority about the use of your information.
We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us by sending an email to privacy@rampit.com.

Rights that you may have, depending on the country in which you live, include:

Accessing, correcting, updating, or requesting the removal of your information.
Objecting to processing of your information, asking us to restrict processing of your information, or requesting the portability of your information.
Opting out from receiving marketing communications that we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by selecting the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you.
Withdrawing your consent at any time if we have collected and processed your information with your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent. Should you wish to exercise your right to withdraw consent, RAMPIT will utilize data scrambling to deliberately distort, obfuscate or remove sensitive or confidential data from our system. This process is irreversible so that the original data cannot be derived from the scrambled data.
Complaining to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. Contact details for data protection authorities in the European Union are available here.

Note that RAMPIT is a controller of your information. Other organizations, such as Competition Sponsors, may also act as controllers of your information. You should contact the Competition Sponsor if you have any questions about how they use information that you have provided to them.

Third Party Websites

This Website contains links to Websites and services provided by third parties. Any personally identifiable information you provide on third party sites or services is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party's policies, if any, governing privacy and security (e.g., YouTube). We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of third party sites or services to which links are displayed on this Website. We encourage you to learn about third parties' privacy and security policies before providing them with personally identifiable information.

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. For that reason, RAMPIT does not knowingly collect or maintain personally identifiable information from persons under 13 years-of-age, and no part of this Website is directed to persons under 18 years-of-age. IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THIS WEBSITE FOR THE PURPOSES OF COMPETING AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER. If RAMPIT learns that personally identifiable information of persons less than 13-years-of-age has been collected on this Website without verifiable parental consent, then RAMPIT will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under the age of 13 has obtained a User Account on this Website, then you may alert RAMPIT at privacy@RAMPIT.com and request that RAMPIT delete that child's personally identifiable information from its systems.

Our Commitment to Data Security

RAMPIT uses a variety of physical, managerial, and technical safeguards designed to improve the security of our systems and your personally identifiable information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to RAMPIT, nor can we guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. You transfer your information to RAMPIT at your own risk.

If RAMPIT learns of a security systems breach, then we will attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. If you'd like to receive such a notice please notify us at privacy@RAMPIT.com.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy

Please revisit this page periodically to stay aware of any changes to this Privacy Policy, which may be revised at RAMPIT's sole discretion, as provided in the Terms. Note that our amended Privacy Policy will become effective on a going forward basis as set forth in the Terms, except that: (i) unless you agree otherwise, we will use your personally identifiable information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy in effect when we received that information; and, (ii) if you do not agree with any changes to the Privacy Policy, you must terminate your participation and cease use of this Website. Your continued use of this Website after a revised Privacy Policy has become effective indicates that you have read, understood, and agreed to the current version of the Privacy Policy.

RAMPIT Contact Information

Please contact RAMPIT with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personally identifiable information, our use and disclosure practices, or your consent choices by email: privacy@RAMPIT.com.

Terms & Conditions

RAMPIT, LLC (“RAMPIT”) provides an online platform for a skill-based competition through this website, which is subject to the following terms and conditions. RAMPIT has contracted with the County of Los Angeles to host the Competition (the “Housing Innovation Challenge”), as described below, through this online platform. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT THE STIPULATIONS OF A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND RAMPIT FOR YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE AND THE RELATED SERVICES. BY RECOGNIZING YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS, EITHER BY REGISTERING A USER ACCOUNT AND/OR BY ACCESSING AND USING THIS WEBSITE, AS APPLICABLE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, YOU MUST CEASE USING THIS WEBSITE AND THE RELATED SERVICES.

1. Definitions and interpretation

In this document, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings, unless otherwise expressly indicated:

1.1 "Agreement"means:

these terms and conditions;
any amendments subsequently made to these terms and conditions;
any replacement or novation of this Agreement;
terms and conditions incorporated into this Agreement by reference; and,
any policies (including the Privacy Policy), Rules, terms, conditions, Competition Terms and Conditions, notices and disclaimers contained elsewhere on this Website or provided by RAMPIT or the Competition Sponsor in connection with the Services.

1.2 “Competition" means any challenge or contest posted on this Website, however expressed, such as the Housing Innovation Challenge.

1.3 "Competition Information" means all Content provided in relation to a particular Competition, including the Competition Terms and Conditions.

1.4 "Competition Sponsor" means in relation to any Competition posted on this Website, the entity responsible for offering Awards or other sponsored activities through the Competition. The Competition Sponsor for the Housing Innovation Challenge is the County of Los Angeles.

1.5 "Competition Terms and Conditions" has the meaning given to that term in Clause 2.3.

1.6 "Competitor" means in relation to any Competition posted on this Website, a person, a team of persons and/or a corporate entity, either for profit or nonprofit, that submits or proposes to submit an Entry to the Competition.

1.7 "Content" means any information, files, text, code, material, images, data, sounds, graphics, software, photos, designs, software downloads, goods, services documents, layouts, applet, CGI interfaces, descriptions, illustrations, catalogues, advertisements, audio and video material or specifications contained in or referred to in this Website, obtained through or via this Website or available to be viewed by accessing any part of this Website (which may be out of date or superseded), whether it be obtained directly or indirectly, in any machine or human readable format. Without limiting the foregoing, “Content” includes any Entry submitted through or via this Website.

1.8 "Entity" means an entity duly organized and validly existing under state or federal law in the United States of America or the host country of origin that is represented on the Website by a person at least 18 years of age who is the duly authorized representative of such Entity.

1.9 "Entry" means an entry by a Competitor in response to a Competition.

1.10 "Entry Content" means all Content used, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, in describing, drafting, developing, devising, calibrating, testing, evaluating, analyzing or generating an Entry, or which itself constitutes the whole or part of an Entry.

1.11 "Intellectual Property Rights" means all intellectual property rights of any type whatsoever throughout the world including all rights which subsist in copyright, patent rights, or trademark rights, whether or not such rights are registered or capable of being registered.

1.12 “Judge” means any individual, organization or other entity represented on this website as responsible for the subjective assessment of Entry Content, either for the purposes of determining or informing the determination of any Award(s) or designation(s) of Winner(s) in the Competition.

1.13 "Loss" means any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential liabilities, damages, claims, losses, costs, expenses, actions, demands or suits, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), statute or otherwise and whether pecuniary or non-pecuniary. This includes, but is not limited to, loss of profits, legal costs and defense or settlement costs.

1.14 "User" means any person who has registered a user account on this Website. The term "User" includes all Competitors.

1.15 "Posting" means any addition, insertion or uploading of content to this Website, as well as any submission or communication made through or via this Website. For the avoidance of doubt, this includes (in the case of a Competitor) all Entries and Entry Content posted by that Competitor.

1.16 "Privacy Policy" means RAMPIT's privacy policies and notices posted on this Website, specific pages thereof, and/or provided by RAMPIT in connection with the Services.

1.17 “Rules” means any set of provisions that establish specific conditions, under which participants are bound, that are posted on this website, either as a notice of an extension of these Competition Terms and Conditions or in addition to these Competition Terms and Conditions.

1.18 "Award" means any form of benefit or other forms of recognition to declared or selected Winner(s), as set out in the Competition Terms and Conditions. In this case, Awards from the County of Los Angeles will be in increments of either $500,000 or $1 million. Any Award will be executed through a separate agreement with any Winner(s) in the form of a forgivable loan from the County of Los Angeles and its designee—the Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles (Commission), which will administer awards provided through the Housing Innovation Challenge and monitor the winning projects.

1.19 "RAMPIT" means RAMPIT, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company, with a mailing address at 805 2nd Avenue South, #3, Nashville, TN 37210.

1.20 "RAMPIT Affiliate" means an entity affiliated with RAMPIT by ownership or common ownership (including The Common Pool, LLC, and 23Com Software, LLC) or any subsidiary of RAMPIT.

1.21 "Services" means the services provided by RAMPIT on or via this Website and includes all Competitions.

1.22 "Third Party Sites" means sites and resources located on servers maintained by others over whom RAMPIT has no control.

1.23 "User Account" means Your online account with RAMPIT which enables You to use this Website and includes (but is not limited to) Your username, password, rating score and feedback.

1.24 "Website" means any web pages contained within this domain and any sub-domains and all underlying software and infrastructure which permits the holding of Competitions. Where the context permits, ‘Website’ or 'website' includes the Services provided on the Website.

1.25 "Winner" means, in relation to any Competition posted on this Website, those Competitor(s) whose Entries are selected by a Competition Sponsor as a winner of any Award(s). Competitors may disqualify their Entries from this selection by expressly informing RAMPIT of their decision within 48 hours after the close of the competition.

1.26 "You" means the person or team using the Website, including a User, or an Entity duly organized and validly existing under state or federal law in the United States of America or the host country of origin that is represented on the Website by a User that is a person at least 18 years of age who is the duly authorized representative of such Entity.

1.27 "Your" means the possessive of the person or team using the Website, including a User.

2. Agreement to be bound

2.1 Use of this Website is subject to this Agreement. You agree to be bound by this Agreement and any subsequent amendments to this Agreement, as set forth below.

2.2 RAMPIT reserves the right to amend or modify this Agreement at any time, provided that if such modifications materially limit Your rights and/or expand Your obligations hereunder, RAMPIT will notify You electronically, such as by email or through the Website, either means are equally sufficient. Such material modifications will take effect on the earlier of the date You indicate Your assent (by clicking "Accept" or otherwise) or 30 calendar days after RAMPIT's notice by email or on this Website. No modification of the Agreement will apply to any dispute between You and RAMPIT that arose prior to the effective date of the modification. If at any time You disagree with the Agreement or any modifications thereof, You may terminate this Agreement and shall cease using this Website. Your continued use of the Website after the revised Agreement becomes effective (such as following notice as set forth above) indicates that You have read, understood, and agreed to the revised Agreement. Any new or different terms supplied by You are specifically rejected by RAMPIT unless RAMPIT agrees to them in a signed writing specifically including those new or different terms.

2.3 The Housing Innovation Challenge may be subject to additional terms and conditions ("Competition Terms and Conditions"). Competition Terms and Conditions will apply in addition to this Agreement and will not limit this Agreement in any way unless RAMPIT notifies the parties to the Competition that this Agreement is amended by the Competition Terms and Conditions. If RAMPIT does not provide such notification to the parties, this Agreement will prevail in the event of any inconsistency between it and the Competition Terms and Conditions. Also, please note that any Content on this website is an extension of the Competition Terms and Conditions and may be edited or changed as necessary, to extend or modify the Competition Terms and Conditions.

2.4 RAMPIT may alter this Website from time to time by adding or removing features. This Agreement will not be affected by any alterations to this Website or any adding or removing of the features.

2.5 Users may use this Website, including but not limited to those in the capacity of a Competitor. This Agreement will apply to Your use of the Website in that capacity, but Users may also include Competition Administrators or representatives of the Competition Sponsor, and any conditions placed on them as Users are identified in the Terms.

3. Participation

3.1 In order to participate in any Competition, You must register as a User. Participation on this Website is free.

3.2 Participation is available only to Entities that are able to form legally binding contracts under applicable law. If You do not accept this Agreement, You will not be permitted to participate in any Competition or otherwise access or use the Website in any way.

3.3 Without limiting Clause 3.2 above, participation is not available to individuals. By entering, you agree that you represent an eligible entity and are not:

An individual under the age of 18 years;
A person whose participation has been permanently suspended or terminated under Section 4 below; or
A person who is or resides in countries that are prohibited by law, regulation (including United States or other applicable export laws and regulations), treaty or administrative act from entering into trade relations (including export of technology) with the United States or its citizens.

3.4 When registering as a User, You warrant to RAMPIT that:

You are 18 years of age or older, and You are registering as a User on Your own behalf and in Your own name as a representative of an Entity (and not on behalf of and/or in the name of a third person);
You are representing an Entity which is a corporation or other legally incorporated entity, that is duly incorporated or organized under the laws of the place of incorporation or organization and in good standing in the relevant jurisdiction(s), and You have full legal capacity and power to enter into and perform Your obligations under this Agreement on behalf of the Entity; and
You agree to act in good faith and in accordance with this Agreement.

3.5 No individual or represented Entity may register more than once (for example, by using a different username/email).

3.6 Acceptance of registration is at the sole discretion of RAMPIT. If RAMPIT believes that any registration has been made in contravention of clauses 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 or 3.5 above (or otherwise in breach of this Agreement), it may refuse to accept the registration.

3.7 You are responsible for all use of this Website with Your User Account (and/or username/email or password), whether or not You are aware of any particular use by another party or could reasonably have been aware of that use by another party. You agree to notify RAMPIT immediately if You become aware of any unauthorized use of Your User Account.

3.8 Your User Account is personal to You and may not be sold, assigned or transferred to another party. If You attempt to sell, assign or transfer Your User Account to another party, RAMPIT may suspend or terminate Your participation at its sole discretion.

3.9 RAMPIT may communicate with You through the username/email that You provide at registration. You agree to notify RAMPIT immediately if there are any changes to Your details. If You fail to notify RAMPIT of any changes to Your details, You agree to waive any objection, claim, defense or recourse You might have had as a consequence of RAMPIT failing to communicate with You. If You change Your email address and fail to notify RAMPIT of the change, RAMPIT will be deemed to have communicated with You on the date on which it communicated with the email address most recently provided by You.

3.10 You warrant that any Content provided or posted by You (through registration or otherwise):

is not false, inaccurate, misleading, or fraudulent;
does not infringe any other party's Intellectual Property Rights or other rights arising at law or otherwise;
is not obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, or harassing;
does not violate any applicable law;
does not contain or describe pornography and is not otherwise harmful to persons under the age of 18 years;
will not create liability for RAMPIT or cause it to lose the services of its internet service providers or other suppliers (in whole or in part);
will not create liability for the Competition Sponsor of any kind.

3.11 If RAMPIT believes that any Content contravenes Clause 3.10 (or any other provision of this Agreement), it may remove that Content and/or take any other steps as it deems necessary to protect itself or other parties against any Loss. To the maximum extent permitted by law, RAMPIT will not be liable for any Loss to any person arising from the removal of Content under this Section.

4. Terminating Your Participation

4.1 Subject to Clause 4.2, You may terminate Your participation at any time and without cause by notifying RAMPIT through this Website.

4.2 If You terminate Your participation, this Agreement and any other applicable terms and conditions will continue to apply to any Postings made by You prior to giving the notice described in Clause 4.1 above.

4.3 RAMPIT may, in its absolute discretion, terminate or suspend Your participation at any time and without notice if it believes that:

You have breached this Agreement or any other applicable Terms and Conditions;
You have acted in a way which is unlawful, or which may create liability for You, RAMPIT, our Users, our internet service providers or any other supplier, or the Competition Sponsor;
RAMPIT is unable to verify any information provided by You;
Other Users give negative feedback about You, which RAMPIT determines in its absolute discretion is worthy of termination – by registering, you are joining a community of other registrants and will participate as a good actor in the community;
You have acted or represented Yourself in any way that RAMPIT or the Competition Sponsor deems that your termination is necessary.

4.4 If RAMPIT terminates Your participation, RAMPIT may in its absolute discretion withdraw any Postings submitted or made by You. If RAMPIT terminates Your participation, RAMPIT may, at its sole discretion, immediately withdraw Your Entry or Entries, which will have no force and effect from the date on which Your participation was terminated.

4.5 Subject to Clause 4.4, if RAMPIT suspends Your participation, any entries or other Postings submitted or made by You may be suspended for the period in which Your participation is suspended.

4.6 If Your participation is terminated, either by You or by RAMPIT:

You are no longer authorized to access this Website;
All restrictions imposed on You, licenses granted by You and all indemnities, disclaimers and limitations of liability set out in this Agreement, including clauses 11 (Limitation of Liability) and 12 (Indemnities) will survive, along with clauses 14 (Intellectual Property), 16 (Arbitration) and 18 (Miscellaneous).

5. Use of this Website

5.1 You must not use the Website to facilitate or participate in any illegal activity or engage in any activity which RAMPIT, in its absolute discretion, considers inappropriate. RAMPIT reserves the right to terminate or restrict Your access to this Website immediately and indefinitely if it suspects that You are engaging in any such behavior or are in breach of any terms of this Agreement. You agree that You will only use Your User Account and this Website for the purposes of using the Services and for no other purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, in using Your User Account and accessing the Website, You agree not to:

use Your User Account in a fraudulent or illegal manner, or email or otherwise send any materials from Your User Account which are offensive, unlawful, harassing, libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene or otherwise objectionable;
use Your User Account to stalk or harass another person;
use Your User Account to impersonate any person in any way whatsoever;
use Your User Account to infringe the copyright, trademark, patent or other Intellectual Property Rights of any person or entity;
use Your User Account to send advertising, chain letters, junk mail, spam or any other type of unsolicited electronic communications;
use Your User Account to send or distribute any Content of any kind which contains a virus, spyware, malware or other harmful, disruptive or destructive component;
intentionally or negligently use Your User Account in a way that degrades performance of this Website to other persons;
manipulate, or attempt to manipulate, the Competition;
use Your User Account or any mechanism, software or other scripts in relation to the Website which could disrupt or interfere with the Website or any servers, software, hardware or equipment connected to or via the website;
restrict or inhibit any other User from using or enjoying the Website;
distribute any pornographic, extremist or racist material or any material which might otherwise be harmful to persons under the age of 18 years;
violate any applicable law relating to Your use of the website.

6. Terms specific to Competitors

6.1 If You are registered as a Competitor, You agree and acknowledge that:

in making an Entry, to be bound by this Agreement and all Competition Information (including the Competition Terms and Conditions) relating to the Competition;
RAMPIT does not guarantee the accuracy of the Competition Information (or other Content posted on the Website), ownership of any Content, or the availability of any Award(s);
any leader board appearing in connection with a Competition is indicative only and makes no representations and creates no entitlements in relation to any Award(s);
RAMPIT does not control the decisions of the Competition Sponsor, and You release RAMPIT and Competition Sponsor from any claims You may have in relation to the decisions of the Competition Sponsor (including the selection of the Winner and ranking of Competitors), including any defamation or other claims arising from its ranking of Competitors;
RAMPIT is not responsible for any Postings provided by other Users or for the accuracy of Content provided by other Users;
RAMPIT is not liable to bestow any Award(s), and You will look solely to the Competition Sponsor and any designated administrating entity for the bestowal of any Award(s);
in the event that You have any dispute with another User, You release RAMPIT from all claims of any kind arising from that dispute;
You will not initiate contact with a Competition Sponsor for the purpose of contracting separately with the Competition Sponsor to circumvent any Competition; and,
an Entry will be deemed to have been logged at the time that it is received by RAMPIT. You agree that neither RAMPIT nor the Competition Sponsor is responsible for any Entry not being received due to technical reasons or otherwise.
RAMPIT and/or the Competition Sponsor may terminate your participation at any time based on their discretion alone.

6.2 RAMPIT and any Competition Sponsor reserves the right to conduct an administrative review of any Entry or any Competitor in order to screen for completeness and other Entry Content requirements (as described in the Competition Terms and Conditions) before distributing approved Entries to Judges.

6.3 Competitors permit RAMPIT, any Competition Sponsor, and/or any entity designated by a Competition Sponsor, to publish any Entry, Entry Content, or Content to the public, other Competitors, Judges or other designees, as necessary, to promote greater transparency, collaboration, and follow-on investment for Competitors during and after the Competition.

7. RAMPIT's relationship with Competitor and Competition Sponsor

7.1 RAMPIT is not involved in any way in the formation of any contract between any Competitor and the Competition Sponsor. RAMPIT at no time acts as an agent for any Competitor.

7.2 RAMPIT will not be liable to You in any respect if the Competition Sponsor or any Competitor fails to perform its obligations under this Agreement or the Competition.

7.3 The Competition Sponsor will at all times be responsible for the bestowal of any Award(s) in accordance with the Agreement and the Competition Terms and Conditions. RAMPIT will have no liability whatsoever in respect to the failure of the Competition Sponsor to bestow any Award(s), and You acknowledge and agree that You will not take action of any kind against RAMPIT in respect to any claim for any Award(s) that You may or may not have or wish to make.

8. Terms specific to any Winner and any Competition Sponsor

8.1 Any Winner agrees that any Award is conditional upon receipt by the Competition Sponsor of any Entry Content used or consulted by that Winner in generating the winning Entry and that any Award will not be bestowed until this condition has been satisfied.

8.2 Any Winner and the Competition Sponsor acknowledge and agree that, once any Winner has been chosen and notified, the Competition Sponsors will elect to enter into a separate agreement (a “Separate Agreement”) with the Entity represented by that Winner. The Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles (Commission) will be administering the County of Los Angeles Housing Innovation Challenge Agreements on behalf of the County. The Commission will execute a Promissory Note and Loan Agreement Secured by Deed of Trust as well as any other related documents (Agreements) which will outline the terms of the loan provided to the Awardee. The loan, together with any outstanding interest and any other sums payable under the Agreements, shall be due and payable on the tenth (10th) anniversary of the date of the Agreements. The Commission will also monitor the project. Provided Awardee does not default in its obligations under the Agreements, as of each anniversary of the date of the Agreement, an amount equal to one tenth (1/10) of the initial loan amount shall be considered conditionally forgiven so that by the tenth (10th) anniversary of the date of the Agreements the initial loan balance shall be considered forgiven in full. However, if there is a default under the Agreements this loan forgiveness may be revoked by the County.

RAMPIT and its third-party providers will not be a party to any such Separate Agreement and will have no responsibility or liability whatsoever in relation to the performance or failure to perform under any such Separate Agreement.

8.3 The Competition Sponsor acknowledges that RAMPIT does not make any warranties or representations as to the accuracy or utility of any Entry or associated Entry Content from a Winner.

9. Taxes on Awards

9.1 You will be responsible for any tax, levy, or other charge that may arise under any applicable law from the use of this website, including from receiving any Award(s). You acknowledge that You will not be entitled to demand any additional payment by reason of any Award(s) being subject to any tax, levy, or other charge in any jurisdiction.

10. Limitation of liability

10.1 THIS WEBSITE AND SERVICES, AND ALL CONTENT ASSOCIATED THEREWITH, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, RAMPIT AND THE COMPETITION SPONSOR AND THE OWNERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS OF EACH EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. RAMPIT DOES NOT WARRANT THIS WEBSITE AND RELATED SERVICES AND THE CONTENT PROVIDED THROUGH IT, INCLUDING THE ENTRIES AND ASSOCIATED ENTRY CONTENT, TO BE AVAILABLE, ACCURATE, USEFUL, OR FREE OF ERRORS, VIRUSES, OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER HARM THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE (INCLUDING THE SERVICES).

10.2 UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL RAMPIT OR THE COMPETITION SPONSOR OR THE OWNERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS OF EITHER BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OR RELATED TO THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, EVEN IF RAMPIT OR THE COMPETITION SPONSOR OR THE AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EITHER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THESE LIMITATIONS WILL APPLY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, You agree that neither RAMPIT NOR THE COMPETITION SPONSOR is responsible for any Loss arising out of, or in any way connected with:

delay or inability to access or use this Website;
reliance on any Competition Information or other Content;
the transmission of any computer virus, however occurring;
any unauthorized access to, modification or alteration of Content;
any Content sent or received or not sent or received;
any transaction entered into through this Website;
any infringement of rights, including Intellectual Property Rights;
any threatening, defamatory, obscene, offensive, harmful, inappropriate or illegal Content or conduct of any party;
any Content sent by any third party using and/or included in this Website;
termination of Your participation; or,
any delays, interruptions, inaccuracies, errors, omissions or cessation of services.

10.3 For the avoidance of doubt, You acknowledge that RAMPIT is a provider of an interactive computer service and that neither RAMPIT nor the COMPETITION SPONSOR are a publisher under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, and therefore not responsible for any of the Users' Postings. If, notwithstanding the provisions of this Clause 10.3, a court of competent jurisdiction holds RAMPIT or the COMPETITION SPONSOR liable in respect of any matters arising under or incidental to this Agreement, RAMPIT'S AND THE COMPETITION SPONSOR’S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR RELATED SERVICES (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE) WILL IN NO EVENT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU FOR USING THIS WEBSITE DURING THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING YOUR CLAIM, OR, IF NO AMOUNT WAS PAID, SUCH LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO $100.

10.4 You agree that neither RAMPIT nor the COMPETITION SPONSOR nor the third-party providers of either will be liable or responsible for any failure in, or delay to, the provision of the Services or in RAMPIT nor the COMPETITION SPONSOR complying with its obligations under this Agreement where such failure or delay has arisen as a direct or indirect result of:

fire, earthquake, storm, flood, hurricane, inclement weather or other act of God, war, terrorism, explosion, sabotage, industrial accident or industrial strike;
telecommunications failure, hardware failure or software failure;
the failure of any third party to fulfill any obligations to RAMPIT or the Competition Sponsor; or
any other circumstance or event which is or is not within the reasonable control of RAMPIT or the Competition Sponsor.

11. Indemnity

11.1 You agree to indemnify and hold RAMPIT and the COMPETITION SPONSOR, its owners, officers, employees, agents and suppliers, harmless from all claims and Losses (including legal fees) due to or arising out of or in connection with Your Postings, Competition, Competition Information and other Content (as applicable), Your use of this Website, or Your breach of this Agreement.

12. Access to the Site outside of the United States

12.1 Neither RAMPIT nor the COMPETITION SPONSOR represent or warrant that the content on this Website complies with the laws of any country outside of the United States. If You access this Website from outside the United States, You do so at Your own risk.

13. Intellectual property

13.1 You acknowledge that, as between the parties, RAMPIT is the owner of all Intellectual Property Rights in and to this Website. You acknowledge that You have no Intellectual Property Rights in or to this Website or to any Postings except for a limited license to use this Website as necessary to participate in a Competition or evaluate the possibility of such participation.

13.2 You acknowledge that all text, graphics, user interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos and artwork, including the design, structure, selection, coordination, expression, 'look and feel' and arrangement of such Content, provided by RAMPIT or its licensors on this Website is owned or licensed by or to RAMPIT and is protected by applicable copyright, patent and trademark laws and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws. No such Content can be copied, publicly displayed, modified, sold, licensed or distributed in any way by You without RAMPIT's prior written consent. You shall not use the name of any Competition Sponsor (for example, “County of Los Angeles” or “Los Angeles County”) or any variation, adaptation, or abbreviation thereof, or the name of the Competition Sponsor’s Board members, officers, employees, or agents, or any trademark owned by the Competition Sponsor, in any promotional material or other public announcement or disclosure, nor copied, publicly displayed, modified, sold, licensed or distributed in any way by You without the prior written consent of the relevant party, which consent the Competition Sponsor may withhold in its sole discretion.

14. Third party sites

14.1 From time to time, RAMPIT may provide, or any Content may contain, links to Third Party Sites and resources. You acknowledge that:

Neither RAMPIT nor the Competition Sponsor has any control over Third Party Sites and resources;
Neither RAMPIT nor the Competition Sponsor is responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources; and
Neither RAMPIT nor the Competition Sponsor endorses nor is responsible for any content, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such sites or resources.

14.2 You acknowledge and agree that neither RAMPIT nor the Competition Sponsor will be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any Loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with Your use of or reliance on any Content or material available on or through any Third Party Sites or resource.

15. Arbitration

15.1 In the interest of resolving disputes between You and RAMPIT in the most expedient and cost effective manner, You and RAMPIT agree that any and all disputes arising in connection with this Agreement shall be resolved by binding arbitration. Arbitration is more informal than a lawsuit in court. Arbitration uses a neutral arbitrator instead of a judge or jury, may allow for more limited discovery than in court, and can be subject to very limited review by courts. Arbitrators can award the same damages and relief that a court can award. Our agreement to arbitrate disputes includes, but is not limited to all claims arising out of or relating to any aspect of this Agreement, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation or any other legal theory, and regardless of whether the claims arise during or after the termination of these Terms. You understand and agree that, by entering into these Terms, You and RAMPIT are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action.

15.2 You and RAMPIT or the Competition Sponsor each agree that nothing herein shall be deemed to waive, preclude, or otherwise limit any rights to (i) bring an individual action in small claims court, (ii) pursue enforcement actions through applicable federal, state, or local agencies where such actions are available, (iii) seek injunctive relief in a court of law, or (iv) to file suit in a court of law to address intellectual property infringement claims.

15.3 Any arbitration between You and RAMPIT will be governed by the Commercial Dispute Resolution Procedures and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (collectively, "AAA Rules") of the American Arbitration Association ("AAA"), as modified by these Terms, and will be administered by the AAA. The AAA Rules and filing forms are available online at www.adr.org, by calling the AAA at 1-800-778-7879.

15.4 A party who intends to seek arbitration must first send a written notice of the dispute to the other, by certified mail or Federal Express (signature required), or in the event that we do not have a physical address on file for You, by electronic mail ("Notice"). RAMPIT's address for Notice is: RAMPIT, LLC, 805 2nd Avenue South, #3, Nashville, TN 37210 or support@rampit.com. The Notice must: (a) describe the nature and basis of the claim or dispute; and, (b) set forth the specific relief sought. We agree to use good faith efforts to resolve the claim directly, but if we do not reach an agreement to do so within 30 calendar days after the Notice is received, You may commence arbitration proceedings.

15.5 Any arbitration hearings will take place at a location to be agreed upon by the parties to the arbitration or, if a location cannot be agreed upon, then it will be agreed upon by the arbitrator(s), provided that if the claim is for $10,000 or less, You may choose whether the arbitration will be conducted solely on the basis of documents submitted to the arbitrator, through a non-appearance based telephonic hearing, or by an in-person hearing as established by the AAA Rules. Regardless of the manner in which the arbitration is conducted, the arbitrator shall issue a reasoned written decision sufficient to explain the essential findings and conclusions on which the decision and award, if any, are based. The arbitrator may make rulings and resolve disputes as to the payment and reimbursement of fees or expenses at any time during the proceeding and upon request from either party made within 14 calendar days of the arbitrator's ruling on the merits.

15.6 YOU AND RAMPIT OR THE COMPETITION SPONSOR AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. Further, unless both You and RAMPIT agree otherwise, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding.

15.7 If only Clause 15.6 is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this Section 15 shall be null and void and, in such case, the parties agree that the exclusive jurisdiction and venue described in Section 17 shall govern any action arising out of or related to the Agreement.

16. Digital Millennium Copyright Act

16.1 If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any Content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") by providing RAMPIT's copyright agent (the "Copyright Agent") with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

16.2 RAMPIT's designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed infringement is Copyright Agent, RAMPIT, LLC, 805 2nd Avenue South, #3, Nashville, TN 37210, email: support@rampit.com. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this Section 17, your DMCA notice may not be valid.

16.3 If you believe that your Content that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or that you have the authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or pursuant to the law, to post and use the material in your Content, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information to the Copyright Agent:

Your physical or electronic signature;
Identification of the Content that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the Content appeared before it was removed or disabled;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the Content was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or a misidentification of the Content; and
Your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address, a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, and a statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

16.4 If a counter-notice is received by the Copyright Agent, RAMPIT may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that it may replace the removed Content or cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the Content provider, member or user, the removed Content may be replaced, or access to it restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at RAMPIT's sole discretion.

17. Miscellaneous

17.1 As defined in Clause 1.1, this Agreement is the entire agreement between You and RAMPIT relating to the subject matter herein, and supersedes all previous communications, representations, understandings and agreements, either oral or written, between You and RAMPIT with respect to said subject matter. This Agreement shall not be modified except in a writing signed by both parties, or by a change made as provided in Clause 2.2. If any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability will not affect the remainder of this Agreement, which is severable from said provision and will remain in full force and effect.

17.2 If You breach any provision of this Agreement and RAMPIT has knowledge (either actual or constructive) of that breach, a failure to pursue legal action or to enforce any remedy against You will not constitute a waiver of its legal rights. Any waiver of rights under this Agreement must be in writing and signed by RAMPIT.

17.3 All matters relating to this Website and this Agreement are governed by and are to be construed according to the laws applicable in the state of California, United States (without regard to any rules governing choice of law). If one or more of the exceptions from arbitration expressly set forth in Section 15 above apply, You agree unconditionally to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Los Angeles County, California, in relation to all matters arising out of or in any way connected with this Agreement or this Website.

17.4 RAMPIT may assign its rights and novate or transfer obligations which arise under this Agreement. You must not assign, novate or otherwise transfer Your rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of RAMPIT. Competitors must also obtain the prior written consent of the Competition Sponsor. Any assignment attempted in violation of this Clause shall be void.

17.5 The parties agree that no rule of construction applies to the disadvantage of a party because that party was responsible for the preparation of this Agreement or part of it.

17.6 Unless otherwise requested in writing by You, RAMPIT may refer to You and Your corporate identity (if applicable) as part of promoting this Website and RAMPIT in the marketplace.

17.7 RAMPIT accepts content uploaded from Users in good faith and on the basis of warranties provided by Users. It is Your responsibility at all times to investigate and become satisfied as to the accuracy of the information provided by any other party (including all Users) on this Website. RAMPIT at no time makes any representations as to the accuracy of any information provided on this Website.

17.8 You acknowledge and agree that to the extent that this Agreement relates to a Competition, a prospective Competition or any Posting, this Agreement is intended also to be for the benefit of the Competition Sponsor, the Competitors and other Users, who are entitled to enforce the provisions of this Agreement against You.

17.9 All notices, requests, demands, consents, approvals, offers, agreements or other communications given by You to RAMPIT must be emailed to RAMPIT at support@rampit.com

17.10 In the interpretation of this Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears:

the words 'includes' or 'including' mean 'includes without limitation' or 'including without limitation';
a reference to a 'person' or 'entity' includes a reference to an individual, group of individuals, corporation, firm, association or other entity;
the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
an agreement, representation or warranty made by two or more persons is made by them jointly and by each of them severally; and headings are inserted for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of this Agreement.

17.11 This Competition is a skills-based challenge to resolve bona fide requirements and not, for clarity, any game(s) of chance.

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