Fusion Forward: Design for Home

1. Introduction

The Autodesk Fusion competition (“Competition”) offers individuals the chance to win a $2,500 design prize (“Prize”) by submitting a project designed in Autodesk Fusion (“Project”). One (1) winner will be selected in each of three categories. The Competition is sponsored by Autodesk, Inc. (“Sponsor”), located at 111 McInnis Parkway, San Rafael, CA 94903, USA. The jury process and the award of the Prizes are administered by Core77 (“Administrator”), located at 3 Howes Avenue, Stamford, CT 06906.

2. Timing

The Call for Entry, Jury Process, and timing for awarding the prizes are determined by the Administrator. The Administrator’s computer is the official time-keeping device for this Competition.

3. Eligibility

The Competition is open to all people worldwide who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. A valid driver’s license or passport is required as proof of age after the individual is selected, prior to the award of the Prize. Full- and part-time employees, officers, and directors of Autodesk, Core77, their respective parents, subsidiaries, and agents, as well as the immediate family (defined as parents, spouses, children, siblings, and grandparents) and household members of each such employee, officer, and director, are not eligible. By participating, entrants agree to abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor and Administrator, which are final and binding in all respects.

4. Limit

Each participant may enter as many projects as they wish and agrees to the Official Rules by entering.

5. Selection of Potential Winner

The Jury Team selects one (1) winner from each of three categories. The selected entrant must comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. The potential winner is notified by email within five (5) days of the Jury determining winners. The potential winner must execute and return to Administrator, within ten (10) days of being notified, a copy of a valid driver’s license or passport to claim the Prize. If the winner is under the age of 18 in their state of residence or country, an alternate entrant is selected from the next highest scoring entry. If the potential winner cannot be contacted within ten (10) days of the first attempt or fails to provide proof of age, an alternate entrant is selected from the next highest scoring entry.

6. Prizes

The Prizes includes the following elements:

• One prize each for three categories for a total of 3 cash prizes. Each cash prize is $2,500.
• Each category winner will also receive up to $250 in Autodesk branded merchandise.
• Up to two runners up in each category will receive up to $250 in Autodesk branded merchandise.
• Only one (1) winner will be selected per category (3 prizes total). No substitution, assignment, or transfer of Prize is permitted. The winner is solely responsible for any and all applicable fees and taxes associated with Prize receipt.
• No Prize will be awarded to a resident of a country that disallows skill-based awards.

7. Publicity

Participation in the Competition constitutes the winner's consent to Sponsor’s and Administrator’s use of the winner's name, likeness, voice, opinions, country, hometown, or state for competitive purposes in any media without further payment or consideration.

8. General Conditions

Sponsor and Administrator reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel, modify, or suspend the Competition should a virus, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, technical failures, or any other factor beyond their reasonable control corrupt the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper operation of the Competition. In such event, Administrator reserves the right to award the prize at random from among the eligible entries received up to the time of impairment. Administrator reserves the right to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process or violates these Official Rules in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately damage Sponsor's or Administrator’s website or undermine the legitimate operation of this Competition may violate criminal and civil laws, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor and Administrator reserve the right to seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsors’ or Administrator’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules does not constitute a waiver of that provision.

9. Release

By accepting the Prize, the winner agrees that Sponsor and Administrator, their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and agents, employees, directors, and officers are not liable for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind resulting directly or indirectly from the acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of all elements of the Prize or from the winner's participation in the Competition.

10. Limitations of Liability

Sponsor and Administrator are not responsible for:

• Incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information or late, lost, stolen, illegible, incomplete, misdirected entries, or entries received through impermissible or illegitimate channels, all of which will be disqualified.
• Technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to malfunctioning of any telephone, computer, network, hardware, or software.
• The unavailability or inaccessibility of any website or service.
• Unauthorized human intervention in any part of the Competition.
• Electronic or human error in the administration of the competition.
• Any injury or damage to persons or property, including but not limited to the entrant's computer, caused by participation in the Competition or from downloading any material from Sponsor's or Administrator's website(s), regardless of whether the material was prepared by Sponsor, Administrator, or a third party, and regardless of whether the material is connected to Sponsor's or Administrator's website by a hypertext link.

No more than one Prize per category (3 prizes) will be awarded.

11. Data Collection

Sponsor collects personal and professional information from entrants in this Competition, which will be used to inform Sponsor’s business practices. The Administrator has access to names only to conduct the Competition and administer the Prizes.

12. Uploaded Content

Entrants agree not to:

• Post material that is copyrighted unless they are the copyright owner or have the permission of the copyright owner to post it
• Post material that reveals trade secrets unless they own them or have permission from the owner
• Post material that infringes on any intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others
• Post material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, or hateful
• Post sexually explicit images or statements
• Post material containing viruses or other computer programming routines intended to damage, interfere with, intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or information
• Impersonate another person
• Publish a profile or project with the intent of driving traffic to an e-commerce website without supporting contextual information on why the profile or project is relevant to the Competition.

Entrants retain rights and ownership to all their content unless stated otherwise. The Competition does not claim ownership over user content. “Content” includes photos, videos, images, biographical or professional information included in a portfolio.

While the Competition does not hold ownership of user content, by uploading content, entrants grant the Competition and Sponsor permission to use the content for communication, distribution, hosting, displaying publicly, publishing, storing, and modifying as necessary to display the work optimally. The permission granted is used to operate, market, promote, and improve the Sponsor’s mission. Credit is given whenever the work is shared.

By creating a Competition account and uploading content, entrants give other users and visitors to Core77 and any Autodesk communication the right to share their content on social media platforms. If an entrant does not approve of how someone uses their content, it is their responsibility to contact the user directly and notify them of how their content should or should not be shared.