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    AWS Civic Apps Challenge Official Rules

    Entrants, by participating, agree to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules, our

    Privacy Policy and by our and the judges decisions, which are final and binding on all

    matters pertaining to the Contest.

    1. ELIGIBILITY. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Civic Apps Challenge (Contest) is open to privately held

    U.S. businesses legally headquartered in the 50 United States or the District of Columbia at the time of entry. The

    Contest and these Official Rules are void where prohibited by law, and are subject to applicable laws. Our and

    YouNoodle, Inc.s (YouNoodle) employees, parents, affiliates and subsidiaries, and participating advertising and

    promotion agencies and prize suppliers/funding entities, and members of their immediate family (spouse, domestic

    partner, parent, child, sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) or those living in their

    household, whether or not related) are not eligible. Entrants may not be members of any guild, union or other

    organization that may prohibit them from participating in this Contest and that would restrict, require due

    payment or otherwise have the right to oppose such entrants participation in this Contest. Prizes will be awarded

    in the name of the business that entered. By the time of submission, entrants must have an AWS account (see

    https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/index.html). Any individual submitting an entry on

    behalf of a business entity represents and warrants that he/she: (a) is an individual legal resident of the 50 United

    States or the District of Columbia and has reached the older of 18 years old or the legal age of majority in their

    state of residence, (b) has the full legal capacity to participate in this Contest, and (c) is authorized to submit an

    entry on behalf of such business entity. This Contest is a skill-based contest, and as such, the winners will not be

    selected randomly, but on the basis of objective judging criteria (as set forth below). PARTICIPATION EXPENSES

    WILL NOT BE REFUNDED.

    2. HOW TO ENTER. The entry period begins at 12:00:00 A.M. Pacific Time (PT) on September 2, 2013, and

    ends at 11:59:59 P.M. (PT) on October 15, 2013 (Entry Period). To enter, go to http://aws.amazon.com/civic-

    apps-challenge (the Contest Website) during the Entry Period. You will be directed to complete the entry on the

    YouNoodle website. You must log in to YouNoodle to complete and submit the entry form. By following the

    instructions provided, you must submit a description of your suggested or existing product, Web site, software

    application/tool, service, or any other system that substantively uses Amazon Glacier, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon

    Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Dynamo DB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Amazon

    Flexible Payments Service (FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Redshift, Amazon

    Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple

    Email Service (SES), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Virtual

    Private Cloud (VPC) (collectively, the Paid Services) (each description of a product, website, software

    application/tool, service or other system that uses these Paid Services will be called from now on in these Official

    Rules a Civic App Proposition). You also may submit a demo, promotional video (5 minutes or less in length),

    presentation, product/service webpage, or other descriptive marketing collateral for your Civic App Proposition

    (collectively, Civic App Marketing Materials). Each entry form, Civic App Proposition, and the Civic App Marketing

    Materials (if any) (collectively, the Entry) submitted must be in the English language and the original creation of

    the entrant. Entries that do not meet the requirements set forth in these Official Rules may be disqualified in our

    sole discretion. More than one Entry may be submitted by any entrant. However, no more than one Entry per

    entrant will be selected as a Finalist or Category Leader (as defined below). Any Entry submitted by an entrant

    must be substantially different than any other Entry submitted by that entrant. Entrants are responsible for all

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    costs associated with preparing and submitting their Entries, including applications, and building and testing

    prototypes. All Entries or Civic App Propositions that violate any intellectual property, local, state, provincial or

    federal laws or violate any entrants employers policies will be deemed ineligible. Entries must be received no later

    than 11:59:59 P.M. (PT) on October 15, 2013. You may edit your Entry(ies) up through 11:59:59 P.M. (PT) on

    October 15, 2013 . YouNoodles servers and clock will be deemed the official clock for the Contest and the entrant

    proof of submission does not constitute proof of our receipt. Released Parties (as defined below) are not responsible

    for lost, misdirected, late, illegible, incomplete, inaccurate, delayed, garbled or unintelligible Entries. Entries will not

    be returned to the entrants.

    3. JUDGING.

    First Round. All qualified Entries will be judged by a panel of qualified judges that we select (Amazon Judging

    Panel). The Amazon Judging Panel will select 1 Finalist (Finalist) and 3 Category Leaders (Category Leaders)from each of the following 4 categories: 1. Utilities and Energy, 2. Education, 3. Public Safety and Health, and 4.

    Community Services. The Amazon Judging Panel will judge the qualified Entries using the following judging criteria

    (a) implementation and integration of the Paid Services; (b) originality and creativity; (c) likelihood of long-term

    success and scalability; and (d) effectiveness in addressing a need in the public sector (the Judging Criteria). We

    reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to select fewer than 3 Category Leaders from any of the 4 categories if we

    do not receive a minimum of 4 eligible and qualified Entries from such category.

    In end-October 2013, the potential Finalists and Category Leaders will be notified by e-mail or phone. In order to

    proceed to the Final Round, each potential Finalist must notify us of his/her willingness to proceed to the Final

    Round within 2 business days of notification and satisfy other eligibility requirements described in these Official

    Rules.

    If a potential Finalist does not timely satisfy all requirements set forth in these Official Rules, as determined by us

    in our sole discretion, a runner-up may be notified. The Finalists names will be announced on the Contest Website

    on or about the end of October, 2013.

    Final Round. The final round of judging will take place on or about November 14, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, at

    the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2013 conference. Each Finalist must be present in person at the Final

    Round and must prepare, at his/her expense, a 10-minute presentation and demo of his/her Civic App Proposition.

    The presentation and demo must be in English and will be presented to the Amazon Judging Panel. Each

    presentation and demo will be followed by up to 15 minutes of Q&A by the Amazon Judging Panel. The Amazon

    Judging Panel will then meet privately to conduct a final review of the Finalists Entries and judge the Entries using

    the Judging Criteria. Then a representative from the Amazon Judging Panel will announce one Grand Prize winner

    for the Contest. Finalists must be present at the Final Round to be eligible to win the Grand Prize. Following

    announcement of the Grand Prize winner, the Finalists may be asked to present their Civic App Propositions to the

    AWS re:Invent 2013 conference audience.

    Tie Breakers. In the event there are two or more identical and equally qualified Entries, as determined by us in

    our sole discretion, only the first one to be submitted will be considered. In the event of a tie in any round, an

    additional tie-breaking judge selected by us will determine the Category Leader(s), Finalist(s) or Grand Prizewinner, as applicable, using the Judging Criteria. All decisions of the Amazon Judging Panel and any tie-breaking

    judge are final and binding. For the purpose of these Official Rules, the Grand Prize winner, the Finalists and the

    Category Leaders may also be referred to in these Official Rules as winners.

    4. ENTRANTS PERSONAL INFORMATION. Each Entry submitted in this Contest will be submitted directly

    to YouNoodle. YouNoodles servers are located in the United States. By participating in this Contest, entrants are

    authorizing the transfer of personal data to the United States for purposes of administering the Contest,

    conducting publicity about the Contest and such additional purposes consistent with our goals or the Contest goals

    By entering the Contest, entrants consent to our and YouNoodles collection, and our use and disclosure of

    entrants personal information for these purposes. The data controller is Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry

    Avenue North, Seattle, Washington, 98109. For a copy of our Privacy Notice, visit

    http://aws.amazon.com/privacy/.

    5. ENTRANT REPRESENTATION AND WARRANTIES. By entering, each entrant represents and

    warrants that (a) the entrant is a privately held U.S. business legally headquartered in the 50 Un ited States or the

    District of Columbia; and (b) the Civic App Proposition entered is original and was created solely by the entrant and

    will not violate the rights of any third party or law, code, regulation or ordinance.

    6. ENTRY CREDITS. All eligible entrants who submit a qualified Entry will receive an AWS promotional credit

    (Promotional Credit) of $50 USD to be used toward Paid Services (does not include Amazon FPS, reserved

    instances or support services) by December 31, 2014 in accordance with the AWS Promotional Credit Terms &

    Conditions available at https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/ (the Credit T&Cs). Individual Promotional Credit

    codes valued at $50 USD will be emailed to such entrants following the announcement of the Grand Prize winner

    in November, 2013.

    7. PRIZES.

    a. A Grand Prize, will be awarded to one Grand Prize winner at the final award ceremony of the Amazon Web

    Services (AWS) re:Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on or about November 14, 2013, and will consist

    of:

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    $50,000 USD in Promotional Credit from AWS for Paid Services (other than Amazon FPS, reserved

    instances or support services) to be used by December 31, 2014 in accordance with the Credit

    T&Cs; and

    Inclusion in an AWS press release about the Contest.

    b. A First Prize, will be awarded to each of the Finalists, each consisting of:

    $10,000 USD in Promotional Credit from AWS for Paid Services (other than Amazon FPS or

    reserved instances or support services) to be used by December 31, 2014 in accordance with the

    Credit T&Cs; and

    A trip for 1 person to attend the Final Round, leaving from the major airport nearest to each

    Finalists home (as determined by us in our sole discretion) [approximate retail value (ARV)$3,000.00 USD). The trip includes (1) round trip, coach class, air transportation for 1 person, (2)

    two nights standard hotel accommodations for 1 person (1 room, single occupancy), and (3)

    attendance at the final event and award ceremony. At our discretion, we may substitute surface

    transportation for air travel for any Finalist who lives near the destination (as determined by us). All

    costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specifically mentioned, including,

    but not limited to, ground transportation/transfers, additional food and beverages, luggage fees,

    gratuities and taxes, are the sole responsibility of each Finalist. Each Finalist must be available to

    travel on the dates specified by us, or the Finalist may forfeit his/her place as a Finalist. Selected

    airline and hotel are at our sole discretion. Each Finalist must possess and be responsible for

    obtaining required travel documents [e.g. valid photo I.D. or passport (as applicable)] prior to

    departure. Once the travel schedule has been arranged, it cannot be altered unless approved in

    writing by us, and failure of any Finalist to follow such schedule will not obligate us in any way to

    provide the Finalist with alternate arrangements. Actual value of the trip prize may vary based on

    factors at time of booking, including, but not limited to, airfare fluctuations and distance between

    departure and destination. If the actual value is less than the stated ARV, the difference will not be

    awarded. For a trip awarded in the name of a business, an authorized representative of the

    business must authorize entrant to take the trip.

    c. A Second Prize, will be awarded to each of the Category Leaders, each consisting of $2,000 USD in

    Promotional Credit from AWS for Paid Services (other than Amazon FPS, reserved instances or support services) to

    be used by December 31, 2014 in accordance with the Credit T&Cs.

    d. General Prize Conditions: Prizes (excluding the trip to the Final Round) will be delivered up to 60 days after

    the winners are announced. Promotional Credit prizes from AWS for Paid Services are not cumulative; each winner

    will be awarded no more than 1 Promotional Credit from AWS for Paid Services. For example, an entrant who, after

    all rounds of judging are completed, is selected as a Finalist will only receive 1 Promotional Credit from AWS for Pai

    Services with a value of $10,000, and will not receive the entry credit of $50 USD in Promotional Credit from AWS

    for Paid Services. All Promotional Credits awarded as prizes in the Contest must be applied to future use of the

    applicable Paid Services by the winners. Any unused portion of the Promotional Credits will expire by December 31,

    2014. Promotional Credits are non-transferable and may not be redeemed for cash or applied to any other accountALL TAXES ASSOCIATED WITH ANY PRIZE ACCEPTANCE ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WINNERS. All

    Promotional Credits utilized and all other prizes awarded will be inclusive of any taxes AWS is required by law to

    withhold as well as applicable sales, use, gross receipts, goods and service, or similar transaction based taxes

    (Transaction Taxes). To the extent that any Paid Services are subject to Transaction Taxes, the value of the Paid

    Services and the Transaction Taxes will be deducted from the Promotional Credits. All other taxes, costs and

    expenses associated with acceptance and use of any prize not specified in these Official Rules as being provided are

    the sole responsibility of the winners. IF TAXES ARE APPLICABLE TO THE PRIZE(S), IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF

    THE WINNER TO PAY TO THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES. We reserve the right to substitute a prize (or portion

    thereof) for an item of comparable or greater value, at our sole discretion. Prizes are awarded without warranty of

    any kind from us, express or implied, without limitation. PAYMENTS TO CONTEST WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO THE

    EXPRESS REQUIREMENT THAT THE WINNER SUBMIT TO AWS ALL DOCUMENTATION REQUESTED BY AWS TO

    PERMIT COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL TAX REPORTING AND WITHHOLDING

    REQUIREMENTS. Contest winners are responsible for ensuring that the tax documentation submitted to AWS

    complies with all applicable tax laws and requirements. If a winner fails to provide the documentation or submits

    incomplete documentation, the prize may be forfeited and we may, in our sole discretion, select an alternate

    winner.

    8. ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION FOR ENTRANTS AND FINALISTS. The

    Amazon Judging Panel may request additional information from the entrants as may be necessary to judge the

    Civic App Propositions, and the entrants must respond to any requests for additional information within 2 business

    days from the time the request is made. Category Leaders, Finalists and the Grand Prize winner may forfeit prizes

    or opportunities to proceed in the Contest if (1) we are unable to contact him/her within 2 business days of first

    attempted notification, or (2) the entrant fails to respond as required within 2 business days of the date of

    notification. Potential Category Leaders and Finalists (or, if a potential Category Leader or Finalist is not an

    authorized representative of the business, an authorized representative of the business) will be required to sign

    and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability/Publicity Release, and provide any additional tax filing information

    (such as a W-9, social security number or Federal tax ID number) within 3 calendar days following the date of first

    attempted notification. The Affidavit of Eligibility will certify, among other things, the following: (a) the entrant is a

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    privately held U.S. business legally headquartered in the 50 United States or the District of Columbia; and (b) the

    Civic App Proposition entered is original and was created solely by the entrant and will not violate the rights of any

    third party or law, rules, regulation or ordinance. Failure to comply with these deadlines or with these Official Rules

    may result in forfeiture of place as a Category Leader, Finalist or Grand Prize winner.

    9. RIGHT OF PUBLICITY. By submitting an Entry, each entrant agrees to the publishing of his/her name,

    business logo, city/state/province/country on the Contest Website and inclusion in a press release and other media

    coverage if he/she is selected as a winner. Acceptance of prizes by winners constitutes permission for us and our

    affiliates, agencies and designees to use winners names or likenesses, city/state/province/country and company

    names, trademarks and logos for advertising and promotional purposes relating to the Contest in any and all

    media now or hereafter devised, worldwide in perpetuity (or to the maximum extent permissible under applicable

    law), without additional compensation, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law.

    10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. Each winner agrees (for himself or herself and his or her heirs) that, by

    accepting a prize, we and YouNoodle, along with each of our respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising

    and promotion agencies, directors, officers, employees and assigns (collectively, Released Parties), will have no

    liability, and will be held harmless by the winner for any liability, loss, injury or damage to property or person,

    including death, and reasonable attorneys fees and court costs, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by

    reason of the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prize or participation in the Contest, even if caused or

    contributed to by the negligence of any of the Released Parties. Released Parties are also not responsible for any

    unauthorized third party use or dispute with respect to the Submission Materials (as defined below).

    11. TREATMENT OF CIVIC APP PROPOSITIONS. By participating in the Contest, each entrant warrants

    that it has the authority as sole owner of its Civic App Proposition to provide it to AWS, and that its Civic App

    Proposition and any other materials or information provided by it in connection with the Contest, including Civic

    App Marketing Materials (collectively, Submission Materials) do not infringe or misappropriate any intellectual or

    other property right of any other person or entity, including any patent or trade secret. Each entrant understands

    that his/her Submission Materials are non-confidential and may be made public, in whole or in part. By submitting

    an Entry, each entrant grants to us and our affiliates an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up,

    perpetual and royalty-free license to make, use, reproduce, display, publically perform, create derivative works of a

    or a portion of the Submission Materials, as well as use the entrants name and company name, trademarks and

    logos, in any promotional materials produced by or for us or our affiliates. Further, each entrant, by submitting an

    Entry, grants to us or our affiliates an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, perpetual and royalty-

    free license to make, use, reproduce, display, publically perform, create derivative works of, and disclose all or a

    portion of any Submission Materials in connection with the Contest. The foregoing grants shall be limited for a

    period of 2 years for all eligible Entries; for 5 years for Entries submitted by the Category Leaders; and in

    perpetuity for Entries submitted by the Finalists (or to the maximum extent permissible under applicable law). The

    entrants, by these Official Rules, do not grant any other licenses to us or our affiliates under existing or future

    copyrights or patents. The entrants should be guided by their own attorneys as to the desirability of seeking

    patents or other protection for their Civic App Propositions. Each entrant acknowledges that we or our affiliates

    may currently or in the future be developing information, products, concepts, services, or techniques internally, or

    receiving information, products, concepts, services, or techniques from other parties, that is similar to SubmissionMaterials (Our Developed Materials). Nothing in these Official Rules will be construed as a representation or

    agreement that we or our affiliates will not develop or have developed information, products, concepts, systems,

    services or techniques that are similar to or compete with the products, concepts, systems, services or techniques

    contemplated by or embodied in any Submission Materials. Each entrant agrees to waive any claims or action

    he/she has or may have in connection with Our Developed Materials.

    12. LIMITATION OF TECHNICAL LIABILITY. Released Parties are not responsible for transmission errors

    resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or

    unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic

    computer, hardware or software malfunctions or limitations of any kind, or inaccurate transmissions of or failure to

    receive entry information by us on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any

    website or any combination thereof. Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to any entrants or

    any other computer resulting from downloading any materials in connection with the Contest.

    13.RIGHT TO TERMINATE CONTEST.

    We, in our sole discretion, reserve the right to terminate the Contestin the event it does not receive a minimum of 50 qualified Entries from separate eligible entrants. And, if for any

    reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering,

    unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration

    security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, we may, in our sole discretion, change these Official

    Rules or cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Contest. If terminated, we may select winners from all non-

    suspect, eligible entries received as of the termination date using the judging procedure outlined above. We may

    disqualify any individual found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or website;

    to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; or be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or with

    intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person and void all associated entries.

    14. CHOICE OF LAW. This promotion is governed by U.S. law and is subject to all applicable federal, state, and

    local laws. Any and all legal actions or claims arising in connection with this promotion must be brought in a court

    of competent jurisdiction in Washington.

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    15. WINNERS LIST. After the awards ceremony, log onto http://aws.amazon.com/civic-apps-challenge for name

    of winners.

    16. SPONSOR. The sponsor of this Contest is Amazon Web Services, Inc. (we or us), 410 Terry Avenue North,

    Seattle, Washington, 98109.

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