Terms & Conditions
Young Educators Challenge 2024
The Young Educators Challenge (YEC) 2024 is organized by UNICEF Malaysia and Project ID (the organisers). Please read these terms and conditions carefully before applying to be a participant in YEC. By participating, it is implied that the applicants doing so have understood and agreed upon fully and unconditionally to be bound by the terms and conditions as stated in the following. If you do not agree to any of these terms and conditions, you must not proceed to participate in the challenge.
Eligibility
YEC 2024 is only open to all youths registered in Malaysia aged 13-24 years old. Applications can be made as individuals or in teams (max: 3 pax). Team members can be from different schools but must be from the same state. All participants from schools must have a supervising teacher.
Entry
To participate in YEC, participants must first apply through our website. Applications will be open on 15th May 2024 and will be closed on 7th July 2024. Applications received after the deadline will be automatically rejected and will not be taken into consideration. There will be no fees imposed during selections or participation. Confirmed participants will be informed through e-mail around a week from 13th July. All decisions regarding confirmed participants are final.
The Challenge
Applicants are required to submit 2 videos for submission. The criteria for submissions are as follows:
Quantity: 2x Videos (can produce more than 2 but only 2 are eligible for submission)
Format: Full-screen vertical format (9:16)
Privacy: Videos must be set to public for viewing.
Duration: Minimum of 30 seconds and no longer than 1 minute
Languages: English / Bahasa Melayu.
References: All information presented in the video must be cited, giving credit to the source. Plagiarism of any kind will result in disqualification.
Originality: Entries must be original, exclusively created and owned by you.
Community Guidelines: Entries must comply with the social platform's community guidelines.
Copyright: Must not violate or infringe upon any music copyrights and trademarks.
Hashtag: Include the hashtags #YEC2024 #KitaConnect in the caption of your TikTok video.
Tags: Follow and tag @project.id and @UNICEFMsia in your video to ensure your entry is considered for the competition.
Prohibited elements: No videos that are lewd, obscene, political, sexually explicit, pornographic, disparaging, defamatory, libellous, illegal, offensive or otherwise contain inappropriate content or objectionable material.
Your video submissions will be evaluated based on but not limited to the following criteria:
Social Reception (i.e. Likes, Shares, Views)
How many users were exposed to your content, how much your audience enjoys your content, does the content resonated with them?
Content Engagement Rate
The amount of interaction your videos (or a campaign, or a whole account) get compared to its reach or audience size.
Content Retention Rate
The measure of how engaging and relevant your content is for your audience, and how well it meets their needs and expectations.
Winning Prizes
The organisers of YEC 2024 will be obligated to award the following prizes to the winners as stated below:
- 1st Place Prize: RM16,000 Sunway bursaries per participant and RM1,500 Cash Prize
- 2nd Place Prize: RM12,000 Sunway bursaries per participant and RM1,000 Cash Prize
- 3rd Place Prize: RM8,000 Sunway bursaries per participant and RM500 Cash Prize
- Consolation Prizes (x2) : RM5,000 Sunway bursaries per participant
Bursary is applicable to any Pre-University, Foundation, Diploma, Degree programmes, and Masters in Sustainable Development Management only. Terms & conditions apply.
Prizes are fixed and not transferable or exchangeable and cannot be exchanged for one thing or another. The organisers accept no responsibility for any tax or other liability that may arise from the prize winnings.
The organizer reserves the right to request the winners to provide proof of identification in order to claim the winning prize. Failure to do so may cause forfeiture of the prize.
Disqualification
The organisers have the right to disqualify teams that are found to violate the terms and conditions stipulated on this page and below:
- Teams with incomplete submissions & applications
- Teams that did not submit a total of 2 submissions
- Teams with submissions that are not publicly viewable
- Teams with submissions that contain use of copyrighted materials without the owner's permission
- Teams with submissions that contain plagiarism of any kind.
- Teams with submissions that contain inappropriate or objectionable material that is unacceptable such as lewd, obscene, political, sexually explicit, pornographic, disparaging, defamatory, libellous, illegal, or offensive elements.
- Teams with boosted or advertised videos as submissions
Copyright and Right to Ownership
The copyright of all the teams’ works shall be in accordance with the Copyright Act 1987 (ACT 332) and any of its amendments for the time being in force in Malaysia. The originator of the idea shall retain the copyright of his work whereby no alterations may be made without his formal consent. In all cases, the originator of the idea shall retain the right of reproduction, subject always to the provision of Article 16 (b) above.
Personal Data Protection
For Participants
You represent that you are over the age of thirteen (13) years old. If you are over thirteen, but under the legal age of majority, your parent or legal guardian must consent to these Terms and the Privacy Policy, and affirm that they accept this Agreement on behalf of, and bear all legal and financial responsibility and liability for the actions of, any child between the age of 13 and majority, and expressly ratify and confirm any acts of any such child and all users of the account.
For Parents/Guardians
Introduction
This Personal Data Protection Notice (“Notice”) is issued pursuant to the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (“Act”) and for the purpose of this Notice, "Personal Data" shall have the meaning as ascribed to it under the Act. We recognize the importance of maintaining the privacy, security and accuracy of Personal Data in accordance with applicable privacy legislation, consistent with our responsibilities and applicable law. We are committed to ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of Personal Data relating to you and your child. This Notice applies to the persons governed under the Act and serves to inform you how your Personal Data is controlled, processed and/or used by the organisers. For the purpose of this Agreement, Personal Data includes data collected and to be collected before and after issuance of this Notice. This notice is issued in accordance with the Act to all individuals who voluntarily submit Personal Data to the organisers for the stated purposes.
Data Collection
Individuals involved in the collection of Personal Data include parents/guardians, children (children under the age of 18 with the permission of parents/guardians) and the organisers. Personal data we collect from you and your child according to individual needs is inclusive of:
Personal identification: name, home address, email, telephone number, school name, bank account number and other details required and submitted to us from time to time.
Sources of data collection
Personal Data is collected directly from you and your child when:
- Your child submits an application to participate in the Young Educators Challenge 2022 via the Google Form on our website.
- You sign and submit the parent/guardian consent form and media release form on your child’s behalf.
- Personal data is collected digitally through the website or through other virtual forms that are deemed appropriate.
Purposes of data collection
We collect your Personal Data for the following purposes:
- Process your child’s application for Young Educators Challenge 2024.
- Provide important information or notices regarding any changes in policies, rules, programs or activities that directly involve you or your child.
- Conduct pre- and post-programme surveys or focus group discussions to collect feedback about improving the programme.
- Conduct statistical analysis when necessary for our impact reports.
- To complete any survey or collection of information from the authorities allowed under the provisions of the Act.
- Share with relevant third parties for the welfare of students/employees.
- Share with relevant third parties for the disbursement of grant and prize money.
- Allow the organisers to contact you for any of the above purposes or any other purpose permitted in the Act via email, regular mail, short messaging service (SMS), WhatsApp messages or any other appropriate communication channel.
How data is processed
We process your Personal Data only within Malaysia. No Personal Data will be transferred outside Malaysia.
Security and Integrity
We take the following security measures to protect your Personal Data:
- Ensure that your data is stored properly in accordance with the requirements of the Act.
- Ensure that our employees do not misuse your personal data.
- All reasonable efforts and practical steps are made to ensure that any Personal Data held by the organisers is protected against any loss, misuse, modification, unauthorized or accidental access or disclosure, alteration or destruction.
Rights and Consent
- When your child submits his/her application, you are required to submit your Personal Data to us on a voluntary basis and you consent for us to collect, process, use, store or limit the processing of your Personal Data for any of the purposes set out above.
- You may at any time after that withdraw your consent by notifying us in writing using the contact details stated in the “Contact Us” information.
- If you do not provide your Personal Data or if sufficient Personal Data is not provided to us when requested, it may:
- Cause the selection process for participants of Young Educators Challenge 2024 to be affected and may allow any application to be rejected.
- Limits our communication with you and causes you to not receive proper information from us.
- Affects our ability to fulfil the purposes of collection of Personal Data as mentioned above.
- From time to time, we may request new Personal Data from you. By providing us with your Personal Data or continuing to communicate with the organisers, we will assume that you have consented to the processing of such Personal Data.
- The organisers reserves the right to modify, update or amend the terms of this at any time by posting the updated Notice on the KitaConnect website. By continuing to communicate with us, all modifications, updates or amendments to this Notice, are deemed to have been accepted by you.
Liability
- The organisers would not bear any loss of the participants throughout the duration of the program due to reasons beyond their control.
- The organisers shall not be liable for any defects (physical or operational) to the prizes.
- The organisers shall not be held liable for any failure in the deliverance of the session due to the ineptitude of the respective telecommunication service providers to provide efficient internet service.