Power to Present Scholarship

The Beautiful.ai “Power to Present” Scholarship Program (the “Scholarship Program”) is sponsored by Beautiful Slides, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Beautiful.ai”) located at 251 South Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 94103.

Subject to these Official Rules, the Scholarship Program is open only to permanent legal U.S. residents physically residing in the fifty (50) United States of America and the District of Columbia, who (i) are at least 18 years old as of the date of application; and (ii) are currently enrolled in an accredited college, university, or vocational school located within the United States, as listed on the U.S. Department of Education website, available at http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/Search.aspx. Employees of Beautiful.ai, and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies and any other entity involved in the development or administration of this Scholarship Program, and their immediate family members or household members are not eligible to participate in or earn the Scholarship Program. THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM IS VOID OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES OR WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW OR WHERE BONDING, REGISTRATION, OR OTHER REQUIREMENTS WOULD BE REQUIRED BUT HAVE NOT BEEN MET. ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAWS APPLY.

There are two (2) application periods for the Scholarship Program (each, an “Application Period”). The Application Periods are as follows: (1) the Fall Application Period opens on September 15, 2021 at 12:01 am Pacific Time and ends on November 15, 2021, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time; and (2) the Spring Application Period opens on February 8th, 2021, at 12:01 am Pacific Time and ends on April 30th, 2021 at 11:59am Pacific Time.

At the beginning of each Application Period, Beautiful.ai will post the applicable essay topic online at https://www.beautiful.ai/power-to-present-scholarship (the “Essay Topic”).

To apply for the Scholarship Program, in addition to the other requirements stated herein, each applicant (“Applicant”) must submit an essay response to the posted Essay Topic (“Essay Response”) and the additional requested information in connection with the submission of Applicant’s Essay Response (collectively, the “Application”) during the Application Period.  Applications submitted after the close of the Application Period will not be considered, or that do not meet the submission requirements below, will not be considered.

The Essay Response must be written in English, with correct spelling and grammar, and it must not exceed 500 words. An Applicant may only submit one (1) Application during each Application Period; multiple Applications will not be considered and no substitutions of new drafts or corrected pages will be accepted once the Applicant has submitted its original Application.

All Applications become the property of the Beautiful.ai and will not be returned. Beautiful.ai assumes no responsibility for lost, late, misdirected, or unintelligible Applications.  BY SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION, YOU FULLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY ACCEPT AND AGREE TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND THE DECISIONS OF THE BEAUTIFUL.AI, WHICH ARE FINAL AND BINDING.

By submitting an application, you agree that your Application and any other information provided by you or collected by Beautiful.ai in connection with the Application and/or the Scholarship Program may be used by Beautiful.ai as set forth in these rules and/or as otherwise set forth in Beautiful.ai’s Privacy Policy available at: https://www.beautiful.ai/privacy-policy; provided that, all information collected by Beautiful.ai as a part of the Scholarship Program will solely be used for the purposes of administering the Scholarship Program, including, without limitation, selecting and verifying potential Recipients (as defined in Section 7), and issuing the Scholarship Award (as defined in Section 6). For the avoidance of doubt, Beautiful.ai does not sell any information submitted in connection with the Scholarship Program to any third-parties. Beautiful.ai will not publicly display, publish, create derivatives of, or otherwise use in any Beautiful.ai promotional materials your Application, including, without limitation, your Essay Response and any other information submitted by you in connection with your participation in the Scholarship Program without your written consent.

One (1) “Power to Present” Scholarship Award: a one-time scholarship in the amount of $2,500 USD (two thousand five hundred dollars) to be applied toward Recipient’s tuition, expenses for required supplies, and room and board at the college or university in which the selected Recipient is enrolled (the “Scholarship Award”).

Each selected Recipient will only be eligible to receive one (1) Scholarship Award.  For the avoidance of doubt, if a participant has been selected as a potential recipient for the Scholarship Award for the Fall Application Period, such potential recipient shall not be eligible to receive the Scholarship Award for the Spring Application Period.

In no event shall Beautiful.ai be obligated to award any consideration other than the Scholarship Award specified in these Official Rules. The Scholarship Award may not be assigned, transferred, or changed, except at the sole discretion of Beautiful.ai. No cash equivalent prize will be awarded.

A qualified judge or panel of judges selected by Beautiful.ai (the “Judge(s)”) shall review the Applications and select one (1) potential recipient (the “Recipient”) to receive the Scholarship Award during each Application Period. The Judge(s) shall base their decision on the Application with the highest score of the following criteria: written communication skills (25%), ability to demonstrate the values contemplated by the Essay Topic (50%), spelling/grammar (15%), and overall Application strength (10%).  In the event of a tie, the selected potential Recipient will be the Application with the higher score for overall Application strength.

The Judge(s) shall select the potential Recipient on or about: (1) December 31st, 2020 for the Fall Application Period; and (2) June 30th, 2021 for the Spring Application Period.  The selected recipient of the Scholarship Award will be notified at the email address and/or phone number provided to Beautiful.ai; provided, however, that Beautiful.ai reserves the right to determine an alternate method of notification.

The awarding of any Scholarship Award is contingent upon full compliance with these Official Rules and subject to Beautiful.ai’s verification of the potential Recipient, the Application, and any other documentation required and/or requested by Beautiful.ai in connection with the Scholarship Award and/or Scholarship Program.

The Scholarship Award shall be forfeited, if the potential Recipient (1) refuses or fails or is otherwise unable to (i) accept the Scholarship Award or any portion of the Scholarship Award for any reason, (ii) provide proof of identity and/or any other information required or requested hereunder, (iii) provide the affidavit, liability and publicity release, (iv) complete tax forms (including IRS W-9 form) or other documentation required hereunder, and/or (2) does not meet the eligibility requirements and/or is found to have violated the Official Rules. Scholarship Awards and/or any Scholarship Award documents returned as undeliverable will result in forfeiture of the Scholarship Award.  Upon any forfeiture of the Scholarship Award the Beautiful.ai will have no further obligation to the applicable potential Recipient.  In the event a Scholarship Award is forfeited, for any reason, the Applicant who submitted the Application with the next highest score will become an alternate potential Recipient of the Scholarship Award.

Beautiful.ai reserves the right to choose no Recipient for the Scholarship Award if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of eligible and qualified Applications.  Beautiful.ai expressly reserves the right to delay the announcement of the potential Recipients for any reason Beautiful.ai deems necessary. The Scholarship Program will be conducted under the supervision of Beautiful.ai. The decisions of Beautiful.ai are final and binding in all matters relating to this Scholarship Program, including, without limitation, the selection of the potential Recipient of the Scholarship Award, and the payment of any Scholarship Award.

In order to claim the prize, each selected Recipient: (i) must meet all eligibility requirements, (ii) shall be required to produce proof of identity, address and birth date, and (iii) must each execute and return (as applicable) certain Scholarship Award Recipient documents, including but not limited to a letter of enrollment from the college or university where the Scholarship Award will be directed, an affidavit of eligibility, tax acknowledgment form, liability release and, except where prohibited by law, use of name and likeness releases. Such documents must be completed in full and returned within ten (10) business days of issuance either via facsimile, via PDF/scanned e-mail or via US registered mail.

Without limiting the foregoing, if requested by Beautiful.ai, the selected Recipient shall be required, and agrees, to provide Beautiful.ai with the following information:

• Residential address and phone number;
• Student identification card at your enrolled college or university;
• A copy of the current or most recent transcript from the enrolled college or university;
• Contact and mailing information for the college’s or university’s financial aid office;

Without limiting any of Beautiful.ai’s other rights or remedies herein, no Scholarship Award will be granted or paid until Beautiful.ai is able to verify with the applicable institution that the Recipient is enrolled at the institution.

Beautiful.ai will pay the Scholarship Award directly to the U.S. accredited college or university of the eligible Recipient in one lump sum via check or other payment method determined by Beautifil.ai in its sole discretion. No Scholarship Award will be paid directly to the Recipient.  Beautiful.ai has the sole discretion and final word over the timing and manner of any Scholarship Program payments.

The potential Recipient must, and agrees to, cooperate with Beautiful.ai and his/her institution in filing or providing any necessary paperwork or other materials or signatures deemed necessary by Beautiful.ai or the institution in their discretion to process the Scholarship Award. 

Beautiful.ai may, in its sole discretion, decline to award the Scholarship Award or otherwise make payment of the Scholarship Award in the case of the selected Recipient’s failure to provide information requested by Beautiful.ai or the institution in a timely fashion, or if the selected Recipient’s enrollment lapses for any reason.

Beautiful.ai will issue an IRS Form 1099 or equivalent form in the name of the Recipient for the actual value of the Scholarship Award. All federal, state and local taxes, and any other costs and expenses associated with the participation in the Scholarship Program and/or acceptance or use of Scholarship Award not specifically provided for in these Official Rules are solely the Recipient’s responsibility, but Beautiful.ai has the right to withhold any amounts required by law.

Each Applicant represents and warrants to Beautiful.ai as follows: (i) the Application, including the Essay Response is the Applicant’s own original, previously unpublished, and previously unproduced work; (ii) the Essay Response is wholly the original material of Applicant and as of the date of submission, is not the subject of any actual or threatened litigation or claim; (iii) the Essay Response neither infringes upon nor violates the intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or entity; (iv) the Application, including, without limitation, the Essay Response does not and will not violate any applicable laws, and meets the submission requirements set forth above.

Applicant hereby agrees to indemnify and hold Beautiful.ai harmless from and against any and all third party claims, actions or proceedings of any kind and from any and all damages, liabilities, costs and expenses relating to or arising out of any breach or alleged breach of these Official Rules, including, without limitation, any of the warranties, representations or covenants made by Applicant hereunder.

Beautiful.ai reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any person they suspect or find: (i) to have used a software generated, robotic, programmed, script, macro or other automated registration/entry; (ii) to have tampered with the registration/entry process or the operation of Scholarship Program; (iii) to engaged in any unfair or deceptive behavior, including, without limitation, plagiarism or violation of any person’s intellectual, proprietary, property, or privacy rights; (iv) to display behavior that will bring such person or Beautifil.ai into disgrace; (v) to have provided inaccurate information on any legal documents submitted in connection with Scholarship Program; or (vi) to be acting in violation of these Official Rules.  ANY VIOLATION OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY ANY SELECTED RECIPIENT WILL RESULT IN SUCH RECIPIENT’S DISQUALIFICATION AS A RECIPIENT OF THE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD AND ALL PRIVILEGES AS A RECIPIENT OF THE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED.

ANY ATTEMPT BY ANY PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM BY CHEATING, ENGAGING IN DECEPTION, PLAGIARISM, OR ANY OTHER UNFAIR PRACTICES OR ANY OTHER MEANS MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, BEAUTIFUL.AI WILL DISQUALIFY ANY SUCH APPLICATION, AND BEAUTIFUL.AI RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) FROM ANY SUCH PERSON OR PERSONS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Applicants understand that Beautiful.ai is not liable for injuries, losses or damages of any kind arising from participation in the Scholarship Program and acceptance, possession and use of the Scholarship Award. Beautiful.ai is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Scholarship Program or in the announcement of the Scholarship Award.

Beautiful.ai shall not be liable for: (1) failed, returned or misdirected notifications based on inaccurate information provided by the selected recipient of a Scholarship Award; (2) Applications submitted by any participant, and/or any notifications to, or responses from, the selected recipient, and/or other documents and/or communications sent to, or received from, the selected recipient, which are lost, late, incomplete, illegible, unintelligible, postage-due, misdirected, damaged or otherwise not received by the intended recipient in whole or in part or for computer or technical error of any kind; (3) any electronic miscommunications or failures, technical hardware or software failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions which may limit an Applicant’s ability to apply for the Scholarship Program; or (4) any technical malfunctions of the telephone network, computer on-line system, computer equipment, software, program malfunctions or other failures, delayed computer transactions or network connections that are human, mechanical or technical in nature, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to Applicant’s or any other person's computer or mobile device related to or resulting from downloading any application or otherwise in connection with this Scholarship Program.

PARTICIPATION IN THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, AND USE OF THE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD, IS AT APPLICANT’S OWN RISK. THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND BEAUTIFUL.AI DOES NOT MAKE ANY, AND HEREBY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL, REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.

AS A CONDITION OF SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION AND/OR PARTICIPATING IN THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, APPLICANT AGREES THAT, TO MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW: (I) UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE WILL APPLICATION BE PERMITTED TO OBTAIN AWARDS FOR, AND APPLICANT HEREBY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO CLAIM, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES, OTHER THAN FOR OUT-OF-POCKET EXPENSES; (II) ALL CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THIS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, OR ANY SCHOLARSHIP AWARD GRANTED, SHALL BE RESOLVED INDIVIDUALLY -- WITHOUT RESORT TO ANY FORM OF CLASS ACTION -- BY BINDING ARBITRATION AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 14 BELOW; AND (III) ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, JUDGMENTS AND AWARDS SHALL BE LIMITED TO ACTUAL OUT-OF- POCKET COSTS INCURRED, BUT IN NO EVENT SHALL SUCH CLAIMS, JUDGMENTS OR AWARDS INCLUDE ATTORNEYS' FEES.

BY SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION, YOU, ON BEHALF OF YOURSELF AND YOUR HEIRS, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “RELEASING PARTIES”), HEREBY RELEASE, DISCHARGE AND HOLD HARMLESS BEAUTIFUL.AI AND ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “RELEASED PARTIES”), FROM, AND HEREBY WAIVE AND RELINQUISH, EACH AND EVERY PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE DISPUTE, CLAIM, CONTROVERSY, DEMAND, RIGHT, OBLIGATION, LIABILITY, ACTION AND CAUSE OF ACTION OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE (INCLUDING PERSONAL INJURY, DEATH, PROPERTY DAMAGE, LIBEL, DEFAMATION, INVASION OF PRIVACY, RIGHT OF PUBLICITY, OR INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT), THAT HAS ARISEN OR ARISES DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OUT OF, OR RELATES DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO, THESE OFFICIAL RULES, YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, AND/OR USE AND/OR POSSESSION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD. IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542 (AND ANY LAW OR LEGAL PRINCIPLE OF SIMILAR EFFECT IN ANY JURISDICTION WORLDWIDE) IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING, WHICH STATES: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.” YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE WAIVER AND RELEASE IS BINDING UPON THE HEIRS AND ASSIGNS OF ANY THE RELEASING PARTIES AND IS IRREVOCABLE.

Beautiful.ai reserves the right to modify these Official Rules in any way or at any time. In the event Beautiful.ai is prevented from continuing with the Scholarship Program by any event beyond its reasonable control, then Beautiful.ai shall have the right in its sole discretion to modify, suspend, or terminate the Scholarship Program. In the event of modification, cancellation and/or suspension, Beautiful.ai shall promptly post a notice thereof on Beautiful.ai’s website at https://www.beautiful.ai/power-to-present-scholarship.

These Official Rules shall be governed by California law, without regard to conflicts of laws provisions.

By applying for this Scholarship Program, you agree that any dispute or litigation arising from or relating to this Scholarship Program shall be determined by binding arbitration only in San Francisco, California, by and under the Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures of JAMS, and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.   Notwithstanding the foregoing, Beautiful.ai may seek equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction.

If any provision of these rules is held to be illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that these rules otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.  Beautiful.ai’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that or of any other provision.

These Official Rules and the names of the Scholarship Award Recipients of this Scholarship Program will be posted on the Beautiful.ai website at: https://www.beautiful.ai/power-to-present-scholarship, and available until July 31st, 2021.