Any other points worth highlighting from the 10-page long rules? I find it confusing. Is this normal for legalspeak? The requirements include, and I quote:
All information provided in the Entry must be true, accurate, and correct in all respects. [oops, excludes nearly all possible utterances I could say]
The Contest is open to any natural person who meets all of the following eligibility requirements:
[Resides in a place where the Contest is not prohibited by law]
The entrant is at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry.
We based the requirements off the Open Philanthropy Cause Exploration Prize’s official rules—see the full legal terms linked to here (https://www.causeexplorationprizes.com/rules-faqs) - and changed them only when necessary. Then it was vetted by the lawyer at CEARCH’s fiscal sponsor.
I can’t speak for the lawyers, but my presumption as a non-expert is that there are good legal reasons for the various clauses. For example, the prohibited-by-law stuff is obvious enough; and I imagine the access-to-internet-clause is ensure no administrative difficulties with contacting winners after the fact and getting the details needed to wire them their money.
Any other points worth highlighting from the 10-page long rules? I find it confusing. Is this normal for legalspeak? The requirements include, and I quote:
All information provided in the Entry must be true, accurate, and correct in all
respects. [oops, excludes nearly all possible utterances I could say]
The Contest is open to any natural person who meets all of the following eligibility
requirements:
[Resides in a place where the Contest is not prohibited by law]
The entrant is at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry.
The entrant has access to the internet. [What?]
Hi Rime,
We based the requirements off the Open Philanthropy Cause Exploration Prize’s official rules—see the full legal terms linked to here (https://www.causeexplorationprizes.com/rules-faqs) - and changed them only when necessary. Then it was vetted by the lawyer at CEARCH’s fiscal sponsor.
I can’t speak for the lawyers, but my presumption as a non-expert is that there are good legal reasons for the various clauses. For example, the prohibited-by-law stuff is obvious enough; and I imagine the access-to-internet-clause is ensure no administrative difficulties with contacting winners after the fact and getting the details needed to wire them their money.