@codeofconduct

Expected Participant Behavior

• Use common courtesy. If you are not sure whether or not you should post something, do not post it.
• Show respect for other participants, specifically over communication channels like Discord.
• Collaboration with your teammates.
• Healthy competition between participants.
• Responsible behavior that would be seen in a public setting, such as a school, in-person event, or professional work setting.
• Abide by the National ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and Discord Community Guidelines.

Unacceptable Participant Behavior

• Specifically for Discord: Don't have or post racist, degrading, explicit, adult, or controversial usernames, messages, nicknames, profile pictures, or statuses. If you have to ask, it's probably not okay.
• Don't spam. This includes posting off-topic or repetitive messages.
• Posting any type of NSFW content, including but not limited to sharing inappropriate, violent, and disturbing pictures, videos, and audio.
• Posting any type of personal, sensitive, or confidential information about anyone that is involved in the competition, without the individual's prior consent.
• Participating in any type of discriminatory behavior towards race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, and gender.
• Participating in any type of sexual harassment, cyberbullying, or demeaning conduct.
• Cheating during the competition, including collaborating with other participants that are not a part of your team ranging from one to four people.
• Threatening violence upon or intimidating other participants and JerseyCTF peers.
• Disrupting speakers during competition tech talks, career talks, and demos.
• Spreading malicious files to JerseyCTF participants, hosts, sponsors, and speakers with the intent to bring harm to systems or jeopardize the integrity of personal information/data.
• Illegally attacking, exploiting, or hacking into JerseyCTF’s platforms and websites that allow for the competition to function to its greatest extent. This includes any host or sponsor platforms.

Please report any Code of Conduct violations or inappropriate behavior to the competition organizers or email jerseyctf@njit.edu before, during, or after the event. Any reports will remain confidential and will be handled at a professional standard. Failure to comply with the JerseyCTF Code of Conduct will result in disqualification from JerseyCTF and ban from the JerseyCTF Discord server. With JerseyCTF being a free competition, the hosting organizations reserve the right to disqualify and/or ban participants from the Discord server without prior notice or reason. Other actions from the hosting organizations include deleting messages from, muting, kicking, banning, or otherwise removing or modifying any member at any time at their own discretion. Any type of illegal behavior may result in the involvement of a higher authority.

@privacypolicy

The Association for Computing Machinery Chapter at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT ACM) operates the https://jerseyctf.com website, which provides the SERVICE “JerseyCTF.”

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service, JerseyCTF.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, email, gender, ethnicity, academic information, resume, merchandise size, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you, in addition to shipment of merchandise based on eligibility requirements.

We may collect information from you when you register, check-in, and participate in the JerseyCTF competition.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

• To facilitate our Service;
• To provide the Service on our behalf;
• To sponsor the Service;
• To perform Service-related services; or
• To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

Eligible sponsors have access to the following participant information: names, resumes, email addresses, Discord information, and detailed competition results.

We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to this certain information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security and Liability

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. By registering for JerseyCTF, you agree to not claim losses or damages of any type against the entire NJIT ACM organization under any circumstance.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites, including but not limited to LinkedIn, Google services, Discord, and sponsor websites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Minor's Privacy

Our Services do not allow anyone under the age of 18 to attend in-person. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child under 18 years old has provided us with personal information that you would like deleted, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions to delete the information from our databases.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at jerseyctf@njit.edu.