Community guidelines

1. Represent Yourself Honestly

• Accurately represent yourself, your team, and your work.
• Submit only work you created or are authorised to submit.
• Do not impersonate another person or misrepresent your eligibility, qualifications, student status, affiliations, results, or certificates.
• Only act for a team or organisation when you have authority to do so. Do not create accounts or registrations to bypass eligibility or participation limits.

2. Respect Intellectual Property and Competition Rules

• Only upload content you own or have the right to use.
• Give proper credit to teammates and contributors.
• Do not submit plagiarised or infringing materials, fabricate evidence, or present someone else's work as your own.
• Follow the organiser's rules on collaboration, outside assistance, citations, and AI tools. Disclose assistance where required; an available tool does not make its use permitted in a competition.
• Do not distribute unreleased briefs, another team's submissions, judging materials, or restricted resources without permission.

3. Be Respectful

Treat others respectfully in content and communications:

• Do not harass, threaten, bully, discriminate against, or direct hateful abuse at others.
• Keep feedback about the work constructive. Do not pressure judges or retaliate against someone for reporting a concern.
• Do not post sexually exploitative, gratuitously violent, or otherwise unlawful content.

CaseCrest serves people from different backgrounds and age groups. Respect boundaries and the professional or educational context of each activity.

4. Protect Privacy

• Do not share personal or private information about others without consent.
• Respect confidentiality obligations imposed by competition organisers.
• Use participant contact details, student information, and reports only for authorised competition or organisation purposes. Do not harvest them for unsolicited marketing.
• Do not publish private messages, meeting links, access credentials, or personal information in public portfolios or discussions without permission.

5. Keep Participation and Judging Fair

• Do not spam invitations, discussions, listings, or feedback channels, or submit misleading opportunities or links.
• Do not collude to manipulate judging, scores, rankings, team assignments, or competition outcomes. Judges and organisers should disclose conflicts of interest and follow the event's conflict-management process.
• Do not scrape personal information, bypass access controls, upload malware, or disrupt the platform. Report suspected vulnerabilities using the Security Policy.

6. Organiser and Team Responsibilities

Organisers should communicate eligibility, deadlines, submission requirements, judging criteria, prize conditions, and material changes clearly. Handle participant information responsibly and give people a way to raise competition concerns.

Team leaders should keep teammates informed about invitations, membership changes, submissions, and withdrawals. Do not remove contributors' credit or submit on their behalf without authority.

7. Reporting and Enforcement

Report concerns to support@casecrest.org with relevant links, dates, and a description. Share only the personal information needed to investigate. Competition-specific eligibility, scoring, or scheduling concerns should also be raised with the organiser.

Depending on the circumstances, CaseCrest may investigate, request changes, remove content, restrict features, or suspend or terminate access. Organisers may apply competition penalties under their published rules. Urgent protective action may be taken before notice is given.

You can contact support@casecrest.org to provide further information or request a review of a CaseCrest moderation decision. We may need to share relevant details with people involved in resolving the report; we cannot promise absolute confidentiality.