Google Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2012

Terms & Conditions

Google has always aspired to be an organization that reflects a globally diverse audience that our search engine and tools serve. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, the diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. This diversity of our employees and partners serves as the foundation for us to better serve our diverse customers and stakeholders all over the world.

Diversity at Google includes a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers' perspectives, ideas and cultures; thinks and acts inclusively; and fundamentally values people's similarities and differences.

Google India aspires to achieve this goal of diversity and encourage women in engineering in a small way. Google has decided to offer Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship that is applicable for eligible women students at recognized Engineering Campuses in India.

The Google India Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship is for participation in India only and shall only be construed and evaluated according to Indian law. Your application for this scholarship constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions.

  1. Eligibility: You must be a legal resident of India, 18 years old or older. This scholarship is applicable to female applicants only. Applications submitted by students other than female engineering students will be rejected without review. Employees and agents of Google India Pvt. Ltd., its affiliates, subsidiaries (“Google”), are not eligible to apply for this scholarship. Google shall have the exclusive right to accept or reject the applications and the decision of Google on the eligibility shall be final.
  2. How to Apply: The offer of this scholarship ("Scholarship") shall begin on November 11, 2011 and end at midnight on December 31st, 2011 ("Application Period")
    • One application per candidate -The submission of an application is solely the responsibility of the applicant. Submissions of applications via facsimiles and/or mechanical reproductions are not permitted and will not be considered. All applications become the property of Google, and none will be returned.
    • Applicants/candidates must:
      • Be enrolled as a full time student in a recognized Indian institution.
      • Be in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related majors.
      • Maintain a cumulative CGPA of at least 4.0 on a 5.0 scale, 8.0 on a 10.0 scale (or equivalent), or be in the top 10 percentile of their college in the current program.
      • Be enrolled in Bachelor's/ Integrated MSc/ Dual Degree MTech (3rd year onwards) or Master's or PhD (all years).
  3. Conduct: By submission of an application for the scholarship, the Applicants agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms and Conditions. Failure to comply with these Terms and Conditions may result in non consideration of the application for the scholarship offered by Google. The Applicants further agree to comply with and be bound by the decisions of Google, which will be final and binding in all respects. Google reserves the right at its sole discretion not to consider any application if it is found that an individual has (a) tampered or is attempting to tamper with the application process or the operation of the Scholarship on any website; (b) violated the Terms and Conditions; (c) violated conditions and/or general rules or guidelines of any Google property. NOTE: ANY ATTEMPT BY ANY APPLICANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE OFFER OF THE SCHOLARSHIP MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, GOOGLE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
  4. Grant of the Scholarship and Notification: The Applicants selected for the grant of the scholarship will be selected from among all eligible applications by a Google Review Committee (“Committee”). The Committee will review all applications and determine the applicant’s eligibility for the scholarship. The decision of the Committee is final. The successful candidates/applicants for the scholarship will be communicated in March, 2012 to the candidate/applicant via email. Return of any scholarship notification as undeliverable, or inability of Google to contact a potential candidate/applicant for the scholarship may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate candidate by the Committee.
  5. Scholarship: The successful candidate/applicant will be granted an scholarship of INR 1,00,000 via cheque.
  6. General Conditions: This scholarship is governed by the laws of India and the courts of Bangalore shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
    • By entering, candidates/applicants: (a) release and hold harmless Google and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all liability for any loss or damage of any kind to persons, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any scholarship, or while traveling to, preparing for, or participating in any scholarship related activity. (b) grant to Google the right to use abstracts or parts of the essay submitted and publish the same on the Google website or in print or any other media; (c) grant to Google the right to use and publish their proper name and grant of the scholarship online and in print, or any other media, in connection with the scholarship;
    • Limitations of Liability: Google will assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, submission of applications. Google will not be responsible for any problems, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, providers, computer equipment, software, email, browsers, on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, at any website, or on account of any combination of the foregoing. Google will not be responsible for any injury or damage to the applicants or to any computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in the application process. If, for any reason, the submission process is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Google which corrupts or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this scholarship, Google reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this offer of the scholarship and select successful candidates from among all eligible applications received prior to the cancellation.
  7. Representations and Warranties: The candidate/applicant warrants and represents in connection with the application submitted that: (a) the applications consists of details and documentation, relating to qualifications, marks, certificates which are original, correct and true (b) the application does not contain any viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content. Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Google has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Google's sole discretion, reject or remove from Google's websites, servers and computer systems any application that, in Google's reasonable opinion, violates these terms and conditions or any applicable Google policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable.
  8. Indemnity; Disclaimer of Warranties; Limitation of Liability: The Applicant submitting an application for this scholarship agrees to be bound by these terms and conditions, including all eligibility requirements and all decisions of Google. The applicant on submission of an application for this scholarship agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Google and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and parents ("Google Entities") from any and all liability, claims, or actions of any kind.

    THE APPLICANT AGREES THAT GOOGLE ENTITIES MAKE NO WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR GUARANTEE OF ANY KIND, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, IN FACT OR IN LAW, RELATING TO THE SCHOLARSHIP.

  9. Amendment; Waiver: Google may amend these terms and conditions or cancel the scholarship at any time, in its sole discretion and without further notice, by posting to this web page an amended version of these terms and conditions. Google encourages you to regularly review these terms and conditions for any changes. By performing any act constituting submission of an application for this scholarship after a change of these terms and conditions, you will be deemed to have consented to that change. No waiver by a party of a breach of any provision of these terms and conditions or failure by a party to exercise any right under these terms and condition will operate or be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach of that right or as a waiver of any other right.
  10. Privacy: On submission of your application, you agree to Google’s use of your personal information and you agree that Google can use your name, location (city and state only), statements, photograph, and essay for any advertising purposes without further compensation, consideration, review or consent.
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