CallFire Application Contest
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN
Contest begins at 12:00:01 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) on 4/23/09 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. PT on 11/02/09 ("Contest Period"). By entering, entrants agree to comply with these Official Rules. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, local, provincial laws & regulations. Participants agree that participation and these OfficialRules are governed by the laws of the state of California.
1.) ELIGIBILITY: Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec), who are 18 years of age or older as of date of entry. Employees, directors, officers and agents of CallFire are not eligible to enter the contest or win a prize. Void in Province of Quebec, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and U.S. military bases outside the U.S., and wherever else or otherwise restricted by law.
2.) CONTEST DESCRIPTION: CallFire Developer Contest (the “Contest”) is a skill contest in which entrants will create and release an application using CallFire APIs. The specific contest details are written on the contest home page, and a winner will be picked by the CallFire staff.
3.) HOW TO ENTER: Complete the online registration form (located at: https://www.callfire.com/dialer/cm/system/workplace/commons/displayresource.jsp?resource=/info/developer_contest_application.htmlwith all the required information, you agree that Sponsors may post your entry information onhttp://www.callfire.com for viewing, download and use by visitors to the website. All entries will be screened before they are posted.
4.) CONDITIONS OF ENTRY: By submitting an entry, each entrant represents that the Entry submitted (including the application itself and details) is the original work of entrant and has not previously won any other contestaward. Sponsors assume no responsibility for disputes between persons claiming authorship of the Entry. Each entrant further represents that use thereof does not infringe third party rights, is suitable for publishing and the right to submit it is not restricted by copyright. Entry cannot defame, disparage or invade publicity rights or privacy of any person, living or deceased, or otherwise infringe upon any person's personal or proprietary rights.
Entries must comply with the following content guidelines to be eligible:
· Application may not promote any activity that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any particular political agenda or message;
· Content may not be obscene or offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group;
· Content may not defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks about Sponsors, or other people, products or companies;
· Content may not contain materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or other indicia identifying any person, living or dead, without permission;
· Content may not communicate messages or images inconsistent with the images to which Sponsors wish to associate.
Entrant agrees to the use of their Entry by Sponsors in any way Sponsors deem appropriate, including any and all media, and that such individuals will sign all necessary documents granting Sponsors these rights if required by Sponsors. Entries must be suitable for distribution in a public forum (as determined by Sponsors in its sole discretion), and may not reflect negatively on the Sponsors or its products. Entries not complying with all rules are subject to disqualification at Sponsors’ sole discretion. Sponsors shall have right to post, use, broadcast, display, publicly perform, alter, edit, assign, or dispose of such Entries in whole or in part however it sees fit in any and all media without limitation as to time or territory without approval of entrant. Entries received that are illegible, incomplete, or are not submitted online will be disqualified. Entries that do not comply with these Official Rules will not be eligible.
5.) JUDGING: All published entries will be judged by the developers at CallFire by the date listed on the contest home page. They will judge based on the creativity of the application to do the intended task.
The top entrant will be awarded the Grand Prize of an Amazon Kindle.
6.) PRIZES: Grand Prize – Amazon Kindle
7.) GENERAL RULES: Prizes are non-transferable. Potential Winners will be required to complete and return an affidavit of eligibility and publicity consent (except where prohibited by law) within ten (10) days of date specified on prize notification. Failure to do so will result in disqualification and the selection of an alternate winner from remaining eligible entries. Grand and First Prize Winners, as well as the winner of the prize for having the most unique downloads, if from the U.S., must supply Sponsors with his/her social security number for tax purposes. An IRS Form 1099 will be issued in the name of a U.S. Winner for the actual value of the Prize received. Promotion agencies and sponsors are not responsible for any lost, stolen, corrupted, undecipherable, misdirected or otherwise unaccounted for entries that may arise from technical errors in hardware and software programs. Sponsors have the sole right to cancel or suspend the contest or any portion thereof for any reason whatsoever that may corrupt the administration, security of the contest. In such cases, prizes will be awarded from all eligible entries received prior to cancellation. Decisions of the Sponsors and judging organization are final in all respects of the Contest. Contest dates subject to change depending on number of entries recieved.
8.) WARRANTY AND INDEMNIFICATION: By entering, entrants hereby release and agree to hold harmless the Sponsors, its affiliates, subsidiaries, participating advertising and promotion agencies, technology and website development partner companies and employees of these companies (collectively “Releasees”) from and against any and all rights, demands, claims, causes of action whatsoever that they may have, or which may arise, against any of them for any liability for any matter, cause or thing whatsoever, including but not limited to any damage, injury, loss whether direct, compensatory, incidental or consequential, to person including death and property, arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from their acceptance of the Prize, their entry in the Contest or their participation in any prize related activity. Entrants irrevocably assign to Sponsors with full title guarantee all intellectual property and other rights, which they now have or may in the future have to the Entries, or any elements thereof, including without limitation, the copyright therein, the right to make derivative works, copies and to use for any purpose whatsoever in any media or format now or hereafter known, royalty-free worldwide perpetuity. Sponsors shall have the right to assign or dispose of such Entries however it sees fit without approval of the Entrant. Sponsors are under no obligation to correspond about Entries and Entries will not be acknowledged or returned. By entering, entrants grant permission for their names, descriptions, likeness, statements, entry and biographical information to be used without limitation or further compensation, for advertising and publicity purposes and on website athttp://www.callfire.com except where prohibited by law. Releasees are not responsible for any lost, stolen or otherwise unaccounted for entries, and or misdirected, illegible, incomplete, delayed or damaged entries. Releasees are not responsible for any human, printing, typographical or other error in the contest official rules and other materials posted on the website or in the administration of the Contest.
9.) DISQUALIFICATION: Any false information provided within the context of the Contest by any participant concerning identity, postal address, email address, telephone number, ownership of right or non-compliance with these rules or the like may result in the immediate disqualification of the participant from the Contest. Sponsors further reserve the right to disqualify any Entry that it believes in its sole and unfettered discretion infringes upon or violates the rights of any third party or otherwise does not comply with these official rules. Entrants that cause fictitious downloads will be automatically disqualified from this competition. The sponsors of this contest shall determine in their sole discretion whether such fictitious behavior exists.
10.) NO RECOURSE TO JUDICIAL OR OTHER PROCEDURES: To the extent permitted by law, the rights to litigate, to seek injunctive relief or to make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes or claims resulting from or in connection with this contest are hereby excluded, and any participant expressly waives any and all such rights.
11.) INTERNET: If for any reason this Contest is not capable of running as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Releasees which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of thisContest, Sponsors reserve the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any entry or any individual who tampers with the entry or judging process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest and in the event of cancellation, select winners from all eligible entries received prior to cancellation. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of an entrant, entry will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, Internet service provider or other organization (e.g. business, educational, institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses associated with the submitted email address. Releasees assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission or communications line failure that results in Entry forms being inaccessible online. Releasees are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail to be received by Sponsors on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participation in this contest or downloading any materials in this contest. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL & CIVIL LAWS & SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSORS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
12.) PRIVACY & PERSONAL INFORMATION: Personal information collected from Entrants will be used by Sponsors for the purpose of administering the Contest and to add to the Sponsor’s own newsletter database. The data may also be used to do a background check on their identity and verify their eligibility to participate and to receive a prize. Sponsors shall not sell, share or otherwise disclose personal information of Entrants with third parties without your permission, other than third parties engaged by Sponsors to fulfill the above purposes. In the event of any discrepancy between the privacy policy and these Official Rules, the privacy policy shall control and govern..
13.) SPONSORS: CallFire 811 Wilshire Suite 1003 Los Angeles, CA 90017
Our APIs
Voice Broadcast API
Hosted Call Center API
Click to Call API
Distributed Call Center API
Sample Java Client
Getting Started
Call us today! We'll discuss your custom solution. Receive a quote for your feature or API (Most are free!). In weeks, most new API's are made available for use on CallFire.com
Custom Telephony Tools
Predictive Dialing - understanding the dialer market.
SIP - The protocol used by our backend systems.
Asterisk - The open source pbx that drives our calling clusters.
Apache Geronimo Project - The J2EE Application server handling the business logic.
Custom Dialer
Custom IVR - develop your own IVR ideas and have them added to CallFire.com. We can create custom APIs so that you can easily send and recieve data to and from CallFire.com
The Skyy Consulting development team relies on Linux, Asterisk, PHP, J2EE and a geographically distributed clusters of Sun Servers to run CallFire.com.
