NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN OR INCREASE CHANCES TO WIN. THIS GIVEAWAY IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. BY PARTICIPATING IN THE GIVEAWAY, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, WHICH INCLUDE LIMITATIONS OF YOUR RIGHTS AND REMEDIES, INCLUDING AN AGREEMENT TO SUBMIT ANY DISPUTE RELATED TO THIS GIVEAWAY OR THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO BINDING ARBITRATION RATHER THAN PROCEEDING IN COURT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE GIVEAWAY. YOUR PARTICIPATION DEMONSTRATES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

1.     OVERVIEW. The BlackLine EMEA BTB Organic Social Giveaway (“Giveaway”), sponsored by BlackLine Systems, Inc. (“BlackLine”) is open to all attendees of the BeyondTheBlack EMEA and begins Wednesday, May 4th 2022 at 06.00AM AWST and ends Wednesday, May 25th 2022 at 5.59 AM AWST (the “Giveaway Period”).

2.     ELIGIBILITY. To participate in the Giveaway you must:

                     a.     be at least eighteen (18) years old and have also attained the age of majority in your jurisdiction of primary residence as of the start of the Giveaway Period; and

                     b.     have a LinkedIn account.

                     The Giveaway is not open to:

                     a.     any person who is a citizen or permanent resident of any country or region on which the United States has embargoed goods/services and/or imposed sanctions (e.g., Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, or the Crimea, Donetsk or Luhansk regions), or to whom BlackLine would otherwise be prohibited from awarding a prize by applicable U.S. export controls and sanctions or other applicable law;

                     b.     any person who is an elected or appointed government official, or government employee;

                     c.     employees, officers, directors, members, managers, agents, and representatives and family members of such individuals (or people living in the same household whether related or not) of BlackLine, or their respective corporate partners, parent companies, divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors in interest and advertising, promotion, and public relations agencies, as well as any other entity participating in the design, administration, or fulfillment of the Giveaway (collectively, the “Sponsor Entities”). For purposes of this Giveaway, “family members” is defined as any spouse, domestic partner, parent, legal guardian, sibling, child, legal ward, grandparent, grandchild, or the spouse or domestic partner of any such person.

3.     HOW TO ENTER.

                     a.     Meet the eligibility requirements set forth above.

                     b.     Follow BlackLine on LinkedIn  www.linkedin.com/company/blackline

                     c.     Respond to the giveaway post with details about the session you are most looking forward to at the BlackLine EMEA BeyondTheBlack 2022 (schedule available here: https://www.blackline.com/beyondtheblack/emea) and tag two other Linkedin users you think should register for the Modern Accounting Summit via the @ mention function on LinkedIn

                     d.     Only one (1) entry may be submitted. Multiple submissions are prohibited.

                     e.     Entries will be accepted only during the Giveaway Period.

                     f.      Entries that are incomplete or do not adhere to the rules or specifications may be disqualified at the sole discretion of BlackLine. BlackLine reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify from the Giveaway any entrant that, in its sole discretion, refers, depicts, or in any way reflects negatively upon a Sponsor Entity, the Giveaway, or any other person or entity or does not comply with any provision of these Terms and Conditions, including the above submission requirements.

Any entries not made on LinkedIn or not meeting the requirements outlined in these Terms and Conditions, or not complying with LinkedIn’s terms and conditions will be rejected. BlackLine is not responsible for late, lost or delayed entries, or network, computer or device hardware or software failures of any kind that may delay or restrict entry into the Giveaway.

4.     WINNER SELECTION & NOTIFICATION. There will be one winner in this Giveaway. Eligible entrants will be selected by random draw from among all eligible entries received during the Giveaway Period. The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Giveaway Period. Entries will not be judged. Each potential winner may, in BlackLine’s sole discretion, be required to complete, sign, have notarized (if applicable), and return an certain affidavits or liability releases (unless prohibited by law), tax documents, and related prize-acceptance documentation, if applicable (collectively, “Prize Documentation”), any or all of which may require the potential winner to provide taxpayer identification number (or, for non-US entrants, an equivalent identification number, unless prohibited by law) and a copy of a government-issued identification or number, within the time frame specified and in the form provided by BlackLine (without revision), or prize may be forfeited. The Prize Documentation, if applicable, must be received by BlackLine within the time frame as stated in the Prize Documentation, or prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected. If a selected winner cannot be reached or does not respond as instructed after BlackLine has attempted to notify that potential winner, that selected winner may be disqualified and an alternate winner may be selected (time permitting and in BlackLine’s sole discretion).

5.     PRIZE. The prize is a £500 Apple Gift Voucher.

BY ACCEPTING THE PRIZE IN THIS GIVEAWAY, WINNER REPRESENTS THAT ACCEPTING THE PRIZE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH WINNER’S CORPORATE GIFT RECEIVING OR SIMILAR POLICY, INCLUDING ANY AND ALL NOTIFICATION OBLIGATIONS A PARTICIPANT MAY HAVE TOWARDS THEIR EMPLOYER UNDER SUCH POLICIES. No cash or other prize substitution shall be permitted except at BlackLine’s discretion. All taxes applicable to winning the Prizes will be the responsibility of the winner and any tax forms that must be filed by BlackLine under applicable law will be filed in that person’s name.  The winner is strictly prohibited from selling, auctioning, trading or otherwise transferring any Prize. BlackLine is not responsible for any inability of the winner to accept or use any Prize (or portion thereof) for any reason.

6.     ADDITIONAL DISCLAIMERS. To the extent permitted by the mandatory provisions of the applicable law, Sponsor Entities are not responsible and/or liable for any of the following, whether caused by a Sponsor Entity, the participant or by human error (however, only if required by law in your jurisdiction, except to the extent that any of the following occur for reasons within BlackLine’s reasonable control, where liability to the injured party cannot be excluded by law): entries earned by illegitimate means (such as, without limitation, by an automated computer program) or entries earned in excess of any stated limits; any lost, late, incomplete, illegible, mutilated, or misdirected email, mail, or Giveaway-related correspondence or materials; any error, omission, interruption, defect, or delay in transmission or communication; viruses or technical or mechanical malfunctions; interrupted or unavailable cable or satellite systems; errors, typos or misprints in these Terms and Conditions, in any Giveaway-related materials; failures of electronic equipment, computer hardware or software; lost or unavailable network connections. Without limiting any other provision in these Terms and Conditions, Sponsor Entities are not responsible or liable to any participant or winner or any person claiming through such participant or winner for failure to supply the prize or any part thereof in the event that any of the Giveaway activities or the Sponsor Entities’ operations or activities are affected, as determined by BlackLine in its sole discretion.

By participating in the Giveaway, the participant agrees on behalf of the participant and the participant’s institution or company to release, discharge, indemnify and hold harmless the BlackLine and Sponsor Entities from all liability for any injury, loss or damage, due in whole or part, directly or indirectly, to the participation in the Giveaway or the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prize. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATION STATED ABOVE SHALL BE LIMITED TO CASES IN WHICH ENTRANT BREACHES THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, OR AS A RESULT OF ENTRANT’S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT FOR RESIDENTS OF JURISDICTIONS AS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

7.     GENERAL RULES:

                     a.     By entering the Giveaway, you agree that entries and all associated content belongs to BlackLine which will have an unrestricted right to use such content.

                     b.     The content included in any Giveaway entry must not:

                                               i.     Infringe, misappropriate, or violate any rights of any third party including, without limitation, copyright (including moral rights), trademark, trade secret, or right of privacy or publicity,

                                             ii.     Include information or content that is false, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, defamatory, threatening, trade libelous, slanderous, libelous, disparaging, unlawfully harassing, profane, obscene, pornographic, hateful, indecent, inappropriate or injurious to any individual, any Sponsor Entity, or any third party, or

                                           iii.     Disclose any information which would constitute a violation of any confidentiality obligation or disclosure of a trade secret.

                     c.     The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Terms and Conditions will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. If any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these Terms and Conditions will otherwise remain in effect and will be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein.

                     d.     Except where prohibited by law, as a condition of participating in this Giveaway, each entrant agrees that any and all disputes and causes of action arising out of or connected with the Giveaway, or any prize awarded, shall be resolved exclusively by final and binding arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), and held at the AAA regional office nearest Los Angeles, California. Each entrant waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than his or her actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering the Giveaway), and each entrant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation, and enforceability of these Terms and Conditions, or the rights and obligations of entrants and BlackLine in connection with the Giveaway, will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the substantive laws of the State of California, U.S.A., without regard to California choice of law rules.

                     e.     BlackLine reserves the right to substitute any prizes with a prize of equivalent or higher value in the event of circumstances outside of its control. There is no cash alternative to prizes.

8.     PRIVACY. Each entrant agrees to the use of the personal information submitted when they enter as detailed in BlackLine’s Privacy Policy posted at http s://www.blackline.com/legal/privacy-policy/. By entering the Giveaway, you consent to BlackLine transferring your personal data to countries or jurisdictions which may not provide the same level of data protection as your country of residence. 

9.     CONTACT US. Please contact socialmedia@blackline.com with any questions, complaints or disputes. For a copy of these Terms and Conditions or to find out who won, send an email with the subject line BlackLine EMEA BTB Organic Social Giveaway. Requests for Terms and Conditions must be received during the Giveaway Period; requests for a list of winners must be received no later than ten (10) days after the Giveaway Period.