No Cheating or Plagiarism
All submissions must be your team's own work. Copying another team's project, code, design, or idea without proper permission or credit is prohibited.

Respect Everyone
Bullying, harassment, discrimination, threats, or disrespectful behaviour toward participants, judges, organizers, or volunteers will not be tolerated.

Build for Good
Projects must focus on protecting users and improving financial cybersecurity. Projects designed to scam, steal information, hack others, or cause harm are prohibited.

Use Legal and Ethical Methods
Do not attempt to access accounts, devices, networks, databases, or personal information without authorization. Any cybersecurity demonstrations should use safe test data and environments.

Protect Personal Information
Do not collect, expose, or include real passwords, banking information, private account details, or other sensitive personal data in your project or demonstration.

AI Is Allowed, but You Are Responsible for Your Project
Participants may use AI tools to help with brainstorming, coding, debugging, design, or research. Teams must still understand their project and be able to explain how it works.

Follow the Submission Requirements
Each team must submit a demo video showing and explaining its solution. Only videos that are 5 minutes or less will be considered for judging.

Give Credit Where It Is Due
Open-source libraries, APIs, datasets, templates, and other outside resources are allowed, but teams should clearly credit important resources they use and follow their licences or terms.

Submit Before the Deadline
Projects must be submitted by the official deadline. Late or incomplete submissions may not be considered unless the organizers announce an exception.

Follow Organizer and Judging Decisions
Participants must follow hackathon instructions and organizer decisions. Breaking the rules may result in warnings or disqualification. Judging decisions regarding the competition results are final.