Experience the future of solar technology at our booth at RE+

SMA Solar Technology America LLC

3925 Atherton Rd Rocklin, CA 95765

SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT IS NECESSARY TO PARTICIPATE. A PURCHASE DOES NOT IMPROVE ONE’S CHANCES OF WINNING.

FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS APPLY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY ALL U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL LAWS, CODES AND OTHER SIMILAR GOVERNING LAWS, RULES, REGULATIONS AND/OR ORDINANCES.

This contest ("contest”) is conducted by SMA Solar Technology America LLC (“Sponsor”) with address 3925 Atherton Rd Rocklin, CA 95765.

Participants must follow these steps to participate in this contest:

1. Visit the Sponsor booth at RE+ Las Vegas: booth #4138, the Venetian Convention Center

(main floor)

2. Complete and submit guest registration form, available at RE+ Las Vegas

Alternatively, participants may enter via the Alternate Form of Participation described below.

Only one participation per individual is allowed. The duration of the contest is September 11, 2023 9:00am PDT through September 14, 2023, 2:00pm PDT. Winner must be a legal resident of the 50 United States (incl. DC) 21 years old or older and have a mailing address within the United States. This promotion is governed by United States law. Sponsor employees, and employees of its affiliates, subsidiaries, parents, advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies, and members of the immediate family or household of each, are not eligible to participate. Immediate family member is defined as a parent, sibling or any person residing in same household as employee.

Prizes consist of one (1) The Archi Step-over Wyld Bikes E-bike (electronic bike) valued at $1800. The prize is non- transferable, and substitutions are not permitted.

The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. ALL EXPENSES, TAXES AND COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF PRIZES ARE THE OBLIGATION OF THE WINNER.

Sponsor will choose a winner randomly amongst people that follow all the steps using the Random Result tool. Sponsor will announce the winner via Sponsor’s Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn channels the week of September 25th. Sponsor will contact the winner via email to request mailing address. Giveaway will be sent via mail. Name of the winner will be available in Sponsor social media profiles in Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It will also be available upon request. Void where prohibited.

Alternate form of participation: Send a letter to Diana Lamadora via mail to 3925 Atherton Rd Rocklin, CA 95765 with the following information: first name, last name, email address, company, and state.

If, for any reason, this promotion is not capable of running as planned, whether due to tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Sponsor which corrupts or affects its administration or fairness, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend, the promotion, and disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process. In the event of termination, a random drawing to award the prizes may be conducted from entries received up until the time of termination, if feasible. By entering, participants (a) agree to be bound by the official rules and the decisions of the Sponsor (including but not limited to eligibility determinations) which are final and binding in all respects; (b) agree to release Sponsor, and its employees and agents from any and all liability, loss, damage or injury resulting from participation in this Promotion or awarding, receipt, possession use and/or misuse of any prize awarded and acknowledge that Sponsor and its employees and agents have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to any prize including, but not limited to, its quality, mechanical condition or fitness for a particular purpose; and (c) consent to use of his/her name, photograph and/or likeness for advertising and promotional purposes in connection with this promotion without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.

The parties waive all rights to trial in any action or proceeding instituted in connection with these Official Rules. Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Official Rules and/or the sweepstakes shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted in the State of California, City of Sacramento. THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND THE INTERPRETATION OF ITS TERMS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WITHOUT REGARD TO ITS CONFLICTS OF LAWS RULES. For any matters which are not subject to arbitration as set forth in these Official Rules and/or in connection with the participation of any judgment on an arbitration award in connection with these Official Rules, the parties irrevocably submit and consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in or closest to the City of Sacramento in the State of California. The parties agree not to raise the defense of forum non conventions. If any provision of these Official Rules (or portion thereof) is held invalid, illegal, void, or unenforceable by reason of any law or public policy, all other provisions shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect to the extent such remaining provisions accurately reflect the intent of the parties.

SMA SWEEPSTAKES PRIVACY POLICY

SMA Solar Technology America LLC, the Sponsor, respects your privacy and is committed to complying with this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy (“Sweepstakes Privacy Policy”) which describes what information we collect about you, including how we collect it, how we use it, with whom we may share it and what choices you have regarding our use of your information. This Sweepstakes Privacy Policy applies to information collected through or in connection with your participation of the Contest (including but not limited to submission of guest registration forms at RE+ Las Vegas or letters sent to Sponsor or your engagement with Sponsor on social media platforms). We may change this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time. All such updates and amendments are effective immediately upon notice thereof, which we may give by any means, including, but not limited to, by posting a revised version of this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy or other notice on Sponsor’s website. Any information collected by Sponsor via its website is subject to the relevant privacy policy: Privacy Policy, which may be updated from time to time.

• What information do we collect: We may request that you provide certain personal information, such as your name, email address, company name, phone number and other information (including but not limited to demographic or personal information) about you. We may also collect information about or in connection with your activity and participation in this Contest; and, your use of third-party social media platforms (including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) or your website browsing activity. Your website browsing activity or social media activity may be collected or obtained by us via (a) certain tracking technology such as browser cookies, flash cookies, web beacons, and embedded scripts; (b) your social media account permissions; or, (c) the social media platforms you use to engage with us.
• How we use your information: We collect or use your personal information for the purposes of: registering you into the Contest; determining your eligibility; verifying your identity; administering, conducting or managing the Contest; selecting the winner; fulfilling the prize; communicating with you about the Contest (including but not limited to responding to your comments or inquiries on social media platforms); managing our business operations (including legal compliance, enforcement and recordkeeping); monitoring and enforcing compliance with our terms; conducting marketing and sales activities (including generating leads, pursuing marketing prospects, performing market research, determining and managing the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing campaigns and managing our brand); and/or any other purposes for which you provided the information to us. Your website browsing activity or social media activity may be shared with online analytics, targeted advertising, and website customization providers for purposes such as website functionality, customization and security or advertising and marketing.
• How we share your information: By participating in this Contest, you give consent and agree for Sponsor to: (a) use and disclose your name, contact information and other information provided by you in connection with the Contest, to service providers and vendors for the purpose of administering, conducting or managing the Contest, legal compliance and recordkeeping; and, (b) in the case where you are the winner of the Contest, disclose your name and your company name via including but not limited to Sponsor’s Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn channels. Except as otherwise set forth in this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy, Sponsor will not use, disclose, or transfer your personal data unless:
  • you expressly authorize Sponsor to do so,
  • it is necessary to allow Sponsor’s service providers, agents, or other third parties to provide products or services for or to Sponsor,
  • it is necessary in order to provide the relevant system or services,
  • Sponsor is sending you other information that may be useful to you,
  • subject to applicable contractual or legal restrictions, it is disclosed to entities that perform marketing services on Sponsor’s behalf or to other entities with whom Sponsor has joint marketing agreements,
  • it is necessary to protect the confidentiality or security of your records,
  • it is necessary in connection with other business purposes including, without limitation, verifying identity, age, and/or payment details, investigating complaints about the system, risk assessment, security, fraud and crime prevention/detection, monitoring, research and analysis, marketing, customer purchasing preferences and trends and dispute resolution,
  • it is necessary to comply with law enforcement, governmental mandate, or other legal requirement, if appropriate, for your protection or in connection with an investigation or prosecution of possible unlawful activity;
  • subject to applicable contractual or legal restrictions, it is necessary in connection with a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of Sponsor or the merger of Sponsor into another entity or any consolidation, share exchange, combination, reorganization, or like transaction in which Sponsor is not the survivor, or
  • it is otherwise necessary for Sponsor to disclose it as required or permitted by law.
• How we protect information collected about you: Sponsor takes commercially reasonable measures to secure and protect information collected from you. Nevertheless, no security system, data transmission, storage or electronic storage of information is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee that information collected about you will be totally secure. You agree to immediately notify us of any breach of security or this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy which you become aware.
• Children: This Contest is intended for legal residents of the 50 United States (incl. DC) 21 years old or older and is not intended for any individual under the age of 21 years. We do not knowingly collect information about any children or any individual under the age of 21 years.
• California Privacy Rights: This portion of our Privacy Policy advises California residents of rights provided in the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”) and how to effectuate those rights by communicating with us. Please note, we will seek to verify your identity when we receive an individual rights request from you in order to ensure the security of your personal data. All terms not otherwise defined in this portion shall have the meanings as defined under the CCPA, along with any implementing regulations. Please direct any rights requests (as further described below) or additional questions you may have regarding this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy via email or web form to:datenschutz@SMA.de or www.sma-america.com/contact-form.html If you do, we will need to collect personal data and other information such as your name, email or transaction history in order to verify your identity. You may also authorize an agent to make a request on your behalf, who will need to provide similar information for verification. In the 12-month period before the effective date of this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy, we collected certain categories of personal information about you. Those categories and the sources of that personal information are outlined in the above sections of this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy. We may have collected personal information for any of the business or commercial purposes as set forth in this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy. In the 12-month period before the effective date of this Sweepstakes privacy policy, we may have shared website browsing activity to online analytics, targeted advertising and website customization providers. You have the right to opt out of this disclosure of your information, which may be considered a “sale” or “share” under California law. You may opt out of “sharing” or “selling” by setting a browser-level opt-out, the Global Privacy Control, sent by California consumers. You may learn how to set that signal by going to this website: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. As described above, we do not directly disclose your personal information with third parties for monetary consideration. Our “selling” or “sharing” is instead confined to the context of online tracking. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age. If you are a California resident, you have the following rights regarding your personal information:
  • Right to Deletion of Personal Data. California residents have the right to request the deletion of personal data as prescribed in Section 1798.105(a) of the CCPA. Sponsor may not delete some or all requested personal data as required or allowed by applicable law.
  • Right of Access: This is the right to request disclosure of data collection and sharing practices
  • Right to Know. You may request to receive details about how we collect, use, and share your personal data. You may request to receive the specific pieces of personal data that we have collected about you.
  • Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information: The right to correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
  • Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Share: The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information by us.
  • Right to Limit Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: If we use sensitive personal information at all, our use is confined to certain limited purposes, such as the following: (1) performing our service or providing goods, (2) detecting security incidents, (3) resisting malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions, (4) ensuring physical safety, (4) for short-term transient use, including certain non-personalized advertising, (5) maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, verifying customer information, or providing similar services, and (6) to verify and maintain the quality or safety of a service or product to improve, upgrade, or enhance a service or product. As such, your right to opt-out does not apply to our use of your sensitive information.
  • Right to Not Receive Discriminatory Treatment: We do not discriminate against you for exercising any CCPA rights, such as the access and deletion rights described above. If we choose to offer a product enhancement or financial incentive that is contingent on you sharing personal data, we will ensure that the value provided to us by that collection is reasonably related to the value of the product enhancement or financial incentive.
• Virginia Privacy Rights: This portion of our Privacy Policy applies only to residents of the state of Virginia and applies only to the extent of any inconsistency with the information above. All terms not otherwise defined in this portion shall have the meanings as defined under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”). Please direct any rights requests (as further described below) or additional questions you may have regarding this Sweepstakes Privacy Policy via email or web form to:datenschutz@SMA.de or www.sma-america.com/contact-form.html If you do, we will need to collect personal data and other information such as your name, email or transaction history in order to verify your identity. You may also authorize an agent to make a request on your behalf, who will need to provide similar information for verification. We collect and process certain categories of personal information about you. Those categories and the sources of that personal information are outlined in the above section of this Sweepstakes privacy policy. We may share website browsing activity to third party web tracking providers. But this information is only shared after you direct us to do so. If you are a Virginia resident, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
  • Right to Know and Access: The rights to confirm whether or not we are processing your personal data and to access such personal data.
  • Right to Correct: The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data, taking into account the nature of the personal data and our purposes of the processing of such personal data.
  • Right to Delete: The right to delete personal data provide by or obtained about you.
  • Right to Obtain a Copy: The right to obtain a copy of your personal data that you previously provided to us in a portable and to the extent technically feasible, readily useable format that allows you to transmit the data to another controller without hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means.
  • Right to Opt-Out: The right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for purposes of: (1) targeted advertising, (2) the sale of personal data, or (3) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.
• Contact Us: Please address data-privacy-related questions about Sponsor, or about the storage, processing and deletion of your personal data, to:

SMA Solar Technology AG
Data Protection Officer
Sonnenallee 1
34266 Niestetal
Germany
E-mail: datenschutz@SMA.de