Seed Train Platform Official Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER. VALID ONLY in the United States, Canada, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW

1. SPONSOR: Merck KGaA (“Sponsor” or “us”).

2. BINDING AGREEMENT: By entering into this Giveaway (as defined below), each person submitting or attempting to submit an entry (“Participant”) agrees to be bound by these Official Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) and the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding. Therefore, please read these Terms prior to entry to ensure you understand and agree. You are not eligible to receive one HCDC Bag Assembly (-80°C) in 100 mL size (HCDC0001L101) OR 250 mL size (HCDC0001L102), and/or one Cellvento^® 4CHO-X Expansion Medium (1L) (1.03840) (as defined below) described in these Terms unless you agree to these Terms.

3. GIVEAWAY PERIOD: Seed Train Platform – Samples Request (“Giveaway”) begins at 12:01 AM EST on May 1st, 2024, and ends at 11:59 PM EST on September 30th, 2024 (“Giveaway Period”). PARTICIPANTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE CORRESPONDING TIME ZONE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE JURISDICTION.

4. ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for the Giveaway, as of the start of the Giveaway Period, Participants must have reached the age of majority in their place of residence and be at least eighteen (18) years old.

The following individuals are not eligible to participate:

• Employees, interns, contractors, and official office-holders of Sponsor and its affiliates, and its respective directors, officers, employees, advertising and promotion agencies, representatives, and agents and their immediate families (parents, siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each, regardless of where they live) and members of the households (whether related or not) of such employees, officers and directors;
• Officials and employees of any local, state, provincial or federal or other government or government agency;
• Healthcare professionals (HCPs) and employees of U.S. healthcare organizations (HCOs).

Sponsor reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time.

5. HOW TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER. In order to enter, Participants should do the following:

• Go to the Giveaway website at sigmaaldrich.com/seedtrain
• Please indicate your preferences using the web form, checking all that apply.

All entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail account used to submit the entry, and a Participant may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder for that e-mail account. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned to the e-mail account by the e-mail administrator at the time of account creation.

LIMIT ONE (1) ENTRY PER REGISTERED EMAIL ADDRESS. Subsequent entries will be disqualified. Entries become the sole property of the Sponsor. Entries are void if they are in whole or part unintelligible, incomplete, damaged, altered, counterfeit, obtained through fraud, or late.

6. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Entries must be original to the Participant and must not infringe any third-party proprietary rights, intellectual property rights, industrial property rights, personal or moral rights or any other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or confidentiality obligations, or otherwise violate applicable laws. No trademarks, logos, company names or advertising of third parties are allowed unless expressly permitted by the Sponsor. Content may not be offensive or defamatory, as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion. The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject and/or disqualify any entries (in whole or in part) that the Sponsor deems, in its sole discretion, to be obscene, defamatory, libelous, profane, discriminatory, false, misleading or deceptive, or that promote illegal behavior, or otherwise inconsistent with its editorial standards or reputational interests, or that the Sponsor believes may violate any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party.

7. GIVEAWAY: All Participants will receive one HCDC Bag Assembly (-80°C) in 100 mL size (HCDC0001L101) OR 250 mL size (HCDC0001L102), and/or one Cellvento^® 4CHO-X Expansion Medium (1L) (1.03840). (the “Giveaway item”). SUPPLY OF THE Giveaway item IS LIMITED. SUPPLY OF THE SAMPLES IS LIMITED TO TWENTY (20) FOR PART NUMBER (1.03840), (10) FOR PART NUMBER (HCDC0001L101) and (10) FOR PART NUMBER (HCDC0001L102). THE SPONSOR AND ITS AFFILIATES MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WHATSOEVER RELATED TO THE QUALITY, CONDITIONS, FITNESS OR MERCHANTABILITY OF ANY ASPECTS OF THE Giveaway item. Participants are solely responsible for all costs, taxes and other charges resulting from acceptance or use of Giveaway item. The Sponsor shall be responsible for shipping and handling charges related to delivery of Giveaway item to the Participants.

8. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS / PUBLICITY: As a condition of entry, Participants grant to the Sponsor and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees and assigns, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive and royalty-free right to use, reproduce, edit, display, transmit, prepare derivative works of, modify, publish and otherwise make use of entry submissions and any Participant’s name, image, and likeness or other information in any and all media, whether now known or hereinafter created, throughout the world and for any purpose, and waives any moral rights with respect to any submitted work or entry. In addition to other things, the rights granted to the Sponsor include, but are not limited to, the right to resize, crop, censor, compress, edit, feature, caption, affix logos to, and to otherwise alter or make use of the submitted entry. The Participants acknowledge and agree that the Sponsor shall have no obligation to post, display or otherwise make publicly available any entry submitted by the Participant. Participants consent to allowing the Sponsor and its affiliates to display their entry submissions on any of their websites and/or social media pages for promotional marketing purposes. Participants consent to being contacted by Sponsor or one of its representatives for follow-up marketing activities related to this Giveaway.

9. PRIVACY: Participants agree that personal data including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address (“Personal Information”) may be collected, processed, stored and otherwise used by the Sponsor, or any party authorized by them for the purposes of conducting and administering the Giveaway. This Personal Information may also be used by Sponsor or any party authorized by them to verify a Participant’s identity, postal address and telephone number in the event a Participant qualifies for any applicable prize as well as to deliver the applicable prize(s).

Participants further agree that their Personal Information may be used to fulfill additional terms of the Giveaway or to contact you in response to a question submitted by you.

This Personal Information may also be shared by the Sponsor or any party authorized by them with any third-party for the purposes of fulfilling the terms of this Giveaway or another service that you have requested, to comply with the law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the requirements of law or comply with legal process served on Sponsor, and to protect and defend Sponsor’s rights or property. Participants understand and agree that this may mean that their Personal Information is transmitted, processed or stored in the United States. Note that we may share this Personal Information with our agents located in our various offices throughout the world. Some of those offices may be in countries with data protection laws different than those established under Participants’ national, state, provincial or local law.

For residents of the European Union: Pursuant to EU law pertaining to data collection and processing, Participants are informed that:

• The data controller is Sponsor and the data recipients are Sponsor and its agents;
• Participant Personal Information is collected for purposes of administration of the Giveaway;
• Participants have a right of access to and withdrawal of their Personal Information. Participants also have a right of opposition to the data collection, under certain circumstances. To exercise such right, Participants may write to:

Merck KGaA
Frankfurter Strasse 250
64293 Darmstadt
Germany
Attention: Melanie Brandl (Cellvento^® 4CHO-X Expansion Medium (1L)); Robert Castro and Sarah Lemon (HCDC Bag Assembly (-80°C))

• Participant Personal Information will be transferred to the U.S.

10. LIMITATION AND RELEASE OF LIABILITY: IN NO EVENT SHALL THE SPONSOR OR ITS AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR LOSS OF PROFITS, INCURRED BY ENTRANTS OR ANY THIRD PARTY, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY OR IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITIES OF SUCH DAMAGES, ARISING FROM THE GIVEAWAY, THE GIVEAWAY ITEM OR USE THEREOF, EVEN IF THE SPONSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. By accepting the Giveaway item, the participant agrees to release and hold harmless the Sponsor, its affiliates and agents from any and all liability, loss or damages arising from or in connection with awarding, receipt and/or use of the Giveaway item or participation in this Giveaway, and they shall have no liability for any injury, misfortune, or damage to either persons or property incurred by entering, participating in this Giveaway.