Inditex Innovation Hub | Terms and Conditions

PURPOSE

This document establishes the terms and conditions (hereinafter, the "Terms") governing the participation by users (hereinafter, the "User" or "Users", as applicable) in the innovation projects that Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (hereinafter, "INDITEX") publishes on the website www.challenges.inditex.com (hereinafter, the "Website").

Any matter not expressly regulated in these Terms shall be governed in accordance with the Website Legal Notice available at the following link https://challenges.inditex.com/aviso-legal.

Without prejudice to the provisions of these Terms and/or the Legal Notice, the User acknowledges that certain specific terms and conditions may apply to participation in challenges, projects, activities or innovation processes published by INDITEX. In this regard, INDITEX shall make such specific terms and conditions available to Users for their prior review before their participation.

INDITEX reserves the right to make amendments to these Terms, informing Users in advance for their acceptance or rejection where they are considered material. In any event, Users shall be deemed to have accepted the amendments if they continue to apply for or participate in INDITEX Projects once the amendments have been notified. For any update or amendment, it is the User's responsibility to check these Terms regularly.

NATURE OF THE PROJECTS

INDITEX publishes on the Website certain open innovation projects that it considers to be of interest (hereinafter, the "Projects"), displaying a general description thereof, including their main features and planned implementation milestones.

Access to the basic information about the Projects shall be available to any User who browses the Website. However, access to the detailed information for each Project (including, where applicable, technical requirements, supplementary documentation and any other additional information) shall require the User to have previously registered on the Website and entered into the corresponding non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with INDITEX.

Users wishing to submit a collaboration proposal in relation to a Project must first accept the specific terms and conditions applicable to the relevant Project, in accordance with the following clause.

HOW TO COLLABORATE

Users wishing to collaborate by providing an idea, solution, project or any other material in relation to the Projects published on the Website must submit their proposal (hereinafter, the "Proposal" or "Proposals", as applicable) through the link enabled for this purpose on the Website, providing the documentation and materials required in each case in accordance with the instructions provided by INDITEX for each Project.

Only Users acting on behalf of the legal entity specified at the time of registration may submit Proposals. The User declares that they have the authorisation and/or powers necessary from the relevant legal entity to submit the Proposal on its behalf. INDITEX may require, at any time, the provision of documentation evidencing compliance with this requirement.

Without prejudice to the foregoing, interested parties not acting on behalf of a legal entity may submit their comments or express their interest through the email address indicated for this purpose in the Legal Notice.

In order to submit Proposals, Users must comply with these Terms, the Legal Notice and any specific terms and conditions that INDITEX makes available to Users as a result of their participation. For these purposes, Users may formalise their application through the means enabled by INDITEX on the Website for this purpose.

Once the Proposals have been received, an internal INDITEX team shall carry out a preliminary assessment to verify compliance with the established requirements. As part of such assessment, INDITEX may contact Users to request additional information about their Proposals, as well as to resolve any matters that either party considers appropriate to clarify.

Subsequently, once INDITEX has assessed all of the foregoing, a private presentation phase for the Proposals may be held, in which Users may present them to INDITEX through the means enabled for this purpose. After this phase, INDITEX shall assess the Proposals using all the information collected throughout the process and, where applicable, inform Users of their pre-selection for the next steps of the process, as well as any documentation to be completed that may be necessary for such purpose.

However, the User acknowledges that submitting Proposals does not constitute a commitment or guarantee that INDITEX will contact them, that they will be selected for collaboration, that they will be entitled to receive any consideration, or that it establishes exclusivity. Consequently, INDITEX assumes no commitment to contact, collaborate, provide consideration, promote, grant exclusivity or similar in relation to the Proposals received.

If a Proposal is selected and both parties decide to begin the collaboration stipulated in the Project, the User undertakes to provide the data necessary for INDITEX to comply with its due diligence obligations and commitments, in accordance with its Due Diligence Policy and Procedure.

In the same regard, the User acknowledges that they must comply with INDITEX's internal procedures, policies and requirements applicable to its external collaborators, including, among others, registration as a supplier through its Supplier Master, environmental commitments and code of conduct, as well as entering into any additional documentation necessary to formalise such collaboration.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

For the purposes of these Terms, "Material(s)" shall mean any material that Users, on behalf of the legal entity they represent, submit to INDITEX in connection with the Proposals. By way of example, but not limitation, Materials shall include documents, plans, diagrams, videos, databases, software, projects, prototypes, source code, algorithms or any other document of a similar nature submitted to INDITEX as Proposal documentation.

If the User submits to INDITEX any Material that must be considered a trade secret, the User must notify INDITEX of that status. Likewise, if any of the Materials submitted by the User is protected by Industrial and/or Intellectual Property rights, or is in the process of being protected (where proceedings before the relevant offices have been initiated), the User must notify INDITEX of that status. Similarly, if the Materials become subject to an application for protection as an Industrial and/or Intellectual Property right after they have been submitted to INDITEX, the User must also notify INDITEX.

In any event, Users grant, on behalf of the legal entity they represent, a licence over the Materials to INDITEX so that it may use them to the extent necessary for the assessment and selection of the Proposals. In this regard, Users grant a non-exclusive, free of charge, non-sublicensable and non-transferable-to-third-parties licence for the assessment period. Any company forming part of the INDITEX group shall not be considered a third party.

In accordance with the foregoing, INDITEX guarantees that it shall not make any use of any Proposal or Materials other than that necessary for the assessment and selection of each of the Proposals. Thus, without prejudice to the licence granted, INDITEX acknowledges that it shall in no event own or hold any rights over the Proposals and Materials.

For their part, Users acknowledge that the legal entity they represent owns all rights or, where applicable, holds the licences, authorisations or permissions necessary over, by way of example but not limitation, intellectual and industrial property rights in the Materials. Accordingly, the legal entity represented by the Users warrants that it shall in no event infringe third-party rights by submitting the Materials to INDITEX.

In accordance with the foregoing, the legal entity represented by the Users shall indemnify and hold INDITEX fully harmless against any judicial or extrajudicial claim that may be brought for infringement of third-party rights as a consequence of the analysis and use that INDITEX may make of the Materials, whether at this stage or at any subsequent stage of the potential collaboration, pursuant to this document.

Without prejudice to all of the foregoing, Users acknowledge, on behalf of the legal entity they represent, that none of the Materials is considered a trade secret or, if it is, that its submission to INDITEX does not constitute any breach of such secret. In this regard, the legal entity represented by the Users shall indemnify and hold INDITEX fully harmless against any judicial or extrajudicial claim that INDITEX may receive in this regard for the use of the Materials.

LIABILITIES AND WARRANTIES

For the purposes of this clause, any reference to Users shall be understood to be made jointly to them and to the legal entity they represent, both being jointly and severally liable to INDITEX in respect of the liabilities and warranties established herein.

Users undertake to comply with each and every provision of these Terms. Consequently, Users acknowledge that they shall be solely liable for any damage that may arise, whether to INDITEX or third parties, from any breach of these Terms.

In accordance with the foregoing, Users acknowledge that they shall under no circumstances submit in the Proposals sent to INDITEX pursuant to this document any Material that may cause direct or indirect damage to INDITEX. By way of example, but not limitation, Users warrant that they shall under no circumstances submit materials that may infringe third-party rights (such as industrial and/or intellectual property rights), breach the law, morality or public order, or contain any virus, malware or malicious code.

Without prejudice to compensation for damages caused, Users shall be responsible for bearing all costs that the submission of materials in breach of any provision of these Terms may cause INDITEX, including, without limitation, possible reputational, indirect or incidental damages.

In accordance with all of the foregoing, Users shall be liable for each and every consequence, including, by way of example but not limitation, judicial or extrajudicial third-party claims, that may arise from submitting Proposals and, therefore, the Materials, to INDITEX. In this regard, Users warrant that they have full capacity and are fully entitled to submit the Materials to INDITEX and that such submission does not breach any third-party right, undertaking, agreement or similar arrangement.

Likewise, INDITEX shall under no circumstances be liable for the content of the Materials or the Proposals, or for the consequences arising from the use that INDITEX makes of them for their assessment and selection in accordance with these Terms.

CONFIDENTIALITY

Without prejudice to any confidentiality obligations established in the relevant non-disclosure agreement (NDA) entered into between the parties, INDITEX undertakes to maintain the strictest confidentiality regarding the Proposals and Materials sent to it by Users. Accordingly, it undertakes not to communicate or make public any of the information to which it may have access as a result of assessing the Proposals.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following information in the Proposals or Materials shall not be considered subject to this confidentiality obligation:

Information that was publicly known when received or becomes publicly known other than as a result of INDITEX's negligent, culpable or wilful acts or omissions.
Information obtained by INDITEX through a third party not subject to any confidentiality obligation, provided that disclosure by such third party does not constitute an unlawful act.
Information independently developed by INDITEX without use of the Materials.
Information that must be disclosed by legal requirement, court order or request from a competent authority.

In accordance with the foregoing, the User acknowledges that submitting the Materials and Proposals does not, under any circumstances, constitute a breach of a confidentiality agreement with third parties, and shall fully indemnify INDITEX in the event of any claim for breach of the foregoing.

The User acknowledges and agrees that they may access information belonging to INDITEX or other third parties, which shall in all cases be confidential, and in relation to which they undertake to:

Not transmit confidential information, in whole or in part, to any person or company, except with INDITEX's express authorisation.
Use confidential information exclusively in relation to the Proposal and for no other purpose.

DATA PROTECTION

For more information about our use of the personal data of Website Users, please consult the Privacy Policy available at https://challenges.inditex.com/politica-de-privacidad.

SEVERABILITY

All provisions of these Terms shall be understood and interpreted independently and autonomously, and the remainder shall not be affected should any of them be declared void by a final judgment or decision. INDITEX shall replace the affected provisions with one or more provisions that preserve the effects pursued by these Terms.

For all matters not provided for in these Terms, the provisions of the Legal Notice available at the following link shall apply: https://challenges.inditex.com/aviso-legal; in the event of conflict, these Terms shall prevail.

Likewise, in the event of conflict between these Terms and the specific terms and conditions, the latter shall prevail.

Last updated: 09-07-2026