Pinnacle Awards

Definition

Award	Award BLR Airport Pinnacle Awards
Award Management Committee (“Committee”)	Personnel from Bangalore International Airport Limited
Nominee	Nominee should be an organisation in the aviation industry submitting the duly filled-in application form
Application form	The entry for the Award is determined by the completely filled-in form submitted by Nominee. The Nominee must apply online on the below mentioned website
Jury	A group of experts within the industry identified by Award Management Committee for evaluation of the entries based on pre-defined evaluation parameters and will be responsible for determining the finalists and winners
Terms and conditions (“T&Cs” or “Terms”)	These terms governing the Award, as may be amended from time to time by the Award Management Committee
Privacy Notice	Document detailing information on the processing of personal data of the Nominees
Website and its T&Cs & Privacy Notice	https://pinnacle.bengaluruairport.com/
Contact ID	pinnaclesupport@bialairport.com

By participating in the Awards, the Nominee agrees to abide by and be bound by these Terms
These Terms may be modified without any prior written notification. Nominee is advised to regularly review these Terms uploaded on the website
The award/prizes given may be changed / modified / split / merged / increased / decreased or cancelled by the Committee based on the number and quality of entries received
In the event that no Nominees are found to be worthy of inclusion by the Committee, the reward may be cancelled.

Objective of the award

The Pinnacle Awards recognise excellence and celebrate outstanding achievements of key stakeholders of BIAL who have had a profound impact on the BLR Airport community.

Eligibility criteria

Nominee should be a BIAL stakeholder.
The Nominee must provide relevant information and required documents to the Committee for validation purpose. Deviation in the same will lead to disqualification.
The winners from the previous editions are allowed to participate.
The Jury holds the right to disqualify any application which does not meet the eligibility criteria.

Winner selection process

The applications that meet the eligibility criteria shall be presented to the Jury. The decision by the Jury as confirmed by Committee shall be final and binding.
The top finalists as well as the winners may be featured or covered by the Committee or brief thereof may be featured on Bangalore International Airport Limited’s (BIAL) website at the sole discretion of the Award Management Committee.
The Nominee must share any additional information or documents, if required, with the Committee. The Committee holds the right to ask for any additional information or documents at any stage of the Award process. Failure to provide such information shall lead to disqualification of the Nominee.
No correspondence of whatsoever nature relating to shortlisting of finalists or selection of winner shall be entertainedCommittee shall screen or display the Entries for the Jury.
The Jury shall then select the winner among the finalists.

Winner declaration

The Committee reserves the right to offer or withdraw any of the prizes/rewards/gratification/Award as provided herein, at any point of time, including after they have been announced, if the committee has a valid ground to do so.
The Committee reserves the right to disqualify a Nominee from the Award, at any point of time, including after they have been announced as a finalist in any case, if there are discrepancies found in information provided in the application form against the supporting documents provided.
The final decision with respect to the eligibility of the Nominee shall be that of the Committee and Jury.
Committee shall have the rights and liberty, but not the obligation, to publish information with respect to the submission made by the Nominees.
The Nominee authorizes the Committee to use the content submitted as part of my/our nomination/ participation, in whole or in part and use and display such content and entry, which shall include trade publications, press releases, electronic or social media posting to any website, electronic hyperlinks to the website of the Nominee, and/or any other display format selected by the Committee during the Award ceremony or at a later point in time as it may deem fit.
The Committee may, in its sole discretion, exclude a Nominee from participating in any part of the Award on various grounds, which may include without limitation (i) circumstances which render the Nominee unfit to participate therein; (ii) inability to produce documentation specified proving the identity of the Nominee; (iii) any other reason that, at their sole discretion, would adversely impact the Award. At no point of time will the Committee be obliged to notify unsuccessful Nominees of its decision.
The Committee further reserves the right to replace, at its discretion, any winner(s) who for any reason fails or is disqualified from or is unable to participate in the Award, with another Nominee who should be eligible to be a winner notwithstanding that such Nominee may have been previously eliminated from the Award and each Nominee shall agree to collect the prize as and when required by Committee to do so.
The Committee will use the e-mail used to register for the Award by the Nominee, to identify the winner, if any. Inability on the part of the Nominee to accordingly show or provide the required identification proof could entitle Committee to disqualify the Nominee from any winning, if any.
Committee shall make all reasonable endeavors to (i) enable Nominee(s) to proceed with participation in the Award (ii) to contact all finalists and winner(s) at each relevant juncture of the Award, Committee can make no guarantee thereof and the Committee shall in its sole discretion be entitled to proceed with the next entitled Nominee(s) who are eligible to be winners under the Terms, in case it is unable to successfully contact and communicate with Nominees(s)/ winner(s) in Terms hereof.
Committee will have no liability to any Nominee who is unable to take part in the Award, for whatever reason.
If at any point, it is determined by Committee that any person has tampered with the Website, or any data / servers / database / etc. related to the Award, the Committee reserves the right at its sole discretion to revoke the prize money of any such Nominee(s).
Committee will reach out to Nominees through email to obtain details and documentation, if any, to initiate the registration process for the prize, if applicable.
Finalist(s) and winner(s) will receive a communication regarding their shortlisting via email on the registered email id, from the Committee, or on the Website. The details will be intimated by the Committee to each such finalists and winner on the email id provided by them at the time of registration on Website, on a best effort basis.
The winners agree that the receipt of the trophy may be delayed as a result of a delay in submission of documents and/ or any force majeure events and/or any circumstances which are not within the control of the Committee, including but not limited to the orders/notifications/restrictions/prohibitions by the Government of India/ Government of Karnataka.
The finalists or winner(s) hereby agree that he/ she shall not hold Committee responsible for any delays and/ or disputes and/or claims arising out of the trophy and shall indemnify the Award Management Committee against any and all such claims.

Prohibited Activities

Obtaining or attempting to obtain any materials or information stored on the Site, its servers, or associated computers through any means not intentionally made available through the site.
Contacting the Award Management Committee or Jury members with an intention to influence or bribe or involve in corruption or cause any bias in their decision-making process.

Phases and Dates of the Award

Submission Opening	September 02, 2025
Submission Deadline	October 21, 2025
Award Ceremony	TBD

The above-mentioned schedule could be added to, modified or cancelled based on technical requirements and in case the Award is for any reason rescheduled, extended, cancelled or terminated early, it shall be at the absolute sole discretion of Committee.
All applications received will be evaluated based on pre-defined evaluation criteria determined by the Committee in its sole and absolute discretion.
The decision taken by the Committee, based upon the observation & recommendations of Jury with respect to the evaluation/disqualification/qualification is final and binding on all Nominees. No claims/queries raised with respect to the same will be entertained in this regard.

Limitations & Disclaimers

The Committee will not be responsible for late/ incomplete/ corrupted/ defective/ technical, physical entries and/or which cannot be read or viewed for any reason, and such entries shall stand automatically disqualified.
Committee gives no warranties in respect of any aspect of the event, or any materials related thereto or offered at the event and, to the fullest extent possible under the laws governing these terms and conditions, disclaims all implied warranties, including but not limited to warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, timeliness, and merchantability. The Award is provided on an “as-is” basis. Award Management Committee does not accept any responsibility or liability for reliance by you or any person on any aspect of the event or any information provided at the event.

General

Nominator agrees that the Nominator is legally capable of entering and, if selected, participating in the Award and agree to the Terms & Conditions(TnCs)
Nominator understands and agrees that merely participating in this Award does not entitle the Nominator to a prize or to any other form of consideration
Nominator shall be completely responsible for handling any infringement or alleged infringement of third-party rights or intellectual properties in the information submitted by the Nominators through the application form and shall indemnify Award Management from any claims, costs or damages from infringement or alleged infringement of the logo or trademark or third-party rights or the defines of a claim or any costs payable thereof.
Nominators for the purpose of entering the Award, automatically grants the Award Management a royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide, non-transferable, non-exclusive right and license to use and display such entry, for participation in the Award, and any intellectual property in relation to and arising out of such participation in the Award and footage thereof, which shall include trade publications, press releases, electronic posting to the Website, the website in any display format selected during the Award as it deems fit.
The Nominator shall not disclose personal information or sensitive personal information of any third parties in their application forms or through any information provided to the Award Management. In the case studies submitted by the Nominator, the Nominator shall be solely responsible to anonymize all client data, or any information provided by the Nominator.
The Award Management reserve the right to, at its discretion, withdraw or amend or add to the Terms & Conditions(TnCs) of the Award at any time, with prospective or retrospective effect, and does not take responsibility for any loss or damage that any individual or organisation may suffer as a result of participating or attempting to participate in the Award, the Award being withdrawn, or its rules amended
Should a Nominator wish to withdraw from the Award, kindly inform the Award Management in writing on Email ID to be updated at any time up to one week prior to the final Award ceremony (subject to discretion of the Award Management)
All disputes relating to or arising out of the Award shall be subject to the laws of India, and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of competent jurisdiction at Mumbai, India
In the event these Terms and Conditions(TnCs) do not cover any question or complaint in relation to the Award, they will be concluded on by the Award Management (for all other issues) or an independent body or legal team as appointed by the Award Management and deemed necessary

Website

The website is only an informational website Website Link To be updated (the “Website”) for the Award. The Award Management is not liable or responsible for any action or decision taken by Nominator or anyone acting on Nominator’s behalf or under Nominator employment or under contract with Nominator. The Award Management shall not be under any obligation to Nominator and Nominator shall have no obligation or rights in relation to the Award and shall have no claims whatsoever against the Award Management relating to the selection process or the running of the Award
The Award Management shall not be responsible for:
1. any delivery, failures relating to the registration or uploading videos/presentations.
2. any SPAM generated messages as result of Nominator accessing the Website.
3. Award Management not receiving or rejecting any data.
4. any lost, late, or misdirected computer transmission or network, electronic failures of any kind or
5. failure to receive entries owing to transmission failures or due to any technical reasons and
6. Other conditions/situations or failures beyond its control.

Disclaimers

The Award Management has no obligation to screen the entry material in advance and is not responsible for monitoring entries for the purpose of preventing violation of intellectual property ownership rights, or violations of any law, rule, or regulation. If the Award Management is notified of submissions or materials that may not conform to the Terms, it may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and in its sole discretion whether to eliminate such an entry from consideration. The Award Management has no liability or responsibility to Nominators or other users of the Website for performance or non-performance of such activities.
Award Management’s failure to exercise any right shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights. Award Management shall not be liable for any failure to perform its obligations where such failure results from any cause beyond Award Management’s reasonable control. If any provision of this agreement is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary for this agreement to otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. This agreement is not assignable, transferable or sub-licensable by you except with Award Management’s prior written consent. This agreement shall be governed by the internal laws of the India including processing of personal data of the Nominators which shall be in accordance with the prevalent data protection laws in India and the parties shall submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Mumbai, INDIA.
A party that substantially prevails in an action brought under this agreement is entitled to recover from the other party its reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs. Both parties agree that this agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding of the parties and supersedes and cancels all previous written and oral agreements, communications and other understandings relating to the subject matter of this agreement, and that all modifications must be in a writing signed by both parties, except as otherwise provided herein.
No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of this agreement, and you acknowledge that you do not have any authority of any kind to bind the Award Management in any respect whatsoever.

Systems and availability

Award Management, its affiliates, process advisors, contractors, partners and promotion are not responsible for technical, hardware, software, or other communications malfunctions, errors or failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, Website, Internet, or ISP availability, unauthorized human intervention, traffic congestion, incomplete or inaccurate capture of information (regardless of cause) or failed, incomplete, garbled, jumbled or delayed computer transmissions which may limit Nominators / Nominator’s ability to participate, including any injury or damage to Nominators or any other person's computer or mobile device relating to or resulting from participating in or downloading any materials. The Award Management is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, technically corrupted or misdirected answers, which will be disqualified. The Award Management shall attempt to use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security and accuracy of all answers and personal details (provided, however, that Nominators acknowledge and agree that such methodologies are not infallible, and that the organizers make no guarantee as to their effectiveness).
Any loss or outrage or dissatisfaction suffered by the course of the Award by a Nominator would not be the responsibility of Award Management and/or its associates/ affiliates and the Award Management or its associates/affiliates will not be responsible to make good any such loss or dissatisfaction.
All attempts will be made to protect the data from loss and corruption, but in the event such data loss happens, Award Management may have to continue with whatever data is available, or in any other manner as it may deem reasonable. The Award Management shall not be held responsible for any loss of data, or the action taken on account of the same. The Award Management will not be held responsible to make good any such loss or dissatisfaction on account of such loss.
Prior to start of the Award, the Nominator must check that the Website(s) are operational and functioning correctly. The Nominator is advised to keep adequate RAM and phone memory available to ensure smooth functioning of the site
The server used to communicate with the Nominator has adequate redundancies built into it. However, in the rare cases, the server is down during the call for entry period, the Award Management will, at its discretion but not as an obligation, determine such measures as it may deem fit
The Nominator acknowledges that all possible issues may not have been identified by Award Management and its partners and agrees to hold harmless the Award Management and its partners for the application, network, process, technical or any other failures. Any losses, injury, discomfort, loss of privacy, inability to participate or any other discomfort of any sort caused to the Nominator or the Nominator’s property, or device shall not be the responsibility of Award Management or its partners.
No person (i.e., either the Nominator, or any person on behalf of the Nominator) shall initiate litigation against Award Management or its partners in any manner without first providing Award Management a complaint at Email ID to be updated and providing the Award Management an opportunity to address the complaint. Please refer to clause 11 for more details
The Award Management shall not be liable for any failure of the application server or system in the course of Award.
The Award Management shall take upto 5 working days to respond to queries sent on email

Confidentiality and Publicity

The Nominee, by providing personal information, hereby understands that the Committee shall have the right to share the information so collected with such other third party as required for the purpose of the Award and hereby agrees that they shall not file any claim against the Committee for sharing of such personal information. Any information shared by the Nominee to the Committee shall be handled by the Committee in terms of the privacy policy of Bangalore International Airport Limited
By entering the Award, Nominee agrees to participate in any media or promotional activity resulting from the Award as reasonably requested by the Committee at their expense and agree and consent to use of their name and/or likeness by the Committee.
None of the Nominees shall, without the prior written approval of the Committee, speak to the press or any other media or any third person, nor give any interviews or comments relating to any aspect of the Award. The Nominee shall not disclose any information whatsoever relating to the Committee to any other party. Violation of this clause shall immediately disqualify the Nominee’s prospects of further participation.
The Nominee shall at all times keep confidential all particulars and details regarding the Award
Any photographs, videos etc. submitted by the Nominee(s)/winners to the Committee or recorded, shall on submission / creation become the property of the Committee and shall be available to the Committee for exploitation across all mediums throughout the world in perpetuity. The Nominee(s) shall ensure that the photos or videos submitted by them in any public domain, or their performances shall not be obscene, vulgar, defaming, denigrating women or children, hurting religious sentiments, depicting violence or shall not infringe the rights of a third person. The Nominee(s) shall solely remain liable for any action (criminal/civil) arising therefrom.
Acceptance of these Terms & Conditions(TnCs) by the Nominee constitutes permission for the Committee, including its affiliates, to click photographs, record videos of the Nominee(s) and use the Nominee(s) name, photographs, likeness, voice and comments for advertising and promotional purposes in any media worldwide for purposes of advertising and trade without any additional compensation whatsoever.

Privacy

Nominee agrees that personal data of the Nominee submitted with an entry, including name, mailing address, phone number, and email address may be collected, processed, stored and otherwise used by the Committee including Jury Members for the purposes of conducting and administering the Award only. By entering the Award, Nominee agrees to the transmission, processing, disclosing and storage of this personal data by the Committee and its affiliates and contractors and sub-contractors of the Committee including Jury Members.
Nominee hereby agrees and accepts that their Personally Identifiable Information including Sensitive Personal information (as defined by applicable regulation) will be collected, processed, stored and otherwise used by the Committee and its affiliates, its contractors or sub-contractors including but not limited to its affiliates, Jury Members for the purposes of conducting and administering the Award.
The Personal Information will be stored for no longer than necessary, considering the purposes of the processing activities subject to the exceptions provided under the law.

Warranty and indemnity

Nominees warrant that the case studies submitted is their own original work and, as such, they are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of the details provided in the case study and that they have the right to apply for the Award and grant all required licenses. Each Nominee agrees not to submit any information in the case study that: (a) infringes any third-party proprietary rights, third party privacy, intellectual property rights, industrial property rights, personal or moral rights or any other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, trade names, industrial designs, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity or confidentiality obligations; or (b) otherwise violates applicable state, federal, or local law
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Nominee indemnifies and agrees to keep indemnified the Committee at all times from and against any liability, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and expenses resulting from any act, default or omission of the Nominee and/or a breach of any warranty set forth herein. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Nominee agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Committee from and against any and all claims, actions, suits or proceedings, as well as any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) arising out of or accruing from various scenarios as described in this clause.

Nomination by Third Parties

While participating for the Award, the Nominee must agree and accept to have fully read and understood the Terms and Conditions(TnCs). In case of any disputes, claims, actions etc., Bangalore International Airport Limited and its affiliates including the third parties shall not be responsible and shall be fully indemnified by the Nominee, against any such claims, actions, disputes etc.