Graphics Design Contest Rules
THE HIT THE STICKS, LLC (HTS) THREE-PRONGED GRAPHIC DESIGN CONTEST (THE "CONTEST") OFFICIAL RULES ENTRY IN THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES. CONTEST SUBMISSION ENTRY PERIOD: The period for entering the Contest begins at 8:00 AM EST on September 9, 2007, and ends at 7:00 PM EST on September 30, 2007. All entries must be received by 7:00 PM EST on September 30, 2007 to be eligible. Entries received after this date and time will not be considered. METHOD OF ENTRY: To enter the Contest send an e-mail to Bonus@GetGosu.com The e-mail should contain: All entries become the intellectual property of Hit the Sticks, LLC, and no entries will be acknowledged or returned. ELIGIBILITY: The Contest is open only to natural persons who are eighteen years of age or older and who are legal residents of the United States. Employees and agents of HTS and its respective affiliates and licensees, any prize sponsor, and any entity involved in the development, production, implementation, administration, or fulfillment of the Contest, and the immediate family members and those persons living in the same household of such persons, are not eligible to participate. By entering the Contest, contestants agree to comply with and be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the judges. Failure to comply with these Official Rules may result in automatic disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of a contestant, entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization ( e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. All entries must be submitted with a valid email account that may be identified with a natural person by appropriate independent means, including, without limitation, reverse domain name search. Any winning entrant may be required to provide proof that the person is the registered account holder of the email address associated with the winning entry. For purposes of these Official Rules, "receipt" of any online entry will be solely determined when the contest administrator's website server records the entry data. Any automated computer form reply or receipt (such as one confirming delivery of email) does not constitute actual receipt by the administrator of an entry form for purposes of these Official Rules. HTS and its administrator are not responsible for online entries not received due to difficulty accessing the internet, computer malfunctions, telephone service outages, delays, busy signals, equipment malfunctions and any other technical difficulties. HTS and its administrator are also not responsible for lost, stolen, incomplete or late entries, defective or unreadable entries, equipment malfunctions, technical problems relating to submissions or any other difficulties regarding the entries. ENTRIES: Graphics must be submitted in jpeg format and must be the appropriate size. Any graphic submission that does not fulfill these technical requirements will be rejected and will be ineligible. All graphics must be the original creative work or property of the contestant and may not contain any materials that misappropriate or infringe any copyright, trademark, or any other intellectual property right of any other person or entity, or any other materials that may be restricted, prohibited, or limited by federal, state or local laws. All graphic entries and their content become the property of HTS and will not be returned. HTS may use all graphics submitted with contest entries in any form media for advertising and promotional purposes without compensation to contestants, and contestants agree to grant HTS an exclusive, nontransferable license in the graphics for such purposes. Contestants retain all other rights in the photographs. HTS, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify or destroy any graphic entry if the entry contains illegal, indecent, pornographic, sexually explicit content or otherwise offensive material such as aberrational behavior, graphic violence or drug abuse, or if such photographic entry contains material whose content is deemed at the sole discretion of HTS to be unsuitable for public viewing or posting on the internet. In addition, inappropriate language in either photographic entries, contestant comments, or voter comments will be deleted if deemed inappropriate by HTS, including foul language, negative comments without supporting statements about contestant's submissions, random comments, political, racial, or sexual comments unrelated to GetGosu.com or the contest, or comments out of malice and belligerent in nature. SELECTION OF WINNERS: Winners and alternate winners (should the Grand Prize winner become ineligible for some reason) of the Pay-Outs will be selected by a Panel of judges appointed by the CEO of HTS. Winners of each Pay-Out will be announced on the Contest site at or about 6:00 PM EST on October 5, 2007. Finalists will be featured on www.GetGosu.com. Decisions of contest judges are final. The same contestant may win in multiple categories. The judges will not discuss the individual graphics for any reason after the contest. Winners will be contacted via email. In the event a winner declines prize or fails to return any completed documents and releases as required, HTS may elect, at its discretion, to select an alternate winner. If for some cause the alternate winners are ineligible or cannot be reached, no additional winner will be selected. The potential prize winner must meet all eligibility requirements. There is a limit of one (1) winner per household. All required documents, including without limitation proof of ownership of the graphic, must be completed and returned within ten (10) days from date of notification. Failure to comply with the foregoing prize acceptance and response requirements may cause a potential winner to forfeit the prize. Return of a prize or prize notification as undeliverable may result in disqualification at HTS's discretion. Decisions of HTS with respect to the Contest are final. PRIZE & APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUE: The winner of Graphic Contest #1 (Small Square) will receive $50. The winner of Graphic Contest #2 (Banner) will receive $25. The winner of Graphic Contest #3 (Skyscraper) will receive $25. All winners must show proof of ownership of their graphics and of their age. If a prize is mailed, it will be with the prior written consent of the winner; and therefore, the winner assumes the risk of its loss. HTS is not responsible for the safe or timely arrival of a prize. The prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) announced at the time the contest is run and do not include taxes, gratuities or any other expenses. Other restrictions may apply. SPONSOR DECISIONS: HTS reserves the right to disqualify any participant or winner and may refuse to award any prize to a person who is ineligible or has violated any rule, gained unfair advantage in participating in the Contest, or obtained winner status using fraudulent means. All decisions affecting the Contest made by HTS are final. RELEASE: Prior to awarding any prize, HTS, in its sole discretion, may require contest winners to sign a liability release agreeing to hold HTS, its corporate licensee, its corporate parent, subsidiaries and affiliated corporations, and the officers, shareholders, directors, employees, agents and representatives of each of them harmless against any and all claims or liability arising directly or indirectly, including any physical injuries, from participation in the contest or the contest prize. Except as prohibited by law or regulation, a winner's acceptance of a prize will constitute permission for HTS to use such winner's name, address (city and state only), statements, biography, graphic, voice and/or likeness for all advertising and promotional purposes relating to the Contest without compensation, consideration, review or consent. All submitted graphics may be displayed anywhere that HTS desires, at the sole discretion of the HTS. Except as used by HTS, all contestants, including winners, will retain the rights to their work. GENERAL RULES: The Contest is void in any jurisdiction where prohibited. Contestants agree to be bound by these rules, which are final and binding in all respects. HTS reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this Contest or any drawing and may conduct a drawing and select a winner from among all entries received prior to the action taken. All U.S. federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. HTS is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Contest or in the announcement of the Prizes. Purchase or acceptance of a product offer is not necessary to enter the Contest and does not improve your chances of winning. Sponsor is not responsible for incomplete, lost, late, damaged, illegible or misdirected email or for any technical problems, malfunctions of any telephone lines, computer systems, servers, providers, hardware/software, lost or unavailable network connections or failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmission or any combination thereof. HTS assumes no responsibility for undeliverable emails resulting from any form of active or passive email filtering by a user's internet service provider and/or email client or for insufficient space in user's email account to receive email. HTS is not responsible for any damage to any participant's computer system/software related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this promotion. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS PROMOTION IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. If, for any reason, the Contest cannot be conducted as planned by reason of infection by computer virus, unauthorized intervention, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of HTS which, in the sole opinion of the HTS, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, HTS reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this Contest or any drawing and may conduct a drawing and select a winner from among all entries received prior to the action taken. Contestants are required to provide truthful information. HTS will reject and delete any entry that it discovers to be false or fraudulent. HTS will disqualify any entry from individuals who do not meet the eligibility requirements, and HTS will also delete any entry received from persons known to be under the age of 13, in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. HTS, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process, the operation of the HTS Family of websites, or otherwise in violation of the rules. HTS reserves the right to make changes in the rules of the contest including the substitution of a prize or prizes of equivalent value, which will become effective upon announcement. The determination of eligibility of entries and any interpretation of these rules is at the sole discretion of HTS, and shall be final and binding upon all contestants INTERNET CONTEST PRIVACY POLICY: By use of this website and by entering the Contest, you agree to HTS the Privacy Policy located at http://getgosu.com/show/PrivacyPolicy. TAXES: Any valuation of the Prize stated above is based on available information provided to HTS, and the value of any Prize awarded to a winner may be reported for tax purposes as required by law. The winner is solely responsible for reporting and paying any and all applicable taxes. The Prize is not transferable, redeemable for cash or exchangeable for any other prize. SPONSOR: The Sponsor of the Contest is: Hit the Sticks, LLC WINNER NAMES: The names of the winners of each of the three contests will be published at http://www.getgosu.com/ on October 5, 2007 CONTEST AND OFFICIAL RULES ©. All rights reserved. The names of individuals, groups, companies, products and services mentioned herein, and all corresponding likenesses, logos and images thereof reproduced herein, have been used for identification purposes only and may be the copyrighted properties and trademarks of their responsive owners. All trademarks are the property of Hit the Sticks, LLC. The mention of any individual, group or company, or the inclusion of a product or service as prize, does not imply any association with or endorsement by such individual, group or company or the manufacturer or distributor of such product or service, and except as indicated, no association of endorsement is intended or should be inferred. |
