Secret Santa Giveaway
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Secret Santa Giveaway CONTEST
OFFICIAL RULES
THE FOLLOWING CONTEST IS INTENDED FOR VIEWING AND PARTICIPATION ONLY BY PERSONS WHO ARE, AS OF ENTRY, 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, PHYSICALLY LOCATED IN AND LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ("TERRITORY") AND SHALL ONLY BE CONSTRUED AND EVALUATED ACCORDING TO UNITED STATES LAW. NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN, NOR WILL A PURCHASE IMPROVE ONE'S CHANCES OF WINNING
1. SPONSOR: Disney Online, 500 South Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521, is solely responsible for all aspects of this contest ("Contest").
2. BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CONTEST: This is a Contest to be conducted as eleven (11) separate contests (each a "Daily Contest"), one for each business day during the period beginning at 12:00 A.M., December 1, 2009 and ending at 11:59 P.M, December 18, 2009 (the "Submission Period). The business day of each Daily Contest shall be the entry period for that Daily Contest (each an "Entry Day"). During the Submission Period, a registered member ("Member") of Disney Family.com ("Website") may enter a Daily Contest by making one of the following contributions to a 'Community' page on the Website: (a) creating an original profile decoration; (b) creating and uploading a sticker; (c) uploading and sharing original content in groups and on 'Share-it Widgets'; (d) starting a new group; (e) posting early and often to groups; (f) posting notes on other Member's profiles; and (g) posting 'In the Moment' experiences often (collectively, a "Submission"). Sponsor will select one (1) winner for each Daily Contest. Early Submissions for the first Daily Contest will be accepted beginning at 12:00 A.M., November 25, 2009 and ending at 11:59 P.M., November 30, 2009 ("Early Submission Period") and shall be included among the eligible Entries for the first Daily Contest.
For purposes of these Official Rules ("Rules"), "day" shall mean each calendar day during the Daily Contests and all times and days are Pacific Time. Sponsor's computer is the official time keeping device for the Daily Contests. The selection of all winners and awarding of all prizes are subject to the eligibility and forfeiture provisions set forth below.
3. ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for this Contest, at the time of entering, you must:
4. ENTRY: During the Submission Period and Early Submission Period, you may enter the applicable Daily Contest as a Member by [1] selecting the link on the Website to this Contest; [2] completing registration as a guest of the Website if not yet registered; [3] agreeing to the TOU if not yet registered; [4] creating an upload account if not yet created; and [5]agreeing to these Rules. If you are not already a Member, you may easily register to become a Member for free through the link on the Website: "Register" by filling out the simple Registration Form.
Only valid email addresses (individually, "Address") will be accepted for registration, as determined solely by the Sponsor; and, at Sponsor's sole discretion, you may be disqualified from the Contest if you create one or more invalid Addresses with intent to affect the integrity of the Contest. Internet access and usage charges imposed by your online service will apply. It is your sole responsibility to notify the Sponsor in writing if you change your Address. To do so, go to the Website, log into your Website account, click on the "Modify" icon and follow the instructions on how to change your Address.
5. CONTEST MATERIALS: "Contest Materials" include [1] all information and material submitted by you in connection with the Contest, including the Submission and all other forms, contracts or releases required to be submitted by you as a contestant, whether required by Sponsor prior to or after Entry; [2] your name, voice, likeness, image and biographical data as contained in or reflected by the Submission and [3] all photographs, artwork, writings, statements, dramatic materials, ideas, quotations and any other intellectual properties created by you in connection with the Contest, whether submitted to Sponsor or not, including the Submission.
All material owned by Sponsor or each Sponsor's affiliated companies, including but not limited to any picture, logo, title art, etc., shall remain their property and you shall acquire no rights therein by virtue of the Contest.
Except as specifically provided herein, by entering the Contest, you hereby grant to Sponsor, its licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other authorized users, a perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable (in whole or part) worldwide license under all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and other intellectual property rights you own or control to use, reproduce, transmit, display, exhibit, distribute, index, comment on, modify, create derivative works based upon, perform and otherwise exploit such Submissions, in whole or in part, in all media formats and channels now known or hereafter devised (including on Sponsor's websites, on third party web sites, on Sponsor's broadcast and cable networks and stations, on Sponsor's broadband and wireless platforms, products and services, on physical media, and in theatrical release), for any and all purposes including entertainment, news, advertising, promotional, marketing, publicity, trade or commercial purposes, all without further notice to you, with or without attribution, and without the requirement of any permission from or payment to you or to any other person or entity (the "Submissions License"). Upon Sponsor's request, you agree to assist Sponsor in obtaining the consent for any other applications.
By entering the Contest, you represent and warrant that the Submission and your communication thereof conform to the Rules of Conduct (set forth in Section 7 of Website's TOU labeled "RULES OF CONDUCT") and other requirements of the TOU and that you own or have the necessary rights, licenses, consents and permissions, without the need for any permission from or payment to any other person or entity, to exploit, and to authorize us to exploit, such Submission in all manners contemplated by the TOU (including the Submissions License). The TOU (including the Submissions License) do not limit any past or future grant of rights, consents, agreements, assignments and waivers you may have made or make with respect to Submissions.
6. LIMITATIONS: By submitting the Contest Materials for an Entry in the Contest, you represent and warrant to Sponsor that the Contest Materials and everything depicted therein: [1] do not originate from a magazine, newspaper or other commercial or proprietary source; [2] do not infringe upon or otherwise violate any right of any person, firm or entity; [3] comply with Website's TOU and these Rules; [4] do not contain any trademarks, logos, insignia, location signage, photographs, artwork or sculptures or other material (e.g., on props, costumes, background) that would infringe any third party's copyrights or trademarks; [5] have not previously been submitted in a contest of any kind or exhibited or displayed publicly through any means; [6] do not contain material which is (or promotes activities which are) sexually explicit, obscene, pornographic, violent (e.g., relating to murder, the sales of weapons, cruelty, abuse, etc.), discriminatory (based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical disability, sexual orientation or age), illegal (e.g. underage drinking, substance abuse, computer hacking, etc.), offensive, threatening, profane, harassing, defamatory, libelous, infringing or otherwise objectionable or unlawful as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion.
To the extent any "moral rights", "ancillary rights" or similar rights in or to the Submissions exist and are not exclusively owned by the Parties, you agree not to enforce any such rights as to us or our licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other authorized users, and you shall procure the same agreement not to enforce from any others who may possess such rights.
Without limiting the scope of the Submissions License or any future grant of rights, consents, agreements, assignments, and waivers you may make with respect to Submissions, you hereby ratify any prior grant of rights, consents, agreements, assignments and waivers made by you with respect to Submissions submitted by you to us.
You further represent and warrant to Sponsor that: [1] you have all rights, licenses, permissions and consents necessary to submit the Contest Materials in accordance with the Rules; [2] no person or entity other than you has any right, title or interest in and to any part of the Contest Materials and [3] you are not subject to any agreement or arrangement that would interfere with your entering these Contests and granting all the rights granted hereunder or that would conflict with any other documentation required hereunder.
Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, disqualify and remove any contestant that Sponsor deems to be in violation of these Limitations at any time. All Entries for each Daily Contest must be received during the applicable Entry Day, or in the case of the first Daily Contest, the Early Submission Period or the applicable Entry Day for the first Daily Contest. Limit of one (1) Entry per person/Address per Daily Contest (regardless of whether one person has more than one Address or more than one person use the same Address). In event of a dispute regarding the identity of the person submitting an Entry, the Entry will be deemed to be submitted by the person in whose name the Address is registered. Entries by any method other than set forth above in Section 4 are void. Any use of automated or programmed methods of effecting Entry is prohibited. Neither the Sponsor, nor any of its officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents or representatives (individually and collectively, "Releasees") are responsible for Entries from persons residing, or physically located, outside the Territory; or Entries that are altered, contain the images of more than one person, delayed, deleted, destroyed, forged, fraudulent, improperly accessed, inaccurate, incomplete, interrupted, irregular in any way, late, lost, misrouted, multiple, non-delivered, stolen, tampered with, unauthorized, unintelligible or otherwise not in compliance with these Rules; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server or other connections; miscommunications; failed phone, computer hardware or software or telephone transmissions; technical failures; unauthorized human intervention; traffic congestion; garbled or jumbled transmissions; undeliverable emails resulting from any form of active or passive email filtering; insufficient space in entrant's email account to receive email; or other errors of any kind, whether due to electronic, human, mechanical, printing, production or technical errors or other causes; even if caused by the negligence of any of the Releasees. Each of such potential Entries will be disqualified; and any contestant who attempts to enter with multiple Addresses or under multiple identities will be disqualified. Sponsor is not obligated to communicate with any contestant during the duration of the Contest. Void where prohibited or restricted by law and subject to all applicable federal, state, local and municipal laws and regulations. Please review these Rules and the TOU carefully; however, in the event of a conflict between the Rules and the TOU, the Rules will control.
7. PRIZES: Eleven (11) Daily Contest Prizes (one for each Daily Contest): Each winning Entry will be featured on the Contest page of the Website and receive one (1) of the following prizes selected by Sponsor in Sponsor's sole discretion, with an approximate maximum retail value ("ARV") not to exceed: $100 for each prize.
Total ARV of all Daily Contest Prizes: $427.
If the actual value of any prize is less than the stated ARV, the difference will not be awarded. Prizes are not redeemable for cash or transferable. No substitution allowed except, at Sponsor's sole discretion, a prize of equal or greater value may be substituted. The prizes cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion or offer. Prize elements may not be separated. All prizes are awarded "as is" with no guarantee either expressed or implied. All prize awards are subject to Sponsor's verification of eligibility and compliance with these Rules. All prizes will be awarded, provided there are sufficient eligible Entries received and prizes are validly claimed by January 1, 2010, after which no alternate winners will be selected, nor unclaimed prizes awarded.
8. PROCEDURE/JUDGING: Within two (2) business days after each Daily Contest, Sponsor shall review Submissions from among all eligible Entries for that Daily Contest and will select one (1) potential winner for that Daily Contest based upon the following judging criteria ("Criteria"): 80% for creativity and originality and 20% for relevancy. Submissions from the Early Submission Period shall be included among the eligible Entries for the first Daily Contest.
9. WINNERS: Each potential winner of a Daily Contest will be notified by email on or about two (2) business days after the applicable Daily Contest. At the sole discretion of the Sponsor, disqualification, forfeiture and the selection of an alternate winner may result from any of the following: [1] potential winner's failure to respond to notification within three (3) days after its transmission; [2] the return of an email notification as undeliverable after three (3) attempts; [3] the return of any prize as undeliverable; [4] potential winner's failure to provide Sponsor with satisfactory proof of age, identity and residency; [5] potential winner's failure to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability/Publicity Release within seven (7) days after it is mailed; [6] potential winner's failure to claim a prize within ten (10) days after it is sent; [7] potential winner's failure to validly claim any prize before January 1, 2010 and [8] any other non-compliance with these Rules or the TOU. Administrator may require signed Affidavits to be notarized at its sole discretion. In the event of a prize forfeiture, the Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, award or not award the forfeited prize to an alternate winner. All federal, state and local taxes associated with the receipt or use of a prize are the sole responsibility of each prize winner.
10. PRIVACY POLICY/DATA COLLECTION: Information provided by you for this Contest is subject to Sponsor's privacy policy located at http://disney.go.com/corporate/privacy/pp_wdig.html
11. CONDITIONS: By entering a Daily Contest and/or accepting a prize you may win, you agree, represent and warrant that: [1] you will be bound by the Rules and Sponsor's decisions, which shall be final and binding in all respects; [2] the Entry will not be acknowledged or returned; [3] you release and hold harmless the Releasees from any and all liability for claims, injuries, losses or damages of any kind, including without limitation, death and bodily injury, resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the Entry, selection or use of a Submission or from the awarding, delivery, acceptance, use, misuse, possession, loss or misdirection of any prize; participation in this Contest or in any Contest-related activity or travel or from any interaction with, or downloading of, computer Contest information; [4] the Releasees do not make any representation, warranty, or guarantee, express or implied, relating to the Contest or prizes; [5] winner's acceptance of any prize constitutes the grant to Sponsor and assigns of an unconditional right to use winner's name, address (city and state only), voice, likeness, photograph, biographical and prize information and/or statements about the promotion for any programming, publicity, advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law; [6] in the event viruses, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, Acts of God, acts or regulations of any governmental or supra-national authority, war, national emergency, accident, fire, riot, strikes, lock-outs, industrial disputes, acts of terrorism or other matters beyond the Sponsor's reasonable control, corrupt, prevent or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Contest, so that it cannot be conducted as originally planned, Sponsor has the right, in its sole discretion, to amend the Rules or to cancel, modify, terminate or suspend the Contest; and in such event, to select winners by such method as Sponsor in its sole discretion shall consider equitable; [7] the Releasees are not responsible for typographical or other errors in the offer or administration of the Contest, including but not limited to: errors in the advertising, Rules, selection and announcement of the winners and distribution of the prizes; [8] any portion of any prize not accepted or used by any winner will be forfeited; [9] the Releasees are not responsible for any inability of any winner to accept or use any prize (or any portion thereof) for any reason; [10] the Sponsor has the right, at any time in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it suspects: to be doing any of the following: (a) tampering or attempting to tamper with the Entry process or the operation of the Contest or the Website; (b) violating the Rules; (c) violating the TOU, privacy policy or any other terms, conditions of use and/or general rules or guidelines of any Contest property or service or (d) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person; or for any other good cause as determined solely by the Sponsor; and [11] Sponsor has the right to modify submission mechanisms (including the systems used to conduct the submission process), submission periods and prize award procedures in its absolute and sole discretion.
12. RULES & WINNERS' LIST: For winners' list (after January 1, 2010) and/or Rules (before December 19, 2009), send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Secret Santa Giveaway, Disney Family.com, 500 South Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521, designating either winners' list or Rules. All winners' first names, initial of last names and cities of residences will be posted on the Website on or about December 21, 2009.