- ELIGIBILITY. The Rivalry Haiku Smackdown Contest (the “Contest”) brought to you by FanSnap, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Sponsor”), is governed by these rules (the “Official Rules”). The Contest is open to U.S. residents age 18 or older at the time of entry (the “Entrant”). No purchase is necessary. Employees, directors, officers and principals of the Sponsor, including its licensees, advertising and promotion agencies, subsidiaries, affiliates, contractors, agents and members of their immediate families or households are not eligible to participate. Upon entering this Contest Entrants agree to waive any rights their state of residence may provide in regard to contests. This Contest is void where prohibited by law.
- HOW TO ENTER. To enter the Contest, an Entrant must use their Twitter account to send a haiku that includes the uniform resource locator (“URL”) designated for their team on www.fansnap.com (the “Site”) prior to the end of the Promotion Period (as defined below). Entrants will receive an entry for each qualifying haiku that they send as well as an additional entry for each instance in which another Twitter user retweets their haiku. Tweets that do not include the required URL, that are not in haiku form or that contain any material that Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate will not be counted as entries.
- PRIVACY POLICY. The information submitted with your entry will only be used by Sponsor in accordance with the Privacy Policy posted on the Site provided, however, that Sponsor may also identify you by your Twitter user name or first and last name in connection with its announcement and promotion of the winner of the Contest and similar contests.
- CONDITIONS OF ENTRY. Entries generated by a script, macro or other automated means are prohibited and will be automatically disqualified.
- PROMOTION PERIOD. The Contest starts on or around 9:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on September 8, 2009, and ends on September 23, 2009, at 1:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. (the "Promotion Period"). All entries must be received during the Promotion Period. The Site is the official time keeping device of the Program Period. There is no limit to the number of entries that may be submitted by each Entrant.
- SELECTION OF WINNERS. The selection of winners will be conducted by the Sponsor in a random drawing on September 23, 2009, at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. The decision of the Sponsor will be final and binding. Winners will be notified by Twitter direct message to the Twitter account used to send the haiku and will be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release of Publicity and Liability (“Affidavit”) and IRS Form W-9 within 14 days of notification. Should winner fail to respond to the Twitter direct message within 24 hours or provide the Affidavit or Form W-9 within the required time, the prize shall be considered forfeited. In the event of such a forfeiture, Sponsor shall select another winner based or dispose of the prize in any way it deems fit.
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PRIZES AND ODDS OF WINNING
FIRST PRIZE $1,000 worth of sports, concert or theatre tickets from FanSnap ticket providers. Winner may select tickets from those displayed in FanSnap search results. SECOND PRIZE $500 worth of sports, concert or theatre tickets from FanSnap ticket providers. Winner may select tickets from those displayed in FanSnap search results. THIRD PRIZE $250 worth of sports, concert or theatre tickets from FanSnap ticket providers. Winner may select tickets from those displayed in FanSnap search results.
Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Prizes are limited to one (1) prize per winner. The Prize cannot be assigned, transferred, redeemed for cash or substituted except by the Sponsor, who may, at its sole discretion, substitute the Prize with one of comparable value if the advertised Prize is or becomes unavailable for any reason. -
GENERAL CONDITIONS.
This Contest shall be construed and evaluated according to the law of the California, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law and submission of an entry constitutes acceptance of such laws. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. This Contest is void where prohibited by law. Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor are final and binding in all respects.
All taxes, fees, and surcharges on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. By participating and accepting a prize, so long as there is no legal prohibition, winner agrees to the use of his/her name for advertising or publicity purposes and to the use of statements made by or attributed to him/her relating to Sponsor or this promotion, and releases any and all rights to said use without further compensation.
In the event of a dispute, all entries will be deemed to be made by the holder of the e-mail account associated with the entry. -
RELEASE OF LIABILITY.
All Entrants release Sponsor, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, employees and all others associated with the development and execution of Sponsor and the Contest from any and all liability with respect to or in any way arising from this Contest and/or acceptance or use of the prizes, including liability for personal injury, death, damages, or loss.
The Sponsor is not responsible for entries that are corrupted or otherwise not received correctly or for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of e-mail, or on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site or combination thereof, including injury or damage to participants or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in the Contest. The Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Site users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions in the Contest. The Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries, including lost, late or misdirected entries. The Sponsor is not responsible for cheating or fraud by any Entrant. Any activities intended to disrupt or interfere with the proper play of the Contest, or defraud the Sponsor in any way may be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Entrants engaging in any of the foregoing activities will be disqualified and any prizes won will be forfeited.
If, for any reason, the Contest is not capable of proceeding as planned, including without limitation infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Sponsor which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, the Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. -
WINNERS LIST.
To receive a list of winners’ names and city or town of residence, please send a self-addressed stamped envelope by December 31, 2009 to:
FanSnap, Inc.
120 Hawthorne Avenue, Suite 102
Palo Alto, CA 94301
You may also visit the Site before December 31, 2009. Sponsor assumes no responsibliity for lost, late, illegible, incomplete or postage due mail.
Any questions regarding this Contest should be directed to Kathleen Philips at kathleen@fansnap.com.
