Contest Rules and Guidelines
Only Gazillion Bubble products and/or solution are to be used in photos, no photos depicting competitive bubble products will be accepted and/or considered for this contest. No purchase necessary to enter or win. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Many will enter; only one photo per month for four months (March, April, May & June) will win a prize, and one Grand Prize winner will be chosen at the end of the contest and announced August 2010. Open only to legal residents of the Fifty (50) United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec). VOID in Quebec and where prohibited. Employees (and their immediate families, i.e. parent, child, spouse or sibling or their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside and those living in their same households, whether or not related) of Funrise Inc. (“Sponsor”), its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies and website providers/web masters are not eligible to enter or win. Entrants must be 18 years or older. By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the judges and/or Sponsor, which are binding and final on matters relating to this contest. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial, state and local laws
PROMOTION PERIOD: Contest begins at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) on February 19, 2010 and ends at 11:59 p.m. PT on July 19, 2010 (the “Promotion Period”). February entrants will be considered for March voting (until March 19th); March 21st entrants will be considered for April’s voting, and so on.
To enter:
During the Promotion Period, there is only one (1) way to enter:
1) Visit www.funrise.com/photocontest.com, and follow the directions provided. To be considered for the monthly prizes, photo entries and votes must be received by 11:59 p.m. PT the 19th of each qualifying month. Please complete the online form providing us with your name, city, state/province and e-mail address which will be used to contact you should your photo win. Photos submitted must meet the following requirements: Image format: JPEG only; Maximum file size: 2MB
Minimum width: 500px; Aspect ratio: images may be up to twice as wide as they are tall, or twice as tall as they are wide.
There is no limit on entries per person/email address/household. All
entries become the property of Funrise Toy Corporation (Sponsor) and will not be
returned.
The Ultimate Gazillion Bubble Photo Contest will be judged by Funrise
Staff as well as votes received via our photo contest website. Photos will be
judged with no discrimination towards sex, race, or age. Photos with
nudity or children depicted in a derogatory or dangerous position will not be
accepted. Funrise reserves all rights to refuse any photograph that they define
as unacceptable. All decisions are final. Winners will be chosen from all
eligible photos received and will be announced 10-14 days after winning photo
has been selected. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible photos
received. Potential winners will be notified via e-mail and may be required to
execute and return an affidavit of eligibility (or, if a resident of Canada, a declaration of eligibility), a
liability release and, where lawful, a publicity release within seven (7) days
of date of issuance. If such documents are not returned fully-executed within
the specified time period, a prize/prize notification is returned as
undeliverable, or a potential winner is not in compliance with these rules,
prize will be forfeited and, at Sponsor’s discretion, an alternate winner
selected.
If a professional photo is submitted to our contest, Funrise will not be
held accountable and/or liable for the subsequent use of this photo. It is
recommended that the entrant receives the rights to use the photo prior to
contest submission.
Monthly Prize: $250 Toys R Us Gift Card (4)
One winner per month (March, April, May & June 2010)
will be chosen. Limit one (1) prize per person per month during the Promotion
Period.
Grand Prize: $1,000 Toys R Us Gift Card
One Grand Prize winner will be chosen at the end of the Promotion Period
(July 19, 2010) and will be announced in August 2010.
Gazillion Bubbles Summer Fun Package: One hundred ($100) suggested retail
value of Gazillion Bubbles product and merchandise.
Prizes are awarded as is, with no warranty or guarantee, either expressed
or implied by Sponsor. Winner may not substitute, assign or transfer prize or
redeem prize for cash, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion,
to substitute prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater
value. Winner is responsible for all federal, state, provincial and local taxes
(including income and withholding taxes), if any, as well as any other costs and
expenses associated with acceptance and use of a prize not specified herein as
being awarded. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion. The use of
Toys R Us gift cards as prizing does not constitute an association,
participation, affiliation and/or co-sponsorship with Target or their stores
with this contest, promotion and/or prizing.
General Conditions: Released Parties (as defined
below) are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, inaccurate, misdirected,
undelivered, garbled, illegible entries email; or for lost, interrupted or
unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other
connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed
computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical
failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer
hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors of
any kind whether computer, human, mechanical, electronic, network,
typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the
contest, including, without limitation, errors which may occur in connection
with the administration of the contest, the processing of entries, the
announcement of the prizes or in any contest-related materials. Released Parties
are also not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether
caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming
associated with or utilized in the contest. Released Parties are not responsible
for injury or damage to participants’ or to any other person's computer related
to or resulting from participating in this contest or downloading materials from
or use of the web site. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the
contest or website, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified.
Should any portion of the contest be, in Sponsor’s sole opinion, compromised by
virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes which, in
the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security,
fairness or proper play, or submission of entries, Sponsor reserves the right at
its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the contests and, if
terminated, at its discretion, select the potential winners from all eligible,
non-suspect entries received prior to action taken. Entrants by participating,
agree that Sponsor, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and
promotion agencies and website providers/web masters, and all of their
respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents
(collectively, the “Released Parties”) will have no liability whatsoever for,
and shall be held harmless by entrants against, any liability, for any injuries,
losses or damages of any kind, including death, to persons, or property
resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance,
possession, misuse or use of a prize or participation in this contest.
Each winner by acceptance of prize, except where legally prohibited,
grants permission for Sponsor and its designees to use his/her name, address
(city and state/province), photograph, voice and/or other likeness and prize
information for advertising, trade and promotional purposes without further
compensation, in all media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide, and on
the Internet and world wide web, in perpetuity, without notice or review or
approval. In the event of a dispute regarding entries received from multiple
users having the same e-mail account, the authorized subscriber of the e-mail
account at the time of entry will be deemed to be the entrant and must comply
with these rules. Authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is
assigned the e-mail address by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), on-line
service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail
addresses.
Winners LIST: Winners will be posted on www.funrise.com/photocontest
within 10 to 14 days of selection.
Sponsor: Funrise Inc., 7811 Lemona Avenue, Van Nuys, CA, 91405.