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LAZERTAG Giveaway Sweepstakes! OFFICIAL RULESNO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. SWEEPSTAKES OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL AND CURRENT RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WHO ARE AT LEAST 6 AND NO MORE THAN 14 YEARS OF AGE AT TIME OF ENTRY. VOID IN PUERTO RICO AND WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW. If you are considered a minor in the state in which you reside (“Minor”), you must have your parent or legal guardian’s permission prior to participation. Many will enter, few will win. HOW TO ENTER: Visit www.LAZERTAGgiveaway.com and complete and submit an Official Registration Form as directed on the website. Normal Internet access and usage charges imposed by your on-line service may apply. Completed entry form (individually an “Entry”, collectively the “Entries”) must be submitted in accordance with the online directions during the Sweepstakes Period (as defined below). Any incomplete Entry will be disqualified. Entries must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on December 31, 2008. MTV Networks (the “Sponsors”) or The National Sweepstakes Company (the “Sweepstakes Administrator”) will not acknowledge or verify receipt of Entries except as indicated herein. Sponsors, Hasbro, Inc. and Sweepstakes Administrator shall collectively be referred to herein as “Sweepstakes Entities”. Use of a profane username or the submission of false or misleading personal information by a Participant (as defined below) will be grounds for disqualification. Sweepstakes Entities retain sole discretion to determine whether Entry information is profane, false, or misleading. All Entries submitted become the sole property of Sponsors and will not be acknowledged or returned. Entries limited to one (1) entry per calendar day, per person and per email address. SWEEPSTAKES PERIOD: The Sweepstakes will begin at 12:00 a.m. ET on October 20, 2008 and end at 11:59 p.m. ET on December 31, 2008 (the “Sweepstakes Period”). ELIGIBILITY: To participate in the Sweepstakes you must be (i) a legal and current resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia, and (ii) at least 6 and no more than 14 years of age (if a Minor parental or legal guardian’s permission is required) at the time of entry (“Participant”). The Sweepstakes and any web site pages and advertisements relating thereto are intended for viewing only within the United States. Sweepstakes is not open to employees, officers and directors of Sweepstakes Entities, and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies and their immediate families (parents, children, siblings and spouse, regardless of where they live), and members of their households (whether related or not) (the “Released Parties”), and those winners who have won a grand prize in any Nickelodeon sweepstakes/promotion in the twelve (12) months prior to the start of the Sweepstakes Period. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTRIES: DRAWING AND NOTIFICATION: Odds of winning a prize depends on the total number of eligible Entries received during the Sweepstakes Period. Sweepstakes Entities’ decisions are final and binding in all respects. PRIZING (60): Each winner will be awarded a Hasbro LAZERTAG Phoenix LTX Tagger (Approximate Retail Value: $80.00). Total approximate retail value of all prizing: $4,800.00. GENERAL PRIZE CONDITIONS/RESTRICTIONS: Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible for any mechanical difficulties or failures connected with the Sweepstakes. No transfer or substitution of Prize is allowed except at the sole discretion of the Sweepstakes Entities. Sweepstakes Entities reserve the right in their sole and absolute discretion, to substitute a prize with a prize of equal or greater value. Official Winner (or his/her parent or legal guardian) is responsible for any and all applicable federal, state and local taxes, as well as any other costs and expenses associated with acceptance of the Prize. Prize is awarded “as is” with no warranty, either expressed or implied. All prize details are at Sweepstakes Entities’ sole discretion. RELEASES/TAXES: Before a Potential Prize Winner will be deemed an Official Prize Winner, his/her parent or legal guardian will be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release and a Publicity Release (except where prohibited) (the “Affidavit/Release”). Except where prohibited by law, Winner’s acceptance of a Prize constitutes Winner’s permission for the Sweepstakes Entities and those acting under their authority to use the Winner’s name, photograph, likeness, statements, biographical information, voice, and address (city and state only) on a worldwide basis, and in all forms of media, in perpetuity and for advertising or promotional purposes without review, notification or further compensation to the Winner. The Affidavit/Release must be returned within 2 business days of Sweepstakes Entities sending such documents. If the documents are not returned within that time, the Potential Daily Prize Winner will be disqualified at Sweepstakes Entities’ sole discretion and another Potential Prize Winner will be selected, if time permits. SWEEPSTAKES CONDITIONS: This Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws. By entering, Participant (and his/her parent or legal guardian) agrees to abide by and be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sweepstakes Entities on all matters relating to this Sweepstakes (which are final and binding) and waive any right to claim ambiguity in the Sweepstakes or these Official Rules. By entering, Participant (and his/her parent or legal guardian) agrees to release, discharge, indemnify and hold harmless the Released Parties, their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and promotion agencies and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents from and against any claims, damages or liability due to any injuries, theft, damages or losses to any person (including death) or property of any kind resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, receipt, possession, misuse or use of the Prize or participation in any Sweepstakes-related activity or participation in this Sweepstakes. Participant (and his/her parent or legal guardian) assumes all liability for any injury or damage caused, or claimed to be caused, by participating in this Sweepstakes or use or redemption of the Prize. In the event a Potential Prize Winner or Winner is disqualified for any reason under the provisions of these Official Rules, such Potential Prize Winner or Winner and all rights to any Prize will be forfeited in their entirety and at Sweepstakes Entities’ discretion, a random drawing will be conducted in order to select an alternate Potential Prize Winner. A Prize or prize notification being returned as undeliverable will result in disqualification of such Potential Prize Winner and at Sweepstakes Entities’ discretion an alternate Potential Prize Winner may be selected. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Released Parties are 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 Sweepstakes, system errors or failures, or faulty transmissions or other telecommunications or other types of malfunctions or interferences and/or from any hardware or software failures of any kind, lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, Telephone Service Provider (TSP), Internet Service Provider (ISP), website or other connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed, incomplete or jumbled, scrambled, delayed or garbled or misdirected computer or telephone transmission, or system errors and failures, or faulty transmissions, or as a result of any other problems or technical malfunctions or other errors or difficulties of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, computer, network, typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Sweepstakes, including, without limitation, errors or difficulties which may occur in connection with the administration of the Sweepstakes, the processing of Entries, the announcement of the prizes, the incorrect downloading/uploading of any Sweepstakes-related materials, injury or damage to any person's computer and/or wireless related to or resulting from participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading materials from or use of the TSP or ISP’s website. If for any reason the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned, including, but not limited to failures to submit an entry or other disruption related to telephone and/or internet traffic, virus, bug or any unauthorized intervention whether or not caused by any action(s), regulation(s), order(s), or request(s) by any governmental or quasi-governmental entity(ies), equipment failure, including overloading of the TSP or ISP Website due to excessive use, threatened terrorist act(s), terrorist act(s), air raid(s), blackout(s), act(s) of public enemy, earthquake(s), war(s) (declared or undeclared), fire(s), flood(s), epidemic(s), explosion(s), unusually severe weather, hurricane(s), embargo(s), labor dispute(s) or strike(s) (whether legal or illegal), labor or material shortage(s), transportation interruption(s) of any kind, work slow-down(s), civil disturbance(s), insurrection(s), riot(s), or any other similar or dissimilar cause(s), (iv) injury or damage to persons or property caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part from any entrant's participation in the Sweepstakes or by wireless and/or computer virus or otherwise resulting to any wireless instrument or computer from Participant’s access to the Sweepstakes via TSP or ISP website or entry into the Sweepstakes, or (v) other errors or problems of any kind, whether computer, technical, network, printing, typographical, human or otherwise including without limitation any errors or problems which may occur in connection with the administration of the Sweepstakes, the processing of entries, the announcement of the Winner or in these Official Rules or other Sweepstakes-related materials, Sweepstakes Entities reserve the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes. In the event that the operation, security, or administration of the Sweepstakes is impaired in any way for any reason, including, but not limited to fraud, virus, or other technical problem, the Sweepstakes Entities may, in their sole discretion, either: (a) suspend the Sweepstakes to address the impairment and then resume the Sweepstakes in a manner that best conforms to the spirit of these Official Rules; or (b) cancel the Sweepstakes and at Sweepstakes Entities’ sole discretion, award the Prizes in a random drawing from among the non-suspect, eligible entries received up to the time of the impairment. Sweepstakes Entities reserve the right and may prohibit at their sole discretion, disqualify a Participant from the Sweepstakes or winning a prize if, in their sole discretion, they determine that such Participant is acting in violation of these Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes by cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair playing practices, or intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrants or Sweepstakes Entities’ representatives. Participant (and his/her parent or legal guardian) further agrees that in any cause of action, the Released Parties’ liability will be limited to the cost of entering and participating in the Sweepstakes, and in no event shall the Released Parties be liable for attorneys' fees and/or experts' fees and costs. Entrants waive the right to claim any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, punitive, consequential, direct, or indirect damages. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES) FROM ANY SUCH PARTICIPANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. USE OF INFORMATION: By entering the Sweepstakes, Participant (and his/her parent or legal guardian) agrees that their entry and any other personally identifiable information collected or used in connection with the Sweepstakes may be used by the Sweepstakes Entities. FOR A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL RULES/WINNERS LIST: To view these Official Rules go to www.LAZERTAGgiveaway.com on the web or to obtain a copy of these Official Rules and/or a list of the winners via regular mail, send a SASE to: “LAZERTAG Giveaway Sweepstakes!” c/o The National Sweepstakes Company, P.O. Box 10505, Rochester, NY 14610 for receipt by 1/31/2009. Please specify “Rules” or “Winner Info”. Vermont residents may omit return postage on requests for rules. SPONSOR/PROMOTER(S): SWEEPSTAKES ADMINISTRATOR: The National Sweepstakes Company, 693 East Avenue, Suite 103, Rochester, NY 14607 |