HOW TO ENTER: The PawsConnect.com “Valentine Photo Contest” (the “Campaign”) will begin at 12:00 AM (EST) on January, 16, 2008 and end at 11:59 PM (EST) on February 14, 2008. Visit PawsConnect.com, and if you do not already have one, set up your account and create your profile “(“Profile”). Then submit photos of your pet(s) and you could win! You may enter as many unique entries as desired during the Campaign. To claim your prize, you must provide your correct name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. Neither the Contest Sponsors nor any affiliated entity are responsible for late, lost, misdirected, or invalid entries. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
ELIGIBILITY: The Campaign is open to any person who has a Profile on the PawsConnect.com website. Void where prohibited by law. Employees (including individuals who have previously been employed by PawsConnect.com and/or any 100% owned subsidiary of Pethealth Inc within the past 12 months and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each) of the Sponsors, PawsConnect.com/ Pethealth Inc and , their agents; affiliates; subsidiaries; advertising and promotion agencies, prize suppliers; and those involved in the production, development, implementation or handling of this Campaign are not eligible to enter this Campaign. By entering this Campaign, the participant shall be deemed to have read and agreed to be bound by these terms and conditions, the PawsConnect.com Terms of Use, and by the decisions of the Sponsors and their affiliated entities, which shall be final and binding in all respects.
PRIZES: Grand Prize: One winner, chosen by PawsConnect.com, wins:
- a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-T200, or equivalent value Digital Camera
Runner-Up: The runner-up, chosen by PawsConnect.com, wins:
- a PawsConnect.com “Deluxe Valentine In a Bowl” ($99.95 USD Value)
Third Place : The third place entrant, chosen by PawsConnect.com, wins:
- a PawsConnect.com “Deluxe Valentine In a Bowl” ($99.95 USD Value)
PRIZE SUBSTITUTION: The Prize is non-exchangeable, non-transferable, non-refundable and must be accepted as awarded with no substitutions. Contest Sponsors reserve the rights, at their sole discretion, to substitute the prize(s) awarded with (a) prize(s) of equivalent or greater value for any reason.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION/PUBLICITY: As a condition of participation in the Campaign, each participant acknowledges and agrees that, subject to applicable law, PawsConnect.com reserves the right to use all submissions to the Campaign (including, but not limited to, all designs and images) for promotional purposes, including, without limitation, advertising and/or any other promotional purposes without additional compensation to the winner. Prize winners may be required to sign and return, without limitation and to the extent permitted under applicable law, an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, a Publicity Release and any other documentation or instrument that Sponsors and/or their affiliated parties may require within five (5) days of receiving each such document. If the winner is under 18 years of age, they will need a parent or legal guardian to complete the above paperwork. In the event of noncompliance with these requirements, Prize Winners may be disqualified and an alternate winner may be selected, at the Sponsors’ sole discretion.
Each participant agrees that upon submission of any content to any campaign hosted on PawsConnect.com, including image, blog, audio, video, and/or any other content submission presently known or hereafter devised on PawsConnect.com or by its affiliates, such content will remain on the site in perpetuity or for as long as PawsConnect.com deems appropriate to archive. Specifically, once submitted to a campaign, participants release the right to remove entries from the campaign at any point during or after the campaign has concluded. Subject to applicable law, participation in the Campaign constitutes permission for the Sponsors and their affiliates to use all Winners' names, likenesses, and entries for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, across all media now known or hereafter devised, in perpetuity. Winners further grant to the Sponsors the right to use and publish their proper name and state or country of residence online, in print and any other media now known or hereafter devised in connection with this Campaign in perpetuity. The Sponsors’ decisions regarding this Campaign, including how and to whom to award prizes, shall be determined in the Sponsors’ sole discretion and shall be final in all respects. The Sponsors reserve the right to modify the terms and conditions at any time during the Campaign. Participants are responsible for checking the Web site to see if any changes to the Campaign have been made.
NOTIFICATION OF WINNER: The winners will be chosen by PawsConnect.com at 710 Dorval Drive, Suite 400, Oakville, Ontario, Canada L6J3V6 at 12:00 AM (EST) on February 14, 2008. To win, the selected entrant must first have complied with the rules and correctly answered, unaided, a time limited skill-testing question to be administered by e-mail. Each winner will be notified by email within approximately two (2) weeks of the given Campaign’s judging results tally. If a potential winner is contacted by email for verification purposes, he/she will have five (5) business days within which to respond to the notification email, or he/she will be disqualified and his/her prize forfeited, and an alternate potential winner may be selected. If a participant changes his/her email address or other contact information after he/she registers, it is his/her sole responsibility to update his/her registration information by logging in and making changes in his/her PawsConnect.com account. Failure to update such registration information may affect a potential winner’s ability to receive a prize. If a potential winner cannot be reached after a reasonable effort has been exerted, he/she is found to be ineligible, he/she cannot or does not comply with these official rules, or if a prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, such potential winner will be disqualified, and an alternate potential winner may be selected at the Sponsors’ sole discretion. Prizing may be fulfilled by a third party; please allow 5-7 weeks for prize delivery.
DISCLAIMERS: The Sponsors and their affiliated entities are not responsible or liable for Campaign entries that are entered by other than human means (such as by an automated computer program or any non-human mechanism, entity, or device), in excess of the stated limit, or for entries that are illegible, late, destroyed, lost, misplaced, stolen, misdirected, tampered with, incomplete, deleted, damaged, incomplete, or otherwise not in compliance with these official rules, and all such entries will be disqualified. By participating in the Campaign, each registrant/entrant agrees and acknowledges to be bound by these official rules, all Sponsor-related terms and conditions, as well as the decisions of the Sponsors which are final and binding in all respects; to waive any rights to claim ambiguity with the official rules, and that the Sponsors and their affiliated entities shall have no responsibility or liability (including, but not limited to, liability for any property loss, damage, personal injury or death) in connection with: participation in Campaign; acceptance/possession (including, but not limited to, delays by shipping companies), defects, and/or use/misuse of a prize (including, but not limited to, cancellation/postponement of screening date); discontinued prizes; human error; incorrect or inaccurate transcription of registration and/or account information; any technical malfunctions of the telephone network, computer online system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, software, or internet service provider utilized by the Sponsors; interruption or inability to access the Sponsors’, theirs affiliated entities and their respective websites, or any online service via the internet due to hardware or software compatibility problems; any damage to participant’s (or any third person’s) computer and/or its contents related to or resulting from any part of the Campaign; any lost/delayed data transmissions, omissions, interruptions, defects; and/or any other errors or malfunctions, even if caused by the negligence of the Sponsors or any one of their affiliated entities. Each participant further agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Sponsors and their affiliated entities from and against any and all liability resulting or arising from the Campaign and to release all rights to bring any claim, action or proceeding against the Sponsors or their affiliated entities, and hereby acknowledge that the Sponsors and their affiliated entities have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to a prize, including express warranties provided exclusively by a prize supplier that may be sent along with a prize. The Sponsors and/or their affiliated entities shall in no event be liable for any injury, damage, loss, expense, accident, delay, inconvenience or irregularity that may be caused or contributed to (1) by any wrongful, negligent or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any of the prize suppliers or any of their agents, servants, employees or independent contractors, (2) by any wrongful, negligent or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any other person or entity not an employee of the Sponsors, or (3) by any other cause, condition or event whatsoever beyond the control of the Sponsors or their parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies. Title of this Campaign may change during the Campaign. ANY ATTEMPT BY A PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CAMPAIGN IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSORSS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK ALL LEGAL AND EQUITABLE REMEDIES FROM AND AGAINST ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Additionally, any attempt to cheat the campaign, as determined at the sole discretion of the Sponsors, may result in immediate disqualification of the entrant, as well as other possible consequences, including disqualification from any and all existing and future campaigns. Any attempt to cheat by creating fake profiles will be looked upon very seriously, and can result in immediate and permanent ban, and possible further action. Irrelevant entries, as deemed irrelevant at the sole discretion of the Sponsors, and those using copyrighted content may be removed and disqualified from the campaign. In the event of a dispute, entries made by Internet will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the username submitted at time of entry. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to a username in the PawsConnect.com system.
WINNERS LIST: Winners names will be posted at www.PawsConnect.com and/or any other online and offline media delivery channels now known or hereafter devised.
APPLICABLE LAW: The Campaign and these official rules shall be construed and governed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario.
SPONSORS: The Sponsors of this Campaign ("Sponsors") are PawsConnect.com and Pethealth Inc.
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Revised: January 16, 2008