The Beaches of Ft. Myers / Sanibel - 12/31/08

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The Beaches of Fort Myers & Sanibel Island Treasure Your Trip Instant Win Game/Grand Prize Drawing

OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

FOR PERSONS WHO ENTER THE GRAND PRIZE DRAWING THROUGH THIS CREATIVE PRESENTATION, THESE RULES GOVERN ALL ASPECTS OF PARTICIPATION AND PRIZE AWARD.

1. Introduction. The Beaches of Fort Myers & Sanibel Island Treasure Your Trip Instant Win Game ("Instant Win Game") is sponsored by Lee County Board of County Commissioners, a political subdivision of the State of Florida ("Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau"), 12800 University Drive, Suite 5500, Fort Myers, FL 33907. The Grand Prize Drawing is sponsored by ePrize, LLC, One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069 ("ePrize"). Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau and ePrize are sometimes collectively referred to as "Sponsors." The Grand Prize Drawing is offered in conjunction with multiple companies ("Promoters") through different Web sites ("Creative Presentations"), announcing many different prizes. One such Promoter is Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau. One (1) winner will be selected in a random drawing from among all eligible entries received through all Creative Presentations. The prize for which an entrant is eligible depends on the Creative Presentation through which the entrant entered the Grand Prize Drawing. The Instant Win Game and the Grand Prize Drawing are referred to collectively as the "Promotion."

ONLY ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE ACROSS ALL CREATIVE PRESENTATIONS WILL BE AWARDED.

2. Timing. The Promotion begins December 30, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") and ends December 31, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. ET ("Promotion Period"). For purposes of this Promotion, a week is defined as a calendar week beginning on a Sunday at 12:00 a.m. ET and ending the following Saturday at 11:59 p.m. ET, except for the last week of the Promotion which will begin on Sunday, December 21, 2008 and end on Wednesday, December 31, 2008. This promotion contains four (4) quarters which run for the following time periods:

Quarter Start Date (at 12:00 a.m. ET) End Date (at 11:59 p.m. ET)
Quarter 1 12/30/07 3/31/08
Quarter 2 1/4/08 6/30/08
Quarter 3 7/1/08 9/30/08
Quarter 4 10/1/08 12/31/08

Miles Media Group Inc.'s computer is the official time-keeping device for this Promotion. Various Creative Presentations may be added to the Grand Prize Drawing throughout the Promotion Period.

3. Eligibility. The Promotion is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including D.C.) who are at least eighteen (18) years of age at the time of entry. Void where prohibited. Employees, officers and directors of Sponsor and Promoter, Miles Media Group, Inc., BVK/McDonald, Inc., any prize contributors, their respective related companies, franchisees and agents, as well as the immediate family (defined as parents, spouse, children, siblings and grandparents) and household members of each such employee, officer and director are not eligible to enter. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply. By participating, entrant agrees to abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsors, which are final and binding in all respects.

4. How to Enter. The entry process for both the Instant Win Game and the Grand Prize Drawing are combined. During the Promotion Period, visit www.treasureyourtrip.com and follow the links and instructions to complete and submit the registration form. You will automatically receive one (1) Grand Prize Drawing entry, advance to the Instant Win Game page and receive one (1) Instant Win Game play for that day. The Instant Win Game results will be displayed instantly. Entrants will be notified immediately if they are potential winners of the Instant Win Game and provided directions for validation. If you are a potential winner of an Instant Win prize, you will be required to complete and submit a prize collection form, including a valid home address. P.O. Boxes are not permitted. Failure to complete this form within seven (7) days of notification will result in forfeiture of the prize. All potential winners are subject to verification before any prize will be awarded. Miles Media Group, Inc. is responsible for the functionality of the Instant Win Game. Limit: Each participant may enter/play one (1) time per day during the Promotion Period. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any participant to obtain more than the stated number of plays/entries by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that participant's plays/entries and that participant may be disqualified.

Use of any automated program to enter will result in disqualification. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected registrations, which will be disqualified. In the event of a dispute as to any online entry, the authorized account holder of the email address used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address.

You may enter the Grand Prize Drawing through as many Creative Presentations as you like.

ALL POTENTIAL WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY SPONSORS, WHOSE DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE PROMOTION. AN ENTRANT IS NOT A WINNER OF ANY PRIZE, EVEN IF THE PROMOTION SHOULD SO INDICATE, UNLESS AND UNTIL ENTRANT'S ELIGIBILITY AND THE POTENTIAL WINNING PLAY HAS BEEN VERIFIED AND ENTRANT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED THAT VERIFICATION IS COMPLETE. SPONSORS WILL NOT ACCEPT SCREEN SHOTS OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF WINNING IN LIEU OF THEIR VALIDATION PROCESS. ANY PLAY THAT OCCURS AFTER THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED FOR ANY REASON IS DEEMED A DEFECTIVE PLAY, IS VOID AND WILL NOT BE HONORED.

5. Instant Win Game and Drawing. All potential winners must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules; and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. Grand Prize Drawing: Sponsor will randomly select one (1) Promoter's Creative Presentation from among all Creative Presentations and Sponsor will then select one (1) potential Grand Prize winner from among all eligible entries received through the selected Creative Presentation, on or about January 30, 2009. The potential Grand Prize winner will be notified after the date of the random drawing. The Grand Prize will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after winner verification. Instant Win Game: Fifty-six (56) random computer-generated winning times, one for each Instant Win Game prize listed below, will be generated during the Promotion Period. During the Promotion Period, one (1) winning time for the First Prize will be generated per quarter and one (1) winning time for the Second Prize will be generated per week. If you are the first person to login to play the Instant Win Game at or after one of the randomly-generated winning times, you will be a potential winner of the prize indicated.

Each potential Grand Prize and First Prize winner must sign and return to Sponsor, within ten (10) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release in order to claim his/her prize. If any potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to sign and return the Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release within the required time period (if applicable), or prize is returned as undelivered, potential winner forfeits prize. In the event that a potential winner of any prize is disqualified for any reason, an alternate winner will be selected in a random drawing from all eligible entries received during the Promotion Period. Only three (3) alternate drawings will be held, after which the applicable prize will remain un-awarded. Prizes will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after the conclusion of the Promotion.

6. Prizes.

a. Grand Prize Drawing: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: One (1) Grand Prize for the Grand Prize Drawing will be awarded. The exact prize for which an entrant is eligible depends on the Creative Presentation through which he/she entered. The Grand Prize for a potential winner who entered through this Promotion will be $10,000. Approximate Retail Value ("ARV"): $10,000. The odds of this Creative Presentation being selected depend on the total number of Creative Presentations. If this Creative Presentation is selected, the odds of winning depend on the number of entries received through this Creative Presentation.

b. Instant Win Game Prizes: FOUR (4) FIRST PRIZES (one (1) per quarter): A trip for two (2) to Fort Myers, FL. Trip package includes roundtrip, coach-class air transportation for two (2) from a major airport near winner's home (determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion) to Fort Myers, FL and seven (7) days, six (6) nights accommodations at a hotel determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion (single room, double occupancy). Winner must complete the trip within one (1) year from the drawing date or prize will be forfeited. Trip must be booked at least twenty-one (21) days prior to departure. Trip is subject to availability and blackout dates. Travel must be roundtrip. Sponsor will determine airline and flight itinerary in its sole discretion. No refund or compensation will be made in the event of the cancellation or delay of any flight. Travel and accommodations are subject to availability. Travel is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Promotion, and those set forth by the Sponsor's airline carrier of choice as detailed in the passenger ticket contract. All expenses and incidental travel costs not expressly stated in the package description above, including but not limited to, ground transportation, meals, incidentals, passenger tariffs or duties, surcharges, airport fees, service charges or facility charges, personal charges at lodging, security fees, taxes or other expenses are the responsibility solely of winner. Unless child of winner, travel companion must be eighteen (18) years of age or older as of the date of departure and must travel on same itinerary and at the same time as the winner. If winner is a minor in his/her state of residence, travel companion must be winner's parent/legal guardian. Travel companion must execute liability/publicity releases prior to issuance of travel documents. Travel restrictions, conditions and limitations may apply. If in the judgment of Sponsor air travel is not required due to winner's proximity to prize location, ground transportation will be substituted for roundtrip air transportation in Sponsor's sole discretion. Sponsor will not replace any lost, mutilated, or stolen tickets, travel vouchers or certificates. Approximate Retail Value ("ARV"): $1,739.20. Actual value may vary based on airfare fluctuations and distance between departure and destination. Winner will not receive difference between actual and approximate retail value. FIFTY-TWO (52) SECOND PRIZES (one (1) per week): A three-piece set of luggage, all details determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. ARV: $269.96. Odds of winning an Instant Win Game Prize depend on the number of prizes available divided by the number eligible Instant Win Game plays received during the Promotion Period. Limit: One (1) Instant Win Game prize per person. The Total ARV of Instant Win Game Prizes: $20,994.72.

For all prizes: Winners are solely responsible for all federal, state, and local taxes and other fees associated with prize receipt and use. No substitution, assignment or transfer of prizes permitted, except by Sponsors, who reserve the right to substitute a prize with another prize of greater or equal value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason.

7. Publicity. Except where prohibited, participation in the Promotion constitutes winner's consent to Sponsors' use of winner's name, likeness, voice, opinions, hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media without further payment or consideration.

8. General Conditions. Sponsors reserve the right to cancel or modify the Promotion if fraud, technical failures or any other factor beyond their reasonable control impairs the integrity of the Promotion, as determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion. In such event, Sponsors reserve the right to award the prize at random from among the eligible entries received up to the time of the impairment. Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any individual they find to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of this or any other Promotion or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any other promotion, or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately damage Sponsors' or any Promoter's Web site or undermine the legitimate operation of this Promotion may be a violation of criminal and civil laws and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsors and Promoter reserve the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsors' failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

9. Release. By receipt of any prize, each winner agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Promoter, Miles Media Group, Inc., BVK/McDonald, Inc., their respective related companies, franchisees, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in the Promotion or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.

10. Limitations of Liability. Sponsor and Promoter are not responsible for and entrant hereby releases Sponsor and Promoter from any claims arising from: (1) incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information or late, lost, stolen, illegible, incomplete, misdirected, or entries received through impermissible or illegitimate channels, all of which will be disqualified; (2) technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunctioning of any telephone, computer, network, hardware or software; (3) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any service; (4) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (5) electronic or human error which may occur in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries; or (6) any injury or damage to persons or property, including but not limited to entrant's computer, which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant's participation in the Promotion or from downloading any material from Sponsor's or Promoter's Web site(s), regardless of whether the material was prepared by any Sponsor, Promoter, or a third party, and regardless of whether the material is connected to a Sponsor's or Promoter's Web site by a hypertext link. If for any reason an entrant's entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant's sole remedy is another entry in the Grand Prize Drawing or Instant Win Game play, provided that, if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the Promotion, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the prizes offered herein. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In the event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than the stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, un-awarded, eligible prize claims.

11. Disputes. Entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion or any prizes awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Southern Division) or the appropriate Michigan State Court located in Oakland County, Michigan; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Promotion but in no event attorneys' fees; and (3) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant, Sponsors and Promoter in connection with the Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Michigan.

12. Data Collection. Sponsor and Promoter collect personal information from you when you enter the Promotion. The information collected is subject to both the ePrize, LLC Privacy Policy www.eprize.com/privacy/privacypolicy.html and the Promoter's Privacy Policy www.fortmyers-sanibel.com/cms/d/privacy_policy.php.

13. Winner List: For the winner list, send a hand-printed, self-addressed, stamped envelope to The Beaches of Fort Myers & Sanibel Island Treasure Your Trip Instant Win Game/Grand Prize Drawing, Winner List Request c/o Nate Huff, Miles Media, 6751 Professional Pkwy W., Sarasota, FL 34240. Requests must be received by May 30, 2009.

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