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FOUR (4) FIRST PRIZES will be available, each consisting of $1,000 cash (prize awarded as check). TEN (10) SECOND PRIZES will be available, each consisting of $500 cash (prize awarded as check). Odds of winning an Instant Win Game prize depend on the number of eligible Instant Win Game plays during the Promotion Period and the order in which they occur
THE FOLLOWING PROMOTION IS VALID IN THE 50 UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (D.C.) ONLY. VOID ELSEWHERE AND WHEREVER PROHIBITED BY LAW. DO NOT ENTER THIS PROMOTION IF YOU ARE NOT 21 OR OLDER AND A LEGAL RESIDENT OF, AND CURRENTLY RESIDING IN, ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR D.C. THIS PROMOTION IS GOVERNED BY, AND WILL BE CONSTRUED AND EVALUATED ACCORDING TO, U.S. AND MINNESOTA LAW.
HORMEL BRING ON THE PARTY SWEEPSTAKES
OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Making a purchase will not improve your chances of winning.
Who Is Eligible to Enter: The Hormel Bring on the Party Sweepstakes (the "Promotion") is only open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia (D.C.) who are 21 years or older as of November 16, 2006. Void outside the 50 United States and D.C., and where prohibited by law. Employees, officers, and directors of Hormel Foods Sales, LLC (Sponsor), Evite, IAC/InterActiveCorp their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, licensee and fulfillment agencies, and members of the immediate families (defined for these purposes as including spouse, sibling, parent, child and grandparent and each of their respective spouses) or households, whether or not related, of any of the above-named parties are NOT eligible to participate in the Promotion or win a prize. This Promotion is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. The Promotion consists of a random draw sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") and an instant win game (the "instant Win Game")
Participation in the Promotion constitutes Participant's understanding of, full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of, these Official Rules. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Participant that Sponsor determines to be in violation of any term contained in these Official Rules. Sponsor's decision not to enforce a specific provision of these Official Rules does not constitute a waiver of that provision or of these Official Rules in general.
This Promotion begins on November 16, 2006 at 6:00:01 PM Pacific Standard Time ("PST") and ends on February 5, 2007 at 11:59:59 PM PST (the "Promotion Period"). A day begins at 12:01 am ET and ends the following 11:59 pm ET. Administrator's computer is the official time keeping device of this promotion.
How To Play: Visit www.bringontheparty.com during the Promotion Period, follow the appropriate links and complete the entry form including a valid home address (P.O. Boxes are not permitted), home telephone number, birth date and email address. Upon submission of the entry information, you will automatically receive one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes and will advance to the Instant Win Game page, where you will receive one (1) Instant Win Game play for that day. The Instant Win Game results will be instantly displayed. Entrant will also be notified immediately by email if they are a potential winner and will be provided directions for validation.
Limit one Sweepstakes entry during the promotion and one instant game play per person/email address per day. Multiple participants 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 all the participant's plays/entries and the participant will be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification.
Sweepstakes/Instant Win: Sweepstakes: An independent judging organization will select the potential Sweepstakes winner on or around February 20, 2007 in a random drawing from among all eligible entries received during the Promotion Period. Instant Win Game: Fourteen (14) randomly determined winning times will be generated by computer during the Promotion Period. If you are the first eligible player to play the Instant Win Game at or after one of the randomly generated times, you will be a potential instant winner of the prize indicated, subject to verification.
Prizes:
a. Sweepstakes: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE will be awarded, consisting of $10,000 to throw the Ultimate Party (prize awarded as check). Odds of winning the Sweepstakes prize depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Period
b. Instant Win Game prizes:
FOUR (4) FIRST PRIZES will be available, each consisting of $1,000 cash (prize awarded as check). TEN (10) SECOND PRIZES will be available, each consisting of $500 cash (prize awarded as check). Odds of winning an Instant Win Game prize depend on the number of eligible Instant Win Game plays during the Promotion Period and the order in which they occur.
c. For All Prizes: Prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein or at the Sponsor's sole discretion. Each winner is responsible for all income taxes associated with prize. Limit: One (1) prize per person. All properly claimed prizes will be awarded. TOTAL ARV OF ALL PRIZES: $19,000
Decisions of Sponsor; Notification Generally
All decisions of Sponsor are final and binding in all matters relating to the Promotion. Sponsor will notify potential Winners by e-mail, phone or postal mail, at the discretion of Sponsor, within approximately thirty (30) days. If a potential Winner cannot be contacted, or if the potential Winner fails to comply with these Official Rules (as determined by Sponsor) or is deemed ineligible for any reason, the potential Winner forfeits the prize. In the case of the Sweepstakes Grand Prize, the forfeited prize will be awarded to an alternate winner in a random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries received. Sponsor shall not be held responsible or liable for failure or inability to contact potential Winners who provide incorrect or incomplete contact information.
Affidavits/Releases
Potential Winners will be required to sign and return a release of liability and affidavit of eligibility, and where lawful, a publicity consent agreement within fourteen (14) days of issuance or prize may be forfeited and, in the case of the Sweepstakes prize, awarded to an alternate winner.
Publicity
By accepting any prize offered herein, each Winner agrees to the use by Sponsor and its designees of Winner's name, biographical information (city and state), picture, portrait, voice, quotes, comments, image, and/or likeness for the purpose of advertising, trade, or promotion without limitation, further compensation, notification or consideration in any and all media now known or hereafter developed throughout the world, in perpetuity, unless prohibited by law.
Identity of Participant
In the event of a dispute regarding who was actually playing at the time a potential winning game play/Sweepstakes entry occurred, the potential winner will be the authorized account holder of the e-mail account listed in Sponsor's registration information that was used to play. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, service provider, or other online organization that is responsible for assigned e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Sponsor reserves the right to request proof that the potential Winner is the authorized account holder of the e-mail address.
Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected through the Promotion is subject to the Sponsor's privacy policy set forth at www.hormelfoods.com and Evite's privacy policy, at www.evite.com/pages/custservice/privacy.jsp
Conditions Relating to Use of Promotion Site
Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole determination: to be tampering with or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Promotion, or the Promotion Site; to be in violation of the terms of use of the Site; to be acting in violation of the Official Rules; or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Without limitation of the foregoing, any use of software or hardware, including without limitation, a program, mechanism, system, robot, "bot", macro or other artificial device, process or manipulation (collectively, "Manipulation") is strictly prohibited. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate any person's participation in the Promotion and the right to void any such person's entries in the Promotion whom Sponsor suspects has engaged in any Manipulation.
Release of Liability; Limitation of Liability
By participating in the Promotion or accepting a prize, all Participants agree that Sponsor, its parent company, affiliates, subsidiaries, shareholders, licensees, advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies, third party promoters, and legal advisors, and each of their respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents, and representatives (collectively, "Releasees"), are not responsible for and shall not be liable for:
• late, lost, delayed, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, illegible, undelivered, stolen, unintelligible, or garbled notices, game plays, e-mail, release forms, prize claims, affidavits or other correspondence or mail;
• any telephone, electronic, technical, hardware or software program, network, Internet, or computer malfunctions, slow-downs, failures, or difficulties of any kind;
• lost or unavailable network connection, fraud, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by Sponsor, participants or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Promotion or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of entries/game plays that may damage a participant's system or limit a participant's ability to participate in the Promotion;
• any condition caused by events beyond the reasonable control of the Releasees that may cause the Promotion to be disrupted or corrupted in any way;
• any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, costs or expenses, including without limitation, property damages, personal injury and/or death, arising out of or in connection with participating in the Promotion, the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize, participation in prize-related activities, including but not limited to travel related thereto, or claims based on publicity rights, defamation, invasion of privacy, or merchandise delivery;
• any unauthorized game play/Sweepstakes entry or Manipulation by a person;
• any seeding, production or other errors related to the Promotion or the game materials utilized in the Promotion, or errors attributable to a malfunctioning prize notice or pop-up window associated with the Promotion; or
• any other printing, typographical, production, computer, technical, mechanical, human or other errors relating to or in connection with this Promotion, including without limitation, errors which may occur in the administration of Promotion, the processing of game plays/entries or prize claims, the announcement of prizes or in any Promotion-related materials.
IN NO EVENT WILL RELEASEES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR (1) ACCESS TO AND USE OF, OR INABILITY TO ACCESS, THE SITE, (2) DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM THIS SITE, OR (3) PARTICIPATION IN THE PROMOTION. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.
Bugs and Viruses; Irregularities; Cancellation
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend or cancel the Promotion at any time if a computer virus, bug, Manipulation or other technical problem, regardless of the cause, affects, compromises, or corrupts the administration, security, or proper play of the Promotion. In the event the Promotion is cancelled before its stated end date, the remaining prizes will be awarded through a random drawing from among all eligible, non-suspect entries received as of the date/time of such cancellation. Prize notifications, or game plays/entries that are not obtained through authorized legitimate methods, or are the result of manipulation, mechanical, electronic, digital or computer, human or other error, or are forged, reproduced, altered, blank in whole or in part or tampered with in any way, are void and will not qualify for a prize. Releasees shall have no liability for any irregular game play/Sweepstakes entry or improper prize notification, operation or function of this Promotion. SPONSOR SHALL NOT BE OBLIGATED TO AWARD ANY PRIZE THAT ARISES OUT OF AN IRREGULAR GAME PLAY/SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY, OR IMPROPER OR MISTAKEN PRIZE NOTIFICATION, OPERATION OR FUNCTION OF THIS PROMOTION. In no event will more than the number of prizes stated in these Official Rules be awarded. In the event more valid prize claims are received for any prize level than the number of prizes stated herein for that level, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to award the stated number of prizes for that level in a random drawing from among all valid, non-suspect prize claims received for that level.
THIS PROMOTION IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.
To obtain a copy of the Winners List, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Bring on the Party Winners List, PO Box 431227, Minneapolis, MN 55443. Requests must be received by Sponsor no later 3-20-07. Winners List will be available after approximately 3-30-07.
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