Post by freebiefinder on Mar 27, 2007 9:42:12 GMT -5
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"SPRING SHOPPING"
Instant Win Game Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE FIFTY UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
VOID IN PUERTO RICO AND WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. ELIGIBILITY: No Purchase Necessary. The Spring Shopping Instant Win Game (the "Game") is open to legal residents of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia, 18 years of age or older. Void in Puerto Rico and where prohibited. Employees, directors and officers, and their immediate families (spouse, parents, children, siblings, and their respective spouses), and their respective household members, of PayPal Inc. ("Sponsor), eBay Inc., their respective parent companies (if any), affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, advertising and promotion agencies, prize partners, and the promotion agency, are not eligible to enter. Game is subject to all federal, state, local, laws.
2. PROMOTION DESCRIPTION: The Promotion begins at 12:00:01 AM Pacific Time (PT) on March 19, 2007 and ends 11:59:59 PM PT on March 31, 2007 (the "Promotion Period"). There will be daily instant win prizes awarded each day (one Grand Prize and one-hundred First Prizes) throughout the Promotion Period for a total of 1,313 Instant Win prizes ("Instant Win prizes") awarded throughout the Promotion Period. Limit one (1) instant win prize per person/PayPal User ID.
3. HOW TO PLAY THE GAME: To play the Game, go to www.paypal.com/springinstantwin (the "Game Site") and enter your email address. Users must click through a series of three "sub-pages" delivering different benefit messages. Upon completion, you will be served your instant win message (the "Game Play"). If a prize is revealed, you are a winner of that prize, subject to verification and compliance with these Official Rules. If a prize is not revealed, you are not a winner. The number of winning moments will be seeded randomly throughout the Promotion Period. Game Play must be completed during the Promotion Period in order to be valid. Proof of Game Play and/or winning that is generated or provided by an entrant shall not be considered proof of playing and/or winning by Sponsor. Subject to the restrictions herein. Limit one (1) Game Play per person per email address per day throughout the promotion period. A day, for purposes of this Game, is defined as the 24-hour period beginning12:00:01 AM PT and ending at 11:59:59 PM PT of the same day. Game ends 11:59:59 PM PT on March 31, 2007. Unclaimed instant win prizes will not be awarded. Game Plays made by the same person with multiple email addresses, under multiple identities or through the use of any agent or other device or artifice to play multiple times will be deemed invalid. Incomplete Game Play not complying with these Official Rules is subject to disqualification. Use of the PayPal Site and the Game Site, and Sponsor's use of information submitted by entrant in connection with the Game, will be subject to the terms and conditions stated in these Official Rules as well as to the PayPal User Agreement and Privacy Policy available on the PayPal Site. If an entrant changes his/her telephone number, email address and/or street address after he/she participates in the Game, it is his/her sole responsibility to notify the Game Administrator by (postal) mailing notice to the Administrator's address (listed below in rule #10) to be received by the end of the Promotion Period. The personal information you are providing to enter this Game will be used only to administer this Game.
4. WINNER NOTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION: Potential online instant winners will receive immediate notification online. Winner confirmation is subject to verification and compliance with these Official Rules. Email address submitted must be valid in order to be notified that you are a potential winner. Potential instant winners of Grand Prizes will be required to sign and execute an affidavit of eligibility and liability release and return same, properly executed, within 7 days of issuance of notification. Failure to return any or all documents as specified, a prize or prize notification being returned as undeliverable, or potential winner not complying with any term of these Official Rules will result in the participant being disqualified and the prize awarded to a potential alternate winner. In case of a dispute, all online Game Plays will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address from which the entry is made. For these purposes the authorized account holder is the natural person assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses or the domain associated with the submitted email address.
5. PRIZES: Instant Win Prizes: Grand Prizes (12 - one awarded per day from 3/19/07-3/20/07 and from 3/22/07 - 3/31/07): $2,500 deposited into winner's PayPal account. Approximate Retail Value (ARV): $2,500/each. Grand Prize: (1 - one awarded on Wednesday, March 21, 2007): $25,000 deposited into winner's PayPal account. ARV: $25,000. First Prizes (1,300 - 100 awarded per day): $25 deposited into winner's PayPal account. ARV: $25/each. Total ARV of prizes awarded each day (except Wed, 3/21/07): $5,000. Total ARV of prizes awarded on Wed, 3/21/07: $27,500. Grand and First Prize Winners must have or must create a PayPal Account to receive prizes and to access and use the prizes. If you are an existing PayPal customer, your prize will be deposited in the PayPal account associated with the email address you provided by April 30, 2007. If the email address you provided is not associated with your PayPal account, you must associate it with your PayPal account within 7 days from time of prize notification to qualify. If you do not currently have a PayPal.com account, you must create a PayPal account within 7 days from the time of prize notification. Follow directions to register to become a member. Membership to PayPal is free. Potential instant winners with a PayPal account must have their account in good standing in order to receive a prize. Prizes will not be awarded to potential winners with locked, closed or restricted accounts. Prizes will be deposited in the winners' PayPal accounts by April 30, 2007. Total ARV of all instant win prizes: $87,500. Taxes and any other costs associated with prize not stated herein are the sole responsibility of winners. Prizes may not be transferred, substituted or redeemed for cash. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion. All prize details are at Sponsor's sole discretion.
6. ODDS OF WINNING AN INSTANT WIN PRIZE: Instant Win Grand Prize: 1 in 200,000; Instant Win First Prize: 1 in 2,000. Odds based upon an estimate of 200,000 Game Plays transacted per day over the Promotion Period; actual odds of winning will depend upon the actual number of Game Plays transacted per day.
7. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION: All materials submitted in connection with the Game become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned. By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules including all eligibility requirements. By accepting a prize, winner consents to the use of his/her name, image, likeness, photograph, voice and biographical material for advertising, publicity and promotional purposes by Sponsor, or a party designated by the Sponsor, in any and all media now or hereafter known including but not limited to, any online announcements, or for sharing this information with the press for viewing, whether TV or print, throughout the world in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification or permission, except where prohibited by law. Entrants agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules and the decisions of the judges, which are final and waive any right to claim ambiguity in these Official Rules. Entrants agree that any and all disputes shall be governed by the laws of the State of California.
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: ENTRANTS HEREBY AGREE TO RELEASE, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS PAYPAL INC., AND EBAY INC. AND EACH OF THEIR AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, DIVISIONS, ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION AGENCIES, AND PRIZE PARTNERS, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES AND SHAREHOLDERS (COLLECTIVELY, THE "RELEASEES") FROM ANY CLAIMS, ACTIONS, INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH, RESULTING FROM PARTICIPATING IN THE GAME OR FROM THE ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, OR USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE AWARDED OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY PRIZE-RELATED ACTIVITY. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS A COMPREHENSIVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY THAT APPLIES TO ALL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) COMPENSATORY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; LOSS OF DATA, INCOME, OR PROFIT; LOSS OF DAMAGE TO PROPERTY; AND CLAIMS OF THIRD PARTIES. PARTICIPANTS AGREE THAT RELEASEES HAVE NOT MADE NOR, ARE IN ANY MANNER RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR GUARANTEE, STATUTORY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE), IN FACT OR IN LAW, RELATIVE TO THE GAME. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, RELEASEES DO NOT MAKE ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS WITH RESPECT TO ANY PAYPAL WEB SITE AND RELEASEES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY INTERRUPTIONS OR ERRORS RELATED THERETO. No more than the listed number of prizes will be awarded. In the event of a printing, production, seeding, technical, computer or human error, or for any other reason, the number of winning Game Plays distributed or received for any prize level exceeds the number of prizes listed herein for that level, Sponsor reserves the right to conduct a random drawing from among all non-suspect eligible prize claims received to award the listed number of prizes for that level. Releasees are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, illegible, inaccurate, delayed, garbled, damaged, stolen or postage due mail or submissions, or problems of any kind, whether mechanical, human or electronic. Releasees are not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, inability to access a website or submit an online registration form, fraud, incomplete, garbled, or delayed computer transmissions or inaccurate transcription of entry information, whether caused by the Sponsor, users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this promotion or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions which may damage a user's system or limit a participant's ability to participate in the promotion. Entry materials that have been tampered with or altered are void. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend part or all of this Game at any time without notice, if in the judges' opinion there is any suspected or actual evidence of electronic or non-electronic tampering with any portion of the Game, or if virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or integrity and proper play of the Game or for any other reason in its sole discretion. In such event, Sponsor may void any entries they suspect are at issue and award prizes from among all non-suspect eligible entries received up to the date of cancellation. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR ANY ONLINE SERVICE RELATED TO THIS PROMOTION OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE GAME MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY'S FEES) FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. Sponsor's failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that or any other provision. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify entrants who violate the rules or interfere with this Game in any manner. If an entrant is disqualified, Sponsor reserves the right to terminate that entrant's eligibility to participate in the Game. Any attempts by an individual to access any website associated with this Game via a bot script or other brute force attack or any other unauthorized means will result in the IP address becoming ineligible. Use of automated entry devices or programs is prohibited.
9. WINNERS' LIST: For the names of the major winners, available after April 20, 2007, mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope by April 20, 2007, to: PayPal "Spring Shopping" Game Winners, P.O. Box 913, Bethpage, NY 11714-0913. Residents of VT may omit return postage.
10. SPONSOR & ADMINISTRATOR: The Sponsor of this Game is PayPal Inc., 2211 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95131. ©Copyright 2007 All rights reserved. Entrants may copy these Official Rules for the sole purpose of personal use and not for any commercial purpose whatsoever.
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