Fujitsu Uncover the Possibilities Sweepstakes 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 Grand Prize Drawing is sponsored by ePrize, LLC, One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069 ("ePrize"). 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 Fujitsu America, Inc., 1250 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. 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. In addition to the Grand Prize Drawing, entrants who entered through this Creative Presentation only will be eligible for another secondary sweepstakes drawing (the "Sweepstakes") and eligible to play an instant win game (the "Instant Win Game"). The Sponsor of the Sweepstakes and Instant Win Game is Fujitsu America, Inc. Fujitsu America, Inc., and ePrize are sometimes collectively referred to as "Sponsors". The Sweepstakes, Instant Win Game, and Grand Prize Drawing are referred to collectively as the promotion ("Promotion").
ONLY ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE ACROSS ALL CREATIVE PRESENTATIONS WILL BE AWARDED.
2. Timing. The Promotion begins November 15, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends February 15, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. ET ("Promotion Period"). ePrize’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 (and D.C.) who are at least eighteen (18) years of age at the time of entry. Void where prohibited. Employees, officers and directors of Sponsors and Promoters (including Fujitsu America, 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 the Sweepstakes, Instant Win Game and Grand Prize Drawing are combined. Visit www.fujitsuwin.com (the "Website") during the Promotion Period and follow the links and instructions to complete and submit the registration form, including a valid home address. P.O. Boxes are not permitted. You will automatically receive one (1) Grand Prize Drawing entry and one (1) Instant Win Game play for submitting the form. If you enter a testimonial ("Testimonial") on the registration page describing why you love computers in two hundred fifty (250) characters or fewer, you will also receive one (1) Sweepstakes entry. After you submit the form, you will automatically proceed to the Instant Win Game. Follow the links and instructions to play the Instant Win Game. Entrants will be notified immediately if they are potential winners of the Instant Win Game and provided directions for validation. All potential winners are subject to verification before any prize will be awarded. ePrize is responsible for the functionality of the Instant Win Game.
Limit: Each participant may enter the Grand Prize Drawing and play the Instant Win Game one (1) time per day during the Promotion Period. Each participant may also receive one (1) Sweepstakes entry total during the Promotion Period for submitting a Testimonial on the registration form. 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.
For All Testimonials: By submitting your Testimonial, you agree that it conforms to the Testimonial Guidelines and Content Restrictions as defined below (collectively, the “Guidelines and Restrictions”) and that Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may choose whether or not to post your Testimonial on the Website. If your Testimonial fails to conform to the Guidelines and Restrictions as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, Sponsor further reserves the right to disqualify you from the Sweepstakes. So long as your Testimonial conforms to the Guidelines and Restrictions, regardless of whether or not it gets posted on the Website, you will still receive a Sweepstakes entry.
Testimonial Guidelines:
The Testimonial must be in text format;
The Testimonial must not exceed two hundred fifty (250) characters in length;
The Testimonial must be in English; and
The Testimonial cannot have been submitted previously in a promotion of any kind or exhibited or displayed publicly through any means.
Content Restrictions:
The Testimonial must not contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement;
The Testimonial must not disparage Sponsor, Administrator or any other person or party affiliated with the Promotion;
The Submission must not feature brand names or trademarks other than those owned by Sponsor, which entrant has a limited license to use for the sole purpose of creating and submitting a Testimonial;
The Testimonial must not contain text not created by entrant;
The Testimonial must not contain text that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene hateful, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous;
The Testimonial must not contain text that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; and
The Testimonial must not contain material that is unlawful, in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations in any jurisdiction where Testimonial is created.
Submitting a Testimonial further constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display such Testimonial in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. If necessary, entrant will sign any necessary documentation that may be required for Sponsor or its designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant is granting to use the Testimonial.
Tell A Friend Program: After you enter the Promotion, you will be invited to submit the names and email addresses of up to three (3) friends who must be eligible to enter the Promotion. Each person that you refer will receive an email notifying him or her about the Promotion. You may only refer persons with whom you have an existing relationship. For each referral of up to three (3) friends with valid email addresses, you will be given one (1) additional entry into the Grand Prize Drawing and one (1) additional opportunity to play the Instant Win Game up to a total of three (3) additional entries/plays per day during the Promotion Period.
5. 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 ENTRY/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 ENTRY/PLAY THAT OCCURS AFTER THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED FOR ANY REASON IS DEEMED A DEFECTIVE ENTRY/PLAY, IS VOID AND WILL NOT BE HONORED.
6. Winner Determination and Requirements. 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 then select one (1) potential Grand Prize winner from among all eligible entries received through the selected Creative Presentation, on or about April 30, 2010. The potential Grand Prize winner will be notified by email, mail or phone after the date of the random drawing. The potential Grand Prize winner (or parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor in his/her state of residence) must sign and return to ePrize, within ten (10) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release ("Affidavit") in order to claim his/her prize. If the potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to sign and return the Affidavit within the required time period, or prize is returned as undelivered, potential winner forfeits prize. In the event that the potential Grand Prize winner is disqualified for any reason, an alternate winner will be selected in a random drawing from among all eligible entries received for the selected Creative Presentation. Only three (3) alternate winners will be selected, after which the Grand Prize will remain un-awarded. The Grand Prize will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after winner verification. Sweepstakes: ePrize, LLC, on behalf of Promoter, will randomly select the Sweepstakes winners from among all eligible entries received through this Creative Presentation on or about February 16, 2010. ePrize will notify the potential Sweepstakes winners by email, mail or phone after the date of the random drawing. Each potential First Prize winner (or parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor in his/her state of residence) must sign and return to ePrize, within ten (10) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, an Affidavit in order to claim his/her prize. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to sign and return the Affidavit within the required time period, or prize is returned as undeliverable, potential winner forfeits prize. In the event that a potential First Prize winner 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 First Prize will remain un-awarded. First Prizes will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after the conclusion of the Promotion. Instant Win Game: Fifty (50) random computer-generated winning times, one for each Second Prize listed below, will be generated during the Promotion Period. If you are the first person to play the Instant Win Game at or after one (1) of the randomly generated winning times, you will be a potential winner of a Second Prize. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, or prize is returned as undeliverable, potential winner forfeits prize. In the event that a potential Second Prize winner 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 Second Prize will remain un-awarded. Second Prizes will be fulfilled bi-weekly throughout the Promotion Period and winners' will receive their prizes no later than 8-10 weeks after the conclusion of the Promotion.
7. 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. Sweepstakes: THREE (3) FIRST PRIZES: A Fujitsu LifeBook T4310 Tablet PC or equivalent product (determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion), and a computer bag (style determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion). ARV: $1,500. The ARV of this prize is subject to price fluctuations in the consumer marketplace based on, among other things, any gap in time between the date the ARV is estimated for purposes of these Official Rules and the date the prize is awarded or redeemed. Odds of winning a Sweepstakes Prize depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Period. Limit: One (1) Sweepstakes prize per person. Total ARV of Sweepstakes Prizes: $4,500.
c. Instant Win Game: FIFTY (50) SECOND PRIZES: $50 Visa gift card (terms and conditions apply). ARV: $50. 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. Total ARV of Instant Win Game Prizes: $2,500.
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 prize cannot be awarded as stated. Sponsors will withhold and/or report taxes as required by the applicable law of Sponsors’ and/or Promoter’s jurisdiction and winner’s jurisdiction.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Release. By receipt of any prize, each winner agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsors, Promoter, 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.
11. Limitations of Liability. Sponsors and Promoter, are not responsible for and entrant hereby releases Sponsors 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 Sponsors’ 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, Sweepstakes, 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.
12. 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.
13. Data Collection. Sponsors and Promoter collect personal information from you when you enter the Promotion. The information collected is subject to both the ePrize, LLC Privacy Policy http://www.eprize.com/privacy/privacypolicy.html and the Promoter’s Privacy Policy http://www.fujitsu.com/us/privacy.
14. Winner List: Winner List requests will only be accepted after the promotion end date (listed above) and no later than May 15, 2010. For the Winner List, visit the promotion website, complete the form at the bottom of the FAQ, and select "Win List Request" in the drop down.
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