EAS TWITTER PHOTO CONTEST
TWEET A PHOTO OF YOUR FAVORITE EAS PRODUCT, USE @EASBRAND & #SCIENCEINMUSCLEOUT
OFFICIAL RULES
INTERNET ACCESS REQUIRED
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF THE CONTIGUOUS UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (EXCLUDING HAWAII, ALASKA, PUERTO RICO AND ALL OTHER U.S. TERRITORIES) WHO ARE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AT TIME OF ENTRY.
1.HOW TO ENTER. To participate in the promotion, entrants must submit a photo of their favorite EAS® product via twitter.com. Entries must use @EASbrand & #ScienceInMuscleOut when submitting the photo. Multiple entries can be submitted, but each must be different.
Beginning 3:00 p.m. EST on June 14, 2012 visit the EAS Twitter page and submit a photo with your favorite new EAS® product to participate in the promotion.
All entries must be received no later than 11:59 a.m. EST on June 28, 2012 to be eligible for the drawing.
2.ELIGIBILITY: This promotion is open only to residents of the contiguous United States and the District of Columbia, excluding Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and all other U.S. territories, who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry. Employees of Sponsor, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion and internet agencies, and contractors who are directly or indirectly involved in the promotion, and all their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each, are not eligible. Immediate family means any of the following: spouse, ex-spouse, defacto spouse, child or step-child (whether by nature or by adoption), parent, step-parent, grandparent, step-grandparent, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, brother, sister, step-brother, step-sister, or 1st cousin. By participating, you agree to accept these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, whose decisions are final and binding in all respects. By entering this promotion, you also agree to release, discharge and hold harmless Sponsor and its respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion and internet agencies, and contractors, and their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, from any and all damages whether direct or indirect, which may be due to or arise out of participation in the promotion or the acceptance, use/misuse or possession of a prize. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Void where prohibited by law, rule or regulation.
3.INTERNET ENTRY: Sponsor is not responsible for incomplete, lost, late, damaged, illegible or misdirected e-mail, or for any technical problems, malfunctions of any telephone lines, computer systems, servers, providers, hardware/software, lost or unavailable network connections or failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmission or any combination thereof. Sponsor is not responsible for any liability for damage to any computer system resulting from participation in or accessing or downloading information in connection with this promotion. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS PROMOTION IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for undeliverable emails resulting from any form of active or passive email filtering by a user’s internet service provider and/or email client or for insufficient space in user’s email account to receive email. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend this promotion should viruses, bugs, or other causes beyond the control of Sponsor corrupt the administration, security or proper operation of the promotion. Sponsor reserves the right to modify the promotion or disqualify entrants if fraud, misconduct or technical failures destroy the integrity of the promotion, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion. All information collected will be treated in a manner consistent with Sponsor’s privacy policy. To review Sponsor’s privacy policy, go to: http://abbottnutrition.com/privacy-policy.aspx.
4.GENERAL RULES: The potential winner may be required to complete an affidavit of eligibility/release of liability and, if legally permissible, a publicity release within 5 business days of attempted delivery of same. Affidavit must certify entrant's eligibility, that entrant has not won a previous prize or award and that the entrant has followed the rules of the promotion. The Affidavit package will be sent via express delivery. Failure to timely comply with all requirements, including the 5-day time period, or return of any prize notification as undeliverable will result in disqualification and an alternate winner will be selected. The winner will be notified by email or by phone, at Sponsor’s discretion. Limit one prize per person. No substitution or transfer of prize permitted. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize of equal or greater value or to substitute the cash equivalent of the prize at its sole discretion. All federal, state and local taxes are the sole responsibility of winner. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission to Sponsor and its agencies to use winner's name, likeness, and submission, in any form, in whole or in part, for purposes of public relations, promotional advertising and trade purposes in any and all media, without territorial, time, use or other limitation without further compensation, unless prohibited by law. All material submitted becomes the sole property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the promotion or in the announcement of the prize. All winners must certify that they will not seek reimbursement for any products received as a prize.
5.SELECTION OF WINNERS: One winner will be selected in a random drawing conducted on, June 29, 2012 from among all eligible photo entries received at the time of the drawing. Odds of winning a prize will depend upon the number of eligible photo entries received for the promotion.
6.PRIZES & APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUES: One winner will receive $1,000 dollars worth of free EAS product, via abbottstore.com. The winner will also receive $500 worth of EAS apparel. Prizes must be redeemed by December 31, 2012.
7.ARBITRATION AND CHOICE OF LAW: Except where prohibited by law, as a condition of participating in the promotion, participant agrees that (1) any and all disputes and causes of action arising out of or connected with the promotion, or any prizes awarded in connection therewith, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by a sole arbitrator in a binding, non-reviewable and non-appealable proceeding conducted in accordance with the Non-Administered Arbitration Rules of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution, 575 Lexington Ave., 21st Floor, New York, NY 10022, (2) any such proceeding shall be held in Chicago, IL and (3) judgment upon such arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. Under no circumstances will entrants be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than entrant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this promotion), and entrant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of entrants and Sponsor in connection with the promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the substantive laws of the State of Illinois, USA without regard to Illinois choice of law rules.
