NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN IN THE “VULTURE BRITNEY SPEARS HAIKU” CONTEST (“CONTEST”).
Entry into this Contest constitutes your acceptance of these Official Rules.
CONTEST ENTRY DATES: Contest begins June 19, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends June 26, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. ET (“Contest Entry Period”).
WHO MAY ENTER: Contest is only open to U.S. legal residents who are new or existing registrants of nymag.com with valid email addresses. When you enter the Contest, you will also have an opportunity to sign up to receive follow-up information from New York magazine and its advertisers. Entrants subject to all notices posted online including but not limited to privacy policy. Employees and their immediate families (spouse, parent, child, sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) or those living in the same household, whether or not related) of MenuPages.com, nymag.com or New York magazine (“Sponsor”)and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, prize suppliers, distributors and advertising and promotion agencies (collectively, “Contest Parties”) are not eligible to enter or win. Contestants may need to provide proof residency upon request.
CONTEST ENTRY/OBJECTIVE: The objective of the Contest is to create a haiku. For purposes of this Contest, a haiku is a poem written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
HOW TO ENTER: To enter, post a comment with the haiku on nymag.com’s blog entry by registering for free on nymag.com. Instructions for registering and posting comments are included on nymag.com. All entries must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET on June 26, 2009. For purposes of these Official Rules, "receipt" of Entry occurs when Sponsor’s servers record the Entry information resulting from contestant’ entry being received in the Comments area. Any automated computer receipt (such as one confirming delivery of email) does not constitute proof of actual receipt by Sponsor for purposes of these Official Rules.
Entry must be the original work of the contestant, may not have been previously published, may not have won previous awards, and must not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person.
Entries must comply with the following content guidelines to be eligible:
- Content cannot be unnecessarily violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group, profane or pornographic;
- Content cannot endorse any form of hate or hate group;
- of any kind, without permissionContent cannot contain copyrighted materials owned by others without permission;
- Content cannot depict and cannot itself be in violation of any law or otherwise.
Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Entry for any reason, in its sole and absolute discretion.
Odds of winning depend upon number of entries received.
JUDGING: All Entries will be judged based on judges’ determination of cleverness, wittiness, and humor. The top scoring Entry will be declared the Contest winner (“Winner”).
TIES: In event of a tie, Winner will be determined based on the judges’ discretion
Judges’ decisions are final and binding.
WINNER NOTIFICATION: Winners will be determined on or about twelve (12) days from Contest end date and will be notified by email on or about July 10, 2009. At the discretion of the Sponsor, Winners may be disqualified for any of the following reasons: if charged with or convicted of a felony or misdemeanor, is not eligible based on the eligibility requirements set forth above, or if delinquent on a government ordered payment, such as, but not limited to: child support, spousal support, alimony, tax payments, etc. In the event it is determined that the Winners have not complied with these Official Rules, has failed to execute and return any required documents within the specified time period, has made false statements or a prize notification is retuned as undeliverable, then the Winner will be disqualified and at Sponsor’s sole discretion, the Entry with the next highest score may be declared the alternate Winner.
PRIZE & APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUE (“ARV”): (1) Winner: Prize is two (2) VIP tickets to Britney Spears concert at Madison Square Garden on August 24, 2009. (ARV: $155 per ticket). Winner is solely responsible for all expenses, costs or fees associated with transportation and acceptance and/or use of the prize not specified herein as being awarded including, without limitation, any and all taxes (if any). Winner is not a recipient of a prize until he/she has been verified as the Winner by the Sponsor or judges. Upon fulfilling prize, Sponsor will be deemed to have awarded the prize to the Winner and such Winner assumes full responsibility for the prize. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion.
Entrants acknowledge transportation to Britney Spears event / Madison Square Garden is not included in the prize and that the Britney Spears event prize is beyond the control of the Sponsor and is subject to being rescheduled, modified or cancelled. In that event, the Sponsor reserves the right to, at its discretion, to reschedule the sweepstakes drawing, entry and/or end dates, modify the entry procedures, cancel the sweepstakes, or cancel the awarding of ticket(s) for any concert city or cities. Prize(s) are not redeemable for cash.
Winner will be notified by email and will be required to provide mailing address which will be used to fulfill Prize. At the discretion of the sponsor, winner(s) will be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability and a Publicity Release within 1 week or an alternate winner will be selected. If after 2 attempts within 1 week to contact the potential winner via email fails, s/he will be disqualified, and if there is sufficient time, an alternate Winner will be selected.
GENERAL CONDITIONS: Winning constitutes permission (except where prohibited by law) to use Winner’s name, images, hometown, likeness, prize won, and photograph (all at Sponsor’s discretion) for future advertising, publicity in any and all media now or hereafter devised throughout the world in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification or permission. Contest Parties and their respective officers, directors, agents, representatives and employees (collectively, “”Released Parties”) are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, damaged, stolen, altered, garbled, incorrect, incomplete or delayed Entries; all of which will be void. Released Parties are also not responsible for problems related to technical malfunctions of electronic equipment, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer hardware or software failures, phone lines, failure of any Entry to be received by Sponsor on account of technical problems, traffic, congestion on the internet or the web site, or for any other technical problems including telecommunication, miscommunication or failure, and failed, lost, delayed, incomplete, garbled or misdirected communications which may limit a contestant’s ability to participate in this Contest. Released Parties are not responsible for any other errors or malfunctions of any kind, whether network, printing, typographical, human or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Contest, including, without limitation, errors or malfunctions which may occur in connection with the administration of the Contest, the processing or judging of Entries, the announcement of the prize or in any Contest-related materials. Mass entries generated by a script, macro or use of automated devices will be disqualified. Sponsor reserves the right to modify, suspend or terminate the Contest in the event it becomes infected by a computer virus or is otherwise technically impaired, and to cancel or suspend the Contest in its entirety should tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or other causes corrupt the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper play of the Contest and, if terminated, at Sponsor’s discretion, determine the Winner using all non-suspect, eligible entries received up to time of cancellation using the judging procedure outlined above. In the event of a dispute regarding entries received from multiple users having the same e-mail account, the authorized subscriber of the e-mail account at the time of Entry will be deemed to be the contestant and must comply with these Official Rules. Authorized subscriber is the natural person who is assigned the e-mail address by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses. Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual (and void his/her Entry(ies)) it finds to be tampering with the Entry process or the operation of this Contest or web site, intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other contestant, Sponsor or any of its representatives or to otherwise be acting in violation of these Official Rules. CAUTION: Any attempt by a contestant to deliberately damage any web site or undermine the legitimate operations of the Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws. Should such an attempt be made, the Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such contestant to the fullest extent permitted by law and to disqualify such contestant from the Contest.
ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS: Entrant hereby acknowledges that Entry and all other materials of every kind whatsoever created by contestant relating to the Contest (collectively, the “Work”) are a “work made for hire” (as that term is used in the United States Copyright Act) for Sponsor, and assigns to(or, if any applicable law prohibits or restricts such assignment, contestant hereby grants to Sponsor an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable license of ) limited right, title and interest in and to such Work, including, without limitation, all rights of every kind and nature (whether now known or hereafter devised, including all copyrights therein and thereto and all renewals and extensions thereof), throughout the universe, in perpetuity, for all purposes, in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter devised.
By submitting an Entry, Contestant acknowledges and agrees that Sponsor may obtain many submissions under this Contest and that such entries may be similar or identical in theme, idea, format or other respects to others submitted under this Contest and/or other contests staged and/or sponsored by the Sponsor, and waive any and all claims contestant may have had, may have, and/or may have in the future, that any composition, design, video and/or other works accepted, reviewed and/or used by the Sponsor (or its respective designees) may be similar to his/her Entry. Contestant acknowledges and agrees that the Sponsor does not have now, nor shall any of them have in the future, any duty or liability, direct or indirect, vicarious, contributory, or otherwise, with respect to the infringement or protection of any copyright in and to contestant’s Entry.
MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS: Failure to comply with these Official Rules may result in disqualification from the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to permanently disqualify any person it believes has intentionally violated these Official Rules. Contest subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited by law.
RELEASES: By entering the Contest, contestants agree to be bound by (i) these Official Rules, including eligibility requirements, and the decisions of Sponsor and the judges which are final and binding in all respects relating to the Contest, and (ii) release and hold harmless the Released Parties from all claims, liability or damage caused or claimed to be caused, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, in connection with participation in this Contest, or acceptance or use of prize, the substitution of any prize in accordance with these Official Rules, the administration of the Contest, the operation of the web site or Released Parties’ use of any of the rights granted herein. Released Parties assume no responsibility for the conduct of any contestant.
PRIVACY: By participating in this Contest, contestants agree to Sponsor’s use of their personal information for both online and offline direct marketing purposes. For details and to opt-out, visit Sponsor’s Privacy policy at http://nymag.com/newyork/privacy/.
ARBITRATION AND CHOICE OF LAW: Except where prohibited by law, as a condition of participating in this Contest, Contestant agrees that (1) any and all disputes and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by final and binding arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association and held at the AAA regional office nearest the contestant; (2) the Federal Arbitration Act shall govern the interpretation, enforcement and all proceedings at such arbitration; and (3) judgment upon such arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. Under no circumstances will contestant be permitted to obtain awards for, and contestant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys' fees, other than contestant's actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Contest), and contestant (or, if an eligible minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) 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 contestants and Sponsor in connection with this Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the substantive laws of the State of New York, USA without regard to New York choice of law rules.
WINNERS LIST: For a winners list (available after August 1, 2009) please visit www.nymag.com/daily/entertainment
SPONSOR: New York Media, 75 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013
