CATS DECEMBER CAPTION CONTEST
OFFICIAL RULES
- NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited.
- Contest begins at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 15, 2000 and voting ends at 11:59
p.m. EST on December 31, 2000. Contest is open to any individual age 21 or
older as of December 15, 2000 who is a legal resident of the United States
(excluding Florida) or over the age of majority and a legal resident of Canada
(excluding Quebec), and who had Internet access prior to December 15, 2000.
Entrants must be present in the United States or Canada at the time they enter
the Contest. To enter, click here. The first ten entries received will fill in the
registration information and then will be entered into the contest to win the
prize specified below.
- You may also enter by hand printing on a 3 ½" x 5" postcard your first and
last name, street address, city, state, zip code, email address (if any)
telephone number, and your , and mailing it to:
About.com December Cats Caption Contest, c/o About.com, Inc., 1440 Broadway, 19th
floor, New York, NY 10018. About.com, Inc. official personnel will enter those
names manually. Only one entry per person per day, regardless of method of
entry. In addition, only one entry per email address per day. Entries are void
if they contain typographical or other errors. Entries generated by a script,
macro or other automated means are void. Entries which are mutilated, altered,
incomplete, tampered with, illegible, inaccurate, forged, irregular in any
way, or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules are also void.
Entries must be postmarked by December 31, 2000 and must be received by
January 6, 2001.
- Grand Prize: The prize is
a copy of the book, "300 Incredible Things for Pet Lovers on the Internet." by Bob Vella, Paul Joffe (Editor), and Ken Leebow; autographed by Franny Syufy, whose About Cats site is featured in the book.
- RESTRICTIONS: Each entrant is eligible to participate only once per day,
and no more than one person may participate using the same email address.
Sponsors and their affiliated companies, are not responsible for any failure
of any electronic equipment, computer transmissions and/or network
connections. Sponsors and their affiliated companies are not responsible for
any inaccuracies in information which may be used in the Contest, or for any
technical or human error which may occur in the processing of entries,
including data entered by contestants. Sponsors and their affiliated companies
reserve the right to discontinue the Contest at any time, in which event, only
entries received prior that date will be considered.
- NOTIFICATION AND AWARDING OF PRIZE: Winner, if any, will be notified by
email or via telephone and will be required to sign and return an Affidavit of
Eligibility and Publicity/Liability Release, within thirty (30) days of
notification. The Affidavit of Eligibility and (unless prohibited)
Publicity/Liability Release must be executed and returned by each potential
winner within 21 days after such documents are sent to the address provided by
such a potential winner. Failure of a potential winner to complete, sign and
return any requested documents within such period or the return of any prize
notification or prize as undeliverable may result in disqualification and
selection of an alternate winner in Sponsors' discretion. You are not a
winner unless your submissions are verified. The information in winner's
Affidavit of Eligibility must be correct and must mirror the information
provided in winner's entry or winner is disqualified. Mail completed affidavit
to About.com Cats December Caption Contest, 1440 Broadway, 19th floor, New York,
NY 10018. If winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize
or fails to return the completed and executed Affidavit/Release as required,
or if the Prize Notification is returned as undeliverable, prize will be
forfeited. If prize is unclaimed, an alternate winner will be selected. By
participating, a winner, except where prohibited by law, grants Sponsors and
their affiliated companies the right to use the winner's name, likeness,
picture, portrait, hometown, voice, biographical information and written
submissions and written or oral statements, for advertising and promotional
purposes without additional compensation unless required by law.
- The information that you provide in connection with the Contest may be
used for Sponsors' internal purposes and to send you Sponsors' newsletters and
other information about Sponsors, but will not be provided to third parties,
except as necessary for the administration of the Contest or as required by
law or legal process. If you would like your name removed from Sponsors'
mailing list or if you do not wish to receive Sponsors' newsletter, write to
the appropriate Sponsor at the address below, or send an email to: cats.guide@about-inc.com
with December Caption Contest in the subject
field.
- Entries and other submitted material become the property of Sponsors and
will not be acknowledged or returned. Sponsors and those working for Sponsors
or on the behalf of Sponsors, will not be responsible for lost, late,
misdirected, damaged, or postage due mail or email and for Internet, computer
hardware and software, phone, and other technical errors, malfunctions and
delays. In the event of a dispute concerning who submitted an email entry, the
entry will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized holder of the
email account from which the entry is made. The "authorized account holder" is
the natural person to whom an email address is assigned by an Internet access
provider, online service provider or other organization (e.g., business,
educational institution, etc.) responsible for assigning email addresses for
the domain associated with the submitted email address. Copies of these
Official Rules may be obtained by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope
to Cats December Caption Contest, c/o About.com, Inc., 1440 Broadway, 19th floor,
New York, NY 10018 (WA and VT residents may omit return postage). Requests for
Official Rules must be received by December 31, 2000. All times and dates in
these Official Rules are Eastern Standard Time.
- Sponsors reserve the right in their sole discretion to modify or cancel
all or any portions of the Contest because of technical errors or
malfunctions, viruses, hackers, or for other reasons that corrupt the Contest
in any manner. Sponsors also reserve the right in their sole discretion to
disqualify any entrant who fails to comply with these Official Rules, who
attempts to enter the Contest in any manner or through any means other than as
described in these Official Rules, or who attempts to disrupt the Contest or
to circumvent any of these Official Rules.
- Officers, directors, representatives, and employees of Sponsors, their
affiliates and subsidiaries, and each of their respective advertising,
promotion, publicity, production, and judging agencies, and those with whom
they are domiciled, are not eligible to enter. By entering, entrants agree to
be bound by the decisions of the judges and these Official Rules and to comply
with all federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations. All
federal, state, provincial and local taxes are each winner's sole
responsibility. The prizes will be awarded. No prize substitutions, transfers,
or cash alternatives permitted except Sponsors reserve the right to substitute
a prize of equal or greater value at Sponsors' discretion. By entering, each
winner accepts all of the conditions, restrictions, requirements, and/or
regulations required by Sponsors and also agrees to accept delivery of prize.
Unless otherwise prohibited by law, acceptance of the prize constitutes
permission to use winner's name, picture, likeness, address (city and state),
and biographical information for advertising and publicity purposes for
Sponsors and for this and/or similar promotions, without compensation.
- Entrants agree to release and hold harmless Sponsors, their affiliates and
subsidiaries, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees,
agents, successors, and assigns, from any damage, injury, death, loss, or
other liability that may arise from entrant's participation in the Contest or
the awarding, acceptance, use, or misuse of any prize. All entrants agree that
United States law shall apply exclusively to the Contest and that any dispute
with respect to the Contest shall be resolved in either the federal or state
courts located in the State of New York.
- To obtain a list of prize winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope
to: Cats December Caption Contest, c/o About.com, Inc., 1440 Broadway, 19th
floor, New York, NY 10018. All winners' list requests must be received by
February 28, 2001. Winners' names
must be posted on the http://About.com Web site for thirty (30) days, or you
can write in for a complete list to: About.com, Inc. Cats December Caption
Contest, 1440 Broadway, 19th floor, New York, NY 10018.
- Contest is void in Florida, Quebec and where prohibited, taxed or
otherwise restricted.
- The Sponsor of the Contest is Franny Syufy.
