TheWB.com’s “The Big Bang Theory” Giveaway on Twitter
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
TheWB.com’s “The Big Bang Theory” Giveaway on Twitter (the “Giveaway”) is open to individuals who are at least 13 years of age or older on the date of entry, who are legal residents of any one (1) of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia (collectively the “U.S.”), and who reside and are physically domiciled in the U.S. Residents of Guam, Puerto Rico and all other U.S. territories and possessions as well as employees of foreign-based U.S. military bases and embassies are not eligible to enter this Giveaway. 1391 Productions Inc. (dba as www.theWB.com) is the sponsor of the Giveaway (collectively, the “Sponsor” unless otherwise indicated) and Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Group is the administrator of the Giveaway (“Administrator”). Employees of 1391 Productions Inc., Sponsor, Administrator, Time Warner, Inc., Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., their respective parent companies, subsidiaries or advertising and Giveaway agencies associated with the Giveaway or prize suppliers for the Giveaway, or their respective employees, directors and officers (“Giveaway Parties”) and the immediate family members of each (regardless of where those immediate family members live) and those living in the same household of each (whether related or not) are not eligible to enter this Giveaway. For the purposes of the Giveaway, immediate family members are defined as mother, father, in-laws, grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister, spouse, legally recognized domestic partner, children and grandchildren.
All applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Void where prohibited.
By entering this Giveaway, participants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, which are final and binding in all respects and cannot be challenged or appealed.
How to Enter: There will be five (5) discrete Giveaways, one each day from June 7, 2010 through June 11, 2010. Each day’s Giveaway will take place from 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) (the “Giveaway Period”). Each Giveaway will run continuously during that time. During the Giveaway Period, there is one Way to Enter: You must be a subscriber of TheWB.com’s tweets, which are sent from TheWB.com’s Twitter account located on the Twitter web site under the name “TheWBdotcom”. If you are not a subscriber, you may become one by visiting the Twitter Web Site and following the directions provided to subscribe. TheWB.com’s feed is found at www.twitter.com/TheWBdotcom. Subscription is free and you may unsubscribe on Twitter at anytime. Once you are a subscriber, you will receive a tweet from the TheWB.com (close to the start of the applicable Giveaway Period) asking for specific information about a variety of content on TheWB.com. You will use your twitter account to retweet a tweet designated by TheWB.com as “The Big Bang Theory” tweet of the day which will include instructions to retweet it. The twitter account holder to send the 50th retweet in each Giveaway Period will be selected as the winner of that Giveaway Period. Standard text messaging rates apply for any text messages sent and received. Please check your carrier for pricing plan details and text messaging capabilities. Limit one (1) entry per twitter account, regardless of device used to enter (computer, wireless device). Entries received in excess of the stated daily limitation from the same twitter account (regardless of device used to send the tweet) will be void. TheWB.com reserves the right to accept entries with slight variations from the information solicited. All entries must be received by the specified deadline to be eligible for the Prize. The Sponsor’s Twitter feed will serve as the official time piece for the Giveaway.
Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means and entries by any means which subvert the entry process will be void. All entries submitted become the sole property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned.
Sponsor will not deem proof of submission of an entry as proof of receipt of an entry.
WINNER SELECTION / ODDS:
The winning tweet will be the 50th one received during each Giveaway Period. If the account holder sending the winning retweet otherwise meets the Giveaway’s eligibility criteria, you could be eligible to win a prize (subject to Sponsor’s verification process). If a potential prizewinner is found ineligible or fails to comply with these Official Rules, that individual’s claim to a prize is forfeited and the account holder for the tweet next in order will be contacted. Odds of winning depend on, among other things, the total number of eligible entries received.
All prizes legitimately claimed will be awarded.
In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of an entrant, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the Twitter account used to subscribe to TheWB.com’s tweets. An “authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person associated with the twitter account.
PRIZES:
Total approximate retail value (“ARV”) of all prizes in this Giveaway is less than $5000.00.
A maximum of five (5) prize packages will be awarded. Each prize package consists of one of the following:
ITEM ARV OF EACH
- (1) The Big Bang Theory DVD, Season 2 ($25)
One Prize Package will be awarded to one (1) winner per Giveaway Period. The number of items to be awarded in any given Prize Package will be determined by Sponsor. Giveaway participants are eligible to win more than one prize package if such participant wins more than one Giveaway Period.
No credit or cash will be given for any unused portion of the prize.
Refusal or return of any prize as undeliverable will also result in disqualification and an alternate entry will be randomly drawn.
PRIZE WINNERS NOTIFICATION PROCESS:
Within seventy-two (72) hours of the conclusion of each Giveaway Period, TheWB.com will reply to the winner’s tweet with instructions for how to submit the contact information necessary to collecting the Prize Package. If a prizewinner does not accept the Prize Package via reply e-mail within forty-eight (48) hours following the date and time the notification is sent, then that winner will be disqualified and the tweet next in order received during that Giveaway Period will be notified as set forth herein.
At its sole discretion, the Sponsor may require the winner to execute an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability Release and Publicity Release (collectively, “Affidavit/Release”). If required, Affidavit/Release will be sent along with notification of winning and must be returned to the Sponsor within forty-eight (48) hours. A disqualification will result if the Affidavit/Release is not returned to the Sponsor within the specified time.
Refusal or return of any prize notification, Affidavit/Release or prize as undeliverable will result in disqualification.
If a prizewinner is under the age of majority in their State of residence, the daily prize will be awarded in the name of that winner’s parent or legal guardian.
ADDITIONAL PRIZE INFORMATION:
There is no substitution for any Prize Package or any portion thereof, except due to unavailability, in which case a prize of equal or greater value may be awarded at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. Prizes are not transferable, assignable or redeemable for cash. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion.
Each prize will be shipped to the respective prizewinner within four to six weeks of notice to the prizewinner.
Prizewinners are solely responsible for the reporting and payment of any and all federal, state and local taxes as well as any other costs and expenses associated with acceptance and use of any prize awarded in the Giveaway. Prizewinners may be issued an IRS form 1099 based on the ARV of each prize awarded.
PRIVACY STATEMENT:
A participant’s personal information will be utilized by the Sponsor for selecting prizewinners, fulfillment of Giveaway prizes and to comply with legal requirements. To review Sponsor’s privacy policy, go to
http://www.thewb.com/pages/privacy-policy.php. To review Sponsor’s terms of use, go to http://www.thewb.com/pages/terms-of-use.php. By entering this Giveaway, entrants accept and agree to abide by these privacy policies and terms of use
PUBLICITY GRANT:
Except where prohibited by law or Sponsor’s Privacy Policy, by entering the Giveaway, each participant grants the Giveaway Parties the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use his/her name, photograph, visual and audio
likeness, statements, biographical information, address (including city and state of residence) and any other information contained in his/her entry on a worldwide basis, and in all forms of media now known or hereafter devised or discovered (including, without limitation, on the Sponsors’ web sites), in perpetuity, without further compensation, notice, review or approval.
NO WARRANTIES:
ALL PRIZES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “with all faults.” Giveaway Parties make no warranties, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to the use or enjoyment of any prize, or any portion thereof, including, without limitation, its quality, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Any and all warranties for a prize, or any portion thereof, are contained in the manufacturers’ or service providers’ warranties, as relevant.
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The use of certain companies’ products and services as prizes does not imply participation in, approval of, or endorsement of this Giveaway by such companies.
RELEASE, HOLD HARMLESS AND INDEMNIFICATION:
By entering, participants (OR, IF PARTICIPANT IS UNDER THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN HIS/HER STaTE OF RESIDENCE, THEN PARTICIPANT’s parent or legal guardian) release and agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the SPONSOR AND ALL GIVEAWAY PARTIES From and against any and all claims, demands, losses and causes of action for any DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ALL CONSEQUENTIAL, punitive ECONOMIC AND INCIDENTAL DAMAGES), liability, loss, cost, fees (including attorneys’ fees), including, without limitation, damage to PERSON (INCLUDING DEATH) OR personal or real property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of THE acceptance, possession, REDEMPTION, MISDIRECTION, use or misuse of ANY prize OR ANY PORTION OF ANY PRIZE (including any activity OR TRAVEL related thereto) or participation in the GIVEAWAY OR FOR ANY And all claims based on rights of publicity and rights of privacy WHETHER any of these things are CAUSED, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, BY THE ACTS, OMISSIONS, NEGLIGENCE OR MISCONDUCT OF THE SPONSOR AND/OR THE GIVEAWAY PARTIES.
DISCLAIMERS / LIMITATIONS ON LIABILITY:
By ENTERING, EACH PARTICIPANT (OF, IF PARTICIPANT IS UNDER THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN HIS/HER STATE OF RESIDENCE, THEN PARTICIPANT’S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN) agreeS that THE GIVEAWAY PARTIES assume no liability whatsoever for injuries or damages of any kind sustained in connection with THE use, acceptance, possession or awarding of ANY prize or while preparing for, participating in and/or traveling to or from any GIVEAWAY-related activity, including, without limitation, any injury, damage, death, loss OR accident to person or property due to an intentional act, an act of negligence or default and/or any act of God.
The Giveaway Parties are not responsible for human errors or for any damaged, tampered with, delayed, illegible, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled, late, lost, forged, misaddressed, misdirected, mutilated, mass machine-generated, unintelligible, incomprehensible, postage-due or stolen mail or entries or entries otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules. In addition, Giveaway Parties are not responsible for any typographical errors in these Official Rules, Giveaway content or any advertising materials for the Giveaway, or for any kind of computer, electronic, hardware, software, Internet, network, technical or telephone failures and/or problems caused by the Sponsor and/or the Giveaway Parties or the user, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Giveaway, or by any human, typographical, electronic, network or other error that may occur in receiving and/or processing of the entries in the Giveaway, or by infection by computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or technical failure.
If the Giveaway becomes compromised, hampered, interrupted, not capable of running as planned, rendered impossible of performance in any way or prevented, including, without limitation, because of any kind of computer viruses, bugs, electronic, hardware, software, Internet, network, technical or telephone failures, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, an event of force majeure or any other cause created by Sponsor and/or the Giveaway Parties, the user or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Giveaway, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change the Official Rules, to cancel, modify, suspend or withdraw the Giveaway or any Giveaway offer and/or cancel, modify, suspend or withdraw any method of entry, without notice, and select prizewinners from all entries received for the Giveaway prior to or after the cancellation, modification, suspension or withdrawal. As used herein, an event of force majeure shall be deemed to include, without limitation, an act of God; an act of terrorism, war, riot or civil commotion, fire, casualties, equipment failure, boycott; labor dispute, strike or stoppage (including a strike by the members of any union), labor or material shortage, transportation interruption of any kind, an act, regulation, order or request of or by any federal, state or local authority or quasi-governmental entity (whether or not the act, regulation, order or request proves to be invalid); or any other similar or dissimilar act beyond the Sponsor’s control.
GENERAL CONDITIONS OF ENTRY:
All participants, as a condition of entry, agree that they have not purchased any kind of Internet service whatsoever in order to participate in and/or enter the Giveaway. Participants agree not to knowingly damage or cause interruption of the Giveaway and/or prevent others from utilizing the Giveaway. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DAMAGE ANY ONLINE OR CELLULAR SERVICE OR WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE GIVEAWAY OR CAMPAIGN VIOLATES CRIMINAL OR CIVIL LAWS.
IF SUCH AN ATTEMPT IS MADE, SPONSOR AND/OR ADMINISTERING AGENCY MAY, AT THEIR SOLE AND REASONABLE DISCRETION, DISQUALIFY ANY PARTICIPANTS MAKING SUCH ATTEMPT AND SPONSOR MAY SEEK DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE:
The parties agree that the Giveaway and these Official Rules will be governed, construed and interpreted under the laws of the State of California without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of California or any other jurisdiction) which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of California. Each participant and their parent/legal guardian agree (i) that any or all lawsuits brought by participants or their parents or legal guardians pursuant to these Official Rules or the Giveaway will be brought in the courts located in Los Angeles, California and (ii) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Giveaway or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action. Entrants hereby waive any and all objections to personal jurisdiction. Any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred including, without limitation, costs associated with entering this Giveaway but in no event attorneys’ fees. Under no circumstances will entrants be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrants hereby waive all rights to claim, indirect, 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.
OFFICIAL RULES AND WINNERS LIST:
For a printed copy of the Official Rules prior to the end of the Giveaway or a Winners List (through June 30), email word@wb.com designating in the subject line, “Winners List Rules” or “Winners’ List” (indicate which). Vermont residents may omit return postage for rules requests. To view complete Official Rules online, visit [http://www.thewb.com/blog/?p=4978]
Sponsors: 1391 Productions Inc. 4000 Warner Blvd., Burbank, California 91505.
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