MyItThings.com™ Best Entertainment, Tech, Body and House
Article Contest.
PURCHASE
WILL NOT INCREASE THE ODDS OF THE ENTRY WINNING.
I.
Eligibility. The MyItThings.com Best Non-Fashion Article Contest
(the “Contest”) is only open to legal residents of the United States (excluding
residents of the State of Rhode Island) and Canada (excluding residents of
Quebec), who are 16 years of age and older. Individuals who are at least
13 years of age but who are under 18 years of age must have permission from a
parent or legal guardian in order to enter the Contest. Employees,
representatives and contractors of 2 Brains Media, LLC (“Sponsor”), any
affiliated companies, prize suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies, the
immediate family members of such companies (regardless of where they reside)
and individuals living in the same households of each of these individuals are
not eligible. The Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law,
and is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules and
regulations. By participating in the Contest through the submission of an
article as described in Section II herein below, you agree to comply with and
be bound by these Official Contest Rules (the “Rules”), and the decisions of the
administrators and Sponsor of the Contest, which shall be final and binding in
all respects.
II.
How to Enter. To enter the Contest, you must first register to
become a member of MyItThings.com (the “Website”), and confirm your
registration via email. For detailed information regarding registration,
please refer to the Website. Once you have become a registered member of
MyItThings.com, you must log in to the Website in order to submit and post (via
your MyItThings.com Personal Page) an original article (an “entry”) in the
English language of not less than 100 words on any one (1) of the following
topics: 1) Entertainment, 2) Technology, 3) Body or 4) House. The article
must be written by you, the submitter, and not anyone else. All articles
submitted via your Personal Page will be deemed to have been written and
submitted by you. Therefore, please maintain your MyItThings.com log in
information as confidential. All articles must be submitted through your
MyItThings.com Personal Page between 12:01 a.m. EST on February 11th,
2008 and 11:59 p.m. EST on March 31st , 2008 (the
“Entry Period”). There is no limit on the number of articles that
you are permitted to submit for consideration in the Contest; provided, that,
each article complies with the Rules and you may only have one (1) article in
the top ten for each category (see Section III below). The Sponsor of the
Contest is not responsible for any late, lost, misdirected, damaged or
incomplete entries. Immediately upon submission, all articles become the
property of the Sponsor as more fully set forth below and will not be
returned. All articles must be original works, never previously published
for commercial gain, and must not be plagiarized, infringe on any third party’s
copyrights or other rights. The article(s) submitted by you cannot be
offensive or inappropriate, as determined by the Sponsor in its sole
discretion. The Sponsor may disqualify articles, without notice, that it
deems, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate or offensive.
III.
Winner Selection & Judging. During the Entry Period,
MyItThings.com users will be asked to rate each submitted article on a scale of
1 to 5 stars (1 star being the lowest rating). The voting is IP
restricted and requires MyItThings.com registration. Each registered
member can vote only once per day during the Contest. The final article
score will be calculated from the combination of the total number of votes and
the star rating (i.e. each additional scored star will add 1 point to the total
score). On or about April 1st, 2008, for each category,
the ten (10) articles with the highest scores will be announced as the
finalists, and one (1) winner will be randomly picked by an independent third
party for each of the four (4) categories identified in Section II herein
above. Each user may only have one (1) article in the top ten for each
category. If, based upon the star ratings, a user has multiple articles
that qualify for the top ten in a category, Sponsor, in its sole discretion, will
select the article with the highest star rating to proceed as a finalist.
IV.
Notification of Prize Winners. The Prize Winners will be notified
by the Sponsor of the Contest via email to the email address listed in his/her
MyItThings.com account. The return of any prize notification or prize as
undeliverable or any other non-compliance with these Rules, as determined by
Sponsor, may result in the forfeiture of the prize. Prior to receiving a
prize, a potential Prize Winner will be required to execute an Affidavit of
Eligibility and Liability Release and, where legal, a Publicity Release, all of
which must be returned within fourteen (14) days following attempted prize
notification. Failure to comply with the aforementioned time period may
result in forfeiture of the prize. If a potential Prize Winner is a
minor, his or her parent or legal guardian must execute and timely return such
documents to Sponsor.
V.
Prizes. Four (4) Prizes will be awarded. One (1) Prize will be
given in each of the following categories: 1) Entertainment, 2) Technology, 3) Body
and 4) House. Each Prize is US$200.00 Amazon.com gift card (the
“Prize”). Under no circumstances will more than Four Prizes be awarded
during the Contest. All federal, state and local taxes that may be owed
on the Prize are the sole responsibility of the Prize Winner. No
transfers or substitution of prizes will be permitted except at the sole
discretion of the Sponsor, who reserves the right to substitute a prize (or a
portion thereof) of comparable or greater value.
VI.
Odds of Winning. The odds of winning one (1) of the four (4)
prizes awarded depends upon the number of eligible votes received for an
article and the number of eligible entries received during the Entry Period.
VII.
Limitation of Liability & General Conditions. You acknowledge
and agree that the Sponsor of this Contest shall retain worldwide, in
perpetuity, all ownership rights to each of your submitted articles and
reserves the right to publish, edit, add to, delete, distribute, use, license,
duplicate or otherwise exploit in any manner or forum whether now known or
hereafter devised each such article in any manner it sees fit and no
compensation shall be owed to you resulting therefrom.
Where
permitted by law, by entering the Contest, you agree to the Sponsor’s (and
those acting pursuant to Sponsor’s direction of control) right to use to your
name, picture, likeness, biographical information and article(s) submitted
(whether in whole or in part) for advertising, and promotional purposes,
worldwide, in perpetuity, in print, broadcast and in any media now known or
hereafter developed, including the Internet, without additional consideration
and without notification, review or approval, except where prohibited by law.
Participants,
or if minors, their parents or legal guardians, further agree to release,
indemnify and hold harmless the Contest Sponsor, administrator(s), judges,
affiliates, advertising and promotional agencies, and each of their respective
directors, employees, representatives and agents (collectively, “Releasees”),
from and against any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any
kind, arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance,
possession, use or misuse of any Prize, participation in the Contest or
participation in any Contest related activity. Releasees are not
responsible for technical, computer, mechanical, printing, typographical, human
or other errors or omissions relating to or which may arise in connection with
the Contest including, without limitation, errors which may occur in connection
with the submission of articles, the administration of the Contest, the
announcement of the Grand Prize; or for stolen, lost, late, misdirected, damaged,
incomplete, inaccurate, undelivered, delayed or illegible entries.
The
Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any
individual it determines, in its sole discretion, has tampered with the entry
process or the operation of the Contest in any manner or is in violation with
these Rules. In the event that Sponsor, in its sole discretion, finds
that the Contest is compromised, becomes corrupted in any way or is not capable
of running as planned due to unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical
failures or any other causes which affect the administration, security,
fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, as determined by the
Sponsor in its sole discretion, the Sponsor reserves the right to cancel,
terminate, modify or suspend the Contest, in whole or in part.
As
a condition of entering the Contest, participants, or if a minor, their parents
or legal guardians, agree that under no circumstances will participants be
permitted to obtain awards for, and participants hereby waive all rights to
claim, punitive, incidental, consequential, or any other damages, other than
for actual out-of-pocket expenses; all causes of action arising out of or
connected with the Contest or Grand Prize awarded shall be resolved individually,
without resort to any form of class action; and any and all claims, judgments
and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred and in no
event shall participant be entitled to receive attorneys’ fees or other legal
costs.
IX.
Sponsor: 2 Brains Media, LLC, 2207
Concord Pike #612, Wilmington, DE 19803