MyItThings.com™ Best Entertainment,
Technology, Body & House Articles Contest
Official Contest Rules
NO
PURCHASE NECESSARY.
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 13 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 200 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 October 18, 2007 and 11:59
p.m. EST on December 9th, 2007
(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. 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 December
1, 2007, 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.
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$250.00 (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