Walmart Fall Sewing Contest Official Rules NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. a PURCHASE OR PAYMENT
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Walmart Fall Sewing Contest Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
1. Eligibility: The Walmart Fall Sewing Contest is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States, and the District of Columbia, who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Employees of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and any of their respective related companies, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and as well as the immediate family and household members of each such employee are not eligible. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void outside the U.S., in Puerto Rico, and wherever else prohibited by law.
2. Sponsor: Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC, 850 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066.
3. Agreement to Official Rules: By participating in the Contest, entrant agrees to these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest. Whether an entrant receives a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.
4. Timing: The Contest begins at 9:00:00 AM Pacific Time (“PT”) on September 1, 2016, and ends at 11:59:59 PM PT on October 31, 2016 (“Contest Period”). The Contest Period is divided into two (2) monthly entry periods (collectively “Monthly Entry Periods”).
Monthly Dates and Times of Monthly Entry Period Entry Period 1 September 1, 2016 at 9:00:00 AM PT – September 30, 2016 at 11:59:59 PM PT 2 October 1, 2016 at 12:00:00 AM PT – October 31, 2016 at 11:59:59 PM PT
Sponsor's computer is the official time-keeping device for the Contest. Entrants are responsible for determining the appropriate beginning and ending times in their respective time zones.
5. How to Enter: Eligible entrants can enter the Contest by submitting both (i) a product review for an Eligible Sewing Machine (defined below) and (ii) a photograph of an item created using the Eligible Sewing Machine at http://www.walmart.com during the Contest Period. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE AN ITEM FROM SPONSOR TO SUBMIT A REVIEW.
The following items are products eligible for review under this Contest. All entrants are subject to all notices posted online including but not limited to Walmart's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Entrants can enter one (1) time during each Monthly Entry Period for a total of two (2) entries during the Contest Period. Entries into a Monthly Entry Period will not carry forward into future Monthly Entry Periods.
Entries submitted by any person in excess of this limit will be void. Entries generated by script, macro, or other automated means are void. All entries discovered to have been submitted by the same individual using multiple accounts or e-mail addresses will be disqualified. All entries submitted in accordance with these Official Rules shall be collectively hereinafter referred to as “Eligible Entries.” Your entry will not be valid unless it (a) meets the criteria described above, (b) meets the Entry Requirements described in Section 6, and (c) includes the required disclosure contained in Section 7.
By entering the Contest, entrants represent and warrant that their entries are their own original work and, as such, they are the sole and exclusive owner and rights holder of the submitted entry and that they have the right to submit the entry in the Contest and grant all required licenses and assignments. Each entrant agrees not to submit any entry that infringes any third party proprietary rights, intellectual property rights, industrial property rights, personal or moral rights or any other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity, and confidentiality obligations. Entrants also represent and warrant that they have not previously submitted their entry as an entry in another contest, promotion, competition, or similar activity.
6. Entry Requirements: Reviews do not need to be positive; however, the review must focus on the product and the experience with using it and should provide specific details on what you did or did not like about the product. Length of review must be at least 20 words or more to be qualified and be in English. Incomplete entries are void. Photographs should clearly show at least one (1) item produced with the Eligible Sewing Machine.
Ineligible entries include responses and photographs that are unresponsive, as well as those that are, in whole or in part, (i) threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, hateful, embarrassing to another person or entity, deceptive, obscene, invasive of another's privacy, tortious, or contains racial slurs; (ii) contain advertisements, spam, references to other products, offers, websites, competitors; (iii) contain explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of, sexual acts; (iv) contain email addresses, phone numbers, links to websites, physical addresses or other forms of contact information; or (v) are not within the spirit of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in Sponsor’s sole discretion (“Entry Requirements”). 7. Required Disclosure: Entrants must include at the beginning of their review the following disclosure: “I am posting this review as part of my entry in Walmart's Fall Sewing Contest.”
8. Ownership and Use Of Entries: Each entrant shall retain ownership of all intellectual property rights in each entry (including moral rights) subject to these Official Rules. However, by entering the Contest, and to the extent allowed by law, each entrant grants Sponsor and its affiliates, licensees, promotional partners, developers and third party marketing entities a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to edit, modify, cut, rearrange, add to, delete from, copy, reproduce, adapt, publish, exploit and use the entry throughout the world, and in any manner, for trade, advertising, promotional, commercial, or any other purposes without further review, notice, approval, consideration, or compensation.
9. Winner Determination: One (1) winner will be randomly selected from all entries submitted during each Monthly Entry Period for a total of two (2) potential winners (one for each Monthly Entry Period). The potential winner will be selected based on the following criteria, all weighted equally: (i) originality; (ii) creativity; and (iii) helpfulness of the review to other customers. The potential winners will be chosen at the sole discretion of the judges and the judges’ decision is final. Sponsor will contact potential winners via e-mail or telephone to provide information on how to collect the prize. Failure to respond to the contact within the time provided in such notification or failure to accept the prize may result in the selection of an alternate potential winner based upon the entry receiving the next highest score from the judges. Unless otherwise stated in the prize notification, prizes will be fulfilled within eight (8) weeks following the end of the Contest Period. The odds of winning the Contest depend on the number of Eligible Entries received and the skill of the entrants.
Acceptance of any prize shall constitute and signify each winner’s agreement and consent that Sponsor and its designees may use the winner’s name, city, state, likeness, photo, entry and/or prize information in connection with the Contest for promotional, advertising or other purposes, worldwide, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, including the Internet, without limitation and without further payment, notification, permission or other consideration, except where prohibited by law.
10. Prize: Each potential winner will receive a $100 Walmart Gift Card (approximate retail value: $100 USD). No substitutions may be made, except by the Sponsor, who reserves the right to substitute a prize (or component thereof) with another prize (or component thereof) of comparable or greater value if the prize is not available for any reason as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion. Prize has no approximate retail value. Limit one (1) prize per person. See http://help.walmart.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/57 for term and conditions governing the Walmart gift card. Winner is responsible for all federal, state, local and income taxes associated with winning prize.
11. Release: By participating, entrant agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, and its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, and each of their respective parent companies and each such company's officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the "Released Parties") from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.
12. General Conditions: Proof of submission does not constitute proof of receipt. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Contest, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures or any other factor beyond Sponsor's reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any other promotion or in a disruptive manner.
13. Limitations of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrant, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software;(3) technical or human error or which may occur in the administration of the Contest or the processing of entries; (4) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen Entries; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant's participation in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. Sponsor is not responsible for misdirected or undeliverable entries or for any technical problems, malfunctions of computer systems, servers, providers, hardware/software, lost or unavailable network connections or failed, incomplete, or delayed computer transmission or any combination thereof. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical/other error in entries. If for any reason an entrant's Contest entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant's sole remedy is another entry in the Contest, provided that, if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the Contest, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the Contest prizes offered herein. No more than one prize will be awarded.
14. Disputes: Except where prohibited, participant agrees that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Contest or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the appropriate court located in the State of California. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, participant’s rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, 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.
15. Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected from entrant is subject to Sponsor's Privacy Policy http://corporate.walmart.com/privacy-security/walmart- privacy-policy.
16. Winner List: For a copy of these Official Rules or for the name of the winners, mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to be received by December 31, 2016 to: Holly Bauer; 850 Cherry Avenue San Bruno, CA. 94066