Pastry/Cody Simpson VJ Contest
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY. A
PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF
WINNING.
1. Eligibility
The
Pastry/Cody Simpson VJ
Contest(the “Promotion”) is open only to legal
residents of the 48 contiguous United States (including District of
Columbia) who are thirteen (13) years or older at the time of
entry. Void where prohibited by law. Employees of Run Athletics
International, LLC, or any of its respective affiliates,
subsidiaries, advertising agencies, or any other company or
individual involved with the design, production execution or
distribution of the Promotion and their immediate family (spouse,
parents and step-parents, siblings and step-siblings, and children
and step-children) and household members (people who share the same
residence at least three (3) months out of the year) of each such
employee are not eligible. The Promotion is subject to all
applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.
Participation constitutes entrant's full and unconditional
agreement to these Official Rules and to Sponsor’s decisions,
which are final and binding in all matters related to the
Promotion. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all
requirements set forth herein. The Promotion consists of a video
contest in which entrants shall create and submit an original video
interpreting the Cody Simpson song “All Day” (the
“Contest”).
2. Sponsor
Run Athletics International, LLC, 29
West 56
thStreet, New York, NY 10019.
3. Timing
The Promotion begins on February 3,
2011 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends
February 8, 2011 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the “Promotion
Period”). Sponsor’s computer is the official
time-keeping device for this Promotion.
4. How to Enter
During the Promotion Period, create
an original music video interpreting Cody Simpson’s song
“All Day” and upload it to YouTube.com with the tag
ALLDAYCONTEST. Multiple participants are not permitted to share the
same entry video. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late,
incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, misdirected or mistagged
entries, which will be disqualified. In the event of a dispute as
to any entry, the authorized account holder of the YouTube.com
account to which the entry is uploaded will be deemed to be the
registrant or player. The “authorized account holder”
is the natural person assigned an account by YouTube.com. Potential
winners may be required to show proof of being the authorized
account holder.
All entries
become the sole and exclusive property of Sponsor and will not be
returned. Sponsor reserves the right to contact entrants and all
other individuals whose email address is submitted as part of this
Promotion.
5. Winner Selection
On or about February 8, 2011,
Sponsor
or an
independent judging agency will review the entry videos uploaded to
YouTube.com and properly tagged ALLDAYCONTEST and select finalists
by ranking the entry videos according to the number of
“likes” registered for each entry video by YouTube.com.
On or about February
8, 2011, Sponsor and Cody Simpson shall select one (1) winner for
the Grand Prize and five (5) Runners-Up for the prizes described in
Section 8 below based upon a subjective assessment of the
creativity and originality demonstrated in each entry video.
The entrant will be contacted via the
entrant’s YouTube.com account and may be awarded the prize
(subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with the
terms of these rules.)Sponsor’s decisions as to the
administration and operation of the Promotion and the selection of
potential winners are final and binding in all matters related to
the Promotion. Winners will be notified by email on or about
February 8, 2011.
Failure to respond to the initial
verification e-mail within five (5) days of notification or return
of e-mail notification as undeliverable after three (3) attempts
may result in disqualification.
6. POTENTIAL CONTEST WINNER IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY
SPONSOR WHOSE DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS
RELATED TO THE PROMOTION.
7. Verification of Potential Winner
Potential winner must continue to
comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and
winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. The
potential winners will be notified by email, after the date of
random drawing. The potential winners will be required to sign and
return to Sponsor, within ten (10) days of the date notice is sent,
an affidavit of eligibility, and liability/publicity release
(except where prohibited) in order to claim his/her prize if
applicable. If a potential winner of any prize cannot be contacted,
fails to sign and return the affidavit of eligibility and
liability/publicity release within the required time period (if
applicable), or if the prize or prize notification is returned as
undeliverable, potential winner forfeits prize. In the event that a
potential winner of a sweepstakes prize is disqualified for any
reason, Sponsor may award the applicable prize to an alternate
winner by random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries.
8. Prizes
ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: Winner shall be
named Cody Simpson’s “Official VJ” of the
“All Day” music video (the “Video”) and
shall receive a beauty glam treatment and a PASTRY® brand
outfit from Sponsor, and the opportunity to record a video
introduction to the Video (Approximate Retail Value: $1000). No
cash equivalent for the prize, prize is non-transferable and no
substitution will be made except as provided herein at the
Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to
substitute any listed prize for one of equal or greater value for
any reason. Winner is responsible for all taxes and fees associated
with prize receipt and/or use. Odds of winning a prize depend on
the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion
Period.
FIVE (5) RUNNER-UP PRIZES:
Winners shall receive
a prize pack from PASTRY® and Cody Simpson [MUST BE MORE
SPECIFIC AS TO WHAT IS IN THE PACK] (Approximate Retail Value:
$200).
9. Entry Conditions and Release
By entering, each
participant agrees to: (a) comply with and be bound by these
Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and/or the Contest
judges which are binding and final in all matters relating to this
Contest; (b) release and hold harmless the Sponsor, Cody Simpson,
and each of their respective parents, subsidiary, and affiliated
companies, the prize suppliers and any other organizations
responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising
or promoting the Contest and Promotion, and all of their respective
past and present officers, directors, employees, agents and
representatives (collectively, the “Released Parties”)
from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liability,
including but not limited to negligence and damages of any kind to
persons and property, including but not limited to invasion of
privacy (under appropriation, intrusion, public disclosure of
private facts, false light in the public eye or other legal
theory), defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of
publicity, infringement of trademark, copyright or other
intellectual property rights, property damage, or death or personal
injury arising out of or relating to a participant's entry,
creation of an entry or submission of an entry, participation in
the Contest and Promotion, acceptance or use or misuse of prize
(including any travel or activity related thereto) and/or the
broadcast, exploitation or use of entry; and (c) indemnify, defend
and hold harmless the Sponsor from and against any and all claims,
expenses, and liabilities (including reasonable attorneys fees)
arising out of or relating to an entrant’s participation in
the Contest and Promotion and/or entrant’s acceptance, use or
misuse of prize.
10. Publicity
Except where prohibited,
participation in the Promotion constitutes winners consent to
Sponsor's and its agents' use of winner's name,
likeness, photograph, voice, opinions and/or hometown and state for
promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further
payment or consideration.
11. General Conditions
Sponsor reserves the right to
cancel, suspend and/or modify the Promotion, 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 reserves the right in its sole discretion 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 an
unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to
deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may
be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an
attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from
any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules
shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
12. Limitations of Liability
The Released Parties are not
responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information,
whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the
equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the
Promotion; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not
limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone
lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human
intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (4)
technical or human error which may occur in the administration of
the Promotion or the processing of 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 Promotion or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for
any reason an entrant's entry is confirmed to have been
erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted,
entrant's sole remedy is another entry in the Contest play,
provided that if it is not possible to award another entry due to
discontinuance of the Promotion, or any part of it, for any reason,
Sponsor, at its 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 prizes offered herein. No more
than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In event that
production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons
cause more than stated number of prizes as set forth in these
Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the
right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing
among all legitimate, unawarded, eligible prize claims.
13. Disputes
Entrant agrees that: (i) any and all
disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected
with this Contest, or any prizes awarded, other than those
concerning the administration of the Contest or the determination
of winners, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any
form of class action; (ii) any and all disputes, claims and causes
of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, or any
prizes awarded, shall be resolved exclusively by the United States
District Court or the appropriate New York State Court located in
New York County, New York; (iii) any and all claims, judgments and
awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred,
including costs associated with entering this Contest, but in no
event attorneys' fees; and (iv) under no circumstances will
entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby
waives all rights to claim 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. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE
LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. All
issues and questions concerning the construction, validity,
interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the
rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor in connection
with the Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without giving
effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of
the State of New York or any other jurisdiction), which would cause
the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the
State of New York.
14. Entrant's Personal Information
Information collected from entrants
is subject to the Sponsor's Privacy Policy which is available
here.
15. Promotion Results
For Promotion results send a
hand-printed, self-addressed, stamped envelope to The
Pastry/Cody Simpson VJ
Contest – Winners List, c/o Run Athletics, 29 West 56
thStreet New York, NY 10019. Requests for the winner
list must be received by February 8, 2011.


