MR & MRS. BIRTHDAY BASH Contest!
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
Contest Description:
The
MR & MRS BIRTHDAY BASH (“Contest”) will begin on May 31, 2013 and
end on June 13, 2013 (“Contest Period”). The Contest will be conducted
online. One (1) male winner and one (1) female winner will each be
awarded (2) premium vip tickets to Birthday Bash 18 in either row 2 or
row 3 .
1. Eligibility.
The Contest is open and offered only to listeners of WHTA-FM (also the
“Station”) who are legal residents of the United States residing within
the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan area and are eighteen (18) years of
age or older.
Employees of WHTA-FM Radio One, Inc.,
(“Sponsor”), its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion
agencies, any other Contest parties, other radio stations, internet
sites, print and other media companies used to promote the Contest and
the immediate family members or those living in the same household
(whether related or not) of any of the above are not eligible to
participate or win. For purposes of this Contest, immediate family
members mean spouses, parents, children and siblings and their
respective spouses. Void where prohibited. Contest is subject to all
applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.
Persons
who have won a prize in another contest or promotion of any kind from
WHTA-FM within the ninety (90) day period immediately preceding the
start date of this Contest are not eligible to participate. Only one
person per family or household (whether related or not) may win in any
promotion from WHTA-FM during any thirty (30) day period
2. How to Enter:
- To
enter, eligible contest participants must register online and upload
one (1) photograph of themselves along with a brief story of 107 words
or less, that explains how they are Mr or Mrs. Birthday Bash. Entries
must be submitted to the Station’s website at hotspotatl.com.
- Upon
entering the Contest website, participants are to follow the on-screen
instructions, including entering their name, date of birth, address,
phone number, email address, and any optional or additional contact
information, as requested, to register for a chance to win
- Contestants may only enter once. Entries must be received by 11:59pm EST on June 9, 2013 or they will be void.
- Submitted entries must be “family friendly”, appropriate for all audiences, and must meet the below-listed Requirements.
- Once submitted, all entries will become the property of the Station and Radio One, Inc. and none will be returned.
- The
Station, Radio One, Inc. participating sponsors and their respective
parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates or their representatives,
agents and employees are not responsible for the inability of any
contestant to complete or continue a telephone call, facsimile
transmission, email or internet registration due to equipment
malfunction, busy lines, inadvertent disconnections, unavailable
network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP) or other connections
communication failures or human error that may occur in the
transmission, receipt or processing of entries. Any person who supplies
false information, enters by fraudulent means, or is otherwise
determined to be in violation of these Official Rules in an attempt to
obtain a prize may forfeit the prize won (if any) and may be prosecuted
to the fullest extent of the law. The Station reserves the right to
validate the contents of any entry.
- In the event of a
dispute regarding the identity of a participant’s online entry, the
entry will be deemed to have been made by the authorized holder of the
e-mail account at the time the entry was made.
3. Photograph & Story Requirements. Entries not meeting the following requirement will be disqualified.
Each photograph must:
- Feature one (1) male or one (1) female
- Not be patently offensive, illegal, pornographic or obscene, or similarly inappropriate in Sponsor’s sole discretion.
- Not contain lewd or sexual content or references
- Not
infringe upon any rights of any third party including without
limitation, copyright, trademark and right of publicity or privacy
- Be taken and solely owned by the photographer (who is the contestant) submitting the photo
- Not contain commercial products (e.g., clothing, toys, food) and/or their trademarks, brands, logos or endorsements
- If
any individuals, in addition to the contestant, are featured in the
photo, each entrant warrants and represents that the entrant has
obtained permission from each person who appears in the photographic
submission
- Be unpublished and not have been submitted in other competitions
Each Story Must:
- Not
exceed the maximum of 107 words, and describe how the entrant is Mr or
Mrs Birthday Bash. Any submissions that exceed the word maximum will be
disqualified.
- Not be patently offensive, illegal, pornographic or obscene, or similarly inappropriate in Sponsor’s sole discretion.
- Not contain lewd or sexual content or references
- Not
infringe upon any rights of any third party including without
limitation, copyright, trademark and right of publicity or privacy
- Be written and solely owned by the author (who is the contestant) submitting the story.
- Not
contain derogatory characterizations of any ethnic, racial, sexual or
religious groups, humiliate other people (publicly or otherwise), or
otherwise assault or threaten others
- Be unpublished and not have been submitted in other competitions
By
submitting an entry in this Contest, each contestant that enters this
Contest represents and warrants that all of the above requirements have
been met. Also by submitting an entry in this Contest, each submitting
contestant agrees to indemnify, defend and hold the Station , Radio One,
Inc., any other Contest parties, and each of their respective
affiliates, subsidiaries, agencies, officers, shareholders, directors,
employees, agents and representatives of each of the foregoing, harmless
against any and all claims or liability, directly or indirectly related
to or arising from or in connection with contest participation or the
acceptance, possession or use / misuse of awarded prize or any portion
thereof, or participation in prize-related activities, including but not
limited to any related travel.
4. Judging. Photographs
and stories that meet the above-listed requirements will be posted on
the Contest website for public voting. Listeners of the Station will be
instructed to vote on the posted photographs and stories from June
10, 2013 through June 13, 2013. The winners will be determined based
upon the amount of votes the contestants receive from their Station
online peers/users. The male contestant with the highest number of votes
and the female contestant with the highest number of votes by the end
of the voting period will be deemed the winners.
One (1) vote per
person. Any attempt by entrant and/or his/her family/friends to vote
more than the number of times authorized by using multiple names or
email address and/or any other fraudulent mechanism, as determined by
the Station in its sole discretion, shall give the Station the right to
disqualify entrant in its reasonable discretion.
All decisions made by Station management regarding any aspect of this Contest are final.
5. Prizes.
- The
winners, one (1) male contestant and one (1) female contestant, will
each be 2 Premium VIP Birthday Bash 18 tickets in either row 2 or row 3.
- If
for any reason a Contest winner provides notice that he or she has
decided not to accept an awarded prize, the winner will be required to
sign a release form acknowledging forfeiture of the prize. It will be
at the discretion of the Contest Sponsor and / or Contest administrator
if another contestant is to be selected as the winner if time permits.
- Winners
are responsible for payment of all applicable taxes associated with the
receipt of the prize (prizes are not transferable and may not be
exchanged).
- Any person winning over $600.00 in prizes will
receive an IRS form 1099 at the end of the calendar year for tax
purposes and a copy of such form will be filed with the IRS as required
by law.
- No substitution of prize is offered, no
transfer of prize to a third party is permitted and non-cash prizes may
not be redeemed for cash value, except as determined by station
management and/or the sponsor in its sole discretion.
- All
contest winners must sign and date official station release and waiver
forms as requested. Failure to do so will result in winner forfeiting
the prize.
- Winners must provide valid identification
(i.e. via driver’s license, passport or other government-issued photo
I.D.) to claim their prize.
- Odds of winning depend upon the number of eligible contestants participating during the Contest Period.
- In
the event any winner is found to be in violation of these Official
Rules or is otherwise determined by the Station in its sole discretion
to be ineligible, he/she will be required to forfeit the prize or to
reimburse the Station and / or any sponsor for the stated value of the
prize if such a violation is found after the prize has been used by
winner.
6. Notification of Winners.
Prize will be awarded upon winner verification and final approval by
the Station. Winners will be notified by email and / or phone on or
about June 13, 2013 and provided with instructions for claiming their
prize.
If, for any reason, the Contest is
not capable of running as planned including, without limitation any
suspected evidence of tampering, technological corruption, or if any
portion of the Contest is compromised by virus, bugs, worms,
unauthorized human intervention, fraud, acts of God, strikes, terrorists
acts, criminal acts of third parties, an insufficient number of
qualified Contest entries, or any other cause beyond the control of the
Station which corrupts, threatens or affects the administration,
security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, the
Station reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate,
modify or suspend the Contest.
7. Liability Release and Grant.
By participating in this promotion, Contest participants agree:
(a)
that THE STATION, Radio One, inc., ANY OTHER CONTEST PARTIES and their
respective subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising, public
relations and promotion agencies, and all of their respective officers,
directors, employees, representatives and agents (collectively, “CONTEST
ENTITIES”) will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be
indemnified, defended and held harmless by THE CONTESTANTS AND / OR
THEIR PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS from and against any liability,
including negligence, for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind to
persons (including death) and property, resulting in whole or in part,
directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of
any prize or participation in this Contest or Contest-related
activities;
(b) that except where legally prohibited, they hereby
irrevocably grant (and agree to confirm that grant in writing) a right,
license and permission to the Station and those acting under its
authority to use the contestant’s name, submitted entry, image, voice
and likeness, for advertising, trade and publicity purposes without
additional compensation in all media now known or hereafter discovered,
worldwide and on the internet, without notice, review, approval or
additional compensation;
(c) that these Official Rules constitute
an irrevocable, perpetual assignment to the Station, Radio One, Inc. and
its successors and assigns for valuable consideration the sufficiency
of which is hereby acknowledged of all right, title and interest in and
to the photograph submitted with each entry under all copyright,
trademark, right of publicity and right of privacy laws;
(d) that
these rules constitute a waiver of any so-called "droit moral" rights,
"moral rights of authors" and all other similar rights however
denominated throughout the world as they relate to the photograph
submitted with each entry and that the Station may, in its sole
discretion, change, alter, modify or edit the entries and photographs
for any purpose including, without limitation, for any advertising,
trade or promotional purposes;
(e) to perform all acts and to
execute all documents deemed necessary by the Station to record and
perfect the agreements made in this Section 7; and
(f) that any
legal action brought by a parent, legal guardian or Contestant arising
out of or in connection with this Contest must be brought exclusively in
the State or Federal Courts of Prince George’s County, MD. These
official rules will be governed by Maryland law.
8. Warranty Disclaimer. BY ACCEPTING THE PRIZE, THE WINNER (OR WINNER’S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE
STATION AND RADIO ONE, INC. MAKE NO WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR
GUARANTEE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN FACT OR IN LAW, RELATIVE TO THE PRIZE
OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ITS QUALITY,
MECHANICAL CONDITION OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
9. Administrator.
This Contest is administered by Radio One, Inc. 101 Marietta Street,
12th Floor, Atlanta GA 30303. No phone calls accepted. To receive the
name of the winner(s), send a self-addressed stamped envelope for
receipt by February 28, 2013 to: The “Sexiest Single Contest”, c/o
Radio One, Inc., 101 Marietta Street, 12th Floor, Atlanta GA 30303.
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