The Great Gatsby Twitter
Giveaway
Official Rules
TO
ENTER, PLEASE RETWEET THE MESSAGE FROM @SIMONSCHUSTER MAKING
SURE TO INCLUDE THE HANDLE IN YOUR TWEET.
THE
SWEEPSTAKES CLOSES AT 11:59 P.M. ET On May 12th, 2013.
NO
PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
Promotion
may only be entered in or from the 50 United States and the District of
Columbia and entries originating from any other jurisdiction are not eligible
for entry. This Promotion is governed exclusively by the laws of the United
States. You are not authorized to participate in the Promotion if you are not
located within the United States.
1.
How to Enter. These Official Rules apply to the The Great Gatsby Twitter Giveaway ("Promotion")
conducted by (“Sponsor”) via
tweets at [https://twitter.com/#!/simonschuster] (each a "Sponsor’s
Tweet"). Each Sponsor Tweet will
identify: (a) the applicable prize
available; (b) the number of such prizes to be awarded. Promotion will
commence at the time of such Sponsor Tweet. To enter, entrants must have a
Twitter account (which is free). Winners will be randomly selected. Once the five (5) prizes have been successfully
awarded and claimed, the Promotion will be over, and no other prizes will be
awarded in response to the Promotion. All entrants must have a valid email
address. Response tweets must not include any unsuitable content, including but
not limited to, language and/or materials that are lewd or profane; violent or
promote violence; disparaging of any product, company or person; dangerous,
hateful, or defamatory; promote bigotry, racism, or harm against a group or
individual or promote discrimination; or material that is unlawful or in
violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations in any state, or otherwise
objectionable in Sponsor's sole discretion. Response tweets including such
content will be disqualified, as determined solely by Sponsor.
Limit:
Enter as often as you like, but only one prize per Promotion will be awarded
per entrant. If you post updates to or receive updates from twitter.com via SMS
from your wireless phone, your wireless-service provider may charge you for
each text message you send and receive. Please consult your wireless-service
provider regarding its pricing plans. You must be an active holder of a
non-private Twitter account and be a follower of the @simonschuster
account to be eligible to enter this Promotion. All terms and conditions of Twitter.com apply. Multiple entrants
are not permitted to share the same twitter account. Any attempt by y entrant
to obtain more than the stated number of prizes per Promotion by using
multiple/different twitter accounts, identities, registrations and logins, or
any other methods will void that entrant's entries and that entrant may be
disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will
result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any Twitter
account, the authorized account holder of the email address used to register at
twitter.com will be deemed to be the entrant. The "authorized account
holder" is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet
access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for
assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted
address. Each potential winner may be
required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.
All
entries become the sole and exclusive property of the Sponsor and receipt of
entries will not be acknowledged or returned. Sponsor is not responsible for
lost, late, illegible, stolen, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible,
misdirected, technically corrupted or garbled entries, which will be
disqualified, or for problems of any kind whether mechanical, human or
electronic. Proof of submission will not be deemed to be proof of receipt by
Sponsor. By entering the Promotion, entrants fully and unconditionally agree
to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor, which will be
final and binding in all matters relating to the Promotion.
2. Start/End Dates. Promotion begins at 10:00 a.m. ET on May 10, 2013, and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on May 12, 2013 ("Promotion
Period").
3. Eligibility. Participation open only to legal residents of the fifty United States and
the District of Columbia who are 18 or older as of date of entry. Void outside
of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, and where prohibited,
taxed or restricted by law. Employees, officers and directors of Sponsor, and
its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, advertising and
promotion agencies, manufacturers or distributors of promotion materials and
their immediate families (parents, children, siblings, spouse) or members of
the same household (whether related or not) of such employees, officers and
directors are not eligible to enter. You are not authorized to participate in
the Promotion if you are not located within the United States or the District
of Columbia. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.
4. Prizes. Five (5) winners will each receive one signed copy of the
book titled The Great Gatsby by F.
Scott Fitzgerald. The approximate retail value of each book is US$15.00. Full value of
the prize is US$75.00.
If any prize is returned as undeliverable, the prize will be forfeited. Upon
prize forfeiture, no compensation will be given. Limit one prize per person.
Odds of winning depend on the number and timing of entrants. By entering the
Promotion, entrants fully and unconditionally agree to be bound by these rules,
which will be final and binding in all matters relating to the Promotion. All
unspecified expenses are the responsibility of winner(s). Prize is
non-transferable. No substitutions or cash redemptions. In the case of
unavailability of prize, Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of
equal or greater value
5. Notification. Each potential winner
will receive a direct message from Sponsor through the Twitter account used to
enter the Promotion. Potential
winners will be required to respond to the direct message within one (1) hour
in order to claim their prize. Potential winners who fail to respond to the
direct message within one (1) hour will forfeit their prize. Potential winners
will also be required to complete a contact form within 7 days of receipt. If a
potential winner does not respond to the message and complete the contact form,
in each case within the required time frame prize will be forfeited and awarded
to the next runner-up. Potential winners must continue to comply with all terms
and conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is
contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. Potential winners may be required
to sign and return, where legal, an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability/Publicity
Release and/or rights transfer document within 7 days of prize notification. If
any potential winner is considered a minor in his/her jurisdiction of
residence, the Affidavit of Eligibility and/or Liability/Publicity must be
signed by his/her parent or legal guardian. If a potential winner cannot be
contacted, or fails to complete and respond to the direct message within the
required time period, if any prize or prize notification is returned as
undeliverable, if any potential winner rejects his/her prize or in the event of
noncompliance with these Promotion rules and requirements, such prize will be
forfeited and may be awarded to the next runner up. Upon prize forfeiture, no
compensation will be given.
6. Conditions. BY PARTICIPATING, ENTRANTS AND
WINNERS AGREE TO RELEASE AND HOLD HARMLESS SPONSOR, TWITTER, AND THEIR
ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION AGENCIES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE PARENT COMPANIES,
SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, REPRESENTATIVES, AGENTS, SUCCESSORS,
ASSIGNS, EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS, FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY, FOR
LOSS, HARM, DAMAGE, INJURY, COST OR EXPENSE WHATSOEVER INCLUDING WITHOUT
LIMITATION, PROPERTY DAMAGE, PERSONAL INJURY AND/OR DEATH WHICH MAY OCCUR IN
CONNECTION WITH, PREPARATION FOR, TRAVEL TO, OR PARTICIPATION IN PROMOTION, OR'
POSSESSION, ACCEPTANCE AND/OR USE OR MISUSE OF PRIZE OR PARTICIPATION IN ANY
PROMOTION-RELATED ACTIVITY AND FOR ANY CLAIMS BASED ON PUBLICITY RIGHTS,
DEFAMATION, INVASION OF PRIVACY, COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT
OR ANY OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY-RELATED CAUSE OF ACTION. Any and all
federal, state and local taxes are the sole responsibility of the winners.
Participation in Promotion and acceptance of prize constitutes each winner's
permission for Sponsor to use his/her name, address (city and state), likeness,
photograph, picture, portrait, voice, biographical information, and/or any
statements made by each winner regarding the Promotion or Sponsor for
advertising and promotional purposes without notice or additional compensation,
except where prohibited by law. Entrants who do not comply with these Official Rules, or attempt to interfere with this Promotion in any
way shall be disqualified. Sponsor is not responsible if Promotion cannot take
place or if any prize cannot be awarded due to travel cancellations, delays or
interruptions due to acts of God, acts of war, natural disasters, weather or
acts of terrorism.
7. Additional Terms. Any attempted form of
entry other than as set forth above is prohibited; no automatic, programmed;
robotic or similar means of entry are permitted. Sponsor, its affiliates,
partners and promotion and advertising agencies are not responsible for
technical, hardware, software, telephone or other communications malfunctions,
errors or failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, web
site, Internet, or ISP availability, unauthorized human intervention, traffic
congestion, incomplete or inaccurate capture of entry information (regardless
of cause) or failed, incomplete, garbled, jumbled or delayed computer
transmissions which may limit one's ability to enter the Promotion, including
any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer relating
to or resulting from participating in this Promotion or downloading any materials
in this Promotion. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to
cancel, terminate, modify, extend or suspend this Promotion should (in its sole
discretion) virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention, fraud or other
causes beyond its control corrupt or affect the administration, security,
fairness or proper conduct of the Promotion. In such case, Sponsor may select
the winners from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if
appropriate) the action taken by Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right, at its
sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion,
to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Promotion or web
site. Sponsor may prohibit an entrant from participating in the Promotion or
winning a prize if, in its sole discretion, it determines that said entrant is
attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Promotion by cheating,
hacking, deception, or other unfair playing practices (including the use of
automated quick entry programs) or intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or
harass any other entrants or Sponsor representatives.
CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY
AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE
OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND
SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES
FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
8. Use of Data. Sponsor will be collecting
personal data about entrants online, in accordance with its privacy policy.
Please review the Sponsor's privacy policy at http://www.simonandschuster.com/about/privacy_policy. By
participating in the Promotion, entrants hereby agree to Sponsor's collection
and usage of their personal information and acknowledge that they have read and
accepted Sponsor's privacy policy.
9. List of
Winners. To
obtain a list of winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope by May 13, 2013, to: Amy
Kattan, Simon and Schuster Digital.
10. Sponsor. Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York,
NY 10020.