Twitter Giveaway

Contest Rules

MyDomain Retweet After Me GIVEAWAY

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules. The MyDomain ReTweet After Me Giveaway (the “Contest”) is sponsored by MyDomain, Inc., (8100 NE Parkway Drive, Suite 300, Vancouver, WA 98662) (“MyDomain,” “MyDomain.com,” or “MyDomaindotcom”), who is solely responsible for all aspects of this Contest. MyDomain’s computer shall be deemed the official time keeping device for the Contest.

  1. HOW TO ENTER
    1. The Contest will be held on weekdays (each a “Game Day”) beginning Tuesday, November 3, 2009, at 12:01 a.m. Pacific and ending Monday, November 16, 2009, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific (the “Contest Period”).
    2. To participate in the Contest, you must enter via the following method:
      1. Visit Twitter.com during the Contest Period. If you are not already a member of Twitter.com, you must become a member (membership is free). To become a member, enter the required information on the registration page at www.twitter.com.
      2. Become a Follower of the official MyDomain Twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/MyDomaindotcom)
      3. Watch for MyDomain’s tweet posting a message on Twitter and on www.mydomain.com on each Game Day and retweet the specified message containing the #rtafterme hashtag to MyDomaindotcom by 11:59 p.m. Pacific on that Game Day. For an explanation of hashtags, visit http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Hashtags.
      4. All entries received during the Game Day will be entered into a random drawing to one of two $100 Amazon® gift cards. All entries submitted during the Contest Period will be entered into the random drawing to win the Grand Prize $1,00 Amazon® gift card
    3. MyDomain is not responsible for updates, tweets, or direct messages made to the official MyDomain Twitter feed that are not registered or received due to difficulty accessing the Internet, service outages or delays, computer difficulties, or other technological glitches.
    4. Updates from MyDomaindotcom Twitter Followers will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address associated with a Twitter.com account at the time of entry. The authorized account holder is the natural person who is assigned to the email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning the email address or the domain associated with the submitted email address. Multiple participants are not permitted to share the same email address.
  2. ELIGIBILITY.
    1. The Contest is open to all Twitter members who are legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and 18 years of age or older (19 years or older in Alabama and Nebraska) at the time of entry. Employees of MyDomain, Twitter.com, their corporate parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, sales representatives, as well as MyDomain’s or Twitter.com’s advertising and public relations agencies, participating sponsors/promotional partners, other domain registrars, and the members of the immediate families and/or households of each are ineligible to participate or win. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, and is void in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. Military installations in foreign countries, and otherwise where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law.
    2. Only one (1) entry is permitted per Game Day.
    3. Entrants are required to provide truthful information. MyDomain will reject and delete any entry that it discovers to be false or fraudulent. MyDomain will disqualify any entry from individuals who do not meet the eligibility requirements. MyDomain will delete any entry received from persons under the age of 13 in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
  3. PRIZES.
    1. GAME DAY PRIZES: TWENTY (20) PRIZES. Each day, two (2) winners will be randomly selected from Game Day entries to each receive one (1) Amazon® gift card in the amount of $100 (US) (retail value of US$100). Use of such gift card is subject to any and all terms and conditions applied by Amazon® to its gift cards. No more than twenty (20) Game Day prizes will be awarded.
    2. GRAND PRIZE: ONE (1) PRIZE. One (1) winner will be randomly selected from all entries received during the Contest Period to receive the Grand Prize of an Amazon® gift card in the amount of $1,000 (US) (retail value of US$1,000). Use of such gift card is subject to any and all terms and conditions applied by Amazon® to its gift cards. No more than one (1) Grand Prize will be awarded.
    3. All expenses and costs not expressly listed in the prize description are solely the winner’s responsibility.
    4. MyDomain is not responsible for the safe arrival of a prize or prize certificate. If any prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, the prize will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner.
    5. There is no substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent for prizes, except that MyDomain may, at its sole discretion, substitute prizes of comparable value or cash. The prizes are expressly limited to the item(s) listed above and do not include taxes, gratuities, or other expenses. The winner will be subject to the terms and conditions set forth by the provider of certificate selected by the winner. Other restrictions may apply.
  • WINNER SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION
    1. Decisions of MyDomain with respect to the Contest are final.
    2. Each Game Day of the Contest, two (2) MyDomaindotcom Followers will be randomly selected to each receive one (1) Amazon® gift card in the amount of $100 (US), as listed in Section 3.1. Winners will be notified on or before November 23, 2009. Winners of the domain prize who meet all of the eligibility requirements and have fully complied with the Official Rules will receive their prize within approximately one (1) week after the conclusion of the Contest Period.
    3. One (1) winner will be selected from all entries received during the Contest Period to receive the Grand Prize as listed in Section 3.2. The winner will be notified on or before November 23, 2009. The winner of the Grand Prize who meets all of the eligibility requirements and has fully complied with the Official Rules will receive the prize within approximately four (4) weeks after the conclusion of the Contest Period.
    4. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
    5. MyDomain will notify the winner that s/he has won. Winner may be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/Release of Liability Prize Acceptance Form (where permitted) within ten (10) days of notification attempt; if requested, failure to do so will result in prize being forfeited and an alternate winner may be chosen randomly from among all remaining eligible Contest entries. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to sign and return the required affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release within the required time period, or if a prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, the potential winner forfeits the prize and the prize may be awarded to an alternate winner.
  • CONDITIONS
    1. Your participation in the Contest constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules and the decisions of MyDomain, which are final and binding. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.
    2. Payment of all federal, state and local taxes is solely the responsibility of the winners. Winners may be required to complete and submit an IRS Form W-9 with the winner’s full Social Security Number or the equivalent for receipt of any prize. Failure to submit a complete W-9 or equivalent will result in forfeiture of the prize.
    3. Except where prohibited, participation in the Contest constitutes winner’s consent to MyDomain’s use of winner’s name, likeness, voice, opinions, biographical information, and state of residence for promotional purposes in any media worldwide without further payment or consideration.
    4. Prior to awarding any prize or prize certificate, MyDomain in its sole discretion may require Contest winners (and their travel companions, if any) to sign a liability release, agreeing to hold MyDomain, its corporate licensee, its parent, subsidiary and affiliated corporations, and the officers, shareholders, directors, employees, agents and representatives of each of them harmless against any and all claims or liability arising directly or indirectly from the prize or participation in the Contest.
    5. MyDomain, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process, the operation of MyDomain’s or Twitter.com’s websites, or who is otherwise in violation of the rules. It further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the Contest if it is not capable of completion as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, or technical failures of any sort.
    6. MyDomain reserves the right to make changes in the rules of the Contest, including the substitution of a prize or equivalent value, which will become effective upon announcement. If due to circumstances beyond the control of MyDomain, any competition or prize-related event is delayed, rescheduled, postponed or cancelled, MyDomain reserves the right, but not the obligation, to cancel or modify the sweepstakes and shall not be required to award a substitute prize.
    7. Failure to comply with the Official Rules may result in an entrant’s disqualification solely at the discretion of MyDomain.
    8. MyDomain is not responsible for typographical or other errors in the printing, offering, administration of the Contest, or in the announcement of a prize.
    9. MyDomain reserves the right to cancel, suspend, and/or modify the Contest if any fraud, virus or other technical problem corrupts the administration, security, or proper play of the Contest, as determined by MyDomain in its sole discretion. In such event, MyDomain reserves the right to award the prizes at random from among the eligible entries received up to the time of the impairment.
    10. MyDomain 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 in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, MyDomain reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law.
    11. MyDomain assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. MyDomain also is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure or delay of any email or entry to be received by MyDomain on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof.
    12. MyDomain’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. In the event of a dispute as to any online entry, the authorized account holder of the email address used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant.
  • DISPUTES
    1. Except where prohibited, you agree that: (a) 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 Washington; (b) any and all claims, judgments, and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering the Contest, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (c) you waive the right to claim any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, punitive, consequential, direct, or indirect damages. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, your rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of MyDomain in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of State of Washington, without giving effect to any choice of law or c conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Washington or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than State of Washington.
  • RELEASE
    1. By receipt of a prize, winner agrees to release and hold harmless MyDomain and its officers, directors, shareholders, employees, and agents (the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in the Contest or receipt or use of any prize.
  • LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
    1. The Released Parties are not responsible for: (a) any inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants or printing errors; (b) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the Contest; (c) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to electronic malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software; (d) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest or the processing of entries; (e) lost, delayed, misdirected, or undeliverable mail; or (f) any injury or damage to persons or property including, but not limited to, death, which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from your participation in the Contest or receipt of any prize.
  • INTERNET SWEEPSTAKES PRIVACY POLICY
    1. By entering this Contest, you agree to the use of your personal information as described in the Official Rules and in the Domian.com Privacy Statement located at www.mydomain.com. Twitter.com and Amazon.com, Inc., are not affiliated with MyDomain or the Contest.
  • OFFICIAL RULES AND WINNERS LIST
    1. To request a list of winners and/or a copy of these Official Rules, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope by November 23, 2009, to MyDomain, Inc., Attn: MyDomain ReTweet After Me Giveaway, 8100 NE Parkway Drive, Suite 300, Vancouver, WA 98662. Vermont residents may omit return postage for Official Rules requests.

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