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Aug/Sep 2008, vol. 46 no. 5
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Photo Caption Contest Rules

NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION CAPTION CONTEST

  1. HOW TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. The National Wildlife Federation ("Company") Caption Contest("Contest") begins January 1, 2008 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST) and ends January 31, 2008 EST ("entry period.") and is thereafter conducted on a monthly basis throughout the year 2006 beginning at 12:00 AM EST on the first day of each month and ending at 11:59 PM EST on the last day of each month. There is one way to enter: online. No other method of entry will be accepted. Online Method: To enter online during the entry period, go to http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/captionContest.cfm. Follow the directions to complete the online entry form, answer the questions and click submit. Entrants must complete all data requested on the online entry form. Online entries must be completed and received by Company by 11:59 PM EST on the last day of the applicable month. Limit one entry per person. Incomplete entries are void.

    Company assumes no responsibility for lost, late, misdirected, illegible or mutilated entries or for any computer, online, telephone, cable, network, electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, failures, connections, availability, garbled or jumbled transmissions, service provider, Internet, web site, or other accessibility or availability issues, traffic congestion, or unauthorized human intervention, or any technical malfunctions that may occur. Entrants shall be the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain name associated with the submitted email address.

  2. ELIGIBILITY: This Contest is open only to legal residents of the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) who are 18 years of age or older as of the date the Contest begins. Employees of Company, their subsidiaries, affiliates, prize suppliers, and advertising and promotional agencies of Company, and their immediate families (spouse, parents, children, siblings and their spouses) and individuals living in the same household as such employees are ineligible. This Contest is governed by the laws of the United States and is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void in Puerto Rico and where prohibited.

  3. JUDGING: Winners will be selected by the editors of National Wildlife magazine based on wit, humor, and relevance on or about the 15th of each month for the preceding month's contest period, beginning February 15, 2004, from among all eligible entries received for each individual month. By participating, entrants agree to be bound by the Official Rules and the decisions of the judges, which shall be final and binding in all respects. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received. All prizes will be awarded. Limit one prize per person, family or household. Winners will be notified via email, U.S. mail, telephone, and/or by overnight courier.

  4. PRIZES: There will be one (1) winner selected for each separate monthly contest and one (1) prize granted. Each winner will receive one prize package that includes one (1) book and 1lb coffee. The prize cannot be exchanged for cash, and cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion. Company reserves the right to substitute prize sponsor and/or a prize of any value in the event the offered prize is unavailable. No substitution or transfer of prize permitted except as provided herein.

  5. GENERAL CONDITIONS: All federal, state, and local taxes, fees and surcharges on prize packages are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. Prize winners may be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/Release of Liability/Prize Acceptance Form within seven (7) days following notification. Return of any prize and/or prize notification as undeliverable or failure of any entrant to comply with any Official Rules will result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner.

    Winners grant Company the right to use and publish their legal name and state of residence online and in print, or any other media, in connection with the Contest. Except winners who are residents of the State of Tennessee, acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for Company and their advertising and promotional agencies to use winners' names and likenesses for editorials, advertising and promotional purposes without payment of additional compensation unless prohibited by law. By entering, participants release and hold harmless Company, their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys, agents and representatives from any and all liability for any injuries, loss, claim, action, demand or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the Contest or any prize won, any misuse or malfunction of any prize awarded, participation in any Contest related activity, or participation in the Contest

    As a condition of participating in this Contest, participant agrees that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between and the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively, before a court of competent jurisdiction located in Fairfax County, VA, which court shall apply the laws of the state of VA without regard for rules of conflicts of law. In any such dispute, participant shall, under no circumstances, be entitled to claim punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys' fees, other than participant's actual out-of-pocket expenses (if any) associated with participating in the Contest, and participant hereby waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

    CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A CONTESTANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH CONTESTANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

  6. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Company is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by web site users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions in the Contest, including but not limited to any misprints or typographical errors. Company 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. Company is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line-systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or combination thereof, including injury or damage to participants or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in this Contest. If, for any reason, the Contest is not capable of completion as planned, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of Company which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, Company reserves the right at their sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest.

    IN NO EVENT WILL COMPANY, ITS PARENTS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, AND RELATED COMPANIES, ITS ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL AGENCIES, OR ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, ATTORNEYS, AGENTS, AND REPRESENTATIVES, BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF PARTICIPANT'S ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE INTERNET SITE http://www.nwf.org OR THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING OF MATERIAL FROM SAID SITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.

  7. LIST OF WINNERS: For a list of winners, after January 31st, 2006, mail a separate, self-addressed stamped envelope to: National Wildlife Federation Caption Contest Winners, Attn: Internet and Cause Marketing Department, 11100 Wildlife Center Drive, Reston, VA 20190. Vermont residents may omit return postage.

  8. NOTICE TO INDIVIDUALS: REMOVAL FROM MAILING LIST: Any individual (or other duly authorized person) may elect to exclude the name and address of that individual from all lists used by Company to mail skill contests or sweepstakes. To elect to have an individual's name excluded from all such lists, submit a removal request in writing to "National Wildlife Federation Caption Contest Winners, Attn: Internet and Cause Marketing Department, 11100 Wildlife Center Drive, Reston, VA 20190". This notification system may be used to prohibit mailing of all skill contests by Company to such individual.



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