CONTEST RULES!
To provide fair and equal chance of winning to all Video Game Players Association (VGPA) members, the following are the official rules.
OFFICIAL RULES:
The "Win a free Retro-Red T-Shirt Contest" begins as of this posting and ends on November 30, 2010 at 11:59PM Central Time.
Void where prohibited.
A Video Game Players Association Membership purchase is necessary to enter.
ENTERING CONTESTS AND CHOOSING AND CONTACTING WINNERS
Winners of random membership contests will be chosen at random from the association membership registry. You must purchase and complete your association membership for entry. No exceptions. Current members will be eligbible for entry. membership purchase is necessary to enter.
VGPA is not responsible for and will not consider incomplete or incorrect membership registrations, or registration requests sent but not received by VGPA for any reason, as potential contest winners.
Winners of all contests will be contacted at the "sender" email address used to become an association member, and the person receiving and replying to the winner announcement email will be considered the winne. VGPA will mail the contest prize to the address supplied by the recipient of the winner announcement email.
Only one entry per membership will be considered for contest entry, unless multiple entries are specifically allowed in the contest posting. Unless otherwise specified in an individual contest post, no person may enter any contest more than once using multiple membership registrations.
Claiming of prizes requires an email response to VGPA from the winning sender email address within 7 days of being notified of winning at the email address used to enter. Failure to respond shall mean that the winner forfeits the prize. VGPA is not required to award elsewhere any prizes forfeited by the chosen winner(s).
The Winner will be announced on the VGPA web site on December 1, 2009.
As a member, you will be allowed one (1) entry.
This contest is open to U.S. and international residents.
Must be 17 years or older to enter unless you are under 17 and have established a VGPA Family account with parental or guardian approval for VGPA membership.
SUBMISSION OF PHOTO, TEXT OR OTHER CONTENT FOR CONTESTS
By submitting any photo or information to VGPA, you hereby grant to VGPA and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees and assigns, an irrevocable, perpetual and royalty-free right to use, reproduce, edit, display, transmit, prepare derivative works of, modify, publish and otherwise make use of the submitted photo or other information in any and all media, whether now known or hereinafter created, throughout the world and for any purpose. In addition to other things, the rights granted to VGPA includes but is not limited to the right to resize, crop, censor, compress, edit, feature, caption, affix logos to, and to otherwise alter or make use of the submitted photo;
By submitting any photo or information to VGPA, you hereby represent and warrant that the submitted photo or information does not and shall not infringe on any copyright, any rights of privacy or publicity of any person, or any other right of any third party, and you have the right to grant any and all rights and licenses granted to VGPA herein, including but not limited to all necessary rights under copyright, free and clear of any claims or encumbrances;
You acknowledge and agree that VGPA shall have no obligation to post, display or otherwise make publicly available any photo or information submitted by you, and may, in its sole and unfettered discretion, remove, edit, modify or delete any photo or information that you submit to VGPA;
You understand and intend that any photo or information submitted by you to VGPA may be available for viewing, rating, review and comment on by the public, and understand that comments or ratings with which you disagree or are unhappy about may be published or otherwise become associated with any photo or information you submit to VGPA. By submitting any photo or information to VGPA, you hereby waive any privacy expectations that you may have with respect to any such photo or information submitted by you to VGPA.
You hereby agree to hold VGPA and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees sponsors and assigns harmless from and against, and hereby waive any right to pursue, any claims of any nature arising in connection with the inclusion in, publication via or display on any VGPA site, or any other use authorized under these Terms, of any photo or information submitted to VGPA by you;
Photos or information submitted by you to the Site shall be the property of VGPA, and VGPA shall have no obligation to preserve, return or otherwise make available to you or others any photos or information so submitted.
AWARDING PRIZES
Winners are solely responsible for all taxes and/or fees that may be incurred.
Each prizewinner must supply VGPA with his/her legal name, mailing address, birth date, daytime and nighttime telephone numbers. Winners may not request substitutions of prize winnings. All winners are solely responsible for any and all taxes and/or fees, and all such additional costs that may be incurred.
Neither VGPA, VGPA sponsors, nor employees of VGPA or sponsors may be held liable for any warranty, costs, damage, injury, or any other claims incurred as a result of usage of any winners of a prize once possession has been taken of the product by winner. VGPA is not liable for any loss arising out of or in connection with or resulting from any contest promoted by VGPA.
If the specified prize becomes unavailable due to unforeseen circumstances, VGPA may substitute a prize of like or equal value.
Management, employees and families of VGPA are prohibited from winning any prizes awarded by VGPA.
VGPA reserves the right to alter any rules of any contest at anytime. If you have any questions or complaints about a VGPA contest, please contact: Contests@VideoGamePlayers.ORG.
VGPA reserves the right to modify these terms to comply with the laws of the State of Illinois, to correct errors and omissions, or to ensure fairness as determined by VGPA. Such modifications, if any, will be posted at VGPA.
Your entry implies and expresses your agreement to these terms and your waiver of any other rights, related to such giveaways, you may have in any jurisdiction.