CONTEST RULES
“Office Space Makeover” brought to you by Boston.com and The Boston
Globe (the "Promotion") - 2008 Official Rules and Regulations.
1. HOW IT WORKS: There is no purchase necessary to enter. Contest
entrants must submit their name and contact info and a picture of their work
space.
2. SUBMISSION DATES: Submissions will be accepted
beginning Monday, November 3, 2008 at 12:01 a.m. local time,
3. WHO MAY APPLY: Entrants must be legal residents of the
4. HOW TO SUBMIT: Entrants may go to www.boston.com/topworkplaces
and register to enter. They will follow on-screen instructions to upload
their photo.
5. PHOTO REQUIREMENTS: THERE IS A LIMIT OF ONE ENTRY PER PERSON PER ENTRY PERIOD. Photo submitted online must be the original work of the submitter, may not have been previously published, may not have won previous awards, and must not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity.
- Photos must be submitted as a JPEG file that does not exceed 3MB.
Content cannot be sexually explicit or suggestive, violent or derogatory of any
ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group, profane or
pornographic, or contain nudity; Content cannot include or promote alcohol,
illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the
aforementioned), any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any
particular political agenda or message; Content cannot be obscene or offensive
or endorse any form of hate or hate group; Content cannot defame, misrepresent
or contain disparaging remarks about Sponsors, the MLB Entities or other
products, people or companies; Content cannot contain trademarks, logos or
trade dress (such as distinctive packaging or building exteriors/interiors)
owned by others, or advertise or promote any brand or product of any kind,
without permission, or contain any personal identification, such as license
plate numbers, personal names, email addresses or street addresses; Content
cannot contain copyrighted materials owned by others (including photographs,
sculptures, paintings and other works of art or images published on or in
websites, television, movies or other media) without permission; Content cannot
contain materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or other
indicia identifying any person, living or dead, without permission; Content
cannot communicate messages or images inconsistent with the positive images
and/or goodwill to which Sponsors wish to associate; and Content cannot depict
and cannot itself be in violation of any law or otherwise.
Entries containing prohibited or inappropriate content as determined by the Sponsors, in their sole discretion, will not be eligible for entry.
By submitting a photo, submitter hereby grants permission (without limiting any
other rights granted hereunder) for his/her photo to be posted on Boston.com
for viewing by visitors to the web site and any other use at Sponsors
discretion. Sponsors are not responsible for any unauthorized third party copy
or use of photo. Sponsors do not guarantee the posting of photo.
Sponsor makes the final determination as to which Entries
are eligible. Submission of an Entry grants Sponsors and their respective
agents the unconditional right to publish, use, adapt, edit and/or modify such
Entry in any way, in any and all media, without limitation, and without
consideration to the Entrant, whether or not such Entry is selected as a
winning Entry. Entries not following these requirements will be considered void
and will not be considered in this Promotion.
Sponsor will not be responsible for lost, late, forged, mass-reproduced or
mass-transmitted, misdirected, mutilated, incomplete or illegible mail or
entries and such entries are void; telephone, electronic, hardware or software
program, network, Internet or computer malfunctions, failures or difficulties,
errors or failures in transmission or reception and/or any condition caused by
events which may cause the contest to be disrupted or corrupted. By entering,
you warrant that your submission is original and does not infringe the rights
of any third party and you agree that submissions will become property of the
Sponsor and will not be returned.
6. SELECTION OF WINNERS: Entries must be submitted by November 20, 2008
at 5:00 pm. 15-20 Finalists will be chosen
at the discretion of the Boston.com and The Boston Globe. The winner will be chosen
through an online voting system on Boston.com starting on November 20, 2008 at
6:00 PM EST and ending November 24, 2008.
Winner will be announced on November 25, 2008 by 5:00 PM EST. The winner will be selected by the photo who
receives the most votes.
7. DETAILS OF PRIZE: Winner of the contest will receive a $500 makeover of their office space provided by a professional interior designer courtesy of Boston.com.
GENERAL CONDITIONS: Prize winners are solely responsible for any taxes
on their prize, and Grand Prize Winners will receive an IRS Form 1099 for the
MSRP of the prize. The Grand Prize is non-transferable. By participating,
Entrants agree to these Official Rules and Sponsor's Privacy Policy (available
at Boston.com) which are final and binding in all respects and applied at
Sponsors' sole discretion. Unclaimed prizes will not be awarded. Winner will be
notified by email and will be required to complete, sign, notarize and return
an Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release, and, where lawful, a Publicity
Release within five (5) days of attempted notification or else the Grand Prize
may be forfeited. If the potential winner fails to sign and return the
Affidavit/Release within the required time period, or if he/she is otherwise
ineligible to receive the prize, the prize will be forfeited and an alternate
winner will be selected. Except where prohibited by law, acceptance of a prize
constitutes permission for Sponsors, the MLB Entities and each of their
respective designees to use winner's name, hometown, likeness, statements and
other personally identifiable information for promotional, advertising and
marketing purposes in any media now known or hereafter devised, throughout the
world, in perpetuity, without additional prize, incentive, consideration,
consent or review; and upon request, the winner will provide written consent to
such use. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
If for any reason the Promotion is not capable of running as planned, including
infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud,
technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the
administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the
Promotion, Sponsors reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify
any individual who is responsible or who tampers with the entry process, and to
cancel, modify or terminate the Promotion or any part of the Promotion.
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, SPONSORS RESERVES THE
RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW.This Promotion is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, with venue in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and all claims
must be resolved in the federal or state courts located in Middlesex County,
Massachusetts.
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND RELEASE: No liability or responsibility is
assumed by Sponsors or Promotion Parties resulting from any user's
participation in or attempt to participate in the Promotion or ability or
inability to upload or download any information in connection with
participating in the Promotion. No responsibility or liability is assumed by
the Sponsors or Promotion Parties for technical problems or technical
malfunction arising in connection with any of the following occurrences which
may affect the operation of the Promotion: hardware or software errors; faulty
computer, telephone, cable, satellite, network, electronic, wireless or
Internet connectivity or other online communication problems; errors or
limitations of any Internet service providers, servers, hosts or providers;
garbled, jumbled or faulty data transmissions; failure of any email
transmissions to be sent or received; lost, late, delayed or intercepted email
transmissions; inaccessibility of the Web Site in whole or in part for any
reason; traffic congestion on the Internet or the Web Site; unauthorized human
or non-human intervention of the operation of the Promotion, including without
limitation, unauthorized tampering, hacking, theft, virus, bugs, worms; or
destruction of any aspect of the Promotion, or loss, miscount, misdirection,
inaccessibility or unavailability of an email account used in connection with
the Promotion. Sponsors and Promotion Parties are not responsible for any
typographical errors in the announcement of prizes or these Official Rules, or
any inaccurate or incorrect data contained on the Web Site. Use of Web Site is
at user's own risk. Sponsors and the Promotion Parties are not responsible for
any personal injury or property damage or losses of any kind which may be
sustained to user's or any other person's computer equipment resulting from
participation in the Promotion, use of the Web Site or the download of any
information from the Web Site. By participating in the Promotion, Entrant
agrees to release and hold Sponsors and Promotion Parties harmless from any and
all claims, damages or liabilities arising from or relating to such Entrant's
participation in the Promotion. By accepting a prize in the Promotion, winners
agree that the Sponsors and Promotion Parties shall not be liable for any
damage, loss or injury resulting from, directly or indirectly, in whole or in
part, participation in the Promotion or from the receipt, acceptance or use of
any prize or any travel or activity related to the receipt or use of any Prize.
Link to our privacy policy: http://www.boston.com/help/privacy_policy/
WINNERS' LIST/RULES REQUEST: For winner names or Official Rules, send
your request with a self-addressed, stamped envelope postmarked no later than November
21, 2008 specifying "Winner List" or "Rules Request" to:
"Office Space Makeover Winners List" or "Rules Request",
c/o Amanda Rottier, The Boston Globe,
SPONSORS: Boston.com and The