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Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Void where prohibited.

NAME THE BABY FOXES CONTEST (the “Contest”) starts on December 17, 2012 at 9:00:01 am ET and ends on December 21, 2012 at 12:00:01 pm ET (”Contest Period”). Sponsor reserves the right to cancel this Contest at any time without any obligation or prior notice to participants.

1.ELIGIBILITY. Contest is open to legal residents who currently reside in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Entrants must be 18 years of age or older at the time of submission. Employees of The Boston Globe, Boston.com (collectively the “Sponsor”), any and all prize providers (“Prize Providers”) and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, promotion and advertising agencies, and members of their immediate family (defined as spouse and parent, children and siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and persons living in the same household, whether or not related, of such employees, are not eligible to enter or win. Void where prohibited by law. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws.

2.HOW TO ENTER. To enter, complete an official entry form during the Contest Period by visiting www.boston.com (“Contest Site”) and follow the on-screen instructions to submit the “Entry”. One Entry permitted per person. Limit of one prize per Entry. If reader submits more than one entry, the first entry will stand as the official entry. All Entries must be received no later than 12:01 pm ET on December 21, 2012 and become the sole property of the Sponsor upon receipt by Sponsor and will not be returned. Max word count is five words per entry.

Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means or which subvert or impair the integrity of the entry process will be void. Any attempt by you and/or your family/friends or any other individual to enter more than the number of times authorized herein, including the use of multiple names or email address and/or any other fraudulent mechanism, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, shall give Sponsor the right to disqualify you in its reasonable discretion.

3.ENTRY REQUIREMENTS.

Entry must comply with the following additional guidelines:

i.The Entry may not contain any content that is lewd, obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic, disparaging, defamatory, libelous, obscene, or that otherwise contains inappropriate content or objectionable material as determined by Sponsor in its sole and unfettered discretion.

ii.The Entry must be your original work, created solely by you, and must not infringe the copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other intellectual rights of any person or entity.

iii.The Entry must not contain any personally identifiable information of any person. Should you include personally identifiable information about yourself in your Entry, you acknowledge and agree that such information will be disclosed publicly and you are solely responsible for any consequences thereof.

iv.You may not be, nor may you work with parties in conjunction with your Entry, who: 1) are represented under contract (e.g., by a talent agent or manager) that would limit or impair Sponsor’s ability to display the Entry in any media form; 2) have an acting or modeling contract that would make their appearance in the Entry a violation of any third party rights; or 3) are under any other contractual relationship, including but not limited to guild and/or union memberships, that may prohibit them from participating fully in this Contest, or from allowing Sponsor to use the Entry royalty-free, worldwide in all media in perpetuity.

v.The Entry must not contain any commercial content or logos.

vi.The Entry may not have been previously published and may not have won previous awards.

vii.The Entry may not contain any material or elements that are not owned by you and/or which are subject to the rights of third parties.

By submitting your Entry, you agree that your Entry conforms to these Official Rules and that Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may disqualify your Entry for any reason at any time, including if it determines, in its sole discretion, that your Entry fails to conform to these Official Rules in any way or otherwise contains unacceptable content as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion. In addition, by submitting an Entry, you hereby grant permission for the Entry to be posted online, at Sponsor’s websites or other websites at Sponsor’s sole discretion. You agree that Released Parties (as defined below) are not responsible for any unauthorized use of Entry by third parties. Released Parties do not guarantee the posting of any Entry. You agree that you will not use the Entry for any other purpose, including, without limitation, posting the Entry to any online social networks, without the express consent of Sponsor in each instance. Continued...