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THE
“$1 MILLION ULTIMATE SHOPPING SPREE” GAME OFFICIAL RULES
1. ELIGIBILITY: NO PURCHASE
NECESSARY - VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Open to legal U.S. residents who are 18 years of
age or older and who reside within the distribution area of participating
Verizon®
Yellow Pages telephone directories. Employees (including their immediate
family members and those living in their household) of Idearc Media Corp. (the
“Sponsor”) and Verizon Communications, Inc., its respective parents, affiliates and subsidiaries, and the
Sponsor’s advertising and promotion agencies, prize suppliers, sales
representatives, distributors and other vendor companies involved in the sales
and production of printed or online directories in this Sweepstakes
(collectively, “Related Entities”) are not eligible.
2. HOW TO PLAY: Game begins on 1/11/2008
and ends on 12/31/08 (“Promotion Period”).
This Game is subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations. Upon
receipt of your 2008 Verizon® Yellow Pages directory, visit www.erieshoppinggame.com,
complete the registration information (name, phone number, address, zip code,
and email address), answer the Verizon® Yellow Pages question from the
directory, and click on the Submit button. After you answer the question
correctly, a virtual scratch and win game piece will appear with twenty-five
(25) directories. To play, select five (5) of the directories. Each directory
selected will reveal either a winning image or an X. Winning images are Community
Magazine, Coupons, Dining Your Way®, Area Maps and America’s Best Yellow
Pages. If you reveal five winning images, you will win $1 Million
instantly. If you reveal 4 winning images, you will instantly win $1,000. If
you reveal 3 winning images, you will instantly win $500. If you reveal 2 winning
images, you will instantly win $100. If you reveal 1 or no winning images, you
will receive an entry into the $5,000 Ultimate Shopping Spree Sweepstakes. All potential
winners subject to verification. All complete online registrations with
correct answers to the Verizon® Yellow Pages question will be entered into the
Ultimate Shopping Spree Sweepstakes drawing for a chance to win $5,000. To
obtain an entry into the Sweepstakes without a directory, send a hand printed
self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Erie Sweepstakes Entry "$1
MILLION ULTIMATE SHOPPING SPREE” P.O. Box 78285, Atlanta, GA 30357. No photocopies, facsimiles or mechanical reproductions of mail entries permitted. No
metered mail will be accepted. Mail entries will be honored while supplies
last and must be received by 1/7/09.
3.
PRIZE
REDEMPTION:
Online Game - Instant Prize Redemption: If you are an instant
winner via the virtual scratch and win game piece, a winning message associated
with that prize will appear on the webpage. To redeem, print the webpage with
the winning message and send it certified mail, return receipt requested or
overnight delivery by a recognized delivery service which uses a tracking
system (keep a copy for yourself) to Ultimate Shopping Spree Instant Winner, 1450 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309. Submission must be postmarked by 12/31/08
and received by 1/7/09. Not responsible for late, lost, mutilated, illegible,
or misdirected submissions. You are not a winner unless Ultimate Shopping webpage
with the winning message and eligibility is verified. If you have trouble
printing, copy all text from the winning web page, click on the Having
Trouble? Click Here to Contact Support link and paste all text into the
message window. Email Subject should say “Ultimate Shopping Spree Instant
Winner.” Viewing a winning message is not, in itself, proof of eligibility. All
potential winning plays are subject to verification by administrator, whose
decisions are final. An entrant is not a winner of any prize, even if the game
should so indicate, unless and until entrant’s eligibility and the potential
winning play has been verified and entrant has been notified that verification
is complete. Administrator will not accept screen shots or other evidence of
winning in lieu of its validation process. Any play that occurs after the
system has failed for any reason is deemed a defective play and is void and
will not be honored. Redemption period ends on 1/14/09.
4. PRIZES/ODDS:
Online Game: Instant-Win Prizes – One
hundred and fifteen (115) random, computer generated winning times, one for each
prize listed below, will be generated during the Promotion Period. If you are
the first person to play the Instant Win Game at or after one (1) of the
winning times, you will be a potential instant winner of the prize indicated. 115
instant-winning game pieces - One hundred (100) $100 instant winners, Ten (10)
$500 instant winners, and Five (5) $1,000 instant winners will be seeded among
all game plays. Throughout the promotional period, winners will be selected
randomly. Odds of being selected as an instant winner depend on the number of
game plays throughout the promotional period. $1,000,000 Prize – every game
play has the potential to be selected as a $1,000,000 Winner. Prior to the
scratch and win game piece being displayed, a random number generator will
determine if you are a $1,000,000 winner. Odds of winning the $1,000,000 grand
prize are 1:20,000,000 per game play. All non-instant winning entrants will be
entered into the $5,000 Ultimate Shopping Spree Sweepstakes.
$5,000 Ultimate Shopping Spree Sweepstakes Prize –
Each online game play is an entry into the Ultimate Shopping Spree $5,000
sweepstakes. Odds of an entry being selected depend on the number of total
entries received.
All taxes on any prize awarded are the
responsibility of the winner. Limit one prize per person, address, or
household. Unclaimed instant-win prizes will not be awarded. Prizes will be awarded in the name indicated on the
entry game card or at the time of online registration. All game pieces become
the property of the Sponsor and none will be returned. The independent judging
organization, Mastermind Marketing, reserves the right to disqualify anyone who
it determines, in its sole discretion, violates the spirit of the game or acts
in a manner which makes it unfair to other participants. All winners
are subject to verification by Mastermind Marketing. Winners may make no
substitution or transfer of prizes. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute
prizes of equal or greater value in the event of unavailability. All federal, state, and local taxes are
the sole responsibility of winners. All
federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply. All instant prize
winners who win prize winnings exceeding $599, and the winner of the $5,000
Ultimate Shopping Spree Sweepstakes, must execute and return an Affidavit of
Eligibility, Release of Liability, Prize Acceptance Form within seven (7) days
of the date indicated on the letter of notification. Noncompliance within this
time period may result in disqualification, and an alternate may be selected.
Return of any prize notification as undeliverable will result in
disqualification, and an alternate will be selected. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission to the
Sponsor and its agencies to use winners’ names and/or likenesses for purposes
of advertising and trade without further compensation, unless prohibited by
law. By participating in this promotion, entrant agrees to be bound by the
Official Rules and the decisions of the independent judging organization, Mastermind
Marketing, which are binding and final. In the event of a printing error, or
other error, that results in the establishment of more winning game pieces in
any prize category than the number of prizes set forth in these Official Rules,
a random drawing will be held from among those making prize claims to award the
published number of prizes. Any official game piece forged, mechanically
reproduced, altered, defaced, mutilated, or tampered with, or in any way
containing printing or other errors or obtained through unauthorized channels,
is automatically void. Sponsor is not responsible for printing and other
errors that affect the administration or play of the Game, and may create any
remedy or fix of the Game, including modification or cancellation, as
necessary, in its sole discretion.
5. PRIVACY: All
information collected will be treated subject to Sponsor’s privacy policy, set
forth at www.idearc.com.
6. GENERAL: By
entering, entrants warrant that they are eligible to participate in this Game,
agree to accept and abide by the rules of this Game and agree that any dispute
with regard to the conduct of this Game, rule interpretation, or award of
prizes shall be submitted to the independent judging organization, Mastermind
Marketing, whose decisions are binding and final. By participating, entrant agrees
to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Related Entities and their respective
officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives from any injury,
loss, liability or damage arising from or in connection with the acceptance or
use/misuse of any prize or participation in this Game. Sponsor reserves the
right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its
sole discretion, to be tampering with the intended entry process or the
operation of the Game or website; to be acting in violation of these Official
Rules; or to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with
intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Sponsor also
reserves the right to cancel the promotion at any time and under Sponsor's sole
judgment if the promotion becomes compromised. All trademarks and service
marks used in these Official Rules belong to Idearc Media Corp, except as otherwise noted.
If any provision of these Official Rules is
to any extent held invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of these Official
Rules shall not be affected but shall be valid and enforceable to the fullest
extent permitted by law.
7. LIMITATIONS
OF LIABILITY: Sponsor and Related Entities make no warranties
regarding any of the prizes furnished as part of this Game. Notwithstanding
any other provision of these official rules, Sponsor’s aggregate liability
hereunder and with respect to the Game shall be limited to and shall not exceed
the value of the prizes set forth above. Any attempt to deliberately damage
any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Game may be a
violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, the
Sponsor and Related Entities reserve the right to seek damages or other
remedies from any such person(s) responsible for the attempt to the fullest
extent permitted by law. By playing the Game, entrant agrees that (a) any and
all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with
the Game, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually without
resort to any form of class action; (b) any claims, judgments and awards shall
be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated
with playing the Game, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (c) under no
circumstances will any entrant be permitted to obtain any award for, and
entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or
consequential damages and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or
otherwise increased and any other damages, other than damages for actual
out-of-pocket expenses. In no event will
Sponsor, Related Entities or their respective officers, directors, employees,
representatives and agents, be responsible or liable for any damages or losses
of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive
damages arising out of any entrant’s access to and use of the Game website, the
downloading from and/or printing material downloaded from said site, or participation
in the promotion or any associated event. Some jurisdictions may not allow the
limitations 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.
8. INTERNET: Sponsor reserves the right
at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who is an entrant who
tampers with the entry process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend
the Sweepstakes and select winners from the entries received prior to
modification or termination, if for any reason, the Internet portion of the
program is not capable of running as planned, whether due to infection by
computer virus, tampering, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes
beyond the control of Sponsor which corrupt or affect the administration,
security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes. Sponsor
assumes no responsibility for any miscommunication, error, omission,
interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission,
communications line failure, lost Internet connection, technical failure of any
kind, failed computer transmissions, theft or destruction or unauthorized
access to, or alteration of, entries. Sponsor 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 any email or entry to be received by Sponsor on account of technical
problems, human error or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website,
or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to the registrant’s
or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or
downloading any materials in this Sweepstakes. Caution: Any attempt by any
person to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation
of the Sweepstakes is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an
attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such
person to the fullest extent permitted by law.
9. SPONSOR:
This Game is sponsored by Idearc Media Corp., 2200 West Airfield Drive, D/FW Airport, TX 75261-9810.
10. WINNERS LIST: For a list of major prize
winners available after 1/7/2009 send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
Erie Winners List “$1 MILLION ULTIMATE SHOPPING SPREE”, P.O. Box 78285 , Atlanta, GA 30357. Requests must be received by 2/7/2009.
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