Ty Thanksgiving Contest
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR
WIN. Participation constitutes entrant's full
and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules. The Ty Inc. Thanksgiving Contest
("Contest") begins November 9th, 2009 and ends at 12:00 am on November
22nd, 2009 ("Contest Period").
The Contest is sponsored by Ty Inc.,
ELIGIBILITY: The Contest is
open to all persons including children with parental consent. No purchase necessary to enter. [Parents, please see the General
Information section for information on excluding your child from
participation.] Employees, officers, and directors of Sponsor, their respective
affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, and fulfillment agencies
("Sponsor Personnel"), and those individuals, who are immediate
family members of Sponsor Personnel, or persons living in the same household as
Sponsor Personnel, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. "Immediate family" means
parents, siblings, children and spouse.
Professional designers are not eligible to enter the Contest. Void in
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
To enter, submit your entry by no later than 12:00 am on November 22nd, 2009. Eligible participants may submit their picture
by mail to Ty Inc.,
Entries received after 12:00 am on November
22nd, 2009 will be disqualified and will not be judged. Entrants
may submit as many entries as they like. To be eligible for entry in this
Contest, all entries must meet the following criteria: (i) the design must be
exclusively entrant's work, (ii) the entries may be hand drawn or created using
your favorite Beanie Baby or designed on the computer, (iii) the entries should
contain no copyrighted images, logos, language, or designs of any nature whatsoever, and
(iv) the entries must be appropriate for viewing by children (and Sponsor, in
its sole discretion, will determine if an entry is appropriate for
children).
All entries must include all
requested information, including the entrant's name and email address. Entrants that do not include this
information will be disqualified and will not be judged.
Sponsor is not responsible for
incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete entry of information by participants; lost
entries or transmissions, interrupted or unavailable network, server, or other
connections; scrambled transmissions or other errors or problems of any kind
whether mechanical, human, or electronic, technical malfunctions or the
computer hardware, software, or any combination thereof; or problems associated
with any virus or any other damage caused to systems. Entries cannot be returned and become
the property of Ty Inc.
By submitting an entry, entrants
(including the parents or legal guardians of entrants who are minors)
acknowledge and agree that Ty Inc. shall be the sole owner of any and all rights
in and to the design included with the entry, including any and all rights with
respect to the copyright of such design and any derivative use thereof. Entrants (including the parents or legal
guardians of entrants who are minors) expressly acknowledge and agree that all
copyrights or other rights connected with the designs shall be the sole and
exclusive property of Ty Inc., and entrants (including the parents or legal
guardians of entrants who are minors) agree that they will not use such designs
without the express written permission of Ty Inc. By submitting an entry, entrants
(including the parents or legal guardians of entrants who are minors) covenant
not to sue Ty for the use of any idea presented and specifically covenant not
to sue Ty for copyright or trademark infringement.
JUDGING: Each
entry must meet the entry requirements, as specified above. Any
non-conforming entries will be disqualified. Once each entry is screened
for compliance with the entry requirements, it will be judged by a panel of no
less than three (3) Ty employees. The judging panel will judge each entry
on the basis of the following criteria:
Originality (50%) - How original,
creative and unique is the design?
Wit (25%) - How clever is the concept
in the design?
Composition (25%) - How
aesthetically pleasing is the design?
Each submission will then be awarded
a score from 0 (poor) to 1000 (perfect) in each category. The panel will
tally all of the scores for each entry and then rank them according to
cumulative score. Winners will be selected based on these rankings, and
beginning November 9th, 2009, the entrant having the
highest cumulative score on that day shall be declared the "Daily
Winner." Decisions of the judges are final. In the event of a
tie, the entry with the highest score for originality shall be declared the
Daily Winner. Entrant assigns all right, title and interest in the entry
and design to Ty Inc. Daily Winners
will be selected for fourteen (14) days, beginning on November 9th, 2009 and
ending on November 22nd, 2009. Each
daily winner of the fourteen (14) Daily Winners will be posted at http://www.ty.com/.
NOTIFICATION OF DAILY WINNERS
(collectively "Winner"): Winners will be
notified by email within one (1) day after the final decision of the
judges. Sponsor shall have all rights to copy, edit, crop, publish and
use, any entry design without further compensation (except where prohibited by
law).
PRIZE: All Daily Winners
shall receive via the U.S. Post Office, a Butterball Gift Certificate in the
amount of US$25.00. The approximate
retail value of each prize is less than $25.00.
As this is a contest of skill,
winning is dependent on the quality of entries received. All prizes will be awarded. No substitution or transfer of any prize
or election of cash in lieu of any prize by winner will be permitted. Sponsor reserve the right to substitute
any prize of equal or greater value.
Prizes are nontransferable.
All federal, state, local and/or any other applicable taxes are the sole
responsibility of the winners.
ADDITIONAL
CONDITIONS:
All entries must be the original
work of the entrant. By
participating in the Contest, entrants and, if appropriate, their parents or
legal guardians, agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of
Sponsor, which shall be final.
Sponsor, its respective agents and representatives of Sponsor, its
respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion,
and fulfillment agencies, and legal advisors are not responsible for and shall
not be liable for: (i) telephone,
electronic, hardware or software program, network, Internet, or computer
malfunctions, failures, or difficulties of any kind; (ii) failed, incomplete,
garbled, or delayed computer transmissions; (iii) any condition caused by
events beyond the control of the Sponsor that may cause the Contest to be
disrupted or corrupted; (iv) any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind
arising in connection with or as a result of any prize, or acceptance,
possession, or use of any prize, or from participation in the Contest; or (v)
any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the
Contest. Sponsor reserves the
right, in their sole discretion, to suspend or cancel the Contest at any time
if a computer virus, bug, tampering, unauthorized intervention, or other
technical problem of any sort corrupts the administration, security, or proper
play of the Contest. Sponsor
reserves the right to cancel the Contest or change any element thereof, with or
without notice, at any time, due to printing errors, web site errors,
transmission errors or other mistakes in the production of the Contest. Sponsor also reserves the right to
disqualify, in its sole discretion, any person tampering with the entry
process, the operation of the Website, or who is otherwise in violation of the
rules. By participating, entrants
agree that all disputes will be resolved in the appropriate courts in the state
of
By participating in the Contest,
each participant agrees to release and hold Sponsor and their respective
employees, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives,
companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, and fulfillment
agencies, and legal advisors, harmless from any and all losses, damages,
rights, claims and actions of any kind in connection with the Contest or
resulting from acceptance, possession, or use of any prize, including without
limitation, personal injury, death, and property damage, and claims based on
publicity rights, defamation, or invasion of privacy.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The Ty Inc. "Thanksgiving" Contest was created to
offer its users an interactive and educational experience with an opportunity
to win prizes. Ty Inc. will not maintain an archive of information obtained in
this contest, and does not use such information in ways other than to
facilitate the operation of this contest. Identifiable information obtained
through contest entries is limited only to that which is necessary for
validating contest eligibility, contacting Winners, and to facilitate the
delivery of prizes. Information obtained through contests will not be used by
Ty for any other purpose, nor will such information be transferred to any other
organization or individual for any purpose.
Parents may exclude their
children from participating in this contest, and those who wish to do so should
submit an email to Sponsor at customerservice@ty.com, with the child's name, birth date and entrant's
email address to have the entry removed.
WINNERS' NAMES:
To obtain a list of Winners, send
your request along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to:
Ty Inc.
"Thanksgiving" Contest List,