Woot.com the GIF that Keeps on GIFFING Contest
OFFICIAL RULES
Please read these rules before entering the Woot.com the GIF that Keeps on GIFFING Contest (“Contest”). By submitting an entry, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor and the judges, and that you satisfy all eligibility requirements.
ELIGIBILITY.
Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are the older of 18 years of age or the legal age of majority in their state of residence at the time of entry. Entrants may not be members of any guild, union or other organization that may prohibit them from participating in this Contest and that would restrict, require due payment or otherwise have the right to oppose such entrant’s participation in this Contest. This Contest is not open to employees or independent contractors, or immediate family members (spouses, domestic partners, parents, grandparents, siblings, children, and grandchildren) or those living in the same household of employees or independent contractors of Woot Services, LLC (“Sponsor”, “we”, or “us”) or any entity involved in any aspect of the Contest (including funding, judging or administration), and each of their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, advisors, or advertising/promotion agencies.
HOW TO ENTER.
Contest entry period begins at 11:00 a.m. (PT) on November 1, 2014 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. (PT) on November 24, 2014 (the “Entry Period”). To enter the Contest, you must follow the steps below.
- Create a holiday themed animated GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) image (the “GIF”); and
- Send an email which includes the following to GIF@woot.com:
- the text, "GIF" featured in the email subject line;
- your GIF included as an attachment, or include a link to an uploaded version; and
- your first name, last name, and telephone number.
The GIF and identifying information you provide in connection with the GIF are collectively referred to as the “Entry.” All Entries must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. (PT) on November 24, 2014. Limit one Entry per person and email address. In the event any entrant submits more than one Entry, the first Entry received by Sponsor will be deemed that entrant’s Entry. Entrants assume all risk of lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, or illegible Entries. You may not use multiple email addresses to enter the Contest, and an entrant who submits through multiple email addresses will be disqualified.
Each GIF must (a) be no larger than 2MB, (b) include at least three unique frames, (c) not prominently display third-party brands or logos, (d) be the original creation of entrant, and (e) be suitable for family viewing on a national news network, and meet other reasonable community standards.
Sponsor’s servers and clock will be the official clock for all phases of the Contest, and entrant’s proof of a submission does not constitute proof of receipt by Sponsor. Sponsor is not responsible for (i) lost, misdirected, late, incomplete, illegible, or unintelligible Entries or for inaccurate entry information, whether caused by participant or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest, or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of Entries; or (ii) any printing, production, human, or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Contest.
Sponsor reserves the right in its sole and unfettered discretion to disqualify at any time any Entry containing obscene, offensive, pornographic, or sexually explicit material, or libelous, disparaging, or other inappropriate content or subject matter (as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion).
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY.
All Entries must be the original creations of the entrants, and by submitting an Entry, each entrant grants to Sponsor the non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display the GIF (including all images and people depicted in the GIF) throughout the world in any media. By submitting an Entry, each entrant represents and warrants that (a) his/her GIF is his/her original creation; (b) his/her GIF has not been copied or derived in whole or in part from any other work; (c) his/her GIF (including all images and people depicted in the GIF) does not violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity right, or other personal, proprietary, or intellectual property right of any person or entity; (d) his/her GIF is not defamatory, libelous, obscene, or otherwise illegal; (e) his/her GIF is the sole and exclusive property of the entrant; (f) he/she has complete, worldwide distribution rights for his/her GIF; and (g) he/she has received the written consent of any person who appears in any GIF, and each person in the GIF must be the older of 18 years of age or the legal age of majority in his/her state of residence. If an entrant appears in his/her own GIF, such entrant acknowledges that he/she is the older of 18 years of age or the legal age of majority in his/her state of residence in the GIF, and such entrant consents, by virtue of submitting his/her Entry to the Contest, to Sponsor’s use of the entrant’s name, likeness, photograph or image, whether in writing, audio, and/or video, for any purpose, in any media, without compensation or additional consideration to entrant. Failure to obtain or provide such consent will disqualify the Entry. Sponsor may at any time during the Contest request proof of such consent and disqualify any Entry for which such consent cannot be provided. Sponsor may disqualify any entrant whose Entry Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, at any time not to comply with any requirement described in these Official Rules or the foregoing representations and warranties. Entrants agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sponsor, any entity involved in any aspect of the Contest (including funding, judging or administration), and each of their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, advisors, and advertising/promotion agencies (collectively, the “Released Parties”), for any action or claim brought by a person whose consent entrant did not obtain.
GIFs, along with the entrant’s name may be posted on any website owned and/or operated by Sponsor or any of its affiliates (“Sponsor Site”), Sponsor’s pages on any social media websites/platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, and any other website or other online point of presence on any platform, through which any products or services available on or through the Sponsor Site are described, syndicated, offered, merchandised, or advertised, in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor’s decision to post a GIF or any portion of a GIF on any Sponsor Site does not mean that the selected GIF has been selected as the winning Entry.
Sponsor is collecting personal information primarily to process the Entries and to contact you if necessary, but also to potentially contact you for marketing purposes. If you do not wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, you will be provided with a method to opt-out from future communications. You may update or change your “Email Preferences” in your Woot.com account at https://account.woot.com. Sponsor will share your information with third parties that have a need to know, such as the judging panels, and by entering, you agree to the sharing of your information with the judging panels and third parties whom Sponsor retains to assist in administering the Contest. If you do not agree to these terms or to Sponsor’s privacy notice located at www.woot.com/privacy, please do not submit an Entry.
JUDGING.
From November 25, 2014 through November 30, 2014, each qualified Entry will be judged and rated by a panel of qualified judges selected by Sponsor using the following criteria: (a) how well the GIF demonstrates a holiday theme; (b) the amount of creativity demonstrated in the GIF; and (c) the quality and composition of the GIF (collectively, the “Judging Criteria”).
One First Prize winner, one Second Prize winner, one Third Prize winner, and one Fourth Prize winner will be selected by the judges based on the Judging Criteria.
Additionally, one Consolation Prize winner will be selected based on the GIF with the lowest rating as determined by the judges using the Judging Criteria.
Each winner will be notified by phone or e-mail on or about December 1, 2014. In the event of a tie, the tie will be broken by the tied Entries being judged and rated based on originality of content in the GIF. In the event a potential winner’s Entry is disqualified, the entrant who submitted the next highest rated Entry will be a potential prize winner and must comply with the requirements in these Official Rules. All decisions of the judges are final and binding.
Prizes. We will award a total of five prizes as described below.
First Prize: One First Prize winner will win $1,000.00
Second Prize: One Second Prize winner will win $500.00
Third Prize: One Third Prize winner will win $300.00
Fourth Prize: One Fourth Prize winner will win $200.00
Consolation Prize: One Consolation Prize winner will win $25.00
The retail value of all Prizes is $2,025.00. Winners will be responsible for paying all costs and expenses related to the prizes that are not specifically mentioned, including, but not limited to, taxes, and any other expenses that might reasonably be incurred by the winner in receiving or using the prize. Each winner may be required to submit to Sponsor his/her social security number or tax payer ID number, or other such tax filing information required by Sponsor in order to claim the prize.
Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize (or any portion thereof) with an item of comparable or greater value, in its sole discretion. All prizes will be awarded “AS IS” and WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, express or implied (including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose).
ADDITIONAL TERMS.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change these rules or cancel the Contest at any time, or to modify, terminate, or suspend the Contest should viruses, worms, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, or other causes beyond Sponsor’s control corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness, or proper play of the Contest or submission of Entries, or in the event Sponsor does not receive a minimum of 50 qualified Entries from separate eligible entrants. Sponsor is not responsible for any human or other error that may occur in the processing of the Entries, nor is it responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, theft or destruction, or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, Entries, or for technical, network, telephone, computer, hardware or software, malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of, or failure to receive any entry information on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site. Sponsor is not responsible for injury or damage to any entrant’s or any other computer resulting from downloading any materials in connection with the Contest. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual found to be tampering with the entry process, the outcome of the Contest, or the operation of the Contest or Web site; to be acting in violation of these rules; or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY ANY INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS, AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR AND ITS AFFILIATES RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND/OR OTHER RELIEF FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Contest and all accompanying materials are copyright © 2014 by Woot Services, LLC. All rights reserved. By entering, entrants agree to be bound by these rules. No transfer, assignment, cash redemption, or substitution of prizes is permitted except by Sponsor due to prize availability and then with prizes of equal or greater value. Entrants agree (for themselves and their heirs) that the Released Parties will have no liability, and will be held harmless by such entrants to the maximum extent permitted by law for any liability, loss, injury, or damage to property or to person, including death, and reasonable attorney’s fees and court costs, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of participation in the Contest, or by reason of the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prizes, even if caused or contributed to by the negligence of any of the Released Parties. Contest is governed by the laws of the United States and the State of Washington. As a condition of participating in this Contest, entrants agree that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with this Contest, will be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in King County, Washington having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will entrants be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waive all rights to claim, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including attorneys' fees, other than entrant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (e.g. costs associated with entering), and entrant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased. Contest is void where prohibited by law. Entrants agree that the decisions of Sponsor and the judges related to the Contest are final. By participating in the Contest, entrants consent to the use of their names, biographical information, GIFs, images and/or likenesses in any manner and in any medium for any purpose in connection with the Contest, including worldwide, without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law.
WINNERS’ LIST. After the winners are confirmed, the winners’ names will be posted at www.woot.com/blog/post/the-gif-that-keeps-on-giffing/rules until May 31, 2015.
SPONSOR. Woot Services, LLC, 4121 International Parkway, Carrollton, Texas 75007.