MapQuest Book Now, Travel Free Sweepstakes
OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED. THE PROMOTION IS INTENDED FOR PARTICIPATION ONLY IN THE 50 UNITED STATES INCLUSIVE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (EXCLUDING PUERTO RICO, THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND ALL OTHER U.S. TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS) AND CANADA (EXLCUDING QUEBEC). DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE PROMOTION IF YOU ARE NOT LOCATED IN AND A LEGAL RESIDENT OF ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES, THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, OR CANADA (EXCLUDING QUEBEC) AT TIME OF ENTRY.
1. ELIGIBILITY: The MapQuest Book Now, Travel Free* Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia (excluding Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and all other U.S. Territories and Possessions) and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees, officers and directors of MapQuest, Inc. -a division of AOL Inc. (“Sponsor”), Realtime Media, Inc. (“Administrator”), and each of their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions, advertising, promotional, fulfillment and marketing agencies (collectively, the “Promotion Entities”), their immediate families (parent, child, sibling & spouse) and persons living in the same households as such individuals (whether related or not) are not eligible to participate in the Promotion. Void in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and all other U.S. territories, Quebec, and possessions and where prohibited or restricted by law, rule or regulation. All applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.
2. PROMOTION PERIOD: Promotion begins at 09:00:00 AM Eastern Time (“ET”) on May 21, 2013 and ends daily at 8:59:59 AM ET up until June 20, 2013 (“Promotion Period”).The computer clock of the Sponsor is the official time-keeping device in the Promotion.
3. HOW TO ENTER: Visit bookings.mapquest.com where the user (“you”) can book a hotel, rental car or flight with all your true and correct information. Upon booking of your trip you will be automatically entered and receive one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes.
ADDITIONAL SWEEPSTAKES ENTRIES: Upon completion of booking your trip, you will be prompted with a message on the booking confirmation page to click the “share now” button to earn up to three (3) extra entries into the Sweepstakes by sharing the Sweepstakes with others via Facebook, Twitter, and/or Pinterest, one (1) entry for each social media site. After sharing the Sweepstakes on the Thank You Page you will receive one (1) additional entry into the Sweepstakes for each social media site used.
ALTERNATE METHOD OF ENTRY (“AMOE”): You may also enter the promotion without purchase by visiting go.rtm.com/MapQuestBookNowSweeps. Users (“you”) will be required to enter their email address to log in. If you are a new entrant, you will be required to fill out a registration form with your true and correct information and click “Submit” button to receive one (1) Sweepstakes entry. If you are a returning user, you will be able to bypass the registration page. You will then land on the thank you page and be prompted with a message to earn up to three (3) extra entries into the Sweepstakes by sharing the Sweepstakes with others via Facebook, Twitter, and/or Pinterest, one (1) entry for each social media site. After sharing the Sweepstakes on the Thank You Page you will receive one (1) additional entry into the Sweepstakes for each social media site used.
Limit: Five (5) Sweepstakes entries or up to $5,000 in booking transactions per person per email address, regardless of method of entry via AMOE or booking trip via bookings.mapquest.com.
Additional Entries for Sweepstakes Limit: Up to fifteen (15) additional Sweepstakes entries per day, per person, per email address, regardless of method of entry via AMOE or booking trip via bookings.mapquest.com can be earned via Extra Entries listed above during the Promotion Period.
TOTAL SWEEPSTAKES LIMIT: Up to six Hundred (600) total entries per person, per email address, into the Sweepstakes over the length of the Promotion Period.
None of the Promotion Entities shall be responsible for, or will honor, lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, delayed, garbled or undelivered entries. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Please also see the “Privacy Policy” section in section 10 of these Official Rules. By entering, entrants agree to these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding in all respects. Any attempt by a person to use multiple email accounts to enter more than once may result in disqualification at the discretion of Sponsor. Entry in the Promotion does not constitute entry into any other sweepstakes, contest or promotion.
4. SWEEPSTAKES PRIZING, RANDOM DRAWING AND ODDS OF WINNING: SWEEPSTAKES GRAND PRIZE – One (1) daily winner for total of (30) winners will each receive an AMEX gift card in the amount of their booking costs on Bookings.MapQuest.com up to $5,000. If winner is selected from the AMOE site, winner will receive an AMEX gift card in the amount of the average booking costs up to $5,000 on Bookings.MapQuest.com for the day they were selected as the winner.
SWEEPSTAKES RANDOM DRAWING: An electronic randomized drawing will be held on or about the following dates: May 28, 2013, June 4, 2013, June 11, 2013, and June 20, 2013 by an independent judging organization, to select seven (7) potential daily prize winners from each day of previous week from the Sweepstakes from all eligible entries received throughout the Promotion Period. Odds of winning the grand prize in the Sweepstakes depend on the number of eligible entries received throughout the Promotion Period. ARV of Daily Prize Winners: up to $5,000
5. WINNER NOTIFICATION: Limit of one (1) Daily Prize per person. Winner(s) of the daily prize are not eligible for further winnings throughout the promotion. Potential Daily Prize winner(s) will receive prize notification via email and/or phone call, within twenty four (24) hours of the drawing date or as soon thereafter as reasonably practicable. The potential Daily Prize winner may be sent via email an Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release and IRS W9 Form if their prize amount exceeds $600.00. All forms must be completed, signed, notarized and returned to Administrator within ten (10) days of date of issuance. The potential Daily Prize winner then and only then becomes the “Daily Prize winner.” If such potential Daily Prize winner cannot be contacted within seven (7) days, the Daily Prize winner is ineligible, if any notification is returned undeliverable, or if the potential Daily Prize winner otherwise fails to fully comply with these Official Rules, he/she will forfeit the Prize and an alternate Daily Prize winner will be selected from among all remaining entries.
6. GENERAL CONDITIONS: Each winner grants the Promotion Entities the right to use and publish winner’s proper name, image, likeness and state of residence online in connection with the Promotion. Acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for the Promotion Entities to use winner’s name, image and likeness, or take photographs or video, solely for advertising and promotional purposes as the Promotion Entities so determine without notice or further compensation, except where prohibited by law. All decisions of the Administrator shall be binding and final. Entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at time of entry. In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of any potential winner, the potential winner will be deemed to be the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at time of entry. The authorized account holder is defined as the natural person who is assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses or the domain associated with the submitted email address. Potential winner may be requested to provide the Sponsor with proof that the potential winner is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the winning entry. If, in Sponsor’s sole determination, a dispute cannot be resolved, the entry will be deemed ineligible. Entries generated by a script, macro or other automated means will be disqualified. Entries that are incomplete garbled or corrupted are void and will not be accepted.
7. DISQUALIFICATION: Entrants found tampering with or abusing any aspect of this Promotion, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified. If disqualified for any of the above abuses, Sponsor reserves the right to terminate entrant’s eligibility to participate in the Promotion. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Promotion may be in violation of criminal and civil law, 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. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
8. LIABILITY & RELEASE: By participating in the Promotion, entrants agree to release and hold harmless the Promotion Entities, and the respective officers, directors and employees of each, from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in the Promotion or receipt or use of any prize, including, but not limited to: (a) unauthorized human intervention in the Promotion; (b) technical errors related to computers, servers, providers, or telephone or network lines; (c) printing errors; (d) lost, late, delayed, undelivered, misdirected, or garbled entries; (e) errors in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries; or (f) injury, death or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from participation in the Promotion or receipt or use of any prize. Each entrant further agrees that in any cause of action, the Promotion Entities’ liability will be limited to the cost of entering and participating in the Promotion, and in no event shall the Promotion Entities be liable for attorney’s fees. Each entrant waives the right to claim any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, punitive, consequential, direct, or indirect damages. Sponsor reserves the right to correct typographic, clerical or printing errors in any Promotion materials. The Promotion Entities are not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of this Promotion, the administration of the Promotion or in the announcement of prize winners, including such error as may give an erroneous indication that a prize has been won. In the event Sponsor is prevented from continuing with this Promotion, or the integrity and/or feasibility of the Promotion is undermined by any event including but not limited to any fraud, virus, technical problem, fire, flood, epidemic, earthquake, explosion, labor dispute, or strike, act of God or public enemy, satellite or equipment failure, riot or civil disturbance, war (declared or undeclared), terrorist threat or activity, or any federal, state, or local government law, order of regulation, order of any court or jurisdiction, or other cause not reasonably within Sponsor’s control (each a “Force Majeure” event) or any other technical problem that corrupts the administration, security, or proper play of the Promotion, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, Sponsor shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to abbreviate, modify, suspend, cancel or terminate the Promotion without notice or further obligation. If the Sponsor, in its discretion, elects to abbreviate, cancel or terminate the Promotion as a result of a Force Majeure event, Sponsor reserves the right, but shall have no obligation, to award the prizes from among all valid and eligible entries received up to the time of such Force Majeure event.
9. TAX INFORMATION: All applicable federal, state, and local taxes (if any), and all other costs associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided, are the sole responsibility of the winners.
10. PRIVACY: Except as noted in these Official Rules, information collected from entrants are used only for the purpose of the prize drawing, to notify the winners, and will not be re-used, sold or shared in any manner by Sponsor, unless entrant has elected to receive additional information and promotional material from Sponsor or a third party. Once the Promotion has ended, all information supplied by entrants will be removed from the Promotion database. In the event of any discrepancy between the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy and these Official Rules, these Official Rules shall control and govern. By entering the Promotion, you agree to all of the terms and conditions of the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy, which is available at: http://privacy.aol.com/
11. DISPUTES: Except where prohibited, entrants agree that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Promotion (excluding any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, any prize awarded in the Promotion or the use thereof) shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the appropriate court located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, entrants’ rights and obligations vis-a-vis Sponsor, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor in connection with the Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the Commonwealth of Virginia or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the Commonwealth of Virginia. Except where prohibited, entrants agree that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, any prize awarded in the Promotion or the use thereof shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the appropriate court located in the State of destination.
12. WINNERS’ NAMES: To receive the name of the prize winners send a #10 self-addressed stamped envelope for receipt by July 31, 2013 to: MapQuest Book Now, Travel Free*Sweepstakes Winners’ Names Request, C/O Realtime Media LLC, 40 Morris Ave., Suite 300, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010. SPONSOR: MapQuest Inc. (a division of AOL Inc.), 1555 Blake Street-3rd Floor, Denver, CO 80202 ADMINISTRATOR: Realtime Media LLC, 40 Morris Ave., Suite 300, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
