Online Contest Rules
1. ELIGIBILITY
The Online Contest is offered to residents of countries where such contests are allowed by the laws of those countries (excluding residents of the Province of Quebec, Canada; Cuba; Iran; Iraq; Libya; North Korea; Spain; Sudan; and Syria). By entering the Contest, you accept sole responsibility for determining whether your participation is legal in any jurisdiction that applies to you. Participants must be of the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence and have an active email account and Internet access at the time of entry. By adding your comments or reactions to the contest you agree to these Official Rules and that the decisions of the management of My Senior Portal.
Void where prohibited or restricted by law.
2. CONTEST PERIOD
The contest begins on October 1, 2011 and ends on September 30, 2012.
3. ENTRY
There is no registration or purchase required to participate. A monthly random drawing from all qualified entries will be used to determine the winners.
Entrants may not enter with multiple emails and/or multiple identities nor may entrants use any automated means to artificially inflate entries or “likes”. Any entrant who attempts to participate with multiple emails and/or multiple identities or uses any device or artificial means to achieve more entries or “likes” will be disqualified, and I will be watching carefully for this by both automated and manual means.
4. WINNER SELECTION
Entries will be assigned a random number for each entry, up to once each day. Winners will be selected based upon a proprietary system of matching all entries against a random number generated for each monthly Contest Period.
5. PRIZES
Winners will be notified by e-mail and also posted on our website and in our semi-monthly newsletter following each monthly drawing, the first of which will be on November 10, 20111 and the final drawing will be held on October 10, 2012. It is a winner’s responsibility to claim prizes and provide delivery information, so I suggest that you check your e-mail messages from My Senior Portal frequently.
No assignment, transfer or substitution of any prize is permitted. All prizes are expressed in U.S. Dollars. By accepting a prize, Contest winners agree that their name and likeness may be used for advertising and promotional purposes in any and all media now known or hereinafter developed without territorial or time limitations.
Taxes on prizes are the sole responsibility of winner.
6. GENERAL CONDITIONS
My Senior Portal reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be tampering with the Online Contest Contest process or the operation of the Contest or the Website; acting in violation of these Official Rules; to be acting in an unethical, illegal, or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.
Any use of automated process will void all such entries by such methods and persons using such method will be disqualified. If for any reason this Contest is not capable of being conducted as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which, in the sole opinion of My Senior Portal, corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, My Senior Portal reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. If the Contest is terminated due to tampering or technical difficulties prior to its expiration date, notice will be posted on the website at My Senior Portal.
ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE My Senior Portal 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, My Senior Portal RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM THOSE RESPONSIBLE TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
7. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
My Senior Portal IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LATE, LOST, OR MISDIRECTED ENTRIES, AND DOES NOT ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMMUNICATIONS LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO My Sernior Portal WEBSITE. My Senior Portal IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEMS OR TECHNICAL MALFUNCTION OF ANY TELEPHONE NETWORK OR TELEPHONE LINES, COMPUTER ONLINE SYSTEMS, SERVERS, COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE, FAILURE OF ANY ENTRY TO BE RECEIVED DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS, HUMAN ERROR OR TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON THE INTERNET, AT My Senior Portal WEBSITE, OR ANY COMBINATION THEREOF.
My Senior Portal IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR INCORRECT OR INACCURATE CAPTURE OF INFORMATION OR THE FAILURE TO CAPTURE SUCH INFORMATION, WHETHER CAUSED BY WEBSITE USERS, TAMPERING OR HACKING, OR BY ANY OF THE EQUIPMENT OR PROGRAMMING ASSOCIATED WITH OR UTILIZED IN THE CONTEST. My Senior Portal IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR INJURY OR DAMAGE TO PARTICIPANTS’ OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON’S COMPUTER RELATED TO OR RESULTING FROM PARTICIPATING IN THIS CONTEST OR DOWNLOADING MATERIALS FROM OR USE OF THE WEBSITE.
IN NO EVENT WILL My Senior Portal, BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST, ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEBSITE OR DOWNLOADING FROM MySeniorPortal WEBSITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THE WEBSITE AND IN THIS CONTEST IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES 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. ARBITRATION AND DISPUTES
As a condition of participating in the Online Contest Contest, you agree that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between the parties, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, or any prizes awarded, or the determination of the Winner shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action exclusively by arbitration pursuant to the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association, then effective. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will you be permitted to obtain awards for, and you hereby waive all rights to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than your actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering the Online Contest Contest), and you further waive all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or your rights and obligations and My Senior Portal’s rights and obligations in connection with this Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New Jersey, U.S.A., without giving effect to the conflict of laws rules thereof, and you agree to the jurisdiction and venue of the Federal, state and local courts for Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey for any disputes relating to the Contest or these Official Rules.
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of any winner based on an email address or domain name, the winning entry will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the email address or domain name submitted at time of entry. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the person who is assigned the email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address, or in the event of domain name, the administrative Contact listed in the public WHOIS at the time the Online Contest commences.
