OFFICIAL RULES
Best Buy Survey Shopping
Spree Sweepstakes
1.
NO PURCHASE
NECESSARY. PURCHASE WILL NOT ENHANCE CHANCES OF WINNING. Open and offered only to legal residents of
the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, who are 18
years of age or older (except residents of Alabama and Nebraska who must be 19
years of age or older) at the time of entry.
Employees, officers and directors of Best Buy Stores, L.P. (“Sponsor”), Skybridge Marketing Group (“Administrator”), and their respective
parent entities, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising, promotion,
or production agencies, any companies who are performing work in Best Buy
stores at Best Buy’s request, and Web masters and Web suppliers (and each of their
respective IRS dependents, immediate family members [children, spouse, parents,
siblings, and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside] and
individuals residing in the same household of each, whether or not related) are
not eligible to participate. Void where
prohibited by law. By participating,
entrants agree to these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, which
are final and binding in all matters relating to this Sweepstakes.
2.
ENTRY
PERIODS: Sweepstakes
begins 12:00:01 a.m. Central Time (“CT”) on August 28, 2011, and ends 11:59:59
p.m. CT on March 3, 2012 (“Promotional Period”). There shall be two (2) drawing periods
(“Drawing Periods”) during the Promotional Period, as defined below:
Drawing Period |
Entry
Start Time/Date |
Entry End Time/Date |
1 |
12:00:01
a.m. CT on August 28, 2011 |
11:59:59
p.m. CT on November 26, 2011 |
2 |
12:00:01
a.m. CT on November 27, 2011 |
11:59:59
p.m. CT on March 3, 2012 |
During
the Promotional Period, Sponsor will issue unique multi-digit entry codes
(“Codes”), while supplies last. Codes
may be distributed on some cash register receipts issued at participating Best
Buy stores, by e-mail notifications distributed by Sponsor to a select group of
individuals on its database who have given the Sponsor their consent to be sent
e-mails, or on cards, notices or other documents given to consumers who have
purchased Best Buy merchandise or received Best Buy services. Only the person to whom the e-mail containing
Codes is addressed is allowed to participate with those Codes. Codes which are not used during the
Promotional Period will be void.
3. TWO (2) WAYS TO ENTER:
A) With Codes:
Visit the Web site (“Web site”) indicated on your cash register receipt,
card, notice or document, or click on the Web link within the e-mail
notification. Follow the online
instructions on the Web site for entering your Codes. When the proper Codes have been successfully
entered and accepted (the Codes must be entered exactly as they appear or they
will not be accepted), entrant will be required to complete an online survey.
The answers to the survey will have no effect on an entrant’s ability to
participate or win. Upon completion of the survey, entrant will be required to enter
his/her name, complete address, city, state, zip code, daytime phone number,
birth date, and e-mail address to receive one (1) Sweepstakes entry. Once the Codes are properly entered, the
survey completed and your registration information is completed and submitted
as directed by the online instructions, you will receive one (1) entry into the
Sweepstakes for the Drawing Period during which the entry is received. Codes may only be entered one (1) time during
the Promotional Period and cannot be re-used.
Internet entries must be received and recorded by the Sponsor’s computer
between the Entry Start Time/Date and Entry End Time/Date set forth in Rule 2
above for each respective Drawing Period to be eligible for that Drawing.
Sponsor’s computer is the official time clock for this Sweepstakes. Proof of
submission is not proof of receipt.
B) Without Purchase or Codes (Mail): Hand print your name, complete
address, city, state, zip code, daytime phone number, birth date, and e-mail
address (optional) on a 3” x 5” card and mail in a first class stamped envelope
to: Best Buy Survey Shopping Spree Sweepstakes,
P.O. Box 72855, Rockford, MN 55572. Mail-in
entries must be postmarked by the first business day after the last day of a Drawing
Period and received by the tenth business day following the last day of the Drawing
Period to be eligible for entry into that Drawing Period. For purposes of these
Official Rules, Saturday, Sunday, and postal holidays will not be considered
business days. Each mail-in entry must
be mailed in a separate outer envelope. No
copies, facsimiles or mechanical reproductions will be accepted.
Limit three (3) entries per person/e-mail address/address per Drawing
Period (regardless of method of entry).
Any attempt by any person to obtain more than the stated number of
entries by using multiple/different e-mail accounts or any other methods will
void all of that person’s entries and that person will be disqualified. All Codes are subject to verification. Any form of entry not stated in these
Official Rules is void.
4.
DRAWINGS: Potential winners will be selected each Drawing
Period (as described in Rule #2) in a separate random drawing from all eligible
entries received for the respective Drawing Period. Each Drawing Period’s drawing will award three
(3) Grand Prizes. The drawing for each Drawing
Period will be held approximately fifteen (15) business days following the end
of the Drawing Period. Non-winning entries for the first Drawing
Period’s drawing will not be carried over to the subsequent Drawing Period’s drawing.
The drawings will be performed by Administrator, an independent judging
agency, whose decisions are final and binding in all matters related to this
Sweepstakes. Administrator will notify potential winners by mail (in Puerto
Rico, by certified mail, return receipt requested), e-mail, overnight courier,
and/or phone at the address/e-mail address/phone number provided with the entry
form, approximately ten (10) days after each drawing.
5.
PRIZES/ODDS: Grand Prize (Six (6) total;
Three (3) per Drawing Period): A $5,000.00
Shopping Spree, awarded in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $5,000.00
each. Total ARV of all prizes $30,000.00. Gift
Cards are redeemable for future purchases only, subject to terms contained on
Gift Card. Winners may not
substitute, assign or transfer prizes, or redeem prizes for cash, but Sponsor
reserves the right to substitute prize with a prize of equal or greater value
should the advertised prize become unavailable for any reason. Taxes on prizes are solely the winner’s
responsibility. Prizes will not be
fulfilled outside of the 50 United States, District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico. Limit one (1) prize per person/e-mail
address/address per Drawing Period. Taxes
on prizes are solely the winner’s responsibility. Odds of winning in any drawing depend upon
the total number of eligible entries received for that Drawing Period.
6.
CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION: Participants
agree (a) that Sponsor, Administrator, and their respective parent entities,
subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, any
companies who are promotional participants or prize providers, and Web masters and Web suppliers, and all of their respective officers,
directors, employees, representatives and agents (collectively,
“Released Parties”), will have no
liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by participants against
any liability for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind to persons,
including death, or property resulting in whole or in part, directly or
indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any prize or
participation in this Sweepstakes or any Sweepstakes related activity, or for
any printing, production, technical, typographical, human, or other error in
the printing, offering or announcement of any prize; and (b) except where
legally prohibited, winners grant (and agree to confirm that grant in writing)
permission for Sponsor and those acting under its authority to use his/her
name, photograph, voice and/or likeness, for advertising, trade and/or
publicity purposes without additional compensation in all media now known or
hereafter discovered, worldwide and on the Internet and/or World Wide Web, in
perpetuity, without notice, review or approval. Potential prize winners will be required
to complete, sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release
and, where lawful, a Publicity Release within fourteen (14) days of attempted notification
(except in Puerto Rico, where documents must be returned within thirty (30)
days of attempted notification). If
documents are not returned on a timely basis, or if prize notification or the prize
is returned as non-deliverable, or if a potential winner is found to be
ineligible or not in compliance with these Official Rules, such prize will be
forfeited and, at Sponsor’s discretion, awarded to an alternate winner. Prizes will be sent to verified
winners by certified mail, return receipt requested, or overnight courier. Materials
containing Codes and Codes themselves will be void if they contain printing or
other mechanical errors or are printed or produced in error or are otherwise
irregular, or are not obtained through authorized, legitimate channels, or if
any part is defective, illegible, altered, duplicated, photocopied, reproduced,
forged, counterfeited, defaced, mutilated or tampered with in any way, or if
they contain, or are the result of, a printing, seeding, typographical,
digital, electronic, mechanical or other errors. Sole liability for any materials containing
Codes, or Codes containing printing or other irregularities and/or errors, or
which reveal illegible or unreadable Codes (which are not void) are limited to
replacement with free randomly selected Codes while supplies last. Materials
containing Codes and Codes themselves have no cash value, cannot be traded,
sold, or bartered, and can only be used in a manner consistent with these
Official Rules. By participating in this Sweepstakes, you acknowledge
and agree that Sponsor may collect the personal information submitted by you,
and use the information pursuant to Sponsor’s privacy policy available online
at www.bestbuy.com/privacy or by calling 1-888-BEST BUY.
7.
LIMITATIONS
OF LIABILITY: Released
Parties are not responsible for illegible, lost, late, damaged,
destroyed, inaccurate, delayed, incomplete, unintelligible, non-delivered,
misdirected, postage due, or stolen entries; or for incomplete, inaccurate, lost,
interrupted or unavailable network, server, satellite, Internet Service
Provider (ISP), Web site, telephone networks or lines, cellular towers or
equipment (including handsets), computer online systems, computer equipment,
software, viruses or bugs, servers or providers, or other connections,
availability or accessibility; or for unauthorized access to, or alteration of
entries; or miscommunications, failed computer, telephone, cellular, satellite,
or cable transmissions, lines, or other technical failure; or for jumbled,
scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions, computer hardware or software
malfunctions, failures or difficulties; or for any other errors of any kind,
whether human, technical, mechanical, electronic or network, including, without
limitation, any errors which may occur in connection with the administration of
the Sweepstakes or in any Sweepstakes-related materials; or for the incorrect
or inaccurate capture of entry or other information, or the failure to capture,
or loss of, any such information.
Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the Sweepstakes or Web
site, as solely determined by the Sponsor, will be disqualified (and all
associated entries will be void), and Sponsor reserves the right to terminate
such entrant’s eligibility in this or any other promotion offered by Sponsor. Entries generated by a robotic, programmed,
script, macro or other automated means or by any means which subvert the entry
process will be disqualified. Released Parties are not responsible for injury
or damage to participant’s or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting
from participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading materials from or use of
the Web site. Should any portion of the Sweepstakes be, in Sponsor’s sole
opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention
or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair
the administration, security, fairness or proper play, or submission of
entries, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to modify, suspend
or terminate the Sweepstakes, and select winners for the corresponding drawing from
all non-suspect, eligible entries received for such drawing prior to action
taken or as otherwise deemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor. Without limiting the release provided above,
and for greater certainty, Released Parties will not be liable for (a) any
incomplete or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering,
hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the
Sweepstakes, or by any error, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in
operation, or transmission, communications line failure, or technical or human
error which may occur in the processing of entries; (b) the theft, destruction
or unauthorized use of or access to, or alteration of, entries; (c) any
problems with or technical malfunctions of telephone networks or lines,
computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software,
viruses or bugs; (d) any failure of any message to be received by or from
Sponsor for any reason including but not limited to traffic congestion on the
Internet or wireless waves or at any Web site or combination thereof; or (e)
damage to a participant’s or other person’s system or equipment occasioned by
participation in this Sweepstakes. In the event of a dispute regarding prize
claims or online entries received from multiple users having the same billing
address, telephone number and/or e-mail account, the authorized subscriber of
the e-mail account used at the time of entry will be deemed to be the entrant and must
comply with these Official Rules, and for entry by e-mail notifications
distributed by Sponsor, the named e-mail recipient will be deemed to be the
entrant and must comply with these Official Rules. Authorized account subscriber is the natural
person who is assigned the e-mail address by the Internet Service Provider
(ISP), online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning
e-mail addresses.
IN NO EVENT WILL THE RELEASED
PARTIES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND,
INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES
ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEB SITE
OR DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR
PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM WWW.BESTBUY.COM, WWW.BESTBUYCARES.COM, OR ANY OTHER WEB SITE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
SWEEPSTAKES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE
FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THE WEB SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR
NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY
NOT ALLOW 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.
GOVERNING
LAW: Except where prohibited by
law, all issues concerning the construction, validity and enforcement of these
Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor, shall
be construed and governed by the laws of the state of Minnesota, without regard
to conflicts of law. All suits or claims
brought in connection with this Sweepstakes must be brought in a state or
federal court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
9.
WINNERS LIST/OFFICIAL RULES REQUEST: For the
names of winners or a copy of these Official Rules, mail your name and complete
address on a 3” x 5” card in a first class stamped envelope to: Best Buy Survey Shopping Spree Sweepstakes Winners
List or Official Rules (designate which), P.O. Box 72856, Rockford, MN 55572,
for receipt by March 15, 2012. Winners
list will be sent after all winners have been determined for the Promotional
Period. Official Rules will also be available online at www.bestbuycares.com
and at participating Best Buy stores during the Promotional Period.
10. SPONSOR: Best Buy Stores, L.P., 7601
Penn Avenue South, Richfield, Minnesota 55423.
ADMINISTRATOR: Skybridge Marketing
Group, 7600 69th Avenue, Greenfield, Minnesota 55373.