Transitions Win Your Glasses Back Sweepstakes
OFFICIAL RULES
1. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR TO WIN.A purchase
will not increase your chances of winning. The Sweepstakes is subject to all
Federal, State, Local and Municipal laws and regulations. Void where prohibited
by law.
2. SPONSOR: The Sweepstakes is sponsored by Transitions
Optical, Inc., 9251 Belcher Rd., Pinellas Park, FL 33782
3. ELIGIBILITY:The Sweepstakes is open only to legal
residents of the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and protectorates, who are
eighteen (18) years of age or older at time of entry. Sweepstakes is not open to
employees and directors of the Sponsor or any of their respective parent
companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies,
Sweepstakes judges and legal advisors, or to the immediate family members of, or
to any persons domiciled with, any such person. All winners are subject to
Sponsor's verification of eligibility hereunder.
4. ENTRY PERIOD:The Sweepstakes will begin at 12:01 a.m.
(EST) on November 1, 2009 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. (EST) on December 31, 2010.
Entries received outside of the entry period will be disqualified.
5. HOW TO ENTER:There are two ways participants can
enter. Entry limitations: Maximum of one (1) entry per person per day during the
Entry Period, regardless of method of entry used.
A. Enter Online:To enter online, access the Internet
website at http://www.transitions.com and complete the official online entry
form in its entirety. Submit your entry by clicking on the “Submit” button. No
more than one (1) online entry per day may be registered from the same computer
terminal or from the same individual. Entrants may not enter with multiple
e-mail and/or multiple identities, nor may entrants use any other device or
artifice to enter more than once per day. Any entrant who attempts to submit
more than one entry per day using multiple e-mail and/or multiple identities or
uses any device or artifice may be disqualified. Once submitted, entry cannot be
modified, returned or deleted. In the event of a dispute in connection with the
identity of the individual who submitted an online entry, the entry will be
deemed to have been submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail
account identified on the online entry form. The authorized account holder is
deemed to be the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an
Internet access provider, service provider, or other online organization that is
responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the
submitted e-mail address. If an eligible individual cannot be determined and
verified in the manner described above, the entry will be disqualified as null
and void and an alternate winner will be selected. Any use of robotic,
automatic, macro, programmed or like entry methods will void all such entries by
such methods and persons determined, in Sponsor's sole discretion, to have used
any such methods will be disqualified. ANY ENTRY WHICH DOES NOT CONFORM STRICTLY
TO THESE REQUIREMENTS IS NULL AND VOID.
B. Enter by Mail:Hand-print on a 3”x 5” piece of paper
your name, address, city, state, zip code, daytime phone number (where you can
be reached during normal business hours), birth date and the words Transitions
Win Your Glasses Back Promotion. All mail-in entries must be mailed to:
Transitions Win Your Glasses Back Promotion, P.O. Box 37, Fombell, PA 16123. No
photocopies, mechanical reproductions, altered, illegible, incomplete,
mutilated, postage-due or forged entries will be accepted. Sponsor is not
responsible for lost, mutilated or misdirected mail. All mail-in entries must be
postmarked by December 31, 2011 and received by January 5, 2011. ALL OTHER
MAIL-IN ENTRIES ARE NULL AND VOID.
All entries become the property of Sponsor and none will be returned.
6. SWEEPSTAKES PRIZES & ODDS OF WINNING: Grand
Prize:(7) Seven to be awarded. Reimbursement of retail purchase price of
winner’s eyeglasses fitted with Transitions Lenses. Maximum reimbursement not to
exceed $500.00. Prizes are non-assignable and nontransferable. The winner is
solely responsible for payment of any and all federal, state or local taxes
pertaining to their prize. Odds of winning dependant upon the number of eligible
entries received. ALL SWEEPSTAKES PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED. In the event the
winner did not purchase eyeglasses fitted with Transitions Lenses the winner
will be awarded the average retail price of $300.00 in the form of a check.
7. DRAWINGS: All winners will be selected in random drawings conducted by an
independent judging organization as outlined below.
On or about the following dates: 5/4/2009, 8/4/2010, 9/5/2010, 10/5/2010,
11/5/2010, 12/5/2010 and 1/14/2011 a drawing will be conducted from all entries
received to date. Each drawing date will determine two (2) Grand Prize Winners.
All winners will be notified by mail. Winners may be required to claim their
prize by completing and signing an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release
form and, except where prohibited by law, a publicity release, which must be
returned via mail within ten (10) business days of notification postmark. In the
event of non compliance with this time period, an alternate winner will be
selected, with no further compensation. If notification of prize award is
returned to Sponsor, as undeliverable, the prize will be awarded to an alternate
winner, with no further compensation.
Winners may waive the right to receive a prize. The return of any prize or prize
notification as undeliverable will result in disqualification, the forfeiture of
all interest in the prize, and selection of a substitute winner from among all
remaining eligible entries. Unless prohibited by law, acceptance of a prize
constitutes permission for the Sponsor and its agencies to use the Winner’s
name, address (city and state) and/or likeness for advertising and trade
purposes without further compensation, worldwide and in perpetuity, in any and
all forms of media, now known and hereafter devised, including without
limitation the Internet.
8. GENERAL CONDITIONS: By entering, participants agree to be bound by these
Official Rules and by the decisions of Sponsor and Sweepstakes judges appointed
by Sponsor, which shall be final and binding in all respects. Sponsor reserves
the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be
tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or web site
or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or in an un-sportsmanlike
or disruptive manner. Any person attempting to defraud or in any way tamper with
this Sweepstakes will be ineligible for prizes. In the event that any tampering,
fraud, virus, bug, technical error or failure, unauthorized intervention, or
other problem which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness,
integrity of the online portion of the Sweepstakes, or for any reason Sponsor
deems it necessary, the Sponsor may at its sole discretion cancel, terminate,
modify or suspend the online portion of the Sweepstakes and award any remaining
prizes at random among all eligible entries received up to the time of
impairment. Should the Sweepstakes be cancelled or altered prior to the stated
expiration date, notice will be posted at http://www.transitions.com.
CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE
LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES OR INSTANT WIN PORTION OF THIS
PROMOTIONAL CAMPIAGN IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH
AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO PROSECUTE AND SEEK DAMAGES
OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTEMPT TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
9. DISCLAIMERS: By entering, participants acknowledge and agree that the
Sponsor, Transitions Optical Inc., and their respective parents, subsidiaries,
affiliates, franchisees, advertising and promotional agencies and the officers,
directors, employees, agents and representatives of each of the foregoing
companies (collectively, the “Sweepstakes Entities”), will not be liable for
losses or injuries of any kind resulting from acceptance/possession/use and/or
misuse of prize(s), travel to and from any prize-related activity, participation
in the Sweepstakes, printing, mailing or distribution errors, or any
malfunctions of the computer Internet system, computer dating mechanism,
computer equipment, software, or any combination thereof, unauthorized human
intervention in the Sweepstakes, for errors in the administration of the
Sweepstakes or the processing of entries, or for any entries that are late
(including delayed data transmissions), tampered with, garbled, incomplete, or
otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules. Sweepstakes Entities are
not responsible or liable for any injury or damage to any participant’s or third
person’s computer and/or its contents, related to or resulting from Sweepstakes.
Participants release and agree to hold harmless Sweepstakes Entities from any
and all liability from any of the claims described above.
Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption,
deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line
failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to its web sites. Sponsor
is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any
telecommunications network or telecommunication lines, computer on-line systems,
servers, computer equipment, telecommunications network equipment, software,
failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Sponsor on account of technical
problems, human error or traffic congestion on the Internet or on any web site,
or any combination thereof.
IN NO EVENT WILL ANY SWEEPSTAKES ENTITY BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR
PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ENTRY IN, AND PARTICIPATION, IN THE
SWEEPSTAKES OR THE DOWNLOADING AND/OR PRINTING OF MATERIAL ASSOCIATED WITH THE
SWEEPSTAKES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THIS SITE AND IN THIS
PROMOTION 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.
10. SWEEPSTAKES WINNERS’ LIST: For the name and hometown of the Prize Winner’s
(available after 1/14/2011), and/or a copy of these Official Rules, send a
self-addressed, stamped business-size envelope to Transitions Win Your Glasses
Back Promotion, P.O. Box 37, Fombell, PA 16123, Attn: Promotions Department.
Indicate whether you are requesting the Winners list or a copy of Official Rules
or any combination of the foregoing. Residents of Vermont may omit return
postage. For a complete listing of all winners visit http:// www.transitions.com