Finding Nemo's Ocean Adventure Sweepstakes
November 04, 2003, through January 31, 2004
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Sweepstakes is open only to legal U.S. and Canadian residents. Void in Puerto Rico and wherever prohibited by law. Sweepstakes begins at 12:01 AM Pacific Time ("PT"), November 4, 2003 and ends at 11:59 PM PT, January 31, 2004.
HOW TO ENTER: There are two ways to enter Finding Nemo's Ocean Adventure Sweepstakes:
1) Online Entry: To enter online, go to the Disney web site, www.findingnemo.com and click on the Finding Nemo's Ocean Adventure Sweepstakes icon or go to www.dole.com and access the link to www.findingnemo.com. You must be a registered Disney.com user to enter the Sweepstakes. If you are not a Disney.com registered user, you must first register before you can enter the Sweepstakes. Registration is free.* Once registered, guests may enter the Sweepstakes by providing their Disney.com Registration Log-in Name and Password. Then click on "submit" to enter the Sweepstakes. Or, Registered Disney.com guests may enter the Sweepstakes by visiting www.findingnemo.com and clicking on the Tokenzone Trading Card Game link and entering their Member Name and Password and clicking on the "submit" button. Guests who are not registered must first register with Disney.com before they can play the Tokenzone Trading Card Game. After registering as a Disney.com member, follow the instructions above to enter the Tokenzone Trading Card Game. One entry into the Sweepstakes will be given each time a user logs into the Tokenzone Trading Card Game and receives auto deposits. Online entries must be received by 11:59 PM PT January 31, 2004.
* To register for free at Disney.com, guests must complete the Registration Form based on their age category. Guests over the age of thirteen (13) must complete the registration form and include their full name, date of birth, their e-mail address, and their gender and select a Registration Log-in Name and Password.
Minor Policy for Online Entry: Minors under the age of thirteen (13) may enter online after becoming a free registered guest by filling out the applicable Registration Form for Disney.com and providing their parent or legal guardian's e-mail address. Sponsor will notify parent or legal guardian when their child has registered with Disney.com. Parent or legal guardian will have forty-eight (48) hours to object by e-mail to their child's Sweepstakes entry. If a parent or legal guardian sends an e-mail stating their objection within forty-eight (48) hours of being notified by Sponsor, such child's entry and information will be deleted.
2) Mail In Entry: To enter by mail, complete an official entry form found in Finding Nemo VHS/DVD products or handprint on a 3"x5" card/paper your full first and last name, complete address, zip code/postal code, day and evening phone number(s) including area code and date of birth. Mail in a business size #10 envelope to: Finding Nemo's Ocean Adventure Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 4410, Goshen, OH 45122-4410. Entries must be postmarked by January 31, 2004 and received by February 7, 2004.
All forms of entry are limited to one (1) entry per person, per day. Limit of one (1) entry per envelope. No mechanical reproductions of mail-in entries will be accepted.
WINNER SELECTION: Winners will be selected in a random drawing on or about February 12, 2004 from all eligible entries received. Archway Marketing Services, an independent judging organization, whose decisions are final and binding in all matters relating to the Sweepstakes, will conduct the drawing. By participating, entrants agree to abide by and be bound by these official rules and the judge's decisions. Winners will be notified by mail or e-mail, depending on method of entry. Canadian prize claimant will be contacted by the judging organization and must correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question without mechanical or other assistance of any kind within a time limit to receive a prize.
ELIGIBILITY: Subject to all applicable federal, state and provincial laws and regulations. Employees, directors and officers of Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Archway Marketing Services, Tokenzone, Inc., Feld Entertainment, Inc., THQ Inc., their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries or any of their agents, advertising, promotional and other agencies, and their immediate families (parents, siblings, children and spouse) and persons living in the same household (whether related or not) are not eligible to enter the Sweepstakes or win a prize. Limit one (1) prize awarded per household. Grand and First Prize winners will be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Release of Liability and a Publicity Release (where legal) within fourteen (14) days of notification. Grand and First Prize winner's guests must execute a Release of Liability and a Publicity Release (where legal) prior to the issuance of travel documents. Non-compliance with these requirements may result in disqualification, and Grand or First Prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner selected at random. In the event that a prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, such prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner selected at random. If any prize winner or prize winner's guest is a minor, a parent/legal guardian must sign the necessary releases or permissions on his/her behalf.
PRIZES/APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUE (ARV) In U.S. Dollars:
Grand Prize, Four (4): Disney Cruise Line vacation for four (4) persons to be taken aboard the Disney Wonder includes: round-trip coach airfare between the gateway airport nearest to winner's home and a central Florida airport; four (4) night cruise to Nassau and Disney's private island paradise, Castaway Cay in The Bahamas; one (1) Deluxe oceanview stateroom (Category 9) for the prize winner and up to three (3) guests; all onboard meals; government taxes and fees (as defined in the Disney Cruise Line brochure); onboard gratuities (for winner and up to three guests) for stateroom host/hostess, dining room head server, dining room server, dining room assistant server; and ground transportation from the Airport to Port Canaveral and back to the Airport via DCL transportation. Any items not specified herein are the responsibility of the winner. All travel arrangements/accommodations at the discretion of Sponsor and subject to availability, holiday and blackout dates. Grand Prize trip is subject to availability and scheduling, contingent upon at least thirty (30) days advance notice prior to intended date of departure, Saturday night stay, holiday and blackout date schedules, and must be taken by March 16, 2005. Grand Prize winner and guests must travel together on the same itinerary. ARV: $5,000.00. First Prize, One (1): A three (3) day/two (2) night trip for four (4) to attend one performance of Disney On IceSM ("Performance") in any city in the continental U.S. or Canada as is determined by Sponsor where it is being performed, including round-trip coach air transportation from major commercial airport near winner's residence and the airport in the city of Performance; airport/hotel transfers; accommodations for four (4) persons (one standard room, quadruple occupancy) for two (2) nights in a hotel selected by Sponsor; four (4) tickets to the Performance; and four (4) bags of merchandise, actual merchandise included is at the sole discretion of Sponsor. ARV: $5,000.00. Trip(s) are subject to availability and scheduling, contingent upon at least thirty (30) days advance notice prior to intended date of departure, Saturday night stay, holiday and blackout date schedules and must be completed by December 31, 2004. Winners and guests must travel together on same itinerary. Second Prize, Twenty-five (25): One (1) X-Box game console and One (1) Finding Nemo Interactive Game. ARV: $219.98.
Total ARV: $30,499.50
Trip and travel insurance is not included. In the event that any dispute arises regarding the meaning or interpretation of these official rules, participants agree that the dispute shall be resolved by applying the laws of California and that it shall be resolved by and within the courts of the County of Los Angeles. Only listed prizes will be awarded. Odds of winning depend on total number of eligible entries received.
GENERAL
1. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Archway Marketing Services, Tokenzone, Inc., Feld Entertainment, Inc., THQ Inc. and their respective agencies are not responsible for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server or other connections, miscommunications, failed telephone or computer hardware or software or other technical failures, unauthorized human intervention, garbled or jumbled transmissions or other errors of any kind, whether human, mechanical or electronic, including without limitation, the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information online regardless of cause. Once submitted, entries become the exclusive property of Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. and will not be acknowledged or returned. Any use of robotic, automatic, programmed or like entry methods will void all entries affected by such methods and be deemed tampering. Entry material/data that has been tampered with or altered is void. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel/suspend/modify the online portion of the Sweepstakes if it becomes corrupted in any manner such that it cannot be conducted as originally planned and, in such event, to select winners by random drawing from all eligible mail-in entries received and all eligible online entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. By participating, entrant agrees to the official rules and judges' decisions. ANY ATTEMPT BY ANY PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES IS IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND IF SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT, INC. RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
Neither Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Archway Marketing Services, Feld Entertainment, Inc., THQ Inc., their related and affiliated companies nor their respective agencies are responsible for lost, late, damaged, destroyed, delayed, stolen, misdirected, incomplete, illegible entries or postage due mail.
Participants entering online must provide a valid e-mail address. It is the sole responsibility of the entrant to notify Archway Marketing Services in writing if the entrant changes his/her e-mail and/or home address after submission of online entry. (To do so write to: Archway Marketing Services, Finding Nemo's Ocean Adventure Sweepstakes, Sweepstakes Division, 5130 Industrial Street, Maple Plain, MN 55359, to be received by February 7, 2004.) In case of dispute as to identity of a winner who entered online, entry will be declared made by the registered user of the e-mail account, and, if a prize is won and such registered user is a valid entrant, the prize will be awarded to the registered user.
2. By participating, entrants release and agree to hold harmless Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., Disney Enterprises, Inc., Archway Marketing Services, Tokenzone, Inc., Feld Entertainment, Inc., THQ Inc., their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates and the directors, officers, employees and agencies of any of the above entities from any liability whatsoever for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind resulting from acceptance, possession or use/misuse of any prize or participation in the Sweepstakes. For Quebec residents, any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Regie des alcohols, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the Regie only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.
3. Except where prohibited by law, by accepting a prize, winner agrees that Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., Feld Entertainment, Inc. and their related and affiliated companies may use the winner's name, address (city, state/province), photograph, videotape, likeness, and/or prize information for advertising, publicity and promotional purposes and to the use of statements made by or attributed to the winner relating to Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. or to this sweepstakes, and grants to Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. and Feld Entertainment, Inc. any and all rights to said use without further notice and/or compensation except where prohibited by law.
No prize transfer or cash substitutes allowed except at Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.'s sole discretion due to prize unavailability for any reason and only then for prize of equal or greater value. Vacations may not be sold, traded, refunded or commissioned. Taxes on prize are solely the responsibility of winner. Limit one prize per person/family/household/e-mail address.
WINNERS LIST: For the names of prize winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope by January 31, 2004 to: Finding Nemo's Ocean Adventure Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 1170, Maple Plain, MN 55593-1170.
Sponsored by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., 350 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91521-6550.