SARAH JESSICA PARKER

INSPIRATION CONTEST

OFFICIAL RULES

 
To enter this Contest, you must agree to and abide by these Official Rules. 
 
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.  A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Sponsor: Coty US LLC, 1 Park Avenue, 4^th floor, New York, NY 10016.  

2. Administrator: LeadDog Marketing Group, 159 W. 25th Street, 2^nd Floor, New York, NY 10001.

 

3. Eligibility: The "Sarah Jessica Parker Inspiration Contest" ("Contest") is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States or District of Columbia, who are at least 14 years of age at time of entry. Any individuals (including but not limited to employees, consultants, independent contractors, and interns) who have, within the past six months, performed services for Coty US LLC, LeadDog Marketing Group, iris USA Inc., any organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising, judging or promoting the Contest or supplying the prizes, and/or their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, and immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or win a prize.  "Immediate family members" shall mean parents, step-parents, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses, regardless of where they live.  "Household members" shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year, whether related or not.  Potential winners may be required to provide proof of eligibility upon request prior to prize award.  Void outside of 50 U.S./D.C. and where prohibited by law.

4. Contest Entry: The Contest begins on or about 12:00:01 am (mid-night) EDT on 7/1/09 and ends 11:59:59 pm EST on 12/31/09 ("Promotion Period").  Administrator's computer is the official clock for this Contest. There will be six (6) separate and distinct Contest Periods during the Promotion Period.

 
 

1. To enter: Navigate the Internet to www.sarahjessicaparkerbeauty.com ("Web site") and click the link to the Sarah Jessica Parker Inspiration Contest. You will be asked to provide your full name, zip code, email address, and date of birth. You may be asked to consent to receive promotional e-mails and reminder e-mails from Sponsor. Consenting to receive promotional or reminder e-mails is optional and does not have to be agreed upon in order to be eligible to participate in the Contest and does not improve your chances of winning. In the event you do consent to receive these e-mails, the use of such e-mails shall be subject to the privacy policy of Coty US LLC (available at http://www.coty.com/privacy_policy.html) and you may opt out of receiving these e-mails at any time, and such opt out will have no effect on your ability to participate or win. After you sign-in, follow the directions to attach a JPEG, GIF or PDF file with/depicting your inspirational image of a place and type a short description in English of why this place inspires you (twenty (20) words or less) in the specified field (image and description are sometimes hereafter collectively "Entry"). Image file attachment must be in one of the following formats: JPEG, GIF or PDF. Total file size must be no larger than 3MB. Before submitting your Entry you must confirm that you have read and agree to these Official Rules by placing a check mark in the box provided and confirm that you have all rights in the Entry as set forth in these Official Rules by placing a check mark in that box provided. Correspondence and inquiries concerning the Promotion will not be accepted or acknowledged. Any Entry, which in the sole opinion of Sponsor is deemed to be inappropriate for publication will be disqualified

 

(b) Entry Parameters: Except as specifically stated below, in Rule 4(c), once an Entry is submitted it cannot be changed, altered or modified, becomes the sole property of Sponsor and will not be returned.  Entries (i) must be the original and sole creation of the entrant, and all right, title and interest including but not limited to the copyright in any Entry, must be owned solely by the submitting entrant, (ii) may not have been submitted in any other competition, (iii) may not have been published, (iv) may not infringe upon any third party's rights, including but not limited to, copyright, patent or trademarks/tradenames/logos, or rights of privacy or publicity, or contain material that is or may be considered defamatory, slanderous or libelous, or portray or depict any person, product or entity in a false light, (v) may not violate any law, rule or regulation, (vi) may not contain any virus, bugs, or other deleterious material, and (vii) may not, for example but not limited to, contain, profanity, defamatory statements, words or symbols widely considered offensive to individuals of any certain race, ethnicity, religious, sexual orientation or socioeconomic groups, threats to any person, place, business, group or world peace; and each entrant warrants and represents that his/her Entry complies with all of those conditions. Entries cannot contain, among other things, the trademark, tradename or logo of any third party or entity or product (including but not limited to the trademark, tradename or logo of any product competitive with any Sarah Jessica Parker fragrance product), cannot name, or describe any person (living, dead, or fictional) other than the Entrant, and cannot contain any material that is protected by copyright. Any non-complying Entry with any of the above will be subject to disqualification.  By entering, each Entrant grants permission for the use of his/her Entry, and his/her name, to be posted on the Internet and Web site or any web site in connection with this Contest, and the advertising, promotion, and publicity of the Contest, and otherwise, as stated in these Official Rules (as solely determined by Sponsor); and each Entrant warrants and represents that he/she has all right and authority to grant such permission. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, however, there is no obligation of the Sponsor or any other person or entity to post or make any use of the Entry of any particular entrant, or of any entrant. 

Carefully read the Official Rules then, click the check box signifying that you have read, fully understand and agree to these Official Rules and confirm that you have all rights in the Entry as set forth in these Official Rules by placing a check mark in that box provided.  Click the Submit button to send your Entry.  

IF YOU DO NOT CHECK THE BOX INDICATING YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE OFFICIAL RULES YOU WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE TO ENTER THE CONTEST OR WIN THE PRIZE. 

(c) Entry Limits: Limit five (5) Contest Entries per person/email address per Contest Period. Entries into each Contest Period from any entrant must be completely original and unique from that entrant for that Contest Period. Should an entrant wish to submit a non-winning Entry that the entrant submitted in a prior Contest Period into a subsequent Contest Period, then that Entrant may change, alter, and/or modify the Entry and submit only the changed, altered or modified Entry into the subsequent Contest Period. Multiple entries in excess of the stated limitations or mass entry attempts by any method will result in disqualification of all entries by such person/email address.  Entries must be manually key-stroked by the entrant; use of automated entry devices or programs, or entries by third parties by any method of entry, is prohibited. Entries must be received and recorded by the Administrator's computer during a particular Contest Period to be eligible for that Contest Period. Entries that do not conform to these Official Rules or are submitted in any manner other than stated in these Official Rules will be disqualified. 

5.    Rights:  By submitting an Entry, each Entrant (if a minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) acknowledges and agrees that if the Entry is determined to be a Prize winner, by acceptance of a prize, each winning Entrant  (if a minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) grants to Sponsor and its licensees, sublicensees, successors, and assigns (collectively, the "Rights Holders"), the exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicenseable right and license (under all intellectual property and proprietary rights including without limitation patents, trademarks, and copyrights) to use, perform, exhibit, reproduce, manufacture, construct, tailor, distribute, sell, offer to sell, import and/or otherwise exploit the Entry in any manner and in any and all distribution channels, venues or media now known or hereafter devised (collectively, the "License")  The rights granted pursuant to the License shall also include, without limitation, the right to:  (a) change, alter, distort, edit or revise the Entry, or any part thereof; and (b) make derivative works based on the Entry, or any part thereof.  Each Entry will be deemed a Work Made For Hire under the Copyright laws of the United States, but if it cannot be so deemed, then each Winner (and the winner's parent/legal guardian if the winner is a minor) irrevocably sells, assigns and transfers to Sponsor all of Winner's right, title and interest in and to winner's Entry, including but not limited to all copyright and trademark rights, and waives all rights of droit moral in favor of Sponsor, which Winner may have, in the United States and worldwide, therein, for consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged.  Upon request of Sponsor, each Winner (and the winner's parent/legal guardian if the winner is a minor) shall execute and deliver such additional instrument of sale, transfer and assignment, as may be solely deemed by Sponsor, reasonably necessary to establish the ownership of record of the right, title and interest in and to the subject Entry and of the copyrights, and trademarks transferred, and all rights of droit moral waived.  Should Sponsor fail to request the said additional instrument of sale, transfer and assignment as stated, that shall not be deemed a waiver of Sponsor's rights and Sponsor may at a later time request that instrument, and the stated winner (and the winner's parent/legal guardian if the winner is a minor) agrees to honor and comply with such request.   

Without limiting any of the foregoing grants or rights, by submitting an Entry, and without limitation of any other rights granted, each Entrant  (if a minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) grants permission to the Rights Holders to use the Entrant's name, likeness, voice, Entry (whether or not Entrant is a Prize winner), prize information and/or biographical information for trade, publicity and promotional purposes without consideration, review or approval, to the fullest extent permitted by law.  Each Entrant (if a minor, his/her parent or legal guardian ) agrees that Rights Holders may, without notice or consideration to Entrant (if a minor, to his/her parent or legal guardian), sublicense or otherwise transfer any or all of the rights granted hereunder (including, without limitation and if applicable, the License) to any third party. 

Entrants (if a minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) waive any so-called "moral rights" in connection with Entry and shall not have any right of approval as to any rights exercised by the Rights Holders.

6. Judging/Winning:  For each Contest Period, all Eligible Entries received and recorded during a Contest Period will be judged by a panel of judges selected by the Sponsor, as well as posted at the Web site for a public vote during that Contest Period. Eligible Entries will be judged by the panel of judges based on the following criteria: (a) 40 points available for inspirational value, and, (b) 40 points available for originality. Eligible Entries will be posted at the Contest Website for public viewing and voting with 10 points available based on Public Voting beginning when the Entry is uploaded to the Contest gallery and ending at 11:59:59 p.m. on the final day of the Contest Period (see above schedule for Contest Period Dates). Limit of one vote per person or e-mail address per day. A day begins at 12:00:00a.m. ET and ends the following 11:59:59pm ET. Votes cast by macro or robotic system or any means designed to gain an unfair advantage or impugn the integrity of the Contest are subject to disqualification in the Sponsor's sole discretion. 2.) Winner Determination: The total judging score for each Entry will be added to the voting score for that Entry to determine the Entry's final point score. The Entry with the highest final point score for a Contest Period will be deemed the winning Entry for that Contest Period, subject to verification and compliance with the Rules In the event of a tie, an additional judge will be added to the panel to review the tied entries based on the judging criteria specified herein, but excluding the voting score. Should a tie continue, one new judge will be appointed to judge the tied Entries using only the judging criteria. Decisions of the judges are final and binding in all respects as regards the judging.  

7.  Prizes, Approximate Retail Values ("ARV"):   

SIX PRIZES (One per Contest Period):  The winner of Contest #1 will receive a SJP Lovely Giftset signed by Sarah Jessica Parker that includes a 6.4oz EDP, 2.5oz Body Lotion, 2.5oz Shower Gel and 4oz Milk Bath. ARV: $96.00. The winner of Contest #2 will receive a SJP Lovely Collection Dawn Giftset that includes a 2.5oz EDP and 6.7oz Body Lotion. ARV: $86.00. The winner of Contest #3 will receive a SJP Lovely Collection Endless Giftset that includes a 2.5oz EDP and 6.7oz Body Lotion. ARV: $86.00. The winner of Contest #4 will receive a SJP Lovely Collection Twilight Giftset that includes a 6.7oz Body Lotion and 2.5oz EDP. ARV: $86.00. The winner of Contest #5 will receive a SJP Lovely Limited Edition Winter Sparkle Kit that includes a 6.4oz EDP and 10g solid fragrance stick. ARV: $89.00. The winner of Contest #6 will receive a SJP Lovely Giftset that includes a 3.4oz EDP, 2.5oz Body Lotion and Signature SJP Clutch purse. ARV: $80.00. 

Total ARV of all prizes: $523.00. Any costs and incidentals not specified herein are the winner's sole responsibility. No substitution, cash redemption or transfer of prize except with Sponsor's permission (which may be granted or withheld for any reason) or where required by law. Sponsor in its sole discretion may award a substitute prize/prize component of equal or greater value if advertised prize/prize component is unavailable at time of awarding for any reason. If prize winner cannot accept the prize as stated, the prize may be forfeited in its entirety and awarded to an alternate winner. Federal, state and local taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winner.  

8. Winner Notification: Potential Winners will be notified by e-mail and/or mail, or by such other method as solely determined by Sponsor on or about 3 business days after the Contest Period. Failure to respond to the initial notification as directed in the notification within 3 business days after notification or return of notification as undeliverable after 2 attempts will result in disqualification. Potential Winners (and their respective parent/legal guardian if potential winner is a minor) may be required to complete, sign and return within 5 business days of  receipt an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release and Indemnification, and a Publicity Release, where allowed by law. If the Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability Release and Indemnification and Publicity Release document is not returned to Sponsor within specified time period, or if a notification or prize is returned as non-deliverable or if a potential winner is found to be ineligible or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules , potential winner may be disqualified. If potential winner is disqualified for any reason, prize will be awarded to an alternate winner selected from in accordance with winner determination stated in these Rules. In the event of any dispute concerning the identity of any entrant, the Entry will be deemed submitted by the natural person who is the authorized holder of the transmitting e-mail account, as applicable. "Authorized account holder" for email entries is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. If winner is a minor in his/her jurisdiction of residence, prize may be awarded in the name of, or to, winner's parent/legal guardian who must execute all documents and agree to all obligations and undertakings of winner, both on behalf of himself/herself and winner, or prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner selected. 
 
Released Parties (as defined below) are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, stolen, misdirected, postage due or illegible, mail, Internet connections or email; or for any computer, telephone, wireless, satellite, cable, network, electronic, Internet or cell phone hardware or software malfunctions, failures, connections, or availability, or garbled, corrupt or jumbled transmissions, service provider/Internet/website/use net/accessibility, availability, or traffic congestion, Internet contact, or any technical error, or program errors or malfunctions or unauthorized human intervention, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of registration, Entry, or other information, or the failure to capture, or loss of, any such information. If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, as solely determined by Sponsor, including but not limited to by infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or technical failures that can corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. In such event, Sponsor shall conduct the Contest and award the Contest prizes from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (as appropriate as solely determined by Sponsor) the action taken by Sponsor or otherwise award the Contest prizes in a manner which is fair, appropriate and consistent with the spirit of these Official Rules, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Notice of cancellation/termination/ modification/suspension of Contest will be posted on the Web site. The right is reserved by Sponsor to disqualify any individual found, at its sole discretion, to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or Web site, to be acting in violation of the Official Rules; or to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person No responsibility is assumed for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure (whether wireless or Internet), theft or destruction or unauthorized access to (or any problems or technical malfunctions of) any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or electronic entry to be received (or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of registration, entry or other information, or the failure to capture, or loss of, any such information) on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at the Web site, or any combination thereof. Released Parties are not responsible for any injury or damage to entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials from this Contest. Further, Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Web site users, tampering, hacking, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Promotion. 
 
Entrants further agree not to damage or cause interruption of the Contest and/or prevent others from participating in the Contest. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DAMAGE ANY ONLINE SERVICE OR WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST VIOLATES CRIMINAL OR CIVIL LAWS. IF SUCH AN ATTEMPT IS MADE OR AN INDIVIDUAL OTHERWISE ATTEMPTS TO DEFRAUD SPONSOR, SPONSOR MAY DISQUALIFY ANY ENTRANT MAKING SUCH ATTEMPT AND SEEK DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.

9. Conditions and Limitations of Liability: By participating, entrants (and each entrant's parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor) agree to be bound by and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor and Contest Administrator, and judges regarding the judging of Entries, which shall be final and binding in all respects.  By participating in this Contest, entrants (and each entrant's parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor) agree to release and hold harmless Coty US LLC, LeadDog Marketing Group, Iris, the Entry judges, their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, advertising and promotion agencies and prize suppliers, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, representatives and employees, as well as each of their respective successors and assigns (collectively and individually, the "Released Parties") from any and all actions, claims, injury, loss or damage (whether due to negligence or otherwise) to person(s), including death, or property, or infringement upon any third party's rights, (including but not limited to, copyright, patent or trademarks/tradenames/logos, or rights of privacy or publicity, or inclusion of material that is or may be considered defamatory, slanderous or libelous, or portray or depict any person, product or entity in a false light) arising in any manner, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part from participation in this Contest, or any Contest related activity, or breach or failure of any warranty or representation, and/or acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any prize(s).  By accepting a prize, prizewinners (and each winner's parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor) authorize the Sponsor, and those acting pursuant to the Sponsor's authority to use their names, voices, likeness, photographs, prize information, biographical data and city and state of residence in any media know known or hereafter discovered, world wide, including on the World Wide Web and Internet, in perpetuity, at any time or times, in advertising, trade and/or promotional material or on a winner's list (if applicable) without additional compensation (unless prohibited by law) or notice, review or approval. Sponsor is not obligated to use any of the above mentioned information or materials, but may do so and may edit such information or materials, at Sponsor's sole discretion, without obligation or compensation.

 
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, SPONSOR AND ADMINISTRATOR MAKE NO WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR GUARANTEE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN FACT OR IN LAW, RELATIVE TO THE USE OF ANY PRIZE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ITS QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

IN NO EVENT WILL 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 INTERNET SITE (www.sarahjessicaparkerbeauty.com) OR THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM SAID SITE.  WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED 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 OR 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. 

10. Disputes: Arbitration/Choice Of Law:  Except where prohibited, entrants (and entrant's parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor) agree that: (1) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, or any prize awarded, or the determination of the winners, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by arbitration pursuant to the Rules of the American Arbitration Association, then effective, and (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Contest but in no event attorneys' fees; and (3) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased.  All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of entrant and/or Released Parties in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without regard for conflicts of law doctrine, and all proceedings shall take place in the City of New York, County of New York. 

11. Privacy Policy: The entry information provided is subject to the Privacy Policy on www.sarahjessicaparkerbeauty.com.  To read that Policy, access the www.sarahjessicaparkerbeauty.com Web site and then click on the Privacy Policy link. 

12. Winners List: For the names of the prize winners, mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: "Sarah Jessica Parker Inspiration Contest#2 Winners", c/o LeadDog Marketing Group, 159 W. 25th Street, 2^nd Floor, New York, NY 10001, to be received no later than 1/29/10.