OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE
NECESSARY
1. DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTEST: The "Honor-a-Bull Video Challenge" (hereinafter "Contest")
is designed to encourage bully breed owners to describe how their relationship with their pet influences and effects their
daily lives. Videos should be creative and inspiring depictions of any honorable, brave, kind or affectionate acts your pet has displayed or displays regularly. Each video should
appeal to a worldwide audience. The winning videos will be determined by two methods - (1) public
opinion (i.e., the most viewed video); and (2) individual judges, in their sole discretion, and in accordance with these Official
Rules.
2. ELIGIBILITY: This contest is open only to individuals who submit original videos that they
have personally created to be uploaded for National Pit Bull Awareness Day on YouTube as described below. At the time of entry
each entrant must be the legal age of 18 or obtain parental consent. You
must have access to the Internet and a valid email address in order to enter or win.
3. HOW TO ENTER: This contest begins at 12:01 A.M. Eastern Time (ET) zone in the United States
(e.g. Washington D.C. time) on September 1, 2009 and ends at 11:59 P.M. (ET) September 30, 2009 ("Contest Period"). .IMPORTANT
NOTICE TO ENTRANTS: EACH ENTRANT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE CORRESPONDING TIME ZONE IN HIS/HER RESPECTIVE JURISDICTION.
4. THE SUBMISSION: Create a video that is approximately 1 minute to
no greater than 4 minutes in length, and tell us how your pet has accomplished, achieved, and/or surpassed public and/or
your personal expectation. You may submit multiple Entries, so long as each Entry meets all requirements. Each Entry
should be original, creative, and appeal to a worldwide audience. For example, you could show us how your pet makes your home
complete, provides a unique service, or you could show us how he/she has overcome difficult obstacles.
Be creative! Be descriptive! In the body of the email provide a short essay (200
words or less) explaining how these canine acts and achievements have changed your life, or influenced others lives, opinions
and ideas. To enter, you must e-mail your video at the link provided at www.blessthebullys.com, provide written permission in the body of the email for NPBAD to use the video
PUBLICLY. You will need to include the following personal information within
the body of the email: Name; Contact information; Pet Name: Pet Age; plus add
a brief summary of what your pet means to you, and your family.
Videos are to be submitted in WMV format only.
All
Entries must be in English. Registration or Entries that are in any other language will not be considered. Entries that are
lewd, obscene, pornographic, disparaging of the Sponsor(s) or otherwise contain objectionable material may be disqualified
in the Sponsor(s) sole and unfettered discretion. Only original submissions that are personally created will be eligible to
win.
5. JUDGING: NPBAD Judges will select one (1) winner at the end of the Contest Period: The Grand
Prize winner will be selected by a panel of experts, who will judge each Entry, based on the following equally weighted criteria:
originality, creativity, appeal to a worldwide audience, and clear presentation of your pet’s overall personality. In the event of a tie, the person among the tied Entries with the highest score in
creativity will be declared the winner. NPBAD will select one grand prize winner. Decisions of judges are final and binding.
The Winner will be notified by email and or phone and or mail at NPBAD’s sole discretion.
Public Judges: An additional winning video will be determined by the public. The video that receives the most
views by the public will be the winner of the public opinion award.
6. PRIZES AND APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUES: The
Grand Prize will consist of items donated for this contest by various sponsors. Moreover, the winning videos will be
placed on the Bless the Bullys website to represent NPBAD for year 2009, and will remain on the website until NPBAD 2010.
7. CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for an item
of equal or greater value in the event all or part of a prize becomes unavailable. Prizes are awarded without warranty of
any kind from Sponsor, express or implied, without limitation, except where this would be contrary to federal, state, provincial,
or local law or regulation. All federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations apply. Submission of entry into
this Contest deems that entrants agree to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules and by the decisions of Sponsor, which
are final and binding on all matters pertaining to this Contest. Return of any prize/prize notification may result in disqualification
and selection of an alternate winner. Any potential winner who cannot be contacted within 15 days of first attempted notification
will forfeit his/her prize and an alternate may be selected. Potential prize winner(s) may be required to sign and return
a Declaration of Eligibility/Liability & Publicity Release within 30 days following the date of first attempted notification.
Failure to comply within this time period may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. The Grand Prize
winner.s travel companion may be required to sign and return a Liability/Publicity Release prior to travel. As a condition of entry, participants agree that NPBAD shall have the right to use, copy, modify and make
available the video, conduct, administration, advertising and promotion of the Contest via communication to the public, including,
but not limited to the right to make screenshots, animations and video clips available to the public for promotional and publicity
purposes. Acceptance of the prize constitutes permission for, and winners consent to, NPBAD and its agencies to use a winner's
name and/or likeness and entry for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation. To the extent permitted
by law, entrants agree to hold Sponsor, it’s representatives and assigns harmless from any injury or damage caused or
claimed to be caused by participation in the Contest and/or use or acceptance of any prize won, except to the extent that
any death or personal injury is caused by the negligence of the Sponsor. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical
or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Contest or in the announcement of the prize. A participant
may be prohibited from participating in this Contest if, in the Sponsor's sole discretion, it reasonably believes that the
participant has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of this Contest by cheating, deception, or other unfair playing
practices or annoys, abuses, threatens or harasses any other participants, the Sponsor or associated agencies. In the event
a winner/potential winner's employer has a policy which prohibits the awarding of a prize to an employee, the prize will be
forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected.
8. NO RECOURSE TO JUDICIAL OR OTHER PROCEDURES: To the extent permitted by law, the rights
to litigate, to seek injunctive relief or to make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes
or claims resulting from or in connection with this contest are hereby excluded, and any participant expressly waives any
and all such rights.
9. DATA PRIVACY: Participants agree that personal data, especially name and address, may be
processed, stored and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the contest and any other purposes outlined
in these Official Rules. The data may also be used by the Sponsor in order to check participants' identity, their postal address
and telephone number, or to otherwise verify their eligibility to participate in the Contest and to receive any prize. Participants
have a right to access, review, rectify or cancel any personal data held by the Sponsor by writing to Sponsor (Attention:
NPBAD) at the address listed below. If participant's data is not provided or is canceled, participants' Entries will be ineligible.
10. WARRANTY AND INDEMNITY: Each entrant certifies that their entry is original and that they are the sole and exclusive
owner and right holder of the submitted Entry, and that they have the right to submit the Entry in the Contest. Each entrant
agrees not to submit any Entry that (1) infringes any 3rd party proprietary, intellectual property, industrial property, personal
rights or other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret or confidentiality obligation;
or (2) otherwise violates applicable law in any countries in the world. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each entrant
indemnifies and agrees to keep indemnified the Sponsor and its representatives and assigns harmless at all times from and
against any liability, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and expenses resulting from any act, default or omission of
the participant and/or a breach of any warranty set forth herein. To the maximum extent permitted by law, each participant
indemnifies and agrees to keep indemnified the Sponsor and its representatives and assigns harmless at all times from and
against any liability, actions, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs and expenses for or in respect of which the Sponsor
will or may become liable by reason of or related or incidental to any act, default or omission by a participant under these
Official Rules including without limitation resulting from or in relation to any breach, non-observance, act or omission whether
negligent or otherwise, pursuant to these official rules by a participant.
11. ELIMINATION: Any false information provided within the context of the Contest by any participant concerning identity,
postal address, telephone number, ownership of right, animal abuse, neglect, or violation of any local, State or Federal law
enacted to protect the rights and well-being of the pet, or non- compliance with these rules or the like may result in the
immediate elimination of the participant from the Contest. Sponsor further reserves the right to disqualify any Entry that
it believes in its sole and unfettered discretion infringes upon or violates the rights of any third party or otherwise does
not comply with these official rules.
12. INTERNET: Sponsor is not responsible for electronic transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion,
defect, delay in operations or transmission. Sponsor is not responsible for theft or destruction or unauthorized access to
or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software
malfunctions or limitations of any kind. Sponsor is not responsible for inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive
entry information by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site or
any combination thereof, except to the extent that any death or personal injury is caused by the negligence of the Sponsor.
If for any reason the Internet portion of the program is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer
virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, disruption or termination of the website for
any reason or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct
of this Contest, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to immediately cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the
Contest. Sponsor reserves the right to select a winner from eligible entries received as of the termination date. Sponsor
further reserves the right to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process. Caution: Any attempt by a contestant
to deliberately damage any web site or undermine the legitimate operation of the contest is a violation of criminal and civil
laws and should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such contestant to the fullest
extent of the law.
13. If any provision(s) of these Official Rules are held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions hereof
will remain in full force and effect.
14. WINNER'S LIST: For winner's names, log onto www.blessthebullys.com on or about October 15th, 2009, available
for a period of up to 60 days.
15. SPONSOR: The Sponsor of this Contest is National Pit Bull Awareness Day – Bless The Bullys. YouTube.com is not associated or affiliated with this Contest in any manner.
