NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID IN QUEBEC AND WHERE PROHIBITED. OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF CANADA
(EXCLUDING QUEBEC) WHO ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF FOURTEEN (14) AND EIGHTEEN (18)
YEARS.
1. TO ENTER the MotorolaÕs Raise Your Voiceª 4 Change contest
(the ÒContestÓ) simply visit the web site located
at www.raiseyourvoice.ca/4change, click Enter the Contest page. Entrants will be
redirected to www.vervegirl.com/4change to complete and submit your entry by following the
instructions found on the site. All entries must include your first and last name, address, email address, age,
ten digit day time and evening telephone number and creative essay, video log,
blog, photo essay containing your positive community change ideas (the ÒInitial
Submission(s)Ó). Initial Written submissions are to be no longer than five-hundred
(500) words in length with your most cutting-edge ideas for a positive
community change. Video submissions are to be no longer than two (2) minutes in
length with your most cutting-edge ideas for a positive community change. Photo
essay submissions are to be a minimum resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and no
larger than 1MB in total image size and be less than five-hundred (500) words
with your most cutting-edge ideas for a positive community change. Entries
received online shall be deemed to be submitted by the "Authorized Account
Holder" of the email address submitted at the time of entry.
"Authorized Account Holder" 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. Limit of one (1) entry per individual. Illegible entries
are ineligible. Contest
starts at 10:00 a.m. Eastern
Time ("ET") on Monday, April 07 2008
and closes on Monday, June 09, 2008 at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time
("ET") (the ÒContest PeriodÓ). There is one (1) grand prize (the "Grand Prize") to
be won from among all the eligible entries received during the Contest Period.
2. SPONSORS: The contest sponsors are Youth
Culture Group and Direct Current Media (DCM) (hereinafter referred to as
the ÒContest SponsorsÓ).
3. ELIGIBILITY: To enter and to be eligible to win, entrant must be a legal resident of Canada (excluding Quebec)
and must be between the ages of fourteen (14) and eighteen (18) years of age. Employees
and their parents, siblings and children, and persons domiciled with an
employee of any of the Contest Sponsors or Motorola
Canada Ltd., their agents, parent, affiliated or
related companies, subsidiaries, divisions, prize sponsors, and promotional and
advertising agencies and administrators, are ineligible to enter. Entrants
who are under the age of majority at the date of entry are eligible to enter
the Contest and win a prize provided that the parent or legal guardian of the
entrant accepts any such prize and the terms and conditions hereof for and on
behalf of such entrant.
4. INITIAL Submission Guidelines: Entries must be the original work of the entrant; may
not have won previous awards; may not have been published previously; must not
infringe third-party rights, and must be suitable for publication in the sole
discretion of Sponsors (i.e., may not be obscene or indecent).
All Initial
Submissions written must be no longer than five-hundred (500) words in length. All
Initial Submissions visual must be no longer than two (2) minutes in length.
And submission format includes most common video file formats (mpeg, Quicktime,
.avi) and the site will reformat them to flash files.. Submissions which have
been published or publicly exhibited outside of this Contest are not eligible
to win. In the event the Submission depicts an individual in a way that the
person(s) can be recognized, the entrant must obtain a Consent & Release of
Recognizable Individual (ÒConsentÓ), in writing, from the person(s) depicted in
the submission. Consent must be in the form as provided by Youth Culture Group,
available for download from the Contest web site at www.vervegirl.com/4change.
Consent form must be submitted with Submission. Submissions may be posted on the Contest website.
Submissions with recognizable people that are submitted with inadequate Consent
forms will not be posted on the Contest website and will not be eligible to win
the Grand Prize. Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. assume no
responsibility for any claims against infringement of the right of privacy with
respect to any submission entered.
Submissions
will not be returned. Grand Prize winning
entries become the property of the Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd., including all intellectual property rights in all entry submissions. Grand Prize winners irrevocably agree
that by submitting entries and upon being elected as a winner, they transfer
and assign, all right, title and interest in his/her submission to the Contest
Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. Each
winning entrant further agrees to waive all moral rights in the submissions in
which each entrant agrees to waive and transfer to the Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. by
entering the contest. Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada
Ltd. reserve their unlimited right
to display the submission in any form of media, including, without limitation,
newspaper, Internet web sites and/or television including but not limited to raiseyourvoice.ca,
vervegirl.com and vervegirl.com/4change. Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. reserve
their unlimited right to edit or manipulate the submissions for purposes of
better editorial display.
Submission of any entry further constitutes the
entrantÕs consent to irrevocably assign and transfer to the sponsor any all
rights, title and interest in the entry, including, without limitation, all
copyrights. By submitting
his/her entry into the Contest, the entrant agrees to comply with all local and
international laws that may apply.
Any person featured in submission
must sign a release prior to awarding of prize. Entrant must submit licenses for all third party content in
submission. i.e. music or trademarks, prior to awarding a prize.
6. Grand Prize: There is one (1) Grand Prize consisting of a
one-thousand-dollar ($1,000) Registered Education Savings Plan (ÒRESPÓ) an one
(1) one-thousand-dollar ($1,000) donation to a registered, Canadian government-recognized, nonprofit (NGO) Canadian charity of the winnerÕs choice. Grand Prize winner agrees to be
profiled via press interviews and media contact and agrees to be profiled
within but not limited to the Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. Web sites and
promotional materials relating to ÒMotorolaÕs Raise Your Voiceª 4 Change TourÓ
and ÒMotorolaÕs Raise Your Voiceª 4 Change ContestÓ at dates to be determined
by the Contest Sponsors and
Motorola Canada Ltd. In the event the Grand Prize winner is under
the age of majority, his or her parent or guardian of the entrant accepts any such prize and the terms
and conditions on behalf of such entrant.
7. PRIZE RESTRICTIONS: Prizes
must be accepted as awarded. The Prizes may not
be sold, transferred and are not convertible to
cash. Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. reserve the right to substitute the Prizes in whole or in part in the event that all or any
component of the Prizes are
unavailable. Prize winner is solely responsible for all costs not expressly
described herein.
8. JUDGING: On or after Monday, June 09, 2008 an impartial panel of judges (the "Judges")
will review all eligible Initial Submissions. The criteria that will be used by
the Judges to determine Grand Prize winner based on the number of entries that
best execute, in no particular order: a) Creativity and clarity of your change:
How well your idea is described/illustrated; b) Ability to turn your idea for
change into action: How realistic is your idea?; c) Sustainability of your
change: Is your change something that can be continued into the future? From Monday, June 30, 2008 to Tuesday, September 31, 2008 the
Grand Prize winner and up to ten (10) short-listed Initial Submissions will be
posted on www.vervegirl.com/4change and www.raiseyourvoice.com. Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. assume no
responsibility for any claims against infringement of the right of privacy with
respect to any creative essay, script or artwork submitted. The odds of winning the Grand Prize will depend on the
number of eligible entries received during the Contest Period and conformity
with judging criteria. In order to be declared a winner, potential winner must
first correctly answer, unaided, a time limited mathematical skill testing
question administered by Youth Culture Group.
9.
RELEASE OF LIABILITY: Before
being awarded the Grand Prize, potential winner, or if under the
age or majority, his or her parent or legal guardian, as applicable, will
be required to sign and return within the time stipulated by the Contest
Sponsors and Motorola Canada
Ltd., a full release and indemnity
form stating that he/she has read and understood these official rules and
regulations (ÒRulesÓ), grants all consents required, authorizes the Contest
Sponsors and Motorola Canada
Ltd. to broadcast, publish and
disseminate his/her name, city of residence, photograph, likeness, sobriquet
and voice, in connection with any promotion or publicity, and/or for general
news, entertainment and information purposes at no additional compensation to
the potential winner, beyond the awarding of or participation in the Prize,
accepts the Prize as offered and releases the Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. from any and all liability of any kind arising out of
the potential winnerÕs, participation in this Contest and
receipt and use of the Grand Prize. In the event that the potential winner and/or traveling companion, as applicable, do not comply with
all the provisions as contemplated in these Rules, Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. shall
have the right to disqualify potential winner and draw an alternate potential
winner and the Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. shall
be fully and completely released and discharged from any liability or
responsibility in this regard. The provisions and procedures referred to above
relating to selection and notification of a potential winner
and/or traveling companion, if applicable, shall be applied, with the
necessary amendments, until a qualified winner has been duly selected.
10. ACCEPTANCE OF RULES: By entering this Contest the entrants and
participants automatically agree to accept and abide by these Rules. All
decisions of the Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada
Ltd. with respect to any aspect of this Contest, including without limitation
the eligibility of entries, are final and binding on all entrants in all
matters as they relate to this Contest. Entries that are not original
compositions by the entrant, illegal, defamatory, obscene, or entries that
discriminate based on grounds set out in Human Rights codes or other applicable
legislation will not be eligible.
11. MISCELLANEOUS: Contest Sponsors
and Motorola Canada Ltd. assume
no responsibility for garbled, lost, late,
delayed, destroyed or misdirected mail, voice messages, e-mail or any computer
errors or malfunctions. No correspondence will be entered into except with
entrants requesting Rules by mail or requesting names of prize winner (for
which a self-addressed, postage paid envelope must be included). Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. do not assume any responsibility for incorrect or
inaccurate capture of entry information, technical malfunctions, human or
technical error, seeding or printing errors, lost, delayed or
garbled data or transmissions, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or
failures of any telephone or computer line or network, computer equipment,
software or any combination thereof. Entry materials-data that have been
tampered with or altered are void. If for any reason, in the opinion of the
Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada
Ltd., in their sole discretion, the Contest is not capable
of running as originally planned, or if the administration, security, fairness,
integrity or the proper conduct of the Contest is corrupted or adversely
affected, including by reason of infection by
computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud,
technical failures or any other causes beyond their
control, Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. reserve their right to
cancel, terminate, modify, amend, extend or suspend the Contest including
canceling any method of entry, and select a winner from previously received
eligible entries. Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. reserve their right to
modify the Rules without materially affecting the terms and conditions hereof.
The Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada
Ltd. reserve their right in their sole discretion to disqualify any individual
they find to be
tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or to be
acting in violation of the Rules or otherwise in a disruptive manner. Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. in
their sole discretion, further reserve their right to terminate the on-line
portion, as applicable, of the Contest and conduct the judging from all on-line
entries and all other entries (as applicable) previously received during the
Contest Period. Any attempts to
deliberately damage the Contest web site or web sites or to undermine the
legitimate operation of this Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws
and should such an attempt be made the Contest Sponsors
and Motorola Canada Ltd. reserve their right to seek remedies and damages to the
fullest extent of the law. Contest
Sponsors and Motorola Canada
Ltd. shall not be held responsible
for any errors or negligence that may arise or occur in connection with the
Contest including any damage to an entrantÕs computer equipment, system,
software or any combination thereof, as a result of their participation in this
Contest or from downloading any material from the Contest web site or web sites,
where applicable.
12. LAWS AND PRIVACY
POLICY: Contest is subject to all
applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. Personal information collected from entrants will be
used by Contest Sponsors and
Motorola Canada Ltd. for the purpose of administering this
Contest and, if consent is given at the time of entry, to provide the entrants
with marketing information relating to new and existing products and upcoming
promotions of the Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. by mail or
e-mail. Entrants are able to opt in with respect to receiving such marketing
information online. Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. will not sell, share or otherwise disclose personal
information of entrants with third parties, other than to third parties engaged
by them to fulfil the above purposes or as permitted or required by law. By
entering the Contest, entrants consent to the manner of collection, use and
disclosure of personal information as set out in Youth Culture GroupÕs Privacy
policy at www.vervegirl.com, Direct Current MediaÕs Privacy policy at www.4real.com/privacy.asp
and Motorola Canada Ltd.'s Privacy policy at motorola.com/privacy. Any inquiry
concerning the personal information held by the Contest Sponsors and Motorola Canada Ltd. should
be addressed to Youth Culture at 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 245, Toronto.
ON., M5V 1X3.
LEGALS for the MotorolaÕs Raise Your Voice ª 4
Change Contest
- Super: No purchase necessary. VOID IN QUEBEC AND WHERE PROHIBITED. Contest starts at 10:00 a.m. ET on Monday, April 07, 2008 and closes on Monday, June 09, 2008.