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, 2007 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. (EST) on April 30, 2008. 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 By Mail: To enter by mail, complete the official entry form received with your Transitions Lenses Certificate of Authenticity, or 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 April 30, 2008 and received by May 9, 2008. ALL OTHER MAIL-IN ENTRIES ARE NULL AND VOID. B. 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.
All entries become the property of Sponsor and none will be returned.
6. SWEEPSTAKES PRIZES & ODDS OF WINNING: Grand Prize: (12) Twelve 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: 11/30/2007, 12/31/2007, 1/31/2008, 2/29/2008, 3/31/2008 and 5/15/2008, 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 5/31/2008), 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.