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![]() LIVE'S BEAUTIFUL BABY SEARCH 2008
I. NAME OF SPONSOR(S): LIVE with Regis and Kelly, 7 Lincoln Square, New York, New York 10023 ("LIVE"); American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., 77 West 66th Street, 16th Floor, New York, New York 10023 ("ABC") (Hereinafter collectively referred to as "Sponsor"). II. ELIGIBILITY: Nominees must be between the age of 6 months and 48 months as of December 18, 2007 and legal resident of the 50 U.S., D.C. or Canada, with the exception of Guam, Puerto Rico and all other U.S. territories and possessions and the Province of Quebec, Canada and where prohibited by law. Any individuals (including but not limited to employees, consultants, independent contractors, and interns) who have, within the past six months, performed services for LIVE with Regis and Kelly, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Buena Vista Television, The Parenting Group, Inc., any organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the contest or supplying the prize, and their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, and immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to nominate or be nominated. "Immediate family members" shall mean parents, step-parents, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses. "Household members" shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year. III. HOW AND WHEN TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Send us a recent photo of your baby. Photos must have been taken in the last month and can not be the product of a professional photographer. Submissions must be the sole property of entrant and entrant must have all rights to reproduce and distribute the photo submitted. Any submission not meeting these requirements will be immediately disqualified. To enter by mail, include with your baby's photograph, your name, address, day & evening phone numbers along with your child's name, date of birth and date when picture was taken and mail to: LIVE'S BEAUTIFUL BABY SEARCH Ansonia Station P.O. 234054 New York, NY 10023-9453 Or you can enter by logging on to our Web site at: www.liveregisandkelly.com. There you will find instructions on the appropriate and acceptable file formats and sizes for submitting your entry electronically. Click on the e-mail address indicated and write your name, address and day & evening phone numbers along with your child's name and date of birth, attaching to the message the properly formatted photo. LIVE can provide no technical support and accepts no responsibility for insuring the receipt of your e-mail and photo. If you experience any difficulties trying to submit your entry via e-mail, we recommend that you send your photo via U.S. mail to us at the above address. Entrants must be able to supply additional photo(s) if requested. Entries must be received by 5pm ET on Friday, January 11, 2008 to be eligible. Photos will not be acknowledged or returned. All entries become the property of LIVE and may be used in any manner, in any media, worldwide in perpetuity. Finalists must be available to appear on LIVE in New York during the week of February 11, 2008. Choice of dates for any appearance is at LIVE's sole discretion. If a Winner is unable to travel on the dates selected, Winner will forfeit prize and an alternate winner will be selected, if time permits. As deemed necessary at the sole discretion of the Sponsor, LIVE will provide transportation and accommodation for the five (5) finalists asked to appear on the program. LIVE reserves the exclusive right to determine the details and/or necessity of such compensated travel arrangements. Federal, state and local taxes associated with all transportation and accommodations provided are the responsibility of the finalist. Any and all expenses not expressly mentioned above are the sole responsibility of the finalist. Entries remain the property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged. One entry per nominee will be considered for further participation. Sponsor is not responsible for mail that is lost, stolen, late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, mutilated, misdirected, altered, tampered with, or postage-due. Sponsor is not responsible for failed, partial or garbled computer transmissions, or for technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to electronic malfunction or damage of any network, hardware or software. If for any reason the contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or other causes that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the contest, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest. No responsibility is assumed for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries; 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 on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web-site, or any combination thereof, including 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. IV. HOW AND WHEN WINNERS WILL BE SELECTED AND NOTIFIED Potential semi-finalists will be notified by telephone during the week of February 4, 2008. Three (3) attempts will be made to contact the potential semi-finalists. If contact with potential semi-finalists is not made within three (3) days potential semi-finalist will be disqualified and an alternate will be selected, time permitting. Ten (10) semi-finalists will be chosen from all qualifying entries. Entries will be judged by representatives of the LIVE and Parenting magazine staffs. The ten (10) semi-finalists pictures will appear on LIVE and on LIVE's website on or about the week of February 11, 2008. Viewers will have the chance to vote on-line for five (5) of the ten (10) semi-finalists. Only one (1) entry will be accepted per registered e-mail address. The Viewers will be told on air when the on-line voting will begin and end. The five (5) finalists receiving the most individual votes will be invited to appear on the program. The five (5) finalists will attend a photo shoot held by Parenting magazine. Based solely on photos produced from the photo shoot, representatives from the staffs of LIVE and Parenting magazine will decide who will win the title of "LIVE's Beautiful Baby." All entries will be judged based on the visual appeal of the baby to the judging panels as evidenced by the photograph. All decisions of the judges are final and binding as to all contest matters. All five (5) finalists' parent/legal guardian must supply proof of identity, sign an Affidavit of Eligibility, Release and Indemnification, provide their Social Security/tax identification number and must sign a liability release and a publicity release prior to their appearance and final qualification and appearance. Failure to timely comply with any requirement of these terms and conditions will result in the winning entrant being deemed ineligible for any prize. V. PRIZE(S) One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive $125,000 intended to be used towards a 4 year college education and will appear on a future cover of Parenting magazine. Four (4) runner-ups will each receive $25,000 intended to be used towards 1 year of college education. Ten (10) semi-finalists will each receive five (5) $200 gift cards from Walgreens. Federal, state and local taxes are the sole responsibility of the winner, who will receive an IRS Form 1099 reflecting the final actual value of any prize valued at $600 or more. Consult with your personal tax advisor for any potential tax implications this prize may have for you. Prize won by a minor will be awarded in parent's or guardian's name. Winners are not entitled to exchange or transfer prizes or to obtain cash or other substitutes, but Sponsor in its sole discretion may substitute prizes of equal or greater value. All expenses not specifically provided for herein are the winner's sole responsibility. Some restrictions may apply. Prize is subject to availability. Sponsor is not responsible for cancellation or rescheduling of any appearance or for other circumstances that make it impractical or impossible to fulfill any appearance related element of the prize. The appearance on the cover of Parenting magazine element of the prize has no approximate retail value, and if it becomes impractical or impossible to fulfill this element, Sponsor's only obligation will be to provide the remainder, if any, of prize. VI. RELEASES: By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these official rules and the decisions of the Sponsor / Judges and the contest administrator, which shall be final in all respects. By participating in this contest and accepting any prize that they may win, entrants agree to release LIVE with Regis and Kelly, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., The Parenting Group, Inc., Walgreen Co., 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, representatives and assigns (collectively, the "Released Parties") from any and all actions, claims, injury, loss or damage arising in any manner, directly or indirectly, from participation in this contest and/or acceptance or use of the prize. Entrants authorize the Released Parties to use their name, voice, likeness, biographical data, city and state of residence and entry materials in programming or promotional material, worldwide in perpetuity, or on a winner's list, if applicable, without further compensation unless prohibited by law. 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 further obligation or compensation. By submitting entry materials, entrants certify that such materials are original and created by entrant, that entrants have the necessary rights, permission and authority to submit such materials, and, if applicable, that entrants maintain a valid copyright in the materials. Entrants acknowledge that such materials may be included and/or discussed in a broadcast, that such discussion may include statements or opinions by the broadcast talent or others about the entrants, the entrants' appearances and/or the materials, and that those statements and opinions may be considered surprising, humiliating, embarrassing, derogatory, defamatory or otherwise offensive or injurious to them, Sponsor's employees, its studio or at-home audience and/or other third parties. Entrants release the Released Parties from any actions, claims, injury, loss or damage allegedly caused, directly or indirectly, by any such statements or opinions made during a broadcast. To claim prize: (a) winner must provide proof of age, identity and residency; (b) winner must sign and return affidavit of eligibility/compliance with rules, publicity/liability release and indemnification; and (c) winner's intended guest(s) or travel companion(s), if any, must sign liability/publicity release, all within the time period specified by Sponsor. VII. MISCELLANEOUS; WINNERS' LIST: Void where prohibited or restricted by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process and to cancel, terminate, modify and/or suspend the contest in the event of tampering or other circumstances, including but not limited to acts of God or civil disturbance that render it impractical or impossible to complete or fulfill the contest as originally planned. For a list of winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to LIVE's Beautiful Baby Search 2008 - Winner's List Ansonia Station, P.O. Box 234055, New York, NY 10023-0470 within 30 days after contest end date. Vermont residents may omit return postage. List of winners will be posted on www.liveregisandkelly.com for 30 days after contest end date. << BACK |