OpenCaching.com “Dakota-a-Week” Sweepstakes

OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO ENTER. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.

Terms and Conditions

  1. These terms and conditions (“Rules”) apply to the promotion to be conducted by Garmin (Europe) Ltd. during its geocaching campaign on opencaching.com which will take place from Thursday 1st September until Wednesday 28th September 2011 (the “Promotion”). By entering the Promotion, you agree fully and unconditionally to be bound by these Rules and the decisions of Garmin. In the event of any dispute regarding the Rules, conduct, results and all other matters relating to the Promotion, the decision of Garmin shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
  2. The Promotion Promoter is Garmin (Europe) Ltd of Liberty House, Hounsdown Business Park, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 9LR.
  3. No purchase is necessary to enter or win this Promotion. Making a purchase will not increase your chances of winning. There are two methods of entry for this Sweepstakes. The first method is by publishing geocaches (“caches”) on the OpenCaching.com website. Each person who publishes five or more caches to the OpenCaching.com site (which requires cache approval per the OpenCaching.com Terms of Use) during the Sweepstakes Term will have an opportunity to submit a Sweepstakes entry for every five caches published. For example, a user who publishes five (5) caches on a given week during the Sweepstakes Term will receive an opportunity to submit one (1) Sweepstakes entry. Likewise, a user who publishes twenty (20) caches on a given week during the Sweepstakes Term will receive an opportunity to submit four (4) entries for that week, and so on. The entry process resets after each week so that a user can submit new entries each week during the term by publishing new caches on different weeks. Publishing a cache does not automatically constitute a Sweepstakes entry; the user will instead need to check the “Enter me in the Sweepstakes” box when publishing a cache to designate his/her desire to submit a Sweepstakes entry. All cache submissions are subject to the OpenCaching.com Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. In addition to entering by publishing caches, eligible persons may also enter the Sweepstakes without publishing caches by submitting an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject line stating “Sweepstakes Entry”. Entrants will need to include their age, physical mailing address, and phone number. Only one entry per week is allowed through the e-mail entry method per person.
  4. This Promotion is open to UK residents only. All participants must be 18 years of age or over to be eligible for this Promotion. Employees and close family of Garmin and of the partner companies involved are not eligible.
  5. Any attempt by any participant to obtain more than one Promotion entry by using multiple/different e-mail addresses, identities, logins, or any other automated methods will void that participant’s entry and result in his/her disqualification from the Promotion.
  6. By entering the Promotion, the entrant hereby warrants that all information submitted is true, current and complete. Garmin reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if it has reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of these Rules. In the event that the randomly chosen Promotion winner is found to subsequently found to be ineligible for the Promotion per these Rules, Garmin will disqualify the winner and will randomly select a replacement Promotion winner from all remaining eligible entries.
  7. Any information submitted by the entrant must be personal to and relate specifically to the entrant. The entrant hereby warrants that the information, which is submitted and/or distributed, will not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or any other rights of any third party, and will not contain anything which is libellous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, harassing or threatening. If relevant, Garmin reserves the right, but not the obligation, to screen, filter and/or monitor information provided by the entrant and to edit, refuse to distribute or remove the same.
  8. PRIZE: One “Ultimate Geocaching Kit” which includes the following: Dakota® 20Touchscreen GPS, Garmin GB Discoverer™ 1:50K – Great Britain micro SD card, Chirp™ geocaching beacon and the Official OpenCaching Kit will be awarded for each calendar week of the Sweepstakes Term. Limit one (1) potential prize per entrant. If a person is selected as the random winner of the daily chirp prize, then that person will be ineligible from future drawings during the Sweepstakes Term. Each “Ultimate Geocaching Kit” has a recommended retail value of (“RRV”) of £389.97. Each Prize is nontransferable and non-refundable and must be accepted as awarded. No cash or other substitution may be made, except by Garmin, who reserves the right to substitute a prize with another prize of equal or greater value if the prize is not available for any reason as determined by Garmin in its sole discretion. Winners are responsible for any taxes associated with receipt of the Prize.
  9. Except where prohibited by law, the winners may be required to take part in or co-operate with publicity. Participation in the Promotion constitutes the winner’s consent to Garmin’s use of winners’ name, likeness, photograph and city of residence for promotional purposes without further payment or consideration.
  10. The winners will be informed directly by e-mail or phone within 5 business days of the draw taking place. If a winner of a Prize cannot be located or does not respond within seven (7) business days of contact from Garmin, the Prize will automatically be forfeited and an alternate potential winner will be drawn from the pool of remaining valid entries. For a complete list of the winners’ names and cities of residence, please send a stamped self addressed envelope to Garmin Marketing, Garmin (Europe) Ltd of Liberty House, Hounsdown Business Park, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 9LR before October 31, 2011.
  11. Potential winners of the prize will be chosen in a random drawing from the pool of valid entries for a given week within two business days following end of each calendar week during the Sweepstakes Term. Each calendar week runs from 12.00 am on Thursday to 11.59 pm on the following Wednesday. The random drawing will be conducted by one or more employees of Garmin or an independent fulfillment entity. Garmin will act as judge by selecting one (1) winner per calendar week of the Promotion in a random drawing of all complete, eligible entries. The odds of winning depend upon the total number of eligible entries received. The judges’ decisions will be final in every situation, including any not covered above and no correspondence will be entered into.
  12. Participants agree that any and all claims, judgments, and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering the Promotion, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and participant waives the right to claim any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, punitive, consequential, direct, or indirect damages. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the Promotion, entrant’s rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of Garmin in connection with the Promotion and the terms and conditions of this agreement will be governed and construes in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
  13. Garmin will not pass your personal details to any other organisation without your permission, except for the other partner companies involved in the prizes or for purpose of awarding your prize if necessary, to which you expressly agree by entering the Promotion.
  14. Garmin is not responsible for late, lost, incomplete, or misdirected entries or communications or for errors, omissions, interruptions, deletions, defects, or delays in operations or transmission of information, in each case whether arising by way of technical or other failures or malfunctions of computer hardware, software, communications devices, internet service providers, or transmission lines or data corruption, theft, destruction, unauthorized access to or alteration of entry materials, loss or otherwise. Further, Garmin is not responsible for electronic communications that are undeliverable as a result of any form of active or passive filtering of any kind, or insufficient space in entrant’s e-mail account to receive e-mail messages. Garmin 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 Promotions to be acting in violation of these terms and conditions or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to undermine the legitimate operation of the Promotion may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Garmin reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Garmin’s failure to enforce any of these terms shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

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