NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THE 2017 GOOGLE HANGOUT REFERRAL PROMOTION (“PROMOTION”). ENTRY INTO THIS PROGRAM CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES. VOID OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES AND WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW.
BINDING AGREEMENT: These Official Rules (“Rules”) will provide you with the information you need to successfully enter the PROMOTION. These Rules form a binding contract between the Graduate Management Admission Council® ("GMAC®") and you as an entrant into the Program. By entering you agree to be bound by these Rules. If you breach a provision of these Rules, you will forfeit your entry into the Program. If you have questions, please contact GMAC at customercare@mba.com.
ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible to enter this Program, you must (i) be a resident of the fifty United States (including D.C.); (ii) complete the PROMOTION entry form at www.mba.com/referral; and (ii) be above the age of majority in the state in which you reside at the time of entry. Current employees, directors, and officers of GMAC, their affiliates, agents and their immediate families and those living in their household, are not eligible to participate in the Program. VOID OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES AND WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply.
PROGRAM SPONSOR: Graduate Management Admission Council®, 11921 Freedom Drive, Reston VA 20190 USA, is the sponsor of the Program (“Sponsor” or “GMAC”).
PROGRAM TERM: The Promotion will begin at 1:00.01 pm eastern time (ET) on April 13, 2017, and ends at 2:05 pm ET on April 13, 2017 (“Program Term”).
HOW TO ENTER: ENTRANTS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO MAKE A PURCHASE TO ENTER OR WIN.
To enter the Promotion, eligible persons may take the following steps:
- Complete the entry form with the first name, last name and email address of the person who invited to attend this event located at www.mba.com/referral (“Entry”).
- The person with the highest number of people who invited to attend the event wins a Beats Wireless Headphones and a $30 spotify gift card.
The email address you provide will be our primary means of communication with the potential winner. Entries will not be returned or acknowledged. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, mutilated, incomplete, or illegible Entries, or for any computer-related, online, telephonic, or technical malfunctions that may occur. Entries are void if they are in whole or in part illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, altered, counterfeit, produced in error, forged, mechanically reproduced or obtained through fraud or theft. If you are entering on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and your company.
In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an Entry, the Entry will be deemed 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 email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. A selected entrant may be required to provide Sponsor with proof that he or she is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the selected Entry.
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS: By submitting an Entry, whether by email or regular mail, you agree to communicate for the purpose of this Program with Sponsor electronically. By agreeing to do business electronically, you (i) agree that your consent to these Rules is a binding form of your electronic signature, which you agree binds you to these Rules, (ii) represent that you have Internet access and a valid email address enabling you access to the Program Site and to receive communications and documents electronically, and (iii) represent that you have a printer or other device to print or otherwise save communications and documents including, without limitation, these Rules and that you have, in fact, printed or otherwise saved a copy of these Rules for your records. This consent is effective unless and until you withdraw it. You may withdraw your consent to electronic communication and delivery of documents, update your contact information, or request a free paper copy of these Rules at any time by contacting us as set forth in these Rules. We will send you a confirmation notice once we have processed your change request.
PRIZE AND DISTRIBUTION:
Prize will be distributed on Monday, April 17, 2017.
Prize includes Beats Wireless (ARV $299.95) and Spotify Gift Card (ARV $30).Total Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of all prizes awarded: $329.95.
WINNER NOTIFICATION: Drawing will occur in Reston, VA by Sponsor or an agent. The winners will be notified on or about Monday, April 17 by email. Potential winners will have fourteen (14) days from notification to claim his or her prize. Winners may be required to complete a release and provide tax identification or other information prior to receiving their prize.
Sponsor and its affiliates, subsidiaries, employees, agents, officers and directors, advertising and marketing agencies, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and their respective agents will not be liable for unsuccessful efforts to notify a winner. No prize transfer, assignment, or substitution by winner permitted. All federal, state, and local taxes, fees, duties and surcharges, if any, on the prize are the sole responsibility of the winners. If any potential winners fails to respond to the prize notification within 14 days, declines the prize, fails to claim the prize, is unavailable for prize fulfillment, fails to abide by the Rules, or is ineligible, Sponsor may select an alternate winner from a list of back-up winners selected at each draw. If any prize or prize notification is refused, ignored or returned as undeliverable, that prize is forfeited and Sponsor may select an alternate winner from a list of back-up winners selected at each draw.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Entrants and winner individually and on behalf of their relatives, heirs, assignees, executors, and administrators, hereby permanently, irrevocably and forever waive and release any and all rights, demands, losses, liabilities, claims and causes of action whatsoever which you may now or hereafter be entitled to assert against Sponsor, its affiliates, parent, and subsidiary companies, its employees, agents and officers, advertising, marketing and promotion agencies, as well as all others associated with the development and execution of the Program (collectively, the “Released Parties”), including, but not limited to any death, injury, loss of enjoyment or other harm or loss of any nature whatsoever caused by, contributed to, or arising out of the Program and/or any prize awarded, any claim or demand for additional compensation or any other claim or demand related to the Program or what the Sponsor provides, and forever release and discharge the Released Parties from any and all liability with respect thereto. The Released Parties assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Program entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms, or any registration or winner selection.
CONDITIONS: Entrants agree: (a) to be bound by these Rules; (b) to the transfer of your personal information and your entry to GMAC and the use of your entry by GMAC; and (c) that all entries become the property of GMAC and will not be acknowledged or returned. GMAC is not responsible for: (i) lost, late, incomplete, invalid, illegible, or misdirected entries, which will be disqualified; (ii) for failed, partial or garbled computer transmissions; (iii) for technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to electronic malfunctioning of any network, hardware or software; or (iv) for any error, technical or otherwise. GMAC reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any Entry not in compliance with these Rules.
You acknowledge and agree that GMAC may keep your Entry indefinitely and disclose it for any purpose, including but not limited to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce these Rules; (c) respond to claims that any entry violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) without undertaking a duty to do so, protect the rights, property, or personal safety, of our users and the public.
If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consent thereto. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer’s or company’s policies and procedures.
RIGHT TO DISQUALIFY, MODIFY, CANCEL OR SUSPEND: GMAC reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to: disqualify any individual(s) who tamper with the entry process; and/or to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Program. GMAC reserves the right to disqualify any entry from this or any future Program if, in its sole discretion, GMAC reasonably believes that any person has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of GMAC or the website by cheating, deception, or other unfair practices, or has tampered with any of GMAC's websites, the submission process, the judging process, violates these Rules, or acts in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or annoys, abuses, threatens, or harasses GMAC, its agents, its assigns or any other entrant.
PUBLICITY: Acceptance of any prize related to this Program constitutes permission for, and winner’s consent to, GMAC and its agencies or assigns to use the entry and the names, and/or likenesses of any winner for advertising and promotional purposes, in any media now or hereafter known, without further notice, compensation, consideration, review, or consent, except as prohibited by law.
GOVERNING LAW: The Program and the rights and obligations of all entrants and entries shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA without effect to any principles of conflicts of law, and the federal law of the United States. Should any provision of these Rules be held to be void, invalid, unenforceable, or illegal by a proper legal authority, the validity and enforceability of the other provisions shall not be affected.
DATA PRIVACY: Your personal information will be used to fulfill the terms of this Program and may therefore be shared with any subcontractor, agent or partner that assists or is otherwise involved in the Program or website operation as specified in GMAC's privacy policy available at the following page: http://www.gmac.com/about-us/privacy-center.aspx. If you have any questions about the use of your personal information, please contact us at privacy@gmac.com.
WINNERS LIST: The first name and first initial of the last name of each winner will be listed on the Program web page at www.mba.com/referral at the close of the Program.
Any third party trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective trademark owners. The use or mention of such third party trademarks in these Official Rules or in the Promotion is solely for descriptive purposes and shall in no way imply an endorsement or sponsorship of the Promotion.
