Official Rules
HANES PINK DESIGN A TEE CONTEST
Official Rules
1. ELIGIBILITY: This contest is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) states of the United States and the District of Columbia who are eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees and directors of Hanesbrands Inc., Night Agency LLC, or their respective parents, subsidiaries, or affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, and immediate family members and persons who live in the same household as such employees and directors, are not eligible to participate.
2. TO ENTER: No purchase or payment is required to enter. Register online at www.hanespink.com by completing the online entry form with your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Use the tools provided on the web site to create your own t-shirt design. When you have completed a design, click the SUBMIT button to submit the design to the Gallery and enter it into the contest. All entrants must check the box saying “I have read and agree to the Official Rules” before submitting any designs to the Gallery. There is no limit to the number of t-shirt designs you may create and submit. Use your email address and password to log back on to the site whenever you want to create and submit a new t-shirt design. Your t-shirt designs will appear in the Gallery with your first name, home town and state. There may be a delay up to 24 hours between submission of a design and posting in the Gallery. Designs displaying profanity, nudity, violence, prejudice, or other content deemed inconsistent with the HANES brand, as determined in Sponsor’s sole discretion, will be disqualified and will be banned from and/or removed from the Gallery.
Contest begins at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on October 26, 2010, and ends at 9:00 a.m. ET on November 29, 2010. The server on which the www.hanespink.com website is hosted shall be the official time clock for the Contest.
All entries become the property of the Sponsor. By entering and submitting a design, you irrevocably transfer and assign all right, title and interest in and to that design to Sponsor, and acknowledge that Sponsor shall have exclusive perpetual rights to use, not use, edit, and publish the design, manufacture and sell garments or other items bearing the design, create derivative works from the design, in any and all media and trade channels, worldwide and without limitation, without further obligation to you. By entering, you affirm and acknowledge that you are in compliance with these Official Rules, including all eligibility requirements, and that you agree to all decisions of Sponsor and judges, which are final and binding.
Sponsor is not responsible for any computer, online, telephone or technical malfunctions or delays that may occur, or for telecommunications, network, electronic, technical or computer failures of any kind, including any damage to a user’s computer equipment, or for failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Sponsor for any reason. Incomplete, garbled or unintelligible entries will be disqualified.
3. PRIZES AND SELECTION OF WINNERS: Throughout the entry period and until 5:00 p.m. on December 3, 2010, registered participants may visit the Gallery and vote “I like it” for their favorite t-shirt designs. Limit one vote per design per person per day. You may not vote “I like it” for your own designs. Sponsor or its designee will judge all t-shirt design entries, based upon the following criteria:
- 45% Design best shows the campaign theme “Passion for Pink”
- 35% Design best shows creativity and originality
- 20% Number of “I like it” votes*
* The voting element of the score is based on the number of unique users who actually view and vote “I like it” on your design.
This is a contest of skill. Your chances of winning depend on how well your entry reflects the judging criteria, as compared to the other entries in the contest, and how popular your design is with other visitors to the Gallery.
Sponsor will select a first, second and third place winner based on the judging criteria above, on or about December 6, 2010. Potential winners will be notified via e-mail and/or mail at the e-mail address and/or street address provided in the entry, and must sign and return a declaration of eligibility and liability/publicity release within five business days of notification or design will be disqualified and the design with the next highest score will be notified as a potential winner. Limit one prize per person.
The first place winner will receive a $400 Visa gift card, a $150 Hanes Gift Certificate, and 6 printed t-shirts with the 1st place design. Approximate retail value of first prize is $658.00. The second place winner will receive a $150 Hanes Gift Certificate, and 4 printed t-shirts with the 2nd place design. Approximate retail value of second prize is $222.00. The third place winner will receive a $100 Hanes Gift Certificate and 1 printed t-shirt with the 3rd place design. Approximate retail value of third prize is $118.00. Once winners are confirmed, the winning designs will be featured on the HanesPink.com website with the first names, home towns and states of the winners.
VISA gift card is subject to the terms and conditions generally applicable thereto. All Hanes Gift Certificates must be redeemed by telephone for in-stock merchandise in a single order. Gift certificates are subject to all terms and conditions stated thereon. No cash in lieu of prize or substitution of prize, except that Sponsor may substitute a prize of equal or greater value if the prize is not available or for any other reason. All applicable taxes, fees and surcharges on prizes are the sole responsibility of winners. Winners are solely responsible for any costs and expenses associated with merchandise ordered in excess of the face amount of the gift certificate. Any amount of the gift certificate not used by winners for merchandise, shipping or handling charges in the single purchase will be forfeited. Prizes are non-transferable and may not be assigned and must be accepted as awarded. Gift certificates will be awarded via mail 8 to 10 weeks from prize notification date. Winners’ t-shirt prints will be as close as possible to each winner’s design, subject to logistical limitations or other restrictions, as determined in Sponsor’s sole discretion. T-shirt sizes and styles are subject to Sponsor’s sole discretion. T-shirts will be mailed to winners within 8 to 10 weeks of confirmation. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, mutilated or postage due mail or e-mail. Unclaimed prizes will not be awarded.
4. MISCELLANEOUS: In the event of a dispute, entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address provided in the personal account from which the design was entered. The "authorized account holder" is deemed as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, service provider or other online organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. A potential winner may be requested to provide Sponsor with proof that the potential winner is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the personal account from which the winning entry was submitted. Any attempt by an entrant or anyone else to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the contest is a violation of criminal and/or civil laws and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify entrant and seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any use of robotic, automatic, macro, programmed or like entry or voting methods is strictly prohibited and will result in the disqualification of any entrant using such methods and the voiding of any votes generated by such methods, in Sponsor's sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to void suspect entries, to invalidate votes, or to modify, cancel, or suspend the promotion should virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes beyond the control of Sponsor corrupt or impair the administration, security, or fairness of the promotion. In any such event, Sponsor reserves the right to select winners according to the judging criteria from among all eligible designs submitted prior to the event requiring such action. By participating, you agree that the Sponsor, its parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents, will have no liability whatsoever for any liability for any injury, loss or damages of any kind to persons, including death, and property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a prize or participation in this contest. By entering, you agree that Sponsor, and those acting under its authority, may use your name, hometown, likeness and/or voice, and the design(s) you submitted as entries for advertising and promotional purposes in any media without limitation and without further consideration, unless prohibited by law. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Contest or in the announcement of the prizes.
IN NO EVENT WILL SPONSOR, ADMINISTRATOR, THEIR RESPECTIVE PARENTS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES AND RELATED COMPANIES, THEIR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTION AGENCIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEBSITE OR DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM THE WEBSITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.
5. WINNERS’ LIST: For a list of prize winners, send a self-addressed stamped envelope (Vermont residents may omit postage), postmarked between December 1, 2010, and December 31, 2010, to: Hanes Pink Design a Tee Contest Winner’s List, 307 Canal Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY. Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery of Winners’ List. Requests postmarked outside this period will not be fulfilled.
6. SPONSOR: Promotion sponsored by Hanesbrands Inc., 1000 East Hanes Mill Road, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27105. Promotion administered by Night Agency, LLC, 307 Canal Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10013.