Official Rules for the Readership Survey Sweepstakes
NO PURCHASE OR INTERNET ACCESS IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. APPLICABLE ONLY IN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES. ENTRY INTO THIS SWEEPSTAKES CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE SWEEPSTAKES RULES. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible to enter the ERIE Readership Survey Sweepstakes (hereinafter, “Sweepstakes”), you must be a legal U.S. resident who is at least 18 years of age, or above the age of majority and who is an Erie Insurance Policyholder at the time of the launch date of the sweepstakes. Employees, officers, and directors of the member companies of Erie Insurance Group, their subsidiaries and affiliated companies and their immediate families and those living in their households, are not eligible to participate in the Sweepstakes. Void where prohibited. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.
2. TERM
The Sweepstakes begins at midnight eastern standard time (EST) on October 6, 2008, and ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 1, 2008, (“Term”). Mail-in entries must be postmarked by December 1 and received by December 10, 2008.
3. SPONSOR
Erie Insurance Group located at 100 Erie Insurance Place, Erie, PA 16530 is the sponsor of the Sweepstakes (“Sponsor”).
4. TO ENTER
No purchase OR INTERNET ACCESS IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Entrants may enter in one of two ways:
(1) You may complete the readership online survey by visiting the Sponsor’s Web site located at www.eriesense.com/survey. Provide your first and last name, complete address, daytime phone number, date of birth and e-mail address and complete the survey questions.
(2) You may enter by mail by completing the survey that will arrive in your Eriesense magazine and complete the entry form with your first and last name, complete address, daytime phone number, date of birth and e-mail address and mailing it to Erie Insurance Group at 100 Erie Insurance Place, Erie, PA 16530, Attn: Kelly Oldach.
ENTRANTS DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN THE PRIZE.
LIMIT: ONE (1) ENTRY PER PERSON REGARDLESS OF METHOD OF ENTRY. Subsequent entries will be disqualified. All entries become the property of Sponsor. They will not be returned or acknowledged. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, mutilated, incomplete, illegible, or postage-due mail or e-mail, 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, or obtained through fraud or theft. By entering you agree to be bound by these Official Rules. Sponsor will be collecting personal data about participants when they register and enter the Sweepstakes. Please review Sponsor’s privacy policy at www.erieinsurance.com/PrivacyNotice.aspx.
5. WINNER
Prize: Ten (10) prize winners will be randomly selected to receive a $50 gift card to their choice of one of the five retailers listed in the sweepstakes. Total Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) of the Prize: $500.
All decisions on all matters pertaining to the Sweepstakes are final. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value. Limit one prize per person, family or household. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
6. WINNER NOTIFICATION
Random selection of the winner will occur on or about February 9, 2009, from among all eligible entries received. Prize drawing will be conducted at Erie Insurance Group Home Office, 100 Erie Insurance Place, Erie, PA 16530. The Prize winners will be notified by e-mail or regular mail, in Sponsor’s discretion, on or about February 17, 2009. Prize winners will have fourteen (14) days from notification to claim their prize. Sponsor and its affiliates, subsidiaries, Employees, Agents, officers and directors, advertising and Sweepstakes agencies, and their respective officers, directors, Employees and their respective Agents will not be liable for unsuccessful efforts to notify a winner. The prize will be delivered by ground shipping within United States only. No prize transfer, assignment or substitution by winner permitted. Sponsor reserves the right, in their sole discretion, to substitute the prize for a prize of equal or greater value should all or part of a prize become unavailable for any reason. All federal, state and local taxes, fees and surcharges on prizes are the sole responsibility of the winners. If the Prize winners decline the prize, fail to claim the prize, are unavailable for prize fulfillment, fail to abide by the Official Rules, or are ineligible, Sponsor may select an alternate winner from all remaining eligible entries.
Where lawful, the winners may be required to sign an Affidavit of Eligibility, Release of Liability and/or a Publicity Release. Failure to return the required documents within the time period specified thereon may result in forfeiture of prize and random selection of alternate winner from remaining eligible entries. Except where prohibited by law, by accepting the prize, winner consents to Sponsor’s use of his/her likeness, photograph, name, or voice for advertising and publicity purposes in any and all media worldwide (including winners list) without additional compensation or notification.
7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
- Sponsor reserves the right at their sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes.
- By participating, entrants and winners release Sponsor, its affiliates, parent, and subsidiary companies, its Employees, Agents and officers, advertising and promotion agencies, as well as all others associated with the development and execution of this Sweepstakes, from and against any and all liability with respect to or in any way arising from the Sweepstakes and the awarding and use of the prize. Sponsor assumes 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 Sweepstakes entries or entry forms; or alteration of entries or entry forms.
- Participants also agree (a) to be bound by these official rules; and (b) that the decisions of Sponsor are final on all matters relating to the Sweepstakes. Winner agrees to be bound by these rules and the decisions of Sponsor, whose decisions are final and binding.
- Before being declared a winner, each selected entrant will be required to sign an agreement and release confirming compliance with the Sweepstakes Official Rules and acceptance of the prize as offered and (i) releasing Sponsor and its agencies from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in this Sweepstakes or participating in any prize-related activity or the acceptance, use or misuse of any prize, including without limitation costs injuries, losses and damages related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light, or from any and all claims of third parties arising there from and (ii) granting Sponsor and its agencies the unrestricted rights, in their collective or individual discretion, to publish without any further compensation use of the winner’s name, hometown, likeness, photograph, statements or prize information for advertising and publicity purposes worldwide without limitation and without additional compensation, except where prohibited. The agreement and release must be returned within five (5) business days of the notification date indicated on the documents or the selected entrant will be disqualified and the prize forfeited.
8. LAWS
This Sweepstakes is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without regard to the conflicts of law provisions.
9. WINNERS LIST
To obtain the names of the winners, send a request, along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope, to Erie Insurance Group located at 100 Erie Insurance Place, Erie, PA 16530, Attn: Kelly Oldach (Residents of Vermont need not supply postage).