LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY:
By accepting a prize, Winner releases the Released Parties from any and all liabilities with respect to the prize. Contest Entities are not responsible for (i) lost, late, stolen, misdirected, damaged, incomplete or garbled entries, (ii) any problems or technical malfunctions, human error, lost/delayed data transmission, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, line failures of any telephone network, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of submission of Entry on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or at any website or any combination thereof, including injury or damage to Participant's or to any other person's computer(s) related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials contained in this Contest, (iii) communication disruption or other forces, including inability to access any website, submitting an Entry or other disruption related to internet traffic, virus, bug or any unauthorized intervention whether or not caused by any action(s), regulation(s), order(s), or request(s) by any governmental or quasi-governmental entity(ies), equipment failure, including overloading of the Website due to excessive use, threatened terrorist act(s), terrorist act(s), air raid(s), blackout(s), act(s) of public enemy, earthquake(s), war(s) (declared or undeclared), fire(s), flood(s), epidemic(s), explosion(s), unusually severe weather, hurricane(s), embargo(s), labor dispute(s) or strike(s) (whether legal or illegal), labor or material shortage(s), transportation interruption(s) of any kind, work slow-down(s), civil disturbance(s), insurrection(s), riot(s), or any other similar or dissimilar cause(s), (iv) injury or damage to person or property caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part from any Participant's Entry or receipt or use of any Prize or portion thereof or by computer virus or otherwise resulting to any computers from Participant’s access to the Contest website or entry into the Contest, (v) printing or other errors appearing in the rules or other Contest materials ,(vi) electronic communications which are undeliverable as a result of any form of active or passive filtering of any kind, or insufficient space in Participant’s e-mail account to receive e-mail messages, or (vii) damage to any computer system resulting from participation in, or accessing or downloading information in connection with this Contest.
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 any other cause which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, Contest Entities reserve the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. In the event that the operation, security, or administration of the Contest is impaired in any way for any reason, including, but not limited to fraud, virus, or other technical problem, Contest Entities may, in its sole discretion, either: (a) suspend the Contest to address the impairment and then resume the Contest in a manner that best conforms to the spirit of these Official Rules; or (b) cancel the Contest.
Contest Entities are not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate Entry information, whether caused by Internet users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of the entries in this Contest.
Participants further agree that in any cause of action, the Contest Entities’ liability will be limited to the cost of entering and participating in the Contest, and in no event shall the Contest Entities, their directors, employees, officers and agents, including without limitation, their advertising and promotion agencies, be liable for attorneys' fees and/or experts' fees and costs. Participants and their respective Candidate or Grand Prize Winner waive the right to claim any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, punitive, consequential, direct, or indirect damages.
Contest Entities reserve the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual that Contest Entities find to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and should such an attempt be made, Contest Entities reserve the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Contest Entities' failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision contained in the Official rules. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN PARTICIPANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY CONTEST-RELATED WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, CONTEST ENTITIES RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY'S FEES) FROM ANY SUCH PARTICIPANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.