skate. Skateboard Deck Sweepstakes
Official Rules
This Promotion is
sponsored by Electronic Arts Inc. (“EA” or “Sponsor”), 209 Redwood Shores
Parkway, Redwood City, CA 94065, United States.
NO PURCHASE
NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR
CHANCES OF WINNING.
1. Eligibility: skate. Skateboard Deck SWEEPSTAKES (the “Promotion”) is
aimed at promoting .skate and is open only to legal residents of Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada (excluding Quebec), Chile, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Malaysia, The
Netherlands, New Zealand , Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa ,
South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom and the United
States (including the District of Colombia) who are at least as old as the
minimum age of majority in the jurisdiction from which they enter the
Promotion. Those who are employees of Electronic Arts Inc. or its affiliates,
subsidiaries, representatives, advertising, promotion and publicity agencies
(“Sponsor and its agents”) or who are immediate family members or persons
living in the same household of each such employee are not eligible.
Subject to all applicable laws and regulations. Void where prohibited. By
participating in the Contest, the participant signifies his or her full and
unconditional agreement to these Official Rules.
2. Timing:
The Promotion begins on 12:00:00 PACIFIC Standard
Time (“PST”) on 19th JANUARY 2022 and ends at 11:59:00 PST on 21st JANUARY 2022 (“Promotion Period”) and consists of the phases set
forth in the chart below:
|
Phase |
Start Date and Time |
End Date and Time |
|
Entry |
January 19th, 2022, 12:00 PM PST |
January 21st, 2022 12:00
PM PST |
|
Eligibility Outreach |
January 21st, 2022 12:00
PM PST |
January 23rd,
2022 12:00 PM PST |
|
Announcement of
Winners |
January 24th,
2022 12:00 PM PST |
N/A |
3. How to Enter:
Discord: Join the
official .skate Discord server as a “Citizen” (community tag granted by
agreeing to server rules & verification systems) and enter the posted sweepstakes
in the #giveaways-contests channel. Ten Winner will be selected, at random, on January
21st, 2022 12:00 PM PST.(In the event of a duplicate winner, a random alternate
will be chosen.)
Previous winners of a
skate. skateboard sweepstakes OR skate.reel content contest are not eligible to
win.
For residents of France
only: Telecommunication and access expenses corresponding to the time of
connection on the Promotion have been evaluated at the flat fee of 0.50 Euros
per entry and shall be reimbursed to any on-line participant requesting it in writing
at Electronic Arts Publishing – skate. Skateboard Deck Sweepstakes - 18, rue
Félix Mangini, 69009 Lyon, France. The participants claiming
reimbursement of the costs of connection must provide their telephone bill
justifying that they do not benefit from unlimited access. Any incomplete
request of reimbursement sent to a false or mistaken address won’t be taken into
consideration. The request of reimbursement shall be sent within two
months (60 calendar days) from the prize draw closure. Reimbursement of
connection costs, photocopy is limited to one participation by participant
(same first name and last name, same postcode, same age). Postal fees related
to the sending of justifying documents or the Official Rules will be reimbursed
upon request sent in the above described conditions and in the limit of low
postal fee applying for a letter of 20 grams.
LIMIT: One (1) entry per
person or Discord/Twitter account or email address. Use of any automated system
to participate in the Promotion is strictly prohibited and will result in
disqualification and all entries submitted or received via such automated
system will be void. The Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete,
invalid, unintelligible or misdirected information or entries, which will be
disqualified and void. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of
any entrant, the authorized account holder (as defined herein) of the email
address used by, or connected to, the eligible entrant will be deemed to be the
entrant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned
an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider,
Internet service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email
addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Potential
winners may be required to show proof of being the authorized account
holder.
4. Personal Information: Nothing in these Official Rules shall be deemed to exclude
or restrict any of the winner’s or the entrant’s statutory rights as a
consumer.
By participating in the
Promotion, entrant consents to Sponsor processing their personal information (name,
address, email address, birthdate) in accordance with Sponsor’s Privacy and
Cookie Policy, available at http://www.ea.com/privacy-policy for the purposes of:
(a) Organizing, running
and monitoring the Promotion and prize fulfillment, including, if entrant wins
a prize, publishing (i) their name on the Winner(s) List and (ii) their name
and country of residence online or in any other media in connection with the
Promotion, as described further in Section 7 below); and
(b) Any additional
processing activities to which entrants consent.
Entrants acknowledge
that personal information may be stored and processed for the purposes set out
in the Privacy and Cookie Policy in the United States or any other country in
which EA, its subsidiaries, or third party agents operate. By entering the
Promotion, you consent that your personal information may be transferred to
recipients in the United States and other countries that may not offer the same
level of privacy protection as the laws in your country of residence or
citizenship.
EA participates in the
U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework for the collection, use, and retention of data
from Switzerland. While EA relies on various mechanisms to effectuate
cross-border transfers, we continue to adhere to the Safe Harbor Privacy
Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity,
access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to
view our certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor.
For Residents of France: Personal information provided to the Sponsor in the course of
this Promotion shall be processed according to the Legislation “Informatique et
Libertés n°78-19” of January 6th, 1978.
4. Prize
Drawings: Sponsor will randomly select the potential winners from all
eligible entries received during the Promotion Period each day, then confirm
eligibility. The drawing(s) will take place at the Sponsor’s offices at the
address set forth above. The potential winners will be notified by Twitter
direct message, Discord private message, or email. Except where prohibited,
each potential winner will be required to sign and return a Declaration of
Eligibility and Release of Publicity and Liability, which must be received by
Sponsor, within 10 days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, in
order to claim his/her prize. If any potential winner is a Canadian
resident he/she will be required to answer a time limited skill testing
question without assistance of any kind whether mechanical or otherwise, in
order to be eligible to receive a prize. If any potential winner cannot
be contacted, fails to sign and return the Declaration of Eligibility and
Release of Publicity and Liability within the required time period, fails to
answer the skill-testing question correctly within the time limit provided (if
applicable), refuses the prize, is ineligible to accept the prize, or prize is
returned as undeliverable, the potential winner forfeits the prize.
Receiving a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules; all
prizes claimed in accordance with these Official Rules will be awarded.
In the event that a potential winner is disqualified or the prize is forfeited
for any reason, Sponsor will award the applicable prize, time permitting given
the nature of the prize, to an alternate winner by random drawing from among
all remaining eligible Entries. Only three (3) alternate drawings will be
held, after which Sponsor retains the discretion to donate the applicable prize
to a charity of Sponsor’s choosing.
6. Prizes:
Ten (10) winners will from the official Skate
Discord will each receive a limited edition skate. Skateboard Deck, a value of
$99 USD/83.74EUR/132.08AUD. If for any reason an advertised prize is
unavailable, we reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value.
Limit one (1) prize per person during entire entry period. The odds of winning
depend upon the number of eligible entries received. Allow 4 weeks for
shipment of prize(s).
Total ARV of prize
packages of $1980USD/1674.80EUR/2641.60AUD.
7. General
Terms:
1.
By participating in this
Promotion, each entrant agrees:
(1) To the extent allowable under
applicable law and, in Australia, subject to and without excluding, restricting
or modifying any rights or remedies to which the participant may be entitled as
a consumer under the consumer guarantee provisions of the Australian Consumer
Law in relation to the operation of the Promotion and any prize won, to
release and hold harmless Sponsor and its agents from any and all liability or
any injury, loss, damage, right, claim or action of any kind arising from or in
connection with this Promotion or any Promotion-related activity or the
receipt, possession, use or misuse of any prize won, except for residents of
the United Kingdom and France with respect to claims resulting from death or
personal injury arising from EA’s negligence and for residents of the United
Kingdom with respect to claims resulting from the tort of deceit or any other
liabilities that may not be excluded by law;
For Residents of Austria and Germany: By participating in this Promotion, each participant
acknowledges: (1) In regard to the Prize and any other products or services
given by Sponsor and its affiliates free of charge, the Sponsor shall only be
liable for intent and gross negligence. (2) In all other cases, the Sponsor
shall only be liable to cases of intent and gross negligence. In case of slight
negligence, however, the Sponsor is only liable for the breach of essential
contractual obligations, such as delay or impossibility of performance, which
the Sponsor can be made responsible for. The liability in the event of breach
of such an essential contractual obligation is limited to the typical
contractual damage, whose occurrence could be expected by the Sponsor upon
conclusion of the contract on account of the circumstances known at that time.
“Essential contractual obligations” as previously stated are those obligations
whose fulfillment is essential to enable the proper implementation of the
contract and the achievement of its purpose and whose observation you as an end
consumer may rely upon. The foregoing limitations of liability shall not apply
in the case of explicit guarantees by the Sponsor, in case of malice and
injuries to life, body or health as well as in the case of mandatory statutory
regulations.
(2) That EA’s decisions will be final and binding on all matters
related to this Promotion;
(3) That by accepting a prize, EA may
publish your name and country of residence online or in any other media, in
connection with this Promotion, without payment or compensation to the winner
or anyone else, except where prohibited; and
(4) The Promotion is governed by the laws
of the United States and all claims must be resolved in the United States.
For Residents of Australia, the
Promotion is governed by the laws of the United States provided that the
entrant will not be deprived of his or her statutory rights and legal
protection as a consumer granted by the laws of Australia. Court of
jurisdiction shall be entrant’s country of residence.
For Residents of Austria and Germany, notwithstanding, nothing in these Official Rules shall have the
effect to deprive you of the consumer protection rights granted to you by the
laws of your residence that cannot be derogated from by agreement.
2.
EA reserves the right to
cancel, suspend and/or modify the Promotion, or any part of it, if any fraud,
technical failures or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper
functioning of the Promotion, as determined by Sponsor in its sole
discretion. If the Promotion is terminated Sponsor may, in its sole
discretion, determine the winners from among all non-suspect, eligible entries
received up to time of such action using the judging procedure outlined
above. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify
any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation
of the Promotion or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or those
of any other Promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner and void
all associated entries. Any attempt by any person to deliberately
undermine the legitimate operation of the Promotion may be a violation of
criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves
the right to seek damages and other remedies (including attorneys’ fees) from
any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s failure
to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of
that provision.
3.
Winners are responsible
for any applicable taxes on prizes.
8. Winner(s) List:
Winner List requests will be posted on the official skate. Discord channel for
a period of 2 weeks once the contest has ended and eligibility confirmed.
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