Official Terms and Conditions
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. OFFER AVAILABLE ONLY WHILE GIFTS LAST.
1.PROMOTION DESCRIPTION. Open Innovation Revolution Giveaway (“Promotion”) is offered by Red Hat, Inc., as a way of rewarding its customers who attend the Open Your World webcast on September 1 (“Website”).
2.TERM. The Promotion will take place on September 1, 2010 from 1 p.m. Eastern time to September 1, 2010 at 3 p.m. Eastern time. (“Promotional Period”).
3.ELIGIBILITY. To be eligible to receive a gift, at the time of entry you must: (i) register to attend the webcast; (ii) have access to the Internet and a valid email address; (iii) be a legal resident of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada (excluding Quebec), France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, or the United States; and (iv) be above the age of majority in your jurisdiction of legal residence (“Participant”). Employees of Red Hat, Inc. and each of their respective affiliated companies, subsidiaries, advertising or promotional agencies, and other agents, and the immediate family members of, and any persons domiciled with, such employees are not eligible to enter. Government employees and contractors are not eligible to enter.
If you are entering as part of a company or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you, individually, and/or your employer. 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 consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a gift. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer's or company's policies and procedures.
4.HOW TO RECEIVE A GIFT. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. During the Promotional Period, the moderator will accept questions for Stefan Lindegaard from the Participants during the webcast. The first five eligible Participants to ask questions may request to receive a Gift. The moderator will continue to accept questions and award gifts until all gifts have been awarded.
LIMIT ONE (1) GIFT REQUEST PER PARTICIPANT. Subsequent Gift requests will be ignored. All Gift requests become property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Incomplete, illegible, corrupted, or untimely Gift requests are void and will be disqualified. Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, damaged, stolen, misdirected, or illegible Gift requests; lost, interrupted, or unavailable network, server, or other connections; or miscommunications, computer or software malfunctions, telephone transmission problems, technical failures, garbled transmissions, damage to a user's computer equipment (software or hardware), or other errors or malfunctions of any kind whether, human, mechanical, electronic or otherwise. Gift requests will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address used to submit the Gift request. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned to an email address by an Internet service provider, online service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email address for the domain.
5.PROMOTIONAL GIFTS. Five (5) copies of Stefan Lindegaard's Open Innovation Revolution (Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): US $34.95) are available as gifts (the “Gift”). LIMIT – ONE (1) GIFT PER PARTICIPANT. The gifts are subject to availability and while supplies last. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a gift of equal or greater value. No transfer, substitution, assignment or cash redemption of gifts is permitted, except by Sponsor, in its sole discretion. Gifts will be delivered to Participants via standard postal mail approximately six (6) to ten (10) weeks after the close of Promotional Period. Expenses, including payment of any taxes, if any, arising out of, or resulting from, acceptance or use of a gift, are your sole responsibility. Sponsor will not replace any lost or stolen gifts. ALL GIFTS SHALL BE ACCEPTED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS AND FOR WHICH SPONSOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS NOR ACCEPTS ANY RESPONSIBILITY. Total ARV of all gifts: US $174.75.
Any trademarks associated with the prizes awarded under this Promotion are registered or unregistered trademarks of their owners, who are not affiliated nor have endorsed this Promotion. Prizes awarded under this Promotion may be subject to restrictions and licenses from their manufacturers and may require additional hardware, software, service, or maintenance to use. The prize recipient shall bear all responsibility for use of such Prize in compliance with the conditions imposed by the manufacturer, and any additional costs associated with its use, service, or maintenance.
6.GENERAL TERMS. The following terms and conditions apply to each Participant:
By participating in the Promotion, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms and Conditions and be bound by the decisions of Sponsor, which shall be final. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be: (a) tampering or attempting to tamper with the operation of the Promotion or Sponsor’s websites; (b) violating these Official Terms and Conditions; or (c) acting in an disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. The Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Promotion without notice. By participating, Participants release and hold harmless Sponsor, its affiliated, 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 the Promotion, from and against any and all liability with respect to or in any way arising from the Promotion.
By entering the Promotion, the Participant agrees to be bound by these terms and that the decisions of the Sponsor are final on all matters relating to the Promotion. Participants will be asked to provide personal information to enter the Promotion, which will be transferred to servers located in the U.S. By entering the Promotion, you consent to transfer of your personal information and to the terms of the Sponsor’s privacy policy located at www.redhat.com/legal/privacy_statement.html. If you wish to opt out of receiving further communications from Sponsor or have other questions regarding Sponsor’s privacy policy, please contact Sponsor at Red Hat, Inc., 1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606, Attn: Newsletters.
By accepting a Gift, Participants grant Sponsor and its agencies the unrestricted right, in their collective or individual discretion, to publish your full name, hometown, likeness, photograph, statements, or Gift information for advertising and publicity purposes worldwide without limitation and without additional compensation or notice to you, except where prohibited by law.
In the event the Promotion is not capable of running as planned as the result of bugs, virus, non-authorized human intervention, tampering, technical failures, fraud, or other causes beyond the reasonable control of Sponsor that corrupts or impairs the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper operation of the Promotion, Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel, suspend, modify or terminate the Promotion. Should the Promotion be terminated prior to the stated expiration date, Sponsor reserves the right to award Gifts based on the Gift requests received before the termination date. Any attempt to deliberately damage the content or operation of the Promotion is unlawful and subject to legal action by Sponsor or its agents.
The Promotion is subject to all federal, state, and local laws and is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of North Carolina (U.S.), without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
7.SPONSOR. Red Hat, Inc. (“Sponsor”), located at 1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606, is the operator of the Promotion and is solely responsible for the fulfillment of all Gifts.