Contest Rules
@MYC_USA LULAC TWITTER CONTEST
OFFICIAL RULES & HOW TO ENTER
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. ELIGIBILITY: This sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") is only open to natural persons who are legal residents of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia. Employees, directors and officers of Master Your Card Foundation ("Sponsor") and/or its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, retailers, distributors, advertising, promotion, or production agencies ("Released Parties") and members of their respective immediate family (spouse and parent, children and siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and persons living in the same household, whether or not related, of such employees, are not eligible to enter or win. This sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and is void where prohibited.
Paid employees of the League of United Latin American Citizens and/or its affiliated organizations are not eligible to enter or win. This sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and is void where prohibited.
2. HOW TO ENTER: Enter during the Promotion Period: Attend the LULAC 2014 National Conference during July 9 through July 11, 2015 to be eligible to enter the @MYC_USA LULAC Twitter Contest. Visit @MYC_USA to learn more about the daily twitter contests and post a submission via twitter by tweeting @MYC_USA and including the official conference hast tag #LULAC14. You will receive one (1) entry into the sweepstakes for each eligible submission. Valid Twitter handle and hash tag is required to enter. Submissions will not be judged. Submissions must be no more than 142 characters, must be in English or Spanish and must comply with the Content Guidelines specified herein.
Follow Sponsor on Twitter at @MYC_USA. You must have or create a non-private Twitter account in order to enter. If you are not an existing member of Twitter, you will be required to follow the directions and join Twitter. When you join Twitter, you are indicating that you have read and agree to accept the Twitter Terms of Service and Privacy Policy available at http://twitter.com/tos. Membership to Twitter.com is free. During the Promotion Period, post a tweet to Sponsor @MYC_USA and hash tag #LULAC14 with each submission. You will receive one (1) contest entry for your each tweet. All tweets must be tweeted during the Promotion Period, must contain the correct hashtag and must comply with the Content Guidelines specified herein. Tweets will not be judged.
Submissions and Tweets together "Entries" and each an "Entry."
3. PROMOTION PERIOD: The Sweepstakes will begin at 9:30 am Eastern Time ("ET") on July 8, 2014 and ends 5:00:00 pm ET on July 11, 2014 (the "Promotion Period"). All entries must be received by @MYC_USA during the Promotion Period. All entries submitted become the sole property of Master Your Card and will not be returned. Online entries will be deemed to have been submitted by the registered subscriber of the e-mail account/Twitter account from which the entry is made. Entries generated by a script, macro or other automated means are prohibited and will be disqualified.
4. SELECTION OF WINNER: Eight (8) winners, subject to verification, will be chosen on or each day (July 8, 2014 – July 11, 2014) by Sponsor, whose decisions regarding Sweepstakes matters are final and binding, from among all eligible Entries received during the Promotion Period from both entry methods. Potential winners will be notified via direct message to the winner's Twitter ID as recorded in the winner's Twitter account and announced over the LULAC conference speaker. If a potential winner is a minor in his/her state of residence, prize may be awarded to the minor's parent/legal guardian. Sponsor is not responsible for any change in Twitter account information, email, mailing address and/or contact information of entrants.
5. CONTENT GUIDELINES: Entries: must be the original work of the entrant; may not have won previous awards; must not infringe third-party rights; must be suitable for publication (i.e., may not be obscene or indecent); must not contain obscene or pornographic material; cannot be sexually explicit or suggestive, profane or pornographic, unnecessarily violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group; cannot promote alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing), any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any particular political agenda or message; cannot be offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group; cannot defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks about Sponsor or its products, or other people, products or companies; cannot communicate messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or goodwill to which Sponsor wishes to associate; may not invade privacy or other rights of any person, firm or entity; may not in any other way violate any applicable federal, state or local laws or regulations or the Twitter.com Terms of Service; may not contain any reference to any third party trademarks, names or third party logos (other than as owned by the Entrant) or any copyrighted components (other than as owned by the Entrant); and cannot contain any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, e-mail addresses or street addresses. All Entries may be reviewed for content. By entering, you acknowledge that Sponsor has no obligation to use or post any Entry you submit. Entries containing any such prohibited content and/or otherwise deemed by Sponsor, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate will be disqualified. Sponsor makes the final determination as to what Entries are eligible to take part in this Sweepstakes.
BY SUBMITTING AN ENTRY, ENTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HIS/HER ENTRY MAY BE POSTED ON SPONSOR'S OLINE ACCOUNTS, IN SPONSOR'S DISCRETION. Submission of an Entry grants Sponsor and its agents an unlimited, worldwide, perpetual, license and right to publish, use, adapt, edit and/or modify such Entry in any way, in any and all media, without limitation, and without consideration to the entrant, whether or not such submission is selected as a winning Entry. By submitting an Entry, you agree that your submission is gratuitous and made without restriction, and will not place Sponsor under any obligation, that Sponsor is free to disclose or otherwise disclose the ideas contained in the Entry on a non-confidential basis to anyone or otherwise use the ideas without any additional compensation to you. You acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission, Sponsor does not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to Sponsor, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.
6. GENERAL CONDITIONS: In the event of noncompliance, if the winner cannot be reached at the Twitter account, or if the prize or prize notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable, the prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected. No alternative or substitution of any prizes will be offered. No prize transfer permitted. Limit one (1) prize per person/household. Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Mater Your Card, which are final and binding in all respects. All taxes and fees on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. By participating and accepting a prize, so long as there is no legal prohibition, winner agrees to the use of his/her name for advertising or publicity purposes and to the use of statements made by or attributed to him/her relating to Master Your Card or this Sweepstakes, and releases any and all rights to said use without further compensation. Registrations received from any persons or email addresses in excess of the stated limitation will be void. Master Your Card is not responsible for lost, late or illegible entries. Released Parties are not responsible for: (i) electronic transmissions or entries that are lost, late, stolen, incomplete, illegible, damaged, garbled, destroyed, misdirected or not received by the Sponsor
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