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CHEVRON TECHRON TRIVIA GAME NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS GAME. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. THE FOLLOWING GAME IS INTENDED FOR PLAY ONLY IN AL, AK, AZ, CA, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, KY, LA, MD, MS, NV, NM, NC, OH, OR, SC, TN, TX, UT, WA AND WV AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND EVALUATED ACCORDING TO APPLICABLE UNITED STATES LAWS. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME IF YOU ARE NOT A LEGAL RESIDENT OF AND LOCATED IN ONE OF THE ABOVE-LISTED US STATES AT THE TIME OF ENTRY. 1) HOW TO PLAY THE GAME: The Chevron Techron Trivia Game (the “Game’) begins at 12:00:01 am CST on 11/26/08 and ends at 11:59:59 pm CST on 12/31/08 (the “Promotion Period”). To play the Game, visit the website at www.TechronTrivia.com and register by completing the form with your first & last name, complete home address (no P.O. Boxes), birth date, valid email address and phone number. You will then be asked to answer three trivia questions (a "Game Play"). Hints will be provided for each of the questions. After all three questions are answered click on the “Play the Game” button to enter your Game Play for a chance to win a prize. Limit of one Game Play per person/valid email address/household per day. If you receive a message that states “Congratulations” and a prize description, you are the potential winner of that prize, subject to compliance with these official rules and valid email verification. If you are notified that you are a potential winner, you will be sent an email to which you must respond to validate your email address. If you do not respond to the email within 72 hours, your prize will be forfeited. Upon validation of your email address, if you are a First Prize winner, your $5.00 Chevron Gift Card will be mailed to you within four weeks. Grand Prize winners will be sent an Eligibility prize claim package that must be completed and returned to be declared a Grand Prize winner (see Section 5). In the event of a dispute as to the identity of a winner, the winning Game Play will be deemed made by the person listed in the registration information. Automated Game Plays or Game Plays through third-party website or software are prohibited and any use of such automated devices will cause disqualification. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the Game in any way. If the words “Sorry you’re not a winner” appear, you are not a winner. 2) ELIGIBILITY: The Game is open only to legal U.S. residents who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry and reside in one of the following states: AL, AK, AZ, CA, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, KY, LA, MD, MS, NV, NM, NC, OH, OR, SC, TN, TX, UT, WA and WV. Employees of Chevron Products Company, Young and Rubicam Brands or any of their subsidiaries, affiliates, parent companies, retail locations, suppliers, distributors, advertising, promotion or any other agencies or entities involved with this promotion and members of the immediate families, (biological, step or in-law) parent, grandparent, child, sibling or spouse of any of the foregoing (regardless of where they live) or households of any of the above, whether related or not, are NOT eligible to participate or win a prize. Void outside the above-listed states and where prohibited. 3) PRIZES/APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUES (“ARV”): The following prizes will be available to be awarded during the entire Promotion Period: Five (5) Grand Prizes: $2,500 in Chevron gift cards. Eighty-Four Thousand Seven Hundred (84,700) First Prizes: a $5.00 Chevron gift card. Total ARV of all available prizes for the entire Game is: $436,000. Chevron gift cards are subject to the terms and conditions stated thereon. Unclaimed prizes will be awarded in the second chance drawing. No more than the number of prizes advertised herein will be awarded. Winners will be determined by a predetermined time (“Winning Time”). The Winning Time of Game Play will determine whether a participant is a potential winner in the Game. The first participant to enter a Game Play at the scheduled Winning Time, will win the Prize, subject to verification/email validation. If a Game Play is not entered at the scheduled Winning Time, the first participant to enter a Game Play after the scheduled Winning Time and before the next scheduled Winning Time will win the Prize, subject to verification/email validation. The Winning Times will be randomly seeded throughout each day during the Promotion Period by a computer program. The odds of winning a Prize depend on whether a Game Play is entered at the Winning Time or is the first Game Play entered after the Winning Time for each day of the Promotion Period, which depends in part on how many Game Plays are received. Limit of one prize per person/household/email address. All official Game Plays are subject to verification by Wunderman, L.L.C., an independent judging organization, before any prize is awarded. Decisions of the judging organization are final, binding and conclusive in all matters. 4) SECOND CHANCE DRAWING: If any Grand or First prizes are unclaimed as of 1/5/09, such prizes will be available to be awarded in a Second Chance Drawing. The Second Chance Drawing will be held on or about 1/6/09 from all remaining eligible entrants who did not win a prize. Limit of one second chance entry per person/email address. If drawing is conducted, odds of winning will depend upon the number of eligible second chance entries and the number of prizes available. Grand Prize winners from the Second Chance Drawing will be notified by overnight mail and must comply with all requirements set forth in these Official Rules regarding verification of eligibility, prize acceptance and all other pertinent matters. First Prize winners from the Second Chance Drawing will be shipped their $5.00 Chevron gift card within four weeks of the drawing. 5) PRIZE RESTRICTIONS/CONDITIONS AND OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS. Sponsor will attempt to contact potential Grand Prize winners by overnight mail within 14 days of prize notification, and potential Grand Prize winners will be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and a Release of Liability/Publicity (except where prohibited) within 7 days of first attempted delivery of same. Noncompliance within the 7-day time period or return of any prize notification or prize as undeliverable may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. First Prizes will be shipped within four weeks of valid email confirmation. All federal, state, and local taxes on prizes and all other costs incurred in claiming or using any prize are the responsibility solely of the winners unless otherwise provided in these Official Rules. An IRS Miscellaneous Income Form 1099 will be issued in January 2010 to the Grand Prize winners. It is the winner’s responsibility to seek independent counsel regarding tax implications of prize winning. Acceptance of a prize constitutes permission to use winner’s name and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and trade in any and all media worldwide, without limitation or further compensation, unless prohibited by law. Each winner, by acceptance of a prize, represents that he or she has complied with all rules of this Game and agrees to release Sponsor, Young and Rubicam Brands, Wunderman and each of their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, officers, directors and employees of each, media partners and advertising, promotion and other coordinating agencies involved in this promotion, (“Promotional Parties”), from any and all liability for injuries, losses, or damages of any kind sustained in connection with the use, acceptance, possession or awarding of any prize or participation in the Game or in any prize-related activities. All submissions become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Sponsor, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if an advertised prize becomes unavailable. No prize substitution or cash redemption except as provided herein. All prizes will be awarded provided they are properly claimed, but in no event will Sponsor award more prizes than are provided for in these Official Rules. Prizes are non-transferable. If, for any reason, there are more prize claims at any prize level than the number of prizes stated herein, a random drawing from among all eligible prize claimants shall be conducted to award the prizes at the particular prize level. By playing the Game, each entrant agrees to abide by and be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the judges, which shall be final in all matters relating to this Game. 6) LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Promotional Parties are not responsible for technical, hardware, software, telephone or other communications malfunctions, errors or failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, Web site, Internet, or ISP availability, unauthorized human intervention, traffic congestion, incomplete or inaccurate capture of entry information (regardless of cause) or failed, incomplete, garbled, jumbled or delayed computer transmissions which may limit one’s ability to play the Game, including any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participating in the Game or downloading any Game materials. The Promotional Parties do not assume any responsibility for any disruption in the Game caused by schedule changes, labor strikes, or any other act, circumstance or other unforeseen event outside of the control of the Promotional Parties. Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for lost, late, or misdirected mail, lost, interrupted, or unavailable network, server or other connections, miscommunications, failed telephone, or computer hardware or software or technical failures, garbled or jumbled transmissions or other errors of any kind, whether human, mechanical or electronic, including, without limitation, the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information online. Game material/data that has been tampered with or altered is void. ANY ATTEMPT BY ANY PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE GAME IS IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS, AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. If the Game is terminated in whole or in part, before the designated end date, Sponsor will select winners in a random drawing from among all eligible, non-suspect registration information received as of the date of the event giving rise to the termination and will post notification of the cancellation at www.TechronTrivia.com. Sponsor's liability for inaccurate or false prize winner notification messages resulting from fraud, error, or any other cause, is limited to one additional Game Play, while supplies last. In no event will Sponsor and/or Promotional Parties be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising out of or in connection with access to and/or use of the web site or the downloading from and/or printing of material downloaded from said site. Some jurisdictions may not allow limitations or the exclusions of liability for incidental or consequential damages; therefore, some of the aforementioned limitations or exclusions may not apply depending on your place of residence. 7) DISPUTES. Except where prohibited, participants agree that: (1) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or connected with the Game, or any prizes awarded, or the administration of the Game or the determination of winners, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by arbitration, to take place in the state of California, U.S.A pursuant to the Rules of the American Arbitration Association, then effective, (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering the Game but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (3) under no circumstances will a participant be permitted to obtain awards for and participants hereby waive all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation, and enforceability of these Official Rules, participants’ rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor in connection with the Game shall be governed by and construed in accordance with federal law, and to the extent not inconsistent, the laws of the state of California. In the event there is a discrepancy or inconsistency between disclosures and other statements contained in any Game materials and the terms and conditions of these Official Rules, these Official Rules shall prevail, govern, and control. 8) WINNERS LIST: For the names of the Grand Prize winners, send a self-addressed stamped, #10 envelope to: Chevron Techron Trivia Game Winner List Request, P.O. Box 324, Lombard, IL 60148-0324. Winners Lists will be sent when the Game is over and all claimed prizes are awarded. Requests for Winner Lists must be received by 2/1/09. 9) SPONSOR: The Game is offered, operated, and administered by Chevron Products Company, 6001 Bollinger Canyon Road, San Ramon, CA 94583. |