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Marry Me Microsoft Twitter Comp – have the chance to win a Windows Phone 7 every day!So now that Mike has just five days to plan the perfect wedding for Jenny, he’s looking for help!
All you need to enter the competition is a Twitter account and a wedding tip – it could be about the dress, the flowers, the entertainment, the venue .Follow @Windows7AU, then tweet your wedding tip with the tag #mmmicrosoft before 7pm AEST each day (from Monday 6 December to Friday 10 December) and you’ll have the chance each day to win one of five Windows Phone 7 handsets, the HTC 7 Mozart smartphone valued at $768*.
If your tip is chosen as one of the best tips of the day, we’ll announce it at 8pm AEST that same day on the Microsoft Australia Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/windowsau.
So start thinking now about your tips and tweet from Monday! And if you happen to pass by the bachelor bubble at Customs House during the week, make sure you check in on Foursquare.
To enter, entrants must, during the Competition Period:
(a) follow @Windows7AU on Twitter.
(b) tweet a Twitter message, between 7.00am AEDT Monday 6th December to 7.00pm AEDT Friday 10th December, with their best wedding tip. The message must include the following two elements:
1. #MMMicrosoft
2. My wedding tip is
(“Entry)
Game of Skill Terms Campaign name: Marry Me Microsoft
Campaign sponsor: Microsoft
Brief description of prize: A Windows Phone 7
Detailed description of the grand prize: Microsoft has five Windows Phone 7, HTC 7 Mozart handsets to giveaway on the 6th, 7th 8th, 9th, 10th December 2010. Each day Microsoft will select a winner who will receive a Windows Phone 7, HTC 7 Mozart handset.
Entry Mechanic:
* Participants need to first follow @Windows7AU on twitter
* Secondly, participants need to tweet a Twitter message, between 7.00am AEDT Monday 6th December to 7.00pm AEDT Friday 10th December, with your best wedding tip. The message must include the following elements:
1. #MMMicrosoft
2. My wedding tip is
Anticipated retail value of each prize (in Au $): $768
Prize category: Technology
Choosing a winner selection process: Submission Period > Judges Choose Winners > Winners Announced
Who is the jury selecting the contest finalists: Ogilvy Social Media team representatives
Submission period: Monday 6th December, 2010 (7.00am AEDT) – Friday, 10th December, 2010 (7.00pm AEDT)
Jury selects winners: Each day of the competition at 7.30pm AEDT (7.30pm Monday 6th December; 7.30pm Tuesday 7th December; 7.30pm Wednesday 8th December; 7.30pm Thursday 9th December; 7.30pm Friday 10th December)
Winners Announced: Each day of the competition at 8.00pm AEDT (8.00pm Monday 6th December; 8.00pm Tuesday 7th December; 8.00pm Wednesday 8th December; 8.00pm Thursday 9th December; 8.00pm Friday 10th December)
Official Rules for the Campaign: 1. Information regarding prizes and how to enter forms part of these conditions. By entering, entrants accept these conditions.
1. Entry is open only to Australian residents. Entrants must be 18 years old or over to be eligible to enter. Directors, officers, management and employees (and the immediate families of directors, officers, management and employees) of the Promoter or of the agencies or companies associated with this competition are ineligible to enter.
2. The competition begins at 7am (AEDT) on 6/12/10 and closes at 7.00pm (AEDT) on 10/12/10 (Competition Period).
1. To enter, entrants must, during the Competition Period:
(a) follow @Windows7AU on Twitter.
(b) tweet a Twitter message, between 7.00am AEDT Monday 6th December to 7.00pm AEDT Friday 10th December, with their best wedding tip. The message must include the following two elements:
1. #MMMicrosoft
2. My wedding tip is
(“Entry”)
1. Each entrant may submit more than one Entry.
1. By entering, entrants acknowledge that their Entry (and their twitter handle) may be made available online by the Promoter (in its absolute discretion) and may be accessible to the general public. The Promoter may copy, in part or in its entirety, the Entry, cause the Entry to be seen in public, and communicate the Entry to the public. It may also allow third parties to do these things.
1. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for late, lost, incomplete, incorrectly submitted, delayed, illegible, corrupted or misdirected Entries, claims or correspondence whether due to error, omission, alteration, tampering, deletion, theft, destruction, transmission interruption, communications failure or otherwise. The Promoter has no control over the Internet or networks and accepts no responsibility for any problems associated with them, whether due to traffic congestion, technical malfunction or otherwise. The Promoter is not liable for any consequences of user error including (without limitation) costs incurred. Entries are deemed to be received at the time of receipt into the Promoter’s database, not time of transmission by the entrant.
1. This promotion is a game of skill; chance plays no part in determining the winner.
1. Each valid Entry received (submitted in accordance with paragraph 4 and otherwise in accordance with these conditions of entry) will be individually judged (by representatives of the Promoter) based on, among other things, originality and creative merit.
1. Each day of the competition at 7.30pm AEDT (7.30pm Monday 6th December; 7.30pm Tuesday 7th December; 7.30pm Wednesday 8th December; 7.30pm Thursday 9th December; 7.30pm Friday 10th December), the Promoter will select the best valid Entry received. The Promoter will consider all entries received from the preceding day in that days judging (i.e. all valid Entries received from 7:00 am to 7:00pm on Monday 6 December will be considered in the judging at 7.30pm Monday 6 December; all valid Entries received from 7:00 pm Monday 6 December 2010 to 7:00pm on Tuesday 7 December will be considered in the judging at 7.30pm Tuesday 7 December; all valid Entries received from 7:00 pm Tuesday 7 December 2010 to 7:00pm on Wednesday 8 December will be considered in the judging at 7.30pm Wednesday 8 December; all valid Entries received from 7:00 pm Wednesday 8 December 2010 to 7:00pm on Thursday 9 December will be considered in the judging at 7.30pm Thursday 9 December; all valid Entries received from 7:00 pm Thursday 9 December 2010 to 7:00pm on Friday 10 December will be considered in the judging at 7.30pm Friday 10 December). The top entrant who is deemed to have submitted the best Entry will win a Windows Phone 7, HTC 7 Mozart handset, valued at $768* (inc GST, advertised as the outright price from Telstra stores). The prize will be delivered to the winner’s specified delivery address. Total number of prizes = 5. Total prize value = valued at $3840.
1. All Entries become the property of the Promoter and will not be returned to the entrant. Each entry must be the entrant’s original work. By entering this competition entrants:
(a) consent to the Promoter making copies of or publishing the whole or any part of their Entry on the Promoter’s website, the Facebook Fan page or elsewhere, and otherwise exploiting the Entry and any rights in relation to the Entry, to publicise this competition or for any other purposes;
(b) undertake to the Promoter that their Entry is not, and its use by the Promoter will not be, in breach of any third party intellectual property rights; and
(c) consent to the Promoter editing or modifying the whole or any part of their Entry for any reason prior to the Promoter using their Entry for the purpose of paragraph 5 and/or 10(a).
11. By entering, entrants warrant that their Entry:
(a) is original and not copied, and was created by the entrant;
(b) does not include any content that contravenes any law, infringes the rights of any person or is obscene, offensive, discriminatory, indecent or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate. Without limitation, entrants must not include (or include a link to) any content that involves nudity, malice, swearing or which may be defamatory or in contempt of court;
(c) does not include any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, or any other item in which copyright subsists (Copyright Content), unless the entrant is entitled to do so. If an entrant has any doubts about whether they have the right to include any Copyright Content in their entry, they must not include it. By including any Copyright Content in their entry, the entrant warrants that they are entitled to do so.
12. The Promoter may (but is not obliged to) at any time reject and/or remove from access by the public or disqualify or invalidate any Entry that it considers (in its sole judgment) infringes these conditions of entry. The Promoter will have no liability to entrants in that regard.
13. The prize winner must, at the Promoter’s request, participate in all promotional activity (such as publicity and photography) surrounding the winning of the prize, free of charge, and they consent to the Promoter using their name and image in promotional material.
14. The winner will be contacted via the competition mechanic, twitter, each day of the competition at 8.00pm (8.00pm Monday 6th December; 8.00pm Tuesday 7th December; 8.00pm Wednesday 8th December; 8.00pm Thursday 9th December; 8.00pm Friday 10th December). The winner may also have their Entry (including the photo and any accompanying comment) published on the Promoter’s website and/or the Facebook fan page. By entering, each entrant requests that their full address not be published.
15. Entries not fully complying with these conditions of entry may be deemed invalid at the Promoter’s discretion. If this occurs in respect of a winning Entry, the Promoter reserves the right to award the prize to the next best valid Entry. The judges' decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
16. The prize is not transferable or exchangeable and cannot be redeemed for cash. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any variation in prize value. Where the prize is unavailable for any reason, the Promoter may substitute for that prize another item of equal or higher value as determined by the Promoter.
17. All call, data, other associated phone charges and all other ancillary costs not expressly provided, as well as obtaining these where relevant, are the responsibility of the winner. All costs associated with entering the competition and accessing the internet are the responsibility of the entrant.
18. The Promoter and its associated agencies and companies will not be liable for any loss (including, without limitation, indirect, special or consequential loss or loss of profits), expense, damage, personal injury or death which is suffered or sustained (whether or not arising from any person’s negligence) in connection with this competition or accepting or using any prize, except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law (in which case that liability is limited to the minimum allowable by law).
19. Without limiting the previous paragraph, the Promoter and its associated agencies and companies will not be liable for any damage or delay in transit to the prize.
20. The Promoter may, in its sole discretion, disqualify all Entries from, and prohibit further participation in this competition by, any person who tampers with or benefits from any tampering with the entry process or with the operation of the competition or acts in violation of these conditions, acts in a disruptive manner or acts with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.
21. If for any reason any aspect of this competition is not capable of running as planned including by reason of tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any cause beyond the control of the Promoter which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this competition, the Promoter may in its sole discretion cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the competition, or invalidate any affected Entries.
22. The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any tax implications that may arise from the prize winnings. Independent financial advice should be sought. Where the operation of this competition results in, for GST purposes, supplies being made for non-monetary consideration, entrants agree to follow the Australian Taxation Office’s stated view that where the parties are at arm’s length, goods and services exchanged are of equal GST inclusive market values.
23. Details from all entries will be collected and used for the purposes of conducting this promotion (which may include disclosure to third parties for the purpose of processing and conducting the promotion), for publicity purposes surrounding this promotion and as otherwise set out in these terms and conditions. By entering this promotion entrants consent to the use of their information as described. Entrants may access and/or change their data by following the procedures in the promoter’s privacy policy which is available at
www.microsoft.com/australia/privacy. The promoter will only use your personal details for marketing purposes outside those described above if you “opt in” to join the mailing list when prompted.
24. The Promoter is Microsoft Pty Ltd (ACN 002 589 460), of 1 Epping Road, North Ryde, New South Wales, 2113 (Promoter).
Disclosure Statement: The information entrants provide will be used by the Promoter for the purpose of conducting this promotion and the Windows 7 Facebook fan page.
Privacy Policy: The Promoter is bound by the National Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988. Entrants can request access to the personal information the Promoter holds about them by contacting the promoter is Microsoft Pty Ltd (ACN 002 589 460), of 1 Epping Road, North Ryde, New South Wales, 2113
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