CONTEST RULES AND REGULATIONS
THE CONTEST
These Rules and Regulations apply to the Iowa Teens TXT (Talking Sex Together) Contest. This Contest is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Human Services who hereafter shall be referred to as Contest Sponsor(s).
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TEENS TXT CONTEST
Your high school or youth program must have agreed to participate in the Contest. Visit the Teen TXT Web site at www.TeensTXT.com and enter a TXT acronym submission. Submissions must be received by April 30, 2008.
LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS PERMITTED
Only one submission per person per day may be submitted to the Contest. Only one prize will be provided to the winning school. Submissions are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are reproduced, falsified, altered, or tampered with in any way. Furthermore, an individual school or program may be disqualified from winning the prize in the event a student of said school is found to have violated the participation rules. Submissions using profanity, racial/ethnic slurs, slander, or hate will be deleted. All submissions must support the teen pregnancy prevention message to be included in the Contest. All submissions will be reviewed by Contest promoters to determine validity. All decisions are final.
ELIGIBITY
The Contest is open to high schools and youth programs within the state of Iowa, excluding employees, Contest Sponsor(s), directors, and officers for FutureNet, Fleishman-Hillard Inc. and supporting advertising and promotional agencies, as well as family members of any of the foregoing. Each school or program must accept an invitation to join the Contest to be included. Iowa high schools will be invited by Contest Sponsor(s). Schools and programs not invited by Contest Sponsor(s) may participate in the Contest by notifying Contest Sponsor(s) by February 14, 2008. All school/program notifications will be verified.
Submissions may only be made by those above the age of 13, and below the age of 19. A staff member from the winning high school or youth program must accept the prize on behalf of the school.
In order to make a submission, the participant must:
a) Submit a unique acronym that supports the teen pregnancy prevention message
b) Be actively enrolled in one of the participating schools or program and indicate which participating school you attend.
c) Be above the age of 13 and below the age of 19
e) Read and accept the Teens TXT terms and conditions including Contest rules
• that he or she freely and voluntarily agrees and does hereby assume any and all risks of personal injury, illness, death arising out of or connected with his or her participation in the Contest; and
• that he or she releases FutureNet, Fleishman-Hillard Inc., and its Sponsor(s)hip affiliations, as well as their respective advertising and promotional agencies (collectively, the "Releasees") from any and all liability arising in connection with participation in the Contest, including, without limitation, any financial, legal or moral responsibility or loss or personal injury, including death or damage to or loss of property suffered or incurred or arising from participating in the Contest, whether suffered by the prize winner, or by his or her heirs, administrators, personal representatives, or executors, and notwithstanding that such injuries or losses may have been caused solely or partly by any act, omission, negligence, or gross negligence of any or all of the Releasees.
• All submissions shall become the property of FutureNet, the Sponsor(s), and their advertising, public relations, and promotional agencies. The Releasees assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, destroyed, or otherwise indecipherable submissions due to any failure or technical malfunction of the telephone network, computers, fax machines, on-line computer systems of equipment, servers, access providers, software, poor reception, technical problems, and failure of any e-mail or mobile submission, human error, or due to any other reason regardless of cause.
GRAND PRIZE
A grand prize will be awarded to the participating high school or youth program that has the most submissions in each of four markets – Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, Des Moines, Sioux City, and Waterloo.
The grand prize is a DJ (for a school/program function) for the winning school or program.
The approximate value of the Prize is between $1,000 and $2,000.
The winning high school or youth program must claim the prize within thirty (30) days of winning (the "Deadline"). If the winning high school or youth program fails either to claim the prize or inform FutureNet of its inability to claim the prize before the Deadline, the prize will be forfeited and awarded to a different high school or youth program. One prize will be awarded to one Iowa high school or youth program in each of the four markets (Cedar Rapids/Iowa City, Des Moines, Sioux City, and Waterloo).
The prize must be accepted as awarded. No portion of any prize is transferable. The prizes are not redeemable for cash and no substitute for any portion of any prize is offered.
FutureNet, Fleishman-Hillard Inc., Contest Sponsor(s), and their respective advertising, public relations, and promotional agencies reserve the right to substitute any prize or any component thereof for those of approximately the same value, and reserve the right to change the Contest rules or terminate or withdraw the Contest at any time, without prior notice.
The winning school or program is responsible for all incidental expenses incurred in connection with accepting the prize (the "Expenses"). The winning school or program and Contest entrants understands that he or she may not seek reimbursement for the Expenses from Contest Sponsor(s), FutureNet, Fleishman-Hillard Inc., or their respective advertising, public relations, and promotional agencies.
The chance of winning depends on the number participating high schools and youth programs.
These rules and regulations are available online at www.teenstxt.com.
COMPLIANCE WITH CONTEST RULES
All Contestants agree to abide by the Contest Rules, which are subject to change at the sole discretion of FutureNet, Fleishman-Hillard Inc., Contest Sponsor(s), Contest advertising agencies, public relations firms, and promotional agencies.
COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS
This contest is void where prohibited by law and is subject to the laws of Iowa and all federal provincial, territorial, and municipal laws and regulation of the United States.
