The SIMPLELEAP Submit Yours Contest

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

The SIMPLELEAP Submit Yours Contest (the “Contest”) starts on May 4, 2009 at 12:01 AM Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends on May 30, 2009 at 11:59 PM ET (“Contest Period”).

ELIGIBILITY: Contest is open to legal all SimpleLeap.com Appetite portal registrants who are 21 years of age or older. Employees of SimpleLeap Software, LLC, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and promotion and advertising agencies, and members of their immediate family (spouse, parent, sibling, child and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and persons living in the same household of such employees, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter or win. Void where prohibited by law. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws.

HOW TO ENTER:

During the Contest Period, visit SimpleLeap.com and follow the directions provided to share a recipe. You are required to register to submit a recipe. Your recipe must be original, must include a non-copyrighted photo, a detailed recipe description, a descriptive recipe title, and complete cooking directions. All entrants are required to comply with any guidelines of Sponsor (incorporated herein by reference). All entries must be received by 11:59 PM ET on May 30, 2009 to be eligible. Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means and entries by any means which subvert the entry process are void. There will be no e-mail or mail entries accepted. All entries become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be returned.

Each entry must be entrant’s own original work, be in English, cannot be previously published or submitted in connection with any other contest, be in keeping with the Sponsor’s image and may not be offensive or inappropriate, as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion, nor can it defame or invade publicity rights or privacy of any person, living or deceased, or otherwise infringe upon any person’s personal or property rights or any other third party rights. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entry that it determines, in its sole discretion, is offensive or inappropriate, not in keeping with Sponsor’s image or that is otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules.

By submitting an entry, entrant hereby grants permission for the entry to be posted on the any applicable blog and Sponsor’s and other websites selected by Sponsor. Entrant agrees that Released Parties (as defined below) are not responsible for any unauthorized use of entries by third parties. Released Parties do not guarantee the posting of any entry.

By submitting an entry, entrant acknowledges and agrees that Sponsor may obtain many entries under this Contest and that such entries may be similar or identical in theme, idea, format or other respects to others submitted under this Contest and/or other contests sponsored by the Sponsor, and waives any and all claims entrant may have had, may have, and/or may have in the future, that any composition and/or other works accepted, reviewed and/or used by the Sponsor (or its designees) may be similar to his/her entry.

 


 

JUDGING:

Round 1: All eligible entries received will be judged by the SimpleLeap the following criteria: overall simplicity, originality, complete details (the “Judging Criteria”). The recipes selected, as determined by SimpleLeap’s sole discretion, will be deemed the “winners” for that week, subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules (for a total of four (4) winners). Sponsor reserves the right not to select a finalist, if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of eligible and qualified entries.

 

Round 2: The four (4) winners entries (one from up to four (4) weeks) will be judged by SimpleLeap’s Judging Criteria. The qualified recipe, as determined by SimpleLeap in their sole discretion, will be deemed the “winner”, subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules. Sponsor and judges reserve the right not to select a winner, if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of eligible and qualified entries. Prize awards are subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules.

Any individual may only be selected as a winner once. SimpleLeap’s decisions are final and binding on all matters relating to this Contest. Potential winners will be notified by email and may be required to complete an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and Publicity Release (unless prohibited by law). Return of prize or prize notification as undeliverable, failure to sign and return requested documentation within fourteen (14) days of date of issuance, the inability to contact a potential finalist and/or winner within a reasonable time period, or noncompliance with these Official Rules will result in disqualification and the prize may be awarded to the runner-up for the applicable blog or the runner-up finalist (as applicable).

 

PRIZES:

Winner Prize (4): (1) Amazon gift certificate worth $50.00 and (1) $50.00 worth of SimpleLeap applications. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $100 total.

General Prize Conditions: All prize details are at the sole discretion of the SimpleLeap Software. All prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied. No substitution, transfer, or cash equivalent of prize is permitted, except by Sponsor, which reserves the right to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion. Any and all federal, state and local taxes on the prizes, and any other costs, fees, and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not explicitly stated herein as being awarded, are the sole responsibility of the prize recipient.

GENERAL: By participating, each entrant agrees: (a) to abide by these Official Rules and decisions of Sponsor which shall be final and binding in all respects relating to this Contest; (b) to release, discharge and hold harmless Sponsor and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, dealerships, and advertising and promotion agencies, and the respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents and representatives of the forgoing (collectively, “Released Parties”) from any and all injuries, liability, losses and damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from entrant’s participation in the Contest or any Contest-related activity or the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any awarded prize (including any harm or injuries that may occur as a result of accepting the Prize); and (c) to the use of his/her name, voice, performance, photograph/video, image and/or likeness for programming, advertising, publicity and promotional purposes in any and all media, now or hereafter known, worldwide and on the Internet, and in perpetuity by Sponsor and its designees, without compensation (unless prohibited by law) or additional consents from entrant or any third party and without prior notice, approval or inspection, and to execute specific consent to such use if asked to do so.

By submitting an entry, each entrant agrees Sponsor and its designees shall have an irrevocable, assignable, non-exclusive license to edit, publish, use, adapt, exploit, modify, copy, disseminate or dispose of any entry, the concepts embodied therein or any elements thereof, including, without limitation, the proper names of any persons embodied therein , online, in print, film, television, or in any other media now known or hereafter devised for advertising and promotional purposes, worldwide in perpetuity, without compensation, permission or notification to the entrant or any third party of any kind, except as prohibited by law.

Released Parties are not responsible for late, lost, damaged, misdirected, incomplete, illegible, undeliverable, garbled, destroyed or stolen entries; or for any typographical, printing, human, mechanical, electronic, network or other errors relating to or in connection with this Contest, including, without limitation, errors or problems that may occur in connection with the administration of the Contest, the processing or judging of recipes or posts, the announcement of the prize winners, the announcement of the prizes, or in any Contest-related materials. Released Parties are not responsible for entries that fail to enter into the Sponsor’s processing system, or that are processed, reported, or transmitted late or incorrectly or are lost or misdirected for any reason including computer, telephone, paper transfer, human or other error; or for electronic, computer, or telephone malfunction or error, including inability to access any Web site associated with the Contest or to process any transaction thereon.

Sponsor may disqualify anyone from participating in the Contest or winning a prize if, in its sole discretion, it determines that such person is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, deception or other unfair playing practices, or intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrant or Sponsor’s representatives. Released Parties are also not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest. Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to any person's computer related to or resulting from participating in this Contest or downloading materials from or use of the website. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND OTHER REMEDIES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel or suspend any portion of the Contest should causes corrupt the administration, security or proper play of the Contest and, in the event of cancellation, to select the winner from among all eligible, non-suspect entries received up to time of such impairment using the judging procedure outlined above. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of an entrant, entry will be deemed to be from the authorized account subscriber of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry, regardless of the name that appears on the official entry form and he/she must comply with these Official Rules. Authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is assigned the e-mail address by the Internet Service Provider (ISP), on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses.

Request for FINALISTS’ Names: For a list of winners (available each week, beginning May 11, 2009) visit http://www.simpleleap.com/blog.  

SPONSOR: SimpleLeap Software, LLC., Incorporated, 2008 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, GA 30305