| June 6, 2010 9:00 PM PDT | |
Intel® 20 Questions Contest Rules
Contest Description
The Intel® 20 Questions Contest will be run for 20 business days starting on June, 14th and ending on July, 12th of 2010 (July 5th is the public holiday in the U.S.; a new question won't be published on that day). Contestants will be required to answer a question published at the contest WEB page on every business day (Monday-Friday) by 10 am (U.S. Pacific Time). 20 questions, one per business day will be offered during the contest. Contestants may choose to participate for one or more days. Contestants must submit their answers by 9.30 am (U.S. Pacific Time) of the following business day.
To Enter
The contest requires participants to answer a question published on the contest page and submit their answer for judging (your "Solution"). To enter you must have an account at Intel Software Network. You will be asked to enter contact information so that Intel can contact you for contest announcements and prize distribution. Your contact information will be treated in accordance with Intel's privacy policy which you can review here. To answer the question you may need to download and install evaluation copy of Intel® Parallel Studio. When you are ready to submit your answer, go the contest home page, and enter your answer.
By uploading your Solution, you agree to be bound by the contest rules.
If you do not agree to the above terms, do not submit your contest entry.
All contributions must be the participant's original creation. The content of the contributions must not be subject to the rights of any third parties, other than Intel. The contributions may not be offensive or otherwise unsuitable for use, as determined in Intel's sole discretion. Participants must comply with Intel® 20 Questions 2010 Official Rules, the Intel Terms of Use and the Intel Privacy Policy.
Any submission of robotic, automatic, or programmed entries, or any entries submitted through other unapproved methods are void.
Prizes, Criteria, and Odds
First prize: $500 Gift Card and 1 license for Intel® Parallel Studio
Second prize: $200 Gift Card and 1 license for Intel® Parallel Studio
Third prize: $100 Gift Card 1 license for Intel® Parallel Studio
Forth prize: $50 Gift Card 1 license for Intel® Parallel Studio
Participants can submit one or more Solutions during the contest. Only one (1) Solution per day is allowed for each individual.
Selection of Winner
Approximately 2 weeks after the end of the contest, an Intel panel of judges will complete the review of submissions and four winners will be announced.
Prizes will be awarded to the top four participants who submitted the most number of correct answers. In case of a tie, all correct answers will be sorted by submission time and participant who submitted most of correct answers at earlier time will be the winner of one of the four prizes. In the event that this method shall not resolve the issue of a tie the Intel panel of judges will evaluate and rank the content of the best submitted solutions and decide on the winners list. All decisions of the judges are made at the judges' sole discretion and are final in all matters relating to this Contest.
Every contestant who submitted at least one correct answer during the contest will have a chance to win one of the prizes, based on the above stated criteria. The winners list will be final. The winners will be notified by phone, e-mail or post within seven days of the selection. All prizes will be awarded within six weeks of the date the competition closes. If prize notification is returned as undeliverable, or if potential winner fails to claim or accept prize within five calendar days of notification, disqualification may result and an alternate winner may be selected. A list of winners will be posted on the contest page and will be available no later than 2 weeks after selection of winners.
Legal Documents
Privacy Policy, http://www.intel.com/sites/sitewide/en_US/privacy/privacy.htm?iid=ftr+privacy
Terms of Use, http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/termsofuse.htm
Intel® 20 Questions Online Contest Rules
1. These rules (including the Intel Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use)) govern the Intel® 20 Questions skills contest (the "contest") and set out the terms and conditions between Intel Corporation and its affiliates ("Intel" or "us/we") and each participant ("participant" or "you")
2. You are eligible to participate in the contest if you have registered with the Intel® Software Network (Intel® SN) at www.intel.com/software and/or if you have registered for the contest.
3. No purchase necessary. Purchase does not increase your chance of winning. Void wherever prohibited.
4. You must speak, read and understand English and you must be aged 18 years or over or you must obtain the consent of your parents or legal guardian before you participate in the contest. If you apply to register for the contest, if you contribute to the contest or the Intel® SN community once you are registered or if you accept any contest prizes, you accept these rules. Employees of Intel Corporation, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families of each may not enter. This limitation is void where prohibited.
5. The contest is open to participants worldwide. All national and local laws and regulations of the resident's country of residence apply. Residents of countries under U.S. embargo are not eligible to enter. The contest is void wherever else it is restricted or prohibited by law.
6. We may refuse your contribution for any good reason.
7. Intel provides you with access to a variety of resources on Intel® SN, including communication forums, documentation, download areas, code samples, videos, blogs, articles and contests (the "resources").
8. You agree to submit contributions to the contest on www.intel.com/software under the following conditions:
a. Intel does not claim ownership of your contributions to the contest in form of sample code, content, videos, articles or any other contributions you submit to Intel® SN. By submitting your contributions, you are granting Intel and its affiliated companies the following worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, unconditional, fully paid-up rights: (1) to make, have made, use, copy, reproduce, modify, and create derivative works of the contributions, (2) to publicly perform or display, import, broadcast, transmit, distribute (directly and indirectly through multiple tiers), license, offer to sell and sell, rent, lease, or lend copies of the contributions (and derivative works thereof), (3) to sublicense to third parties the foregoing rights, including the right to sublicense to further third parties, and (4) to publish your name or alias in connection with this contest and your contributions.
b. Your contributions to the contest will be available to other participants and to ensure they are safe and freely usable by other participants, you warrant that:
• you own or otherwise have all rights necessary for you to provide the contributions and grant the rights described above and you do not disclose any information which would constitute a violation of a confidentiality obligation;
• your contributions do not contain any viruses, worms, spy ware, or other components or instructions that are malicious, deceptive, or designed to limit or harm the functionality of a computer; and
• your contributions are not subject to license terms that require any software or documentation incorporating or being derived from your contributions to be licensed to others.
c. Apart from prizes offered as part of the contest, no monetary compensation will be paid for any of your contest contributions.
9. Intel is not responsible for contest entries not received due to lost, failed, delayed or interrupted connections or miscommunications, or other electronic malfunctions. Intel is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry information, whether caused by you or any other persons or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the contest.
10. You may be required to sign and return releases of liability, declarations of eligibility, and where lawful, publicity consent agreements, within five (5) days of acknowledged notification[1]. If a selected potential winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible (under these rules or due to a failure to comply with any of the other applicable policies, licenses, rules, and terms of service, fails to claim a prize, or fails to timely return the completed and executed releases/agreements as required), prize [2]may be forfeited and an alternate potential winner may, at Intel's discretion, be selected. Physical prizes awarded for the winning contributions will be sent to participants within six (6) weeks from the date of the notification email or confirmation of the winning participant's physical address, whichever is later.
11. Prizes are personal to the participant submitting the winning contribution and cannot normally be transferred. All prizes are subject to availability and they may change at any time and Intel may award substitute prizes of equal or greater value. A cash alternative is not available. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received.
12. The winner accepts responsibility for all federal, state and local taxes and fees in connection with the prizes. Taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winning participant, and participants may be issued an IRS Form 1099 for the ARV of any awarded prize. This contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law, and subject to applicable federal, state provincial and local laws.
13. Acceptance of the prize will constitute permission to use winner's name and/or likeness for promotional purposes without further compensation except where prohibited by law.
14. Intel does not provide any warranty on the prizes. To the fullest extent allowable by law, Intel specifically disclaims any representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the prizes, including any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and implied warranties arising from course of dealing or course of performance.
15. We may, on notifying you, immediately suspend or terminate your rights, if you breach these rules or if we reasonably believe that you have submitted a contribution in violation of these rules.
16. Intel reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend or cancel the contest at any time for any reason.
17. You can withdraw your contribution at any time by notifying us. If a contribution is withdrawn your rights to win a prize in this contest are lost.
18. These rules apply to your contribution and the resources, unless we provide any items to you under more specific terms, in which case those more specific terms will apply to the relevant items. We may make changes to these rules at any time without notice to you. The most current version of the rules can be reviewed on the Intel® SN website. Contributing to the contest or accepting prizes will constitute acceptance of the revised rules.
19. Our only responsibilities with respect to the contest are set out in these rules. These rules prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency with any other communications, including advertising or promotional materials.
20. For any feedback or questions regarding the contest or the prizes you can contact Intel by sending an email or by participating in the contest discussion forum.
21. If Intel improperly denies you any prizes, Intel's entire liability and your sole and exclusive remedy will be limited to a distribution of the equivalent amount of prizes as set forth above. By participating in the contest, you waive any and all rights to bring any claim or action related to such matters in any forum beyond one (1) year after the first occurrence of the kind of act, event, condition or omission upon which the claim or action is based.
22. If for any reason this contest is not capable of running as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Intel which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this contest, Intel reserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry or voting process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest.
23. Intel assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of entries. Intel is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Intel on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer relating to or resulting from participation in this contest or downloading any materials in this contest.
24. The promoter of this contest is Intel. The contest is administered by:
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