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1. ELIGIBILITY
The GoFishSC Writing Contest
(the “Contest”) is offered by GoFishSC.com, Inc.
(“GoFishSC”) to residents of countries where such
contests are allowed by the laws of those countries
(excluding residents of the Province of Quebec,
Canada; Cuba; Iran; Iraq; Libya; North Korea; Spain;
Sudan; and Syria). By entering the Contest, you
accept sole responsibility for determining whether
your participation is legal in any jurisdiction that
applies to you. Participants must be of the age of
majority in their jurisdiction of residence and have
an active email account and Internet access
at the time of entry. Employees and directors of
GoFishSC, its advertising and promotion agencies,
the Contest judges and its legal advisors, and the
immediate family (parent, child, sibling and spouse
of each) or members of the households of such
employees and directors (those who have lived in the
same household for at least three of the 12 months
preceding the applicable Contest Week) are not
eligible. By entering, you agree to these
“Official Rules” and that the decisions of
GoFishSC are final and binding in all respects.
Void in the Province of Quebec, Canada;
Cuba; Iran; Iraq; Libya; North Korea; Spain; Sudan;
and Syria and where prohibited or restricted by law.
2. CONTEST PERIOD
GoFishSC may have multiple Contests running
simultaneously. Each Contest has an individual begin
and end time, which will be shown on each Contest’s
separate page.
3. ENTRY
If you are already a registered contributor to
the GoFishSC Website, you will have the option of
entering the Contest when you first sign in to the
Website using your membership account after 12:00:00
p.m. EST on March 5, 2009.
If you are not a registered contributor to the
GoFishSC Website, complete the free
registration form for
membership as a GoFishSC forum member by filling out
your full name, email address, and any other
requested fields, and follow the other instructions
set forth on the Website. By becoming a registered
contributor to the GoFishSC Website, you incur no
obligation other than your agreement to be bound by
GoFishSC’s User Agreement and Privacy Policy and to
receive emails from GoFishSC.
To enter the Contest, your computer must accept
cookies, or any successor or similar technology, so
that GoFishSC is able to track your entries in the
Contest.
Each time you access the Website you may access
the list of article titles that are available for
use in the Contest (“Contest Article Titles”). You
may submit only one article for any Contest Article
Title per Contest Week, but you may submit articles
to more than one Contest Article Title per Contest
Week. Each article submission (“Submission”) is
considered an entry in the contest.
All Submissions are subject to the submission
requirements as stated in the GoFishSC User
Agreement.
Entrants may not enter with multiple emails
and/or multiple identities nor may entrants use any
automated entry mechanism or artifice to obtain more
than the maximum number of entries. Any entrant who
attempts to participate with multiple emails and/or
multiple identities or uses any device or artifice
to obtain more than the maximum number of entries
will be disqualified.
4. WINNER SELECTION
Winners will be given a score based upon the
rating his/her Entry receives during the Contest
period by the members of GoFishSC whom are all
eligible to vote on any entries submitted. The total
score from each entry you submit in a Contest period
will be determined by the number of votes received
in the poll of voting members. The winners will be
the entrants with the highest total scores from all
eligible entries for the Contest Week. In the event
of a tie between earning positions, the winnings are
combined then divided equally among contestants.
Display of tied position is random.
5. PRIZES
The prizes offered in each Contest will be shown
on each Contest’s separate page.
Winners will be posted on leader boards on each
Contest page. The winner will be contacted via
private message on the Forum. It is the
responsibility of the winner to check for
announcements and to provide GoFishSC a correct
address to receive the prize. All prizes will be
paid as a lump sum check to the winners after
verification of winning status. It is a winner’s
sole responsibility to verify and redeem the prize
amount received within 90 days or else forego any
claim to the prize thereafter. All potential
winners are subject to verification at GoFishSC’s
sole discretion. No assignment, transfer or
substitution of any prize is permitted. All prizes
are expressed in U.S. Dollars. By accepting a prize,
Contest winners agree that their name and likeness
may be used for advertising and promotional purposes
in GoFishSC’s discretion in any and all media now
known or hereinafter developed without territorial
or time limitations. Limit one prize per GoFishSC
member per Contest.
Taxes on prizes are the sole
responsibility of winner.
6. GENERAL CONDITIONS
GoFishSC reserves the right, at its sole
discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds,
in its sole discretion, to be tampering with the
entry process or the operation of the Contest or the
Website; to be in violation of the User Agreement of
the Website; to be acting in violation of these
Official Rules; to be acting in a unethical or
disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse,
threaten or harass any other person, as determined
by GoFishSC at its sole discretion.
Any use of cartel, robotic, automatic, macro,
programmed or like entry methods will void all such
entries by such methods and persons using any such
methods will be disqualified.
If for any reason this Contest is not capable of
being conducted as planned due to infection by
computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized
intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any
other causes which, in the sole opinion of GoFishSC,
corrupt or affect the administration, security,
fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this
Contest, GoFishSC reserves the right to cancel,
terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. If the
Contest is terminated due to tampering or technical
difficulties prior to its expiration date, notice
will be posted on GoFishSC’s website at
http://www.gofishsc.com/.
ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY
DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE
LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE
CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL
AND CIVIL LAWS, AND
SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE,
GOFISHSC RESERVES
THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR
OTHER REMEDIES FROM THOSE RESPONSIBLE TO
THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
LAW.
7. LIMITATIONS OF
LIABILITY
GOFISHSC IS NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR LATE, LOST, ILLEGIBLE,
MISDIRECTED ENTRIES, AND
GOFISHSC DOES NOT ASSUME
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERROR,
OMISSION, INTERRUPTION,
DELETION, DEFECT,
DELAY IN OPERATION OR
TRANSMISSION,
COMMUNICATIONS LINE FAILURE,
THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR
UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO ITS
WEBSITES. GOFISHSC IS NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
PROBLEMS OR TECHNICAL MALFUNCTION OF ANY TELEPHONE
NETWORK OR TELEPHONE LINES,
COMPUTER ON-LINE SYSTEMS,
SERVERS, COMPUTER
EQUIPMENT, SOFTWARE,
FAILURE OF ANY E-MAIL
OR ENTRY TO BE RECEIVED BY
GOFISHSC ON ACCOUNT OF TECHNICAL
PROBLEMS, HUMAN ERROR OR
TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON THE
INTERNET OR AT ANY WEBSITE, OR
ANY COMBINATION
THEREOF.
GOFISHSC IS NOT RESPONSIBLE
FOR ANY INCORRECT OR INACCURATE CAPTURE OF
INFORMATION OR THE FAILURE TO
CAPTURE SUCH INFORMATION, WHETHER
CAUSED BY WEBSITE USERS,
TAMPERING OR HACKING, OR
BY ANY OF THE
EQUIPMENT OR PROGRAMMING
ASSOCIATED WITH OR UTILIZED IN THE CONTEST.
GOFISHSC IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR
INJURY OR DAMAGE TO PARTICIPANTS’
OR TO
ANY OTHER PERSON’S
COMPUTER RELATED TO OR RESULTING FROM
PARTICIPATING IN THIS CONTEST OR
DOWNLOADING MATERIALS FROM OR USE OF
THE WEBSITE.
IN NO EVENT WILL GOFISHSC,
ITS DISTRIBUTORS,
AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES,
VENDORS, ADVERTISING
AGENCIES AND PROMOTION AGENCIES
AND EACH OF THEIR
RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS,
EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES
OR AGENTS, BE
RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY
DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY
KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT,
INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES
ARISING OUT OF YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST,
ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEBSITE
OR THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR
PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM
THE WEBSITE. WITHOUT
LIMITING THE FOREGOING,
EVERYTHING ON THE WEBSITE AND IN
THIS CONTEST IS PROVIDED “AS IS”
WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-
INFRINGEMENT. SOME
JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE
LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION
OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED
WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR
EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY
RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS
REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS
8. ARBITRATION AND
DISPUTES
As a condition of participating in this Contest,
you agree that any and all disputes which cannot be
resolved between the parties, claims and causes of
action arising out of or connected with this
Contest, or any prizes awarded, or the determination
of the Winner shall be resolved individually,
without resort to any form of class action
exclusively by arbitration pursuant to the
commercial arbitration rules of the American
Arbitration Association, then effective. Further, in
any such dispute, under no circumstances will you be
permitted to obtain awards for, and you hereby waive
all rights to claim punitive, incidental or
consequential damages, or any other damages,
including attorneys’ fees, other than your actual
out-of- pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with
entering this Contest), and you further waive all
rights to have damages multiplied or increased. All
issues and questions concerning the construction,
validity, interpretation and enforceability of these
Official Rules, or your rights and obligations
GoFishSC’s rights and obligations in connection with
this Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the Commonwealth of
South Carolina, U.S.A., without giving effect to the
conflict of laws rules thereof, and you agree to the
jurisdiction and venue of the federal, state and
local courts for Horry County, South Carolina for
any disputes relating to the Contest or these
Official Rules.
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of
any winner based on an e-mail address, the winning
entry will be declared made by the authorized
account holder of the email address submitted at
time of entry. “Authorized account holder”
is defined as the natural person who is assigned to
an e-mail address by an Internet access provider,
on-line service provider or other organization
(e.g., business, educational, institution, etc.)
that is responsible for assigning e- mail addresses
for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail
address.
9. WINNERS LIST
The names of the Weekly Contest winners will also
be posted at Contest List.
Sponsored by: GoFishSC, Inc (“Sponsor”) 295
Keysfield Circle, Conway, SC 29527, USA.
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