NO PURCHASE/REVIEW NECESSARY TO ENTER THE SWEEPSTAKES.
A PURCHASE/REVIEW DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
Promotion Period: The Staples Customer Review Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) begins at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on October 30, 2014 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on January 31, 2015 (“Promotion Period”). For purposes of this Sweepstakes, each monthly Entry Period is defined as beginning 12:00 a.m. ET on the first day of each month and ending 11:59 p.m. ET on the last day of each month during the Promotion Period (with the exception of the first month, which begins at 12:00 a.m. ET on October 30th and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on November 30th).
Eligibility: Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and D.C., who are 13 years of age and older as of date of entry. Employees of Staples the Office Superstore, LLC (“Sponsor”), Don Jagoda Associates, Inc. (“Administrator”), PowerReviews, and each of their respective parents, subsidiaries, divisions, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies and the immediate family members of their employees or those residing in the same household are not eligible. Void where prohibited by law. Subject to all federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and ordinances.
How To Enter: During a monthly Entry Period, you may enter the Sweepstakes by visiting Staples.com, and logging-in to your Staples.com account. If you do not have a Staples.com account, you may create an account for free at Staples.com. You must then navigate to a product page and follow the instructions to complete a product review (herein referred to as a "product review") to receive one (1) entry into that monthly Entry Period’s random drawing only. If you are visiting Staples.com from a customer review email, you will not need to log-in to complete the product review. You may review multiple products; however limit one (1) product review per product per person/email address. Only qualifying product reviews will be eligible. A qualifying product review is a review of an appropriate Staples product that you have used, that gives your honest assessment of the product that is deemed a relevant product review by conforming to the review guidelines, as detailed below. Product review entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on the last day of a monthly Entry Period to be entered into that monthly Entry Period’s random drawing. To receive an entry without submitting a product review, during a monthly Entry Period, hand print your name, address, city, state, zip code, telephone number, date of birth and email address on a 3" x 5" piece of paper, insert it into an envelope, affix postage and mail it to: Staples Customer Review Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 7806, Melville, NY 11775-7806, to receive one (1) entry into that monthly Entry Period’s random drawing. Mail-in entries must be postmarked by the last day of a monthly Entry Period and received within seven (7) days later to be eligible for that monthly Entry Period’s random drawing. Mechanically reproduced or photocopied mailed entries are automatically void. Incomplete entries are void. Limit one (1) mailed entry per envelope. Entries must be complete in order to be eligible. Entries will not be carried forward to subsequent monthly Entry Periods, if any. Normal Internet access and usage charges imposed by your online service may apply.
Product Review Guidelines: Product reviews must be in English and must not contain the following: Vacuous content (i.e. - random characters or meaningless word strings or is blank); content obviously pertaining to the wrong product and/or any competitors' products; content that is clearly spam; content that is primarily a price complaint; Inappropriate content that contains web sites, hyperlinks, URLs, email addresses, or phone numbers, including those of Staples®, material overly controversial, confrontational, personal, or violent, drug-related, unlawful, or sexual in nature; content that is an inappropriate comment about other content or the authors of other content; content that is a derogatory focused at the Sponsor or any other person, company, or entity; content that makes discriminatory or negative remarks concerning any person or group, including, but not limited to, derogatory comments based on physical attributes, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or age, and negative comments about a product based solely on where it is manufactured; content that suggests that readers should obtain similar products from a competitor or directs business away from Staples®; content that contains any profanity (including symbols such as #$%@), obscenity, or inappropriate slang; content that contains personal information, such as full names of people who are not public figures, phone numbers, specific physical addresses, or email addresses; content that contains credit card information, social security numbers, bank account numbers, or any other data that could lead to identity theft; content that contains any text that identifies the entrant/reviewer as being under the age of 18; content that states that the entrant/reviewer has not used the product; content that is not Ask & Answer-related;
content that dwells primarily on a negative shipping experience; or content that violates the proprietary right of any person living or deceased (including but not limited to rights of privacy or publicity or portrayal in a false light) or entity.
For each relevant product review submitted or mail-in entry received, you automatically will receive one (1) entry into the applicable monthly Entry Period's drawing only. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different email addresses identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that entrant's entries and that entrant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. Entrants and winners understand that their entries become the property of the Sponsor, which thereby has the right to edit, adapt, modify, reproduce, promote and otherwise use entries (or excerpts of entries) in any way it sees fit. Any entry not in compliance with the above or which does not meet all the Sweepstakes rules may be disqualified. By entering, you agree to waive any rights you may have to the entry submitted.
Random Drawings/Winner Notification: On or about the second Tuesday following the close of each monthly Entry Period (beginning December 9, 2014 and ending February 10, 2015), five Monthly Prize winners will be selected from among all eligible entries received/postmarked for that monthly Entry Period. Odds of winning will depend upon the total number of eligible entries received/postmarked for each monthly Entry Period. Drawings will be conducted by the Administrator, an independent judging organization whose decisions will be final on all matters relating to this Sweepstakes.
All prizes will be awarded provided a sufficient number of eligible entries are received/postmarked for each monthly Entry Period. Winners will be notified via email and be required to confirm their eligibility and mailing address within seven (7) days of notification attempt or prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected.
Prizes and Actual Retail Value (“ARV”): Monthly Prize (15 total – five per monthly Entry Period): A 16GB Samsung Galaxy Tab® S (8.4"). The ARV of each Monthly Prize is $399.99. The total ARV of all prizes is $5,999.85. Gift cards are subject to restrictions and an expiration date may apply. Limit one (1) prize per person/household. All applicable taxes on prizes are the sole responsibility of each winner (or parent or legal guardian if winner is a minor is his/her state of primary residence). All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply. A prize may not be transferred and must be accepted as awarded. You may not request cash or a substitute prize; however the Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize with another prize of equal or greater value if the prize is not available for any reason, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion.
General Rules: In the event of a dispute regarding any product review entry, that entry will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of the product review. Potential winners may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder of the email address associated with a product review. By participating in this Sweepstakes, entrants agree to be bound by the Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor/Administrator. The Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for technical, hardware, software or telephone malfunctions of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled or delayed electronic communications caused by the user or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Sweepstakes or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the entries in this Sweepstakes. The Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual that tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes, or web site; violates the Official Rules; or acts in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor's failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. The Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes if it is not capable of running as planned, including, but not limited to, infection by computer virus, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other problems beyond the control of the Sponsor and award the applicable Monthly Prizes from among all
eligible entries received/postmarked for each monthly Entry Period prior to cancellation. The Sponsor and each of its respective affiliates, officers, directors, agents, employees will have no liability or responsibility for any claim arising in connection with participation in this Sweepstakes or the prizes awarded. Winners assume all liability for any injury or damage caused, or claimed to be caused, by participation in this Sweepstakes or the use or redemption of a prize.
Release: By submitting a product review entry, you hereby grant the Sponsor, its affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, licensees, and legal representatives an exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, edit, market, store, distribute, have distributed, publicly and privately display, communicate, publicly and privately perform, transmit, have transmitted, create derivative works based upon, promote the entry (as such may be edited and modified by the Sponsor in its sole discretion) for editorial, commercial, promotional and all other purposes. For the avoidance of doubt, entrant shall have no rights to reproduce, use or create derivative works from a product review entry in any way. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of a product review entry. You hereby represent and warrant that you have read these rules and are fully familiar with its contents.
Disputes: The Sweepstakes and the Official Rules shall be exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States of America, without regard to conflicts of law provisions. Entrants submit to exclusive personal jurisdiction in Commonwealth of Massachusetts and agree that any dispute shall be brought in the state and federal courts in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred; including costs associated with entering the Sweepstakes, but shall not include attorneys' fees. Entrant hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental, and consequential damages and/or any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. If any provision of these Official Rules is deemed to be invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, such provision will be deemed to be modified or restricted to the extent and in the manner necessary to render the same valid and enforceable and these Rules will be construed and enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law as if such provision had been originally incorporated herein as so modified or restricted, or as if such provision had not been originally incorporated herein, as the case may be.
Privacy Policy: Information collected by Sponsor in connection with this Sweepstakes may be used by Sponsor and shared with third parties involved in administration of the Sweepstakes in accordance with the online Privacy Policy posted at https://www.staples.com/sbd/content/help/policies/privacy.html. The entrant agrees to the collection, processing and storage of his/her personal data by Sponsor for the purposes of the Sweepstakes.
Winners List: Potential winners are not posted online until they are verified and deemed confirmed winners. To obtain a copy of the winners’ list, send a self-addressed stamped envelope postmarked by February 24, 2015 to: Staples Customer Review Sweepstakes Winners List, Dept. RM, 100 Marcus Drive, Melville, NY 11747. Residents of Vermont may omit return postage.
Sponsor/Administrator: The Sponsor of the Sweepstakes is Staples the Office Superstore, LLC, 500 Staples Drive, Framingham, MA, USA 01702. The Administrator of the Sweepstakes is Don Jagoda Associates, Inc., 100 Marcus Drive, Melville, NY 11747.