AARP Making Your Mess Your Message Sweepstakes
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE OR ATTENDANCE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT
OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID OUTSIDE THE 50
UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
1. Eligibility. To be eligible for the AARP Making Your Mess Your Message Sweepstakes
(“Sweepstakes”), as of the start of the Sweepstakes Period (defined below), entrants must (i) be legal
residents of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, (ii) be at least twenty-one (21) years
old, (iii) have Internet access, and (iv) register for the Making Your Mess Your Message webinar.
Officers, directors, and employees of AARP (“Sponsor”) and its partners, affiliated companies, and
advertising agencies are not eligible to participate, and each of their immediate family members and/or
those living in the same household (whether legally related or not) of each are not eligible to participate
in the Sweepstakes. Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these
Official Rules, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes.
2. Timing. The Sweepstakes starts on February 27, 2017 at 12 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) and all entries
must be received no later than March 15, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Entrants are responsible for
determining the appropriate beginning and ending times in their respective time zones.
3. How to Enter. During the Sweepstakes Period, visit the webinar registration page and register for the
webinar providing your name, email address, and zip code. You are awarded one Sweepstakes entry
upon registration for the live webinar to be held on Monday, February 27th at 7 p.m. ET or on-demand
content no later than 11:59 a.m. Wednesday , March 15th. Registration for on-demand content will be
made available on the registration landing page following the live webinar.
No software-generated, robotic, programmed, script, macro or other automated online or text message
submissions are permitted. There is a maximum of one (1) entry per person. The odds of winning the
Sweepstakes depend on the number of eligible entries received.
4. Selection. Sponsor will randomly select potential winners from all eligible entries on or about March
16, 2017.
5. Prizes. Fifty (50) copies of the book “Before I Forget Love, Hope, Help & Acceptance in our Fight
Against Alzheimer’s” by B. Smith and Dan Gasby. Approximate Retail Value: $16 . Prizes are nontransferable. No prize substitutions allowed, except that Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole
discretion, to substitute a prize of equal or greater value. Prizes may not be sold, bartered or exchanged
by the winner. All details of any prize not specified herein shall be determined solely by Sponsor. By
accepting a prize, winner acknowledges compliance with these Official Rules. All federal, state, or other
tax liabilities arising from this Sweepstakes are the sole responsibility of the winner.
6. Winner Notification. On or about March 16, 2017, Sponsor will notify the selected winners by e-mail.
Each selected potential winner must respond within forty-eight (48) hours or they will forfeit the
opportunity to win the prize. If a selected winner does not respond within this timeframe or if
notification is returned as undeliverable, the sponsor will select a different potential winner from all
remaining eligible entries and notify them via email. If this second potential winner does not respond
within 48 hours or if notification is returned as undeliverable, no additional winner will be awarded.
7. Release. Where permitted by law, each selected potential winner may be required to submit a
publicity release and limitation of liability. Failure to complete such documents may also result in the
selection of an alternate potential winner. Acceptance of the offer to be published signifies the
entrant’s agreement and consent that Sponsor and its designees may use the entrant’s name, city, state,
likeness, photo, and entry in connection with the promotion of the Sweepstakes, advertising or other
purposes, worldwide, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, including the Internet,
without limitation and without further payment, notification, permission or other consideration, except
where prohibited by law.
8. Intellectual Property Rights. Each entrant shall retain ownership of all intellectual property rights in
each submitted entry (including moral rights) subject to these Official Rules. However, by entering the
Sweepstakes, and to the extent allowed by law, each entrant grants Sponsor and its affiliates, licensees,
promotional partners, developers and third party marketing entities a non-exclusive, perpetual,
worldwide, royalty-free license to edit, modify, cut, rearrange, add to, delete from, copy, reproduce,
adapt, publish, exploit and use the submitted entry throughout the world, and in any manner, for trade,
advertising, promotional, commercial, or any other purposes without further review, notice, approval,
consideration, or compensation.
9. Personal Information and Privacy Policies. All personal information submitted in the Sweepstakes
will be subject to AARP’s privacy policy, available at http://www.aarp.org/about-aarp/info-052010/privacypolicy.html.
10. General Conditions. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Sweepstakes,
or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper
functioning of the Sweepstakes, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor, in its sole
discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the operation of
the Sweepstakes or to be acting in violation of the Official Rules. 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 and other
remedies (including attorneys’ fees) 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. All interpretations of these Official Rules and decisions by Sponsor are final and binding in all
matters related to the Sweepstakes.
11. Limitations of Liability. By entering the Sweepstakes, entrants agree to release Sponsor and its
employees, agents, affiliated companies, and advertising agencies (“Released Entities”) from any and all
liability arising from: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by writer, printing,
typographical or other errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in
the Sweepstakes; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions,
interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized
human intervention in any part of the Sweepstakes; (4) printing, typographical, technical, computer,
network or human error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes, the announcement
in any Sweepstakes-related materials; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be
caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrants participation in the Sweepstakes. By
participating and accepting a prize, each winner agrees to indemnify and hold harmless AARP and
participating wholesalers for injuries, damages or losses that may be sustained in connection with
ownership, use or misuse of the prize. Entrants further agree to release Released Entities from any and
all liability arising from malfunctions of computer systems, servers, providers, hardware/software, lost
or unavailable network connections or failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmission or
any combination thereof.
12. Governing Law. The Sweepstakes is governed by the laws of the District of Columbia, with
jurisdiction and venue in Washington, DC, and all claims must be resolved in the courts of Washington,
DC.
13. Winner List. To receive notice of the winners, mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to be
received by March 31, 2017, to: AARP Making Your Mess Your Message Sweepstakes , AARP, 601 E
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20049.
14. Sponsor. AARP, 601 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20049.
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