Official Rules.
No Purchase Necessary To Enter Or Win.
Purchasing Will Not Increase Your Odds of Winning.
All entries, whether submitted by making an eligible Upromise purchase or
via 3"x 5" mail-in entry as described below, have an equal chance
of winning. Eligibility: Sweepstakes only open to Upromise members as
of 9/30/06 who are legal residents of the 50 United States or the District of
Columbia, 18 years of age or older as of 10/1/06. Employees, officers,
directors, agents & representatives of Upromise, Inc.
("Sponsor") & each of its respective parent companies,
affiliates, distributors, subsidiaries, retailers, advertising/promotion
agencies, & Project Support Team, Inc. ("P/S/T") (collectively,
"Released Parties") & members of the immediate family (mother,
father, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters & spouse, regardless of where
they reside) & household members of any such individual, whether or not
related, are not eligible to participate. This Sweepstakes is subject to all
applicable federal, state, & local laws & regulations. Void where
prohibited. How to Enter: Sweepstakes begins at 12:00:01AM Eastern
Time ("ET") on 10/1/06 & ends at 11:59:59PM ET on 10/31/06
("Promotion Period"). 1) Automatically receive (1) Sweepstakes
entry for each positive value college savings contribution that posts to your
member Upromise account as a result of an eligible online purchase made
during the Promotion Period. College savings can be earned for an online
purchase only if that purchase is trackable by Upromise, meaning that the
purchase was made at a participating online retailer after first: a) clicking
to the retailer's site from Upromise.com; b) clicking to the retailer's site
from an email sent by Upromise; or c) being redirected to the retailer's site
with tracking information included automatically from having either RemindU or
the Upromise Toolbar installed & in use. Online purchases made
directly from a participating retailer's site without following any of the
scenarios described above will not receive college savings contribution &
will not be eligible for automatic entry. Some partner retailers do not
offer contributions on all purchases. If you do not receive a college savings
contribution with respect to your online purchase, you will not be eligible
for an automatic entry for that purchase. Online purchases made from select
partners whereby a registered credit or debit card is needed to receive
Upromise rewards are not eligible for automatic entry. These partners are:
Avis, Bed Bath & Beyond®, Budget, Cryo-Cell, Eddie Bauer®,
Eddie Bauer Outlet, The Sharper Image®, & Upromise
Cruises. 2) To enter the Sweepstakes without making a purchase &
receive (1) Sweepstakes entry, hand print your name, complete mailing address,
telephone number, date of birth & Upromise account number on a plain
3"x 5" piece of paper & mail it in a sealed, stamped &
hand printed #10 envelope to: The Upromise October Online Sweepstakes, P.O.
Box 16092, Bridgeport, CT 06673-6092. Enter as often as you wish by mail, but
each entry must be mailed separately & be received by 11/7/06. No
photocopied, computer generated facsimiles, mechanically reproduced, or mass
entries permitted & all such entries will be void. All entries become
property of Sponsor & will not be acknowledged or returned. Your making
of an eligible Upromise college savings contribution purchase and/or your
submission of a 3" x 5" mail-in entry constitutes your consent to
participate in this Sweepstakes & your consent for Sponsor to obtain,
use, & transfer your name, address & other information for the
purpose of administering this Sweepstakes. Released Parties are not
responsible for lost, incomplete, illegible, late, misdirected, stolen,
inaccurate, postage-due, or mutilated entries, transactions or mail; any
error, omission, interruption, defect or delay in transmission, 3rd party
transaction classification, transaction processing, or communication;
technical or mechanical malfunctions; failures or malfunctions of phones,
phone lines, or telephone systems; printing, typographical, or other errors
in these Official Rules, in any Sweepstakes-related advertisements or other
materials; human-processing error; failures of electronic equipment,
computer hardware or software; or inaccurate entry information, whether caused
by equipment, programming used in this Sweepstakes, human error, or for any
other error of any kind, whether network, technical, mechanical, human or
otherwise, including, without limitation, errors which may occur in connection
with the administration of the Sweepstakes, the processing of entries, or the
inability to access any retailer's website due to technical issues. Sponsor
reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to void any & all entries of
an entrant (& disqualify him/her) who Sponsor believes has attempted to
tamper with or impair the administration, security, fairness, or proper play
of this Sweepstakes or who is otherwise not in compliance with these Official
Rules. (31) Grand Prizes: A $1,000 College Savings prize awarded as an
electronic deposit to winner's Upromise account. Prize will be awarded to
winner's Upromise account within (8) weeks following verification. Prize is
subject to terms & conditions of the Upromise membership. Total ARV of
all prizes=$31,000. Federal, state, & local taxes & all other costs
& expenses associated with prize acceptance & use not specified
herein are each winner's sole responsibility. Winner Selection:
Potential winners will be selected in a random drawing on or about 2/1/07
from among all eligible entries received by P/S/T, an independent judging
organization whose decisions will be final & binding in all matters
relating to this Sweepstakes. In the event that a potential winner is
selected via a Upromise college savings contribution purchase, prize will be
awarded to the person (as determined by Upromise's account records) named on
the applicable Upromise account used to make the entry. Odds of winning will
depend on the number of eligible entries received. Limit one prize per
person, immediate family member, or household. Miscellaneous: No
transfer, assignment, cash redemption, or substitution of prizes except by
Sponsor who reserves the right to substitute a prize of comparable or greater
value, at its discretion. Potential winners will be notified by email,
telephone and/or mail. Potential winners will be required to execute &
return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability Release & (where legal)
Publicity Release within five days of date of issuance of notification. If
prize notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable to a potential
winner, potential winner fails to return requisite documents within the
specified time period, or a potential winner is not in compliance with these
Official Rules, such potential winner will forfeit his or her prize &, at
Sponsor's sole discretion, an alternate winner may be selected for the prize
at issue. Noncompliance with any of the foregoing may result in
disqualification. By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these
Official Rules & the decisions of the Sponsor & judges which are
final & binding & agree that: 1.) Released Parties & their
designees & assigns shall have the right & permission to use (unless
prohibited by law) their name, voice, city/state of residence, photograph,
and/or likeness for advertising and/or trade and/or any other purpose in any
media or format now or hereafter known worldwide in perpetuity without
further compensation, permission or notification & 2.) Released
Parties & their designees & assigns shall have no liability &
will be held harmless by entrant for any liability, loss, injury, or damage
to themselves or any other person or entity, including personal injury,
death or damage to personal or real property, to entrant or any other person
or entity due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of the
acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prize or participation in this
Sweepstakes. If this Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned due to
infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention,
fraud, technical failures or any other causes which corrupt or affect the
administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this
Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion, to disqualify
any individual who it believes has tampered with the entry process (&
void his/her entry), and/or to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the
Sweepstakes (or any portion thereof). In the event of cancellation or
termination, Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, select winners from among
all eligible, non-suspect entries received prior to the event requiring such
cancellation or termination. Winners List: For the winners' names
(available after 3/15/07), send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to be
received by 1/15/07 to: The Upromise October Online Sweepstakes Winners,
P.O. Box 13106, Bridgeport, CT 06673-3106.
Sponsor: Upromise, Inc., 95 Wells Avenue, Suite 160, Newton, MA 02459
Promoter: Project Support Team, Inc., 100 Mill Plain Road, Danbury,
CT 06811 /www.ProjectSupportTeam.com