Terms and Conditions:
1. Enter Online or by Mail. Deadlines: Entries must be submitted
online at www.ibanez.com. Online entries will be deemed made by the authorized account
holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of contest registration. Online
entries must be received on or before 11:59 p.m. EST, November 30, 2009. You may
also enter by sending a postcard with your first and last name, address, age, parental
consent if necessary, and telephone number to the Sponsor, Hoshino (USA), Inc. at
Ibanez/Peter Iwers Bass Giveaway, Box 886, Bensalem, PA 19020. Post card entries
must be postmarked by November 30, 2009 and received by December 8, 2009All requested
information must be provided in your submission. Incomplete or multiple submissions,
copies, mechanically reproduced, or automated entries, and computer-aided or computer-generated
script entries will not be eligible and are void. By submitting an online entry,
each entrant agrees to have his or her e-mail address put on the Ibanez e-mail mailing
list. The Sponsor will not share email addresses with any other entities.
2. Eligibility. The Contest is open to all legal residents of the
United States and its territories, except employees, directors, officers, agents,
contractors, and their immediate families and household members, of Hoshino (USA),
Inc, are not eligible to participate or win any prizes. Parental or guardian consent
is required for entrants under sixteen (16) years of age as of the contest start
date and may be given by e-mail or regular mail to the Sponsor, which consent will
be confirmed by the Sponsor.
3. Selection of Winners and Notification. Winners will be selected
on or about December 15, 2009 by random drawing from among all eligible entries
received. The odds of winning each prize depend on the number of eligible entries
received. Your purchase of a product or service from the Sponsor or from the prize
manufacturer is not required and will not increase your chances of winning a prize.
Winners will be notified by e-mail or by phone. The prize will be forfeited and
an alternate Winner may be selected if a Winner cannot be notified, fails to respond
to the prize notification within seven (7) days, is ineligible, or fails to timely
return the completed and executed declaration and releases as required.
4. Prizes. The Prizes are as described above. Prize components
are not exchangeable, transferable or redeemable for cash. In the event of unavailability
of stated prize(s) or component(s), the Sponsor reserves the right to substitute
item(s) of comparable value. SPONSOR DOES NOT MAKE AND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
WARRANTIES (INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR OF FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE) OR ANY GUARANTEE WITH REGARDS TO ANY PRIZE OR PORTION THEREOF.
5. Redemption Requirements. Each Winner grants permission to have
his or her name, city, photograph and/or likeness used in any manner the Sponsor
may deem appropriate for advertising, trade and/or promotional purposes without
additional compensation, including without limitation, posting the Winner's name
on the www.Ibanez.com web site, unless prohibited by law. Each Winner must sign
an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release in a form acceptable
to Sponsor prior to receiving the prize, unless prohibited by law. The Winner is
responsible for all tax liabilities and must provide his or her social security
number or taxpayer identification number for tax reporting purposes. Failure to
comply with any of the foregoing may result in disqualification and the selection
of an alternate Winner.
6. No Liability. The Sponsor is not responsible for lost, delayed,
misdirected or incomplete entries or late, lost, or misdirected or postage-due mail,
unavailable network connections, system errors, failures or other malfunctions,
whether caused by equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the promotion,
or by error, human or otherwise, which may limit or otherwise impact an entrant’s
ability to participate in the promotion. The Sponsor is not responsible for printing
or typographical errors in any contest related materials.
7. Interpretation of Rules. The Sponsor is the sole interpreter
of the Rules. By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these Rules and that
the decisions of the Sponsor are final. All entries become the property of the Sponsor
and will not be returned. In its sole discretion, the Sponsor may cancel, terminate,
modify, or suspend all or part of this promotion should virus, bugs, non-authorized
intervention or other causes beyond its control corrupt or affect the administration,
security, fairness or proper play of the giveaway. In such cases, and at its option
and in its sole discretion, the Sponsor may select Winners by random drawing from
those entries received by mail and by electronic transmission prior to the corruption.
The Sponsor may disqualify any individual the Sponsor reasonably believes in its
discretion to have tampered with the entry process or with the operation of the
promotion, or who is found to be acting in violation of these Rules.
8. Applicable law. Contest is subject to all federal, state and
local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited, taxed, or restricted by
law.
9. List of Winners. To obtain the name of the Winner(s), send a
self-addressed, stamped envelope by December 31, 2009, to "Winner", Ibanez/Peter
Iwers Bass Giveaway, Box 886, Bensalem, PA 19020.
10. The Sponsor. The Ibanez, Hoshino (USA), Inc., Box 886, Bensalem,
PA 19020.