Official Rules and
Conditions
1. Entry.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
To enter, contestants must create and submit the URL of their own NOX
fan site, full name, address, email address and birth date via email to noxfansitecontest@westwood.com
before February 28th, 2000.
Instructions and guidelines for the creation of all official NOX fan
sites are located at the official NOX homepage http://www.noxworld.com. No other methods of entry will be
accepted. All entries submitted must contain the official NOX news applet, and
must not contain or support profanity, illegal activities, or disparage the NOX
game or Westwood in any way. You may only enter once. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for lost, incomplete,
incorrect, or misdirected entries. Entrants
accept and agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules and
Conditions. Entrants warrant that
submissions are their own creations and do not violate the rights of any third
party. All Entries become the property
of Sponsor and will not be returned. By
entering, entrants agree that Sponsor may post submission on Sponsor’s web site
along with entrants’ names and hometowns without any compensation to
entrant. Entrants agree that Sponsor
has the right to use the submission, entrant’s name, likeness and any other
information supplied by entrant, in any and all publicity and advertising for
NOX or this contest without any notification or compensation, except where
prohibited by law. Sponsor, in its
sole discretion, may edit and modify any submission for publication.
2. Prizes. One (1) prize package
with an approximate retail value of t $225.00 in NOX merchandise will be
awarded to the top fan site in each category for Design (consisting of graphic
and web site design originality), Activity (consisting of activities and events
by the fan site), Self Promotion (a review of all self-promotion activities
handled by each fan site), and User Participation (an overall visitor count and
review of activity at each). A total of four prize packages will be
awarded. A single $4,000 Cash Grand Prize will be awarded to the best fan site based on
the overall best total score in all four categories. Winners will be selected under the auspices of Sponsor and all
decisions of Sponsor are final. No
transfer or substitution of prizes for cash or otherwise is permitted, except
that Sponsor retains the right to substitute a prize of approximately equal
value. Winners will sign a publicity
release in the form provided by Sponsor, if requested. Failure to sign a requested publicity
release form will result in forfeiture of prize and a new winner may be chosen.
3. Eligibility and General Conditions.
This contest is open to U.S. residents only, other than residents of
Florida. Employees of Electronic
Arts Inc., and its affiliates, subsidiaries, representatives, advertising,
promotion and publicity agencies and the immediate families of each are not
eligible for this contest. Contest is
void where prohibited, restricted or taxed by law, and is subject to all
federal, state and local laws and regulations.
Taxes on prizes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the individual
winners. Sponsor is not responsible for technical, hardware or software
malfunctions, lost or unavailable network connections or failed, incorrect,
inaccurate, incomplete, garbled or delayed electronic or other
communications. Sponsor, in its sole
discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person who tampers with entry
process or the operation of the web site, or who is otherwise in violation of
these rules. Sponsor has the right to
cancel, terminate or modify this contest if it is not capable of completion as
planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized
intervention or technical failures of any sort.] Sponsor and its affiliates and subsidiaries, representatives,
advertising, promotion and publicity agencies, are not in any way responsible
or liable for damages, loss or injury resulting from submission of any entry,
or acceptance, loss or use of any prizes awarded in this contest.
4.
Winners list. The winner will be announced at
http://www.noxworld.com after February 28th and posted until March 15th,
2000, and is available by sending a stamped, self addressed envelope marked
Nox Fansite Contest to Westwood
Studios, 2400 N. Tenaya Way, Las Vegas, NV. 89128.
5. Sponsor. This contest is sponsored by Westwood Studios
6. Legal: (c) 2000 Electronic Arts. Nox, Westwood Studios and Westwood Online
are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Electronic Arts in
the U.S. and/or other countries. All
rights reserved. Westwood Studios is an Electronic Arts(tm) Inc. company.