E: 15/04 Instant Win (yey) Ipods, champagne etc

http://www.winwithdentsply.co.uk/competition.asp

DENTSPLY Limited. Three in a Row Competition. Official Rules:

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Eligibility: DENTSPLY Three in a Row Competition is open only to legal residents of the United Kingdom who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Employees of DENTSPLY, and their parent and affiliate companies, suppliers as well as their family and household members are not eligible. Subject to all applicable laws and regulations. Void where prohibited. Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and DENTSPLY’s and Administrator’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the promotion. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein. The promotion consists of an instant win game.

2. DENTSPLY Limited: Hamm Moor Lane, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey, KT15 2SE

3. Timing: The promotion begins at 00:00 Greenwich Mean Time on 16 April 2008 and ends at 23h59 on 15 April 2009. Administrator’s computer is the official time keeping device for the Instant Win Game.

4. How to Enter:
To Enter Online: During the promotion Period, visit www.winwithdentsply.co.uk and fill out the online entry form completely, and submit the form. You will automatically receive one Instant Win Game play for that day, plus additional plays for forwarding to colleagues. Once on the Instant Win Game page, follow the links and instructions to play. You will be responsible for the incidental costs of airtime and telephone time incurred when logging onto the web site to register and browse as charged by your telephone and internet providers. Entrants will be notified immediately if they are potential winners of the Instant Win Game and will be provided directions for validation. Administrator is responsible for the functionality of the Instant Win Game.

All entries become the exclusive property of Sponsor, and none will be acknowledged or returned. Proof of sending or submission will not be deemed to be proof of receipt by Sponsor. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, illegible, misdirected or postage-due entries, which will be disqualified.

By participating, you agree to allow DENTSPLY to periodically send you communications via email. If at any time, you decide that you do not wish to receive future commercial email communications from DENTSPLY, you can unsubscribe at anytime by clicking on the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of the email communication.

Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. DENTSPLY is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected registrations, which will be disqualified. In the event of a dispute as to any registration or play, the authorised account holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the registrant or player. The “authorised account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, Internet service provider or other organisation responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Potential winners may be required to show proof of being the authorised account holder.

Tell A Colleague Programme: After you play the Instant Win Game, you will be invited to submit the names and email addresses of colleagues who must be eligible to enter the promotion. Each person that you refer will receive an email notifying them about the promotion. Neither DENTSPLY nor the Administrator will collect any information about any friend unless a friend later participates in the promotion. You may only refer persons with whom you have an existing relationship and from whom you have obtained positive consent (via email or other documented authorisation) to receive the email. Sending an email to someone who has not expressly consented to receive the email is a violation of applicable law, will result in disqualification from the promotion, and may result in legal action against you. For each friend referral with a valid email address, you will be given one additional entry to Instant Win Game.

5. Instant Win Game: Administrator is an independent judging organization whose decisions as to the administration and operation of the promotion and the selection of potential winners are final and binding in all matters related to the promotion.

Instant Win Game: Allocation of the prizes is computer-generated winning times, one for each Instant Win Game prize listed below, will be generated during the promotion Period. If you are the first player to play the Instant Win Game at or after one of the randomly generated times, you will be a potential instant winner of the prize indicated.

6. ALL POTENTIAL INSTANT WIN GAME WINNERS AND PRIZE DRAW WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY DENTSPLY OR AN ADMINISTRATOR, WHOSE DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE PROMOTION. AN ENTRANT IS NOT A WINNER OF ANY PRIZE, EVEN IF THE INSTANT WIN GAME SHOULD SO INDICATE, UNLESS AND UNTIL ENTRANT’S ELIGIBILITY, AND THE POTENTIAL INSTANT WIN GAME WINNER AND HAVE BEEN VERIFIED AND ENTRANT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED THAT VERIFICATION IS COMPLETE. DENTSPLY WILL NOT ACCEPT SCREEN SHOTS OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF WINNING IN LIEU OF ITS VALIDATION PROCESS. ANY PLAY THAT OCCURS AFTER THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED FOR ANY REASON IS DEEMED A DEFECTIVE PLAY AND IS VOID AND WILL NOT BE HONOURED.

7. Verification of Potential Winners: Potential winners must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. The potential winner will be notified by email, telephone, or registered mail after the date of the random draw. In the event that the potential Grand Prize winner is disqualified for any reason, DENTSPLY will award the Grand Prize to an alternate winner as set forth in Section 5 above. Unclaimed Instant Win Game Prizes will not be awarded. Prizes will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after the conclusion of the promotion.

8. Prizes:
a. Instant Win Game prizes:

2 x £1,000 Holiday Vouchers
4 x iPod Nano
1 x bottle of Champagne per week for the duration of the competition

For All Prizes: No cash equivalent and all prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at DENTSPLY’s sole discretion. DENTSPLY reserves the right to substitute any listed prize for one of equal or greater value (subject to applicable legal or regulatory limitations) if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Winner is responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use.

9. Release: By receipt of any Prize Draw or Instant Win Game prize, winner agrees to release and hold harmless DENTSPLY and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies and each of their respective parent companies and each such company’s officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the promotion or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. This Release does not apply to claims for personal injury or death caused by the negligence of DENTSPLY or Administrator.

10. Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the promotion constitutes winners consent to DENTSPLY’s use of winner’s name and country of residence for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.

11. General Conditions: DENTSPLY reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the promotion, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures or any other factor beyond DENTSPLY’s reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Prize Draw or Instant Win Game, as determined by DENTSPLY in its sole discretion. DENTSPLY reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Prize Draw or Instant Win Game or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Prize Draw or the Instant Win Game may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, DENTSPLY reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. DENTSPLY’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

12. Limitations of Liability: Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilised in the promotion; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorised human intervention in any part of the entry process or the promotion; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the promotion or the processing of entries; or (5) any injury or damage to property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the promotion or receipt or use or misuse of any prize (other than as a direct result of DENTSPLY's negligence). If for any reason an entrant's entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the Prize Draw or Instant Win Game play, provided that if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the promotion, or any part of it, for any reason, DENTSPLY, at its discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the prizes offered herein. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed DENTSPLY reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, unawarded, eligible prize claims.

13. Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this promotion or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, by the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this promotion, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (3) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and DENTSPLY in connection with the promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of England and Wales without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of England and Wales or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the England and Wales.

14. Entrant's Personal Information: All information submitted to DENTSPLY as part of this Prize Draw will be treated in accordance with DENTSPLY’s privacy policy, available at http://www.dentsply.co.uk/legal/privacy.html.

Personal information will be used to: (a) contact potential winners; and (b) if an entrant selects to receive additional information from DENTSPLY on the entry form, to send additional information to that entrant. Entrants have the right to access, withdraw, and correct their personal data. Entrants may request such action by sending a message to [EMAIL="Claire.baker@dentsply-gb.com"]Claire.baker@dentsply-gb.com[/EMAIL]

15. Promotion Results: For the winner list, send an email with Subject Line: Competition Winners, DENTSPLY, to [EMAIL="Claire.baker@dentsply-gb.com"]Claire.baker@dentsply-gb.com[/EMAIL]

16. General: Nothing in these terms and conditions shall be deemed to exclude or restrict any of the winner's or entrant's statutory rights as a consumer.