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Privacy is of great concern to most users of the Internet, and is a critical part of an enjoyable and satisfactory user experience. We believe that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act responsibly. We have prepared this Privacy Statement to explain to you what personal information is collected on the howdoyou.com site, and what we do with this personal information. This site is owned by and operated on behalf of VeriSign, Inc. ("VeriSign").
The site may provide links to third-party sites, and features that enable you to share or permit us to share content and personal information with third-party sites. Since we do not control those sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third-party sites. We are not responsible for the content, including any personally identifiable information, you choose to share or permit us to share with third-party sites or other third parties.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE GATHER FROM YOU
We do not collect any personal information from a visitor to howdoyou.com site unless that visitor explicitly and intentionally provides it. If you are simply browsing our site, we do not gather any personal information about you. The only way we would receive personal information about you is if you either fill out a contest entry form, comment form or other form requesting information, or send us an email and include information about yourself.
HOW WE USE AND WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal information submitted by visitors to the howdoyou.com site will be treated in the same manner as the personal information submitted by visitors to the www.verisign.com Internet site, which is subject to the Privacy Statement of VeriSign. The howdoyou.com site will be available for a limited time only. At such time when this site is no longer available to visitors, any personal information which you have submitted to this site will continue to be treated in accordance with the Privacy Statement of VeriSign.
SENDING YOU RESPONSES AND UPDATES. We generally retain your personal information in order to respond to your questions and/or to send you updates or other important information about our services and products. We will only notify you for this purpose if, when providing your personal information, you have indicated that you are open to receiving information from us. Occasionally these updates or other important information may be sent out by third parties on our behalf. Our subsidiary companies may also send you information about their services and products.
UPLOADED PHOTOS, COMMENTS AND BULLETIN BOARD FEATURES. If you use a comments or bulletin board features on this Web site, or upload a photograph, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We will publish the user name you provide on the Web site next to the photograph that you upload. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. You are also responsible for using these forums in a manner consistent with the Legal Notices and Terms of Use or other terms and conditions set forth on the relevant forum site.
USE OF COOKIES. We only use "cookies" as described in this Section. A "cookie" is a piece of information that our Web site sends to your browser, which then stores this information on your system. If a cookie is used, our Web site will be able to "remember" information about you and your preferences either until you exit your current browser window (if the cookie is temporary) or until you disable or delete the cookie. Many users prefer to use cookies in order to help them navigate a Web site as seamlessly as possible. You should be aware that cookies contain no more information than you volunteer, and they are not able to "invade" your hard drive and return to the sender personal or other information from your computer. Our uses of "cookies" on this web site are limited to the following specific situations. The first situation is with respect to temporary cookies. Our Web server may automatically send your browser a temporary cookie, which is used to help your browser navigate our site. The only information contained in these temporary cookies is a direction value that lets our software determine which page to show when you hit the back button in your browser. This bit of information is erased when you close your current browser window. If you come to our site from one of our business partners, our Web server may also send your browser a temporary cookie that reflects an "origination code" for that business partner. We use this information for statistical and marketing purposes. The second situation in which we may use cookies is with respect to permanent cookies. This type of cookie remains on your system, although you can always delete or disable it through your browser preferences. We may use a permanent cookie to track traffic patterns on our site. Analysis of the collected information by our tracking technologies allows us to improve our web site and the user experience. In both instances of a persistent cookie, if you choose not to accept the cookie, you will still be able to use our Web site. Even if you choose to receive this type of cookie, you can always set your browser to notify you when you receive any cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it in each situation in which one is sent.
CONTEST WINNERS. If you choose to enter into a "HowDoYou.com" contest conducted through this Web site, and you win a prize, your name will be published on the site in the winner’s list, pursuant to the contest Official Rules.
YOUR ABILITY TO OPT OUT OF FURTHER NOTIFICATIONS
As noted above, from time-to-time, we may notify you of updates or other important information about our services and products. If you would like to opt-out of being notified, please contact us at the email address given at the end of this Privacy Statement. Upon such time as this site is no longer available, please visit the Privacy Statement of VeriSign, and follow the procedure described therein to opt-out.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
If a material change is made to this Privacy Statement and/or the way we use your personally identifiable information, we will post prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this Privacy Statement.
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS
We are dedicated to protecting your personal information, and welcome comments, questions, and suggestions on this Privacy Statement. You may also contact us in order to review and/or correct the personal information you have provided to us.
ELIGIBILITY: The How Do You.com Contest (“Contest”) is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec) who are at least 18 years of age or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry. Employees, officers, directors and agents of VeriSign (“Sponsor”), Gage Marketing Group, 463 Communications, Bite Communications, Type3 Digital, McCann Worldgroup and Attack! Marketing and their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising/promotional agencies, (“Contest Entities”), and members of the immediate family or persons living in the same household of such individuals, are ineligible to participate or win a prize. Void outside the above-specified jurisdictions and where prohibited. Subject to all federal, provincial, state and local laws. All eligible individuals as defined herein are referred to as “Entrant”.
TO ENTER: Beginning on 5/26/10 at 12:00:00 am Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) through 11:59:59 p.m. MDT on 8/31/10 (“Contest Period”), a prospective Entrant may go online to www.howdoyou.com (“Site”) and accurately and truthfully complete all mandatory elements of the Official Entry Form in a single session, including (but not limited to): (a) inputting your complete first and last name, street address, city, state/province, ZIP/postal code, country, telephone number, date of birth and email address; (b) inputting an essay (up to three hundred (300) words (“Essay”) OR uploading a video (up to two (2) minutes and less than 2 GB in one of the following formats: .3GP, .AVI, .MPEG2, .MPEG4, .MOV, .MP4, .FLV, .MKV or .WMV format) (“Video”) written or produced in English that truthfully and accurately describes how .com has affected your life; and (c) confirming where indicated your affirmative agreement to the Official Rules, terms and conditions of the Contest (together with all requirements specified in these Rules and on the Site, an “Entry”, subject at any time to verification by Sponsor). An Entry may also be submitted via kiosks set up by the Sponsor during the Web 2.0 Expo (May 3 - May 6, 2010) and at other conferences and tradeshows during the Contest Period Once an Entry is submitted Entrants may not edit or resubmit with edits.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF ENTRY: Entries must be suitable (judged in Sponsor’s reasonable discretion) for republication/display, as specified in these Official Rules or on the Site. Additionally, to be eligible for Contest judging and prize award, an Entrant/Entry must meet, and hereby warrants by Entry submission, the truthfulness and accuracy of the following additional requirements:
All tendered Entries will be preliminarily (and at any time, may subsequently be) screened for conformity with these Official Rules, including any written verification/documentation confirming the requirements and permissions specified herein requested by Sponsor in its reasonable discretion and upon such screening and any verification, thereafter posted in a gallery (“Gallery”) on www.howdoyou.com for Public Voting, as described below in the Public Voting section. Tendered Entries that do not reasonably appear to fully comply with all requirements set forth herein may be disqualified by Sponsor at any time. Additionally, tendered Entries that become the object of a claimed grievance pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that do not reasonably appear to fully comply with all requirement set forth herein may be suspended and/or disqualified by Sponsor at any time. All Entries become the exclusive property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned, provided that upon Entry, Entrants may retain a license to republish the contents of their Essay or Video accompanied by a link to Site on personal websites or in conjunction with social media platforms/accounts for purposes of communicating their Entry in the Contest and inviting participation by eligible persons via Public Voting. No correspondence regarding the screening, verification or judging status of Entries will be undertaken by Sponsor.
PUBLIC VOTING: During the Contest Period (also “Voting Period”), go online to www.howdoyou.com and follow the online directions to register to vote. Public voting open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec) who are at least 18 years of age at the time of voting participation. Individuals within the definition of Contest Entities are ineligible for voting participation. All eligible individuals as defined above are herein referred to as “Voter”. Voters can vote for an Entry posted in the Gallery by “Voting” once throughout the Voting Period. Limit ten (10) Votes per eligible person and/or e-mail address per calendar day during the Voting Period. Votes generated by a robotic, programmed, script, macro, other automated means or other source, will be considered invalid. Use of multiple e-mail addresses by a voter to cast votes is a violation of these rules and may result, in Sponsors sole discretion, in such votes not being counted and/or the disqualification of an Entry for a Weekly Public Voting Prize. Each Entry that receives a “Vote” will receive one (1) point (“Public Voting Score”). Beginning June 7, 2010 and for each of the following ten (10) weeks, ending August 22, 2010, (a week is defined from Monday at 12:00:00 am MDT through Sunday at 11:59:59 p.m. MDT), the Entry that receives the most Votes in each defined week, will win the Weekly Public Voting Prize, subject to verification. In the event of a tie between 2 or more Entries, the Entrant who reached the winning total first will be declared the winner. Limit one (1) Weekly Public Voting Prize per Entrant.
CONTEST JUDGING:
Round 1: An independent, qualified panel of judges selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion, will judge all eligible Entries based on the following criteria:
The twenty-five (25) highest scoring Entries (provided a sufficient number of eligible entries are received) will advance to Round 2 of judging. In the event of a tie of total score between two (2) or more Entries, the Entry with the highest score for Criteria 1 will be declared the higher ranked Entry and if a tie remains thereafter, the Entry with the highest score for Criteria 2 will be declared the higher ranking Entry, and so on until the tie is broken). If fewer than 25 eligible entries are received, all eligible entries will advance to Round 2 of judging.
Round 2: The twenty-five (25) highest scoring Entries from Round 1 of judging will be re-judged by a second independent, qualified panel of judges selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion, based on the following criteria:The Entrants submitting the Entries receiving the top three scores will be declared the potential Grand, First and Second Prize Contest winners respectively, subject to verification (in the event of a tie of total score between two (2) or more Entries, the Entry with the highest score for Criteria 1 will be declared the higher ranked Entry and if a tie remains thereafter, the Entry with the highest score for Criteria 2 will be declared the higher ranking Entry, and so on until the tie is broken). The judges’ decisions on all matters pertaining to judging, administering and/or interpreting the terms and conditions of this Contest are final. Judging will be completed on or about September 9, 2010.
PRIZES: Contest Grand Prize (1): US $10,000, awarded in the form a check written in the name of the Grand Prize Winner (Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) US $10,000); Contest First Prize (1): US $5,000, awarded in the form of a check written in the name of the First Prize Winner (ARV US $5,000); and Contest Second Prize (1): US $2,500, awarded in the form of a check written in the name of the Second Prize Winner (ARV US $2,500).
Weekly Public Voting Prizes (10) one per week: An Apple iPad™, 16 GB with WiFi, (Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) US $499). iPad™ is a trademark of Apple, Inc. Apple, Inc is not a sponsor of or affiliated with this promotion. Total ARV of all prizes: US $22,499. Before being declared a winner, a selected Canadian Entrant must first correctly answer without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question to be administered by telephone at a mutually convenient time. If a selected Canadian Entrant cannot be contacted and the skill-testing question administered within 10 days, the prize may be forfeited and another selected Entrant chosen. By accepting a prize, Winner acknowledges that Sponsor has not made and is not in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to any applicable fund/account, including but not limited to its quality, condition or fitness for a particular purpose. Prize is non-transferable except as provided herein or at the discretion of the Sponsor. Sponsor reserve the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if for any reason an advertised prize cannot be awarded as intended by these rules; and potential Winners agree to such substitution as a condition of entry in this Contest. Limit one (1) Weekly Public Voting Prize per Entrant and Limit one (1) Contest prize per Entrant.
GENERAL: Winners are responsible for payment of any income taxes on prizes under applicable federal, provincial, state and local laws, and Sponsor may issue prize-related tax reporting as required by law. Potential Grand, First and Second Contest Prize winners will be notified on or about September 12, 2010, by overnight courier and will be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Release of Liability, Assignment of Rights and a Publicity Release (where legal), within 10 days of notification. In the event of non-compliance with these requirements, prize may be forfeited. In the event that a prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, such prize will be forfeited and prize will be awarded to an alternate Entry with the next highest scoring Entry, at the Sponsor’s sole discretion.
By participating, Entrants release Contest Entities (also herein “Released Parties”), from any and all liability with respect to participation in the contest or to acceptance or use (or misuse) of any prize or to participation in any prize-related activities or any use of the Entry submitted by Sponsor. Entrants agree to release, defend, indemnify and hold harmless Released Parties from and against, and accept all responsibility of any kind, including but not limited to financial, for any liability, claims, losses, damages or proceedings, including but not limited for death, (including reasonable attorneys' fees) relating to any actions taken by Entrants, including without limitation all warranties relating to participation and entry in the Contest and use of Entrant’s e-mail or other identification purporting to act on Entrant’s behalf in regard to the Contest (whether or not such use occurred with or without your permission). Entrants also agree to release, defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Released Parties from any and all liability, claims, losses, damages or proceedings, including but not limited for death (including reasonable attorneys' fees) relating to Contest prize consideration and Contest publicity, and any other matter in connection with Entrants’ participation in the Contest. Released Parties are not responsible for lost, late, damaged, delayed, incomplete or unintelligible entries, entries not received by entry deadline, interrupted or unavailable network, server or other connections, mis-communications, failed telephone, computer hardware, software and other technical failures of any kind, including injury or damage to any person's computer relating to or resulting from participating in or experiencing any materials in connection with the promotion, unauthorized human intervention, garbled, jumbled or delayed computer transmissions or other errors of any kind, whether human, mechanical or electronic, including without limitation, the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information online regardless of cause that may limit a user's ability to participate in the Contest. Released Parties reserve the right to prohibit the participation of an individual if fraud or tampering is suspected, or if the individual fails to comply with any requirement of participation as stated herein or with any provision in these official rules. INTERNET CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS PROMOTION IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS, AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or modify promotion or disqualify an Entrant’s eligibility, if fraud, misconduct or technical failures compromise the integrity or fairness of the Contest; or if a computer virus, bug, or other technical problem corrupts the administration, security, or proper administration of the Contest as determined by Sponsor/judging agency/administrator, in their sole discretion. In the event of termination of the promotion, all eligible entries received prior to termination will be judged and all Weekly Public Voting Prizes, prior to termination will be awarded. Multiple Entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by an Entrant to submit for than one (1) entry by using multiple/different email addresses or any other methods will void that Entrant’s entries and that Entrant may be disqualified. Except where prohibited by law, by accepting prize, Winners agree to use of their first name and first initial of surname, address (city and state/province only), Entry and any statements made by Winners regarding the Contest or Sponsor (provided same are true) for advertising or publicity purposes worldwide without limitation, including the internet, and without compensation, and further grants Sponsor any and all rights to said use. Entrant agrees that: (i) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia or the appropriate Virginia State Court located in Loudon County, VA; (ii) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Contest but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (iii) under no circumstances will Entrant be permitted to obtain awards for and Entrant hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental and/or 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. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the Entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Virginia.
WINNERS: For a list of winners, send an email to info@verisign-grs.com by 9/22/10 with the subject line: “How Do You.com Contest Winners List Request”.
SPONSOR: VeriSign, Inc. 487 East Middlefield Road, Mountain View, CA 94043
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