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OFFICIAL RULES

“Will you marry me?” contest

 

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS CONTEST. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.  ENTRY OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ONLY, 21 OR OLDER.

 

1. CONTEST DATES: The “Will You Marry Me?” Contest (“Contest”) begins January 7, 2008 at 12:01:00 am Eastern Time (“ET”), and ends February 11, 2008 at 11:59:59 pm ET (“Contest Period”). During the Contest Period there are a series of Contest-related events which start and end on or about the dates and times noted below:

 

EVENTS

START

END

“WILL YOU MARRY ME?”

(“Video Submission Period”)

Starts 12:00:01 am ET on January 7, 2008

Ends 11:59:59 pm ET on February 5, 2008

WINNER ANNOUNCED

February 11, 2008

 

2. CONTEST ENTITIES: YouTube, LLC (“YouTube”), 1000 Cherry Avenue, 2nd Floor, San Bruno, CA 94066. Sponsor: 800-Flowers, Inc. (“Sponsor”), One Old Country Road, Suite 500, Carle Place, NY 11514.  Administrator: Marden-Kane, Inc. (“Administrator”), 36 Maple Place, Manhasset, NY 11030. Sponsor, YouTube and Administrator are collectively referred to as the “Contest Entities”.

 

3. ELIGIBILITY: Submitting a video in this Contest is open to persons who on the date of entry are legal residents of one of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia, at least 21 (twenty-one) years of age, and are registered users of http://www.youtube.com (including all mirror or derivative sites, and all replacements or successor versions thereof) (“YouTube Site”) (“Registered User”). Employees, officers, directors and their immediate family members of the Contest Entities and their respective parents, affiliated, and subsidiary companies, advertising and promotion agencies, legal and financial advisors, and any and all other companies associated with this Contest are not eligible to enter. For purposes of this Contest, "immediate family members" means parents, spouses, children, siblings, in-laws, grandmother, or grandfather. To become a Registered User of the YouTube Site, you must register for an account and agree to the YouTube Site’s ‘Terms of Use” set forth at http://www.youtube.com/t/terms (“Terms of Use”). There is no fee or charge to become a Registered User. 

 

4. HOW TO SUBMIT A VIDEO IN THIS CONTEST: Create one (1) video (“Video Submission”) offering a legitimate bona fide proposal of marriage, civil union or domestic partnership to another person with whom you personally know and wish to spend the rest of your life. You will be required to provide during the validation process the complete name, address, and telephone number of the person to whom you proposed marriage and represent that you have secured this person’s permission and consent to provide such information and to be subsequently contacted by the Contest Entities.  The Video Submission must meet the requirements set forth in Section 5 below. To enter your Video Submission in the Contest, go to the “Will You Marry Me?” section of the YouTube Site at http://www.youtube.com/greatestlovestories (“Contest Web Site”), enter your Registered Username and follow the instructions to submit your Video Submission. IMPORTANT: When you upload your private video, you will be provided with a video ID #/URL.  You will need to email this video ID #/URL to the email address provided in the instructions.  Failure to email this required information to the email address provided by 11:59:59 pm ET on February 5, 2008 will result in the disqualification of your video submission. You should retain a copy of your Video Submission for your records, as it will not be returned by Sponsor or YouTube. The Video Submission must be received by YouTube during the Video Submission Period set forth in Section 1 above. Limit one (1) Video Submission in this Contest per Registered User. By PARTICIPATING IN THIS CONTEST, EACH ENTRANT agreeS TO COMPLY WITH THE CONTEST RULES AND THAT THE CONTEST ENTITIES MAY, AT THEIR OPTION, CONDUCT a background check ON ENTRANT, AND THAT THE CONTEST ENTITIES RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DISQUALIFY ANY ENTRANT ON THE BASIS OF ANYTHING CONTAINED IN, OR OBTAINED AS A RESULT OF, THE BACKGROUND CHECK. SELECTED ENTRANTS WILL BE REQUIRED TO SIGN waiver forms authorizing the release of personal and background information AND TO COMPLETE A BACKGROUND QUESTIONNAIRE WHICH IN PART WILL DEMONSTRATE THE LEGITIMaCY OF THE marriage proposal. a demonstration of legitimacy may include various forms of verification of the marriage proposal satisfactory to the contest entities, WITHIN THEIR SOLE DISCRETION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, interviewing relatives/friends of entrant and supplying photographs of entrant and person being proposed TO.

 

5.  “WILL YOU MARRY ME?” VIDEO SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

 

Video Submissions must meet the following requirements:

 

·       Running Time: One hundred and twenty seconds maximum, including any production credits. If Video Submission is longer than one hundred and twenty seconds, only the first one hundred and  twenty seconds may be posted for viewing and judging.

·       Maximum File Size: 80MB

·       Video Formats: YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats.

·       Language: English

 

Note: Limit one (1) Video Submission in this Contest per Registered User. 

 

Video Submissions must also comply with the YouTube Site’s “YouTube Community Guidelines” set forth at http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines (“Code of Conduct”) and must not: (i) include trademarks, logos, or copyrighted material not owned by entrant or used without permission (such as company names, music, photographs, works of art, or images published on or in websites, television, movies, or other media); (ii) use individuals’ names, in whole or in part (including the entrant’s last name) without permission; (iii) refer to public figures; (iv) contain profanity, pornographic, or sexual content, content promoting alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms, or weapons, hateful content of any kind (including racism, sexism, etc.), content that promotes violence or harm to another living creature, or any other offensive, obscene, or inappropriate content; (v) defame, misrepresent, or contain disparaging remarks about other people or companies, including, but not limited to Sponsor; (vi) contain materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or other identifying elements of any person, living, or dead without permission; and (vii) use any other personally identifiable information of the marriage proposal recipient, except for that individual’s first name.

 

Sponsor and/or Administrator, and/or their designated representatives, will review all Video Submissions received during the Video Submission Period and will only post those Video Submissions on the Contest Web Site that conform to these Official Rules and the Terms of Use and Code of Conduct, as determined by the Sponsor and/or Administrator in their sole discretion (“Eligible Video Submissions”). Entries that do not comply with these Official Rules, as determined in Sponsor and/or Administrator’s sole discretion, will be disqualified from the Contest and will not appear on the Contest Web Site. Decisions of the Sponsor and/or Administrator are final and binding.

 

6. SELECTION OF THE TEN (10) FINALIST VIDEOS: On or about February 5, 2008 a panel of judges consisting of the Sponsor and/or Administrator and their representatives (the “Judges”) will select up to ten (10) finalist videos (“Finalist Videos”) from among all Eligible Video Submissions, based on the following judging criteria (“Judging Criteria”), which will be given equal weight: