NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 13 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. INTERNET ACCESS REQUIRED. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
1. Contest Period:
The Submission Period begins at 12:00 A.M. Pacific Standard Time (P.S.T.) on June 21, 2010 and ends at 11:59 P.M. P.S.T. on July 18, 2010. Chiquita Brands International’s ("SPONSOR”) designated computer is the official time-keeping device for this contest.
2. Eligibility:
Contest is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are at least thirteen (13) years old.
Employees, officers and directors of SPONSOR, their respective parent and affiliate companies and advertising and promotion agencies, as well as members of the immediate families (spouses, parents, siblings and children, and each of their respective spouse, regardless of where they reside) or households (whether related or not) of any of the above are NOT eligible to participate.
The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void outside the United States and where prohibited. Entrants are responsible for complying with these Official Rules.
3. To Enter:
To enter, visit the EatAChiquita.com/sticker-contest website and follow the links and instructions to complete the registration form and upload your original sticker design.
By entering a design in this Contest, Entrant agrees to grant SPONSOR an assignment of all copyright rights in the design. Parental consent and assignment is required for any minor. Completion of this written assignment form may be required, at no compensation to Entrant, from all contest Finalists. Entrant agrees that Sponsor has the right to edit, adapt, and publish sticker designs in any and all media.
There is a limit of 25 submissions per person. Each entrant will be identified by the email address they use in the registration form. No person may use more than 1 email address to submit an entry. Should SPONSOR find evidence that an individual is using more than 1 email address to submit designs, that person will be disqualified.
4. Submission Requirements:
SPONSOR reserves the right to confirm compliance with all Rules including submission requirements.
- What must be included:
- Entries must be submitted as digital images in jpg, gif, or png formats; the maximum file size is 3 MB
- Entries must be on a white background and in the Chiquita sticker shape (for which templates are available on EatAChiquita.com/sticker-contest)
- The width:height ratio of the image canvas and of the Chiquita sticker must be 100:123
- The outer blue ring on the Chiquita sticker must touch all four edges of the image canvas
- Entries must include the outer blue ring and yellow racetrack – all original designs must be contained within the yellow racetrack
- The design must, in its entirety, be a single work of original material created by the contestant
- What cannot be included:
- Inclusion or reference to Miss Chiquita
- Any copyrighted or trademarked material or brand names
- Text or letters
- Material that violates or infringes another's rights, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement
- Material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous or libelous
- Material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age
- Material that is unlawful, in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations in any state where image is created
- How submissions will be displayed on EatAChiquita.com:
- Submissions will be displayed at 100 pixels wide by 123 pixels tall on the entries, vote, and contest home pages
- Submissions will be displayed at 300 pixels wide by 369 pixels tall on individual sticker detail pages
5. Judging:
All eligible entries submitted and received by July 18, 2010 at 11:59 P.M. P.S.T. will be judged by judges selected by the SPONSOR. Proof of submission is not proof of receipt. Fifty (50) designs from 50 different Entrants will be selected as Finalists. A person can have no more than one design in the 50 Finalist designs. The basis of the Finalist selections will be:
- Creativity (30%)
- Visual impact (30%)
- The extent to which the sticker embodies the following Chiquita brand attributes (25%):
- Fun
- Family-friendly
- Youthful, energetic
- Fresh
- The extent to which the sticker can be recognized as a Chiquita banana sticker (15%)
The Finalist Selection will be completed by August 22, 2010. On August 23, 2010 at 12:00 A.M. P.S.T., the 50 finalist sticker designs will be posted on the EatAChiquita.com/sticker-contest website and the public will be invited to vote for their favorite sticker design. Voting will be open for 20 days. The top 18 vote getters who have returned the needed Assignment and Release form will be the Contest Winners.
6. Voting Rules:
Voting begins August 23, 2010 at 12:00 A.M. P.S.T. and ends on September 12, 2010 at 12:00 A.M. P.S.T.
Voters must be legal U.S. residents and 13 years of age or older.
You can vote for a maximum of ten (10) sticker designs per day, but you may not vote for any given design more than once per day.
Any attempt by any voter to submit more than the stated number of votes by any unauthorized method will void all of that voter's votes in the Contest and he/she will be disqualified from further participation in the Contest.
Use of any automated system to vote is prohibited and will result in disqualification. SPONSOR is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected votes, which will be disqualified.
If SPONSOR determines, in its sole discretion, that a Finalist is in collusion with any voter who submits or attempts to submit an invalid vote, the Finalist will be disqualified.
7. Prizes:
50 Finalists will receive prize packages that include the following items:
- 1 EatAChiquita.com™ t-shirt
- 1 hat featuring their contest submission (created and fulfilled through the EatAChiquita.com Shop A Peel™ Zazzle store)
- 1 keychain featuring their contest submission (created and fulfilled through the EatAChiquita.com Shop A Peel™ Zazzle store)
The Estimated Retail Value of each prize package is $36.00.
Prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made unless SPONSOR, in its sole discretion, determines otherwise. SPONSOR reserves the right to substitute a prize or portion thereof for one of equal or greater value should it become unavailable for any reason.
There is a limit of 1 prize package per person.
18 Final Prize winners will have their designs printed on Chiquita banana stickers that will be placed on Chiquita bananas and distributed in grocery stores in the United States beginning on or around November 1, 2010 and ending on or around December 1, 2010.
8. Winner Selection and Notification:
All 50 Finalists will be notified of their eligibility to become one of the 18 final winners by email or phone call on or around August 3, 2010.
In order to be confirmed as a finalist, entrants will be required to execute and return to SPONSOR, within seven (7) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, an Affidavit of Eligibility, Assignment and Release form, and Publicity Release (“Affidavit”) in order to claim his/her prize. Parents or legal guardians must complete the needed documents for any minor selected as a Finalist.
Should eligible Finalists fail to comply with requested procedures by 12:00 am PST on August 11, 2010, they will be disqualified and the next design with the highest judge rating will be selected in its place.
Finalist prizes will be shipped approximately 1 month after the conclusion of the Contest and verification of each final winner. Acceptance of any prize shall constitute and signify winner’s agreement and consent that SPONSOR may use the winner’s, name, city, state, likeness, Contest entry and/or prize information in connection with the Contest, in commerce and in all media worldwide, including the Internet, without limitation and without further payment or consideration, except where prohibited by law.
9. Miscellaneous:
- Limitation of Liability
By entering this Contest, all entrants agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless Chiquita Brands International and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize suppliers, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the "Released Parties") from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. Additionally, all entrants agree to indemnify, release, discharge, and hold harmless the Released Parties from and against any claim or cause of action brought against any of the Released Parties as a result of an entrant’s breach of these Contest rules, including without limitation any breach of a third party’s intellectual property rights.
SPONSOR assumes no responsibility for any of the following in connection with the Contest: any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation or transmission; communications line failure; theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to Contest entries or votes; or alteration of entries or votes. SPONSOR is further not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email entry or vote to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, human errors of any kind, fraud by any entrant, Finalist or voter, or any combination thereof, including without limitation any injury or damage to entrants', voters' or any other persons' computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials in this Contest.
- Conditions
THIS CONTEST IS VOID OUTSIDE THE FIFTY (50) UNITED STATES AND WHERE PROHIBITED
To the extent permitted by law, the right to litigate, to seek injunctive relief or to make any other recourse to judicial or any other procedure in case of disputes or claims resulting from or on connection with this Contest are hereby excluded and any entrant expressly waives any and all such rights. Certain restrictions may apply in some jurisdictions.
Entries void if the SPONSOR determines the sticker design to not be an original, or if the entries are incomplete, in the wrong shape or size, or obtained through fraud or theft or otherwise non-compliant with these Official Rules.
By participating, entrants and voters also agree (a) to be bound by these Official Rules; and (b) that the decisions of the SPONSOR are final and binding with respect to all matters relating to the Contest.
By accepting a prize, each winner agrees that SPONSOR may use each winning design and each winner's name, photograph, likeness, and/or voice in any publicity or advertising relating to the Contest without further compensation or approval (except where prohibited by law).
The SPONSOR reserves the right to verify the validity and originality of any entry and/or entrant (including an entrant's identity and address) and the validity of any voter, and to disqualify any entrant or voter who submits an entry or vote, respectively, that is not in accordance with these Official Rules or who tampers with the entry or voting process. Failure by the SPONSOR to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
In the event that Entrant is a minor in their respective jurisdiction, the parent or legal guardian of such Entrant agrees to the foregoing Official Rules on Entrant’s behalf and agrees to execute any and all documents, and provide any and all releases in favor of SPONSOR and the Released Parties, as contemplated by these Official Rules. Failure or refusal of minor Entrant’s parent or legal guardian to agree to the Official Rules, provide any releases or execute any required documents shall disqualify a minor Entrant from participation in the Contest, as determined in SPONSOR’s sole discretion.
- Right to Cancel or Suspend Contest
If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, due to infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, trojan horses, denial of service attacks, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of SPONSOR that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, SPONSOR reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Contest. In such event, no prizes will be awarded. If SPONSOR elects to cancel or terminate the Contest under any of the circumstances described above, SPONSOR will not retain any rights to the submitted sticker designs.
- Winners List
Winners' names will be available online at eatachiquita.com/sticker-contest on September 13, 2010 following verification of all winners. Alternatively, for names of winners send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
Attn: Sticker Contest
Chiquita Brands
185 Berry St Suite 3807
San Francisco, CA 94107
- Data Privacy
By entering, entrants agree that personal data, including without limitation name and address, may be processed, shared, and otherwise used for the purposes and within the context of the Contest and any other purposes outlined in these Official Rules. The data may also be used by the SPONSOR in order to verify the participant's identity, postal address, and telephone number or to otherwise verify the participant's eligibility to participate in the Contest.
Participants or their parents or legal guardians have the right to access, review, rectify, or cancel any personal data held by SPONSOR by writing to SPONSOR at:
Attn: Sticker Contest
Chiquita Brands
185 Berry St Suite 3807
San Francisco, CA 94107
Personal data will be used by SPONSOR and its affiliates exclusively for the purposes stated herein and by entering this contest you agree to all of the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy found at the EatAChiquita.com website.