Boardwalk Empire Sweepstakes Official Rules

Boardwalk Empire Sweepstakes
Official Rules

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

1. Eligibility: Boardwalk Empire Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (and District of Columbia) and Puerto Rico who are at least twenty-one (21) years old at the time of entry. Employees, officers and representatives of Home Box Office, Inc. ("HBO"), Harrah's Operating Company, Inc., and/or their parents, affiliates or subsidiaries or properties managed by any of them or of Bloomingdales, Inc., Jim Beam Brands Co., ePrize, LLC, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. Individuals who are excluded from casino facilities, including through a government program, at Harrah's discretion, or by their own request, also are not eligible. If asked, entrant must provide valid proof of age by way of government issued picture identification (driver's license, passport, state identification card, or military identification card). Subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited. Participation constitutes entrant's full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor's and Administrator's decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.

2. Sponsor: Home Box Office, Inc. ("HBO"), 1100 Avenue of the Americas, G5-9D, NY, New York 10036. Administrator: ePrize, LLC, One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069.

3. Timing: The Sweepstakes begins on August 16, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") and ends on September 30, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the "Promotion Period"). Harrah's Operating Company's computer is the official time-keeping device for the Sweepstakes.

4. How to Enter: During the Promotion Period, visit www.BoardwalkEmpireAC.com and follow the links and instructions to complete and submit the registration form including a valid home address. P.O. Boxes are not permitted. You will automatically receive one (1) Sweepstakes entry. Limit: Each participant may enter one (1) time per day during the Promotion Period. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than one (1) entry per day by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that entrant's entries and that entrant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the registrant or player. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.

5. Prize Drawings: Administrator is an independent judging organization whose decisions as to the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes and the selection of the potential winners are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Administrator will randomly select the potential Sweepstakes winners from all eligible entries received during the Promotion Period, on or around October 4, 2010. Each potential winner will be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability & Publicity Release ("Affidavit"), which must be received by Administrator within ten (10) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, in order to claim the prize. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to execute and return the Affidavit within the required time period, does not comply with these Official Rules, or a prize is returned as undeliverable, such potential winner forfeits the prize. Winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements and potential winners must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules. In the event that a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor will award the applicable prize to an alternate winner by random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries. Only three (3) alternate drawings will be held, after which the prize will remain un-awarded. Prizes will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after the conclusion of the Sweepstakes.

6. Prizes: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: Access to a suite at Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, NJ for one (1) year (from date of winner confirmation), complete with winner’s name on a brass plate outside the door with a "stocked" bar upon arrival/check in (retail value of "stocked" bar not to exceed $250). Winner may use suite for a maximum of three (3) days per month and must provide at least seventy-two (72) hours of notice prior to the hotel stay; the three (3) days per month do not need to be consecutive days. Other accommodation restrictions, conditions and limitations may apply. Approximate Retail Value ("ARV"): $18,250. FIVE (5) FIRST PRIZES: A trip for two (2) to Caesars Atlantic City in Atlantic City, NJ. Trip package includes roundtrip coach-class air transportation from an airport near winner's home (determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion to an airport within the New York City vicinity determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion (air transportation not to exceed $500 per person); car service from the Sponsor selected airport to Atlantic City hotel and back (one (1) stop allowed on the way in each direction); shopping spree at Bloomingdale’s (awarded in the form of one (1) $500 Bloomingdale's gift card); two (2) nights' accommodations at Caesars Atlantic City (single room, double occupancy) with a "stocked" bar upon arrival/check in (retail value of "stocked" bar not to exceed $250) and dinner for two (2) at McCormick and Schmick's (awarded in the form of one (1) $100 Gift Certificate). Winner must complete the trip within one (1) year from the drawing date or prize will be forfeited. Trip must be booked at least twenty-one (21) days prior to departure. Trip subject to availability and blackout dates. Travel must be roundtrip. Sponsor will determine airline and flight itinerary in its sole discretion. No refund or compensation will be made in the event of the cancellation or delay of any flight. Travel and accommodations are subject to availability. Travel is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Sweepstakes, and those set forth by the Sponsor’s airline carrier of choice as detailed in the passenger ticket contract. All expenses and incidental travel costs not expressly stated in the package description above, including but not limited to, ground transportation, meals, incidentals, passenger tariffs or duties, airline fees, surcharges, airport fees, service charges or facility charges, personal charges at lodging, security fees, taxes or other expenses are the responsibility solely of winner. Travel companion must be twenty-one (21) years of age or older as of the date of departure and must travel on same itinerary and at the same time as the winner. Travel companion must execute liability/publicity releases prior to issuance of travel documents. Travel restrictions, conditions and limitations may apply. If in the judgment of Sponsor air travel is not required due to winner’s proximity to prize location, ground transportation will be substituted for roundtrip air travel at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor will not replace any lost, mutilated, or stolen tickets, travel vouchers or certificates. Any Sponsor approved changes to the confirmed travel itinerary, made at the winner's request, may result in rebooking fees which will be the sole responsibility of winner. ARV: $3,050. Actual value may vary based on airfare fluctuations and distance between departure and destination. Winner will not receive difference between actual and approximate retail value.

For All Prizes: Prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Winners are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. Odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Period. Limit: One (1) prize per person. Total ARV for all Prizes: $33,500.

7. Release: By receipt of any prize, winner agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Harrah’s Operating Company, Inc., Bloomingdales, Inc., Jim Beam Brands Co., McCormick & Schmick’s, Administrator, and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize suppliers, including Bloomingdale’s 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, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.

8. Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes winner’s consent to Sponsor’s and its agents’ (including any of the Released Parties) use of winner’s name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions and/or hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.

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

10. Limitations of Liability: The 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 utilized in the Sweepstakes; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Sweepstakes; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the processing of entries; (5) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen mail; or (6) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. 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 Sweepstakes, provided that, if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the Sweepstakes, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, in its sole 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 the event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than the stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, un-awarded, eligible prize claims.

11. Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes or any prize awarded 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 Michigan (Southern Division) or the appropriate Michigan State Court located in Oakland County, Michigan; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes, 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 Sponsor in connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Michigan, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Michigan.

12. Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected from entrants is subject to ePrize, LLC’s Privacy Policy http://www.eprize.com/privacy-policy and Sponsor’s Privacy Policy http://www.hbo.com/html/privacy-policy/index.html .

13. Winner List: Winner List requests will only be accepted after the promotion end date (listed above) and no later than February 4, 2011. For the Winner List, send an email with subject line: "Boardwalk Empire Sweepstakes, Winner List Request," WinListRequests@eprizefulfillment.com.