Congratulations to our winner, Chad Poist!

OFFICIAL RULES

1) ELIGIBILITY: This prize drawing (the “Sweepstakes”) is open only to legal residents of Brazil, Canada (except the province of Quebec), China, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK and the USA (except the states of Arizona and Rhode Island), who at the date of entry are of the age of majority in their state/province/country of residence. Entries by residents of any other jurisdiction are not eligible for entry. By entering the Sweepstakes, you accept and acknowledge that you are competing with individuals outside of your country of residence. Employees of Crowdcentric Media, LLC (“Sponsor”), its subsidiaries, affiliates and its local organizational partners, as well as the immediate family and household members of such employees, are not eligible. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, provincial, territorial, municipal, and local laws and regulations. THIS SWEEPSTAKES IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW. 

2) TO ENTER: The Sweepstakes begins 12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on October 17, 2012 and ends 11:59 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time on October 31, 2012 (“Promotion Period”). You are automatically entered when you have successfully emailed a story to info@socialmediaweek.org or tweeted with #SMWStory an account/story of your experience from Social Media Week during the Promotion Period. Upon your successful completion of email or tweeting, you automatically receive one (1) Sweepstakes entry. Normal Internet access and phone/usage charges imposed by your online/phone service may apply and shall be the entrants’ sole responsibility, if applicable. The computer clock of Sponsor’s survey administrator is the official timekeeping device of the Sweepstakes. If you do not wish to complete a survey but still wish to enter this Sweepstakes, you may do so by hand printing your first name, last name, address, city, state/province, postal code, country, date of birth, telephone number (optional) and email address, on a 3” X 5” paper and mail the paper in a hand-addressed stamped envelope to Sponsor at: Crowdcentric Media LLC, 1 Little W. 12^th Street, Suite 307, New York, NY USA. All mailed entries must be received by the end of the Promotion Period to be included in the appropriate drawing. Each eligible entry received via mail will earn you one (1) Sweepstakes entry per envelope. Mailed entries must be complete in order to be eligible. Mailed entries must be complete in order to be eligible. There is a limit of one (1) entry per person, regardless of entry method, during the Promotion Period.

3) RANDOM DRAWING: There will be one (1) random drawing, which will be held within 5 business days after the end of the Promotion Period from among all eligible entries received during the Promotion Period. The drawing will be conducted by the Administrator, and such drawing shall be final and binding in all matters relating to the Sweepstakes. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Period.

4) PRIZE AND ESTIMATED RETAIL VALUE (“ERV”): There will be one (1) Grand Prize Winner, who will receive a Nokia Lumia 900 and one $200 Airbnb voucher (ERV of USD 564). The prize is non-transferable and no substitution is allowed. The winner will be notified via e-mail. Allow 6 to 8 weeks to receive the prize from the date of confirmation of prize acceptance.

5) GENERAL RULES: Potential prize winners will be required to return an affidavit or declaration of compliance with these Official Rules (except where prohibited by law) within seven (7) days of email notification attempt by Sponsor or the Grand Prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected. The prize winner will be required to verify his/her mailing address prior to being deemed a winner. If the winner is a Canadian resident, he/she must answer an unaided and time-limited arithmetic skill-testing question as a condition to receiving a prize. Applicable taxes or surcharges related to the prize are the sole and exclusive responsibility of winner. Return of any prize or prize notification as undeliverable will result in disqualification and an alternate winner selected. Sponsor shall have no liability for any winner notification that is lost, intercepted or not received by a potential winner for any reason. Winning is contingent on fulfilling all requirements set forth in these Official Rules. Acceptance of prizes constitutes permission to use winners’ names, likenesses, photographs, voices, opinions and/or hometown and states/provinces/countries for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration except where prohibited by law. Sponsor, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates and its vendors assume no responsibility or liability for damages, losses or injury resulting from acceptance or use/misuse of prizes. Any fees, duties, or tariffs required to accept delivery of any prize is the sole responsibility of winner. All entries become the sole property of Sponsor and none will be returned. In the event of a dispute, entries made over the Internet will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry. The “authorized account holder” is deemed the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, service provider or other online organization that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Each potential winner may be requested to provide Sponsor with proof that he/she is the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the winning entry. If for any reason the online survey portion of the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned, including due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failure, human error or any other causes beyond the control of Sponsor that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the online survey portion of the Sweepstakes and award prizes from among all eligible online survey entries received prior to cancellation or termination and all eligible mailed entries received. Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for incomplete, illegible, misdirected, damaged, lost, postage due or late mailed entries, or for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete, garbled or delayed electronic communications whether caused by the sender or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Sweepstakes which may limit the ability to participate or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the entries in this Sweepstakes. Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for any typographical error in the printing of these Official Rules, administration of the Sweepstakes or in the announcement of the Sweepstakes prizes. Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for damages to user’s system occasioned by participating in the Sweepstakes or downloading any information to participate in the Sweepstakes. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS 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. By entering into this Sweepstakes, each entrant accepts and agrees to be bound by these Official Rules and judges’ decisions.

6) GOVERNING LAW: The Sweepstakes and the rights and obligations of the entrants will be governed and controlled by the laws of the state of New York, USA, and any disputes shall be referred to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New York state and US federal courts.

7) WINNER LIST: The Winner name will be available at http://socialmediaweek.org/smw-story-nokia-lumia-giveaway, as soon as practicable after the date of the prize drawing and for up to 30 days afterward, in the sole determination of Sponsor.

8.) PRIVACY: Personal information of entrants will be used to conduct the prize drawings and to enable the prizes to be sent out. We may also publish your full name as winner for publicity purposes.  You agree to the processing of personal information about you for the purposes and in the manner set out above (including the disclosures of such information or transfer of it to jurisdictions which may not provide the same legal protection as in your country of residence).

9) ADMINISTRATOR: The Administrator of this Sweepstakes is Sponsor.  The random drawing will be made by the Administrator.

10) NO PURCHASE OR SURVEY NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.