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Terms & Conditions |
General
You acknowledge and agree that the participation in the GIGABYTE Beat the Pros Competition (hereinafter "Competition") is subject to the terms and conditions
described herein. By submitting your entry to the Competition, you hereby express
your consent and agree to be bound by these Rules. GIGABYTE Technology
reserves the right to disqualify any entry if it has reasonable grounds to believe the
participant has breached any of these Rules.
Competition is organized by GIGABYTE Technology and all Rules, jury and winner
nomination remain at the sole discretion of GIGABYTE Technology. GIGABYTE
Technology reserves the right not to award any Competition entry when appropriate.
GIGABYTE Technology also reserves the right to change or amend the Rules,
to postpone the Competition, to interrupt it or to cancel the Competition at any
time without prior notice and without any compensation to any participant. Any
changes will be posted on pages at www.gigabyte.com.tw.
By entering the Competition, you hereby warrant that all information submitted
by you is true, current and complete. You hereby agree that the information submitted
by you may be used for further marketing purposes of GIGABYTE Technology
or any of it's partners, subject to GIGABYTE Technology privacy policy.
Your Motherboard, CPU and Memory must be readily available as boxed items at
retail. Prototypes and special models never released for sale are not allowed in the
interests of fairness and healthy competition.
Qualifications
If you are minor under the age of 18, you must first obtain the consent of your
parent or legal guardian before entering the Competition. GIGABYTE Technology
assumes that by entering the Competition (and you warrant that) either you have
legal capacity to enter the Competition and agree to the Rules (i.e. that you are of
sufficient age and mental capacity and are entitled to be legally bound in contract)
or your parents or legal guardian have consented to your entry of the Competition
and you to be bound by these Rules.
Persons employed by or in a similar relation to GIGABYTE Technology, their subsidiaries
or to companies participating on the preparation and organization of the
whole Competition as well as members of their families, are nonetheless excluded
from participation.
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Entries
Each participant may submit as many entries ("Game Scores") to the Competition.
Competition entries must conform to the Competition instructions. GIGABYTE
Technology shall evaluate only such entries that fulfill all criteria described by
GIGABYTE Technology. No inaccuracies in form or format can be accepted and will
not be tolerated.
By participating in the Competition you hereby warrant, that you have created the
entry by yourself and that it was not for payment or in any other way put at the
disposal of a third person, to which your rights have been granted or transferred.
You hereby warrant and are liable to ensure that the entry will not infringe any
copyright, trade secret, other proprietary right or privacy of any third party and
will not contain anything which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, harassing
or threatening. Any unauthorized use of any copyrighted material is strictly
prohibited and will lead to disqualification of such participant without notice.
GIGABYTE Technology shall not be responsible of any infringements of any intellectual
property rights.
By submitting an entry to the Competition you hereby agree to transfer and assign
to GIGABYTE Technology all copyrights and other rights regarding the competition
entry without any further compensation or fees. All possible content and substance
of the entry submitted by you will become the sole property of GIGABYTE
Technology and may be used by GIGABYTE Technology or any other party without
any link to the participant.
You hereby agree that GIGABYTE Technology may publish, at their sole discretion,
any entry submitted to the Competition on web sites and other presentation materials
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Prizes
GIGABYTE Technology will choose winners at its sole discretion. Winners of the
Competition will be notified by e-mail. Return of any prize notification as undeliverable
or failure to reply as specified in the notification within the time stated
therein may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner.
The winners' list will be accessible on GIGABYTE Technology website at
www.gigabyte.com.tw from February 20th , 2009, through March 31st, 2009, and may
contain the name, surname, town and state of the winner.
The winner shall be deemed waiving his/her rights to the prize if the winner fails
to claim the prize within 1 month from the day the list of winners is announced or
if the winner fails to comply with the required procedures.
As stipulated by tax-laws of Taiwan, if the prize exceeds NT$ 13,333 in value, the
winner as a local resident of Taiwan shall pay 15% of the tax. If the winner is a non
local resident of Taiwan, they shall pay 20% of the tax. GIGABYTE is responsible
for the expense of delivering the prize, but the winner is responsible for any tariffs
or additional taxes related to the prize.
Liability
GIGABYTE Technology shall not accept any responsibility for any damage, loss,
injury or disappointment suffered by you or any other participant entering the
Competition or as a result of accepting any prize. GIGABYTE Technology are not
responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telecommunications
network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment,
software failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical
problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines or at any web site,
or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to your or any other
person's computer or mobile telephone related to or resulting from participation
or downloading any materials in the competition. However, nothing shall exclude
GIGABYTE Technology’s liability for death or personal injury as a result of its
negligence.
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