#MUJIootd Instagram Contest Official Rules

No Purchase Necessary to Enter or to Win. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning.

  1. Eligibility: MUJI OOTD Instagram Contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States who are 18 years of age or older and who have a registered subscriber Instagram account as of date of entry. Employees of Sponsor, Sponsor’s parent, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, advertising or promotional agencies and the immediate family (defined as parents, spouse, children, siblings, grandparents) of each such employee, and all those with whom the employee are domiciled, are NOT eligible. Void where restricted or prohibited, and subject to all federal, state, provincial and local laws.
  2. Contest Period: The Contest begins on May 19th, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends June 2nd, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the “Contest Period”).
  3. How to Enter the Contest: There is NO PURCHASE NECESSARY to participate. A purchase does not increase your chances of winning. How to Enter: During the Submission Phase, use the Instagram application on your mobile device to post original photos of your travels (your “Submission”). You must first follow “@mujiusa” on Instagram. Then, upload your Submission and include the tags #MUJIootd, and @mujiusa in the “caption” field. Any Submission that does not include the tags #MUJIootd, and @mujiusa will not be considered for entry into the Contest. Posting a photo on Instagram requires a mobile device and therefore message and data rates may apply.
  4. Guidelines and Restrictions: By uploading your Submission, you agree that your Submission conforms to the Photo Guidelines, Content Restrictions, Limit, and Permissions, as defined below (collectively, the “Guidelines and Restrictions”) and that Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may disqualify you from the Contest if it believes that your Submission fails to conform to the Guidelines and Restrictions.

Photo Guidelines:

  • The Submission must be in a format acceptable for Instagram.
  • The Submission must be uploaded to Instagram with the tags, #MUJIootd and @mujiusa
  • The Submission cannot have been submitted previously in a promotion of any kind; and
  • The Submission must comply with Instagram’s terms of use

Content Restrictions:

  • The Submission must not contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement; The Submission must not disparage Sponsor, Administrator or any other person or party affiliated with the Contest;
  • The Submission must not contain brand names or trademarks other than those owned by Sponsor, which entrant has a limited license to use to incorporate in his/her Submission in this Contest;
  • The Submission must not contain images or artwork not created by entrant;
  • The Submission must not contain material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, hateful, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous; The Submission must not contain material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; and The Submission must not contain material that is unlawful, in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations in any state where Submission is created.

Permissions: Entrant must have permission from all individuals that appear in the Submission (if any) to use their name and likeness in the Submission and to grant the rights set forth herein. If requested, entrant must be able to provide such permissions in a form acceptable to Sponsor.

  1. Grant of License: Uploading a Submission constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display such submissions in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. If requested, entrant will sign any documentation that may be required for Sponsor or its designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant is granting to use the Submission. Released Parties (as defined in Section 11, below) are not responsible for lost, late, stolen, damaged, incomplete, invalid, un-intelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected Submissions; all of which will be void. In the event of a dispute as to any Submission, the authorized account holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the entrant and must comply with these Official Rules. 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 entrant may be required to show proof of being an authorized account holder.
  2. Winner Determination: During the Judging Phase, a panel of qualified judges determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion will select ten (10) entrants with the highest-scoring Submissions, the potential Grand Prize winners, from among all eligible Submissions based on the following criteria (“Judging Criteria”):
    • Creativity/Originality (33%);
    • Quality of Submission (33%); and
    • Fit to Contest Theme (34%)

In the event of a tie, the entrant whose Submission received the highest score for Fit to Contest Theme, as determined by the qualified judges, in their sole discretion, will be deemed the applicable winner.

  1. Contest Prize: 90 winners will receive two pairs of MUJI Right Angle Socks. No cash in lieu of prize will be awarded. The winner will not be able to choose the color and size, the size and color will be chosen randomly by MUJI USA LIMITED. No substitution or transfer of prize permitted except at the sole discretion of Sponsor who reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value. All applicable federal, state, provincial and local taxes are the sole responsibility of the winners.
  2. General Rules: In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of the person submitting an entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the person in whose name the identified Instagram account was registered. Sponsor will send the winner an affidavit of eligibility and publicity release and the winner (winner’s parent/legal guardian) will be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release, except where prohibited, within seven (7) days of notification before prize is awarded. If the winner fails to return the affidavit of eligibility within seven (7) days or if the winner is ineligible, the prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected from all eligible entries received.

By participating in this Contest, entrants agree to be bound by the Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor. Sponsor is not responsible for technical, hardware, software or telephone malfunctions of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled or delayed electronic communications caused by the user or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Contest or by any human error which may occur in the processing of entries in this Contest. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual that tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest; violates the Official Rules; or acts in an un-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest if it is not capable of running as planned, including, but not limited to, infection by computer virus, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other problems beyond the control of Sponsor and award prizes from among all eligible entries received prior to cancellation. Sponsor and each of its employees, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, and promotion agencies will have no liability or responsibility for any claim arising in connection with participation in this Contest or a prize awarded. Winner assumes all liability for any injury or damage caused, or claimed to be caused including computer malfunction, by participation in this Contest or by use or redemption of any prize or by any related activities. Acceptance of a prize constitutes permission to use winner’s name and likenesses for promotional purposes without further compensation except where prohibited by law. Except as otherwise provided herein for the use of certain winner information, personal information collected from each entrant will only be used by Sponsor for the purpose of administration of the Contest.

  1. Data Protection/Privacy Policy: Information collected by Sponsor in connection with the Contest is subject to Sponsor’s privacy policy located at http://www.muji.com/us/ and applicable data protection laws. Each entrant agrees to the collection, processing and storage of entrant’s personal data by Sponsor for purposes of the Contest.
  1. Jurisdiction: The Contest shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to promotions fully carried out within New York. Except where prohibited by law, any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Contest but in no event attorneys’ and/or experts’ fees; and winner hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages (including attorney’s fees), other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. Each prize winner acknowledges that no other party nor any agent or attorney of any other party has made any promise, representation or warranty whatsoever, express or implied, not contained herein concerning the subject matter hereof, to induce the winner to execute any document and the winner acknowledges that he or she has not executed any document in reliance on any promise, representation or warranty not contained herein. Any waiver by Sponsor and its affiliates of any term of any document in a particular instance shall not be a waiver of such term for the future. The winner agrees that the invalidity or enforce-ability of any part of any document shall in no way affect the validity or enforce-ability of any of the remainder of that document.
  2. Winner’s Announcement: The name of the winners will be announced on Friday, June 10th, 2016. MUJI USA LIMITED will contact them directly through the direct message to receive the winner’s information for the prize to be sent to them. The winner will also be announced on @mujiusa Instagram account to the public and MUJI USA website.
  3. Sponsor: The Sponsor of the Contest is MUJI USA LIMITED, 250 West 39th Street, Suite 202, New York, NY 10018. The Contest is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by Instagram.

 

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