Gilly Hicks Back To School 2012

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Message and data rates may apply. Messages sent from automated system. Consent not required for purchase of goods and services. Entrants should contact their carriers for pricing details. If you enter via text message, you will receive two (2) text messages in response to your entry. Check your owners' manual for specific text-messaging instructions. Text-messaging may not be available through all wireless carriers. Entrants via text message will be signing up to Gilly Hicks’ text messaging program. Entrants will receive up to two (2) messages per week. Text STOP to cancel. Text HELP for help. Visit GillyHicks.com/textsterms for details.

  1. Eligibility: Gilly Hicks Back To School 2012 (the "Sweepstakes") is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia (excluding Hawaii) who are at least fourteen (14) years old at the time of entry. Employees of Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc, or any parent, subsidiary or affiliate of Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., or ePrize, LLC, and their parent and affiliate companies, suppliers as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations and is void in Hawaii and 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 the prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.
  2. Sponsor: Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., 6301 Fitch Path, New Albany, OH 43054.
    Administrator: ePrize, LLC, One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069.
  3. Timing: The Sweepstakes begins on July 14, 2012 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") and ends on August 5, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the "Promotion Period"). Administrator's computer is the official time keeping device for this Sweepstakes.
  4. How to Enter:
    1. Text Message: During the Promotion Period, using a two-way text-messaging capable device, text BONDIBEACH, BEACH, WIN, OR TRIP to 444475. Text STOP to 444475 to opt-out. Text HELP to 444475 for information. Each text message constitutes one (1) Sweepstakes entry. Message and data rates may apply. Messages sent from automated system. Consent not required for purchase of goods and services. Entrants should contact their carriers for pricing details. If you enter via text message, you will receive two (2) text messages in response to your play. Check your owners' manual for specific text-messaging instructions. Text-messaging may not be available through all wireless carriers. Entrants via text message will be signing up to Gilly Hicks’ text messaging program. Entrants will receive up to two (2) messages per week. Text STOP to cancel. Text HELP for help. Visit GillyHicks.com/textsterms for details.
    2. Twitter Alternative Method: You will need a Twitter account ("Account") to enter the Sweepstakes through this method. If you don’t already have an Account, visit www.twitter.com to create an Account; creating an Account is free. Please note that you must agree to comply with the Twitter Terms of Use in order to create a Twitter account. Then, log-in to your Account, and follow @GillyHicks. Then, tweet "Hey @GillyHicks, send me to #BondiBeach! Rules: http://bit.ly/GHBB12" to receive one (1) Sweepstakes entry. If you Tweet the exact message above through your Account, you will automatically receive one (1) Sweepstakes entry; Tweets that do not match the copy provided will not result in a Sweepstakes entry. Limit: You may enter the Sweepstakes by tweeting one (1) time during the Promotion Period.
    3. Mail-in Alternate Method: To enter without a text-messaging device, hand print your first and last name, address, city, state, zip, day and evening phone numbers, email address and date of birth on a 3" x 5" piece of paper and mail it in an envelope with proper postage to: "Gilly Hicks Back To School 2012,” Department: 587394, PO Box 5046 Kalamazoo, MI 49003-5046. You will receive one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes. Limit: One (1) entry per envelope. All mail-in entries must be handwritten, postmarked no later than August 6, 2012 and received by August 13, 2012. All entries become the exclusive property of Sponsor and none will be acknowledged or returned. Proof of sending or submission will not be deemed to be proof of receipt by Sponsor. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, illegible, misdirected or postage-due entries, which will be disqualified.
    Limit: Each entrant may enter one (1) time per day by SMS or Mail-in Method during the Promotion Period and one (1) time by Twitter during the Promotion Period. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address, text-messaging capable device or Account. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different email addresses, text-messaging capable devices, identities, registrations, logins, and Accounts 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. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected registrations, which will be disqualified. In the event of a dispute as to any registration or entry, the authorized account holder of the email address, Account or the text-messaging capable device used to register will be deemed to be the entrant. The "authorized account holder" of an email address or Account, is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address, or Twitter. The "authorized account holder" of a text-messaging capable device is the natural person in whose name the device has been issued and the services are billed. The potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.
  5. Winner Determination and Verification: Administrator is an independent judging organization whose decisions as to the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes and the selection of potential winner is final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Receiving a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules. Administrator will randomly select the potential Sweepstakes winner, from all eligible entries received on or around August 20, 2012. The potential winner will be notified by phone or Twitter message ("Twitter Message") after the date of random drawing. If a potential winner entered via text-messaging or mail, he/she will be notified by phone. If the potential winner entered via Twitter, he/she will receive the Twitter Message from @GillyHicks to the Account used to enter the Sweepstakes. In order to receive the Twitter Message, the potential winner's "Tweet Privacy" Account setting must be "unchecked." If the potential winner is notified via Twitter, he/she must respond within three (3) days of the date the Twitter Message was posted otherwise he/she forfeits the prize and an alternate winner may be selected. The potential Grand Prize winner (parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor in his/her state of residence) will be required to sign and return an Declaration of Compliance, Liability & Publicity Release ("Declaration") to Sponsor within seven (7) 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 respond to the Twitter Message within the required time period, fails to sign and return the Declaration within the required time period (if applicable), or prize is returned as undeliverable, potential winner forfeits the prize. In the event that a potential Grand Prize winner is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor will award the applicable prize to an alternate potential winner by random drawing from among all remaining mail-in entries. There will be three (3) alternate drawings after which the Grand Prize will remain unawarded.
  6. Prizes: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: A trip for five (5) to Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Trip package includes round trip, coach-class air transportation for five (5) from a major airport near winner’s home (determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion) to Sydney, Australia; seven (7) nights' accommodations at the Intercontinental Sydney Hotel (one (1) double occupancy room and one (1) triple occupancy room) (Room type determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion); Daily breakfast buffet at the hotel; Hotel car parking; a rental car for length of stay (make and model determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion) winner's choice of a Sydney Harbor Champagne Sunset Sailing or lunch on Sydney Harbor Seafood Buffet for five (5); Blue Mountains & Jenolan Caves Tour for five (5); Choice of Sydney Harbor Bridge Climb or Sydney Tower Sky Walk for five (5); Bike, Hike, and Kayak excursion for five (5); Seaplane Fight for Five (5); Dinner for five (5) at Wild Fire's; Tickets for five (5) for an Opera House Tour; Tickets for five (5) to a breakfast with Koalas; Tickets for five (5) to Sydney's Taronga Zoo; $10,000 spending money; and $12,742.50 that can be used toward taxes. If winner does not meet requirements for rental car, that portion of the prize will be forfeited in its entirety. Third-party names/trademarks are used solely for the purpose of identification of the prize and no participation, endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or approval of the Sweepstakes is intended or implied. All trip event/excursions details are determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. 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 round trip. 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, gratuities, 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. Unless child of winner, travel companions must be eighteen (18) years of age or older as of the date of departure or a sibling/friend of winner with the appropriate parental permissions and releases and must travel on same itinerary and at the same time as the winner. If winner is a minor in his/her state of residence, at least one travel companion must be winner’s parent/legal guardian. Travel companion must execute liability/publicity releases prior to issuance of travel documents. Winner and travel companions are solely responsible for obtaining valid passports and any other documents necessary for international travel. Travel restrictions, conditions and limitations may apply. Sponsor will not replace any lost, mutilated, or stolen tickets, travel vouchers or certificates. Sponsor is not responsible if any mentioned event or trip is delayed, postponed or cancelled for any reason, in which event that portion of prize is forfeited in its entirety and no substitution will be provided except as in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $55,217.50. 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. Prize is non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Winner is responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. Winner will be issued an IRS 1099 form for the actual value of the Prize for the year in which actual prize value was received. Odds of winning the Sweepstakes prize depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Period.
  7. Release: By receipt of any prize, winner agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Administrator, and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies 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 Promotion or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.
  8. Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes the winner's irrevocable consent, without restriction, to Sponsor’s (and its affiliates’, subsidiaries’ and agents’) worldwide use, re-use, re-touching, distribution, publication, re-publication, transmittal, and public display and performance, in whole or in part, composite or distorted in character or form, of winner’s name, Twitter handle, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions and/or hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media without further 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. In such event, Sponsor reserves the right to award the prizes at random from among the eligible entries received up to the time of the impairment. 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 the Official Rules of this 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 cellular networks, 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; or (5) 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, if it is possible. If the Sweepstakes, or any part of it, is discontinued 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, unawarded, 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 the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy (http://www.abercrombie.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CustomerService?storeId=10051&catalogId=10901&langId=-1&textKey=HELP_PRIVACYPOLICY&pageName=privacy) and ePrize’s privacy policy (http://www.eprize.com/privacy-policy).
  13. Winner List: For a winner list, visit http://bit.ly/MQz3ID. The winner list will be posted after winner confirmation is complete.
  14. Stores Not Participating: Please see the list below for the Abercrombie & Fitch retail stores not participating in the Instant Win Game.
    LOCATION CITY ST
    Excluded From Distribution    
    Ala Moana MallHonoluluHI
    Aventura MallAventuraFL
    All Gilly Hicks Outlets    
    Excluded From Redemption    
    All Gilly Hicks Outlets    

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