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SPONSOR
Sponsor is National Geographic Society, 1145 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-4688 (“Sponsor” or “NGS”).
TERM
The Human Rights Book Contest begins June 9, 2008 and ends July 7, 2008. Entries must be received by July 7, 2008. Entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged.
WHO MAY ENTER
Contest is open only to legal residents of the United States (excluding residents of Puerto Rico) who are nine to eighteen (9–18) years of age as of July 7, 2008. Employees of Sponsor, ePals, and their affiliates and subsidiaries, and their immediate family members (spouse, parent, child, sibling and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such individuals, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter or win a prize. Entrants must have a parent's or legal guardian's permission to enter. CONTEST IS VOID IN PUERTO RICO AND WHERE PROHIBITED.
HOW TO ENTER
- To enter, download an entry form and parental release. Complete the form with your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, entry (described below), and parent’s or legal guardian’s signature. Mail or fax your completed entry form and parental release to Human Rights Book Contest at ePals. The fax number is (703) 885-3493, or you can mail your entries to: Human Rights Book Contest, ePals, 13625-A Dulles Technology Drive, Herndon, VA 20171. Entry form and parental release must be complete for entry to be valid. Click here for entry form and parental release.
- Entry must comply with the following requirements (“Entry Requirements”):
Compose a poem or short statement of no more than 8 lines in response to one or more of the following 10 Human Rights:
- Life
You have the right to live.
Nobody has the right to kill you.
- Freedom
You have the right to be free.
Nobody has the right to make you a slave.
You have the right to think, believe, and say anything you want.
You have the right to create art any way you want and to share your art with anyone from any country.
You have the right to meet with others peacefully for any purpose.
- Equality
Everyone has the same rights.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a girl or a boy.
It doesn’t matter what color your skin is,
What language you speak,
What religion you practice,
Whether you are married or single,
How rich you are,
How different you are from those around you, or
What country you come from.
It doesn’t even matter whether your own government agrees with these rights.
- Safety
Nobody has the right to torture or bully you.
- Fair laws
Everyone has the right to be treated equally before the law.
If your rights aren’t respected, you should be able to get help from the law.
Nobody has the right to arrest you or put you in prison unfairly.
If you are accused of a crime, you have a right to a fair trial.
You are innocent until proven guilty.
- Democracy
You have a right to an equal say in your government.
- Property and Privacy
You have the right to own things.
You have the right to privacy. Nobody can come into your home or look at your private belongings, writings, or body without your permission.
- Your Country
You have the right to belong to a country.
You have the right to move wherever you want inside your country.
You have the right to leave your country and come back to it if and when you want to.
If you aren’t safe in your country, you have the right to go to another country and ask for protection.
- A Decent Life
You have the right to food and shelter.
You have to right to get help from your government if you are out of work, sick, disabled, old, or can’t make enough money on to live for any other reason.
You have the right to work, and you have the right to be treated fairly at work.
You have the right to get paid when something you created is sold.
You have the right to free time.
You have the right to go to school.
You have the right to marry and have a family, but nobody can force you to get married or have children.
- Every Human Has These Rights
You have these rights just because you’re human.
These rights are the same no matter where you go.
Nobody can take them away from you. Even when someone disrespects or violates your rights, they are still your rights.
You must take responsibility for protecting your own rights and the rights of others.
- The entry must be in English. The entry must be a single work of original material created by the contest entrant. By entering the Contest, entrant represents, acknowledges and warrants that the submitted entry is an original work created solely by the entrant and that no other party has any right, title, claim or interest in the entry.
- Modifying, enhancing or altering a third party’s pre-existing work does not qualify as entrant’s original creation.
- Obscene, provocative, or otherwise objectionable content will not be considered, and such determination is solely at the discretion of Sponsor.
- The entries will be judged in accordance with the Judging Criteria, as defined below.
CONTEST PRIZES
THE POTENTIAL WINNERS (AND PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS) ARE REQUIRED TO EXECUTE THE FOLLOWING: (1) AN AFFIDAVIT OF ELIGIBILITY AND LIABILITY RELEASE; (2) WARRANTY OF OWNERSHIP AND LICENSE; AND (3) PUBLICITY RELEASE. UNLESS PROHIBITED BY LAW, THE POTENTIAL WINNER MUST SIGN THESE DOCUMENTS NO LATER THAN 15 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PRIZE NOTIFICATION, OR SPONSOR MAY DECLINE TO AWARD THE PRIZE. NONCOMPLIANCE OR RETURN OF PRIZE NOTIFICATION AS UNDELIVERABLE MAY, AT SPONSOR’S DISCRETION, RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION.
Eight (8) Prize Winners will be selected. Each Prize consists of (1) Winner’s name, name of winner’s teacher and school and entry will be published in the National Geographic Children’s book Every Human Has Rights (the “Book”) (publication anticipated November or December 2008); (2) Winner’s name, name of teacher, and name of school will be announced on the ePals website; and (3) a copy of the Book. Approximate retail value of prize is $18.
- No prize transfer, assignment or substitution by Winner(s) permitted. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any prize in event of unavailability (including a decision not to publish the Book), in which case a prize of comparable value, determined in Sponsor’s reasonable discretion, will be awarded.
- Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
JUDGING
Contest consists of one (1) round of evaluation. National Geographic’s Children’s Books Editorial staff (the “Judges”) will evaluate the entries based on the following criteria (“Judging Criteria”):
- The entry must be a poem or short statement of no more than 8 lines that demonstrates genuine excellence in writing and creativity. 70%
- The entry must have the ability to evoke emotion in its readers. 30%
Winners will be chosen on or about July 30, 2008 and will be posted on the ePals website by September 15, 2008.
- Decisions of the Sponsor and Judges are final and binding.
Sponsor reserves the right not to award all prizes in the event an insufficient number of eligible entries meeting the minimum judging criteria are received, as determined by Sponsor and Judges in their sole discretion.
ENTRANT LICENSES/RELEASES
Winning entries, and the winners’ names, voices, and likenesses may be published by Sponsor, ePals, and their its designees, licensees or affiliates, in magazines and/or books, and/or websites, and/or in press releases associated with the publication of Every Human Has Rights. By participating, all entrants grant a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license to National Geographic Society and its licensees and designees (the “Authorized Parties”), and acknowledge that the Authorized Parties may use the winning entries and name credits in any media now or hereafter known, without restriction, including commercially using it to fullest extent possible. No Authorized Party will be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such use.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
By participating, entrants (and their parents or legal guardians) agree to release, discharge and hold harmless National Geographic Society, ePals, and their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this Contest or any Contest-related activities and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded hereunder.
CONDITIONS
THIS CONTEST IS VOID IN PUERTO RICO AND WHERE PROHIBITED. This Contest is subject to federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Certain restrictions may apply. Neither Sponsor nor ePals is responsible for late, lost, stolen, mutilated, incomplete, illegible, misdirected, or postage-due mail. Entries void if the Sponsor determines the entry to not be an original, or if the entries are illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, altered, counterfeit, produced in error or obtained through fraud or theft.
Participants also agree (a) to be bound by these Official Rules; (b) that the decisions of the Judges are final on all matters relating to the Contest; and (c) if he/she wins that Sponsor and ePals may use winner’s name, photograph, likeness, and/or voice in any publicity or advertising relating to the Contest or future promotions without compensation or approval (except in Tennessee and where prohibited by law). All federal, state and local taxes, fees and surcharges on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winners. In the event that the selected winner(s) of any prize are/is ineligible, the prize will be forfeited and Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may choose whether to award the prize to another winner.
WINNERS LIST
Winners names, along with the teacher’s name, and school’s name for each, will be available online at www.epals.com/hrprojectwinners after September 15, 2008, or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Human Rights Book Contest Winner, ePals, 13625-A Dulles Technology Drive, Herndon, VA 20171 (Residents of Vermont need not include postage.)
NOTICE TO INDIVIDUALS: REMOVAL FROM MAILING LIST: Any individual (or other duly authorized person) may elect to exclude the name and address of that individual from all lists used by Sponsor and ePals to mail skill contests or sweepstakes. To elect to have an individual’s name excluded from all such lists, submit a removal request in writing to: Human Rights Book Contest Winner, ePals, 13625-A Dulles Technology Drive, Herndon, VA 20171. This notification system may be used to prohibit mailing of all skill contests or sweepstakes by Sponsor to such individual.
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