OFFICIAL RULES

"ADORAMA RATINGS & REVIEWS" SWEEPSTAKES

BEGINS 09:00 A.M. (EST) 10/01/20 ENDS 10:00 P.M. (EST) 10/01/24

INTERNET ACCESS & VALID E-MAIL ADDRESS REQUIRED.

  1. ELIGIBILITY: Adorama Ratings & Reviews Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents of the United States, 18 years of age and older at the time and date of sweepstakes entry. Employees of Adorama (the Sponsor, Administrator of the Sweepstakes and Prize Provider), and the immediate families of such employees (parents, spouses, children, siblings) and those living in the same household, whether related or not, are not eligible to participate or win. Void where prohibited by law.
  2. SPONSOR: Adorama, 42 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011
  3. AGREEMENT TO OFFICIAL RULES: Participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement with these Official Rules and Sponsor’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set for the herein.
  4. TIMING: The Sweepstakes begins on October 1, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (“EST”) and ends on October 1, 2024 at 10:00 p.m. EST (The “Sweepstakes Period”).
  5. HOW TO ENTER: To participate, you will need to leave a written review and star rating of one or more items you've purchased from Adorama. You can review a product either through the email you receive from Adorama asking you to rate the item you've purchased or by navigating to the product detail page of the item you purchased on adorama.com

By submitting a review, you agree that it conforms to the guidelines, permissions, and content restrictions below and that Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may remove your Submission and disqualify you if it believes that it fails to conform.

Permissions: Entrant must have purchased the item you are reviewing from Adorama within the past 6 months from receipt. Any reviews with foul language including swear words or obscenity will be disqualified.

Limit: Each entrant may post one (1) unique review per product during the Sweepstakes Period. Multiple entries per product are not permitted. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different identities, registrations and logins, 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. In the event of a dispute as to any entry, the authorized account holder used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant. 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 used to create the account. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being an authorized account holder. Released Parties (as defined in Section 10, below) are not responsible for lost, late, stolen, damaged, incomplete, invalid, un-intelligible, garbled, delayed, or misdirected entries, all of which will be void.

  1. SPONSOR’S USE OF SUBMISSION: Posting a Submission constitutes entrant's consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use 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.
  2. WINNER DETERMINATION: After the conclusion of each month of the Sweepstakes Period, a winner will be chosen through a random selection process each month. Adorama reserves the right to not select one (1) winner each week, if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of eligible and qualified Submissions or if permissions were not adhered to.
  3. WINNER REQUIREMENTS: Potential winners will be notified on or around the following business day of each month of the eligible Sweepstakes period. The method of notification will be communicated through the same email used to submit the rating & review.

The prize claim instructions will advise each potential winner that he/she will be required to provide Sponsor with his/her name, valid mailing address, valid email address and birthdate to confirm eligibility and for prize fulfillment purposes within seven (7) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to follow any of the prize claim instructions or provide the required information within the required timeframe, does not comply with these Official Rules, or if prize is returned as undeliverable, potential winner forfeits the prize. If a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, the prize may be awarded to a runner-up, if any, in Sponsor's sole discretion. Only one (1) alternate winner may be determined, after which the applicable prize will remain un-awarded.

  1. PRIZES: ONE (1) $250 Adorama Virtual Gift Card will be awarded per month. Prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein. Adorama reserves the right to substitute a prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Winners are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. Limit: One (1) prize per person. Prizes will be fulfilled to each winner two (2) weeks following the end of each month of the Sweepstakes.
  2. RELEASE: By receipt of any prize, each winner agrees to release and hold harmless Adorama, and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize suppliers, 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, damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Promotion or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. This Release does not apply to claims for personal injury or death caused by the negligence of Sponsor.
  3. PUBLICITY: Acceptance of any prize shall constitute and signify each winner's agreement and consent that Sponsor and its designees may use the winner's name, city, state (and/or province), likeness, photo (including Social Account Profile photo), Submission, and/or prize information in connection with the Sweepstakes for promotional, advertising or other purposes, worldwide, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, including the Internet, without limitation and without further payment, notification, permission or other consideration, except where prohibited by law.
  4. GENERAL CONDITIONS: Adorama reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Sweepstakes, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, human error or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Sweepstakes, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. If terminated, Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, determine the winners from among all non-suspect, eligible Submissions received up to time of such action using the judging procedure outlined above. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the Submission 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 and void all associated Submissions. 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 and other remedies (including attorneys' fees) 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.
  5. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrant, printing, typographical or other 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 phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the Submission process or the Sweepstakes; (4) printing, typographical, technical, computer, network or human error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes, the uploading, the processing or judging of Submissions the announcement of the prizes or in any Sweepstakes-related materials; (5) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen mail; or (6) 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. Released Parties are not responsible for misdirected or undeliverable Submissions or for any technical problems, malfunctions of computer systems, servers, providers, hardware/software, lost or unavailable network connections or failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmission or any combination thereof. Released Parties are not responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of any Submission.
  6. DISPUTES: This Sweepstakes is conducted in English (which will be given its everyday ordinary meaning), and any and all disputes will be resolved in the appropriate courts in New York County, State of New York, exclusively, and subject to the internal, substantive laws of the state of New York in the U.S. To the fullest extent permitted by law, by participating in the Sweepstakes, entrants agree to the personal jurisdiction of such courts; waive any right of change of venue, forum non conveniens or like right; agree to bring any action regarding the Sweepstakes individually (not as part of a class action); and agree that their recovery shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred in participating in the Sweepstakes (if any) and waive any and all damages (including but not limited to compensatory, punitive, consequential or incidental damages) as well as any right to attorneys’ fees. Should there be any conflict between the laws of New York and any other laws, the conflict will be resolved in favor of the laws of the State of New York (except for conflict of law provisions which would result in the application of the internal, substantive law of any state other than New York).
  7. ENTRANT’S PERSONAL INFORMATION: Participation in the Promotion implies authorization to transfer personal data to the United States for purposes of administration of the Promotion. Personal information will be used only to confirm eligibility and fulfill prizes.
  8. FOR A WINNERS LIST, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to ADORAMA Review & Win List, 42 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011.
  9. SPONSORS: ADORAMA, New York, NY, 10011
  10. ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SWEEPSTAKES: ADORAMA, New York, NY, 10011