Official Rules
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1. Eligibility
The Instappraisal Amazon Gift Card AppraiserPoints™ Contest (the"Promotion") is administered by InstAppraisal, Inc ("Instappraisal") , the Sponsor, and is open to residents age 18 and older in all jurisdictions where receipt of prizes or entry in the Promotion is not prohibited by United States and/or local laws, rules or regulations. Prohibited countries include, but are not limited to, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, India and residents of any country embargoed by the United States. Employees of InstAppraisal or any of its respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising agencies, participating sponsor or any other company involved with the design, production, execution or distribution of the Promotion and their immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employees are not eligible. The Promotion is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited. Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and InstAppraisal’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Promotion. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.  An Instappraisal member that votes on his/her own content is automatically disqualified from the Amazon Gift Card AppraiserPoints™ Contest - be sure not to vote on your own content (appraisal requests, comments, etc.).
2. Administrator InstAppraisal, Inc (10736 Jefferson Blvd., #132, Culver City, CA 90230 USA) is the sole Administrator of the Promotion.
3. Timing
The Promotion begins on 1 January 2011 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time ("PDT") and ends on 31 January 2011 at 11:59 PM ET (the "Promotion Period"). The Administrator’s computer is the official time keeping device for this Promotion.
4. How to Enter/Win
Enter comments into Instappraisal member's appraisal requests where other members can vote on your posts.  Each positive vote will result in one AppraiserPoint™ and each negative vote will result in one AppraiserPoint™ deducted from your current number of AppraiserPoints™.  General Conditions Regarding Entering: Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and may result in disqualification.  Creating another Instappraisal account in order to add or deduct AppraiserPoints™ to directly affect the results of the contest will result in immediate disqualification. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, or misdirected entried, which will be disqualified. Potential winners may be required to show proof of identity. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the rightful winner, InstAppraisal will gather proof of identity from the disputing parties and will solely be responsible for choosing the winner. There is no charge for entering. The information you provide will only be used to administer the promotion and in accordance with our privacy policy.
5. Winner Selection The person with the highest number of AppraiserPoints™ during the one month period and who also has at least that number of Current AppraiserPoints™ (since negative votes could reduce your number of AppraiserPoints™) will be declared the winner.  In the case where more than one person have the same highest number of AppraiserPoints™ then the member who entered the most recent comment that was applied to their AppraiserPoints™ will be declared the winner.  Only one winner will be awarded.
6. Verification and Notification of Potential WInner
ALL POTENTIAL PROMOTION WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY SPONSOR WHOSE DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE PROMOTION. Winners must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. Winners will be contacted by through the email address or phone number given at time of entry and must respond to Sponsor within 7 days to claim the prize. Winners will be posted on the following web page: http://www.instappraisal.com. Once the potential winner has been verified to the satisfaction of the Sponsor, the Sponsor will arrange for prize fulfillment. If the selected potential winner is determined to be ineligible by the Sponsor, or fails to respond within the required time period, the potential winner forfeits prize and is disqualified. Otherwise, the selected potential winner becomes a Validated Prize Winner. In the event that a potential winner of a prize is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor may in Sponsor’s sole discretion randomly select a different winner from all remaining eligible entries and repeat the verification process outlined above, donate the forfeited prize to charity or conduct a new promotion to award the prize.
7. Prizes
Prizes consisting of one $50.00 Amazon gift card will be awarded. Winners are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use.
8. Odds of Winning
The odds of winning are as good as the votes you receive by other users of Instappraisal. If you enter helpful comments into other member's appraisal requests then you stand a better chance of receiving more votes and thus more AppraiserPoints™.
9. Release
By entering this promotion, entrant agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, 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.
10. Publicity
Except where prohibited, participation in the Promotion constitutes winners consent to Sponsor’s and its agents’ use of winners’ names, likenesses, photographs, voices, opinions, hometowns, and/or uploaded photos or slide shows for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.
11. General Conditions
Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Promotion, 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 promotion, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. 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 promotion or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any other promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Promotion 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.
12. 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 Promotion; (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 entry process or the Promotion; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Promotion 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 Promotion 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 Promotion play, provided that if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the Promotion, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, at its 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 event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than 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.
13. Disputes
Entrant agrees that: (i) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion, or any prizes awarded, other than those concerning the administration of the Promotion or the determination of winners, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; (ii) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved exclusively by the United States District Court or the appropriate California state court located in Los Angeles, California; (iii) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Promotion, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (iv) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim 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. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. 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 Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the state of California, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the state of California or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of California.
14. Entrant’s Personal Information
Information collected from entrants is subject to the Instappraisal Privacy Policy, which is available at http://www.instappraisal.com/legal.
15. Promotion Results
For Promotion results and/or a copy of these Official Rules, send a hand-printed, self-addressed, stamped envelope to Instappraisal AppraiserlPoints™ Promotion, c/o InstAppraisal, Inc, 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #132, Culver City, CA 90230. Requests for the winners list must be received by 5 February 2011. Vermont residents may exclude return postage.
16. Miscellaneous
This Promotion is subject to change without notification in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate or suspend the Promotion in whole or in part should a cause or event beyond Sponsor’s control affect the administration, fairness, proper play or conduct of the Promotion making continuation as planned impossible.