NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
BY ENTERING, ENTRANT AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND THE DECISIONS OF THE CONTEST’S SPONSOR, WHICH SHALL BE FINAL IN ALL RESPECTS.
1. Contest Period. This Contest will begin at 12:01 a.m. Mountain Standard Time (“MST”) on March 1, 2010 and end at 11:59 p.m. MST April 21, 2010.
2. Eligibility: The Contest is open only to legal residents of the State of Arizona EIGHTEEN (18) YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER at the time of entry. The Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law. The Contest is sponsored by Trillium Residential Communities LLC (“Trillium”). Trillium will be responsible for verifying that all Contest entries submitted comply with these Official Rules. All directors, officers and employees of Trillium, and any respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, sales representatives, distributors, licensees, agents, advertising and Contest advisors, and each of their respective immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, and siblings and their respective spouses), and those living in the same household as each, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. Current Residents of Trillium communities are not eligible unless their rental contract ends prior to August 31, 2010 and they have no outstanding balance with Trillium. Previous Trillium residents are eligible only if they have no outstanding balance with Trillium.
3. How to Enter the Contest:
a) Create a video demonstrating why the Entrant wants to live in a Trillium Residential community.
b) Complete Contest Entry Form and agree to the rules.
c) Upload the video to YouTube, tag it "Trillium Free Phoenix Apartment Contest" and post the link to your video in the comment section on this page.
d) Email the link and the embed code to your YouTube video to contest@TrilliumResidential.com.
4. Submission Guidelines.
(a) All videos must be the original work of the Entrant produced for this Contest; it may not have been entered in or won previous contests or awards; it may not have been published previously in any medium.
(b) Entry must be primarily in English.
(c) Entry must comply with the Terms of Service of YouTube.
(d) Entry must not infringe any party’s intellectual property or other rights.
(e) No logo other than Trillium’s logo may appear in the video.
(f) No company other than Trillium may be referenced in the video.
(g) Entry must be suitable for display and publication on national television (i.e., may not be obscene or indecent, including but not limited to nudity or profanity); it must not contain obscene or pornographic material, it must not contain defamatory statements (including but not limited to words or symbols that are widely considered offensive to individuals of a certain race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or socioeconomic group), it must not include threats to any person, place, business, group or world peace, it must not invade privacy or other rights of any person, firm or entity, and it must not in any other way violate applicable laws and regulations.
(h) The Entry may not contain any viruses or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, date or personal information.
All Submissions will be reviewed for content before being published by Trillium or being judged; however, such review does not relieve Entrant from responsibility for compliance with all of the Terms of Service and these Official Rules. Submissions that do not comply in all material respects with the Terms of Services or these Official Rules or that otherwise contain prohibited, or inappropriate content as determined by Trillium, in its sole discretion, will be disqualified and will not be published by Trillium or considered for prizes. Trillium makes the final determination as to which Submissions are eligible to take part in this Contest and be considered for the Grand Prize.
5. Judging Criteria. Each Entry will be judged by Trillium in the initial judging round (the "Initial Judging Round") to determine the five (5) Finalists, based on the following judging criteria: Originality and Creativity (30%); Adherence to Theme (30%); Entertainment Value (30%); and Video Quality (10%).
6. Finalist Selection. At the end of the Contest Period, a preliminary list of up to 15 (15) finalist Entries (each a "Preliminary Finalist") will be selected by a judging process in which Trillium will evaluate each eligible Entry based on the Judging Criteria set forth above. The Preliminary Finalists will be notified by phone, mail or email and will be required to sign and return to Trillium (a) Affidavit of Eligibility, Waiver of liability and Assignment of rights, (b) Publicity Release (except where prohibited by law), (c) a completed Trillium rental application, and (d). These items must be provided within three (3) days of notification attempt or eligibility for the prize will be forfeited and one or more alternate Preliminary Finalists may be determined. Upon receipt of the foregoing documents, Trillium will do a credit and background check. If the Preliminary Finalist completes the foregoing and satisfies Trillium’s standard criteria for tenancy, then the Preliminary Finalist will be eligible to be chosen as one of five (5) Finalists (“Finalist”).
7. Winner Selection. The five (5) Finalist Entries shall be posted for the public to vote on their favorites at www.TrilliumResidential.com beginning May 1, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. and ending on May 9, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. (the “Voting Period”). The qualifying Finalist that receives the most votes will be deemed the Grand Prize Winner ("Grand Prize Winner"). Voting rules shall be posted on Trillium’s website. If the Grand Prize Winner is determined to be ineligible, at Trillium’s discretion and time permitting, an alternate Grand Prize Winner may be selected by Trillium from all remaining Finalists.
8. Odds: The odds of winning will depend on the number of eligible entries received. Limit one (1) entry per valid e-mail address, video, and rental application.
9. Grand Prize. The Grand Prize Winner will receive one year of free rent of a one bedroom unit at a Trillium Residential community (the “Unit”). Preference will be given to the community designation made by the Grand Prize Winner in the rental application and based upon availability at that community; however, Trillium will make the final determination as to which Unit the Grand Prize Winner will reside in. The Grand Prize Winner shall take possession of the Unit no later than 90 days after contest winner is announced. The Grand Prize Winner agrees to be bound by all rules and regulations of being a resident at a Trillium Residential community. Prior to taking possession of the Unit, but in any event, no later than forty-five (45) days after the contest winner is announced, the Grand Prize Winner shall (a) execute a standard form Trillium Residential lease for the Unit; and (b) post a $500 security deposit with Trillium Residential, which security deposit shall be returned at the conclusion of the rental period so long as there is compliance with the rental contract. Failure to move into the Unit by the required date and/or meet any other terms and conditions identified within these Rules shall result in a forfeiture of the Grand Prize. No assignment or subletting of the Unit will be allowed. The Grand Prize has a fair market value of no more than $10,000.00. No transfer, assignment, or substitution of a prize is permitted except by Trillium Residential who may substitute a prize with one of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion. Any item, cost or expense not specifically listed as part of the Grand Prize is the sole responsibility of the Grand Prize Winner, including, without limitation, utilities, renter’s insurance and any federal, state and local taxes. No responsibility or liability is assumed for damages, losses or injury resulting from acceptance or use of prize.
10. Release of Likeness. Acceptance of the Grand Prize constitutes permission to use the Grand Prize Winner’s name and likeness for promotional and advertising purposes without further compensation, except where prohibited by law.
11. Ownership/Use Rights: Entrants who are selected as finalists will be required to execute an assignment of rights which will assign the copyrights in all submitted materials to Trillium. Assignment of copyright is a prerequisite to being considered for the Grand Prize. By entering the Contest, each entrant agrees that Trillium Residential shall have the right, but not the obligation, to edit, remove, modify, publish, license, print, transmit, display or otherwise use any submitted Work, and all accompanying personally identifiable information entrant submits, via all forms of media now known or hereafter devised worldwide, in perpetuity, without notice, attribution or compensation to entrant, his/her successors or assigns, or any other entity, except where prohibited by law. All Works, entry-forms and other related materials become the property of Trillium Residential and will not be returned to any entrant. If Trillium Residential requests the entrant’s cooperation in promoting the Contest, the entrant agrees to reasonably be available for such promotional activities.
12. Privacy: By participating in the Contest, Entrant authorizes Trillium to collect, use, process, store and transfer all data provided by entrant, including without limitation, personal data, to any location(s) throughout the world that Trillium deems necessary, whether within the United States of America or elsewhere, and with such party(ies) as Trillium deems appropriate, for purposes of administration of the Contest. Personal information submitted to Trillium as part of this Contest will be treated in accordance with Trillium’s privacy statement, available at www.TrilliumResidential.com and clicking on the “privacy policy” link. Personal information will be used only to: (a) provide information about the Contest; (b) contact and publicize potential winners; and/or (c) if an entrant selects to receive additional information from the Contest on the entry form, to send additional information to that entrant during or after the Contest Period. Entrants to the Contest will be given the option to receive commercial e-mails from Trillium; however, eligibility to participate in the Contest is not dependent upon the entrant’s consent to receive such e-mails. Entrant’s must fully complete and submit all non-optional data requested on the online entry form to be eligible. Entrants have the right to withdraw and correct their personal data up to the time of determination of the Finalists, but entrants are not allowed to re-submit their entries. Directions on procedures for submitting corrections to personal data are provided in the privacy statements of Trillium.
13. Release and Limitations on Liability. You hereby release Trillium, its affiliates, officers, directors, agents, co-branders or other partners, and any of its employees (collectively, the “Contest Indemnitees”), harmless from any and all claims, damages, expenses, costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) and liabilities (including settlements), brought or asserted by any third party against any of the Contest Indemnitees due to or arising out of your participation in the Contest, or use of your name, likeness, Entry and/or voice, or any other rights granted to Trillium, including any claims for including but not limited to trademark, copyright, or other intellectual property rights, right of publicity, right of privacy or defamation. You further agree to release and indemnify and hold harmless Contest Indemnitees from any and all claims that any commercial, advertising, presentation, web content or any other material subsequently produced, presented, and/or prepared by or on behalf of Contest Indemnitees infringes on your rights as contained in the Entry submission. No responsibility or liability is assumed by Trillium for technical problems or technical malfunction arising in connection with any of the following occurrences which may affect the operation of the Contest: hardware or software errors; faulty computer, telephone, cable, satellite, network, electronic, wireless or Internet connectivity or other online communication problems; errors or limitations of any Internet service providers, servers, hosts or providers; garbled, jumbled or faulty data transmissions; failure of any e-mail transmissions to be sent or received; lost, late, delayed or intercepted e-mail transmissions; inaccessibility of the Trillium website or the YouTube website in whole or in part for any reason; traffic congestion on the Internet or the Trillium website or the YouTube website; unauthorized human or non-human intervention of the operation of the Contest, including without limitation, unauthorized tampering, hacking, theft, virus, bugs, worms; or destruction of any aspect of the Contest, or loss, miscount, misdirection, inaccessibility or unavailability of an email account used in connection with the Contest. You hereby represent and warrant that you have read these Official Rules, are fully familiar with its contents and agree to be bound by them.
14. Cancellation, changes or substitution. If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including without limitation, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, Trillium reserves the right, at its sole discretion to cancel, modify or terminate the Contest. Further, Trillium reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual deemed to be (a) tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or any Trillium or Contest-related Web Site; (b) violating the Official Rules; (c) violating the Trillium Web Site terms of service, conditions of use and/or applicable general rules or guidelines; or (d) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. In the event an insufficient number of entries are received, Trillium Residential reserves the right to cancel the Contest and shall be under no obligation to award the prizes.
15. Miscellaneous. The Contest and these Official Rules will be governed, construed and interpreted under the laws of the State of Arizona, without regard to choice of law principles. Any attempt by any person to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made,reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Trillium’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. Trillium
16. Final decision: The decisions of Trillium Residential Communities LLC, 230 W. Fifth St, Tempe, Arizona 85281 are final and binding. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein. No decisions of Trillium or any of the judges associated with the Contest may be challenged on any ground, including without limitation, failure of Trillium to act reasonably, fairly, in good faith, or in accordance with the principles of procedural fairness; and Trillium’s decisions will remain binding and conclusive even if those decisions were allegedly or actually wrong or based upon error or otherwise based on any unreasonable, irrational, or irrelevant consideration.
17. Winners List. For the name of the Grand Prize winner, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Trillium Residential Communities LLC, 230 W. Fifth St, Tempe, Arizona 85281. The Grand Prize Winner will be available for sixty (60) days after winner selection. Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.
18. Sponsor(s). The Sponsor of this Contest is Trillium Residential Communities LLC. Entrants shall not use the trademarks of Sponsor or falsely associate themselves with the Sponsor during or after the Contest Period.
YouTube, LLC and each of its respective subsidiaries, affiliates, shareholders, officers, directors, agents, representatives and employees (collectively, “YouTube") will have no liability or responsibility for any claim arising in connection with participation in this Contest or any prize awarded. YouTube has not offered or sponsored this Contest in any way.