Like 2 Love Facebook Giveaway

Enter here for a chance to win a $500 daily prize and you are automatically entered in our $10,000 Grand Prize drawing on March 1.

Official Rules

February 3, 2016 - March 1, 2016

PRELIMINARY INFORMATION: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Void outside the WVIT Terrestrial Geographic Viewing Area (defined below) and where prohibited. The Like 2 Love February Giveaway Sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes”) will begin on February 3, 2016 at 5:00 A.M. ET and end on March 1, 2016 at 10:00 P.M. ET (“Sweepstakes Period”). All times in the Sweepstakes refer to Eastern Time (“ET”). Odds of winning depend upon the number of eligible Entries (defined below) received. Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

ELIGIBILITY: Open only to permanent, legal United States (“U.S.”) residents who are physically residing in the WVIT terrestrial geographic viewing area in the counties of Fairfield, Hartford, Litchfield, Middlesex, New Haven, New London, Tolland, and Windham in the state of Connecticut (“WVIT Terrestrial Geographic Viewing Area”) and who are eighteen (18) years of age or older and the age of majority in their state of residence as of the start of the Sweepstakes Period. Officers, directors, and employees of Sweepstakes Entities (defined below), members of these persons’ immediate families (spouses and/or parents, children, and siblings, and their spouses, regardless of where they reside), and/or persons living in the same households as these persons (whether or not related thereto) are not eligible to enter or win the Sweepstakes. Sweepstakes Entities, as referenced herein, shall include WVIT, 1422 New Britain Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06110 and NBCUniversal Media, LLC, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112 (collectively, “Sponsors”) and their respective parent, subsidiary, and affiliate companies, their administrative, advertising, and promotion agencies, and any other entity involved in the development, administration, promotion, or implementation of the Sweepstakes.

TO ENTER: The Sweepstakes consists of nineteen (19) individual drawings (each an “Individual Drawing”) and one (1) grand prize drawing (“Grand Prize Drawing”). Each Individual Drawing will consist of: (i) an individual entry period (“Individual Entry Period”) that will have an entry start time (“Entry Period Start Time”) and an entry end time (“Entry Period End Time”), as specified in the chart below, and (ii) a random Individual Drawing conducted on or about the individual drawing date (“Individual Drawing Date”), specified in the chart below, from among all eligible Entries (defined below) received during the corresponding Individual Entry Period. On or about March 1, 2016 there will be a random Grand Prize Drawing conducted from among all eligible Entries received during the entire Sweepstakes Period. Entries for each Individual Entry Period must be received by the corresponding Entry Period End Time, as specified in the chart below, in order to be eligible for that particular Individual Drawing.

You may enter the Sweepstakes via one (1) of the following two (2) ways:

Facebook Entry: To enter the Sweepstakes, during the Sweepstakes Period visit the WVIT Facebook page located at www.Facebook.com/NBCConnecticut (the “Website”), and access the Enter to Win Sweepstakes tab (“Sweepstakes Tab”) and follow the provided instructions to complete and thereafter submit the entry form, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, and date of birth (“Facebook Entry”).

Email Entry: To enter via email, during the Sweepstakes Period, send an email to nicole.biancuzzo@nbcuni.com that includes “NBC Connecticut’s Like 2 Love February Giveaway” in the subject line and contains the Entry Information, including your first and last name, telephone number, email address, and date of birth (“Email Entry”).

Individual Drawing Individual Entry Period Start Date and Time Individual Entry Period End Date and Time Individual Drawing Date

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All Facebook Entries and Email Entries (collectively, “Entries”) become the property of Sponsors and will not be acknowledged or returned.

Entries must be received before March 1, 2016 at 10:00 P.M. ET to be eligible for the Sweepstakes. Sponsors’ computer shall be the official timekeeper for all matters related to this Sweepstakes. Limit one (1) Entry per Individual Entry Period per person/email address. Multiple Entries received from any person or email address beyond this limit will void all such additional Entries. Entries generated by a script, macro, or other automated means will be disqualified. Entries that are incomplete, garbled, corrupted, or unintelligible for any reason, including, but not limited to, computer or network malfunction or congestion, are void and will not be accepted. In case of a dispute over the identity of an entrant who made a potentially winning Entry, Sponsors reserve the right to deem that the Entry was made by the registered subscriber of the email address submitted at the time of Entry. Entry constitutes permission (except where prohibited by law) to use entrant’s name, city, state, likeness, image, and/or voice for purposes of advertising, promotion, and publicity in any and all media now or hereafter known, throughout the world in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification, permission, or approval. Non-winning Entries in an Individual Entry Period will not roll over into subsequent Individual Entry Periods.

PRIVACY: Entrants will have the opportunity to receive information from WVIT and selected partners by checking the appropriate box(es). If, at any time, you no longer wish to receive materials from WVIT or our partners, please go to our privacy policy, located at www.NBCConnecticut.com/Privacy, or the applicable partner’s privacy policy and follow the procedures indicated.

WINNER SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION: On or about each Individual Drawing Date, two (2) potential first prize winners (“Fist Prize Winners”, each a “First Prize Winner”) will be selected in a random drawing by representatives of Sponsors from all eligible Entries received during the corresponding Individual Entry Period, for a total of thirty-seven (37) First Prize Winners. On or about March 1, 2016, one (1) grand prize winner (“Grand Prize Winner”, and collectively with First Prize Winners “Winner” or “Winners”)
will be selected in a random drawing by representatives of Sponsors from all eligible Entries received during the entire Sweepstakes Period. All potential Winners will be notified within twenty-four (24) hours. Sponsors will make two (2) attempts to notify potential Winner at the phone number and/or email address submitted at the time of Entry. Potential Winner may be required to execute and return an affidavit of eligibility, release of liability, and, except where prohibited, publicity release (collectively, “Sweepstakes Documents”) within two (2) days of such notification. Noncompliance within this time period will result in disqualification, and, at Sponsor’s sole discretion an alternate potential Winner may be selected from the remaining eligible Entries. If potential Winner cannot be reached, if he/she is found to be ineligible, if he/she cannot or does not comply with these Official Rules, or if his/her Prize (defined below) or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, potential Winner will be disqualified and time permitting, at Sponsor’s sole discretion, an alternate potential Winner may be selected from the remaining eligible Entries. First Prize Winners are eligible to be the Grand Prize Winner.

FIRST PRIZE: Thirty-seven (37) First Prizes will be awarded; one (1) First Prize will be awarded to each First Prize Winner. Each First Prize will consist of one (1) of four (4) First Prize options contingent upon the indicated prize selection by the First Prize Winner during contest entry and/or winner notification: one (1) Apple iPad, one (1) snow blower or one (1) five hundred dollar ($500) cash gift card. Prize will be awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either expressed or implied by Sponsors. Estimated Retail Value (“ERV”) of each First Prize is five hundred dollars ($500). Total ERV of all First Prizes is eighteen thousand five hundred dollars ($18,500). First Prizes will be awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either expressed or implied by Sponsors. First Prize is subject to certain terms and conditions. Restrictions apply.

GRAND PRIZE: There will be one (1) grand prize (“Grand Prize”) awarded to the Grand Prize Winner. Grand Prize will consist of the following: ten thousand dollars ($10,000) awarded in the form of a check made payable to the Grand Prize Winner.

ERV of Grand Prize is ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Total ERV of all Prizes is nineteen thousand and five hundred dollars ($19,500). Actual Retail Value (“ARV”) of Prize may vary. Any difference between stated ERV and ARV will not be awarded. Winner will receive an Internal Revenue Service Form 1099 from Sponsors for the total ARV of Prize for the calendar year in which Prize was awarded.

First Prizes and Grand Prize will be referred to herein as “Prize” or “Prizes”.

All details of Prize will be determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a similar Prize (or prize element) of comparable or greater value. All taxes and other expenses, costs, or fees associated with the acceptance and/or use of Prize are the sole responsibility of Winner. Prize cannot be transferred by Winner or redeemed for cash and is valid only for the items detailed above, with no substitution of Prize by Winner. If Prize is unclaimed within a reasonable time after notification from Sponsors, as determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion, it will be forfeited, and time permitting, an alternate Winner may be selected from the remaining eligible Entries at Sponsors’ sole discretion.

CONDITIONS: By entering the Sweepstakes, each entrant agrees for entrant and for entrant’s heirs, executors, and administrators (a) to release and hold harmless Sweepstakes Entities, Facebook, and their respective officers, directors, and employees (collectively, “Released Parties”) from any liability, illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from such entrant’s participation in the Sweepstakes and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of Prize or any portion thereof (including any travel related thereto); (b) to indemnify Released Parties from any and all liability resulting or arising from the Sweepstakes and to hereby acknowledge that Released Parties have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to Prize, including express warranties provided exclusively by Prize supplier that are sent along with Prize; (c) if selected as a Winner, to the posting of such entrant’s name on NBCConnecticut.com (the “Website”) and the use by Released Parties of such name, voice, image, and/or likeness for publicity, promotional, and advertising purposes in any and all media now or hereafter known, throughout the world in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification, permission, or approval, and, upon request, to the giving of consent, in writing, to such use; and (d) to be bound by these Official Rules and to waive any right to claim any ambiguity or error therein or in the Sweepstakes itself, and to be bound by all decisions of the Sponsors, which are binding and final. Failure to comply with these conditions may result in disqualification from the Sweepstakes at Sponsors’ sole discretion.

ADDITIONAL TERMS: Sponsors reserve the right to permanently disqualify from any promotion any person they believe has intentionally violated these Official Rules. Any attempt to deliberately damage the Sweepstakes or the operation thereof is unlawful and subject to legal action by Sponsors, who may seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law. The failure of Sponsors to comply with any provision of these Official Rules due to an act of God, hurricane, war, fire, riot, earthquake, terrorism, act of public enemies, actions of governmental authorities outside of the control of Sponsors (excepting compliance with applicable codes and regulations), or other “force majeure” event will not be considered a breach of these Official Rules. Released Parties assume no responsibility for any injury or damage to entrants’ or to any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from entering or downloading materials or software in connection with the Sweepstakes. Released Parties are not responsible for telecommunications, network, electronic, technical, or computer failures of any kind; for inaccurate transcription of Entry information; for errors in any promotional or marketing materials or in these Official Rules; for any human or electronic error; or for Entries that are stolen, misdirected, garbled, delayed, lost, late, damaged, or returned. Sponsors reserve the right to cancel, modify, or suspend the Sweepstakes or any element thereof (including, without limitation, these Official Rules) without notice in any manner and for any reason (including, without limitation, in the event of any unanticipated occurrence that is not fully addressed in these Official Rules). In the event of cancellation, modification, or suspension, Sponsors reserve the right to select Winner(s) in a random drawing from among all eligible, non-suspect Entries received prior to the time of the event warranting such cancellation, modification, or suspension. Notice of such cancellation, modification, or suspension will be posted on the Website. Sponsors may prohibit any entrant or potential entrant from participating in the Sweepstakes, if such entrant or potential entrant shows a disregard for these Official Rules; acts with an intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other entrant, Sponsors, or Sponsors’ agents or representatives; or behaves in any other disruptive manner (as determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion). Sponsors reserve the right to modify these Official Rules for clarification purposes without materially affecting the terms and conditions of the Sweepstakes.

DISPUTES: THE SWEEPSTAKES IS GOVERNED BY, AND WILL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND THE FORUM AND VENUE FOR ANY DISPUTE SHALL BE IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK. IF THE CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM IS NOT OTHERWISE RESOLVED THROUGH DIRECT DISCUSSIONS OR MEDIATION, IT SHALL THEN BE RESOLVED BY FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION ADMINISTERED BY JUDICIAL ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION SERVICES, INC., IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS STREAMLINED ARBITRATION RULES AND PROCEDURES OR SUBSEQUENT VERSIONS THEREOF (“JAMS RULES”). THE JAMS RULES FOR SELECTION OF AN ARBITRATOR SHALL BE FOLLOWED, EXCEPT THAT THE ARBITRATOR SHALL BE EXPERIENCED AND LICENSED TO PRACTICE LAW IN NEW YORK. ALL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH WILL BE CONDUCTED IN THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK. THE REMEDY FOR ANY CLAIM SHALL BE LIMITED TO ACTUAL DAMAGES, AND IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY PARTY BE ENTITLED TO RECOVER PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES OR OTHER SUCH RELATED COSTS OF BRINGING A CLAIM, OR TO RESCIND THIS AGREEMENT OR SEEK INJUNCTIVE OR ANY OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF.

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT: For the names of Winners, available after March 15, 2016, visit www.NBCConnecticut.com, or send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to be received by May 15, 2016 to: The Like 2 Love February Giveaway, 1422 New Britain Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06110, Attn.: Terese Guerrero.

This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. Entrants are providing information to Sponsors and not to Facebook.

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