Official Contest Rules

1. Who Can Enter: Any person 18 years of age or older is eligible to participate in contests on the Dennis Kirk blog. Employees, officers, principals, directors or agents of Dennis Kirk, Inc. and members of Sponsors’ households or immediate families, are not eligible to participate.

2. How to Enter: To enter, entrants must follow the directions posted on the contest blog post. By submitting an entry you agree to the Official Rules of this promotion.  Additionally, you are giving the sponsor the right to post your entry on its website and/or public websites, or use in email broadcasts for promotional purposes, where it maintains accounts. Entries must be totally original, suitable for general audiences (i.e., may not be obscene, indecent, profane or objectionable,) and must not describe a violation of any law or regulation or in any way violate any law or regulation. In Sponsor’s sole opinion, submissions that do not meet any of these requirements will be disqualified.

3. Timing: The promotion begins at the time specified in the contest announcement post or when blog is posted if no time is listed. Official end time will also be at the time specified by the contest announcement post. No entries will be accepted after that time. Winners will be chosen by the judges selected for specific contest. If the contest involves voting by the general public all voting will be done within the allotted time specified for contest.

4. Prizes: Prizes will be specified in contest blog posts. No other substitutions or cash redemption’s. Allow 2-4 weeks for prize delivery.

5. Judging: Judging will take place during the allotted time announced. Dennis Kirk staff will review all submissions, and reserve the right to disqualify entries as they see fit. If the contest allows voting by the public, voters must follow specific contest directions. The person with the most votes wins. In the event of a tie, those entries that have the same number of votes will be reposted for a given time frame, identified in the announcement. Of these reposted entries, the winner will be the entry with the most votes. Winning notification will follow the same format as below (6).

6. Notification: The winner will be announced on Dennis Kirk’s social media networks (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, and the Dennis Kirk Blog) after by the deadline announced in original blog post. The winner will be notified via the provided email address. The winner must respond to the notification email within 7 days or the prize will be forfeited and the next eligible contestant will be selected as the winner. If any potential winner rejects his/her prize or in the event of noncompliance with these Official Rules, such prize will be forfeited and the next eligible contestant will be selected as the winner. Upon prize forfeiture, no compensation will be given. Additionally, Dennis Kirk will not be held responsible for winning email delivery failures as a result of misspelled email addresses or filtering services.

7. Use of Data: Sponsor will be collecting personal data about entrants online, in accordance with its privacy policy. Please review the Sponsor’s privacy policy at http://blog.denniskirk.com/jsp/common/Privacy.jsp . By participating in the Promotion, entrants hereby agree to Sponsor’s collection and usage of their personal information and acknowledge that they have read and accepted Sponsor’s privacy policy.