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Command™ Submit Your Ideas Giveaway

Official Rules

The Giveaway is only for legal U.S. residents ages 18 or older (or 19 in Alabama and Nebraska). Do not enter if you are not located in the U.S. at the time of entry.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

  1. HOW TO PLAY: Submit your unique use for Command™ products at www.commandstrips.com. Provide your name, address and e-mail address and confirm that you are at least 18 years of age (or 19 in Alabama and Nebraska). You must acknowledge that you have read and agree to the rules by clicking on the "I’ve read and agree to the official rules" check box. After you have completed the registration process, submit your entry. Limit one entry per household. Multiple entries will be disqualified. Entries must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on May 31, 2008. Any other form of Internet or e-mail entry is void. Sponsor and its agencies assume no responsibility for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server or other connections; miscommunications; failed phone or computer hardware or software or telephone transmissions or technical failures: ISP/network/web site accessibility or availability; garbled or jumbled transmissions; injury or damage to any participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this Giveaway and/or other errors of any kind, whether human, mechanical or electronic, including without limitation, the incorrect or inaccurate capture of online entry information. Online entry data that have been tampered with or altered in any way are void. Any use of robotic, automated, programmed, or like online entry methods is prohibited. Sponsor’s computer is the official time keeping device for the Giveaway.
  2. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY: No purchase necessary to enter or win. A purchase does not improve your chances of winning. By entering the Giveaway, entrant fully and unconditionally agrees to and accepts these Official Rules. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.
  3. DEADLINES AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: The Giveaway starts at 12:00:01 AM EDT on February 7, 2008 and ends on 11:59:59 PM EDT on May 31, 2008. All entries must be received no later than 11:59:59 EDT on May 31, 2008. Winners will be notified via e-mail. Three attempts will be made to contact each winner for their preferred mailing address. If there is no response, another winner will be selected at random. The Giveaway is open to all legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington D.C. age 18 years of age and older (19 in Alabama and Nebraska). Employees of 3M (Sponsor) and its affiliates, agents and franchisees, and each of such employee’s immediate family members (persons with whom they are domiciled) are not eligible to win. All entrants must have a valid e-mail address. In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of the person submitting an entry, entries will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet Access provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Sponsor may require proof to its satisfaction of Entrant’s registered subscriber status.
  4. PRIZE DESCRIPTIONS AND APPROXIMATE ODDS OF WINNING: One (1) Prize: a Command™ Decorating Kit, Approximate Retail Value of $75.00. Taxes (if any) and other expenses not specified herein are winner’s responsibility. Giveaway is subject to all federal, state and local laws. Limit one (1) prize per household. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prizes of comparable value. No transfer or substitution of a prize is permitted. The number of eligible entries will determine odds of winning. All prizes will be awarded provided a sufficient number of entries are received.
  5. DRAWING: The winner will be selected in a random drawing to be held on or about June 2, 2008 from among the eligible entries received by an independent judging organization, whose decisions will be final in all matters pertaining to this Giveaway. Potential winner may be required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and any other documents requested by the Sponsor, within 14 days of notification. Failure to sign and return these documents by the return date specified in the prize notification letter will result in forfeiture of the prize, and an alternate will be chosen. If any prize correspondence (including e-mail) is returned as non-deliverable, prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner selected. Potential winner of a prize are subject to verification by Sponsor. Any materials submitted become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be returned. No more than the advertised number of prizes will be awarded.
  6. GAME RELEASE: By entering and/or participating in the Giveaway, winner agrees to indemnify and hold Sponsor and its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies and the agents and employees of each harmless from any and all liability, damages or causes of action (however named or described) with respect to or arising out of the use of prizes awarded and constitutes permission to use winner’s name and/or likeness and address for purpose of advertising, publicity and promotion without further compensation except where prohibited by law.
  7. RIGHT TO DISQUALIFY AND CANCEL: Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual found, in Sponsor’s sole discretion, to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Giveaway, or to be acting in violation of the Official Rules, or to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Participants may not enter using multiple e-mail addresses or as multiple identities. Any entrant who attempts to enter with multiple e-mail addresses or under multiple identities, or uses any other device to enter multiple times will be disqualified. In the event a dispute as to entries is submitted by multiple users having the same e-mail account, the authorized subscriber of the e-mail account used to participate in the Giveaway at the actual time of participation will be deemed to be the participant and must comply with these rules. Authorized account subscriber is deemed to be the natural person who is assigned an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider or other organization which is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses or the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Sponsor reserves the right to suspend or terminate this Giveaway without notice if, in Sponsor’s sole discretion, the Giveaway becomes infected or otherwise corrupted; in such event, Sponsor will select winners from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (as appropriate) the action taken by Sponsor.
  8. INFORMATION COLLECTED AND SUBMISSIONS: The personal information you provide shall be used exclusively for purposes of fulfilling the Giveaway offer. Your personal information shall be destroyed at the time the Giveaway ends.
  9. WINNER'S LIST: For a list of the winner identified by first name, last initial and state only send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Command Submit Your Ideas Giveaway Winners, 3M Center Building 0223-4S-02, St. Paul, MN 55144 for receipt by June 30, 2008. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete or postage due mail/requests.
  10. TERMS & CONDITIONS: All comments, suggestions, recommendations, or other information that you submit concerning 3M™ Command products – which we shall refer to as Your Comments – are received strictly on a non-confidential basis. 3M shall be free to use Your Comments, without compensation, for any purpose on a worldwide basis. By submitting Your Comments, you agree to this understanding.  If you do not agree to this understanding, do not submit Your Comments.
  11. SPONSOR: 3M Company, One Innovation Boulevard, St. Paul, MN 55144.

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