NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A purchase does not increase your chances of winning. Void where prohibited. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, 18 years or older. Internet access and a valid Twitter account are required.
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1. Eligibility: Philips Lighting Company's “Philips LED Tour” Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) is open only to individuals who (a) are legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia, (b) are at least eighteen (18) years of age at time of entry, and (c) have a Twitter account. Employees, officers and directors of Philips Lighting Company, a division of Philips Electronics North America Corporation, (“Sponsor”), its parent, affiliated and subsidiary companies, advertising and promotional agencies, and members of the immediate family or household of the employees of such entities are not eligible. (“Immediate family” includes the spouse and parents, siblings and children and their spouses whether or not residing with the ineligible employee.) Void where prohibited.
2. Sweepstakes Period: The “Philips LED Tour” Sweepstakes begins at 12:00:01 AM Eastern Time (“ET”) on March 17, 2012 and ends at 11:59:59 PM ET on April 22, 2012 (the “Entry Period”). Sponsor's computer shall be the official timekeeping device for this Sweepstakes.
3. How to Enter: If you don't already follow PhilipsLightUS on Twitter, visit http://twitter.com/PhilipsLightUS and click on the icon to follow Philips LightUS. Once you have signed up to follow PhilipsLightUS, to enter, send us an @reply @PhilipsLightUS telling us one LED lighting fact you learned from attending our LED Light Experience Roadshow Tour. Be sure to include #PhilipsLEDTour in your tweet. If you post updates to or receive updates from Twitter via SMS from your wireless phone, your wireless service provider may charge you for each text message you send and receive. Please consult your wireless service provider for more information. All terms and conditions of Twitter.com apply. Every entry must be manually keystroked and entered by an individual entrant. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same Twitter account. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain multiple entries by using multiple/different Twitter accounts, identities, registrations, or logins, or through any other methods, may void all of that entrant's entries and that entrant may be disqualified. Automated submission of entries (including but not limited to entries made using any script, macro, bot or sweepstakes service) will be disqualified and transmissions from any related e-mail or IP addresses may be blocked. Retweets of any Sweepstakes entry do not count as an additional entry. Multiple posts of the same entry by a single Twitter user will be deemed invalid and that entrant may be disqualified. Tweets must be posted by 11:59:59 PM ET on April 22, 2012. In order for the tweet to be a valid sweepstakes entry, both the @reply @PhilipsLightUS and hashtag #PhilipsLEDTour must be included in the tweet.
4. Drawing: A random drawing from among all eligible entries received during the Entry Period will be conducted on or about April 30th, 2012 by Source Marketing LLC, the Sweepstakes Administrator. One (1) winner will be selected. Odds of winning will depend on number of eligible entries received.
5. Prize/ARV (Approximate Retail Value): One (1) Grand Prize winner (“Winner”) will receive a cash prize in the form of an Apple gift card in the approximate ARV amount of $250.
Prize Restrictions. Prize cannot be sold, transferred or bartered in whole or in part and no substitutions or cash equivalents allowed, except at the sole discretion of the Sponsor, who reserves the right to substitute a prize of comparable or greater value. Winner is solely responsible for payment of all applicable federal, state and local taxes on prize and for all other expenses related to acceptance and use of prize not specifically stated herein. Prize winner will be issued an IRS 1099 Form for the fair market value of the prize.
6. Notification: Winner will be notified using contact information provided or collected at the time of entry. The Winner will be announced via a message from Sponsor's official Twitter account (@PhilipsLightUS). Sponsor will attempt to contact the Winner via a public Tweet from the @PhilipsLightUS Twitter handle. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may also attempt to contact the Winner via a direct message on the Twitter platform. Within 48 hours of the public Tweet announcing the potential winner, the potential winner must respond with a Tweet via the Twitter service that is (a) sent to the @PhilipsLightUS Twitter handle; (b) includes the #PhilipsLEDTour hashtag; and (c) accepts the prize. Otherwise, the prize will be forfeited and another potential winner will be selected. Sponsor will then send a direct message to the potential winner via the Twitter platform with further contact information for redeeming prize. If, despite reasonable efforts, a potential winner does not respond within 48 hours of the prize notification, or if the prize or prize notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable to such potential winner, winner will forfeit his or her prize and an alternate winner may be selected. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may attempt to contact up to three (3) winners of a prize in accordance with the above procedure, after which the prize in question will go un-awarded if it remains unclaimed. If any prize winner is found to be ineligible, or if he or she has not complied with these Official Rules or declines the prize for any reason prior to award, such prize winner will be disqualified and an alternate prize winner may be selected. Limit one Grand Prize per person. A “screen shot” is not evidence of winning a prize.
The Winner will be required to complete and sign an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and, where permitted, a Publicity Release, and return these documents within the time specified in the notification letter. Tennessee residents need not sign publicity release. Failure by a winner to timely complete, sign and return the documents will cause prize to be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner. It is the Entrant's responsibility to ensure the Sponsor has the correct email address and postal address.
7. General: By entering, participants agree (a) to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor and judges which are final and binding in all respects; and (b) if a winner, by accepting prize, to the use of his/her name, photograph and/or likeness by Sponsor, or any party authorized by Sponsor, for advertising and promotional purposes in all media without review or additional compensation (except where prohibited by law) and, upon request, to provide such consent in writing. Entrants further agree that Sponsor, Source Marketing and their parent companies, affiliates subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents (“Sweepstakes Entities”) (A) shall not be responsible or liable for, and are hereby released from and against any and all liability, injuries, losses, damages, rights, claims and actions of any kind, including personal injury and/or death or property damage, in any way arising from his/her participation in this Sweepstakes, or from his/her receipt, possession, acceptance and/or use or misuse of any prize, or for any error in the announcement of any prize; and (b) have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guaranty, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relating to a prize.
Sponsor, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, agents and representatives and their respective officers, directors and employees are not responsible for and shall not be liable for: (a) printing or typographical errors in any Sweepstakes-related materials, (b) electronic, hardware or software program, network, Internet or computer malfunctions, failures, or difficulties of any kind, including without limitation, server malfunction or by any human error which may occur in the processing of entries; (c) failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions; (d) lost, late, misdirected, mutilated, incomplete or illegible prize claims and/or entries; (e) inaccurate entry information whether caused by Internet users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of the entries in the Sweepstakes; or (f) any condition caused by events beyond the control of the Sponsor that may cause the Sweepstakes to be disrupted or corrupted. Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any damage to an entrant's or any other person's wireless phone which is occasioned by accessing tweeting Sponsor or otherwise participating in the Sweepstakes.
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, suspend or terminate the Sweepstakes or any portion thereof should viruses, bugs technical difficulties, suspected or actual electronic tampering, or other causes corrupt the administration, security integrity or proper play of the Sweepstakes. In the event of cancellation or suspension, notification thereof will be posted at www.ledlightover.com and sent via a public Tweet from the @PhilipsLightUS Twitter handle. In such event, the prize will be awarded based on a random drawing from among all eligible on-line entries received prior to cancellation. Sponsor, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to void any entries submitted fraudulently or in contravention of the Official Rules. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A CONTESTANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH OFFENDER TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of an online entrant, the Twitter handle used to participate in the Sweepstakes at the actual time of entry will be deemed to be the entrant. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned to a Twitter account by Twitter.com. Proof of being the authorized account holder may be required.
Apple® is a registered trademark of Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple is not a participant in or sponsor of this promotion.
8. Governing Law: This Sweepstakes will be governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to its choice of law or conflict of laws principles. Any and all disputes arising out or connected in any way with the Sweepstakes will be resolved individually and exclusively by final and binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) conducted before a sole arbitrator and held in New Jersey. Arbitrator's decision shall be controlled by these Official Rules and shall apply only to the individual initiating the dispute. Arbitrator shall not have the power to award special, consequential, incidental, punitive or other similar damages.
9. Winners List:
To receive a copy of the winners list, send a self-addressed stamped envelope by May 31, 2012 to “Philips LED Tour Sweepstakes,” c/o Source Marketing, 761 Main Ave, Norwalk, CT 06851.
10. Sponsor:
Philips Lighting Company, a division of Philips Electronics North America Corporation, 200 Franklin Square Drive, Somerset, NJ 08873.






