ManiaPlanet Video Contest Rules

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ManiaPlanet Video Contest 2013
OFFICIAL RULES - NORTH AMERICA AND CANADA

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW OR REGULATION. PARTICIPANTS MUST BE 13 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AT THE TIME OF ENTRY.

You are providing your information to Ubisoft Inc. The information you provide will only be used in accordance with the Ubisoft privacy policy which may be viewed at: http://www.ubi.com/US/Info/Info.aspx?ta ... vacyPolicy

1. CONTEST DESCRIPTION: The ManiaPlanet Video Contest 2013 (the “Contest”) begins on Friday, March 1st, 2013 at 08:00 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) and ends on Monday, March 25th, 2013 at 2:59 p.m. PT (the “Contest Period”). During the Contest Period there will be Three (3) winning categories : 1 entry will be selected by Sponsor for each category based on a pre-determined judging criteria and Sponsor will then select One (1) First Prize Winner per category based on the Jury decision. LIMIT: One Prize per person and over the Contest Period. Entry in the Contest does not constitute entry into any other promotion, contest or sweepstakes. By participating in the Contest, each entrant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Ubisoft Inc., 625 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 (the “Sponsor”), whose decisions shall be final and legally binding in all respects.

2. ELIGIBILITY: This Contest is open to legal U.S. residents (excluding residents of Rhode Island and residents of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and other United States territories) and to legal residents of Canada (excluding residents of Quebec), who are thirteen (13) years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees, officers, and directors of Sponsor, and each of their affiliated companies, subsidiaries, licensees, franchisees, distributors, dealers, sales representatives, their advertising and promotion agencies, and any and all other companies associated with the Contest (collectively, the “Promotion Entities”), and each of their immediate families (i.e., parents, spouse, siblings, children, grandparents, step parents, stepchildren and step siblings, and their respective spouses, and those living in the same household, whether or not related) are not eligible to participate. All eligibility is subject to all federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations. All entries submitted are the property of the Sponsor. The Facebook database clock will be the timekeeper for this Contest.

3. HOW TO ENTER:

To enter the Contest, please follow all steps below:

(1) Starting on Friday, March 1st, 2013 at 08:00 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”), and no later than Friday, March 25th, 2013 at 2:59 p.m. PT, create one piece of video content related to Maniaplanet and TM² Stadium Open Beta, TM² Canyon, or SM Storm. Format of the final video must be: 720p or 1080p, H264, .mp4, Stereo sound

(2) Submit your content created to the following email: contest@nadeo.com
Please use the following style for your mail subject.
ManiaGala Video Contest – TITLENAME(Canyon/Stadium/Storm) – YOURNAME" and specify in the email your your last name, first name, full address and phone number.

No other methods of entry will be accepted. Only one entry per person and email address will be accepted. You may only submit one video (participation is only allowed for one category). All entrants must have an existing Internet account and a valid email address at the time the Contest commences.

All completed entries must be received by 2:59 p.m. PT on Monday, March 25th, 2013.

All entries are subject to verification by the Sponsor. You may only submit one video (participation is only allowed for one category). Entries that do not meet the requirements specified below or otherwise do not comply with the Official Rules herein may be disqualified. Any attempted form of entry other than as described herein is void. Sponsor, in accordance with the Contest rules and regulations, will determine in its sole discretion, what constitutes a valid entry. All materials submitted to Sponsor shall become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged. By entering and participating in the Contest you agree that you shall relinquish any and all rights to the materials that you submit and that Sponsor shall have the unqualified right and perpetual license to exploit such materials in any way it deems fit, for any purpose, without any compensation to you for use of the same.

Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest if fraud or technical failures destroy the integrity of the Contest as determined by the Sponsor, in its sole discretion, and to award the Prizes based on eligible entries received prior to the cancellation.

Requirements for the content:

- You must use the ManiaPlanet music (no limititation to number of tracks, remixes allowed)
- You can only submit one video (partication is only allowed for one category)
- You can not use copyrighted material
- Format of the final video: 720p or 1080p, H264, .mp4, Stereo sound
- Should respect the code of conduct of Ubisoft and Nadeo

Entrant’s Representations: By submitting your entry to the Contest you represent and warrant that the submission does not infringe the rights of any third party.

Entry Notes: Once entry is made Entrant cannot access/revise entry in any way. No entry, title or description may be obscene, pornographic, violent, cruel, mean spirited, offensive in any manner including depicting dangerous activity, or in any other way not suitable to be published. If an entry falls into this category their corresponding entry will become void and thus, ineligible at Sponsor’s discretion. Entries made on another’s behalf by any other individuals or any other entity, including but not limited to commercial contest/sweepstakes subscription notification and/or entering services, will be declared invalid and disqualified for this Contest. Tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest is prohibited and any entries deemed by Sponsor, in its sole discretion, to have been submitted in this manner will be void. In the event a dispute regarding the identity of the individual who actually submitted an entry cannot be resolved to Sponsor’s satisfaction, the affected entry will be deemed ineligible. BY ENTERING, ALL PARTICIPANTS AND/OR ENTRANTS RELEASE THE SPONSOR FROM AND AGAINST ALL CLAIMS AND DAMAGES ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH EACH ENTRANT'S PARTICIPATION AND/OR ENTRY IN THE CONTEST AND/OR HIS/HER
RECEIPT OR USE OF THE PRIZES AWARDED IN THIS CONTEST.

Sponsor is not responsible for problems downloading or uploading of any contest-related information to or from the web site or for any other technical malfunctions of electronic equipment, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer hardware or software failures, phone lines, failure of any electronic mail entry to be received by Sponsor on account of technical problems, traffic, congestion on the internet or the web site, or any other technical problems related to web site entries including telecommunication miscommunication or failure, and failed, lost, delayed, incomplete, garbled or misdirected communications which may limit an entrant’s ability to participate in this Contest.

4. PRIZE DRAWING:

Phase 1 – Selection of Winners by Sponsor

Sponsor will select up to three (3) finalists, from which up to three (3) winners in total will be decided :

The three (3) winners will be posted on Maniaplanet Forums ( http://forum.maniaplanet.com/) on or about Saturday, March 25th, 2013.

6. PRIZES:

Only the Prizes listed below will be awarded in this Contest. A total of up to three (3) will be distributed as follows:

First Prize: Your asset featured in the ManiaPlanet game client and on all official social media channels or at official events. A $400 Amazon Gift card. A total of 3 First prizes will be distributed.

Only the Prizes listed above will be awarded in this Contest. Sponsor will not replace Prizes.

All taxes on the Prizes are the Winners’ sole responsibility. Prizes are not transferable or redeemable for cash. Sponsor reserves the right to make equivalent substitutions as necessary, due to circumstances not under its control. Prizes include shipping and handling costs to the Winners’ residence, where applicable. Odds of winning a Prize depend on the total number of eligible entries received. Winners may not transfer Prize to a third party. The Sponsor will not replace any lost or stolen Prize.

Prizes are provided “as is”. Entrants acknowledge that Promotion Entities 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 the Prizes.

By participating in the Contest, the Winners acknowledges that Promotion Entities have not and will not obtain or provide insurance of any kind relating to the Prizes and that each Winner (or his or her parent/legal guardian if Winner is a Minor) will be responsible for obtaining and paying for any life, travel, car, accident, property or other form of insurance relating to the Prizes.

7. WINNER NOTIFICATION: Notification of Winners: The Winners will be notified by e-mail sent to the e-mail address provided on the entry form within one (1) business day of the Prize drawing.

Winners must provide a valid U.S. address to claim Prize. If within two (2) days of notification of the Prize, a selected Winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a Prize and/or where applicable an affidavit of eligibility is not timely received, is incomplete or modified, or if the Prize notification or Prize is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable to such Winner, such Winner will forfeit his or her Prize and an alternate winner may be selected. Alternate winner will be defined as the next runner-up according to the same process as detailed in 5 above. Sponsor shall have no liability for any potential Prize winner notification that is lost, intercepted or not received by any potential Prize winner for any reason.

In the event of a dispute regarding who submitted an entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail account specified in the 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.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.

8. PUBLICITY RELEASE/ASSIGNMENT OF RIGHTS: Acceptance of any Prize constitutes Prize Winner’s permission for the Promotion Entities to exploit and use Prize Winner’s entry materials, including video, name, photograph, likeness, voice, biographical information, statements and complete address (collectively, the "Attributes"), for advertising and/or publicity purposes worldwide and in all forms of media now known or hereafter devised, in perpetuity, without further compensation or authorization, (except where prohibited by law), and releases the Promotion Entities from all claims arising out of the use of such Attributes.

Submission of an entry grants the Sponsor and its agents the right to record, copy, publish, use, edit, exhibit, distribute, perform, merchandise, license, sublicense, adapt and/or modify such entry in any way, in any and all media, without limitation and without any compensation to the entrant. Submission of an entry further constitutes the entrant's consent to irrevocably assign and transfer to Sponsor any and all rights, title and interest in the entry, including, without limitation, all copyrights.

9. PRIVACY POLICY: Any personal information supplied by you to Sponsor will be subject to Ubisoft's privacy policy posted at http://www.ubi.com/US/Info/PrivacyPolicy.htm. By entering the Contest, you are automatically registered as a member of the Sponsor's web site http://www.ubi.com. As a result, you may receive additional e-mail communication/promotions from the Sponsor as any of their members would. Any personal information supplied by you in connection with the Contest will also be subject to the Sponsor's terms of use posted at http://www.ubi.com/US/Info/Info.aspx?tagname=TermsOfUse.

10. DISQUALIFICATION: Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who is found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest, to be acting in violation of these Official Rules, or to be acting in an unsportsman-like or disruptive manner, or with the intent to disrupt or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest, or to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person, and Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages and other remedies from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. No incomplete, forged, software-generated or other automated multiple entries will be accepted. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these rules shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these rules shall otherwise remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein.

11. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Sponsor and the Promotion Entities are not responsible for, and entrant hereby releases Sponsor, Inc., and the Promotion Entities from any claims arising from: (i) technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunctioning of any computer, cable, network, hardware or software; (ii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions or telephone or Internet service; (iii) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (iv) electronic or human error which may occur in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries; (v) any injury or damage to persons or property, including but not limited to entrant's computer, hardware or software, which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant's participation in the Contest and (vi) use of any Prize.

12. DISPUTES: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest or any Prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the appropriate federal or state court of the state of California; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Promotion, but in no event attorneys' fees; and (3) unless otherwise prohibited, under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Promotion shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the United States and the state of California, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the state of California or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of California.

13. OFFICIAL RULES, WINNER’S LIST: A copy of the Official Rules may be downloaded from for the duration of the Contest. A Winners list link will be available at and posted approximately on Saturday, March 30th, 2013. In addition, the “Winners list” and these Official Rules are also available by sending a stamped (Washington State residents may omit postage), self-addressed envelope marked "ManiaPlanet Video Contest" to Ubisoft Inc., 625 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.

14. SPONSOR’S ADDRESS: Ubisoft is located at 625 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

2012 Ubisoft Entertainment. All rights Reserved. ManiaPlanet, TrackMania logo, ShootMania, QuestMania,Nadeo, the Nadeo logo, Ubisoft, Ubi.com and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the US and/or other countries.

The use of any Prize manufacturer or venue, name or trademark in connection with any of the Prizes is solely for the purpose of describing such Prize, and is not intended to suggest any affiliation or sponsorship.

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1. ManiaPlanet Video Contest 2013 OFFICIAL RULES - EMEA

2. CONTEST REGULATIONS FOR “CONTEST”

3. SUBJECT

The company UBISOFT ENTERTAINMENT SA, whose registered offices are at 28, rue Armand Carrel, 93108 Montreuil-sous-Bois Cedex, FRANCE (hereafter referred to as “UBISOFT”) is organising a free contest with no purchase necessary, based around the PC version of the ManiaPlanet game, entitled “Video Contest” and available at the address: http://www.maniaplanet.com.

4. DEFINITIONS

“Contest”: signifies the contest organised by UBISOFT in relation to the release of the PC version of the “ManiaPlanet” video game.

“Video game”: signifies the “ManiaPlanet” video game in PC format, distributed by UBISOFT and belonging to UBISOFT.

“Jury”: signifies the selection jury, made up of UBISOFT employees, that will decide the winners of the contest.

“Contest page”: signifies the web page for the contest, available at the address https://blog.maniaplanet.com/blog/2013/ ... niaplanet/ and situated on the website registered and managed by UBISOFT (https://blog.maniaplanet.com/blog/2013/ ... niaplanet/).

5. CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION

Participation in the contest is open to any natural person living in Europe and possessing a postal address in Europe, except for members of the Jury, those having participated in the organisation of the contest, employees of UBISOFT, employees of any company controlled or partially controlled by UBISOFT, and any family members of these people (same name, same address).

Minors are allowed to participate, under the condition that they have prior parental consent (or that of their legal guardian) authorising them to do so. UBISOFT reserves the right to demand written proof of this at any moment, and to carry out any necessary check, as well to disqualify any participating minor who does not produce such authorisation immediately or within a reasonable amount of time that they are accorded. Any disqualification of a minor who has been chosen among the winners of the contest and thus earned one of the prizes described in article 6 of these regulations (referred to hereafter as “the regulations”) will lead to that person’s prize being attributed to the participant classed directly below him/her. The following rankings will be similarly modified, with the prizes redistributed according to this new ranking.

Access to this contest is limited to one participation per family (same name, same address) and per person, regardless of the number of e-mail addresses they have. If multiple participations are detected for the same person, for example via different e-mail addresses, the participant will be excluded from the contest.

Each participant must fill in all the required fields of the contest registration form on the contest page.

6. CONTEST DETAILS

The contest will start on 28th February 2013 at midnight and end on 25th March 2013 at 11.59pm (time zone: CET), with the reception date and time for the participants’ electronic replies being that recorded by UBISOFT’s computer systems.

Participants can obtain all the information and tools necessary for registration, and submit their responses, on the contest page. The contest section will be available for at least as long as the contest runs, except in the case of a technical incident.

Participants must submit 1 (one) video about one of the ManiaPlanet licence (TrackMania² Canyon, TrackMania² Stadium or ShootMania Storm). These video must be sent by e-mail to contest@nadeo.com with the subject “ManiaGala Video Contest – TITLENAME(Canyon/Stadium/Storm) – YOURNAME”. The e-mail sent by each participant must also include in the body of the message details of the video they have chosen to create. Only ManiaPlanet musics can be used on the video.

7. CHOOSING THE WINNERS

There will be 3 (three) winners of the contest, selected by the jury, based on creativity and the faithfulness of the videos to the world of the video games.

The list of winners will be available at the address http://www.facebook.com/ManiaPlanet from 30th March 2013.

The winners will also be personally notified, on or after 30th March 2013 with an e-mail sent to the address given when they registered for participation in the contest.
In this same e-mail, the winners will be told that their prize will be sent to the postal address given when they registered for participation in the contest.

If the winner has not received their prize with 21 (twenty-one) days of the above e-mail being sent, they have 90 (ninety) days following the publication of the winners’ names on the website to make this fact known to the organisers of the contest. If they do not, after this time, the winner forfeits their right to the prize initially attributed to them.

Under no circumstances can UBISOFT be held responsible for the loss of or damage to prizes by the postal system and/or the faulty functioning of their services.

8. CONTEST PRIZES

The prizes are as follows:

1st Prize: 1 (one) 400$ Amazon Gift Card.

The amounts indicated for the prizes correspond to those currently practised or estimated at the time the regulations were drawn up. They are given only as a rough indication and may be subject to change.

9. CONDITIONS FOR PRIZE ATTRIBUTION

Only one prize can be attributed per family (same name, same address). In order to qualify for the prize, the winner must fulfil the conditions defined in the regulations.

No prize attributed may be disputed by the winner, replaced by its equivalent money value or be replaced or exchanged under any circumstances. However, should UBISOFT find itself unable to provide any prize won, UBISOFT reserves the right to replace the announced prize with another of equivalent value or similar characteristics. The winners waive any right to claim damages from UBISOFT resulting from damage caused by the acceptance and/or use of the prize.

10. CONTEST REGULATIONS

UBISOFT reserves the right, if circumstances demand, to delay, modify or cancel the contest, to modify its duration, to make immediate and final decisions regarding any difficulties that may arise during the running of the contest. The responsibility of UBISOFT may not be invoked if, because of an unforeseeable, unavoidable and external event, UBISOFT is unable to uphold all or part of the regulations contained within this document.

11. PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

The information supplied for the contest is destined for UBISOFT. UBISOFT informs participants that the nominative data supplied for the contest is processed automatically, and as such stored in a digital file that UBISOFT may use or sell.

The participant, if he/she is one of the winners, authorises UBISOFT to freely use their forename, surname, e-mail address and photos supplied for the contest without charge, for operations informing people about the contest, publication of the results and the promotion of the video game, in any media, for a period of 18 (eighteen) months starting from the date the winners are announced.

Upon request, participants have the right to access and rectify the data concerning them contained in the computer file, and may refuse that their contact details be used subsequently for advertising or promotional ends by contacting the following address: http://support.ubi.com

12. LIMITATION OF UBISOFT’S RESPONSIBILITY

Participation in the contest implies knowledge and acceptance of the characteristics and limitations of the Internet, especially with regard to technical performance, response times when consulting, requesting or transferring data, risks of service interruption and more generally the risks inherent for any connection and transfer of data on the Internet, the absence of protection for certain data against eventual misappropriation and the risk of infection by any virus that may eventually be present on the network.

Consequently, UBISOFT may not under any circumstances be held responsible for elements including but not limited to:

transmission and/or reception of any data and/or information on the Internet;
malfunction of the Internet network that may impede the contest from running or functioning;
failure of reception hardware or communication lines;
loss of e-mails and, more generally, the loss of any data;
delivery problems;
functioning of any software;
consequences of any virus, bug, anomaly or technical failure;
damage cause to a participant’s computer;
a technical, hardware or software failure of any kind they may stop or hinder participation in the contest or may have damaged a participant’s computer.

13. APPLICABLE LAW AND COMPETENT COURTS

In the case of this clause 11 not being found contrary to any publicly known legislation, the contest is governed by French law and will be subject to the competent French courts in application of the rules of the new Civil Procedure Code. Participation in the contest also implies accepting without reservation these regulations in their entirety, the rules of good conduct in force on the Internet and well as the laws, regulations and other texts applicable in France.


© 2012 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. ManiaPlanet, TrackMania² Canyon, TrackMania² Stadium, ShootMania Storm, TrackMania², ShootMania, Nadeo, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries.