WWI 2008 TV Advertisement Terms
FROM THE 10TH OF JUNE TO THE 22TH OF JUNE 2008
Article 1: The Company Blizzard Entertainment S.A.S., which head office is located in Velizy Villacoublay (78143), 36, avenue de l’Europe and operating under the commercial name of Blizzard is organizing a competition on the following website: eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/, from the 10th of June to the 22th of June (included).
Article 2: The competition is opened to anyone aged 15 or more residing in France, in Belgium, in the United Kingdom or in Luxemburg, or anyone aged 18 or more residing in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Spain, or in Ireland, except Blizzard's personnel and their family, affiliates or business partners.
Article 3: Entrants automatically accept the terms of this competition and acknowledge the fact that this game being French, the competition is governed by French law.
Article 4: Failure to observe the terms stated here will lead to the nullification of the participation.
Article 5: Only 5 (five) entries per household will be accepted (same name, same address).
Article 6: Entrants have to connect to the website at http://eu.blizzard.com/wwi08/contest.xml, fill in the form and upload their submissions. The submissions may only consist in digital files in .AVI formats, no larger than 70 MB in filesize. The submissions must be in 720 P HD format.
Article 7: Entries to the competition will have to be validated and sent online by each entrant before the 22th of June, 23:59 (GMT-9). The cost of the telephone communication necessary to the entry will be refunded on written request sent to: Blizzard Europe, 36, avenue de l'Europe, Bât Étendard 1, 78457 Vélizy-Villacoublay Cedex. The request should legibly bear mention of the competition, the first name, last name and details of the entrant asking for a refund. Communication will be paid back up to €0.50.
Article 8: Aim of the competition: Players have to submit a short machinima commercial advertising an item in the World of Warcraft universe. This video must be exclusive to the WWI Commercial Contest. A jury composed of developers will decide the winners on grounds of creativity, originality, uniqueness, and appropriateness.
Article 9: Original Work of Authorship. You hereby warrant and represent that (a) you own all rights to all contribution submitted by you; and (b) all such contribution are original works of authorship on your part and have not been copied, in whole or in part, from any other work and do not violate, misappropriate or infringe any copyright, trademark or other proprietary right of any other person or entity.
Article 10: Three (3) winners will receive one (1) Nokia 5610 XpressMusic player, one (1) free one-year susbsciption to World of Warcraft, and one (1) ticket to the Worldwide Invitational event in Paris, France, valued at 300€ (tax included), 131€ (tax included) and 70€ (tax included) respectively.
Article 11: The winners will be warned within 14 working days. The prize will be sent to winners via the postal mail address that they give in the form.
Article 12: Resale of the prize is forbidden. No exchange of the prize worth against money, another prize, object or service different from a prize eventually won by an entrant will be accepted.
Article 13: The details of each entrant (name and e-mail address) will be transmitted by the Blizzard's server, which will process the data. The data will be collected during the online subscription of each user on the eu.blizzard.com website according to the « Informatique et Libertés » law, of the 6th of January 1978 and its later amendments, and according to the European directive number 95/46/CE. Each entrant grants Blizzard permission to use the information he is providing within the framework set by the« Informatique et Libertés » law of the 6th of January 1978. Each entrant benefits from the right to access and modify his personal data.
Article 14: In case of litigation, only tribunals in the country of physical residence of the head office of the organizing company will have jurisdiction.
Article 15: Responsibility. In case of circumstances outside Blizzard's control, in a fortuitous case, or under exceptional circumstances (fire, flood, natural disaster, malevolent intrusion in the IT system, strike, jeopardize of the financial and technical viability of the competition etc.), even in the case of its own responsibility (subject to its good faith), Blizzard retains the right to cancel the whole or part of the competition. The present competition will be cancelled in case circumstances outside Blizzard's control, without the entrants or winners being able to claim any form of compensation. Blizzard retains the right to exclude entry to the present competition any individual having cheated, deceived, faked or disturbed the operations stated in this terms. Blizzard retains the right to sue any individual having cheated, deceived, faked or disturbed the operations stated in this terms, or tried to do so. A winner having disturbed the competition in any of the ways described in the present terms will be rightfully denied the right to claim any prize. Any addition or amendment to these terms will be announced on the Internet. They will be considered appendices to the present terms.
The full terms have been deposited at the office of Maître Venezia, huissier de justice (court officer) in Neuilly-sur-Seine. They are available on simple written request sent to the organizing company. The stamp will be refunded on simple request sent to the Consumer Service of Blizzard, legibly bearing mention of the competition, first name, last name and details of the addressee by joining his bank account details.