Your Easy Garden Give Away Contest

Download the news release in Microsoft Word format: YOUREASYGARDEN CONTEST - June 2011 - Rules and Agreements.

Who Can Enter

1. Entrants must be at least 18 years of age or older and have lawful access to the Internet and a valid e-mail address.
2. Employees of Tesselaar Plants Inc. and their affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate family members of each are ineligible.

How To Enter

3. No purchase is necessary to enter or win. You can enter as often as you’d like but each entry must be a unique answer/comment. The contest begins at 9:30 a.m. on the first day of the month and all entries must be received each day by 10:30 p.m. until the contest ends on September 30, 2011.
4. To enter, send your submission to lisa [dot] hutchursonbrandcool [dot] com or, for larger files, to https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=dropbox&dropbox=JudithBrower10210871 (and please include your email address, but be assured your email address is kept private and not shown publicly). Entry constitutes an assignment to Sponsors of all intellectual property rights in the entry materials, if any. Except where prohibited by law, entry constitutes permission to use winners’ names, hometowns, likenesses, and photographs for online posting, and/or any advertising and publicity without additional compensation.

Monthly Categories will be:

• Best Plant Combos (July)
• Best Story About Your Garden & Why Gardening Is Important To You (August)
• Best “Easy Gardening” Tricks and Tips (Sept.)

5. Sponsors are not responsible for error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware, or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or failure to receive entry, winner(s) or other giveaway information by Sponsors or entrants for any reason whatsoever. Sponsors are also not responsible for any injury or damage to any entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from playing or downloading any materials in the giveaway or for entries that are late, misdirected or incomplete. All entries become the property of Sponsors and will not be returned. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATIONS OF THE GIVEAWAY IS A VIOLATION OF THE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS, AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSORS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH ENTRANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Sponsors reserve the right to cancel the giveaway if it becomes technically corrupted.
6. Beginning July 1, 2011 – September 30, 2011, one valid entry will be randomly selected by Tesselaar Plants employee from among all valid entries received in the months of July, August and September. (For example, on Sunday, July 31, the monthly winner will be randomly selected from among all valid entries received between July 1 and July 31^. )
7. On July 31, 2001, August 31^, 2011 and September 30, 2011 the winner will be randomly selected from among all valid entries for that month. The winner will be notified by Tesselaar Plants via email. In the event the winner does not have a valid email address – a second entry randomly selected from among all valid entries for that month will be the alternate.

The Prize(s)

8. Three monthly prizes will be awarded. The winners will receive a Tesselaar Garden Goodie Bag including: a canvas totebag, The Rose, a stunning a coffee table book including writing contributions five of the world's most respected rosarians (including Anthony Tesselaar) and two to three bare root roses from the entire collection of Next Generation Flower Carpet roses – Amber, Scarlet and Pink Supreme. All prizes provided by Tesselaar Plants.
9. Prizes cannot be redeemed for cash or substituted for any other items by the winners. The winners cannot assign or transfer prize. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a comparable prize of like or greater value, including cash, for any prize, for any reason.
10. Only one prize will be awarded per household. Individuals are eligible to win only one prize within any 30-day period, regardless of the number of giveaways entered.

Odds of Winning

11. Odds of winning depend on the number of correct entries received.
12. This giveaway is subject to all applicable laws and regulations and is void where prohibited or restricted by law, including without limitation, in jurisdictions requiring registration, filing, trust account, or posting of a bond, or any other requirements or disclosures that are not expressly satisfied by these rules. Sponsors are not responsible for typographical or other errors in the printing, offering, or administration of the giveaway, or in the announcement of the prize.
13. By entering, participants represent that they are eligible, and agree (a) to be bound by these rules and the decisions of the judges, (b) to release Sponsors, their parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, losses, or damages of any kind caused by any prize or resulting from acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize.