East Dane #1BigYear Sweepstakes

Show us your biggest moment from the last 12 months for a chance to win one of 4 weekly prizes and a $2,000 East Dane gift certificate grand prize. To enter, share a photo on Twitter or Instagram and tag it with #1BigYearSweeps @EastDane

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS SWEEPSTAKES. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

Please read these rules before entering the East Dane #1BigYear Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes"). You agree that, by submitting an entry, you will be bound by these Official Rules and you acknowledge that you satisfy all sweepstakes eligibility requirements.

Eligibility. If you are an individual legal resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia and are the older of 18 years of age or the legal age of majority in your state of residence at the time of entry, you are eligible to enter the Sweepstakes. Our employees, their immediate family members (spouses, domestic partners, parents, grandparents, siblings, children and grandchildren), and our affiliates, advisors or advertising/promotion agencies (and their immediate family members) are not eligible to enter the Sweepstakes.

How to Enter. You may enter the Sweepstakes beginning at 12:00:01 a.m. (ET) on September 8, 2014 and ending at 11:59:59 p.m. (ET) on October 2, 2014 (the "Sweepstakes Period"). To enter, during the Sweepstakes Period you must enter via one of the following entry methods:

Entry Method #1

Go to Twitter, follow @EastDane, share a photo you have taken that shows your best moment in the last year (the "Photo"), and include "@&EastDane" and "#1BigYearSweeps" in your post.

You must have a Twitter account and be logged in to your account to enter via Entry Method #1.

Entry Method #2

Go to Instagram, follow @EastDane, share a photo you have taken that shows your best moment in the last year (the "Photo"), and include "@EastDane" and "#1BigYearSweeps" in your post.

You must have an Instagram account and be logged in to your account to enter via Entry Method #2.

Entry Method #3

Alternatively, you may enter by sending a 3x5 card with your name, address, e-mail address and daytime phone number to East Dane #1BigYear Sweepstakes, 230 West 41st Street, Floor 20, New York, NY 10036.

Mail-in entries must be postmarked by October 2, 2014 and received by October 9, 2014. All other entries must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. (ET) on October 2, 2014. Limit one entry per person and social media account or e-mail address, regardless of entry method. For instance, you may enter once via either Entry Method #1, Entry Method #2, or Entry Method #3. In the event any entrant submits more than one entry, the first entry received by Sponsor will be deemed that entrant’s entry. Entrants assume all risk of lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, or illegible Entries. You may not use multiple Twitter or Instagram accounts to enter the Sweepstakes, and an entrant who submits through multiple accounts will be disqualified.

Each Photo must: be the original creation of entrant and be suitable for family viewing on a national news network and meet other reasonable community standards. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole and unfettered discretion to disqualify at any time any Photo containing obscene, offensive, pornographic or sexually explicit material, or libelous, disparaging or other inappropriate content or subject matter (as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion).

All Photos must be the original creations of the entrants, and by submitting a Photo, each entrant grants to Sponsor the non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display the Photo (including all images and people depicted in the Photo) throughout the world in any media. By submitting a Photo, each entrant represents and warrants that (a) his/her Photo is his/her original creation; (b) his/her Photo has not been copied or derived in whole or in part from any other work; (c) his/her Photo (including all images and people depicted in the Photo) does not violate or infringe any copyright, trademark, privacy or publicity right, or other personal, proprietary or intellectual property right of any person or entity; (d) his/her Photo is not defamatory, libelous, obscene, or otherwise illegal; (e) his/her Photo is the sole and exclusive property of the entrant; (f) he/she has complete, worldwide distribution rights for his/her Photo; and (g) he/she has received the written consent of any person (or parent or legal guardian if such person is a minor) who appears in any Photo. If an entrant appears in his/her own Photo, such entrant acknowledges that he/she is the older of 18 years of age or the legal age of majority in his/her state of residence in the Photo, and such entrant consents, by virtue of submitting his/her Entry to the Contest, to Sponsor’s use of the entrant’s name, likeness, photograph or image, whether in writing, audio, and/or video, for any purpose, in any media, without compensation or additional consideration to entrant. Failure to obtain or provide such consent will disqualify the entry. Sponsor may at any time during the Sweepstakes request proof of such consent and disqualify any Photo for which such consent cannot be provided. Sponsor may disqualify any entrant whose entry Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, at any time not to comply with any requirement described in these Official Rules or the foregoing representations and warranties.

Entrants agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sponsor, its affiliates, agents, contractors, prize provider agencies, and Twitter and Instagram (collectively, the "Released Parties"), for any action or claim brought by a person whose consent entrant did not obtain. Photos, along with the entrant’s name may be posted on any Web site owned and/or operated by Sponsor or any of its affiliates ("Sponsor Site"), Sponsor’s pages on social media web sites, such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, and any other Web site or other online point of presence on any platform, through which any products or services available on or through the Sponsor Site are described, syndicated, offered, merchandised or advertised, in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor’s decision to post a Photo or any portion of a Photo on any Sponsor Site does not mean that the selected Photo has been selected as a winning entry.

Mailing List. Mailing List. By entering the Sweepstakes, you consent to being placed on an e-mailing list to receive promotional and other materials from Eastdane.com. You may update or change your “Email Preferences” in your Eastdane.com account at https://www.eastdane.com/actions/secure/myaccount/myAccountHomePageAction.action

Other Promotions. Other Promotions. Please note that we may be running similar sweepstakes at the same time as this Sweepstakes. By entering this Sweepstakes, you will not be eligible to receive any prize awarded in any other sweepstakes unless you enter each sweepstakes separately.

Prize. We will award a total of 4 Weekly Prize packages consisting of the items listed on Table A of these Official Rules. From all eligible entries received during the Sweepstakes Period, we also will award 1 Grand Prize consisting of a $2,000.00 Eastdane.com Gift Certificate [approximate retail value ("ARV") $2,000.00].

Weekly Prize Drawing Number Entry Start Date (12:00:01 a.m. (ET)) Entry End Date (11:59:59 p.m. (ET)) Mail-In Entry Must Be Postmarked by Mail-In Entry Must Be Received by Number of Prizes Prize To Be Awarded ARV of Prize Drawing Date
1 9/8/14 9/11/14 9/11/14 9/18/14 1 Leather Bi-Fold Wallet $295.00 9/18/14
2 9/8/14 9/18/14 9/18/14 9/25/14 1 Classic Leather Backpack $495.00 9/25/14
3 9/8/14 9/25/14 9/25/14 10/2/14 1 Alpha Bravo Cannon Backpack $275.00 10/2/14
4 9/8/14 10/2/14 10/2/14 10/9/14 See Prize To Be Awarded
  • Warwick Watch (Quantity = 1 / ARV = $195.00)
  • Leather Valet Tray (Quantity = 1 / ARV = $95.00)
  • Leather Hook Bracelet (Quantity = 1 / ARV = $68.00)
See Prize To Be Awarded 10/9/14

The total ARV of all prizes is $3,423.00. The Grand Prize winner must have or will need to create an Eastdane.com account in order to receive and redeem the Eastdane.com Gift Certificate ("GC"). You may only use the GC for purchases of eligible goods on Eastdane.com. Redemption of the GC will be subject to BOP LLC’s standard terms, conditions and restrictions applicable to gift certificates in effect on the day of issuance of the GC. BOP LLC is not responsible if the GC is lost, stolen, destroyed or used without permission. If the GC is lost or stolen, it will not be replaced. See www.eastdane.com/ci/aboutShopBop/customerservice.html#gift-services10,page=8 for GC terms and conditions.

Each winner will be responsible for paying all costs and expenses related to the prize that are not specifically mentioned, including, but not limited to, taxes, and any other expenses that might reasonably be incurred by the winner in receiving or using the prize. Each winner may be required to submit his/her social security number or tax payer ID number to Sponsor in order to claim the prize.

Prize Drawing. Potential winners for the Weekly Prizes will be selected at random drawings to be held on or about the dates listed on Table A of these Official Rules. To be eligible for a Weekly Prize drawing, we must receive eligible entries between 12:00:01 a.m. (ET) on September 8, 2014 and 11:59:59 p.m. (ET) on the entry end date for that drawing as listed on Table A, except that post card entries must be postmarked by the entry end date for that drawing and received by the date specified on Table A. A potential winner for the Grand Prize will be selected at a random drawing to be held on or about October 9, 2014, from all eligible entries received during the Sweepstakes Period. We must receive eligible Weekly Prize entries during the Sweepstakes Period for them to be eligible for the Grand Prize drawing. Entries not drawn at any given drawing will remain in the entry pool for subsequent drawings, if any. Limit 1 prize per person for a total of 5 Sweepstakes winners.

Notification Method:

On or about the drawing date for a Weekly Prize specified on Table A, we will notify the potential winner by one of the following methods:

  • (a) If the potential winner entered via Twitter, we will message the potential winner on Twitter and we will provide an e-mail address or other contact information where the potential winner must contact us. Messaging may be public or private. The potential winner must respond as requested within 48 hours of our submission of the message, or we may select an alternative potential winner.
  • (b) If the potential winner entered via Instagram, we will message the potential winner on Instagram via a comment on their Photo entry and we will provide an e-mail address or other contact information where the potential winner must contact us. Messaging may be public or private. The potential winner must respond as requested within 48 hours of our submission of a comment post on their Photo entry, or we may select an alternative potential winner.
  • (c) If the potential winner entered via Entry Method #3, we will notify the potential winner via phone or e-mail.

Each potential winner will be required to sign an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release or other similar document as requested by us. We may select an alternative potential winner if any potential winner does not return the requested, completed document(s) within 72 hours of our sending such document(s), or meet the eligibility criteria. The prizes will be awarded "AS IS" and WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, express or implied (including, without limitation, any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose).

Odds of Winning. Odds of winning a Weekly Prize depend on the number of eligible entries received for that Weekly Prize drawing. Odds of winning the Grand Prize depend on the total number of eligible entries received during the Sweepstakes Period.

Additional Terms. We may, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and in our sole discretion, change these rules or cancel the Sweepstakes at any time; or modify, terminate, or suspend the Sweepstakes should viruses, worms, bugs, unauthorized human intervention or other causes beyond our control corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Sweepstakes or submission of entries. We are not responsible for: (a) lost, misdirected, late, postage due, incomplete, or unintelligible entries or for inaccurate entry information, whether caused by you or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes, or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of entries; (b) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Sweepstakes; (c) any error in the operation or transmission, theft, destruction, unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries, or for technical, network, telephone, computer, hardware or software, malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of, or failure to receive any entry information on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website; or (d) injury or damage to your or any other computer resulting from downloading any materials in connection with the Sweepstakes. We may, in our sole discretion, disqualify any individual found to be: (x) tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or website; (y) acting in violation of these rules; or (z) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. If your entry is incomplete or if you use robotic, automatic, programmed or similar entry methods, your entry will be void. The authorized subscriber of the e-mail account used to enter the Sweepstakes at the actual time of entry will be deemed to be the participant and must comply with these rules in the event of a dispute as to entries submitted by multiple users having the same e-mail account. The authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is assigned an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domains associated with the submitted e-mail addresses. No greater than the number of prizes stated in these Official Rules will be awarded. If any technical errors occur in the selection of any potential prize winner or if more prizes are claimed than the number of prizes being awarded as provided in these Official Rules, we may award the prize by random drawing from among all eligible claimants.

Miscellaneous. The Sweepstakes is governed by the laws of the United States. The Sweepstakes and all accompanying materials are © 2014 by BOP LLC, and its affiliates. All rights reserved. If you win a prize, you may not transfer, assign, or redeem the prize for cash. We may substitute a prize with a prize of equal or greater value. Each winner agrees (for himself or herself and his or her heirs) that, by accepting the prize, the Released Parties will have no liability, and will be held harmless by the winner for any liability, loss, injury or damage to property or person, including death, and reasonable attorney’s fees and court costs, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prize or participation in the Sweepstakes, even if caused or contributed to by the negligence of any of the Released Parties. You agree that our decisions related to the Sweepstakes and all drawings are final. Each winner agrees that, by participating in the Sweepstakes, we may use the winner’s name, image or likeness in any manner and in any medium for our promotional purposes without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law.

Winner's List. After we confirm the winners, we will post the winners’ names at http://www.eastdane.com/ci/lp/past-sweeps-winners.html until April 30, 2015.

Sponsor. BOP LLC ("we" or "us"), 1245 E. Washington Ave., Suite 300, Madison, WI 53703. The Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Twitter or Instagram. You understand that you are providing your information to BOP LLC and not to Twitter or Instagram.

Privacy Notice: All information submitted in connection with this Sweepstakes will be treated in accordance with these Official Rules and EastDane.com’s Privacy Notice http://www.eastdane.com/ci/aboutShopBop/privacypolicy.html.