Rules and Regulations
Eligibility
The Workplace Hero Contest (“Contest”) is open to legal residents of Canada (except Quebec) or of the United States (except Vermont, Hawaii, Florida, Alaska and Puerto Rico) who are of the age of majority within their place of residence. Employees of Sponsor, their family members, and direct vendors of Sponsor are prohibited from entering. Entrants are subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited by law.
Should it be discovered that an entrant is using the aid of computer software programs to auto-fill entries that entrant will be immediately disqualified from the Contest. The Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify all such entrants from future contests conducted by the Sponsor without further notice.
Sponsor
The contest is sponsored by 2Catalyze, Inc. d/b/a/ Rypple (“Sponsor”), Suite 1900, 20 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario M4R 1K8 Canada.
Agreement to Official Rules
By participating in this contest, entrants agree to abide by the terms and conditions thereof as established by Sponsor in these rules, as well as the Rypple Terms of Service located at http://rypple.com/terms-of-service. Sponsor reserves the right to qualify all submissions and to reject any submissions that do not meet the requirements for participation as established by Sponsor.
Entry Period
The Contest begins on March 12, 2010 at 12:01 A.M. EST and ends on April 9, 2010 at 11:59 P.M. EST (“Entry Period”). Entries received before or after this Entry Period are void.
The Instant Win Contest at South by Southwest ® in Austin, Texas, U.S.A. (“SWSX ®”) begins on March 12, 2010 at 12:01 A.M. EST and ends on March 16, 2010 at 11:59 P.M. EST (“Instant Win Contest Period”). Additional details about SXSW can be found by visiting http://sxsw.com. Rypple, 2Catalyze, Inc., and the Workplace Hero Contest are in no way affiliated with SXSW.
How to Enter
Entrants may enter the contest by visiting http://workplacehero.com during the Entry Period and following the “Click to Enter” link. All entries take the form of a “Kudo” sent to another person via the Rypple Kudos application, and must include the sender’s name and email address, the recipient’s email address, and a customized personal message. Kudos may additionally include a badge and/or customized stationary. No purchase is necessary to enter the contest.
For the instant win prizes at SXSW, entrants must be wearing one or more of the Workplace Hero Stickers (“Stickers”) that can be found in the SXSW Big Bags distributed to interactive conference attendees. Additional Stickers can be found at various SXSW venues and parties, details of which can be found by following @workplacehero via Twitter.com.
By entering, all entrants consent to the use by Sponsor of all the identifying information provided in the entries for marketing and/or sales promotional purposes without any attribution, identification, right of review or compensation. Entries submitted without complete identifying information will not be eligible to win.
Sponsor assumes no responsibility for computer system, hardware, software or program malfunctions or other errors, failures, delayed computer transactions or network connections that are human or technical in nature, or for damaged, lost, late, illegible or misdirected entries; technical, hardware, software, electronic or telephone failures of any kind; lost or unavailable network connections; fraudulent, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions whether caused by Sponsor, the users, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this contest; or by any technical or human error that may occur in the processing of entrants’ sales, that may limit, delay or prevent an entrant’s ability to participate in the contest.
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend this contest and award a prize from entries received up to the time of termination or suspension should virus, bugs or other causes beyond Sponsor’s control, unauthorized human intervention, malfunction, computer problems, phone line or network hardware or software malfunction, which, in the sole opinion of Sponsor, corrupt, compromise or materially affect the administration, fairness, security or proper play of the contest or proper submission of entries. Sponsor is not liable for any loss, injury or damage caused, whether directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from downloading data or otherwise participating in this contest.
Prizes and the Selection of Winners
Daily prizes: During the Entry Period, one prize will be awarded each day to an entrant that is selected at random from all entrants that sent Rypple Kudos between 12:01 A.M. EST and 11:59 P.M. EST that day (“Daily Prize Entry Period”).
The prize for each day will be selected at random from the remaining daily prizes. The selection will be made concurrent with and prior to the random selection of the entrants for that day. The prize for each day will be announced at the time that the daily prize winner is announced.
The odds of winning one of the daily prizes will vary with the number of new entrants joining the Contest on each Daily Prize Entry Period.
| Prizes | Approximate Retail Value (USD) |
| One (1) Flip MinoHD Cameras | $199 |
| Two (2) Apple iPod Nano | $149 |
| Three (3) Apple iPod Shuffles | $59 each |
| Twenty (20) Apple iTunes Gift Cards | $20 each |
| Twenty (20) autographed copies of “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It!” by Marshall Goldsmith | $27 each |
| Fifty (50) Rypple T-shirts | $15 each |
Instant win prizes at SXSW: During the Instant Win Contest Period, instant win prizes will be awarded to entrants that are wearing one or more of the Stickers and are spotted by a Workplace Hero Spotter at SXSW. Instant win prizes will generally be awarded by the Workplace Hero Spotter to the instant prize winner at the time of the spottin, but may also be shipped at a later date to the address provided by the instant prize winner. Instant win prizes include Rypple T-shirts and gift cards to major retailers. Prizes are available while quantities last. The odds of winning one of the instant win prizes are approximately 1 in 150.
Workplace Hero: During the Entry Period, entrants will be awarded points for giving and getting Rypple Kudos, and for giving and getting Workplace Hero Badges (“Badges”). Entrants will receive two (2) Bonus Workplace Hero Badges (“Badges”) each Sunday during the Entry Period that they may distribute to others. Entrants will receive additional bonus points when they Spread The Love. When the entrant gives a Rypple Kudo to someone and that person then gives a Rypple Kudo to someone else, then the entrant will have Spread The Love.
Points will be awarded as follows:
| Activity | Points Awarded |
| Give Rypple Kudo | 2 |
| Get Rypple Kudo | 4 |
| Give Workplace Hero Badge | 4 |
| Get Workplace Hero Badge | 8 |
| Spread the Love | 5 |
Entrants will receive a weekly email update each Monday during the Contest that lists their current points total, and a leaderboard listing the top entrants from the entrants’ company.
At the end of the Contest, points will be totaled and the entrant in each company with the highest point total will be crowned the Workplace Hero for that company. Workplace Heros for each company will be announced on April 12, 2010. Workplace Heros will be mailed an official Rypple Workplace Hero Certificate, and an email will be sent to their company’s CEO recognizing their achievement. All Workplace Heros announced on April 12, 2010 will be automatically entered into the Grand Prize draw.
| Prizes for the Grand Prize Round | Approximate Retail Value (USD) |
| Grand Prize: One (1) all-inclusive trip for two to a warm destination for six nights. | $1500 |
The Workplace Hero with the highest total point score across all companies will win one (1) Apple iPad 16GB Wifi, approximate retail value of USD$499.
Notification of Potential Prize Winners
The Daily Prize, Workplace Hero, and Grand Prize Winners will be notified by email and/or telephone within thirty (30) days of the closing of the Entry Period or upon the completion of the audit review, whichever is longer. If any audit-related questions have not been resolved within thirty (30) days of the closing of the contest, Sponsor will advise entrants of the delay and will fix a new date for the notification of the Prize Winners that shall not exceed sixty (60) days after the closing of the contest. If any Prize Winner does not acknowledge acceptance of a Prize within seven (7) days after being notified that he or she is a Prize Winner, another Prize Winner will be chosen using the same procedure specified above. The Prizes shall be delivered to the Prize Winners at the address provided by the entrants.
Requirements of Prize Winners
Prize Winners will be required to complete a skill-testing question in order to claim their prize. Sponsor may require each Prize Winner to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release, wherever lawful, as a precondition to award of the Prize. If any Prize Winner fails to sign and return the requested documents to Sponsor, that Prize Winner may be disqualified, and the Prize will thereafter be awarded to an alternate Prize Winner from the remaining valid entries using the procedure specified above.
Release and Publicity
By receipt of the Prize and by signing an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release, if requested, each Prize Winner consents to the use of any of his or her name, photo, Twitter username, business name, business logo and address by Sponsor for advertising and promotional purposes, without any additional compensation, except where prohibited. Each Prize Winner agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor and its officers, directors, employees, affiliated companies, agents, successors and assigns from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in the contest.
Contest Results and Official Rules
To obtain the identity of the Prize Winners and/or a copy of these Official Rules, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to George Babu, Corporate Development, 2Catalyze, Inc., Suite 1900, 20 Eglinton Avenue West, Toronto M4R 1K8, Ontario, Canada.
