CONTEST RULES
Article 1
NA PALI, a simplified joint stock company with a capital of 3.444.300 Euros, registered with the Bayonne Trade Register (RCS) under number 331 377 036, and with its head office at 162 rue Belharra, in Saint Jean de Luz, France (the "Organising Company") is holding a contest game in order to choose the new representative of the Quiksilver feminine line from 12ve March 2009 to 30 June 2009 end of the day on the web site http://ambassadrice.quiksilver-women.com.
Article 2
This contest is open to any woman, aged over eighteen years old, residing in the United Kingdom except employees (and their family members) of NA PALI, its subsidiaries, boardriders and any company that has been involved in designing and producing the entry forms for this contest.
Article 3
To enter the contest game, the candidate must log on http://amabassadrice.quiksilver-women.com, enter its name, first name, age, picture, a short description of herself (about 5 lines) and a link to a page Myspace from 12ve March 2009 to 30 June 2009. It is asked to the contestants to present an artistic profile.
Any inscription received after the closing day or incomplete will be deemed null and void.
Article 4
The new representative of the Quiksilver feminine line will be chosen as follow:
- The Internet users will vote throughout the operation on Internet by registering on the web site http://amabassadrice.quiksilver-women.com with their name, first name, age and e-mail address. Every Internet user can vote once a day being clarified that he can vote only once by candidate.
- A jury composed of 3 members shall meet on July 15th, 2009 at the latest to elect the new representative. The votes of the internet users will only be followed as a guide.
- A notation scale will be used by each member of the jury to mark the following criterions: creativity, personality, originality, artistic project.
- Each criterion shall be marked from 1 to 5 composing a global mark on 60. The candidate having received the highest mark will be nominated as the new representative of the Quiksilver feminine line.
The winner of the contest will be informed on July 20th, 2009 at the latest by e-mail at the address indicated during the log on.
The modalities of the possible partnership between Na Pali and the winner of the contest will be clarified at that moment.
Article 5
Contestants authorize in advance and without any restriction or reserve the organizer to use free of rights their names, their images and their photos for a commercial or a public relation purpose, without conferring to them any payment, right or advantage for any title.
Article 6
Entering this contest implies full and unreserved acceptance of the terms set out in these rules.
Any breach of any of the provisions in these terms and conditions will result in disqualification of the person having committed such breach. Any dispute as to the interpretation thereof will be decided by the organizers.
Any complaint must be sent before June 30th, 2009, by registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt addressed to Na Pail's legal department. These complaints may only concern material conditions of the Contest's implementation.
Article 7
Entering the contest and the vote implies the contestant's knowledge and acceptance of the Internet's characteristics and limitations, particularly with regard to technical performance, response times when checking, querying or transferring data, the risks of interruption, connection-related risks, the lack of protection against possible diversion of certain data and risks of contamination by any viruses in circulation on the Internet. The Organising Company may not be held liable, in particular, for malfunctions that may affect the Internet or for any problem with the configuration or relating to a specific browser.
The Organising Company does not guarantee that the Internet site and/or Contest shall operate without any interruption, that they do not contain any computing errors, or that any detected errors will be corrected.
The Organising Company may not be held liable in the event of a technical malfunction in the Contest, if contestants or voters are not able to log on to the Contest website or to enter the Contest, if it does not receive the data relating to a contestant's entry form for any reason for which it may not be held liable (for example, an Internet connection problem due to any reason at the user's premises), or if an entry form is illegible or impossible to process (for example, if the contestant or voter has hardware or a software environment that does not comply with his/her subscription) or in the event of email routing problems. Contestants and voters will not be entitled to any compensation in this regard.
Moreover, the Organising Company may not be held liable for any damage, material or immaterial, caused to contestants, their computer equipment and the data stored therein, or for any direct or indirect consequences that may ensue, particularly consequences on their personal, professional or commercial activity.
Article 8
It is reminded that to enter the Contest and to vote, the contestants and the voters must necessarily provide certain personal information relating to them (name, address, etc.). This information is recorded and saved in an electronic file and is essential to the eligibility of their entry, the determination of the winner and the attribution and routing of the prizes. This information is provided to the Organising Company and may be submitted to its technical service providers and a service provider handling the shipping of the prizes.
In entering the Contest, the contestant may also register to receive an email newsletter from the Organising Company's partners. The data thus collected may be used within the legal framework.
In accordance with French law no. 78-17 of 6th January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedom, contestants have the right to access, modify or delete the data relating to them. To exercise these rights, contestants must send a letter to the following address:
NA PALI SAS,
Attn : Marta ALFAGEME
162 rue Belharra,
64500 Saint Jean de Luz
France
Article 9
Contestants and voters can request that the Organising Company reimburse the Internet connection fees ensuing from their participation in the Contest as well as the postage fee for their reimbursement request.
For duly registered contestants and voters who have entered the Contest from Metropolitan France via a modem and telephone line that are billed on a time-spent basis - i.e. excluding cable and broadband (ADSL) Internet connections and plans which include communication costs or offer free communication - the connection costs incurred to enter the Contest are reimbursed in a lump payment of 0.50Euros VAT inclusive, the France Télécom rate in force for "off-peak hours" ("heures creuses") at the time these rules were drafted. Contestants and voters will be reimbursed for the costs of entering on presentation or indication of all of the following:
(1) their last and first names, and postal address,
(2) the name of the Contest and the website on which it is available,
(3) the Contest starts and end dates,
(4) a copy of the first page of their Internet access contract, indicating, in particular, their identity, the name of their Internet provider and the description of the subscription,
(5) bank account details (RIB - "Relevé d'Identité Bancaire" or RIP "Relevé d'Identité Postal"),
(6) the date and time of the visits to the site, particularly the Contest logon and logoff times. The Organising Company shall temporarily and within legal limits store the Contest logon and logoff dates and times.
Contestants and voters are informed that insomuch as it is noted that in current services and technical offers, some Internet providers offer their customers free or all-inclusive Internet service, it is nevertheless expressly stipulated that any access to the Contest made on a free or all-inclusive basis (such as, in particular, a cable, broadband (ADSL) or specialized Internet connection) is not eligible for reimbursement, as in this case the subscription to the Internet provider's services has been contracted by the Internet user for their general Internet usage, and thus the contestant or the voter incurs no additional expense in connecting to the website of the Organising Company or its partners for the purpose of entering the Contest.
The reimbursement request must be sent within (15) days of entering the Contest.
All requests for reimbursement of the Contest entry and costs incurred to enter the Contest shall be sent by postal mail only to the following address:
NA PALI SAS,
Attn : Marta ALFAGEME
162 rue Belharra,
64500 Saint Jean de Luz
France
In any event, only one reimbursement will be paid per contestant (same name, same address) and for the entire duration of the Contest (as only one Contest entry is permitted per contestant).
The postage fees for the reimbursement request will be reimbursed at the 2nd-class rate in force on simple request in writing included with the reimbursement request.
The reimbursement request will be processed within three (3) months on average.
Any request which does not include all the information listed above, which has been sent after the date mentioned above (with the postmark to be taken as proof), which is illegible, contains erroneous contact information or which does not comply with the terms above will be automatically refused and will not receive a response.
Article 10
The Organising Company reserves the right to revise these rules at any time and to take any decisions it deems useful for the application and interpretation of the rules. The Organising Company may inform contestants of a revision by any means of its choosing. The Organising Company also reserves the right to modify, extend, cut short, suspend or cancel the Contest, without warning, due to an event beyond its control, and in particular in the event of force majeure or an act of God. The Organising Company reserves the right, in particular, if there is due cause, to declare invalid and/or cancel all or part of the Contest if it appears that fraud or malfunctions have occurred in any form whatsoever, particularly in computing aspects within the framework of entry to the Contest or determination of the winner(s).
In this case, it reserves the right not to award the prize(s) to the fraudulent contestants and/or to commence legal proceedings against the persons having committed the fraud. An act of fraud immediately disqualifies the person having committed it.
The Organising Company will not be liable in regard to the forgoing, and therefore the contestants will not be entitled to any indemnity or compensation of any nature.
Article 11
These rules can be sent free of charge on written request submitted to Marta ALFGEME, 162 rue Belharra, 64500 St Jean de Luz (France).The cost of postage for the contest rules will be reimbursed on simple request (2nd-class rate in force).
Article 12
ENFORCEMENT OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS IS SUBJECT TO FRENCH LAW ALONE. IN THE EVENT OF ANY DIFFERENCE OR CONTRADICTION WITH THE FRENCH VERSION, THE FRENCH VERSION SHALL PREVAIL.
Article 1
NA PALI, a simplified joint stock company with a capital of 3.444.300 Euros, registered with the Bayonne Trade Register (RCS) under number 331 377 036, and with its head office at 162 rue Belharra, in Saint Jean de Luz, France (the "Organising Company") is holding a contest game in order to choose the new representative of the Quiksilver feminine line from 12ve March 2009 to 30 June 2009 end of the day on the web site http://ambassadrice.quiksilver-women.com.
Article 2
This contest is open to any woman, aged over eighteen years old, residing in the United Kingdom except employees (and their family members) of NA PALI, its subsidiaries, boardriders and any company that has been involved in designing and producing the entry forms for this contest.
Article 3
To enter the contest game, the candidate must log on http://amabassadrice.quiksilver-women.com, enter its name, first name, age, picture, a short description of herself (about 5 lines) and a link to a page Myspace from 12ve March 2009 to 30 June 2009. It is asked to the contestants to present an artistic profile.
Any inscription received after the closing day or incomplete will be deemed null and void.
Article 4
The new representative of the Quiksilver feminine line will be chosen as follow:
- The Internet users will vote throughout the operation on Internet by registering on the web site http://amabassadrice.quiksilver-women.com with their name, first name, age and e-mail address. Every Internet user can vote once a day being clarified that he can vote only once by candidate.
- A jury composed of 3 members shall meet on July 15th, 2009 at the latest to elect the new representative. The votes of the internet users will only be followed as a guide.
- A notation scale will be used by each member of the jury to mark the following criterions: creativity, personality, originality, artistic project.
- Each criterion shall be marked from 1 to 5 composing a global mark on 60. The candidate having received the highest mark will be nominated as the new representative of the Quiksilver feminine line.
The winner of the contest will be informed on July 20th, 2009 at the latest by e-mail at the address indicated during the log on.
The modalities of the possible partnership between Na Pali and the winner of the contest will be clarified at that moment.
Article 5
Contestants authorize in advance and without any restriction or reserve the organizer to use free of rights their names, their images and their photos for a commercial or a public relation purpose, without conferring to them any payment, right or advantage for any title.
Article 6
Entering this contest implies full and unreserved acceptance of the terms set out in these rules.
Any breach of any of the provisions in these terms and conditions will result in disqualification of the person having committed such breach. Any dispute as to the interpretation thereof will be decided by the organizers.
Any complaint must be sent before June 30th, 2009, by registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt addressed to Na Pail's legal department. These complaints may only concern material conditions of the Contest's implementation.
Article 7
Entering the contest and the vote implies the contestant's knowledge and acceptance of the Internet's characteristics and limitations, particularly with regard to technical performance, response times when checking, querying or transferring data, the risks of interruption, connection-related risks, the lack of protection against possible diversion of certain data and risks of contamination by any viruses in circulation on the Internet. The Organising Company may not be held liable, in particular, for malfunctions that may affect the Internet or for any problem with the configuration or relating to a specific browser.
The Organising Company does not guarantee that the Internet site and/or Contest shall operate without any interruption, that they do not contain any computing errors, or that any detected errors will be corrected.
The Organising Company may not be held liable in the event of a technical malfunction in the Contest, if contestants or voters are not able to log on to the Contest website or to enter the Contest, if it does not receive the data relating to a contestant's entry form for any reason for which it may not be held liable (for example, an Internet connection problem due to any reason at the user's premises), or if an entry form is illegible or impossible to process (for example, if the contestant or voter has hardware or a software environment that does not comply with his/her subscription) or in the event of email routing problems. Contestants and voters will not be entitled to any compensation in this regard.
Moreover, the Organising Company may not be held liable for any damage, material or immaterial, caused to contestants, their computer equipment and the data stored therein, or for any direct or indirect consequences that may ensue, particularly consequences on their personal, professional or commercial activity.
Article 8
It is reminded that to enter the Contest and to vote, the contestants and the voters must necessarily provide certain personal information relating to them (name, address, etc.). This information is recorded and saved in an electronic file and is essential to the eligibility of their entry, the determination of the winner and the attribution and routing of the prizes. This information is provided to the Organising Company and may be submitted to its technical service providers and a service provider handling the shipping of the prizes.
In entering the Contest, the contestant may also register to receive an email newsletter from the Organising Company's partners. The data thus collected may be used within the legal framework.
In accordance with French law no. 78-17 of 6th January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedom, contestants have the right to access, modify or delete the data relating to them. To exercise these rights, contestants must send a letter to the following address:
NA PALI SAS,
Attn : Marta ALFAGEME
162 rue Belharra,
64500 Saint Jean de Luz
France
Article 9
Contestants and voters can request that the Organising Company reimburse the Internet connection fees ensuing from their participation in the Contest as well as the postage fee for their reimbursement request.
For duly registered contestants and voters who have entered the Contest from Metropolitan France via a modem and telephone line that are billed on a time-spent basis - i.e. excluding cable and broadband (ADSL) Internet connections and plans which include communication costs or offer free communication - the connection costs incurred to enter the Contest are reimbursed in a lump payment of 0.50Euros VAT inclusive, the France Télécom rate in force for "off-peak hours" ("heures creuses") at the time these rules were drafted. Contestants and voters will be reimbursed for the costs of entering on presentation or indication of all of the following:
(1) their last and first names, and postal address,
(2) the name of the Contest and the website on which it is available,
(3) the Contest starts and end dates,
(4) a copy of the first page of their Internet access contract, indicating, in particular, their identity, the name of their Internet provider and the description of the subscription,
(5) bank account details (RIB - "Relevé d'Identité Bancaire" or RIP "Relevé d'Identité Postal"),
(6) the date and time of the visits to the site, particularly the Contest logon and logoff times. The Organising Company shall temporarily and within legal limits store the Contest logon and logoff dates and times.
Contestants and voters are informed that insomuch as it is noted that in current services and technical offers, some Internet providers offer their customers free or all-inclusive Internet service, it is nevertheless expressly stipulated that any access to the Contest made on a free or all-inclusive basis (such as, in particular, a cable, broadband (ADSL) or specialized Internet connection) is not eligible for reimbursement, as in this case the subscription to the Internet provider's services has been contracted by the Internet user for their general Internet usage, and thus the contestant or the voter incurs no additional expense in connecting to the website of the Organising Company or its partners for the purpose of entering the Contest.
The reimbursement request must be sent within (15) days of entering the Contest.
All requests for reimbursement of the Contest entry and costs incurred to enter the Contest shall be sent by postal mail only to the following address:
NA PALI SAS,
Attn : Marta ALFAGEME
162 rue Belharra,
64500 Saint Jean de Luz
France
In any event, only one reimbursement will be paid per contestant (same name, same address) and for the entire duration of the Contest (as only one Contest entry is permitted per contestant).
The postage fees for the reimbursement request will be reimbursed at the 2nd-class rate in force on simple request in writing included with the reimbursement request.
The reimbursement request will be processed within three (3) months on average.
Any request which does not include all the information listed above, which has been sent after the date mentioned above (with the postmark to be taken as proof), which is illegible, contains erroneous contact information or which does not comply with the terms above will be automatically refused and will not receive a response.
Article 10
The Organising Company reserves the right to revise these rules at any time and to take any decisions it deems useful for the application and interpretation of the rules. The Organising Company may inform contestants of a revision by any means of its choosing. The Organising Company also reserves the right to modify, extend, cut short, suspend or cancel the Contest, without warning, due to an event beyond its control, and in particular in the event of force majeure or an act of God. The Organising Company reserves the right, in particular, if there is due cause, to declare invalid and/or cancel all or part of the Contest if it appears that fraud or malfunctions have occurred in any form whatsoever, particularly in computing aspects within the framework of entry to the Contest or determination of the winner(s).
In this case, it reserves the right not to award the prize(s) to the fraudulent contestants and/or to commence legal proceedings against the persons having committed the fraud. An act of fraud immediately disqualifies the person having committed it.
The Organising Company will not be liable in regard to the forgoing, and therefore the contestants will not be entitled to any indemnity or compensation of any nature.
Article 11
These rules can be sent free of charge on written request submitted to Marta ALFGEME, 162 rue Belharra, 64500 St Jean de Luz (France).The cost of postage for the contest rules will be reimbursed on simple request (2nd-class rate in force).
Article 12
ENFORCEMENT OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS IS SUBJECT TO FRENCH LAW ALONE. IN THE EVENT OF ANY DIFFERENCE OR CONTRADICTION WITH THE FRENCH VERSION, THE FRENCH VERSION SHALL PREVAIL.
