United States Fire Departments who submit a complete survey either via mail or online before January 15, 2016 (postage date) will be eligible for the drawing. Winners will be selected in a random drawing from all eligible entries under the supervision of the NFPA. Winners will be notified via email to the email address through which they entered the survey within five (5) days following the winner selection. NFPA shall have no liability for a winner's failure to receive notices due to winners' spam, junk e-mail or other security settings or for winners' provision of incorrect or otherwise non-functioning contact information. If the selected winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim the prize within 15 days from the time award notification was sent, or fails to timely return a completed and executed declaration and releases as required, prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner selected.
The receipt by winner of one of the seven $1,000 gift cards offered in this drawing is conditioned upon compliance with any and all federal and state laws and regulations. ANY VIOLATION OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY ANY WINNER (AT NFPA’s SOLE DISCRETION) WILL RESULT IN SUCH WINNER'S DISQUALIFICATION AS WINNER OF THE DRAWING.
By entering this drawing you understand that NFPA or anyone acting on behalf of NFPA or its respective licensees, successors and assigns will have the right, where permitted by law, without any further notice, review or consent to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use, worldwide in any media now known or hereafter in perpetuity and throughout the World, the name of any winning department, as news, publicity or information without any further compensation. No purchase necessary.
NFPA reserves the right, in its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the drawing should (in its sole discretion) a virus, bugs, non-authorized human intervention, fraud or other causes beyond its control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness or proper conduct of the drawing. In such case, NFPA may select the recipients from all eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by NFPA. NFPA reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any fire department that tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the drawing or violates these Terms & Conditions.
NFPA has the right, in its sole discretion, to maintain the integrity of the drawing, to void entries for any reason, including, but not limited to; multiple entries from the same fire department from the same or different IP addresses; or the use of bots, macros or scripts or other technical means for entering.
By entering you agree to release and hold harmless NFPA and its representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers and directors from any liability, cost, illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from (i) such entrant's participation in the drawing and its acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof, (ii) technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunctioning of any computer, cable, network, hardware or software; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions or telephone or Internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process; (v) electronic or human error which may occur in the administration of the processing of entries.
This drawing is governed by the laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, without respect to conflict of law doctrines. As a condition of participating in this drawing, participant agrees that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this drawing, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in Massachusetts having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorneys' fees, other than participant's actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e. costs associated with entering this drawing), and participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
The Sponsor of the Drawing is National Fire Protection Association, One Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02169