This promotion is
intended for play and participation in the 50
The Yum! Brands Customer Opinion
Sweepstakes
OFFICIAL RULES
1.
TO
ENTER: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Purchases will not increase your
chances of winning. Enter the Yum! Brands Customer Opinion Sweepstakes (the
"Sweepstakes") sponsored by Yum Restaurant Services Group,
Inc. ("YUM" , and together with the A&W, KFC, Long John
Silver’s, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (“Participating Restaurants”), “Sponsor”)
by:
(a)
calling,
from a touch-tone telephone, the toll-free number listed on certain receipts
given to customers at Participating Restaurants, and registering your opinions
about such restaurants (“Telephone Entry”);
(b)
logging
on to www.opinionport.com/yum to
register your opinions ONLY about Participating Restaurants (“Internet Entry”);
or
(c) by
sending a text message, which MUST include your first and last name and the
participating store’s ID number, via your mobile phone to OPINION, SURVEY,
FEEDBACK, or REVIEW at 24421 and registering your opinions ONLY about
participating Taco Bell restaurants (“Text Message Entry”). For the Text Message Entry, standard text
messaging rates apply to each text message sent or received as provided in
accordance with the applicable wireless rate plan. The Sponsor strongly
recommends that each individual submitting a Text Message Entry, contact their wireless
carrier for pricing plans and details prior
to submitting the Text Message Entry.
By submitting an entry via Telephone Entry, or Internet
Entry methods, you will automatically be entered into the Sweepstakes, subject
to these Official Rules, you will be asked to register your opinions of a
recent visit to a Participating Restaurant, and the date and time of your entry
into the Sweepstakes will be the date and time that you complete the survey. Upon completion of the survey you will be informed whether or not you are a
finalist for the weekly Sweepstakes drawing. QUALIFYING AS A FINALIST DOES NOT
MEAN THAT YOU HAVE WON, OR WILL WIN, THE WEEKLY SWEEPSTAKES PRIZE.
By submitting an entry via Text Message Entry, you will
automatically be entered into the Sweepstakes, subject to these Official Rules,
you will be asked to register your opinions of a recent visit to a
participating Taco Bell restaurant, and the date and time of your entry into
the Sweepstakes will be the date and time that you complete the survey. Upon completion of the survey you will not
be informed of whether or not you are a finalist for the weekly Sweepstakes
drawing. ENTRY INTO THE SWEEPSTAKES DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU HAVE WON, OR WILL
WIN, THE WEEKLY SWEEPSTAKES PRIZE.
As
an alternate means of entry (the “AMOE”), individuals may enter a weekly
Sweepstakes by mail by sending a 3X5 card with their name, full address, date
of birth, email address, and daytime telephone number to: Abt SRBI Inc., attn:
Yum Support Team, 400 Olympic Corporate Center, 3940 Olympic Boulevard,
Limit
one (1) Telephone Entry, Internet Entry, Text Message Entry, or AMOE every six (6) weeks; entries received
in violation of the foregoing limitation shall be null, void and of no force or
effect. Limit one (1) Telephone Entry per telephone line during said six (6)
week period. All entries via Telephone Entry, Internet Entry, and Text Message
Entry methods must express opinions regarding the participant’s visit to one of
the Participating Restaurants, as applicable. Individuals entering the Sweepstakes
via the AMOE may express opinions regarding the Entrant’s (as defined
herein) visit to one of the Participating Restaurants but are not required to
do so as a condition of entering a weekly Sweepstakes. each entrant hereby expressly authorizes
and consents to the sponsor contacting the entrant, only in connection with the
sweepstakes, via the entrant’s method of entry into the sweepstakes or any
other method authorized by the entrant.
In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of the
person submitting the entry, in the case of (i) a Telephone Entry, Internet
Entry or Text Message Entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the person
in whose name the telephone or Internet account, as the case may be, is
registered, and (ii) an AMOE, the entry will be deemed submitted by the person whose
name and address is listed on the AMOE; provided that such person meets all
eligibility criteria.
For the purpose of the Sweepstakes, an “Entrant” shall mean an
individual who has successfully submitted a complete, valid and legitimate
Sweepstakes entry, in strict accordance with these Official Rules, as
interpreted by Sponsor or its designees in their sole discretion.
2. SWEEPSTAKES PERIOD: The Sweepstakes consists of individual weekly
Sweepstakes drawings beginning on
3. ELIGIBILITY: The Sweepstakes is open only to legal
residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, and who are 18
years of age or older. Employees of YUM or the Participating
Restaurants or their respective franchisees, licensees, subsidiaries,
affiliates, agents, directors, officers, and/or advertising, promotional, or
fulfillment agencies of or contracted by any of the foregoing individuals or
entities ("Sweepstakes Entities"), and immediate family
members and/or persons living in the same household of such employees are not
eligible to register your opinion or enter the weekly Sweepstakes.
4. WINNER SELECTION: Entry into the
Sweepstakes only qualifies Entrants for the applicable weekly Sweepstakes
drawing; it does not mean that you have won any prize. For each weekly Sweepstakes, seven (7)
random date and time slots will be pre-selected by the
Sponsor and/or its authorized designee. One (1) date and time slot will be
selected as the winning slot and the six (6) other slots will be selected as
alternates in the event that the winner does not receive, collect or qualify
for the prize. Participants entering via the Telephone Entry, or Internet Entry
methods are given a date and time for their entry into the Sweepstakes based
upon when they completed the survey and upon completion of the survey such
participants will be informed whether they are a finalist for the weekly
Sweepstakes drawings. For a participant entering via the Telephone Entry, or
Internet Entry methods to qualify to be a finalist for the weekly Sweepstakes
drawing, the date and time recorded for their entry into the Sweepstakes must be the first date and time recorded subsequent to one
of the seven (7) randomly selected dates and times. Participants entering via
the Text Message Entry are given a date and time slot for
their entry into the Sweepstakes based upon when they completed the survey;
however, upon completion, they will not
be informed of whether or not they are a finalist for the weekly Sweepstakes
drawing. Participants entering via the AMOE are given
a date and time slot based upon when the AMOE was received. After the weekly
Sweepstakes End Date, the Sponsors and/or its designees review the entry date and time slots for the Entrants via the AMOE and
the Text Message Entry methods and for the finalists from the Telephone Entry,
and Internet Entry methods to determine the Entrant qualifying as the winner
and the Entrants qualifying as the six (6) alternates. All determinations
regarding the date and time slots are final. The odds of winning depend upon the date
and time that an Entrant enters the weekly Sweepstakes.
5. PRIZES: Each weekly Sweepstakes winner will receive $1,000 in cash. The
total approximate retail value of each weekly Sweepstakes prize is $1,000. Each
weekly prize will be awarded, provided such prize is
properly claimed. If the winner does not claim or qualify to receive the prize,
the first alternate winner will be notified and provided the
opportunity to claim the prize.
6. WINNER NOTIFICATION: Each weekly
Sweepstakes winner entering
the Sweepstakes via the Telephone Entry, Internet Entry or AMOE method will be notified by either telephone or mail and each weekly
Sweepstakes winner entering the Sweepstakes via the Text Message Entry method
will be notified via text message. Each weekly Sweepstakes winner will be
required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity
release within fourteen (14) days of notification. If Sponsor is unable to
contact a winner despite Sponsor's reasonable efforts to do so, the Entrant
from the first alternate date and time slot will be selected.
Failure to return the signed affidavit
of eligibility and liability/publicity release within fourteen (14) days of
notification, or return of any prize notification or prize as undeliverable,
may result in forfeiture of prize and the selection of an alternate winner, without
further notice from Sponsor, in Sponsor's sole discretion.
7. GENERAL CONDITIONS: This Sweepstakes is void outside of the
8. PRIVACY POLICY: Any information
collected from Entrants registering or entering the Sweepstakes shall be
stored, maintained, collected, used and/or disclosed only in the manner
consistent with these Official Rules and the Sponsor’s privacy policy, which can be found at www.opinionport.com/yum.
Any opinions or survey responses regarding the Participating Restaurants will be used to evaluate and improve the Participating Restaurants
and for any other permitted purpose(s).
9. DISCLAIMERS: By entering the
Sweepstakes, each Entrant forever releases the Sweepstakes Entities and their
respective agents from, and waiveS any claim IT may have against any of the
Sweepstakes Entities and their respective agents for, any and all
responsibility or liability for any and all damages, losses, liabilities,
causes of action, injuries and/or costs and/or expenses of any kind, including
without limitation attorneys’ and court costs, arising out of, resulting from
or in any way connected with, whether directly or indirectly, entry or participation
in the Sweepstakes, or any prize-related activities, or awarding, possession,
use and/or misuse of a prize awarded herein. Each Entrant agrees that Sweepstakes
Entities will not be responsible or liable for any entries
which are not in compliance with these Official Rules, or for any late,
lost, garbled, illegible, damaged, stolen, incomplete, or misdirected entries
or data transmission. Sweepstakes Entities are not
responsible for technical, hardware, software or telephone malfunctions of any
kind, or failed, incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, garbled, or delayed
electronic communications caused by the user or by any of the telephone
equipment or computer programming associated with or utilized in this
Sweepstakes, or by the failure of any mail or delivery service or any human
error which may occur in the processing of the entries in this Sweepstakes.
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate,
modify, or suspend the Sweepstakes if the Sweepstakes is not capable of running
as planned, due to infection by computer virus, tampering, unauthorized
intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other problems beyond the
control of Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to
disqualify any individual it determines to be tampering with any entry
mechanism, to be violating the Official Rules, or acting in a disruptive
manner.
10. CANCELLATION, TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION;
DAMAGES: In the event the Sweepstakes or any weekly Sweepstakes drawing
is cancelled, terminated, modified or suspended, notification will be posted by
Abt SRBI at www.opinionport.com/yum.
Any attempt by an Entrant or other individual to deliberately
damage any website (including without limitation www.opinionport.com/yum ) or
undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes is a violation of
criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, the Sponsors
reserve the right to seek any and all damages and other remedies from any such
person(s) to the fullest extent permitted by law.
11. LIST OF WINNERS; COPY OF
OFFICIAL RULES: For a list of winners or a copy of these Official Rules, visit the
www.opinionport.com/yum or write
to Attn: Yum Winners, Abt SRBI Inc., 400 Olympic Corporate Center, 3940 Olympic
Boulevard,
12. SPONSOR: Yum Restaurant Services Group,
©2009 YRSG All Rights Reserved.