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Step 1: Take a picture or video of you (and/or your friends) with your Softub purchased from Softub Express. The picture or video can be taken anywhere. In fact, the more creative the better! The only qualification is that it has to have your Softub in the picture.

Step 2: Visit the Softub Express Facebook Fan Page.

Step 3: If you aren't already a fan, click on the"Like" button.

Step 4: Post your picture or video on the Wall with a caption about why you love your Softub. Make sure to "tag" yourself and any friends in the picture!

The Contest will run from the 1st of the month through the last of the month (July–December, 2011).

Films must be no greater than 2 minutes in length and may not exceed 5MB in file size;

Film must be submitted in one of the following formats: MOV, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, FLV.

Films must be in English, see official rules for complete details. Please, no explicit photos.

Each monthly winner will receive a $50 gift card to Softub Express and will be posted prominently on the Facebook Fan Site and Website. Above all, have fun showing us why "I Love My Softub!"

All entrants must agree with our Official Rules. Submitting your video or photo indicates your understanding of and agreement with these rules.

Softub Express Video contest

OFFICIAL RULES

Contest Theme: "Why I Love My Softub from Softub Express!"

Monthly Prizes
Each monthly winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to Softub Express.

Softub Express photo and short video competition ("Contest") is governed by these Official Contest Rules. There will be a new Contest every month between July, 2011-December, 2011. The Contest ends December 31, 2011. The Contest Period consists of the time between the first day of a month and the ending day of the same month. The Contest judging begins at the conclusion of each month. The Contest Winners are then announced on the Softub Express Facebook page. The Contest provides entrants with the opportunity to create a photo or short video portraying the entrant's idea of the theme and to submit the work for consideration. The Sponsors of the Contest are ("Softub Express"). By participating in the Contest, each entrant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor, which shall be final and binding in all respects.

ELIGIBILITY: OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Employees, officers and directors of Sponsor, Facebook, Softub Express, and subsidiaries, and affiliated companies, advertising, promotion, or production agencies, and web masters/suppliers (collectively, "Contest Entities"), and each of their immediate family members (spouse, parents, children, siblings) and individuals residing in their same household of each (whether or not related), are not eligible to participate. By participating, entrants agree to these Official Rules. Void outside of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply.

HOW TO ENTER: To enter, visit the website at www.SoftubExpress.com and follow the instructions. Each photo or video that is submitted into the Contest must meet the following "Requirements" (any photo or video that, in Sponsor's sole and absolute discretion, violates the following criteria will be disqualified):

· Films must be no greater than 2 minutes in length and may not exceed 5MB in file size;

· Film must be submitted in one of the following formats: MOV, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, FLV.

· Films must be in English;

· Films or photos must NOT include third parties/people, who have not expressly authorized entrant to display their image, likeness or voice in the Film or otherwise use such image, likeness or voice in accordance with these Official Rules. Third Parties include but are not limited to celebrities, friends and minors who have not obtained parental consent prior to such participation. Entrants should be able to provide on request all appropriate clearances, permissions and releases for the Films, including releases from all persons appearing in the Film and location releases for all recognizable locations (in the event an entrant cannot provide all required releases, Sponsor reserve the right, in Sponsor's sole discretion, to disqualify the applicable Film, or seek to secure the releases and clearances for Sponsor's benefit.

· Films or photos must NOT contain material which is (or promoting activities which are) sexually explicit, obscene, pornographic, violent, self-mutilating (e.g., relating to murder, the sales of weapons, cruelty, abuse, etc.), discriminatory (based on race, sex, religion, natural origin, physical disability, sexual orientation or age), illegal (e.g. underage drinking, substance abuse, computer hacking, etc.), offensive, threatening, profane, or harassing; or material that contains any derogatory references to any Contest Entities;

· Films or photos must not contain the phone number(s), address, or email address of any person, including the entrant;

· Films or photos must not contain or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, "commercial pitch," promotional materials, junk mail, spam, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation;

· Films or photos must not contain or transmit any materials that contain software viruses or other computer code, files or programs designed to impair, limit, interfere with or cause harm to any communications network operated by any of the Contest Entities or the computers of any individual or entity participating in or otherwise associated with the Contest;

· Films or photos must be entirely original to the entrant and must NOT include mention or performance of any copyrighted media production including but not limited to music, films, books, television programming, etc., or identifying descriptions of any media property;

· Films or photos must NOT have been previously submitted to another contest, broadcast on a media network or submitted to any entertainment entity that would conflict with this Contest, as determined in the Contest Entities" sole discretion;

· Films or photos must NOT include third party trademarks, logos, insignia, location signage, photographs, artwork, or sculpture, except for those belonging to Sponsor; and

· Films or photos must comply with the Website's Terms of Use.

No other form of participation is valid. Any attempt by any participant to obtain more than one (1) entries by using multiple/different e-mail addresses, identities or any other methods will void that participant's entries and that participant will be disqualified. Entries must be received and recorded by the Website's computer by the last day of each month. The Website's computer is the official timekeeping device for this Contest. No automated entry devices and/or programs permitted. Entries generated by a script, macro or other automated means will be disqualified. Entrants must provide all information requested to be eligible to win. Incomplete, unreadable, or unintelligible entries will be disqualified. Entries will not be returned or acknowledged by the Sponsor.

FINALIST SELECTION/NOTIFICATION: At the conclusion of the Judging, one (1) image or video will be selected from among all eligible photos videos received. The Finalists will be selected based on the following judging criteria: Supports the Contest Theme and Creativity. The judging of Films will be conducted under the supervision of Softub Express whose decisions are final and binding in all respects relating to winner selection. In the event of a tie, the tied entrants will be re-judged by an additional judge who will serve as a tie-breaker using the same criteria as outlined herein. Each of the quarterly winners and the Grand prize winner, as determined by the judging criteria indicated above, will be notified by telephone, email, Facebook and/or mail using the contact information provided and will be required to respond (as directed) to the notification attempt within three (3) days (or a shorter time if required by exigencies). The failure to respond timely to the notification, or if the winner notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable to any potential winner, it may result in forfeiture of participation in the Contest and, in such case; Contest Entities may select an alternate Finalist according to the aforementioned judging criteria. Potential Finalists will be required to execute and return an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release and, unless prohibited by law, a publicity release and other related documents required by the Contest Entities (the Finalist Documents), within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the Contest Entities in their sole discretion. Potential Finalists can NOT proceed to the Judging Phase until all such properly executed and notarized Finalist Documents are returned.

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES/INDEMNIFICATION: Each person who enters this Contest represents and warrants as follows: (i) the photo or video is the entrant's own original, previously unpublished, and previously unproduced work; (ii) the photo or video does not contain any computer virus, is otherwise uncorrupted, is wholly original with entrant, and as of the date of submission, is not the subject of any actual or threatened litigation or claim; (iii) the photo or video does not and will not violate or infringe upon the intellectual property rights, including personal likeness, or other rights of any other person or entity; and (iv) the photo or video does not and will not violate any applicable laws, and is not and will not be defamatory or libelous. Each entrant hereby agrees to indemnify and hold the Contest Entities harmless from and against any and all third party claims, actions or proceedings of any kind and from any and all damages, liabilities, costs and expenses relating to or arising out of any breach or alleged breach of any of the warranties, representations or agreements of entrant hereunder.

GRANT OF RIGHTS: The Contestant submitting a photo or film to the Contest hereby irrevocably, but non-exclusively grants, transfers, sells, assigns and conveys to Softub Express, their successors and assigns, all present and future right, title and interest of every kind and nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, all rights incidental, subsidiary, ancillary or allied thereto (including, without limitation, all derivative rights) in and to the photo or video for exploitation throughout the universe, in perpetuity, by means of any and all media and devices whether now known or hereafter devised. Softub Express shall have the right, in their sole discretion, to edit, composite, morph, scan, duplicate, or alter any submitted video for any purpose which Softub Express deems necessary or desirable, and each entrant irrevocably waives any and all so-called moral rights they may have therein.

PUBLICITY RELEASE: By participating in the Contest, in addition to any other grants which may be granted in any other agreement entered into between Softub Express and any entrant in or winner of the Contest, each entrant irrevocably grants the Contest Entities and their respective successors, assigns and licensees, the right to use such entrant's name, likeness, biographical information and Film in any and all media for any purpose, including without limitation, advertising and/or promotional purposes as well as in, on or in connection with the Website or the Contest or other promotions, and hereby release the Contest Entities from any liability with respect thereto.

PRIZES: One (1) $50 Softub Express gift card each month

GENERAL CONDITIONS: Participants agree (a) that the Contest Entities, and their respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents, successors and assigns (collectively, the "Releases") are released, will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by participants against any liability for any injuries, losses, damages, costs or expenses of any kind to person(s), including without limitation, personal injury and/or death, or property damage resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from participant's preparation for, travel to or participation in the Contest, or acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the prizes or participation in any Contest related or travel related activities and for claims based on publicity rights, any claim relating to a failure to award, defamation or invasion of privacy and merchandise delivery.

LIABILITY LIMITATIONS:

The Releases are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, or non-delivered entries or e-mail; or for interrupted or unavailable satellite, network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, telephone or other connections, availability or accessibility, or miscommunications, or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, or lines, or technical failure or jumbled, corrupted, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures, or technical errors or difficulties, or other errors of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic or network or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry or other information or the failure to capture, or loss of, any such information. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of this Contest or otherwise attempt to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair playing practices or intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrants or Sponsor representatives, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified. Any use of robotic, automatic, macro, programmed or like entry methods will void all such entries by such methods, and disqualify any entrant using such methods. Releases are not responsible for injury or damage to participants" or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating in this Contest or downloading materials from or use of the Website. Should any portion of the Contest be, in Sponsor's sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention, technical failures or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play, or submission of entries, Sponsor reserve the right at their sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the Contest, and select the winners from entries received prior to action taken or as otherwise deemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor. Releases are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest, and assume no responsibility for any error, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation, or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction, or unauthorized use of this website.

In no event will Releases be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising out of your access to and use of the Website or downloading from and/or printed material downloaded from said Website. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the Website is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Some jurisdictions may not allow limitations or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages or exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.

WINNERS LIST: For the names of the winners, email your request to: contact@softubexpress.com