GLADE DESIGN CONTEST
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE
WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
THIS CONTEST IS INTENDED FOR PLAY IN THE 50 UNITED STATES AND D.C. ONLY AND WILL
BE GOVERNED BY U.S. LAW. DO NOT ENTER IF YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE AND LOCATED IN
THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME OF ENTRY.
1. ELIGIBILITY: OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA, 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AS OF DATE OF ENTRY. Employees, officers and
directors of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (“Sponsor”), its parent, subsidiaries, and affiliated companies,
advertising, promotion, or production agencies, Web masters/suppliers (and their IRS dependents,
immediate family members [spouse, parents, children, siblings] and individuals residing in their same
household, whether or not related) are not eligible to participate. By participating, entrants (and
entrant’s parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor) agree to these Official Rules, the decisions of the
judges regarding Entry judging, and the decisions of the Sponsor and/or its independent judging
agency which are final and binding in all respects. Void where prohibited.
2. PROMOTIONAL PERIOD: The Contest begins on August 13th, 2010 at 12:00:00 a.m. (“midnight”)
Central Daylight Time (“CDT”) and ends October 31, 2010 at 11:59:59 p.m. CDT (the “Promotional
Period”).
3. CONTEST ENTRY GUIDELINES: The Contest asks consumers to create a candleholder design
(hereafter, “Entry”) using pre-approved graphics and colors available at
www.GladeDesignandshine.com (“Website”). Entrants may create candleholder designs for either of
the following fragrance categories: “Clean Linen” or “Lavender & Vanilla” (each a “category”). Entrants
are encouraged to be creative, however, only submissions using the pre-approved elements will be
considered for judging. Limit ten (10) Entries per person/email address per category throughout the
Promotional Period.
4. TO ENTER: Visit www.GladeDesignandshine.com and follow the online instructions to design and
submit your Entry. All Entries must be received and recorded by October 31, 2010 at 11:59:59 p.m.
CDT. Entries that do not comply with the entry guidelines as stated in Rule #3 and hereinafter will be
ineligible.
5. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Each Entry (a) must be the 100% original creation of the submitting
entrant, (b) must be unpublished and cannot have been submitted or used for any other commercial or
public purpose, (c) must not use any property or rights belonging to a third party or otherwise infringe
upon or violate any rights of any third party, including but not limited to, intellectual property rights such
as but not limited to patents, copyrights, trade name/trademark/logo, and/or rights of privacy or publicity
or portrayal in a false light or any other rights of any person or entity, (d) has not won previous awards;
and by submitting an Entry, each entrant (and the entrant’s parent/legal guardian if entrant is a
minor)warrants and represents that his/her Entry fully and completely conforms to the stated
requirements. Any such entrant will indemnify and hold harmless Sponsor and Releasees (as defined
in Rule #8) from any claims to the contrary. Any Entry which is deemed to be inappropriate for
publication, obscene or vulgar (all as solely determined by Sponsor), will be deemed ineligible. No
other form of participation other than as stated in these Official Rules is valid. BY SUBMITTING AN
ENTRY, ENTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HIS/HER ENTRY MAY BE POSTED ON SPONSOR’S
WEBSITE, IN SPONSOR’S DISCRETION. Further, by submitting an Entry, entrant (and the entrant’s
parent/legal guardian if entrant is a minor) grants permission for Sponsor to post, and otherwise make
use of, the Entry in publication and/or on the World Wide Web and other promotional and marketing
materials as is consistent with these Official Rules (as solely determined by Sponsor) and Sponsor’s
Internet Terms of Use, and warrants and represents that he/she has properly secured, and has all right
to grant such permission. Sponsor reserves the right to, and may or may not, monitor/screen entries
prior to posting them to the Website. By entering, you acknowledge that Sponsor has no obligation to
use or post any Entry you submit. Sponsor suggests that entrant keep a copy of his/her Entry. All
Entries become the sole property of the Sponsor, and will not be acknowledged or returned.
6. JUDGING: All eligible Entries received will be judged by representatives of the Sponsor whose
decisions are final and binding in all matters relating to the Judging of this Contest. Entries will be
separated and judged by category based on the following criteria: 50% Originality to current brand
portfolio; 25% Appropriateness to fit with on-trend home décor; and 25% Appropriateness to Fragrance.
The Entry with the highest cumulative point total for all criteria, in each category, will be determined to
be a potential Grand Prize Winner. The top three (3) Entries with cumulative point totals after the
potential Grand Prize Winner, per category, will be determined to be potential First Prize Winners.
Sponsor reserves the right to review and approve all potential winners to ensure they are in compliance
with S.C. Johnson & Son policies. In case of a tie, tied Entries will be broken by Entry with highest
cumulative point score in Appropriateness to Fragrance criteria. If tie continues, then ties will be broken
by Entry with highest cumulative point score in Appropriateness to fit with on-trend home décor criteria.
If tie continues, then ties will be broken by Entry with the highest cumulative point score in Originality
criteria. If tie cannot be broken, tied Entries will be evaluated by a new judge according to original
criteria, and the tied Entry with the highest cumulative score by new judge will be declared winner of the
tie. Potential winners will be determined from all eligible Entries received and notified by email, phone
and/or express mail on/about February 1, 2011. Sponsor is not responsible for any change of email
address, mailing address and/or telephone number of entrants.
7. PRIZES: Grand Prizes (2 total, 1 per category): Each Grand Prize Winner will receive $10,000.00
awarded in the form of a wire transfer or check, payable to the winner. Approximate Retail Value
(“ARV”): $10,000.00 each. First Prizes (6 total, 3 per category): Each First Prize Winner will receive
$750.00 awarded in the form of a check, payable to winner. ARV: $750.00 each. If the winner cannot
accept prize as stated, prize may be forfeited in its entirety. If a winner is at least 18 but still considered
a minor in his/her jurisdiction of residence, prize may be awarded in the name of, or to, winner’s
parent/legal guardian who must execute all documents and agree to all obligations and undertakings of
winner, both on behalf of himself/herself and winner, or prize may be forfeited. No substitution or
transfer of prize, but Sponsor reserves right to substitute prize with prize of equal or greater value if
advertised prize becomes unavailable. Limit one (1) prize per person/email address/household. Total
ARV of all prizes: $24,500.00.
8. GENERAL CONDITIONS: Participants (and participant’s parent/legal guardian, if participant is a
minor) agree (a) that Sponsor, and its parent, subsidiaries and affiliated companies and advertising and
promotion agencies, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and
agents (individually and collectively “Releasees”) will have no liability whatsoever for, and are released
and shall be held harmless by participants (and participant's parent/legal guardian if participant is a
minor) against, any liability, for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind, to person(s), including
death, or property, or violation of intellectual property or personal rights (such as but not limited to,
copyright, trade name/trademark, and/or rights of privacy or publicity or portrayal in a false light)
resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the
prize or participation in this Contest or related activity and the use of the Entry submitted, and (b)
participants (and participant's parents/legal guardians if participant is a minor), by entering, except
where legally prohibited, grant permission for Sponsor (and agree to confirm such agreement in
writing), and those acting pursuant to its authority to use, publish, exploit the Entry and the elements
embodied therein as more fully set forth in the section below titled “Grant of Rights by Participants”, and
each winner further grants ownership of the Entry and the elements embodied therein as more fully set
forth in the section below titled “Assignment of Rights by Winners”. If you think that any Entry infringes
your intellectual property rights, send an email to gladedesigncontest@young-america.com if you wish
to report it.
ENTRIES POSTED TO THE WEBSITE WERE NOT EDITED BY SPONSOR AND ARE THE
VIEWS/OPINIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ENTRANT AND DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF
SPONSOR IN ANY MANNER. Any waiver or non-use of any rights hereunder by Sponsor does not
constitute a general waiver of any other Sponsor rights. By submitting an Entry, participant (and
participant’s parent/legal guardian, if participant is a minor) agrees that participant’s submission is
gratuitous and made without restriction, and will not place Sponsor under any obligation, that Sponsor
is free to disclose or otherwise disclose the ideas contained in the Entry on a non-confidential basis to
anyone or otherwise use, exploit and assign the ideas without any additional compensation or notice to,
or approval from, participant, his/her parent or legal guardian or any third party. Participant (and
participant’s parent/legal guardian, if participant is a minor) acknowledges that, by acceptance of
participant’s Entry, Sponsor does not waive any rights to use, assign or otherwise exploit similar or
related ideas previously developed or known to Sponsor, or developed by its employees, contractors
and agents, its affiliates and their employees, contractors and agents, or obtained from sources other
than participant and participant (and participant's parents/legal guardians if participant is a minor)
agrees that he/she shall not have or make any claim against Releasees resulting from such use,
assignment or other exploitation. Potential winners (and winners' parents/legal guardians if winners are
minors) will be required to complete, sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and
where lawful a Publicity Release within seven (7) days of prize notification. If Affidavit/Release is not
received by the date stated on the notification, or if any potential winner is found to be ineligible or not
in compliance with these Official Rules, or if any of the prize notifications or prizes are returned as
undeliverable, the prize in its entirety may be forfeited. All federal, state, and local taxes on prize, if
any, are solely the winners’ responsibility.
Grant of Rights by Participants: By submitting an Entry, participant (and participant’s parent/legal
guardian, if participant is a minor) grants Sponsor a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, assignable,
sublicensable, royalty-free and fully paid-up license to the Entry and Sponsor and its designees may
exploit, edit, modify, post, use and distribute the Entry and all elements of such Entry in any and all
media now known or hereafter devised, without limitation and without compensation, permission or
notification to any participant, his/her parent or legal guardian or any third party.
Assignment of Rights by Winners: By accepting a prize, any and all results and proceeds of all
services furnished by winners hereunder (including, without limitation, the Entry and any other work
based on or derived there from), and all other materials of every kind whatsoever created by winner at
any time if relating to the Contest (collectively, “Work”), are a “work made for hire” (as that term is used
in the United States Copyright Act) for Sponsor. Sponsor is the “author” of the Work for all purposes,
including without limitation the copyright laws of the United States, and Sponsor is the sole and
exclusive owner, in perpetuity and throughout the universe, of all right, title and interest in and to the
Work, including without limitation all copyrights in and to the Work (and all renewals and extensions
thereof now or hereafter provided by law) and all the rights therein and thereto, including all so-called
“moral rights of authors” and “droit moral” rights and any similar or analogous rights under the
applicable laws of any country of the world. Winners (and winners’ parents or legal guardians if
winners are minors) also waive all so-called ”moral rights of authors” and “droit moral” rights (and any
similar or analogous rights under the applicable laws of any country of the world). Without limiting the
binding effect of any of the foregoing provisions, in the event that any of the Work is not deemed to be a
“work made for hire” for Sponsor, winners (and winners’ parents or legal guardians if winners are
minors) hereby irrevocably and exclusively grant and assign to Sponsor (or, if any applicable law
prohibits or restricts such assignment, winner (and winner's parents or legal guardians if winner is a
minor) shall grant to Sponsor an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, transferable license of) all right,
title, interest and ownership in and to such Work, including, without limitation, all rights of every kind
and nature (whether now known or hereafter devised, including all copyrights, neighboring rights,
trademarks, patents and any and all other ownership and exploitation rights in the Work therein and
thereto and all renewals and extensions thereof), throughout the universe, in perpetuity, for all
purposes, in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter devised.
Sponsor’s rights in and to the Work shall include, without limitation, the right to exploit the Work (or not)
by any and all means now known or hereafter devised throughout the universe in perpetuity, including,
without limitation, the right to alter, modify, edit, adapt, composite, morph, scan, duplicate,
merchandise, use and cut the Work). Sponsor shall be free to exploit, license, sell and/or assign any or
all of its rights in the Work at any time and from time to time, in whole or in part, to any person or entity,
without permission from, or notice or compensation to, winners, their parents or legal guardians or any
third party. In furtherance of and without limiting the foregoing, all revenues derived by Sponsor or its
designees from the use, exhibition, publication, distribution, merchandising, transmission, licensing,
display, selling or other exploitation of the Work shall be the sole and exclusive property of Sponsor and
winner, his or her parents or legal guardians, heirs, successors and assigns shall have no interest in or
to any such revenues.
At the request of Sponsor, winners (and winners’ parents or legal guardians if winners are minors) shall
execute and deliver to Sponsor such assignments or other instruments as Sponsor may deem
reasonably necessary to establish, protect, enforce and/or defend any or all of Sponsor’s rights in the
Work. If a winner (or winner’s parent or legal guardian if winner is a minor) fails to so execute and
deliver any such instrument within five (5) days of the date of such notice, Sponsor shall have the right
to do so in winner’s name, place and stead, and Sponsor is hereby irrevocably appointed as winner’s
attorney-in-fact for such purposes, which power is coupled with an interest.
Use of Sponsor Marks in Entry: Participant (and participant’s parent/legal guardian, if participant is a
minor) may not use any trade names, trademarks, logos, service marks, symbols and/or other materials
of Sponsor and/or its affiliates or any other materials provided to participant as part of the Contest
(collectively, the “Sponsor Marks”) for any purpose other than solely in connection with participant’s
Entry. All Sponsor Marks shall only be used in the exact form, style and type then prescribed by
Sponsor. The Sponsor Marks and any derivates thereof provided or created pursuant to this Contest
are and shall remain the exclusive property of Sponsor. Participant shall neither (directly or indirectly)
obtain, nor attempt to obtain, at any time any right, title or interest in or to the Sponsor Marks, and
participant (and participant’s parent/legal guardian, if participant is a minor) hereby expressly waives
any right which participant may have to do so. Participant (and participant’s parent/legal guardian, if
participant is a minor) recognizes Sponsor’s exclusive ownership of the Sponsor Marks and any
derivates thereof created pursuant to this Contest.
Please see the privacy policy located at www.scjbrands.com/privacy for details of Sponsor's policy
regarding the use of personal information collected in connection with this Contest. Except where
prohibited by law, winner grants (and agrees to confirm this grant in writing, if requested) permission for
Sponsor and those acting under its authority to use his/her name, photograph, voice and/or likeness,
for advertising and/or publicity purposes in any and all media now known or hereinafter invented
without territorial or time limitations and without further notification, permission, or compensation.
9. LIABILITY LIMITATIONS: Releasees 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 the Sponsor,
will be disqualified. Any use of robotic, automatic, macro, programmed or like entry methods or Entries
submitted by any means which subvert the entry process will void all such Entries by such methods,
and disqualify any entrant using such methods. Neither Sponsor nor its agencies are responsible for
injury or damage to participant's 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 reserves
the right at its 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. Neither
Sponsor nor its agencies are 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 case of dispute, the authorized account subscriber of the e-mail account used to enter the
Contest at the actual time of entry will be deemed to be the participant, and must comply with these
Official Rules. The “authorized account subscriber” is deemed to be the natural person who is
assigned an e-mail address by an Internet Access Provider, on-line service provider, or other
organization which is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses.
IN NO EVENT WILL RELEASEES 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 THIS 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. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY
RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.
By entering, entrants agree that all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity,
interpretation and enforceability of these official rules, participant’s rights and obligations, or the rights
and obligations of the sponsor in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of State of Wisconsin, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of
law rules. By entering, entrants consent to the jurisdiction and venue of the federal, state and local
courts located in Racine County, Wisconsin.
10. WINNERS LIST: For the names of the winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
“Glade Design Contest” Winners List, P.O. Box 750787, El Paso, TX 88575-0787 for receipt by
February 28, 2011.
11. SPONSOR: S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc., 1525 Howe St., Racine, WI 53403.
