Tuner Kings

OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES

During the period of November 1st, 2009 till December 31st, 2009 will be considered the pre-registration period.



1. No Purchase Necessary.


2. CONTEST PERIOD.

The Contest begins at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time EST on Friday January 1st, 2010 and ends at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time EST on Tuesday February 1st, 2011(the Contest Period runs for 13 months) after which time the Contest will be closed and no further entries shall be accepted.

3. ELIGIBILITY:

To enter and be eligible to win, a person must be a resident of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are eighteen (18) years of age or older at time of entry and to legal residents of Canada (excluding the Province of Quebec) who have reached the age of majority in their province or territory of residence at the time of entry. Employees, officers, directors, representatives, sponsors, subsidiaries, its affiliated companies, agents, internet agencies its respective advertising or promotional agencies, the independent contest organization or a member of any such employee's immediate family (regardless of where they live) are not eligible. In these Official Rules, immediate family includes mother, father, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, partner or spouse. Void where prohibited by law. This contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations.

The Sponsors shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Contest. Failure to provide such proof may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied to the Sponsors for the purpose of the Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate and in no way misleading. The Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant should such an entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.

PLEASE NOTE: You must have a valid email address to participate. Email accounts can be obtained free of charge from many internet service providers. Email addresses received on-line shall be deemed to be submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. Authorized account holder is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g. business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address

4. HOW TO ENTER.

There is no purchase necessary to enter the Contest. Enter using the registration link located on the home page. No entries will be accepted by any other means. The contest requires your input of registering your email address and personal mailing address information, this is information is necessary in case of a potential prize win. The information provided (mailing address) is needed to send the qualified winning prize.

B. Limit of one (1) entry per vehicle and household. In the case of multiple entries, only the first eligible entry will be considered. If there are discrepancies please contact us by filling out the contact form located on the home page.

C. CORPORATE / SPONSORED VEHICLES - Registering a corporate vehicle to compete with non sponsored average vehicle will be removed from the Contest with no prior notice. You will then be contact by our staff for advertising purpose as the corporate section is reserved to meet your advertising needs and not to compete with the everyday average tuner. I-Social Media has the right to define what a “corporate/sponsors” vehicle is. For definition of a corporate/sponsors vehicle please contact us by filing out the contact form located on the home page.

5. Prize

The Contest is divided in four (4) class competition categories (1)Import Class, (2) Domestic Class, (3) European Class, (4) Truck & SUV Class

Each month for a twelve (12) month period running from January 1st, 2010 till December 1st, 2010. Tunerkings.com will award $100 for each Top voted vehicle in its class competition category per month (Non-VIP Members).

Each month for a twelve (12) month period running from January 1st, 2010 till December 1st, 2010. Tunerkings.com will award $200 for one (1) vehicle with the most votes in each month. This vehicle will be known as “TunerKings Car/Truck/Suv of The Month” and will be automatically entered at the end of the contest period to compete for Top Prize of $1000 (Non-VIP Members).

From the period of January 1st, 2011 till January 31st, 2011. The twelve (12) most voted vehicles “TunerKings Car/Truck/Suv of The Month” will compete for one (1) grand prize of $1000. The grand prize will be awarded to one (1) vehicle will the most votes at the end of the voting period. This vehicle will be crowned as "Grand Tuner" (Non-VIP Members).

If you registered as VIP Tuner King and you are either a top class winner or “TunerKings Car/Truck/Suv of The Month” the prize awarded will be doubled to $250 or $500.

The twelve (12) most voted vehicles Tuner Kings Car/Truck/SUVs of The Month will compete for one (1) Yearly grand prize of $5000 and be crowned “Grand Tuner” . The grand prize will be awarded to one (1) vehicle will the most votes at the end of the voting period. From the period of January 1st, 2011 till January 31st, 2011.

For the yearly prize of $5000 at the end of the year, Tunerkings.com must have a minimum of 250 VIP registered users. If this minimum requirement is not meet, the yearly prize amount will default to $2500.

If your vehicle is in the Top five (5) in any class category and you decide to register as a VIP Tuner King five (5) days prior to months end. We will not grant you VIP Status until the next voting month.

6. Voting Period

There will be twelve (12) voting months. Each voting period will begin at 12:00am E.S.T and will end 11:59pm E.S.T for the specific dates below:

1) January 1st 2010 till January 31st 2010
2) February 1st 2010 till February 28th 2010
3) March 1st 2010 till March 31st 2010
4) April 1st 2010 till April 30th 2010
5) May 1st 2010 till May 31st 2010
6) June 1st 2010 till June 30th 2010
7) July 1st 2010 till July 31st 2010
8) August 1st 2010 till August 31st 2010
9) September 1st 2010 till September 30th 2010
10) October 1st 2010 till October 31st 2010
11) November 1st 2010 till November 30th 2010
12) December 1st 2010 till December 31st 2010
13) January 1st 2011 till January 31st 2011

At the end of each voting period per month Tunerkings.com will reset the voting counter and each car will compete again.

6. HOW TO CLAIM PRIZE

Winners will be contacted via email address or by telephone provided at the time of entry. If the winner fails to comply I-Socials Media will void all winnings within 30 days from date of first contact. The prize will then be awarded to the following contestant with the following highest number of votes as per information in our database.

The winning vehicles must provide Proof of ownership of vehicle or direct ownership with relation to a family member/spouse or partner. This must be provided in order to collect the most recent prize value stated at the time of each contest.

In accepting the prize, the winner, and any guest(s), acknowledges that I-Socials Media or its sponsors may not be held liable for any loss, damages or injury associated with accepting or using this prize.

Winners and any guests at the age of majority will be required to sign a standard Declaration and Release Form confirming compliance with the Contest Rules, acceptance of the Prize as awarded and releasing I-Social Media from all liability relating to the Contest.

7. GENERAL RULES

A. By participating, each entry and selected winner agrees: (a) to be bound by these Rules and the decisions of I-Social Media, (b) to release and hold harmless I-Social Media, its affiliates, subsidiaries, and independent contractors, and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives including advertising and promotion agencies, from any and all liability for claims/damages including, but not limited to, claims/damages for personal injury, for property damage with respect to acceptance, possession or use or misuse of the Prize or participation in the Contest; (c) the winner agrees to sign a Declaration and Release Form to this effect.(d) by claiming the prize, the winner authorizes the use, without additional compensation of his or her name and/or likeness and/or voice/photograph and municipality of residence for promotion and/or advertising purposes in any manner and in any medium (including without limitation, radio broadcasts, newspapers and other publications and in television or film releases, slides, videotape, distribution over the internet and picture data storage) which I-Social Media may deem appropriate.

B. By entering the Contest entrants agree to abide by the Official Rules and the decisions of the independent contest organization with respect to all aspects of the Contest, which are final. Prize or money may be substituted instead of cash reward by the discretion of I-Socials Media.

C. The Sponsor and the independent contest organization will not be responsible for late, lost, illegible, incomplete or destroyed entries and all such entries are void. The Sponsor and the independent contest organization do not assume any responsibility for incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information, technical malfunctions, human or technical error, printing errors, lost, delayed or garbled data or transmissions, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or failures of any telephone or computer lines or networks, computer equipment, software or any combination thereof. Entry material/data that have been tampered with or altered are void. In the event it is determined that an entrant has entered in a fashion not sanctioned by these rules the entrant will be disqualified and all of the entries submitted by the entrant will be disqualified. The use of an invalid email address will disqualify the entry. Users spamming the same email address or using any automated / robotic means of entry will have all their entries disqualified

D. The Sponsor reserves the right to terminate or amend this Contest at any time and in anyway, without prior notice. Without limiting the foregoing, if, for any reason, the Contest is not capable of running as originally planned, as a result of tampering or infection by computer virus, the Sponsor reserves the right to cancel the Contest. The Sponsor and the independent contest organization shall not be held responsible for any problems, errors or negligence that may arise or occur in connection with the contest, including, but not limited to, any damage to an entrant’s computer equipment, system, software or any combination thereof, as a result of the entrant’s participation in this Contest.

E. If a selected entrant is awarded the Prize due to a system error, malfunction or defect the Prize will be returned to the Prize pool, to be re-awarded.

F. Under no circumstances will I-Social Media, its affiliates, subsidiaries, and independent contractors, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents, including advertising and promotion agencies be required to award more Prizes than what is indicated in these Rules or award the Prizes other than in accordance with these Rules.

8. BANNING

Any listing displaying pictures or information deemed to be inappropriate will be immediately removed without notice. Users/Contestant will be removed from site participation and will void all potential winnings.

All federal, state, provincial and local laws and regulations apply. I-Socials Media reserves the right to disqualify any entrant from the Contest if, we reasonably believes that the entrant has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices or annoys, abuses, threatens or harasses any other entrants.

I-Socials Media may, in its sole discretion, prohibit any person from entering the Contest whom they believe to be abusing the rules. Such abuse includes entering false information, misrepresentation of vehicle and misusing website for the sole purpose of its nature.

9. TAXES

PAYMENTS TO POTENTIAL WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO DOCUMENTATION REQUESTED TO COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE, PROVINCIAL, LOCAL AND FOREIGN TAX REPORTING AND WITHHOLDING AUTHORITIES.

10. Caution

CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR INTERFERE WITH THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS, AND I-SOCIAL MEDIA RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND/OR OTHER RELIEF FROM ALL RESPONSIBLE PERSONS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

The rulings of I-Social Media are final and without appeal in all matters related to this contest and the awarding of prizes.

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