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Saving Lives Contest

Do you believe in saving lives by registering to become an organ and tissue donor? If so, then we want to hear from you! Enter our contest to win a Visa gift card valued at $500 for the first place winner, $250 for second place, and $100 for third place. All you have to do is get as many people as you can to register with New York State's organ and tissue donation program online by going to NYDonatesLife.org and clicking on the Enroll button. The Team who gets the most people to register WINS!

To enter this contest, the Entrant must agree to the "Saving Lives Contest Rules" below and agree to terms and conditions on the contest registration form.

What to do:

1. Register by filling out the Contest Registration Form.

• To register, one team member must provide contact information (including email and phone number), a Team Name, and agree to contest terms and conditions.
• When your friends visit our website to enroll to become organ and tissue donors, they can choose your Team Name to give you credit for their enrollment.
• Registration is open throughout the contest. The contest begins on March 1st and ends March 31st, 2010.

2. Get as many people as possible to go to NYDonatesLife.org/enroll.htm and enroll to become a tissue and organ donor between March 1st and March 31st, 2010. Be sure to tell them to specify your Team Name on the Enrollment form so your team gets credit for their enrollment.

Be creative! Use new social media like Facebook and Youtube to get your friends (and your friend's friends!) to enroll.

Prizes:

1st place: $500 Visa gift card
2nd place: $250 Visa gift card
3rd place: $100 Visa gift card

The winning team will also be featured on our website!

Saving Lives Contest Rules:

1. All New York State residents are eligible.
2. Registration is open throughout the contest.
3. By entering the contest, Entrant authorizes the New York State Alliance for Donation to finalize formal enrollment on New York State's organ and tissue donation registry for you and all participants you recruit.
4. Each team in the competition must provide name, address, and valid email address.
5. To be declared a winner, finalists must agree in writing that he/she/they
   1. Have read, understand, and complied with these rules;
   2. Releases and discharges the Contest organizers and their respective affiliates;
   3. Consents to the announcement of the winner's name and the use by or on behalf of the New York State Alliance for Donation;
6. Should the selected finalist fail to comply with any of the requirements set forth herein, another finalist will be selected.

Please contact either Michael Stefanone or Melanie Evans for more information.

Disclaimer:
NYAD, The University at Buffalo, and their employees, members, officers, and agents (collectively, the "Released Parties") will not, under any circumstances, be responsible for, or liable to, any Contestant or any other person, and the Released Parties will be held harmless, for:

1. any erroneous, lost, damaged, late, incomplete, misdirected, deleted, defective, or altered Contest entries, regardless of the cause;
2. any failure for any reason whatsoever of the entrant to receive selection notification;
3. any changes in addresses after Contest entry forms are submitted;
4. any computer, online, telephone, or technical malfunctions or errors that may occur, regardless of the cause;
5. any injury, damage or loss of any kind to persons, including death and property, and any loss of use, loss of production, loss of profits (anticipated or otherwise), loss of markets, economic loss, special, indirect or consequential loss or damage or punitive damages, whether in contract, tort or under any other theory of law or equity, arising from, connected with, or relating to the Contest, the acceptance, or the submission of entries to the Contest or participation in the Contest, or the use of the nydonateslife.org website (including the downloading of any materials from those websites), and regardless of the cause or any negligence by the released parties, and notwithstanding that these parties may have been advised of the possibility of such loss or damage being incurred.

If, for any reason, the Released Parties are not capable of conducting the Contest as intended, including complications due to computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause that corrupts or interferes with the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, they may, at their sole discretion, disqualify any Contestant responsible for such misconduct and cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Contest. No right to claim a Contest prize may be sold, transferred or assigned. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and is void where prohibited by law. If any provision of these Rules is found by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, all other provisions will remain in full force and in effect.