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OFFICIAL RULES


NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.  Void in Puerto Rico and where prohibited by law. Purchasing a product will not improve your chances of winning.

    • Eligibility: This Contest is only open to children ages 7 through 12 only under the supervision of parents or legal guardian (legal U.S. residents 18 years of age or older at the time of entry). Employees, officers, directors, agents, representatives and their immediate families or members of Pinnacle Foods Group Inc, Bender Hammerling Group; their parent companies, subsidiaries; advertising; design; publicity agencies; law firms and anyone connected with the production and distribution of this Contest are ineligible to participate. Previous winners from any other Pinnacle Foods Group Inc. contests held in 2008 are ineligible. This contest is limited to one entry per person, email and/or household.

     

    • Contest Period: The Contest Period (“Contest Period”) is from 12:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, EST on May 31, 2008 through 11:59 PM, December 1, 2008. 

     

    • How to Enter: Entering is easy.Send a 400 word text and illustrations or photos telling your own "Breakfast with Mrs. Butterworth” story about how Mrs. Butterworth’s makes your breakfast fun and delicious. Please do not include any personal photos or photos of yourself or any identifiable person.  All such photos will be discarded.  You can enter online or send your entry via mail to: "Write the Mrs. Butterworth’s Book" Contest c/o BHGPR, 546 Valley Road Upper Montclair, NJ, 07043, postmarked no later than December 1, 2008. Potential winners will be selected from all eligible entries received during the Contest Period. Selections will be made by a panel of independent judges whose decision is final on all matters relating to the Contest, on the basis of the content of the story, the structure of the story and whether the story adheres to the theme of “Breakfast with Mrs. Butterworth.”  

     

    • Prizes: One Grand Prize winner will receive a $5,000 U.S. savings bond and have their story published. Ten finalists will each receive a $500 dollar U.S. savings bond and a case of Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup.

     

    • Prize Notification: Parents of potential winners will be notified via e-mail or mail, depending upon the method of entry. If prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable or Sponsor cannot contact the parent of the potential winner for any reason, prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner selected. Affidavit of eligibility and a liability and publicity release may be required.  If affidavit/release is not returned within 14 days, or is returned as undeliverable, prize will be awarded to an alternate winner.  

     

    • General: No copies or mechanical reproductions will be accepted. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, misdirected or postage due mail, e-mail or other communications. All entries become the property of Sponsor and none will be returned. Neither Sponsor nor its agents are responsible for technical, hardware, software or telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by Sponsor, entrants or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this promotion or by any human or technical error which may occur in the processing of entries which may damage an entrant’s system or limit an entrant’s ability to participate in this promotion. Entry constitutes permission, where lawful, to use name and/or likeness and/or voice of winner in any manner by the Sponsor, or its agents, without further compensation. You agree to be bound by these Official Rules. Participants are responsible for all costs or charges involved in accessing the World Wide Web and warrant that the cost of accessing the Internet, if any, is part of a larger agreement with an Internet Service Provider or some other means, and that the cost of this access and/or the time spent, if any, to configure their website is not an incremental cost in order to participate in the contest. Sponsor is not responsible for those who cannot access the Internet or cannot click-through for any period of time regardless of technical, hardware, software, telephone, Internet, virus contamination, or network problems, for delay, failure or malfunction for any reason. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest if in sponsor's sole determination it believes that the integrity of the Contest has been, or could be compromised or that the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entrant from the Contest if in Sponsor's sole judgment entrant has not complied with these Official Rules. An entrant’s entry will also be disqualified, at the sole discretion of Sponsor, if the entrant attempts (i) to enter the Contest through any means other than as described in these Official Rules; or (ii) provides information that is inaccurate or fraudulent; or (iii) attempts to disrupt the Contest or circumvent the terms and conditions of these Official Rules. Sponsor and its respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, professional advisors, employees and agencies will not be responsible for: (a) any late, lost, misrouted, illegible, garbled or distorted or damaged transmissions or entries; (b) telephone, electronic, hardware, software, network, Internet, or other computer- or communications-related malfunctions or failures; (c) any Contest disruptions, injuries, losses or damages caused by events beyond the control of Sponsor, or (d) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Contest. Only the number of prizes listed in the Official Rules will be awarded. If prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable or Sponsor cannot contact winner for any reason, prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner selected. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. If any prize is won by a minor, it may be awarded in the name of a parent or legal guardian in Sponsor’s sole discretion. By accepting prize, winner agrees that the Sponsor, its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates or agencies shall have no liability whatsoever, for any injuries or damage incurred in whole or part from participation in this promotion. All federal, state and local taxes on prizes are the responsibility of the winner. Void where prohibited, restricted or limited. Subject to all Federal, State and Local laws and regulations. For a list of prize winners, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to “Write the Book About Mrs. Butterworth’s Book” c/o BHGPR, 546 Valley Road Upper Montclair, NJ, 07043. Residents of WA and VT may omit return postage.
      Requests must be received by January 31, 2009.

     

    • Sponsor: Pinnacle Foods Group Inc.