Rules

Welcome Home, Rio Grande Valley LLC (hereafter WHRGV) will conduct its contests substantially as described in these general contesting rules, and by participating, each participant agrees as follows:

• Prize(s). The prize(s) that may be awarded to the eligible winner(s) are not transferable, redeemable for cash, or exchangeable for any other prize. All prizes must be redeemed from WHRGV within thirty (30) days of the contest end date unless otherwise stated in the contest’s official rules. Certain prizes are date specific (i.e. gift certificates) and the winner or winners must be available on the dates specified. If a winner cannot be contacted or is disqualified for any reason, WHRGV reserves the right to determine an alternate winner or not to award that winner’s prize, in its sole discretion.
• Eligibility and Limitations. Unless otherwise stated in the official contest rules, only one (1) entry per person. Only one (1) prize per household for the Contest. Only one (1) prize per household from WHRGV within any thirty (30) day period. If the contest involves listener participation by voting for a contest participant on WHRGV’s website then the voting is limited to one (1) vote per person. If a contestant receives multiple and/or irregular votes from the same user or users, regardless of the source, WHRGV reserves the right to disqualify the contestant in its sole discretion. Employees of WHRGV, the Contest’s participating sponsors and their advertising agencies are not eligible to participate and win.
• Delivery Disclaimer. For all contests WHRGV disclaims all liability for any delays, misdelivery, loss, or failure in the delivery of any item sent by mail, courier, express, electronic transmission, or other delivery method. WHRGV is not responsible for mechanical, technical, electronic, communications, telephone, computer, hardware or software errors, malfunctions or failures of any kind, including: failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed transmission of online entries, traffic congestion on telephone lines, the Internet or at any website or lost or unavailable network connections which may limit an online entrant's ability to participate in the Contest, and any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in or downloading any information necessary to participate in the Contest. Entry forms in a register-to-win contest must be handwritten. No photocopies or mechanical reproductions of entry forms are permitted.
• Voting Contests. By participating in the voting portion of any contest, each voting participant agrees to be bound by the official contest rules. Voting is limited to one vote per verified email address. If an entrant receives multiple and/or irregular votes or multiple votes from the same user or users WHRGV reserves the right to disqualify the entrant in its sole discretion. If the contest includes the use of an internet tool and the internet voting process fails to operate properly or appears to be tampered with or tainted with errors, fraud or unfair practices, WHRGV reserves the right to use another means to determine the winner(s), i.e. random selection or appointing a panel of judges. All decisions of the judges are final.
• Publicity; Use of Personal Information. By participating, where allowed by law, all participants and winner(s) grant WHRGV exclusive permission to use their names, characters, photographs, voices, videotape, and likenesses in connection with promotion of this and other contests and waive any claims to royalty, right, or remuneration for such use. By participating in the Contest, where allowed by law, participants agree that WHRGV may disclose personal information obtained from participants in the Contest to third parties and use such information for marketing and other purposes.
• Consumer Created Content. If the entry for the contest includes any creative material from the participant, including but not limited to, consumer created content, by submitting your entry: (1) you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and will not place the company or contest sponsors under any fiduciary or other obligation, that WHRGV is free to disclose the ideas on a non-confidential basis to anyone or otherwise use the ideas without any additional compensation to you; (2) you acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission, WHRGV and contest sponsors do not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to sponsor, or developed by their employees, or obtained from sources other than you; (3) you are verifying that you are the owner and producer of the submitted material and that no third party ownership rights exist to any material submitted, and (4) you are hereby granting WHRGV a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right and license to use, publish, reproduce, display, perform, adapt, modify, distribute, have distributed and promote such content in any form, in all media now known or hereinafter created, anywhere in the world, for any purpose.
• Release. By participating in the Contest, each participant and winner waives any and all claims of liability against WHRGV, its employees and agents, the Contest’s sponsors and their respective employees and agents, for any personal injury or loss which may occur from the conduct of, or participation in, the Contest, or from the use of any prize. In order to receive a prize, participants must sign an official waiver form provided by WHRGV.
• Miscellaneous. Void where prohibited. Odds of winning depend upon the number of participants. WHRGV may substitute prizes, amend the rules or discontinue the Contest at any time as announced on the WHRGV website. WHRGV disclaims any responsibility to notify participants of any aspect related to the conduct of the Contest. For a copy of the rules visit WHRGV’s website. All entries become the property of the WHRGV and will not be returned.