OFFICIAL RULES
Hewlett-Packard PC Review Sweepstakes

1. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PURCHASE WILL NOT ENHANCE CHANCES OF WINNING. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, 18 years of age or older who purchased an HP Notebook or Desktop Computer within the last 18 months but no later than March 10, 2008, and who have received an email invitation from Sponsor to participate in the Sweepstakes. Employees, officers and directors (and their immediate families [spouse, children, parents, siblings] and those living in their same households [whether or not related]) of The Hewlett-Packard Company (“Sponsor”), and any of its parent, subsidiary, and affiliated companies, advertising, promotion, or production agencies and web masters/suppliers are not eligible to participate. By participating, entrants agree to these Official Rules. All entries become property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Void where prohibited.

2. Promotional Period: Sweepstakes begins March 11, 2008 and ends March 31, 2008 (“Promotional Period”). All entries must be received and recorded by the Sponsor’s computer during the Promotional Period. Sponsor’s computer is the official time keeping device for the sweepstakes.

3. To Enter: During the Promotional Period, consumers who receive an email invitation will be asked to provide and submit a product review at www.hpshopping.com ("Website") to receive one (1) entry into the sweepstakes. All reviews will be posted on the website. To enter without completing the survey, hand print your full name, address, city, state, zip code and daytime phone number on a 3x5 card and mail in a first-class stamped envelope to: HP PC Review, P.O. Box 1116, Young America, MN 55594-1116. Entries must be postmarked by March 31, 2008 and received by April 7, 2008 to be eligible. By submitting a product review, entrant hereby represents and warrants that the review meets the "Product Review Submission Requirements" outlined below. You will be asked to provide a reviewer nickname (your full name will not be required for entry), your rating of the item purchased, a review of the item purchased (there is minimum number of words required) you email address, gender (optional), computer proficiency, age and income level (optional). Limit of one (1) entry per person/email address/household. Any attempt to submit more than the maximum number of entries using multiple/different email addresses, identities or any other methods will void that participant’s entries. Entries generated by a robotic, programmed, script, macro or other automated means will be disqualified. No other forms of entry are valid other than those set forth above. All entry information becomes the property of the Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right to verify all entries.

4. Product Review Submission Requirements:

BY SUBMITTING A PRODUCT REVIEW, ENTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HIS/HER PRODUCT REVIEW MAY BE POSTED ON SPONSOR’S WEBSITE, IN SPONSOR’S DISCRETION. Sponsor reserves the right to, and may or may not, monitor/screen product review prior to posting them to the Website.

Submission of a Product review grants Sponsor and its agents an unlimited, worldwide, perpetual, license and right to publish, use, publicly perform the Product review in any way, in any and all media, without limitation, and without consideration to the entrant.

By submitting a product review, entrant represents and warrants that the statement and information provided by him/her accurately reflect his/her opinion, and the facts stated are known to be true and are based on personal familiarity with his/her use of Sponsor's products.

  • Product review cannot be sexually explicit or suggestive, unnecessarily violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group, profane or pornographic, or contain nudity;
  • Product review cannot promote alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing), any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any particular political agenda or message;
  • Product review cannot be obscene or offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group;
  • Product review cannot defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks about Sponsor or its products, or other people, products or companies;
  • Product review cannot contain trademarks, logos or trade dress owned by others, or advertise or promote any brand or product of any kind, without permission, or contain any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, e-mail addresses or street addresses;
  • Product review cannot contain copyrighted materials owned by others without permission;
  • Product review cannot contain materials embodying the names, likenesses, photographs, or other indicia identifying any person, living or dead, without permission;
  • Product review cannot communicate messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or goodwill to which Sponsor wishes to associate; and
  • Product review cannot depict , and cannot itself, be in violation of any law.

PRODUCT REVIEWS 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 of any obligation hereunder by Sponsor does not constitute a general waiver of any obligation to entrants.

By submitting a product review, you agree that your 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 product review on a non-confidential basis to anyone or otherwise use the ideas without any additional compensation to you. You acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission, Sponsor does not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to Sponsor, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.

By submitting a product review you warrant and represent that it: (a) is your original work, (b) does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity; (c) and that publication of the Product review via various media including Web posting, will not infringe on the rights of any third party rights. Any such entrant will indemnify and hold harmless, Sponsor, and Administrator from any claims to the contrary.

5. Drawing: Winners will be selected in a random drawing to be held, on or about April 9, 2008, from among all eligible entries received prior to end of the Promotional Period by the independent judging agency, whose decisions are final and binding in all matters relating to this Sweepstakes. Winners will be notified by email on or about 4/11/08 and will be required to respond to the email within three (3) business days providing additional contact information. If winner does not respond within the stated timeframe, or notification is returned as undeliverable, the prize will be forfeited. Prize cannot be transferred, redeemed for cash or substituted, except by Sponsor who reserves the right to substitute a prize with a prize of equal or greater value.

6. Prizes/Odds: Prizes (2): A $500 HP Home & Home Office Gift Card. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $500 each. This HP Home & Home Office Store Gift Card (“Gift Card”) is redeemable only for purchases of merchandise or services from the HP Home & Home Office Store. This Gift Card is not redeemable for cash, except where required by law. Acceptance or use of this card constitutes acceptance of all HP Home & Home Office Store terms and conditions posted at www.hpshopping.com. Gift Card may be used to pay online shipping charges, and/or taxes on purchases; and any remaining balance after any use will remain on the Gift Card. Gift Card cannot be used to make payments on HP Home and Home Office e-financing accounts. Minimum and maximum purchase requirements may apply. Winners must accept prize as stated, or prize will be forfeited. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. Taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winner. Total ARV of prizes awarded is $1,000. Limit one prize per email address/person/household.

7. General Conditions: Participants agree (a) that Sponsor, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents are released, will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by participants against any liability for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind to person(s), including death, or property resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the prize or participation in this Sweepstakes or any Sweepstakes related activities and (b) except where legally prohibited, winner grants (and agree to confirm that grant in writing) permission to Sponsor and those acting under its authority the right to the use of his/her name, picture, likeness, voice, biographical information and statements, at any time or times, for advertising, trade, publicity and promotional purposes without additional compensation, in all media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide and on the Internet and World Wide Web, without notice, review or approval. Prize winner may 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 receipt of notification. If documents are not returned timely, or if the prize notification or prize is returned as non-deliverable, or if a winner is found to be ineligible or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules, prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner selected. The entry information provided is subject to the Privacy Policy available at www.hpshopping.com. To read that Policy, access the Web site and then access the Privacy Policy.

8. Limitations of Liability: Neither Sponsor nor its agencies are responsible for lost, illegible, late, misdirected, incomplete, mutilated, or non-delivered entries or email; or for interrupted or unavailable satellite, network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), Web site, telephone or other connections, availability or accessibility, or miscommunications, or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, or lines, or technical failure or jumbled, garbled, corrupted, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions, or computer hardware or software or telephone 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. Neither Sponsor nor its agencies are responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Web site users, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Sweepstakes; and assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or tampering with or hacking of the Web site. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with entry process or operation of Sweepstakes or Website, to be acting in violation of the terms of the Website or to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to threaten, abuse or harass any other person. Sponsor is not responsible for injury or damage to participants’ or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading or copying materials from or use of Website. If, for any reason, Sweepstakes, in the sole opinion of Sponsor, is not capable of running as planned by reason of infection by computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, hacking, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes which, in sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend Sweepstakes, and determine winner from eligible entries received prior to action taken, or as otherwise deemed fair and equitable by Sponsor. In case of dispute, authorized subscriber of e-mail account used to enter at 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 natural person who is assigned an e-mail address by an Internet Access Provider, on-line service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses.

IN NO EVENT WILL SPONSOR AND ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES AND RELATED COMPANIES, THEIR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTION AGENCIES OR ALL OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS 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 PRINTING 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 OF 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.

9. Winners List: For the names of the prize winners, write your name and complete address on a 3”x5” card and mail in a first-class stamped envelope to: Hewlett-Packard PC Review Sweepstakes, Winner’s List Request, P.O. Box 3184, Young America, MN 55558-3184. Requests must be received by April 30, 2008.

10. Sponsor: The Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California 95304-1185.