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Official Rules for Search and Win Sweepstakes

Effective September 2, 2010

The Search and Win Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") consists of a series of overlapping promotional Giveaways, each with a fixed number of Prizes to be awarded over a specified Promotional Period, in which participants qualify to win Prizes by using a commonly available internet search engine. Every Giveaway is subject to these Official Rules and the Terms of Service for this Web site except as expressly stated otherwise. No purchase necessary to enter or win. A purchase or payment will not increase your chances of winning.

1. Eligibility

The Sweepstakes is open to residents of the United States who are at least thirteen (13) years old and have an Internet connection. Employees of the Sponsor and any Promoter and their affiliates, Sweepstakes supervisors and members of their immediate families are not eligible to participate or win. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations. Void where prohibited. Participant's computer must accept cookies or any similar device used to track entries. See the Sponsor's Privacy Policy for more information about cookies.

2. How to Enter the Sweepstakes

To enter the Sweepstakes, just access a participating website and search the internet using its Search and Win search services. Each time you enter a unique search term, you will be eligible to win a prize. Clicking through to any other linked pages, including sponsored results and search results, will not result in additional Sweepstakes entries. No more than 25 searches per day will be eligible to win.

3. Current Prizes

Giveaway 2154

Promotional Period: Giveaway 2154 will begin and end on September 2, 2010.

Prizes: 20 prizes with a value of $50 each.

Winner Selection Methodology: Computer-generated potential winning time(s) will be randomly selected for all prizes. If you are the first person to search at or after a winning time, you will win a prize. Winning times will be generated consistent with user traffic estimates and may not be evenly distributed throughout the Promotional Period ("Instant Win Method").

4. How to Claim a Prize

You will be notified immediately if you have won a Prize. To claim your Prize, you must follow the instructions in your notification within 30 minutes. Failure to timely and properly claim any Prize will result in forfeiture. All personally-identifiable information submitted by any winner to claim a Prize is subject to Sponsor's Privacy Policy.

If the Prize is presented as a motor vehicle: Any sales tax, title and license fees, registration and insurance fees, as well as other costs of claiming, operating or owning the vehicle, are the sole responsibility of the winner. Winner must claim the vehicle at an authorized dealership within Winner's State and (if any) County of residence, and must take delivery within 90 days of winning from existing dealer stock of new vehicles. Neither the Sponsor nor any Promoter is responsible for any warranties, representations or guarantees, express or implied, in fact or law, relating to the vehicle, including but not limited to its quality, mechanical condition, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Winner takes possession of the vehicle when Winner drives it off the lot. Prior to taking possession of the vehicle, Winner will be required to present a valid driver's license and proof of insurance.

5. Winner Verification; Prize Receipt

Winners may be required to show verifiable proof of legitimate search and entitlement to win and to sign an affidavit of eligibility and publicity release in order to claim their Prize. If you have not received your Prize within six weeks after the end of the relevant Promotional Period, you must notify the Sponsor at info@blingo.com. Failure to notify the Sponsor of non-receipt within eight weeks after the end of the Promotional Period will result in forfeiture of the Prize.

6. Publicity

Participation constitutes consent to use of Winner's name, likeness and address (city, state) for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.

7. General Conditions

Any Giveaway may be canceled, suspended and/or modified, in whole or in part, if in the opinion of the Sponsor any fraud, technical failure or other factor beyond its control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Sweepstakes. Neither the Sponsor nor any Promoter is responsible for computer malfunctions, network connections, email delivery problems, systems failure or incompatibility, typographical, technical or key-stroke errors, or interruptions in internet service.

Prizes may be offered in different promotional presentations, combined with other Prizes or substituted with another of comparable or greater value. (For example, a $10 Prize may be offered or fulfilled as cash, a gift card or merchandise of comparable value.) No other cash option for, or substitution, assignment or transfer of, any Prize is permitted. Movie ticket Prizes may be redeemed only at participating theatres. Claimed Prizes will be awarded within two to six weeks after the end of the relevant Promotional Period. Unclaimed Prizes will not be awarded. Winner is responsible for all taxes.

Sponsor reserves the right, in the case where all Prizes have been awarded prior to the scheduled end of the Promotion Period for any Giveaway, either to end the Giveaway or to replace some or all of such Prizes and continue.

Only the first 25 legitimate searches across all Promoter Web sites (as defined in Section 10 below) each day during the Promotional Period will qualify as entries (the "Daily Entry Limit"); any additional searches will not be eligible to win. All days begin at 12:01am PT and end at 11:59 pm PT on the date specified in each Giveaway. Searches for the same word, or for the letters of the alphabet, and other irrelevant search queries and similar schemes, will not be deemed to constitute legitimate searches. You may not enter with multiple identities or use any automated system or other device or artifice to enter or obtain more than the maximum number of qualified entries. If the Sponsor changes the number of qualifying searches per day, or elects to shorten the Promotion Period, it will provide at least one day's prior notice through these Official Rules. You and your entries may be disqualified if you attempt to circumvent these Official Rules or the Terms of Service of this Web site.

8. Limitations of Liability

If for any reason an entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, the entrant's sole remedy is another entry in the same or a comparable Sweepstakes (or, if that is not possible for any reason, in a random drawing from among other eligible entries for any or all of the unclaimed prizes offered in a Giveaway). No claimant in any dispute involving the Sponsor or any Promoter shall be entitled to claim or obtain indirect, punitive, incidental or consequential damages. Liability of the Sponsor or any Promoter on a claim is limited to the value of the Prize in question.

9. Disputes

Decisions of the Sponsor's Board of Judges are final. In the event of a dispute as to any entry, the authorized account holder of the email address used to conduct a search will be deemed to be the entrant. Failure by the Sponsor to enforce any provision in these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

10. Sponsor; Promoters

The Sweepstakes is sponsored by Publishers Clearing House, 101 Winners Circle, Port Washington, NY 11053-4016. The Sponsor may contract with others (each, a "Promoter") to make the Sweepstakes available through Search and Win opportunities offered on their respective Web sites (each, a "Promoter Web site"). All Participants have the same chance to win and the Daily Entry Limit applies at all times regardless of the Promoter Web site through which they enter. See Sweepstakes Facts for estimated odds of winning and other important messages. The Sponsor and some Promoters may offer additional benefits or features to Participants, but such benefits or features are independent of the Sweepstakes, do not affect the odds of winning a Prize and are not the responsibility of any other person.

11. Sweepstakes Results; Official Rules

For Sweepstakes results and/or a copy of these Official Rules, send a hand-printed, self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Sponsor at the address above within thirty (30) days after the end of the Promotional Period. VT and MA residents may exclude return postage.

Sweepstakes Facts for Blingo Prizes
Search & Win Sweepstakes (Official Rules)
Prize/Value Giveaway Number Ending Date Estimated Odds of Winning Per Search
$50 (20 prizes with a value of $50 each) 2154 09/ 2/10 1 in 30,000

You Have Not Yet Won. All Entries Have The Same Chance Of Winning. The winner has not been identified. We don't know who the winner is. If you enter our Sweepstakes, your entry will have the same chance to win as every other entry.

Enter For Free. You don't have to buy anything to enter. Just follow the instructions in the Official Rules.

Enter The Search & Win Sweepstakes Up to 25 Times Per Day. Your first 25 searches each day qualify as entries in the Sweepstakes.

Buying Won't Help You Win. Your chances of winning without a purchase are the same as the chances of someone who buys something. It would not be lawful to give any advantage to buyers in a Sweepstakes.


Official Rules for Blingo Refer-a-Friend Sweepstakes

The Blingo Refer-a-Friend Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") consists of a prize pool available to registered Blingo users who participate in the Blingo Friends Refer-a-Friend Program located at http://www.blingo.com/aboutfriends (the "Blingo Friends Program") and whose friends ("Referred Friends") participate in the series of overlapping promotional Giveaways known as the Search and Win Sweepstakes.

Subject to these Official Rules and the Blingo Friends Terms of Service, each time one of your Referred Friends wins a Prize in the Search and Win Sweepstakes, and you are otherwise eligible, you win the same prize. No purchase or payment necessary. A purchase or payment will not increase your chances of winning.

Only Search and Win Prizes are eligible for the Blingo Refer-a-Friend Program. Publishers Clearing House Prizes are not Search and Win Prizes and are not eligible for the Refer-a-Friend Program.

1. Eligibility

The Sweepstakes is open to residents of the United States who are at least thirteen (13) years old, have an Internet connection, have registered with the Blingo Friends Program and have logged in at least one (1) time in the preceding 30-day period. Employees of Blingo and its affiliates, Sweepstakes supervisors and members of their immediate families, are not eligible to participate or win. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations. Void where prohibited. Participant's computer must accept cookies or any similar device used by Blingo to track entries. See Blingo's Privacy Policy for more information about cookies. Sorry, but you may only win a maximum of two (2) prizes per calendar month; after that, you are no longer eligible to win until the next calendar month.

2. How to Enter the Sweepstakes

To enter the Sweepstakes, register as a Blingo Friend at http://www.blingo.com/signup, sign up and refer at least one friend in accordance with these Official Rules and the Blingo Terms of Service located at http://www.blingo.com/tos.

3. Current Prizes

Giveaway 2154

Promotional Period: Giveaway 2154 will begin and end on September 2, 2010.

Prizes: 20 prizes with a value of $50 each.

Winner Selection Methodology: Computer-generated potential winning time(s) will be randomly selected for all prizes. If you are the first person to search at or after a winning time, you will win a prize. Winning times will be generated consistent with user traffic estimates and may not be evenly distributed throughout the Promotional Period ("Instant Win Method").

4. How to Claim a Prize

You will be notified at the email address you registered with the Blingo Friends Program if you have won a Prize. You will have five (5) days to claim your Prize and must follow the instructions in your notification. Failure to timely and properly claim any Prize will result in forfeiture. All personally-identifiable information submitted to claim a Prize is subject to Blingo's Privacy Policy.

If the Prize is presented as a motor vehicle: Any sales tax, title and license fees, registration and insurance fees, as well as other costs of claiming, operating or owning the vehicle, are the sole responsibility of the winner. Winner must claim the vehicle at an authorized dealership within Winner?s State and (if any) County of residence, and must take delivery within 90 days of winning from existing dealer stock of new vehicles. Neither the Sponsor nor any Promoter is responsible for any warranties, representations or guarantees, express or implied, in fact or law, relating to the vehicle, including but not limited to its quality, mechanical condition, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Winner takes possession of the vehicle when Winner drives it off the lot. Prior to taking possession of the vehicle, Winner will be required to present a valid driver's license and proof of insurance.

5. Winner Verification; Prize Receipt

Winners may be required to show verifiable proof of legitimate search and entitlement to win and to sign an affidavit of eligibility and publicity release in order to claim their Prize. If you have not received your Prize within six weeks after the end of the relevant Promotional Period, you must notify us at info@blingo.com. Failure to notify us of non-receipt within eight weeks after the end of the Promotional Period will result in forfeiture of the Prize.

6. Publicity

Participation constitutes consent to use of Winner's name, likeness and address (city, state) for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.

7. General Conditions

Any Giveaway may be canceled, suspended and/or modified, in whole or in part, if in our opinion any fraud, technical failure or other factor beyond our control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Sweepstakes. We are not responsible for computer malfunctions, network connections, email delivery problems, systems failure or incompatibility, typographical, technical or key-stroke errors, or interruptions in internet service.

Prizes may be offered in different promotional presentations, combined with other Prizes or substituted with another of comparable or greater value. (For example, a $10 Prize may be offered or fulfilled as cash, a gift card or merchandise of comparable value.) No other cash option for, or substitution, assignment or transfer of, any Prize is permitted. Movie ticket Prizes may be redeemed only at participating theatres. Claimed Prizes will be awarded within two to six weeks after the end of the relevant Promotional Period. Unclaimed Prizes will not be awarded. Winner is responsible for all taxes.

We reserve the right, in the case where all Prizes have been awarded prior to the scheduled end of the Promotion Period for any Giveaway, either to end the Giveaway or to replace some or all of such Prizes and continue.

You may not refer yourself or use any other means to illegitimately sign up Referred Friends with the intent of claiming additional Prizes for yourself. You and any Referred Friends may be disqualified from all sweepstakes sponsored by Blingo, Inc. if you attempt to circumvent these Official Rules or violate the Blingo Terms of Service.

8. Limitations of Liability

If for any reason an entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, the entrant's sole remedy is another entry in the same or a comparable Sweepstakes (or, if that is not possible for any reason, in a random drawing from among other eligible entries for any or all of the unclaimed prizes offered in a Giveaway). No claimant in any dispute involving the Sponsor or any Promoter shall be entitled to claim or obtain indirect, punitive, incidental or consequential damages. Liability of the Sponsor or any Promoter on a claim is limited to the value of the Prize in question.

9. Disputes

Decisions of the Board of Judges are final. In the event of a dispute as to any entry, the authorized account holder of the email address used to conduct a search will be deemed to be the entrant. Failure by the Sponsor to enforce any provision in these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

10. Sponsor

The Sweepstakes is sponsored by Publishers Clearing House, 101 Winners Circle, Port Washington, NY 11053-4016. See Sweepstakes Facts for estimated odds of winning and other important messages.

11. Sweepstakes Results; Official Rules

For Sweepstakes results and/or a copy of these Official Rules, send a hand-printed, self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Sponsor at the address above within thirty (30) days after the end of the Promotional Period. VT and MA residents may exclude return postage.


Official Rules for Prizes brought to you by Publishers Clearing House

A limit of one online entry per day is allowed per individual and per e-mail address for each separate online promotion unless otherwise specified. Subsequent entries determined to be submitted from the same email address or from the same individual using multiple email addresses in violation of this rule will be declared ineligible.

All entries received by 11:59 P.M., ET, 10/3/10 from this online promotion will be eligible for a Publishers Clearing House $10 Million SuperPrize® (Giveaway No. 1400) and a $100,000.00 prize (Giveaway No. 1688). All entries between 9/1/10 and 9/2/10 will also be eligible for a $1,000.00 prize (Giveaway No. 1589). You will automatically be entered into the appropriate Giveaways by registering and/or signing-in at this Search & Win Website and conducting a search (one entry per day). Upon receipt of your entry, a SuperPrize Number will be assigned to you at Publishers Clearing House headquarters.On 9/11/10 when you are eligible for 2 entries for Giveaway No. 1400, 2 SuperPrize Numbers will be assigned to you.

The SuperPrize Number associated with the winning Bulletin/promotion that matches the winning number for Giveaway No. 1400 wins. You will win a prize of $100,000.00 from Giveaway No. 1688 if you submit a timely entry from this promotion and have the number that matches the winning number. You will win a prize of $1,000.00 from Giveaway No. 1589 if your entry is eligible for this prize and is selected in a random drawing among all eligible entries at Giveaway end.

You may receive multiple entry opportunities into our ongoing Giveaways. Various presentations of these Giveaways using various prizes/prize values may be presented to the public. The winning entry will be eligible for the prize configuration promoted in the Bulletin or pch.com offer from which it comes. A winner's prize may be supplemented up to the maximum amount of the Giveaway at PCH's option.

Unless otherwise specified, if the matching winning number from a Giveaway has not been returned at giveaway end, the minimum prize registered amount alone is guaranteed to be awarded to an alternate winner by second chance random drawing among eligible entries at giveaway end. In the unlikely event that the winning number from a winning Bulletin/promotion is duplicated, there will be a random drawing among such inadvertently duplicated numbers to determine a winner. In case of a dispute, winning entry will be deemed made by the holder of an established e-mail account associated with the entry. Full prize values will be awarded in alternate drawings for Giveaway Nos. 1589 and 1688.

Prizes will be paid as follows: Win $10,000,000.00 from Giveaway No. 1400 and you will receive $225,000.00 a year for 29 years and a final payment of $275,000.00 in the 30th year. Present value of Giveaway No. 1400 will vary depending on interest rates and market conditions at the time of the award. All other prizes will be paid in full by check at time of award, unless otherwise noted.

Winners will be notified by mail or in person at our option. Prize award date(s) promoted may be adjusted to accommodate travel arrangements and scheduling conflicts. The entrant named on the winning entry form will be considered the winner. Winner must be located and sign an Affidavit of Eligibility within 30 days or we will select an alternate winner. Acceptance of prize constitutes permission to use winner's name and photograph in television commercials, in website promotions, and for other promotional purposes, unless prohibited by law. Parent or Legal Guardian must act for a minor.

PCH Board of Judges' decisions are final. Giveaways may be ended early for promotional purposes, and if so, all eligible entries will be included and the winner selection method will not change. Taxes are winner's responsibility. Giveaway No. 1589 is limited to U.S. resident PCH.COM users only. Giveaway Nos. 1400 and 1688 are open to U.S. and Canadian residents; except that Canadian residents will not be able to enter this Giveaway via this Search & Win website. U.S. and Canadian residents can enter ongoing giveaways open to them by writing to the address shown below. Principals and employees of Publishers Clearing House and pch.com, their affiliates and subsidiaries, their contest processors, their immediate families and the Board of Judges are not eligible. All federal, state and local laws apply.

By entering this promotion, each entrant accepts and agrees to be bound by these official rules and the decisions of the Board of Judges. Publishers Clearing House, pch.com, and their agencies are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions in the Sweepstakes. Publishers Clearing House, pch.com, and their agencies assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of entries. Publishers Clearing House, pch.com, and their agencies are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer systems, servers or providers, computer equipment or software on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or combination thereof, including injury or damage to participants or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in this Sweepstakes. If, for any reason, the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Publishers Clearing House, pch.com, Blingo and /or PCH Search and Win which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, Publishers Clearing House and pch.com reserve the right to terminate the online portion of the promotion. Entries become the property of Publishers Clearing House and pch.com and will not be returned.

Publishers Clearing House and pch.com reserves the right through decision by the Board of Judges to disqualify any entry determined to be the result of tampering with the pch.com system and/or Search and Win search services in violation of the letter and spirit of the official rules. Any use of programmed, automatic or scripted entry methods will void all associated entries and individuals using such methods may be disqualified for future entry opportunity.

Write-In Entry Instructions. You may write in as often as you like to enter our ongoing Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes at the address below. Sweepstakes eligibility will be based on date the write-in entry is received. Just mail each entry separately. We do not accept entries from a third party or entries sent in bulk.

1-800-645-9242
Publishers Clearing House/ PCH.COM
101 Winners Circle
Port Washington, NY 11053-4016

To receive future Sweepstakes opportunities, to obtain our most recent list of winners, or if you wish to stop receiving Bulletins from Publishers Clearing House, just let us know by calling the number or writing to us at the address above.

ALL PRIZES ARE GUARANTEED TO BE AWARDED AS OFFERED
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER
BUYING WON'T HELP YOU WIN

Sweepstakes Facts for Publishers Clearing House Prizes
Prize/Value Giveaway Number Ending Date Estimated Odds of Winning
$10,000,000.00 1400 *2/29/12 1 in 1,750,000,000
$100,000.00 1688 10/21/10 1 in 41,000,000
$1,000.00 1589† 9/2/10 1 in 15,500,000

* Winner may be determined earlier. See Official Rules for details.
† See Official Rules for details regarding entry eligibility dates for this Giveaway.

You Have Not Yet Won. All Entries Have The Same Chance Of Winning. The winner has not been identified. We don't know who the winner is. If you enter our Sweepstakes, your entry will have the same chance to win as every other entry.

Enter For Free. You don't have to buy anything to enter. Just follow the instructions in the Official Rules.

Enter As Often As You Like. You don't have to wait for us to e-mail you an entry opportunity. You may submit additional entries simply by writing to Publishers Clearing House at: 101 Winners Circle, Port Washington, NY 11053-4016. Each time you write to Publishers Clearing House you will be entered once into each ongoing sweepstakes. Each entry request must be mailed separately.

Buying Won't Help You Win. Your chances of winning without a purchase are the same as the chances of someone who buys something. It would not be lawful to give any advantage to buyers in a Sweepstakes.

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