Hallmark "Perfect Start" Sweepstakes
Offical Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To enter, access www.Hallmark.com/PerfectStart and follow the instructions to submit your entry. Limit one entry per day during the sweepstakes period per person or email address. All entries must be received between 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on December 16, 2008 and 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on March 16, 2009. No alternate form of entry will be honored in this Sweepstakes. Sponsor not responsible for late, lost, incomplete, illegible, misdirected, or misrouted entries. Use of automated devices is prohibited. Sweepstakes entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned.

Eligibility

Sweepstakes is open to all citizens of the U.S., except Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories. Employees of Hallmark Cards, Incorporated and its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, and production agencies, and their immediate families and household members are not eligible. Must be 18 years of age or older to enter as of promotion start date. All federal, state, and local laws and regulations apply. Void where prohibited or restricted. By entering this Sweepstakes, participants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and/or its agents. Odds of winning prize depend on the number of eligible entries received. BY PARTICIPATING, ENTRANTS AGREE TO ALLOW HALLMARK TO PERIODICALLY SEND NOTIFICATION OF SPECIAL OFFERS AND PROMOTIONS VIA POSTAL AND E-MAIL. IF AT ANY TIME YOU DECIDE THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE CONTACTED FURTHER ABOUT SPECIAL PROMOTIONS VIA E-MAIL, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE E-MAIL. CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR PRIVACY POLICY.

Phone Entries

By reading Martha Stewart Weddings magazine in the coming month(s), you may learn of a way to enter by using your mobile phone. One entry per phone, per day, and one entry per person per day. Standard carrier messaging charges apply to entry by phone.

Prizes

One Grand Prize Winner will be randomly drawn from all eligible entries received. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $4,000 cash and a year's worth of Hallmark greeting cards, payable as a $1000 Gold Crown Gift Card redeemable at Hallmark Gold Crown Stores. Winner is responsible for all federal, state, and local taxes associated with acceptance and use of prize. Prize is not transferable. No substitution of prizes permitted except at Sponsor’s option, including Sponsor’s right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if advertised prize is unavailable. Total ARV of Grand Prize is $5000.

Drawing

Winners will be selected in a random drawing on or about March 16, 2009 from the aggregate of all eligible entries received. Awarding of prizes will be conducted by Sponsor, whose decisions are final on all matters relating to the promotion. Sponsor will notify the winners via email and request a U.S. mailing address for mailing of an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release and W-9 form (including Social Security number) for execution by the Winner. If the Winner cannot be contacted or the Winner fails to provide his/her mailing address by reply email within 72 hours of notification, an alternate Winner will be selected from the remaining eligible entries. The Winner will be required to sign and return by mail within 14 days of receipt the Affidavit of Eligibility and Release and W-9 form provided by Sponsor. If the Winner fails to return these forms within the time required, the prize will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate Winner. Any prize notification or prize returned as undeliverable will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate Winner. Prize will be mailed to the U.S. mailing address provided by the Winner.

Liability

Prize acceptance constitutes permission (except where prohibited) to use Winner’s name and likeness for advertising and publicity purposes without additional compensation. Sponsor and its promotional and advertising agencies, and all respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, and agents of each, shall have no liability and shall be held harmless by Winners for any damage, loss, or liability to persons or property, due in whole or part, directly or indirectly, by reason of the acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of prize or participation in this promotion. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend part or all of this promotion should virus, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, or other causes beyond the control of Sponsor corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness, or proper play of the promotion, by posting notice of such event at www.Hallmark.com/PerfectStart. Sponsor and its promotion and advertising agencies, and all respective officers, directors, employees, representatives, and agents of each, are not responsible for technical, hardware, software, or telephone failures of any kind, lost, interrupted, or unavailable network connections, fraud, incomplete, garbled, or delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by the Sponsor, users, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the promotion or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions which may damage a user's system or limit a participant's ability to participate in the promotion. Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual Sponsor reasonably believes to have tampered with the entry process or with the operation of the promotion, or who is found to be acting in violation of these Official Rules. This Sweepstakes is intended and limited for play in the United States and shall only be construed and evaluated according to the law of the State of Missouri, excluding choice of law principles.

Winners' list

To receive the Winners list, send a self-addressed stamped envelope by March 31, 2009, to: Perfect Start Sweepstakes, 710 N. 2nd St. Ste. 200 South, St. Louis, MO 63102.

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Sponsor

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, 2501 McGee, Kansas City, MO 64108.