OFFICIAL RULES & REGULATIONS

No Purchase Necessary to Enter or Win.
Purchase and Non-Purchase entries have an equal chance of winning. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW OR REGULATION. You must be eighteen (18) years of age or older and an Action Pass™ Member to enter this Sweepstakes.

 

1. PROMOTION DESCRIPTION: The Sport Chalet Holiday ON US Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) begins on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) and ends on Thursday, December 24, 2010, at 11:59 p.m. PT (the “Promotion Period”). There will be a total of twenty-four (24) daily prizes awarded in this Promotion. The first random drawing will take place on December 2, 2010 with last random drawing to be conducted on January 3, 2011. NO Entries will be carried forward to any other daily drawing. To enter all twenty-four (24) drawings you must enter daily. Entry in the Sweepstakes does not constitute entry into any other promotion, contest, or sweepstakes. By participating in the Sweepstakes, each entrant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sport Chalet, Inc., One Sport Chalet Drive, La Cañada, CA 91011 (the “Sponsor”) and COHEN-FRIEDBERG ASSOCIATES, LLC Framingham, MA 01702 (the “Administrator”), whose decisions shall be final and legally binding in all respects.

 

2. ELIGIBILITY: This promotion is open only to Sport Chalet Action Pass members who are legal U.S. residents (excluding FL, NY, RI, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam) at the time of entry, and who are eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of entry. To become an Action Pass member is free; enroll for the Action Pass program at any Sport Chalet retail store location or online at www.sportchalet.com. Employees, officers, and directors of Sponsor, Administrator, and each of their affiliated companies, subsidiaries, licensees, distributors, dealers, sales representatives, retailers, printers, individuals engaged in the development, production or distribution of materials, their advertising and promotion agencies, and any and all other companies associated with the promotion agents (collectively, the “Promotion Entities”), and each of their immediate family members (as defined by the IRS) and/or people living in the same household are not eligible to participate. All eligibility is subject to all federal, state, and local laws and regulations. All entries submitted are the property of the Sponsor. Sponsor’s database clock will be the timekeeper for this Sweepstakes. This Sweepstakes is void where prohibited by law or regulation.

 

3. HOW TO ENTER: Action Pass members: Current Action Pass Members will automatically be entered when their Action Pass card is scanned during any purchase at participating Sport Chalet retail locations or Online at www.sportchalet.com during the Promotion Period. Eligible Action Pass Members may enter without purchase by visiting www.sportchalet.com/promo and completing the Official Entry Form. Personal information collected in connection with the Sweepstakes will be used in accordance with Sport Chalet's online privacy policy. Limit: Three (3) entries per person per day regardless of the method of entry. Limit: One prize per Action Pass card number account over the Promotion Period. NOTE: Entries made by any other individual or any entity, including but not limited to commercial sweepstakes subscription notification and/or entering services, will be declared invalid and disqualified for this Sweepstakes. Tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes is prohibited and any entries deemed by Sponsors, in their sole discretion, to have been submitted in this manner will be void. In the event a dispute regarding the identity of the individual who actually submitted an entry cannot be resolved to Sponsor’s satisfaction, the affected entry will be deemed ineligible.

 

4. PRIZES/ODDS: Only the number of prizes listed below will be awarded in this Sweepstakes. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received divided by the number of prizes available. DAILY PRIZE: One free total customer purchase up to $5,000 based on the total customer transaction amount associated with that winning Action Pass transaction. Approximate retail value not to exceed $5,000 (not including tax). If an online entry is selected the winner will receive a prize based on the average Action Pass transaction amount of $98.40 (not including tax) based on the previous year’s 12/1-12/24/09 sales transactions. PRIZE NOTES: Prizes will be awarded only if the potential prize winner fully complies with these Official Rules. Taxes on any prize are solely the responsibility of each winner. Prizes are non-assignable and non-transferable. All details and other restrictions of the any prize not specified in these Official Rules will be determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion. The prize restrictions/conditions stated herein are not all-inclusive and the prizes described above may be subject to additional restrictions/conditions, which may be stated in the “Prize Claim Documents” (defined below).

 

5. WINNER SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION: There will be twenty-four (24) daily random drawings with the first beginning on 12/2/2010 and the last on 1/3/11 from all eligible entries received throughout the Promotion Period. Conduct of the Sweepstakes and the drawing are under the supervision of the Administrator. Potential prize winners will be notified in person and/or by phone and/or by email or mail or express mail, whichever is deemed appropriate by the Administrator, using the contact information provided at the time of entry. Sponsors shall have no liability for any potential prize winner notification that is lost, intercepted or not received by any potential prize winner for any reason. If, despite reasonable efforts, any potential prize winner does not respond within (5) days of the first notification attempt, or if the prize notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable to such potential prize winner, such potential prize winner will forfeit his or her prize and an alternate winner may be selected. If any potential prize winner is found to be ineligible, or if he or she has not complied with these Official Rules or declines a prize for any reason prior to award, such potential Prize winner will be disqualified and an alternate prize winner may be selected. Sponsors may successively attempt to contact up to two (2) alternate winners in accordance with the above procedure, and if there is still no confirmed winner after such attempts have been made, the applicable prize may go unawarded.

 

6. GENERAL PRIZE RESTRICTIONS/CONDITIONS: Prize winner shall be solely responsible for all federal, state and/or local taxes, and the reporting consequences thereof, sales tax, surcharges, service charges, delivery, processing and handling fees, and all other costs incurred in claiming the prize. Any potential winner that receives a free purchase greater than $600 will be required to execute an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and (where legal) a Publicity Release (collectively, “Prize Claim Documents”). If a winner fails or refuses to sign and return all Prize Claim Documents within five (5) days of prize notification, the winner may be disqualified and an alternate winner may be selected. Entrants agree that Promotion Entities (A) shall not be responsible or liable for any losses, damages or injuries of any kind resulting from participation in the Sweepstakes or any Sweepstakes related activity, or from entrants’ acceptance, receipt, possession and/or use or misuse of any prize, and (B) have neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guarantee express or implied, in fact or in law, with respect to any prize, including, without limitation, to such prize’s quality or fitness for a particular purpose. Sponsor makes no warranties, and hereby disclaim any and all warranties, express or implied, concerning any prize furnished in connection with the Sweepstakes. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, SUCH PRIZES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND SPONSORS HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

 

7. PUBLICITY RELEASE: Acceptance of any prize constitutes prize winner’s permission for the Promotion Entities to use prize winners name, photograph, likeness, voice, biographical information, statements and complete address (collectively, the "Attributes"), for advertising and/or publicity purposes worldwide and in all forms of media now known or hereafter devised, in perpetuity, without further compensation or authorization, (except where prohibited by law), and releases the Promotion Entities from all claims arising out of the use of such Attributes.

 

8. DISQUALIFICATION/FORCE MAJEURE: Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, mutilated, misdirected, illegible, incomplete, inaccurate, stolen, or postage due submissions or prize notifications. Sponsor reserves the right in their sole discretion to disqualify any individual who is found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes, to be acting in violation of these Official Rules, or to be acting in an unsportsman-like or disruptive manner, or with the intent to disrupt or undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes, or to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person, and Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages and other remedies from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. No mechanically reproduced, illegible, incomplete, forged, software-generated or other automated multiple entries will be accepted. Sponsor reserves the right to modify, extend, suspend, or terminate the Sweepstakes if it determines, in its sole discretion, that the Sweepstakes is technically impaired or corrupted or that fraud or technical problems, failures or malfunctions or other causes beyond Sponsor’s control have destroyed or severely undermined or to any degree impaired the integrity, administration, security, proper play and/or feasibility of the Sweepstakes as contemplated herein. In the event an insufficient number of eligible entries are received and/or Sponsor is prevented from awarding prizes or continuing with the Sweepstakes as contemplated herein by any event beyond its control, including but not limited to fire, flood, natural or man-made epidemic of health of other means, earthquake, explosion, labor dispute or strike, act of God or public enemy, satellite or equipment failure, riot or civil disturbance, terrorist threat or activity, war (declared or undeclared) or any federal state or local government law, order, or regulation, public health crisis (e.g. SARS), order of any court or jurisdiction, or other cause not reasonably within Sponsors control (each a “Force Majeure” event or occurrence), then Sponsors shall have the right to modify, suspend, or terminate the Sweepstakes. If the Sweepstakes is terminated before the designated end date, Sponsor will (if possible) select the winner(s) in a random drawing from all eligible, non-suspect entries received as of the date of the event giving rise to the termination. Inclusion in such drawing shall be each entrant’s sole and exclusive remedy under such circumstances. Only the type and quantity of prizes described in these Official Rules will be awarded. If, for any reason, more bona fide winners come forward seeking to claim prizes in excess of the number of each type of prize set forth in these Official Rules, the winners, or remaining winners, as the case may be, of the advertised number of prizes available in the prize category in question may be selected in a random drawing from among all persons making purportedly valid claims for such prize(s). These Official Rules cannot be modified or amended in any way except in a written document issued in accordance with law by a duly authorized representative of Sponsor. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these rules shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these rules shall otherwise remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein.

 

9. GOVERNING LAW/JURISDICTION: ALL ISSUES AND QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY, INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEABILITY OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES OR THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF ENTRANTS OR SPONSORS IN CONNECTION WITH THE SWEEPSTAKES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO ANY CHOICE OF LAW OF CONFLICT OF LAW RULES OR PROVISIONS THAT WOULD CAUSE THE APPLICATION OF ANY OTHER STATE’S LAWS.

 

10. ARBITRATION PROVISION: By participating in this Sweepstakes, each entrant agrees that any and all disputes the entrant may have with, or claims entrant may have against, the Promotion Entities relating to, arising out of or connected in any way with (i) the Sweepstakes, (ii) the awarding or redemption of any prize, and/or (iii) the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, will be resolved individually and exclusively by final and binding arbitration administered by the National Arbitration Forum (the “Forum”) and conducted before a sole arbitrator pursuant to the Code of Procedure established by the Forum. The arbitration shall be held at a location determined by the Forum pursuant to the Code of Procedure, or at such other location as may be mutually agreed by the participant and Sponsors. The arbitrator’s decision shall be controlled by the terms and conditions of these Official Rules and any of the other agreements referenced herein that the applicable participant may have entered into in connection with the Sweepstakes. There shall be no authority for any claims to be arbitrated on a class or representative basis; arbitration can decide only the participant’s and/or Sponsors individual claims and the arbitrator may not consolidate or join the claims of other persons or parties who may be similarly situated. The arbitrator shall not have the power to award punitive damages against the participant or Sponsors. For more information on the Forum and/or the Forum's Code of Procedure, please visit their website at www.arb-forum.com. If any part of this Arbitration Provision is deemed to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, the balance of this Arbitration Provision shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein.

 

11. WINNERS LIST/OFFICIAL RULES: To obtain a copy of these Official Rules and/or any legally-required winners list, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Sport Chalet Holiday ON US Sweepstakes Rules or Winners, PO Box 2312, Framingham, MA 01703-2312. All such requests must be received by 1/3/2011 © 2010 Sport Chalet, Inc. All Rights Reserved