The Publix Show Us Your "Green Routine" Contest (“the Contest”) is sponsored by Publix Super Markets, Inc. ("Publix”), Florida Press Educational Services, Inc. ("FPES"), and the Herald-Tribune Media Group ("HTMG") (collectively referred to "Sponsors"). This Contest is subject to all federal, state and local laws and is void where prohibited.  

Contest begins on January 2, 2012 and ends on February 17, 2012. Entry deadline is February 17, 2012 at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time ("ET"). Each student may only enter once. HTMG's computer is the official time-keeping device for this Contest promotion. Winners will be announced on or about April 22, 2012.

Sponsors may interpret these Official Rules as needed — including but not limited to rules regarding entries, selection of winners, deadlines, restrictions on prizes, and eligibility — and all of Sponsors' decisions are final. 

By entering, you (and your parent/legal guardian) agree to these Official Rules. There are other restrictions so read these Official Rules carefully.

ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible to participate in this Contest, you must have your parent or legal guardian’s permission, you must be enrolled in the sixth (6th) grade and you must reside in the geographic scope of the Contest, which includes only:
The entire state of Florida;

The following Alabama counties: Autugua, Baldwin, Elmore, Houston, Jefferson, Lee, Limestone , Madison, Montgomery, Morgan, Russell, Shelby, St Clair and Tuscaloosa;

The following Georgia counties: Barrow, Bartow, Bibb , Bryan , Camden, Carroll , Chatham, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Columbia, Coweta, DeKalb, Dougherty, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Glynn, Greene, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Lee Lowndes, Muscogee, Newton, Oconee, Paulding, Richmond, Rockdale, Seminole, Spalding, Thomas and Troup;

The following South Carolina counties: Aiken, Anderson, Beaufort. Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester, Greenville, Jasper, Lexington, Pickens, Richland and Spartanburg; and

The following Tennessee counties: Davidson, Hamilton, Maury, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson and Wilson.

You are not eligible to enter the Contest or to win any prizes if anyone in your immediate family (which means mother, father, sisters and brothers) is an employee of Publix, FPES, or HTMG. 

There is no limit on how many students may appear in a Video Entry (defined below). However, each student is limited to participating as a Team member in one (1) Video Entry. In addition, Team prizes are limited to four (4) students per Team.

PRIZES
Grand Prize (1): A pocket video flip camera and a $50 Publix gift card for each of up to four (4) Team Members and a $100 Publix gift card for the Grand Prize Team's Teacher to use during a school recognition event. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $740 ($160 per Team Member and $100 Teacher).

State Runner-Up Prizes (4): A $25 Publix gift card for each of up to four (4) Team Members and a $100 Publix gift card for the State Runner-Up Prize Team's Teacher to use during a school recognition event. ARV: $200.00 ($25 per Team Member and $100 Teacher).

PRIZE RESTRICTIONS
Publix Gift Cards are subject to certain terms and conditions. Please refer to http://www.publix.com/services/gift/GiftCertificates.do for more information. All details of all prizes are at Sponsors' sole discretion. You are responsible for any charges that are not specifically listed above in the prize description. You are also responsible for paying any taxes that may be associated with your prize.

You may not transfer or change your prize or exchange it for cash except that the Sponsors may substitute a prize with a prize of equal or greater value if they believe that it is necessary.

Any portion of your prize that you do not claim or use will be forfeit and you will not be entitled to any alternative or cash substitute. All prizes are being provided to you “as is” with no warranty or guarantee of any kind by Sponsors. Merchandise prizes do not have any warranty except for manufacturers’ warranties (if any). Sponsors have not made any promises to you about any prize or any part of it.

TO ENTER
Entries will be accepted into the Contest starting on January 2, 2012 at 12:00:01 a.m. ET and ending on February 17, 2012 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET (“Entry Period”). To enter, your team (each a "Team") must follow the following steps:

Step One: Your Team will need to have a sponsoring teacher ("Team Teacher") who will first be required to visit heraldtribune.com/niegogreen ("Contest Site") to provide his/her contact information (name, address, telephone number and email address). Once the teacher has been validated they will receive a link to return to site to provide to complete the online registration process for each student team. This includes the, following information for each student member of your Team: (i) name, (ii) address, (iii) current grade in school, (iv) confirmation that parent/guardian has given permission to participate in this Contest. You may have as many Team members as you like, but only four (4) students per Team will receive prizes.

Step Two: Create your video entry (your “Video Entry”) relating to the contest theme of campus sustainability, which means the social and environmental practices that protect and enhance the human and natural resources needed by future generations to enjoy a quality of life equal to or greater than our own. Your Video Entry should incorporate at least one of the three "R"s of sustainability: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Make sure that your Video Entry satisfies all of the "Submission Requirements" that are described below.

Step Three: Have your Team Teacher log back in to the Contest Site and submit your Video Entry by following the online instructions. You may only enter the Contest one time.

To be eligible for the Contest, all Video Entries and required information must be received by Sponsors no later than February 17, 2012 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET. Any Video Entries that are not received along with all required information by this deadline will not be judged or eligible to win. All Video Entries become the property of Sponsors and will not be returned or acknowledged.

Sponsors are not responsible for any entries that are lost, late, illegible, misdirected, mutilated or incomplete or that are not received by Sponsors by the deadline stated above for any other reason.

The information that provided in connection with the Contest may be used by Sponsors in accordance with the Privacy Policy (or Policies) found at the Contest Site, which may be updated from time to time.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
To be eligible for judging, your Video Entry must satisfy all of the following requirements ("Submission Requirements"):

Your Video Entry must be original to you and your Team members and must not include any content (such as music, pictures, video or other material) that was created by any other person unless you have obtained the rights to use such content or it is "public domain" content.

Your Video Entry must not contain any third-party logos, trademarks or copyright material.

Your Video Entry must not include any profanity, nudity, illegal or immoral conduct or any material that Sponsors or any of the Contest Judges determine is offensive in their discretion.

Any person whose face is shown in your Video Entry must have given you permission to use their image in this Contest. If your Video Entry is selected as a winner, you will be required to give Sponsors a written permission to use their images in this Contest. Sponsors may require you to provide the names and contact information (such as phone number or address) of each person who is visible in your Video Entry.

Your Video Entry must not exceed 200 MB in size or three (3) minutes in run time.

Any Video Entry that is determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion at any time during the Contest to violate the Submission Requirements or these Official Rules, or to otherwise be unsuitable, offensive or in poor taste, may be rejected and disqualified even if it has previously been submitted for any of the Panel Judging rounds (below). Sponsors retain sole discretion as to whether any Video Entry satisfies the Submission Requirements and these Official Rules and their decisions are final.

WARRANTY BY CONTESTANT
By entering your Video Entry, you promise that your Video Entry is original to and created by you and your Team Members and that it does not plagiarize, libel, disparage, or otherwise violate anyone’s rights.

LICENSE
If your Team is declared a winner, you agree that you will grant to Sponsors a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable license to copy, distribute, display, modify, publish and make derivative works from your Video Entry or portions of your Video Entry on the Contest Site and in Sponsors' marketing materials in any media of any kind, including Sponsors' web sites, and you agree that you will not be entitled to any compensation or money for any of these uses of your Video Entry.

FIRST ROUND JUDGING (SEMI- FINALIST SELECTION)
On approximately February 20, 2012, FPES will assemble an independent panel of judges consisting of educational professionals who will judge all of the properly submitted Video Entries in accordance with the Digital Video Rubric detailed at the end of the Official Rules. Subject to verification of eligibility, the four (4) contestants in each participating state whose Video Entries receive the highest overall scores during the First Round of Judging will be declared the Semi-Finalists. for a total of twenty (20) Semi-Finalists.

SECOND ROUND JUDGING (FINALIST SELECTION)
On approximately February 27, 2012, Publix will assemble an independent panel of judges consisting of Corporate Publix Marketing professionals. This second panel will judge the entries of the twenty (20) Semi-Finalists based on the judging criteria listed above. Subject to verification of continuing eligibility, the Semi-Finalist in each participating state whose Video Entry receive the highest score during the Second Round of Judging will be declared a Finalist, for a total of five (5) Finalists.

FINAL ROUND JUDGING (WINNER SELECTION)
On approximately March 2, 2012, Publix will assemble a new (and final) independent panel of judges consisting of Corporate Publix professionals. This second panel will judge the entries of the five (5) Finalists based on the judging criteria listed above. Subject to verification of continuing eligibility, the Finalist whose Video Entry receives the highest score during Final Round of Judging will be declared the Grand Prize Winner. The remaining four (4) Finalists will be declared the State Runner-Up Prize Winners.
In the event that there is a tie during any of the three (3) rounds of judging, the Video Entry that receives the highest score in the Object or Thesis Green Routine category within the Digital Video Rubric detailed at the end of the Official Rules will be declared the winning Video Entry of the tied Video Entries. Sponsors reserve the right to select fewer than the stated number of Semi-Finalists, Finalists or Winners in the event that they do not receive a sufficient number of eligible and adequate entries.
Sponsors may, but will not be required to, post all or part of the winning Video Entries on the Contest Site and other Sponsor web sites. Subject to obtaining parental consent (except where prohibited), Sponsors may, but will not be required to, show pictures and/or profiles of the Team Members and/or Team Teachers of the Grand Prize Winner and/or the Finalists and/or the Semi-Finalists on the Contest Site but will not be required to compensate the Team Members or the Team Teachers for such use of their pictures and/or profiles.

WINNER NOTIFICATION
Sponsors will contact the Team Teacher of the potential winning Teams via telephone and/or email using the information provided by during registration. Team Teacher will be responsible for distributing the eligibility verification materials to the parents/legal guardians of Team Members of the potential winning Teams. Parents/legal guardians may be asked to provide Sponsors with valid identification, signed affidavits of eligibility and publicity releases (except in Tennessee) and proof of current enrollment and may be required to sign other legal documents, including tax forms and a release supplied by Sponsors which, among other things, releases Sponsors and a range of related companies or persons from liability related to this Contest and the prizes. Sponsors in their sole discretion may post the name of the Team Teacher and the Team Name, first name and last initial of the Team Members of the confirmed Semi-Finalists and/or Finalists and/or Winners on the Contest Site.
A potential winning Team may be disqualified and forfeit its prize if any of the following occur: (a) Sponsors cannot reach its Team Teacher directly after trying to contact him or her for seven (7) days, (b) the Team Teacher or any Team member fails to satisfy any eligibility or verification requirement in these Official Rules, (c) the potential winning Team refuses to accept the prize, or (d) the potential winning Team is determined to be ineligible for any reason.
In the event that a potential winning Team is disqualified for any reason, Sponsors will select an alternate winning Team from the remaining Video Entry entries using the same judging method and judging criteria set forth above, so long as there are a sufficient number of eligible and properly submitted Video Entries remaining. Any alternate winning Team must satisfy all eligibility requirements and restrictions of these Official Rules.

PUBLICITY RELEASE/COPYRIGHT LICENSE
By accepting a prize, where permitted by law, each winning Team and Team Member grants to Sponsors and those acting on their behalf (and agrees to confirm that grant in writing), the right to print, publish, broadcast, and use for the purposes of this or similar contest only, worldwide in any media now known or hereafter developed—including, but not limited to, the World Wide Web—at any time(s), their name, picture, likeness, and information, as news or information and for art, trade, and/or promotional purposes without additional compensation or review. Any individuals depicted in the potentially winning Video Entries must also sign and return a Release of Liability/Publicity within the time period specified by Sponsors. Each winning Team and Team Member also grants to Sponsors the rights to use the winning Video Entries for promotion of this Contest or similar purposes for a period of three (3) years, where permitted by law.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY/DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
All Teams, Team Teachers and Team Members agree that Sponsors and their respective parents, subsidiaries, directors, agents, agencies, affiliates, franchisees, promoters, officers, directors, employees and related persons (a) are not responsible for lost, interrupted, or unavailable network, server, or other connections, or for any failed telephone or computer hardware or software, or for any failed, delayed, misdirected, corrupted, or garbled transmissions or errors of any kind, whether human, mechanical, or electronic, or for entries that for any reason are not received by Sponsors by the deadlines stated above; (b) are not responsible for any injury or damage to any computer, modem or other electrical device as a result of participation in this Contest or downloading of any software or materials; (c) are released from any and all liability related to this Contest and the receipt and use of the prize; and (d) will not be responsible for the inability to select Semi-Finalists, Finalists or Winners because of postal failure, equipment failure, or data storage failure.

MISCELLANEOUS
Sponsors have the right to cancel, terminate or suspend this Contest or any part of this Contest if the security, administration, fairness or operation of this Contest corrupted or impaired by any non-authorized intervention, network failure, information storage failure, telecommunications failure, malfunction, or other causes beyond Sponsors' control, as determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion. In that event, Sponsors will select the Semi-Finalists, Finalists or Winners from among all entries received at the time of the Contest termination that are not believed to have been affected by the event causing termination, using the same judging method and criteria set forth above.

Sponsors have the right to prohibit you or your Team from participating in this Contest if Sponsors determine (in their discretion) that (a) you have attempted to tamper with Contest in any way; (b) you have tried to cheat or circumvent the Official Rules; (c) you have acted in any unfair way while participating in the Contest; (d) you have tried to annoy, threaten or harass any other contestant or Sponsors; or (c) you have acted in any other disruptive manner. If Sponsors fail to enforce any of these Official Rules in any situation, that does not mean that Sponsors have waived the Official Rules with respect to you.

All activity arising out of and relating to the Contest is subject to verification and/or auditing for compliance with the Official Rules and you agree to cooperate with Sponsors concerning verification and/or auditing. All references to a Team's status as a "Semi-Finalist," "Finalist" or "Winner" are subject to verification and/or auditing by Sponsors. If verification activity or an audit evidences non-compliance with the Official Rules as determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion, Sponsors reserve the right to disqualify that Video Entry from the Contest at any time.

Sponsors reserve the right to correct typographical or clerical errors in any Contest-related materials. No more than the number of prizes stated above will be awarded. If more than that stated number of prizes is claimed for any reason, Sponsors will award only the stated number of prizes by selecting the Semi-Finalists, Finalists and/or Winners from all legitimate, un-awarded, eligible prize claims by applying the same judging method and criteria described above.

DISPUTES
By participating in the Contest, you agree that (a) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action that relate to the Contest or any prizes, will be resolved individually, without any class actions of any kind; (b) any and all claims, judgments and awards will be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs, but will not include attorneys' fees; and (c) no person will be permitted, under any circumstance, to claim or receive any award of punitive, incidental or consequential damages or damages that are multiplied or increased in any way and you waive any claims for such damages.

All issues and questions relating to this Contest or the Official Rules in any way are governed by Florida law, regardless of any choice of law or conflict of law principles. Any legal proceedings relating to the Contest or the Official Rules can be brought only in the federal or state courts located in Hillsborough County, Florida and nowhere else and all you consent to jurisdiction in Hillsborough County, Florida. If any of these Official Rules is held to be invalid or unenforceable or illegal, these Official Rules will otherwise remain in effect and be interpreted as if the invalid or illegal rule were not included.

WINNERS' LIST/OFFICIAL RULES COPY
For a copy of the Official Rules or Winners' List, visit heraldtribune.com/niegogreen, or mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Publix “Show Us Your "Green Routine" Contest,” c/o Publix Marketing Department, 3300 Publix Corporate Parkway, Lakeland, FL 33811, specifying either “Winners’ List Request” or “Official Rules Request.”

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