Official Contest Rules

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1. ELIGIBILITY
Must be 18 years of age or older. Employees of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) and its affiliates and the immediate family or members of their same households of such employees are not eligible. By entering, you agree to these Official Rules and the decisions of LWW, which are final and binding in all respects.

LWW reserves the right to change, alter or modify the eligibility and prize for the Product Prescription contest. Any such change, alteration or modification will be announced, in a manner deemed appropriate by LWW, in which case the change, alteration or modification will become effective on the following month's drawing. LWW reserves the right to discontinue the Product Prescription contest at any time.

No purchase is necessary to enter LWW.com's Product Prescription contest.

2. CONTEST PERIOD AND PRIZE ALLOCATION
The monthly contest period begins on the first Tuesday of every month at 10:01 a.m. Eastern Time (ET), and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. ET on the last day of the same month.

Beginning on Tuesday, March 2, 2004, LWW will allot 5% online store credit per month to the contest prize. LWW will post one submission per month. Should a prize be claimed by its rightful winner during the contest period, the contest prize reverts to 10% for the purposes of subsequent drawings.

3. ENTRY
Complete the submission form by entering your first and last name, town and state of residence, country of residence, email address, suggested title and author, and any other requested fields. Unless otherwise advised on LWW.com, any other attempt at entry (including, but not limited to, email or in-store entry) is void.

LWW.com is not responsible for service interruptions or any other technical difficulties that may affect the schedule of posting and redemption features associated with this contest. No responsibility is assumed for lost, incomplete, misdirected, or illegible entries; or for any computer, telephone, cable, network, satellite, electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, interrupted transmissions, or service provider and/or web site accessibility or availability.

Entrants may submit as many titles as they like for consideration.

4. DRAWING
On the first Tuesday of each month at 10:01 a.m. (Eastern Time), LWW.com will post a new featured title alongside the contributor's first name and city/state/country of residence in the Product Prescription e-mail. To claim the contest prize, the contributor must clickthrough to LWW.com's prize redemption page or send an e-mail to the appropriate address and use the exact email address matching the one associated with the original submission by 11:59 p.m. ET on the last day of the same month.

Members of the LWW's content team will select each monthly feature from a pool of previously submitted entries based on its suitability for feature presentation in the Product Prescription e-mail. Factors may include availability or suitability of a title for promotion as determined by LWW staff. LWW reserves the absolute right to reject or approve titles for promotion according to the criteria it deems relevant.

Only one contributor is eligible to win per month. In the event that multiple contributors have recommended the same title, LWW may use the First Name or Last Name submitted by contributors to help differentiate between entrants; however, the email address associated with our featured recommendation, as selected by LWW staff, shall serve as the ultimate and sole tool of all prize claims and allocation.

Submissions may not be featured more than once. Separate submissions remain eligible regardless of a contestant's prior collection of the contest prize.

5. PRIZE/ODDS The monthly contest prize is a 10% credit, redeemable via LWW.com. For every month the prize goes unclaimed, another 5% credit will be added to the prize total until such time as a prize is claimed according to the guidelines outlined in these official rules.

When a prize is claimed by its rightful winner, the Product Prescription contest enters remission until the first Tuesday at 10:01 a.m. ET of the following month, at which time the prize value reverts to 10% credit and a new title and contributor is posted. One submission will be selected per contest period. Odds of winning in any drawing depend on the number of eligible entries received for that drawing. The contest prize may not be redeemed in retail stores nor may it be redeemed for cash.

6. GENERAL CONDITIONS
Prize winners agree to grant to LWW the right to print, publish, and use, at any time or times, the winner's name for advertising, trade and promotional purposes without additional consideration.

LWW reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Product Prescription contest or the LWW web site; to be in violation of the Terms of Service of the web site; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; or to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Any use of robotic, automatic, macro, programmed or like entry methods will void all such entries by such methods and persons thus engaged.

7. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
LWW is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by web site users, or tampering or hacking, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized by LWW and assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to the web site.

8. DISPUTES
As a condition of participating in this contest, participant agrees that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this promotion, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively, before a court located in the state of Oregon having competent jurisdiction, which Court shall apply the laws of the State of Oregon without regard for doctrines of Conflict of Law. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys' fees, other than participant's actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this contest), and participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

9. IDENTIFICATION OF WINNERS
For names of the monthly winners, please contact us.

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