The Cisco Video@Work Contest
COMPLETE OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. INTERNET ACCESS IS REQUIRED TO ENTER. You have not yet won. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. This Contest begins at or about 09:00:00 am Pacific Time (“PT”) on April 29, 2008 and ends at or about 11:59:59 pm PT on June 21, 2008 (“Promotion Period”). Sponsor’s clock is the official time keeping device for this Promotion.

1. ELIGIBILITY: The Cisco Campus Communications Video Contest (“Contest”) is a trade promotion Sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Sponsor” or “Cisco”) and is only open and offered to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and District of Columbia twenty-one (21) years of age or older at time of registration.  All others are ineligible to enter and will be disqualified. Cisco Systems, Inc., its affiliates, subsidiaries, and their respective employees, contractors, consultants, officers, directors, representatives, agents, and family members of those employees (spouse, domestic partner, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, children, siblings and their spouses) and individuals living in the same household of those employees, whether related or not, are not eligible to participate and will be disqualified. Cisco reserves the right to limit, or restrict upon notice, participation in the Contest to any person at any time for any reason in its sole discretion.

2. HOW TO ENTER: To enter the Contest, visit the front page during the Promotion Period, complete the online registration form, accept these Terms and Conditions and follow the instructions to submit a video describing your experience with video in the workplace (“Entry”) to the YouTube group http://www.youtube.com/group/videowork. If you are not already a registered member of Cisco.com and YouTube.com, you will be asked to register before you can complete the online registration form and upload your Entry. There is no cost to register or enter.  Your video must be no longer than 5 minutes. Each Entry must be the original creation of the Entrant. Entries may not be cancelled, removed or revoked by Entrant. Persons under the age of 13 may not appear in a video submission. Videos must meet the technical specifications to be uploaded on YouTube and received by 11:59pm ET on 6/21/08 to be eligible. Limit One (1) Entry per person. If Sponsor receives multiple Entries from the same Entrant, all but the first entry will be disqualified. Entrants assume all risk of damaged, lost, late, incomplete, invalid, incorrect or misdirected Entries. By entering the Contest, each Entrant fully and unconditionally agrees to and accepts these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and the Judges, which are final and binding on all matters relating to this Promotion.

3.  CONTENT TERMS OF ENTRY: Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify and/or remove any Entry in whole or in part for any reason within its sole and absolute discretion provided it believes the Entry is not in the spirit of the Promotion, is not compliant with these Official Rules, or will have a detrimental impact on Sponsor, this Promotion, or any of its products or services. Without limiting the foregoing, any obscene, offensive, sexual or otherwise inappropriate Entry including without limitation those referencing or depicting violence, nudity or explicit activity, or which are not in the spirit of the Contest or do not meet Sponsor’s standards for any reason, as determined by the Sponsor, in its sole discretion, will not be considered. Entries should not contain or display any corporate names, trademarks, logos slogans or any other information that would identify any former or current employer(s).

By entering, you agree that: (i) all Entries become Sponsor’s property and will not be returned;  (ii) Sponsor (and its authorized representatives) have the unlimited right to alter and/or edit the Entry or any part or element thereof; and (iii) Sponsor and their licensees, successors and assigns have the right to use any and all Entries, and the names, likenesses, voices and images of all persons appearing in the Entry, for future advertising, promotion and publicity in any manner and in any medium now known or hereafter devised throughout the world in perpetuity.  You will not now nor in the future be paid for your Entry.  Sponsor, its affiliates, licensees, successors and assigns are in no way obligated to use or continue to use your Entry (and have no obligation to you or any other person or entity after your Entry is received). You agree to waive all claims to and shall receive no royalties of any kind now or in the future from Sponsor, its affiliates, licensees, successors and assigns for use of your Entry. Please also be aware that your Entry does not create a confidential relationship or obligation of secrecy between you and any of the entities involved in this Promotion. Please do not include any confidential or other proprietary information in your Entry as such information will not be protected.

By entering, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, accept and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of these Official Rules, as they may be amended from time to time. Entries that do not comply with all requirements stated in these Rules will not be considered and will be disqualified. Nothing contained in these Official Rules shall be construed to: (i) give any Party the power to direct and control the day-to-day activities of the other; (ii) constitute the Parties as partners, joint venturers, principal and agent, employer and employee, co-owners or Entrants in a joint undertaking; or (iii) allow Entrant to create or assume any obligation on behalf of Sponsor.

4. JUDGING CRITERIA: Eligible Entries will be judged by a panel of qualified judges selected by Sponsor (“Judges”), based on a composite score (assigned between 1- 100) using the following criteria: ingenious, original, creative or resourceful ways in which Video technology has (1) improved employee efficiency; (2) enhanced customer or partner experiences; (3) redefined business processes and (4) the effectiveness of the Entry in describing or otherwise illustrating the business benefits derived from the deployment of video technology (“Judging Criteria”). Contest Entries received during the Promotion Period will be judged, according to the Judging Criteria, approximately 4 weeks following the Promotion Period. The Entry with the highest score will be declared the potential Grand Prize winner; Entries with the next three highest scores will be deemed the potential Runner-up Prize winners. In the event of a tie, the Entry (among those tied) with the highest score in the “describing or otherwise illustrating the business benefits” category of the Judging Criteria will be deemed the potential winner for the applicable prize. All decisions by the Judges are final. Potential winners must comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules; winning is contingent upon verification of eligibility and compliance with all requirements herein. 

5. PRIZE(S)/ODDS: One (1) Grand Prize: Canon Vixia HV20 High Definition camcorder; Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $999. Three Runner-Up prizes (3): Linksys DMA2200 Media Center Extender with DVD; ARV: $299. Potential winners will be notified by mail, e-mail or telephone (at Sponsor’s discretion using the information provided in the Entry). Potential winners will be required to sign and return a Declaration of Eligibility, Release of Liability, and where legal, a Publicity Release for receipt by Sponsor within ten (10) business days of the date such Declaration and Release are dated.  In the event of noncompliance with these Official Rules, if potential winner cannot be reached using the contact information provided on the Entry on or within two attempts, or if the prize winner notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable, the prize will be forfeited and an alternate potential winner will be selected in accordance with their score. Prizes are not assignable or transferable in whole or in part. No prize substitutions allowed, in whole or in part, except the Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of comparable value.  Winner is solely responsible for any local, provincial, state, federal or any other applicable taxes, and any other costs, expenses and fees connected with the prize.

6. GENERAL CONDITIONS: Sponsor has the right to verify each entrant’s eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules. Each entrant, by submitting a Entry, in whole or in part, except where legally prohibited, grants permission to Sponsor and its authorized representatives to use his/her name, address (city and state/province/territory), photograph, voice, and/or other likeness for advertising, trade and promotional purposes without further compensation, in all media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide, and on the Internet and world wide web, in perpetuity, without notice, consideration, review or approval. Personal data will be processed in accordance with Cisco’s Privacy Policy which can be located at http://www.cisco.com/web/siteassets/legal/privacy.html. Sponsor may, for an indefinite period, unless otherwise advised, use the data for promotional, marketing and publicity purposes, including sending electronic messages to the Entrant. Sponsor is not responsible for human error, theft, destruction, or damage to Entries, or other factors beyond its reasonable control. Sponsor reserves the immediate right to disqualify any Entrant who, in Sponsor’s sole discretion, is not in compliance with these Official Rules, or is acting in an uncooperative, unsportsmanlike, or disruptive manner. Sponsor shall not be liable to a winner or any other person for failure to supply the prize or any part thereof, by reason of the prize becoming for reasons beyond the reasonable control of Sponsor unavailable or impracticable to award, or for any force majeure event, technical or equipment failure, terrorist acts, labor dispute, or act/omission of any kind (whether legal or illegal), transportation interruption, civil disturbance, or any other cause similar or dissimilar beyond Sponsors’ control.

Neither Sponsor, nor its employees, officers, directors, agents, contractors, or affiliates, (“Released Parties”) shall assume any responsibility whatsoever for technical failures of any kind, including, or errors of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, network or otherwise arising out of or relating to the Promotion, theft, loss, destruction or damage to Entries, in whole or in part, or other factors beyond their reasonable control. Once submitted, Entry cannot be modified, deleted or cancelled. Except in cases of death or personal injury caused by negligence, Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to Entrants’ or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in the Promotion. Entrants may not enter with multiple e-mail and/or street addresses, nor may Entrants use any other device or artifice to submit multiple Entries. Any Entrant who uses fraudulent entry methods will be disqualified. In the event of a dispute as to any Entry, the authorized account holder of the email address used to enter will be deemed to be the person who made the Entry. The authorized “account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address.

7. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND RELEASE: BY SUBMITTING AN ENTRY,  ENTRANTS AGREE SPONSOR, ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, ADVERTISING/PROMOTION AGENCIES, AND ALL OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS (“RELEASED PARTIES”) WILL HAVE NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR, AND WILL BE RELEASED AND HELD HARMLESS BY ENTRANT FOR ANY CLAIMS, LIABILITIES, OR CAUSES OF ACTION OF ANY KIND OR NATURE FOR ANY INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES TO PERSONS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DISABILITY OR DEATH, EXCEPT IN CASES OF DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, AND DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, DUE IN WHOLE OR IN PART, ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, NOW OR IN THE FUTURE FROM THE DELIVERY, ACCEPTANCE, USE OR MISUSE OF THE PRIZE, ANY AND ALL USE AS PROVIDED HEREIN OF THEIR ENTRY, VIDEO, OR PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST AND/OR ANY RELATED ACTIVITY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THE PROMOTION WEB SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.  SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IN WHICH CASE SUCH LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION SHALL APPLY ONLY TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE LAW IN THE RELEVANT JURISDICTION. 

8. WINNERS LIST:  For a list of winners, please visit the front page for a list of winner’s names and their state of residence.  

9. SPONSOR: Cisco Systems, Inc., 170 W. Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134.