1. Eligibility: The Angels & Demons Path of Illumination Contest (the “Contest”) is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including D.C.), Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, who have reached the age of majority in their state, country, province, region or other area of residence and did not purchase any products, software, services or equipment for the purposes of entering this Contest. Flash 9.0, a Windows Live ID and the Photosynth Web browser plug-in application (for viewing and creating synths) are required to participate in the Contest, but they may be obtained for free. To get a Windows Live ID, visit http://get.live.com/. To download a free version of Photosynth, visit http://www.photosynth.net. Local system settings may prevent you from using Photosynth. You should ensure that you have access to a system with the following minimum requirements:


Employees of Microsoft Corporation (“Sponsor”), Columbia Tristar Marketing Group, Inc., ePrize, LLC, Sony Electronics, Inc., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Piaggio Group, (Piaggio & C. S.p.A.) (“Piaggio”), and all other prize suppliers associated with the Contest, any advertising and promotion agencies of any of the above, and any other entity providing services or goods to any of the above in connection with the Contest, and the affiliates of all of the foregoing (collectively, the “Contest Entities”), as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. The Contest is subject to all applicable national, federal, state, provincial and local laws, regulations and directives. Void outside of the fifty (50) United States and D.C., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and where prohibited.

2. Sponsor: Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”), One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052. Administrator: ePrize, LLC, One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069.

3. Agreement to Official Rules: Participation in the Contest constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and to Sponsor's and Administrator’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to this Contest. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.

4. Timing: The Contest begins on January 30, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time ("PT"), ends on March 27, 2009 at 9:59 a.m. PT (the "Contest Period") and consists of two (2) rounds, and a tie-breaker round if necessary, as set forth in the chart below.

The official time-keeping device is the Contest Site (as defined below) computer. Non-US participants should visit http://www.worldtimeserver.com/ or similar time zone calculator to determine their local time.

5. How to Enter: You must enter the Contest during the Round 1 (see the chart in Section 4 for specific dates). To enter the Contest, visit http://angelsanddemons.msn.com (the "Contest Site") and follow the links and instructions to get a free Windows Live ID password (if you don’t already have one) and register for the Contest. Complete the registration, including your first and last name; a valid email address; your home mailing address, including your street number (P.O. Boxes are not permitted), city, state/province, zip/postal code and country; a phone number where you can be reached on or around March 28, 2009; your gender, date of birth, and Windows Live ID password.


6. Grand Prize Winner and Country Winner Determination: All winners will be selected on the basis of skill, and chance will play no part in determining a score. If you are the Grand Prize Winner, you will also be the Country Winner for your particular country of residence.


For all entrants: In the event of a dispute as to any entry, the authorized account holder, at time of entry, of the Windows Live ID used to register for the Contest will be deemed to be the entrant and must comply with these Official Rules. The “authorized account holder of the Windows Live ID” is the natural person assigned a Windows Live ID address by Microsoft. The entrant may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address or Windows Live ID. Any attempt by any entrant to submit more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different email addresses, Windows Live ID numbers, identities or any other method will void that entrant's entries/plays and he/she will be disqualified from further participation in the Contest. Use of script, macro or any other automated system to play is prohibited and all such plays will be void. Personal data collected from this Contest will be stored by the Sponsor on a server in the United States of America and entering this Contest constitutes your consent to the export of your personal data to the United States and its use there for the purposes of this Contest and associated processing (e.g., back-up, archiving).

7. Prizes:


For All Prizes: Prizes are non-transferable and no substitution or cash redemption will be permitted unless Sponsor, in its sole discretion, determines otherwise. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion. Except for residents of Italy, winners of any prize are responsible for all federal, state and local taxes and any other costs, expenses or fees associated with prize acceptance and/or use not specified herein as being provided. The Canadian Country Winner and the Grand Prize winner (if a legal resident of Canada) will be required to return to Administrator an IRS W8-BEN form at the end of the taxable year the prize was awarded. This form is required by the United States tax authorities to establish exemptions to tax in the United States for claiming a prize. The value of each prize as set forth above represents Sponsor’s, its prize providers and Administrator's good faith determination of the ARV thereof and cannot be challenged or appealed. In the event the ARV of a prize is more than the actual retail value of the prize, the difference will not be awarded in cash or otherwise.

For Prizes Won by Italian Residents: If after three (3) attempts a potential winner cannot be verified for any individual prize, then that prize will be donated to the Organizzazioni non lucrative di utilità sociale (“ONLUS”), as required by Italian law. Sponsor reserves the right to donate the monetary value of the prize (at the time of determining winners) instead of the actual prizes if the prize must be donated to the ONLUS.

8. Prize Winner and Travel Companion Requirements: Each potential prize winner will be notified by mail, email or phone on or around March 28, 2009. The potential Grand Prize winner will be notified in person and via email, mail or phone on or around the date of the Angels & Demons premiere mentioned in Section 7(b) above (subject to the Contest Entities' sole discretion). For residents of the United States (including D.C.) : Each potential prize winner, regardless of prize, will be required to execute and return to Administrator, within three (3) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability & Publicity Release (“Affidavit”) in order to claim his/her prize. For residents of Canada: Each potential prize winner, regardless of prize, will be required to execute and return to Administrator, within three (3) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, a Declaration of Compliance (“Declaration”) in order to claim his/her prize. For residents of France: When a French winner or travel companion receives a document called “eligibility/publicity release” destined to obtain his/her free consent to use his/her full name, likeness, city of residence and photographs for promotional purposes and without additional compensation, his/her lack of consent does not prevent the winner from receiving the prize. For travel companions: Each travel companion must complete, sign and return a Publicity/Liability Release (where legal) and any other requested paperwork to Administrator in order for travel documents or tickets to be awarded. For all potential prize winners and travel companions: Unless a resident of Italy, each potential prize winner and his/her travel companion will also be required to obtain and provide proof of documents required for international travel. For all potential prize winners: If a potential winner of any prize cannot be contacted, fails to execute and return any documents required by Administrator within the required time period (if applicable), is not in compliance with these Official Rules, or prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, he/she forfeits the prize. If a potential winner is disqualified or forfeits the prize for any reason, the applicable prize will be awarded to a runner-up, if any, at Sponsor’s discretion. Only three (3) alternate winners may be selected through this process, after which the applicable prize will remain un-awarded. Acceptance of any prize shall constitute and signify winner’s agreement and consent that each of the Contest Entities may use the winner’s, name, city, state, likeness, photo and/or prize information in connection with the Contest for promotional, advertising or other purposes, worldwide, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, including the Internet, without limitation and without further payment, notification, permission or other consideration, except where prohibited by law.

9. Release: Except for entrants who are residents of France, Germany, Spain, and/or the United Kingdom, with respect to claims resulting from death or personal injury only (in accordance with applicable law in those jurisdictions), by participating in the Contest (or any part thereof), each entrant agrees to release and hold harmless each of the Contest Entities and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, shareholders, and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation or inability to participate in the Contest or receipt or use, misuse or inability to use any prize.

10. General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Contest, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. If terminated, Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, determine the prize winners from among all non-suspect, eligible entries received up to time of such action using the Scoring Criteria outlined above. Sponsor, in its sole discretion (subject to the approval of the Régie des Alcools, des Courses et des Jeux in the Province of Quebec), reserves the right to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner and void all associated entries. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages and other remedies (including attorneys’ fees) from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any of the Contest Entities’ failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

11. Releases of Liability; Limitations of Liability: Each entrant hereby agrees to release, indemnify and hold harmless each of the Released Parties from any claim, action, proceeding, cause of action, damage, loss, liability, costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable outside attorney’s fees and costs arising from or in connection with: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrant, printing, typographical or other errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process, puzzle game play process, tie breaker application, or Contest participation; (4) printing, typographical, technical, computer, network or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest (including but not limited to the administration/functionality/scoring of the puzzles), the uploading or processing of entrant registrations, the scoring methodology, the awarding of scores, the application of scoring or tie-breaking criteria, the announcement of the prizes, prize winners, Grand Prize winner or in any Contest-related advertising, promotional or administrative materials; (5) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen mail or communications; or (6) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the Contest and/or receipt or use or misuse of any prize (including any travel or any activity related thereto), except where prohibited by law. Released Parties are not responsible for misdirected or undeliverable entries or for any technical problems, malfunctions of computer systems, servers, providers, hardware/software, lost or unavailable network connections or failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmission or any combination thereof. Released Parties are not responsible for any unauthorized third party use of any Submission, except if directly attributable to the gross negligence of the Released Parties.

12. Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Southern Division) or the appropriate Michigan State Court located in Oakland County, Michigan; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Contest, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (3) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrants and Sponsor in connection with the Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Michigan. For Residents of Quebec Only: Any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Régie des Alcools, des Courses et des Jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the Régie only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.

13. Entrants’ Personal Information: Information collected from entrants is subject to Sponsor’s Privacy Policy (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74170). Information will only be collected by Sponsor on the Contest Site. Entrants who opt-in to receive additional information from other Contest Entities will have their information shared with those other Contest Entities and such personally identifiable information is subject to each Contest Entities' Privacy Policy.

All information submitted to the Sponsor as part of this Contest will be treated in accordance with the Sponsor’s privacy policy, available at http://privacy.microsoft.com/fr-fr/default.aspx (for residents of France), http://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/default.aspx (for residents of Germany), http://privacy.microsoft.com/it-it/default.aspx (for residents of Italy) and ePrize’s privacy policy at http://www.eprize.com/privacy/privacypolicy.html.

Sponsor and Administrator have notified the US Department of Commerce that they adhere by the rules of the Safe Harbor Framework available under http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/SH_Privacy.asp. Personal information includes name, address, email address, birthday and phone number, and will be used to: (a) contact potential winners; and (b) if an entrant selects to receive additional information from the Sponsor on the entry form, to send additional information to that entrant. The recipients of your personal data are the Sponsor and Administrator. YOUR INFORMATION WILL NOT BE STORED OR PROCESSED ON SERVERS LOCATED IN THE EUROPEAN UNION.

14. Winners’ List: Winners' List requests will only be accepted after the Contest end date (listed above) and no later than July 28, 2009. For the Winners' List, send an email with subject line: "The Angels & Demons Path of Illumination Contest, Winners' List Request,” to WinListRequests@eprizefulfillment.com.

15. General: Nothing in these Official Rules shall be deemed to exclude or restrict any of the winner's or the entrant's statutory rights as a consumer.

16. For Residents of France Only: These Official Rules have been filed with Hussier Maître Jean-Louis Hauguel, huissier 14, rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, 75008 Paris. Pursuant to French law pertaining to data collection and processing, you have a right of access to, modification and withdrawal of your personal data. You also have the right of opposition to the data collection, under certain circumstances. To exercise such right, you may write to: “The Angels & Demons Path of Illumination Contest,” "Experts Better for Business" Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052, U.S.A. The data controller and data recipient is Administrator acting as an agent of and under the authority of Sponsor. Personal data will be transferred outside the European Union.

17. For Residents of Italy Only: Sponsor’s representative in Italy, as required by Article 17 of the Decree of the President of the Republic no. 633 of 1972, is Italy Centro Direzionale San Felice Palazzo A Via Rivoltana, 13 20090 Segrate (MI) Italy.

18. For Residents of Germany Only: Pursuant to the German Federal Data Protection Act, you have a right to information about the personal data stored about you, including its origin, recipient or categories of recipients of the data and the purpose of the storage. In addition, you have the right of correction and, in certain circumstances, to disabling and deletion of your data and, in certain circumstances, the right to object to the collection, processing and use of your personal data. To exercise such right, you may write to "Experts for Better Business” c/o Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052, U.S.A.

19. For Residents of Spain Only: According to the Spanish Law 15/1999 entrants have the right to access, withdraw, and correct their personal data. Entrants may request such action by sending a message to “Experts for Better Business” c/o Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052, U.S.

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