Terms and Conditions

The following are the official rules for all contests held by Hangout.net. They may not apply to user-created contests.

All contestants must be at least 13 years of age or older, unless otherwise stated.

Contests do not require signup. Signup will not improve your chances of winning.

Any entries that fail to follow contest instructions will be considered ineligible.

Winners of raffles, lotteries, or other random-selection contests will be chosen at random from eligible entries.

Entries selected to win “best of” contests, design contests, user generated content contests, or any other contest requiring user submission of media, will be judged entirely at the discretion of Hangout.net. By submitting any screenshots, designs, user generated content, or other media to Hangout.net, you grant Hangout.net and its affiliates, licensees, and assigns, an irrevocable, perpetual, and royalty-free right to use, reproduce, edit, display, transmit, prepare derivative works of, modify, publish, and otherwise make use of the submitted media and all information pertaining to such media for any purpose throughout the world.

By entering, you give Hangout.net permission to use your first name and limited locational information (e.g., your city or state) in an announcement to other users or prospective users.

By submitting any media or information to Hangout.net, you hereby represent and warrant that the submitted media or information does not and shall not infringe on any copyright, any rights of privacy or publicity of any person, or any other right of any third party, and you have the right to grant any and all rights and licenses granted to Hangout.net herein, including but not limited to all necessary rights under copyright, free and clear of any claims or encumbrances.

You acknowledge and agree that Hangout.net has no obligation to post, display or otherwise make publicly available any media or information submitted by you, and may, in its sole and unfettered discretion, remove, edit, modify or delete any media or information that you submit.

You understand and intend that any media or information submitted by you to Hangout.net may be available for viewing, rating, review and comment on by the public, and understand that comments or ratings with which you disagree or are unhappy about may be published or otherwise become associated with any media or information you submit. By submitting any media or information to Hangout.net, you hereby waive any privacy expectations that you may have with respect to any such media or information submitted by you to Hangout.net.

You hereby agree to hold Hangout.net and its affiliates, licensees, sponsors, and assigns harmless from and against, and hereby waive any right to pursue, any claims of any nature arising in connection with the inclusion in, publication via or display on any Hangout.net site, or any other use authorized under these Rules, of any media or information submitted to Hangout.net by you;

Media or information submitted by you to Hangout.net shall be the property of Hangout.net, and Hangout.net shall have no obligation to preserve, return or otherwise make available to you or others any media or information so submitted.

If you win, you will be contacted at the email address you provided to Hangout.net when you entered the contest or signed up for Hangout.net. Winners must send an email response to Hangout.net within 14 calendar days of being notified of the contest result in order to claim any prizes. Failure to respond within 30 days will result in forfeit of the prize. Forfeited prizes may or may not be awarded to other users.

You agree that Hangout.net, Hangout.net’s sponsors, and employees of Hangout.net or Hangout.net’s sponsors shall not be held liable for any warranty, costs, damage, injury, or any other claims incurred as a result of usage of a prize once possession has been taken of the prize by the winner. Hangout.net is not liable for any loss arising out of or in connection with or resulting from any contest promoted by Hangout.net.

If the specified prize becomes unavailable due to unforeseen circumstances, Hangout.net may substitute a prize of like or equal value.

Management and employees of Hangout.net are prohibited from winning any prizes awarded by Hangout.net.

Hangout.net reserves the right to alter any rules of any contest at anytime. Please continue to monitor the contest entry page for any changes. If you have any questions about a Hangout.net contest, please contact Contest@hangout.net