Galaxy Nutritional Foods Bloggers Contest: How Galaxy Nutritional Foods Has Changed My Life
Galaxy Nutritional Foods is excited to announce we will be offering food bloggers nationwide an opportunity to win the first ever Galaxy Nutritional Foods blogger sponsorship and travel to Santa Monica, California to attend International Food Blogger Conference 2011 scheduled November 11-12, 2011. This two-day conference is one of the social media networking events within the food community. In addition to hanging out with fellow foodies this lucky food blogger will attend engaging seminars by leading authors, bloggers, chefs, and influencers in the social media industry. Attending a blogger conference is a great way to gain increased exposure for one’s blog, now times that by 2-3 with the exposure this lucky blogger will get from Galaxy linking to those blog posts on our popular Facebook page with a community of almost 12,000!
Grand prize is $1000 cash
THE RULES:
The competition is open to adults (18 and older) with a food/nutrition/lifestyle blog that has been publishing for at least 12 months.
Please include the URL of your blog.
Entrants must submit a statement of 75 words or less describing “How Galaxy Nutritional Foods Has Changed My Life” and one photograph of a dish you made (does not matter if from an original recipe) using a Galaxy Nutritional Foods product.
Applicants should have an active Facebook and/or Twitter account(s). Please include links to either/both.
Written entries will be judged on relevance to theme, creativity, and how inspiring they are. Photographs will be judged on composition (lighting, angle, background) and creativity.
Submit entries to galaxyrecipecontest@gmail.com.
All online entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, June 10, 2011.
The winner will be announced on Friday, June 17, 2011.
Winner Agreement:
Display Galaxy Nutritional Foods badge (logo) as provided by Galaxy Nutritional Foods on the home/landing page of the website/blog in a manner clearly visible to the user without scrolling down and in the top 768 pixels of the page (“Above the Fold”) for four consecutive months beginning July 1, 2011.
Provide Galaxy Nutritional Foods with final approval of the placement, look and feel of the badge on the website/blog in a timely manner.
Notify Galaxy Nutritional Foods if there is a malfunction with the badge (logo).
Exclusively represent Galaxy Nutritional Foods at the Blog Conference in Santa Monica, California scheduled November 11-12, 2011.
To network with other participants at the International Food Blogger Conference in Galaxy Nutritional Foods at the Blog Conference in Santa Monica, California scheduled November 11-12, 2011. This includes contacting participating bloggers chosen by Galaxy Nutritional Foods and the winner (via email or social media) in advance of the conference.
To follow-up with bloggers from the conference via email after the show on behalf of Galaxy Nutritional Foods with offers of GNF product samples (GNF will send samples directly on behalf of GNF and the winner and absorb all shipping costs exclusively for the GNF samples).
Tweeting – Winner will include periodic mentions of Galaxy Nutritional Foods (including links to GNF’s Twitter handle in Tweets related to experience at conference,
Winners will be expected to cover up front expenses…Galaxy Nutritional Foods will pay $500 by July 1, 2011 and $500 by November 28, 2011.
THE JUDGES:
Jamie Schapiro, Director of Marketing Galaxy Nutritional Foods
Alex Jamieson, author of The Great American Detox Diet, blogger, nutrition and wellness coach
Elisa Bosley, Senior Food Editor Delicious Living
HOW GALAXY NUTRITIONAL FOODS HAS CHANGED MY LIFE CONTEST TERMS:
- Registrants may only enter the contest once.
- 2. By entering this contest, entrants agree Galaxy Nutritional Foods may use information and or quotes from application submissions and winner blog posts for marketing and sales purposes.
- PRIVACY: By entering and providing the required entry information, entrants acknowledge that Galaxy may also send to entrant information, samples or special offers it believes may be of interest to entrant about Galaxy publications or other complementary goods or services offered by Galaxy. Information collected from entrants is subject to Galaxy’s privacy policy. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO SHARE YOUR INFORMATION, PLEASE DO NOT ENTER THIS PROMOTION.
- DISPUTE RESOLUTION: Except where prohibited by law, by participating Contest entrants agree that: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of participant(s) and Galaxy and its agents shall be governed by and construed exclusively in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law of any jurisdiction. Entrant agrees that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to this Contest, or awarding of the prizes, shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in the State of Minnesota. Entrant hereby consents and submits to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. Except where prohibited by law, by participating in this Contest, entrant agrees as follows: (a) that any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, or awarding of the prizes, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; and (b) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with participating in this Contest but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (c) under no circumstances will any participant be permitted to obtain awards for and hereby waives all rights to claim 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. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitations or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above may not apply to you.
OTHER: Galaxy assumes no responsibility for entries or votes it is unable to process due to network, hardware or other technical failures; or any other reason, or incomplete, damaged, misdirected, illegible, stolen or lost entries or votes. Galaxy reserves the right, in its sole discretion to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process, the voting process, the operation of the web site or otherwise in violation of these Official Rules. Galaxy further reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate or modify this promotion if not capable of completion as planned, including infection by computer virus, technical corruption, non-authorized human intervention, force majeure or any other causes beyond the control of the Galaxy which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or integrity of the contest. In the event of cancellation, Galaxy reserves the right to select winners from among all eligible entries received prior to date of cancellation.
