Nice!Head!Shot! Contest Rules

Terms and Conditions

The winners of this contest will not only gain the distinction of having their photo chosen as the best by their peers, but will also be spotlighted on our nice!head!shot! web page for a whole month! So please, read the rules carefully, get shooting, and submit your best photo! Most importantly, have fun!

Official Rules:

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Purchases will not increase entrant's chance of winning.

VOID OUTSIDE THE U.S. AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.

Event open to legal U.S. Residents who are 18 years of age or older. Photograph must be of a person who is 18 years of age or older.

The Nice!Head!Shot! Contest entry period begins July 27, 2010, and ends September 30, 2010 (the "Entry Period"). Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. (CDT) on September 30, 2010 ("Entry Deadline"). Peer-participant voting period ends 11:59 p.m. (CDT) September 30, 2010. Entries will not be acknowledged or returned.

ENTRY: Visit www.niceheadshot.com and click the button to enter. Then complete the registration form and follow the instructions to upload individual photo entries. Photos must be taken by entrant, and must be non-professional, unpublished photos that have not won any prize or award. Photos must be .jpeg or .bmp image formats and should be between 250kb and 2mb in size.

Photos can also be entered by sending to Nice!Head!Shot!, c/o B2B Portraits, 1706 Washington Avenue, 9th Floor, St. Louis, MO 63103, Attention: J. Brown - B2B. Mailed entries must be received no later than Midnight (CDT) on September 15, 2010.

Photos must not contain material that violates or infringes the rights of another, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement. Photos must not contain brand names or trademarks. By entering, you represent and warrant that your entry does not violate or infringe the rights of another, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, and that no part of your entry materials constitutes copyright infringement and you agree to indemnify Sponsor in the event of any claims by another of such violation or infringement of the aforementioned rights. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without any liability to entrants or the subject of the photograph, to remove, reject, disqualify, modify, edit and revise any entries, subjects, photos, or related materials that Sponsor deems, in its sole discretion, to be nude, obscene, defamatory, profane, offensive, lewd, pornographic, false, misleading, deceptive, or otherwise inconsistent with its editorial standards, audience expectations, or reputational interests or that Sponsor believes may violate any applicable law or regulation or the rights of any third party or which a third party claims violates or infringes such third party's rights or intellectual property. In the event of such removal, rejection, disqualification, edit or revision of entries, any votes that were cast or received for such entry prior to the removal, rejection, disqualification, edit or revision will be deemed void and will not be counted in the final vote. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without any liability to the entrant or the subject of the photograph, to verify any element of any entry or related materials and to disqualify any entrant whose participation may subject the contest, Sponsor, or Sponsor's advertisers, clients, or customers to controversy, negative publicity, scorn, or ridicule. All photo submissions become the intellectual property of Sponsor.

LIMIT: Enter individually as many times as you wish. No group entries, please.

PROHIBITIONS: NO professional photos, NO post-processed frames, fancy borders, edging, etc. (yes, even that "little black border" or drop shadows)! This is to keep the images in our virtual "gallery" as uniform as possible for ease of peer judging.

OTHER IMPORTANT RULES:

A. All photos MUST be taken between July 27, 2010 and September 30, 2010. No exceptions! Photos can be from any type of camera.

B. PLEASE tag your photo with the following tag: niceheadshot. Make sure you use lowercase letters in your tag, as shown here, and remember, ENTER AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE!

C. Entrants will be accepted up until 11:59 p.m. (CDT) on Wednesday, September 30, 2010. All entries will be voted on by all participants! The voting will begin at the onset of the contest and accepted for the duration of the contest until the September 30, 2010 end-date.

D. Although all four (4) Grand Prize winners will receive a new iPad, the real prize is the honor of being selected by your peers AND the knowledge that you took one of the nicest headshots.

WINNER SELECTION: There will be a single round of judging:

On or about October 6, 2010 - the two photos that best depict "when too creative is too much" will be selected based on the total number of peer votes, that were received for those photos prior to September 30, 2010 at 11:59 p.m.

Additionally, on or about October 6, 2010, two iPad winners will be randomly selected from a pool of the participants who reTweeted contest information (using the hashtag #b2bniceheadshot) while touting the Nice!Head!Shot! promotion from his or her personal Twitter account.

PRIZES. The potential prizes, their Approximate Retail Value ("ARV") and the odds of winning a particular prize are as follows:

• a total of 4 Apple iPad Wi-Fi 16gb - part number MB292LL/A will be awarded
• Approximate Retail Value of one (1) iPad is $500.00
• Odds of winning one of the iPads based upon voting are dependent upon the total number of entries and the votes received for all of the entries during the entry period.
• Odds of winning one of the iPads based upon reTweeting are dependent upon the total number of separate personal Twitter accounts used to retweet with the hashtag #b2bniceheadshot.

ELIGIBILITY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW AND OUTSIDE THE U.S. VOID IN RHODE ISLAND AND PUERTO RICO. Legal residents of the 50 United States with the exception of Rhode Island, 18 years of age or older are eligible to enter. Employees, officers and directors of CPI Corp., Consumer Programs Incorporated d/b/a Sears Portrait Studio, PictureMe Portrait Studios, Kiddie Kandids Portrait Studios, Shooting Stars Portrait Studios, and B2B Portraits (the "Sponsor") and their respective host stores, parents, affiliates, promotion and advertising agencies, subsidiaries, contest judging organization and affiliated and related corporations, (collectively "Promotion Parties") and the members of the household and immediate family of each of the above employees and directors are not eligible to participate. For these Official Rules, "immediate family" means mother, father, daughter, son, sister, brother, husband, wife, wherever they reside. Participation in this event constitutes entrant's full and unconditional agreement to the Official Rules and Sponsor's decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Nice!Head!Shot! Contest .

CONDITIONS. The Sponsor, Promotion Parties, officers, directors, employees, host stores, parents, affiliates, promotion and advertising agencies, subsidiaries and their respective agents, shall not be responsible for lost, incorrect, incomplete, illegible or inaccurate information, which may limit the ability to play or participate, or for human, electronic, computer, mechanical or other error, which may occur in the processing of entries in the Nice!Head!Shot! Contest Event. If for any reason (including but not limited to, unauthorized intervention, fraud or any other cause which affects or corrupts the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes), the Nice!Head!Shot! Contest Event is not capable of being conducted as described in these Official Rules, Sponsor shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Event at any time. If due to a printing, production, electronic or any other error, more prizes are claimed than are intended to be awarded per the above, or in the event of a tie vote, the intended prize will be awarded in a random drawing from any and all verified prize claims received for that prize level. In no event will more than the stated number of prizes be awarded.

RELEASES. By participating in this event, participants agree to be bound by the official rules. By entering this contest and/or accepting a prize, the winner agrees to release the Sponsor, Promotion Parties, their respective directors, employees and agents, including without limitation their advertising and promotion agencies, from any and all liability, loss or damage incurred with respect to the awarding, receipt, possession, use and/or misuse of any prize awarded herein or in connection with participation in any prize-related activities. Winners may be required to sign a release containing the foregoing or as otherwise required by the Sponsor prior to receiving a prize. In the event the Sponsor is unable to contact the winner within thirty (30) days of the end date of the contest, and Sponsor has not received the required Release form executed by the winner within forty-five (45) days of the contest end date, then the prize may be awarded in a random drawing of all eligible entrants. The winners acknowledge that said parties have neither made, nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guaranty, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relative to any prize, including, but not limited to, its quality, mechanical condition or fitness for a particular purpose. By participating in this event, winners agree that their names, addresses, type of prize and the value of the prize may be reported or posted in Sponsor's studios, or as may be required pursuant to law. All taxes on prizes are the responsibility of the prize winner.

LIST of WINNERS. The Sponsor will maintain a list of the winner(s) until September 30, 2012. To obtain a list of the winner(s) or a copy of the Official Rules, send your request and a self-addressed envelope with the proper postage affixed to: Sponsor: Consumer Programs Incorporated d/b/a B2B Portraits, ATTN: B2B Portraits - Nice!Head!Shot! Contest Event 1706 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103. Winner's list request will only be accepted and provided after the drawing date and until April 15, 2011 or otherwise as required by law.

DISPUTES: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Enter to Nice!Head!Shot! Contest Event or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri or the Missouri Court located in St. Louis County, Missouri and entrant waives any and all claims of forum non-conveniens and hereby submits to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for purposes of this contest only; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering the Nice!Head!Shot! Contest event, but in no event, attorneys' fees; and (3) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives any and all rights to claim indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. The laws of the State of Missouri apply, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than Missouri.

SPONSOR. The Sponsor of the Nice!Head!Shot! Contest is Consumer Programs Incorporated d/b/a B2B Portraits, 1706 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103.