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OFFICIAL RULES

NOKIA U.S. PHOTO PROMOTION

THE FOLLOWING PROMOTION IS INTENDED FOR PLAY IN THE UNITED STATES ONLY AND
SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND EVALUATED ACCORDING TO UNITED STATES LAW. DO NOT
ENTER THIS PROMOTION IF YOU ARE NOT LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME
OF ENTRY.

1. ELIGIBILITY: NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR


WIN. PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. The Nokia U.S. Photo
Promotion (“Promotion”) is open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia
who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees, officers and directors of Nokia, Inc.
(“Sponsor”), its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising, promotion, or production agencies
and Web masters/suppliers (and their respective IRS dependents, immediate family members and
individuals residing in their same household) are not eligible to participate or win. The Promotion is
subject to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. Sponsor reserves the right, at any
time, to verify eligibility requirements in any manner it deems appropriate. By participating, participants
agree to these Official Rules, which are final and binding in all respects. Void where prohibited.

2. PROMOTION PERIOD: Promotion begins at 12:00:00 a.m. CST on March 1st, 2011 and ends at
11:59:59 p.m. CST on March 07, 2011 as described in Rule #4 (“Promotion Period”).

3. PROMOTION REGISTRATION: Log on to your Twitter account and follow the Nokia US feed on
Twitter at http://twitter.com/nokiaus to participate. To sign up for a free Twitter account, follow the
onscreen instructions to register for a free Twitter account at http://twitter.com. You will be asked to
provide your first and last name and email address and to set up a user name and password. You may
also be asked to answer optional questions; however, they need not be answered in order to be
eligible for the Promotion. Participating is subject to Twitter Terms of Use, available at
http://twitter.com/tos. Please see the privacy policy located at www.nokia.com/about-
nokia/privacy/privacy-policy for details of Sponsor’s policy regarding the use of personal information
collected in connection with this Promotion.

YOU MUST REGISTER BY THE ABOVE REGISTRATION METHOD TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS


PROMOTION. TWITTER REGISTRATION ALONE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AS AN “ENTRY” (AS
DEFINED IN RULE #4) IN THIS PROMOTION.

4. TO PARTICIPATE: Take a photo which illustrates your favorite person, place or thing. Upload your
photo to any online photo-share service. Then log on to your Twitter account, and submit a link to your
photo and the hashtag “#BestNokiaPic” to @NokiaUS (an “Entry” or a “Tweet”). For the purposes of
this Promotion, a participant is defined as a Twitter user, uniquely identified by his or her Twitter
username. The Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost, incomplete, misdirected, unintelligible or lost
Tweets. Any other forms of a Tweet, other than as described herein are void. Submission of an Entry
grants Sponsor and its agents the right to publish, use, adapt, edit and/or modify such Entry in any
way, in any and all media, without limitation, and without consideration to the entrant. Tweet must be
no more than one hundred and forty (140) characters in length. You may submit a Tweet as many
times as you like, the photo contained in the Entry must be unique. Entries will be deemed made by
the authorized account holder of the Twitter account that the Entry is submitted from at the time of
entry. Potential winner may be requested to provide Sponsor with proof that the potential winner is the
authorized account holder of the Twitter account associated with the winning Entry and/or an eligible
entrant. All Entries submitted become the sole property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged
or returned.

ENTRIES POSTED TO THE WEBSITE WERE NOT EDITED BY SPONSOR AND ARE THE
VIEWS/OPINIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ENTRANT AND DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF
SPONSOR IN ANY MANNER. Any waiver of any obligation hereunder by Sponsor does not constitute
a general waiver of any obligation to entrants. By submitting an Entry, you agree that your submission
is gratuitous and made without restriction, and will not place Sponsor under any obligation, that
Sponsor is free to disclose or otherwise disclose the ideas contained in the photo on a non-
confidential basis to anyone or otherwise use the ideas without any additional compensation to you.
You acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission, Sponsor does not waive any rights to use
similar or related ideas previously known to Sponsor, or developed by its employees, or obtained from
sources other than you. Sponsor reserves the right to, and may or may not, monitor/screen Entries.
By entering, you acknowledge that Sponsor has no obligation to use or post any Entry you submit.

By submitting a Entry you warrant and represent that it: (a) is your original work, (b) has not been
previously published, (c) has not won previous awards, (d) does not infringe upon the copyrights,
trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or
entity; (e) that you have obtained permission from a person who's name, likeness or image is used in
the photo and (f) and that publication of the photo via various media including Web posting, will not
infringe on the rights of any third party rights. Any such entrant will indemnify and hold harmless,
Sponsor and Released Parties from any claims to the contrary. Any entrant whose work includes
likenesses of third parties or contains elements not owned by the entrant (such as, but not limited to,
depictions of persons, buildings, trademarks or logos) must be able to provide legal releases for such
use including Sponsor’s use of such Entry, in a form satisfactory to administrator, upon request, prior
to award of prize.

By accepting a prize, the winner agrees that his/her Entry will be deemed a Work Made For Hire under
the Copyright laws of the United States, but if it cannot be so deemed, then the winner irrevocably
assigns and transfers to Sponsor all of his/her right, title and interest in and to his/her photo, including
all but not limited to all copyright and trademark rights which he or she may have, in the United States
and worldwide, therein, for consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged.
Winner hereby waives in favor of Sponsor, all rights of “Droit Moral” or “Moral Rights of Authors” or any
similar rights or principles of law that winner may now or later have to their Entry. Sponsor reserves
the right to alter, change or modify the winning Entry, in its sole discretion. Upon request of Sponsor,
winner shall execute and deliver such additional instrument of assignment, as may be solely deemed
by Sponsor, reasonably necessary to establish the ownership of record of the right, title and interest in
and to the Entry and of the copyrights transferred and “Moral Rights of Authors” waived under these
Official Rules. Should Sponsor fail to request the said assignment as stated, that shall not be deemed
a waiver of Sponsor’s rights and Sponsor may at a later time request the assignment.

5. TWEET/PHOTO GUIDELINES: Tweet must contain a link to a photo and the “#BestNokiaPic”
hashtag to be valid. Tweets/Photos may not be obscene or indecent; cannot be sexually explicit or
suggestive, profane or pornographic, unnecessarily violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender,
religious, professional or age group; cannot promote alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons
(or the use of any of the foregoing), any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any
particular political agenda or message; cannot be offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group;
cannot defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks about Sponsor or its products or
services, or other people, products or companies; cannot communicate messages or images
inconsistent with the positive images and/or goodwill to which Sponsor wishes to associate; may not
invade privacy or other rights of any person, firm or entity; may not in any other way violate any
applicable federal, state or local laws or regulations or the Twitter.com Terms of Service; may not
contain any reference to any third party trademarks, names or third party logos or any copyrighted
components; and cannot contain any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal
names, e-mail addresses or street addresses. Tweets or photos not in compliance with the
Tweet/Photo Guidelines may be disqualified.
6. JUDGING CRITERIA: Each Entry will be judged by a qualified judge or panel of judges, appointed
by the Sponsor, based upon the following equally weighted criteria (“Judging Criteria”):
• Creativity of photo.
• Quality of photo.

The one (1) Entry with the highest total score will be deemed the winner, subject to verification. In the
event of a tie, tie breaker will be based upon the highest score in the first Judging Criteria, continuing
thereafter to each Judging Criteria in order, as needed, to break the tie. The judge(s)’ decisions are
final in all matters relating to this Promotion.

7. WINNER NOTIFICATION/REQUIREMENTS: Potential winner will be contacted by Twitter Direct


Message on or about March 9, 2011 to the potential winner’s Twitter ID as recorded in the potential
winner’s Twitter account to obtain mailing address and/or phone number. Sponsor is not responsible
for any change in participant's Twitter account, email, mailing address and/or telephone number. Prize
winner may be required to complete, sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and
where lawful, a Publicity Release within seven (7) days of receipt of notification. Prize won by an
eligible minor will be awarded to a parent or legal guardian who must sign all required documents. If
documents are not returned in a timely manner, or if the prize notification or prize is returned as non-
deliverable, or if a winner is found to be ineligible or otherwise not in compliance with these Official
Rules, prize may be forfeited.

8. PRIZE/ODDS: Grand Prize (1): One (1) Nokia N8 mobile phone, Approximate Retail Value
(“ARV”) $549.00. No mobile phone service will be provided. All costs and expenses associated
with prize acceptance and use not specifically provided herein are the responsibility of the winner. Any
difference between stated ARV and actual value of prize will not be awarded. Winner must accept
prize as stated, or prize may be forfeited. Winner is responsible for all taxes on prizes (including but
not limited to federal, state and local income taxes). Unclaimed prize will not be awarded. Prize cannot
be transferred, redeemed for cash or substituted, but Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize
of equal or greater value at its sole discretion.

9. GENERAL CONDITIONS: As a condition of entering, participants agree (a) that Sponsor, its
parent, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, and all of their
respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents (“Released Parties”) are
released, will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by participants against any
liability for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind to person(s), including death, or property
resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the
prize or participation in this Promotion or any Promotion-related activities; (b) under no circumstances
will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and participant hereby waives all rights to claim,
punitive, incidental, consequential, or any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket
expenses; (c) all causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion, or any prize
awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; and (d) any and all
claims, judgments, and award shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, excluding
attorneys' fees and court costs. Except where legally prohibited, winners grant (and agree to confirm
that grant in writing) permission to Sponsor and those acting under its authority the right to the use of
his/her name, picture, likeness, voice, biographical information and statements, at any time or times,
for advertising, trade, publicity and promotional purposes without additional compensation, in all media
now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide and on the Internet and World Wide Web, without
notice, review or approval.

10. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Neither Sponsor nor its agencies are responsible for lost, illegible,
late, misdirected, incomplete, mutilated, or non-delivered Tweets, photos, mail or email; or for
interrupted or unavailable satellite, network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, telephone
or other connections, availability or accessibility, or miscommunications, or failed computer, satellite,
telephone or cable transmissions, or lines, or technical failure or jumbled, garbled, corrupted,
scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions, or computer hardware or software or telephone
malfunctions, failures, or technical errors or difficulties, or other errors of any kind whether human,
mechanical, electronic or network or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of Entry or other information or
the failure to capture, or loss of, any such information. Neither Sponsor nor its agencies are
responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users, or by any
equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Promotion; and assume no responsibility
for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation or transmission,
communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or tampering with or
hacking of the website. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it
finds to be tampering with entry process or operation of Promotion or to be acting in a non-
sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to threaten, abuse or harass any other person.
Potential winners may be requested to provide Sponsor with proof that the potential winner is the
authorized account holder of the Twitter account associated with the winning Entry and/or an eligible
entrant. Sponsor is not responsible for injury or damage to participant's or any other person’s
computer related to or resulting from participating in this Promotion or downloading or copying
materials from or use of website. If, for any reason, Promotion, in the sole opinion of Sponsor, is not
capable of running as planned by reason of infection by computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering,
hacking, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes which, in sole opinion
of the Sponsor, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this
Promotion, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend
Promotion, and determine winners from eligible Tweets /Entries received prior to action taken, or as
otherwise deemed fair and equitable by Sponsor. Use of any device to automate entry is prohibited.

11. GOVERNING LAW: By entering, participants agree that all issues and questions concerning the
construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, participant’s rights and
obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor in connection with the Promotion, shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of State of New York, without giving effect to
any choice of law or conflict of law rules. By entering, participants consent to the jurisdiction and
venue of the federal, state and local courts located in Westchester County, New York.

12. WINNER LIST: For the names of the winner, mail a self addressed stamped envelope to:
Attn: Nokia U.S. Photo Promotion
4228 N. Central Expressway, Suite 200
Dallas, TX 75206

Requests must be received by April 7, 2011.

13. SPONSOR: Nokia Inc., 102 Corporate Park Drive, White Plains, NY 10604.

Twitter is not a Sponsor of or otherwise affiliated with this Promotion.

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