PIPELINE SAFETY SURVEY CONTEST RULES

A. Only residents of the State of Hawai‘i who are 18 years of age or older at the time of entry are eligible to participate in this contest (“Contest”). A total of ten (10) winners will be drawn from all surveys completed and returned within forty-five (45) business days after distribution of the brochure. One (1) entry per person is allowed. Proof of age, identity, and eligibility must be furnished to the Sponsor upon request. Employees (part-time or full-time), of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (“Hawaiian Electric”), Maui Electric Company, Limited (“Maui Electric”), and Hawai‘i Electric Light Company, Inc. (“Hawai‘i Electric Light”) (collectively, “Sponsor”), their immediate family and household members, and the Sponsor’s parent companies, or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries, or advertising or promotional agencies are not eligible to enter or win. The Sponsor will not award a prize to anyone not meeting eligibility requirements. By entering this Contest, you agree to the terms and conditions of these rules and the decisions of the Sponsor as final in all matters relating to this Contest.

B. Reporting and payment of federal, state and local taxes, charges and incidental costs, if any, are the sole responsibility of the prize winner.  All decisions are final. No substitutions of the prize are allowed.

C. The prize must be accepted by December 31, 2017. All winners will be notified at the email address of phone number associated with the winner’s information provided with the entry form. The Sponsor’s inability to reach a winner using the contact information provided with an entry, a winners failure to timely respond to the prize notification, and/or a winner’s failure to comply with any term or condition of these rules may, at the sole discretion of the Sponsor, result in that winner’s disqualification, their forfeiture of his/her interest in all prizes and the selection of a substitute winner from among all remaining eligible entries. Prizes are non-assignable and non-transferable. No substitutions allowed by winner. Third party merchants and service providers are solely responsible for the quality and performance of any goods and/or services obtained as a result of the prizes. Any rules of said merchants relating to the redemption, return, exchange, and/or expiration of such awards shall apply. Winners further acknowledge that the Sponsor has neither made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, relative to any prize.

D. The Sponsor will not be responsible for lost, delayed, illegible, incomplete or mutilated entries or other errors regardless of cause. The Sponsor reserves the sole discretion to disqualify entrants found to be influencing, manipulating or tampering with the submission or the selection process, providing falsified information or acting in violation of the rules or regulations. By entering the contest, entrants release the Sponsor, their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotional agencies, and their officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives from any liability whatsoever for any claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the Contest or with the acceptance, possession or use of any prize awarded (including, without limitation, claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages related to personal injury, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation or portrayal in a false light).

E. No purchase necessary.  Void where prohibited or otherwise restricted by law. All entries become the exclusive property of the Sponsor and may not be acknowledged or returned.

F. By acceptance of the prize, the winners agree to the use of their name or likeness for purposes of advertising, trade, or promotion without further compensation, unless prohibited by law. Winners may be asked to sign an affidavit of eligibility and a publicity release that will allow the use of winners’ names and likenesses for other promotional activities by the Sponsor.