Official Rules for the "Birthday Bash Recipe" Contest

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void in Puerto Rico and where prohibited by law. Purchasing a product will not improve your chances of winning.

1. Eligibility: This Contest is only open to legal U.S. residents (excluding Puerto Rico and U.S. territories and possessions), 18 years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees, officers, directors, agents, representatives and their immediate families or members of Pinnacle Foods Group, LLC, Bender Hammerling Group; their parent companies, subsidiaries; advertising; design; publicity agencies; law firms and anyone connected with the production and distribution of this Contest are ineligible to participate. Previous winners from any other Pinnacle Foods Group LLC contests held in 2008 are ineligible. No purchase is required to win. This Contest is limited to one entry per person, email and/or household.
2. Contest Period: The Contest Period ("Contest Period") is from 12:00 a.m. EST on November 5, 2009 to 11:59 p.m. EST on January 30, 2010.
3. How to Enter: Log onto www.duncanhines.com and submit one recipe (photo optional) that you think is the most creative. Recipes submitted online must include the eligible product(s) used. List each recipe ingredient with specific flavor, exact measurements or weights, and in the order used. Should entrants choose to enter a photo, entrants must review and agree to the photo upload terms on the Duncan Hines® website. Provide complete preparation directions including baking time and temperature and type of bakeware used (including exact dimensions or size). All recipes must utilize a baking or cooking method of preparation. Judges will disqualify previously published recipes, such as but not limited to those in major cookbooks, in magazines, from food companies, on major food or recipe websites and winners in national contests, unless the recipe features changes considered significant by the judges. Finalists will be required to certify, on information or belief, that their recipes are their own creation and have not been published or publicized and have not won a national contest.
4. Winner Selection: One (1) grand prize winner will be selected based on creativity and adherence to theme by a panel of judges from Duncan Hines® and cookbook authors Karen Tack and Alan Richardson.
5. Prizes: One "Birthday Bash Recipe Contest" Grand Prize Winner will receive the following: Birthday Party Bash Grand Prize Event including a Wii gaming console, Birthday Bash Game, 4 Confetti Cakes and 4 Vanilla Frostings and check for $250 for party decorations (ARV of $500). All contest participants will be entered into a sweepstakes for the chance to win 1 of 100 Birthday Party Bash games!
6. Verification Of Winners And Delivery Of Prizes: Prize award subject to verification. Winner required to sign an affidavit of eligibility and liability release and, where permitted, publicity release. Any prize may be awarded to alternate winner if affidavit and release(s) are not returned within 14 days after mailing to winner or if prize notification letter or prize is returned as undeliverable.
7. General: No copies or mechanical reproductions will be accepted. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, misdirected or postage due mail. All entries become the property of Sponsor and none will be returned. Neither Sponsor nor its agents are responsible for technical, hardware, software or telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions, whether caused by Sponsor, entrants or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this promotion or by any human or technical error which may occur in the processing of entries which may damage an entrant’s system or limit an entrant’s ability to participate in this promotion. Entry constitutes permission, where lawful, to use name and/or likeness and/or voice of winner in any manner by the Sponsor, or its agents, without further compensation. Entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and photo upload terms. Entrants are responsible for all costs or charges involved in accessing the World Wide Web and warrant that the cost of accessing the Internet, if any, is part of a larger agreement with an Internet Service Provider or some other means, and that the cost of this access and/or the time spent, if any, to configure their website is not an incremental cost in order to participate in the contest. Sponsor is not responsible for those who cannot access the Internet or cannot click-through for any period of time regardless of technical, hardware, software, telephone, Internet, virus contamination, or network problems, for delay, failure or malfunction for any reason. Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest if, in Sponsor's sole determination, it believes that the integrity of the Contest has been, or could be compromised or that the Contest is not capable of running as planned for any reason, including, but not limited to, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant from the Contest if, in Sponsor's sole judgment, entrant has not complied with these Official Rules and photo upload terms. Sponsor also reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant from the Contest or any other promotion conducted now or in the future by Sponsor or any of its affiliates if the entrant attempts (i) to enter the Contest through any means other than as described in these Official Rules; or (ii) provides information that is inaccurate or fraudulent; or (iii) attempts to disrupt the Contest or circumvent the terms and conditions of these Official Rules. Sponsor and its respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, professional advisors, employees and agencies will not be responsible for: (a) any late, lost, misrouted, illegible, garbled or distorted or damaged transmissions or entries; (b) telephone, electronic, hardware, software, network, Internet, or other computer- or communications-related malfunctions or failures; (c) any Contest disruptions, injuries, losses or damages caused by events beyond the control of Sponsor, or (d) any printing or typographical errors in any materials associated with the Contest. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Only the number of prizes listed in the Official Rules will be awarded. If prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable or Sponsor cannot contact winner for any reason, prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner selected. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. By accepting prize, winner agrees that the Sponsor, its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, judges or agencies shall have no liability whatsoever, for any injuries or damage incurred in whole or part from participation in this promotion. All federal, state and local taxes on prizes are the responsibility of the winner. Void outside the United States and where prohibited, restricted or limited. Subject to all Federal, State and Local laws and regulations. For a list of prize winners, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to "Duncan Hines Birthday Bash Recipe Contest", c/o BHGPR, 546 Valley Road Upper Montclair, NJ, 07043. Residents of WA and VT may omit return postage. Requests must be received by January 30, 2009.
8. Sponsor: Pinnacle Foods Group LLC.