Terms and Conditions of Use

V&S Absolut Spirits is a business area of V&S Vin & Sprit AB (publ), Årstaängsvägen 19a, Stockholm, Sweden (postal address: SE-117 97 Stockholm, Sweden), hereinafter referred to as "V&S"

These Terms and Conditions of Use govern the In an Absolut World Campaign (the "Campaign") on absolut.com (the "Site"). By submitting a work to the Campaign you agree to the following Terms and Conditions of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions of Use, please do not participate in this Campaign. V&S reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. We encourage you to review these Terms and Conditions of Use from time to time, because any changes are binding on you.

1. You must be at least 21 years of age to make a submission to the Campaign.

2. Your submission to the Campaign (“the Work) may be used and reproduced by V&S in connection with the Campaign on the Site until December 2008. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions of Use, please do not participate in this Campaign.

All Work submitted to this Campaign or otherwise sent to V&S, may be used by V&S for advertising and/or promotional activities, and such Work will not be required to be treated as confidential. V&S will not be liable for any use whatsoever or disclosure of the Work, and need not provide any compensation or acknowledgement for the Work.

You represent and warrant that the Work is an original work of authorship and does not infringe the rights of any third party.

By submitting a Work to this Campaign you agree to that V&S may use the username submitted by you on the Site.

If V&S decides, at V&S’s sole discretion, to post the Work submitted by you on the Site, you will receive a notification mail to the e-mail provided by you to V&S.

3. The following trademarks and all related logos and designs used herein are owned by V&S and/or its affiliates, subsidiaries, parent or related companies:

 ABSOLUT

 ABSOLUT Vodka

 ABSOLUT country of Sweden Vodka & logo

 ABSOLUT bottle design

 ABSOLUT calligraphy

 absolut.com

 absolutvodka.com

 ABSOLUT Citron

 ABSOLUT Peppar

 ABSOLUT Kurant

 ABSOLUT Mandrin

 ABSOLUT Vanilia

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ABSOLUT APEACH
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ABSOLUT RASPBERRI
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ABSOLUT RUBY RED
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ABSOLUT PEARS

The use or misuse of these trademarks, except as provided above, is strictly prohibited. Any use of V&S´s intellectual property rights will be seen as an infringement of V&S´s rights.

4. You agree not to submit any infringing, unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or profane material or material that could constitute or encourage criminal or unlawful conduct, or material containing spam or advertising content. You acknowledge that you and not V&S are solely responsible for the contents of your Work, including its legality, reliability, and originality. V&S is not obligated to monitor the contents of the Work; however, by submitting content which may, at V&S sole discretion, be used in connection with this Campaign, you agree that V&S has the right, in its sole discretion, to remove and delete postings for any reason whatsoever or for no reason at all. V&S reserves the right to filter or block all posts and submissions from individuals who display persistent behaviour contrary to the Terms and Conditions of Use governing this Campaign.

5. COMPLIANCE WITH DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT. It is our policy to promptly respond to claims of copyright infringement. If you believe that an infringing copyrighted work has been posted on the Campaign section, you may notify our registered copyright agent by sending the following information to the address listed below:

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The signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright. This signature can be physical or electronic.
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A statement that this person is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
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A statement that this person has a good faith belief that the use of the material in the complained-of manner is not authorized either by the copyright owner, by the owner's agent, or by law;
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A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, and a description of where the allegedly infringing material is located on the Site; and
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This person’s address, telephone number, and e-mail address.

Please put "Notice of Infringement" in the subject line of all such notifications, and send the notification to: siteinfo@absolut.se

We will process and investigate all notices of alleged infringement as required by the DMCA, and may, at V&S sole discretion, remove or disable access to any material claimed to be infringing or claimed to be the subject of infringing activity. When we remove or disable access to any material claimed to be infringing, we may attempt to contact the user who has posted such material in order to give that user an opportunity to respond to the notification. If the user posting the material gives a counter-notification claiming that the use is authorized, we will furnish that counter-notification to the complaining party, and will give the complaining party an opportunity to seek judicial relief under the DMCA before we replace or restore access to any material.

6. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL V&S OR ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, PARENT OR RELATED COMPANIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES), HARM, OR INJURY THAT RELATE TO, ARISE OUT OF, OR RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR ACCESS TO, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, ANY OF THE MATERIALS OF THESE SITES, OR ARE CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATIONAL TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE FAILURE. THE MATERIAL ON THIS SITE COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. THE MATERIALS ON THESE SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAWS, V&S DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR NEGLIGENCE AND DISCLAIM ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. V&S DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THIS SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT THE CONTENTS WILL BE CORRECT, ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKES THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU (AND NOT V&S) ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

7. V&S will not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose the personal information you provide to anyone outside of V&S, except as noted below. V&S may share your Information with the following entities:

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V&S affiliated companies;
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V&S and their affiliated companies' advertising and promotional agencies and consultants;
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Unaffiliated service providers with whom V&S may subcontract, including web site hosting companies, fulfilment companies, and other third party service providers;
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Government agencies and law enforcement officials, when required to do so to respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, or to establish or exercise legal rights or defend against legal claims.

V&S also reserve the right to share Information with other organizations in the following situations:

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As permitted by law in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, violation of V&S respective intellectual property rights, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Site's Terms and Conditions of Use or other agreements, or otherwise as required by law;
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When we have your consent to do so; and
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When we need to share Information to provide any product or service you have requested.

V&S also reserves the right to transfer your information to the purchaser of V&S or substantially all of its assets in the event V&S are sold.

We employ standard technical security measures to aid in protecting from outside threats any personal information you send to V&S via the Sites. However, electronic communications may not be secure, and there is a risk that information you send to us may be accessed by unauthorized third parties when communicated between you and V&S electronically. V&S does not represent, warrant or guarantee that information you send to us will be protected against unauthorized access, loss, misuse or alteration, and V&S cannot take any responsibility for unauthorized interception, collection or disclosure of such information by third parties.
For more information, please see the Site’s privacy policy.

8. This agreement shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the United States, notwithstanding any principles of conflicts of laws.

9. The Site is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions and other copyright laws. Except as set forth in these Terms and Conditions of Use, you may not modify, adapt, translate, exhibit, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as provided in this section of the Terms and Conditions of Use), create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble, or in any way exploit, any of the content, software, materials or Site in whole or in part.

ABSOLUT ® Vodka. Product of Sweden. 40 and 50% alc/vol (80 and 100 proof). 100% grain neutral spirits. ABSOLUT Country of Sweden Vodka & Logo, ABSOLUT, ABSOLUT Bottle Design, ABSOLUT Calligraphy, absolut.com and absolutvodka.com are trademarks owned by V&S Vin & Sprit AB (publ). © 2000-2007 V&S Vin & Sprit AB (publ). All rights reserved.