Eligibility: The Inheritance of Hope Legacy Scholarship is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia, who are college-bound high school seniors who are living with a parent who has a life-threatening illness as of February 1, 2012.  A minor should have a parent’s or legal guardian’s permission to enter.  Void where prohibited by law.  The Inheritance of Hope Legacy Scholarship is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws.

How to Enter: Between 12:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (“EDT”) on February 1, 2012 and 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 31, 2012 (the “Entry Period”) to enter, visit http://inheritanceofhope.org/scholarships/461-legacy-scholarship-application.html and complete and submit the online application form, including the video entry of no more than 5 minutes.  Online entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. ET on May 31, 2012.  All entries become the property of Inheritance of Hope (Sponsor) and will not be returned. Limit one (1) entry per entrant.

Entry must be submitted in English, be the entrant’s original creation, be true and verifiable, created solely by entrant, with no restrictions or limitations on entrant’s right to submit, or Sponsor’s right to use, the entry.  Entry may not have previously won an award.  Entry cannot defame or invade publicity rights or privacy/confidentiality of any person, living or deceased, or otherwise infringe upon any person’s personal or proprietary rights. Modifying, enhancing or altering a third party’s pre-existing work does not qualify as entrant’s original creation. Entry may not be offensive or inappropriate, as determined by judges in their sole discretion.  Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entry it deems to be inappropriate, offensive or is not in keeping with Sponsor’s image, in its sole discretion.

Prize: $1,000 All federal, state and local taxes and any other costs and expenses not specifically stated herein as being awarded are the winners’ sole responsibility. No transfer, assignment, cash redemption, or substitution of prize except by Sponsor who may substitute a prize with one of equal or greater value, at its sole discretion.  All prize details are at the sole discretion of the Sponsor.

Winner Notification: Potential winners will be required to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and (where legal) Publicity Release within 10 days of issuance of notification.  In the event winner is considered a minor in his/her jurisdiction of residence, prize will be awarded in the name of minor’s parent/legal guardian, who will be required to fulfill all requirements imposed on winners as set forth herein.  Noncompliance with the foregoing, these official rules, Sponsor’s inability to contact a potential winner within a reasonable time period or prize notification returned as non-deliverable, may result in disqualification and, at Sponsor’s discretion, a runner-up may be notified.

General Conditions: By participating, each entrant (or, if a minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) agrees (i) to be bound by the terms of these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and judges, which shall be final, non-reviewable, not subject to question by any participant, and binding in all respects; (ii) to release and hold harmless Sponsor, including officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any liability, loss, injury or damage to entrants or any other person or entity, including personal injury or death to participants or any other person or damage to personal or real property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by reason of entrant’s participation, the use of any entry or acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a prize, and any claims based on rights of privacy, rights of publicity and/or copyright infringement; and (iii) if a winner, to the use by Sponsor and its designees of his/her name, city and state of residence, likeness and biographical information for advertising and promotion purposes in any and all media now or hereafter known throughout the world in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification permission, unless prohibited by law. Should any portion of the scholarship program be, in Sponsor’s sole opinion, compromised by non-authorized human intervention or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness, or submission of entries, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the Inheritance of Hope Legacy Scholarship and select the potential winners from all eligible, non-suspect entries received prior to such action using the judging procedure outlined above. Released Parties assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, submissions. Released Parties are not responsible for printing, typographical, technical, telephonic, computer, human, network or other errors relating to or in connection with the scholarship program, including, without limitation, errors which may occur in any scholarship program related materials, the administration of the scholarship program, the processing or judging of entries or the announcement of the prizes; for stolen, lost, late, misdirected, inaccurate, undelivered, damaged, delayed, garbled, illegible, incomplete or postage-due entries or mail.  Released Parties are not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to individual's or any other person's computer relating to or resulting from participation in this scholarship program or downloading any materials in this scholarship program. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Use of Entry: By submitting an entry, entrant (or, if a minor, his/her parent or legal guardian) agrees Inheritance of Hope and its designees shall own the entry submitted (including all rights embodied therein) and that it and its designees may utilize, edit, modify, and distribute the entry and all elements of such entry, including, without limitation, the names and likenesses of any persons or locations embodied therein, in any and all media now known or not currently known, throughout the world in perpetuity without compensation, permission or notification to entrant or any third party.