OFFICIAL RULES

“ In the Footsteps of Dian Fossey” Sweepstakes

Sponsored by Wynkoop Brewing Company for The Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund and the Denver Gorilla Run.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.  

A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING.  

APPLICABLE LAWS: All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Sweepstakes is void where prohibited.

ELIGIBILITY:   To enter, you must be: (1) 18 years of age or older; (2) a legal resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia; (3) not an employee, officer, director of the Wynkoop Brewing Company (the “Sponsor”), the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund, or any of their respective affiliates, subsidiaries or advertising/promotion agencies (collectively “Sponsor and Its Affiliates and Related Individuals”); and (4) not an immediate family member or living in the same household of any individual identified in (3) above. By entering this Sweepstakes, each participant agrees to be bound by these Official Rules and by all decisions of Sponsor, whose decisions regarding all aspects of the Sweepstakes shall be final. The traveling companion for trekking gorillas must be 15 or older.

HOW TO ENTER:   To enter without cost, you must visit WWW.DENVERGORILLARUN.COM (the “website”) from 12:00:01 a.m. on July 1, 2008 until 4:59:59 p.m. Mountain Time on October 24, 2008.   Follow the instructions on the website to transmit a completed entry form electronically.  

In addition, all persons who are registered to participate in the Denver Gorilla Run as of 5 p.m. Mountain Time on October 24, 2008 will automatically be entered in the Sweepstakes and need take no other action.

You must provide your name, e-mail address and telephone number on the electronic entry form. Incomplete entries are void.   False or deceptive entries also are void. Limit one (1) entry per person (excess entries will be void). In case of dispute, entries will be deemed to have been made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry.   “Authorized account holder” means the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization ( e.g ., business, educational institution, etc .) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.

Entries made in any fashion other than as described in this Paragraph are void.   All late, lost, misdirected, incomplete, undelivered, scrambled or destroyed entries are ineligible entries, regardless of the reason or the party responsible. Entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. The Sponsor and its affiliates and related individuals will not accept correspondence or telephone inquiries regarding the status of entries or the administration of the Sweepstakes.

PRIZE:   The Sponsor will give away one (1) Vacation Package for two people. Vacation trip must be completed by October 24, 2009 or prize will be forfeited in its entirety and no compensation given.   The Vacation Package includes round-trip coach air transportation for winner and one guest from a major commercial airport near winner's residence to either Rwanda or Uganda, Africa , ground transfers, four (4) nights of double occupancy accommodations at specified locations, and two (2) permits from either UWA or ORTPN to visit the mountain gorillas of Uganda or Rwanda. Guest of winner must be 18 years old or older. Scheduling of transportation, gorilla permits and accommodations are subject to availability; blackout periods may apply.

Sponsor may satisfy its prize delivery obligations through delivery of gift certificates, vouchers and passes for the vacation package components.   All vouchers, gift certificates and passes are subject to any and all restrictions stated thereon. Verifiable retail value of this Vacation Package is approximately $0,000.   Actual retail value will depend on airfare fluctuation, currency fluctuations, location of destination relative to departing city and timing of trip.   Any difference between that verifiable retail value and the actual costs of the prize will not be awarded.   Winner may enlarge the time of the trip at his own expense and by his own arrangements, but the Sponsor is not responsible for changing the certificates, vouchers and passes of the package.

Winner is solely responsible for any and all Federal, state and local taxes and fees assessed as a result of the prize and for all travel costs and charges not included in the Vacation Package or exceeding applicable limitations, including, but not limited to, incidentals, tips, telephone calls, travel fees, surcharges, and any other travel-related costs.   Prizes may not be transferred, substituted or redeemed for cash, except at the sole discretion of the Sponsor.   Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize or any one or more components of a prize with a similar prize or component of equal or greater value.

DRAWING AND ODDS: On or about October 25, 2008, the Sponsor's representatives will conduct a random drawing through which one winner for the Vacation Package prize and one or more alternate winners will be selected from among all eligible entries received in accordance with these rules.   Odds of winning depend on the number of qualified entries submitted.

NOTIFICATION: Winners will be notified by mail, email and/or telephone.   To claim the prize, the winner must: (1) respond as directed within seven (7) days of the first notification attempt; and (2) return to Sponsor, by the date and in the manner Sponsor directs in writing, (a) an Affidavit of Eligibility, Release of Liability and Publicity Release signed by the winner; and (b) a Release of Liability and Publicity Release signed by the winner's travel companion.   If the winner cannot be reached or fails to timely respond or comply with any of these requirements or if Sponsor determines the winner to be ineligible or disqualified, then, in Sponsor's sole discretion, the winner may be disqualified and the prize forfeited.   In such event, the next alternate winner will be notified subject to the same conditions set out in this paragraph.

TERMS OF ACCEPTANCE:   By accepting a prize, the winner grants permission for Sponsor's use of the name, hometown, likeness, photograph, voice and statements of winner and winner's travel companion for advertising/publicity purposes without further compensation or permission, unless prohibited by law.   By accepting the prize, winner agrees to keep a travel log of the vacation experience and conduct interviews to be published for advertising/publicity purposes without further compensation or permission, unless prohibited by law.

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION:   BY PARTICIPATING IN THIS SWEEPSTAKES, EACH PARTICIPANT RELEASES AND HOLDS HARMLESS SPONSOR AND ITS AFFILIATES AND RELATED INDIVIDUALS FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, DAMAGES, LOSSES, EXPENSES, INJURIES, CLAIMS AND ACTIONS OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM PARTICIPATION IN THIS SWEEPSTAKES OR FROM ACCEPTANCE, USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, CLAIMS BASED ON DEATH, PUBLICITY RIGHTS, DEFAMATION OR INVASION OF PRIVACY.

By participating in this Sweepstakes, each participant further agrees that any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with this Sweepstakes, or any prize awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and any judicial proceeding shall take place in a federal or state court within the State of Colorado.   All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions (whether the State of Colorado or any other jurisdiction), that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Colorado.

Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of this Sweepstakes or any website related to this Sweepstakes, acting in violation of these Official Rules or acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.   Any use of robotic, automatic, programmed or the like entry methods will void all such entries by such methods, and disqualify any entrant using any such method.   ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE RELATED TO THIS SWEEPSTAKES OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS SWEEPSTAKES MAY BE VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM SUCH ENTRANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

Sponsor is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by users of any website related to this Sweepstakes, by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Sweepstakes or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions in this Sweepstakes.   Sponsor assumes 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 tampering with or hacking of, any website related to this Sweepstakes or any technical failure or malfunction.   Sponsor is not responsible for any injury or damage to entrants' or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading or copying materials from or use of any website related to this Sweepstakes.   If, for any reason, this Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned, including, without limitation, by reason of, infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, tampering, hacking, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which, in Sponsor's sole judgment, corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this Sweepstakes, and select winners from entries received prior to action taken, as Sponsor, in its sole judgment, deems fair and in accordance with these Official Rules without notice to entrants.   In the event that this Sweepstakes is challenged by any legal or regulatory authority, Sponsor reserves the right to discontinue or modify this Sweepstakes, or to disqualify participants residing in any affected geographic areas.   In such event, Sponsor shall not have any liability to any participants who are disqualified as a result of such an action.

IN NO EVENT WILL SPONSOR AND ITS AFFILIATES AND RELATED INDIVIDUALS (EITHER JOINTLY OR INDIVIDUALLY) BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS SWEEPSTAKES, ANY PRIZES WON, YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE COMPANIES' RESPECTIVE WEBSITES OR THE DOWNLOADING OR COPYING FROM AND/OR PRINTING OF ANY MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM SUCH WEBSITES.   WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THE COMPANIES' RESPECTIVE WEBSITES IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.   SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OR LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.   CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.

WINNERS LIST:   For the name of the prize winner, mail a self-addressed stamped envelope within ninety (90) days after the end of the Sweepstakes entry period to: MGCF, Attn: In the footsteps of Dian Fossey, 3801 E. Florida Ave. #206, Denver, Colorado 80120

PRIVACY NOTICE:   Information participants provide to the Sponsor will be used to communicate with participants regarding this Sweepstakes and otherwise as set forth in Sponsor's privacy policy as set forth on the website.   The winner's name, city and state of residence may be posted on the website.

SPONSOR: Sweepstakes is sponsored by Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18 th St. Colorado, Denver, CO   80202.