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Extreme Office Makeover Official Rules

The following promotion is intended for Montgomery County, Maryland only and will be construed and evaluated according to United States laws. Do not proceed in this program if you are not a current business operating in Montgomery County for at least two consecutive years.

EXTREME OFFICE MAKEOVER
CREATED BY MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES –2009-2010

OFFICIAL RULES – NO PURCHASE OR ON LINE ENTRY NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.


VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

How to Enter: Beginning at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time ("EST") on August 7, 2009 until 5:00 p.m. ("EST") on December 18, 2009 (the "Sweepstakes Period"), you may enter the Extreme Office Makeover powered by MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") in any of the following ways: (i) on-line by visiting MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES at the Extreme Makeover website (www.extreme-office.com) and downloading and completing the on-line entry form (limit one (1) entry per business); or (ii) mailing a complete application to Extreme Office Makeover powered by Mosaic Technologies, 15720 Crabbs Branch Way, Suite 2B, Rockville, MD 20855 (iii) faxing a completed application to Extreme Office Makeover powered by MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES to (240) 399-3904. Mail-in entries must be postmarked by December 18, 2009 received by December 22, 2009. Limit one (1) entry per envelope. Incorrect, illegible, and incomplete entries are void. These official rules are also available at www.extreme-office.com website. All eligible entries will be entered in the contest preliminary judging and evaluated by Mosaic Technologies staff for implementation through a Technology Analysis Plan. A judging panel consisting of five Montgomery County Community members and one Mosaic Technologies representative will judge the final applications. Judges will evaluate each application based on Presentation, Effect on Community, Applicability and Originality. When you enter the Extreme Office Makeover powered by Mosaic Technologies, you may be asked to consent to receive promotional emails and reminders for upcoming MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES’ promotions and information about Mosaic Technologies and the Participating Product and Business Sponsors identified below. MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES ("Main Sponsor"), and all Participating Product and Business Sponsors identified below (collectively with Main Sponsor, the "Sweepstakes Entities"), their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, parent corporations, and their respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees and agents, and any and all Internet servers and access provider(s) are not responsible for: any incorrect or inaccurate entry information; human error; technical malfunctions; failures, omission, interruption, deletion, or defect of any telephone network, computer on-line systems, computer equipment, server providers, or software, including any injury or damage to participant’s or any other person’s computer relating to or resulting from participation in this Sweepstakes; inability to access the Mosaic Technologies Websites; theft, tampering, destruction, or unauthorized access to, or alteration of entries; transactions that are processed late or incorrectly or are incomplete or lost due to computer or electronic malfunction or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Website; printing or human or other errors; and any entries which are late, lost, incomplete, misdirected, stolen, mutilated, illegible or postage due, or any combination thereof. Proof of mailing, in person submission, or on-line submission is not considered proof of delivery or receipt. All entries become the property of MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES and will not be returned. A purchase will not increase chance of winning. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, MAIN SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES) FROM ANY SUCH ENTRANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

Eligibility: This Sweepstakes is open only to a businesses operating in Montgomery County, Maryland for at least two consecutive years by November 30, 2009. You must have at least 3 employees and office space within Montgomery County, Maryland. Home-based businesses are NOT eligible. Employees and members of households and immediate families (spouses, parents, siblings, children and each of their respective spouses) of MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES as the Main Sponsor and all other participating Business Partners/ Sponsors are not eligible. Main Sponsor reserves the right to conduct a background check on any potential Grand Prize Winner and reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any person based on such background check if Main Sponsor determines in its sole discretion that awarding the prize to such potential Grand Prize Winner might reflect negatively on Main Sponsor or any of the Participating Business Partners. Main Sponsor reserves the right to screen and accept or reject entries based on feasibility and implementation. By entering, all participants and/or entrants release the Sweepstakes Entities and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective agents, advertising and promotion agencies, affiliated companies, sweepstakes partners and prize suppliers, and all of their respective affiliated companies, employees, officers, directors and shareholders, from and against all claims and damages arising in connection with each entrant’s participation and/or entry in the Sweepstakes and/or their receipt or use of any prize awarded in this Sweepstakes. Any and all warranties and guarantees are subject to the respective manufacturer’s terms. This Sweepstakes is governed by U.S. law and is subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited by law.

How the Grand Prize Winner will be Determined:

Grand Prize Judging: All eligible entries will be entered for preliminary judging and evaluated by Mosaic Technologies staff for implementation through a Technology Analysis Plan. MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES reserves the right to screen and accept or reject entries based on feasibility and implementation. The Grand Prize Winner will be selected from the screened applicants by a judging panel consisting of five Montgomery County Community members and one Mosaic Technologies representative. Judges will evaluate each application based on Presentation, Effect on Community, Applicability and Originality. Judging will take place in early January, 2010 by the judging panel. Finalists will be announced on or about January 15, 2010. The odds of winning the Grand Prize depends upon on the number of eligible screened entries received for the entire Sweepstakes Period.

Grand Prize Winner Notification:
Main Sponsor anticipates that the potential Grand Prize Winner will be announced on or about February 12, 2010 (subject to change) in the form of a live announcement at an event where Main Sponsor representatives and such potential Grand Prize Winner may be filmed during such live announcement. Potential Grand Prize Winner will be required to execute an affidavit of eligibility and release of liability and publicity (where permitted by law), and return same, fully-executed, within five (5) days of date of issuance of prize notification. Main Sponsor may require the potential Grand Prize Winner to be interviewed for publicity purposes on or about February 12, 2010 (dates subject to change). If Main Sponsor is unable to contact any potential Grand Prize Winner within five (5) days of the initial attempt, if any potential Grand Prize Winner fails to return all requested forms fully-executed by the specified date, or if any potential Grand Prize Winner fails to comply with these Official Rules, including traveling on the dates and times required by Main Sponsor, his/her place as a Grand Prize Winner will be forfeited at Main Sponsor’s discretion and an alternate Grand Prize Winner shall be selected. Main Sponsor also reserves the right to notify the potential Grand Prize Winner by overnight courier and/or telephone.

Main Sponsor and Sweepstakes Administrator’s decisions with respect to the Grand Prize Winner and other matters pertaining to the Sweepstakes shall be final and binding. By entering into the Sweepstakes, each entrant consents to the use by Sweepstakes Entities and their designees of his/her name, employees, family, pets and business name (s), photograph (including photographs of his/her pet(s) submitted to Mosaic Technologies, if applicable), likeness, biography, voice, performance and/or video (including any footage compiled when the potential winners of the Grand Prize are contacted) for advertising and promotional purposes including "ambush style" on-air camera appearances to announce the potential Grand Prize Winners on a date to be determined by Main Sponsor in or around February 2010 (or as otherwise set forth above) in any and all media, including on-line announcements now or hereafter known, worldwide and without limitation and without additional compensation, notification or permission, except where prohibited by law. In addition, participants in any of Mosaic Technologies’s on-air presentations will be required to sign any agreements and releases designed by Main Sponsor with respect to their services and performances. Main Sponsor and its designees may exploit, edit, modify, and distribute any footage compiled during the period when Mosaic Technologies’s potential Grand Prize Winner is contacted, 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 additional compensation, permission or notification to any potential Grand Prize Winner or any third party.

General Conditions: Main Sponsor and Sweepstakes Administrator’s decisions with respect to the potential Grand Prize Winner and any other matters pertaining to the Sweepstakes shall be final. The potential Grand Prize Winner may be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility and release of liability and publicity (where permitted), and return same, properly executed, within five (5) days of issuance of prize notification. If MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES is unable to contact the potential Grand Prize Winner within five (5) days of the initial attempt to contact, if a potential Grand Prize Winner fails to complete and return all requested forms by the specified date or if a potential Grand Prize Winner fails to comply with any of the requirements, his/her prize will be forfeited and an alternate prize winner shall be selected. By entering into the Sweepstakes, all entrants consent to the use of their name, photograph (including photographs submitted by them to Mosaic Technologies), likeness, biography, voice and/or video for advertising and promotional purposes, including on-line announcements, worldwide and without limitation and without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law. The odds of winning depend upon the number of eligible entries received for the applicable drawing.

Entry materials that have been tampered with or altered are void. If, in the Main Sponsor’s opinion, there is any suspected or actual evidence of electronic or non-electronic tampering with any portion of the Sweepstakes, or if computer virus, bugs, unauthorized intervention, fraud, or technical difficulties or failures compromise or corrupt or affect the administration, integrity, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the Sweepstakes, the Main Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process and void any entries submitted fraudulently, to modify or suspend the Sweepstakes, or to terminate the Sweepstakes and conduct a random drawing to award the prizes using all eligible, non-suspect entries received as of the termination date. Should the Sweepstakes be terminated prior to the stated expiration date, notice will be posted on www.Extreme-Office.com. Any attempt by an entrant or any other individual to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES reserves the right to seek damages and other remedies from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the potential Grand Prize Winner based on an email address, the winning entry will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at time of entry. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational, institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address.

Grand Prize: One (1) Grand Prize Winner shall win the Grand Prize consisting of the office makeover valued at approximately $50,000.00. All decisions related to the Extreme Office Makeover created by MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES shall be at Main Sponsor’s sole discretion. Actual value of the makeover depends on market fluctuations. The equipment, merchandise, and the services consist of, but not limited to: (a) Managed Services from MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES includes – 24x7 monitoring, service, support, computer hardware, 1 year 10 user anti virus and antispyware Worry Free corporate edition from Trend Micro, Mosaic Untangle Security Appliance, Mosaic total secure 10 user firewall valued at $10,000; (b) Whittaker & Associates will provide legal consultation (eg. legal review, contract drafting, invoice review, employee/independent contractor agreements) valued at $2,000; (c) National Association of Business Owners and Entrepreneur (NABOE) offers a one year membership for 2 employees; (d) Sisarina Inc. will provide Website design & development in Content Management System up to 30 pages, with up to 3 templates, contact form, resume application form, news feed, blog with twitter feed and social media valued at $10,000; (e) Falcon Crest Commercial Contractors will discuss scope of work needed in regards to construction (painting, drywall, ceiling, framing, etc.); (f) RCD & Associates will provide a complete review of all employee benefits (health, dental, life, disability, 401-k), business agreements, Corporate owned life insurance, estate and corporate documents. Value $1,500; (g) Urban BBQ of Silver Spring will provide one catered lunch to the winner’s office. Value $150 (h) Pensare Group will provide Strategic Advisory & Consulting including one full day of strategy and action planning with CEO and management staff to design a strategy for focused goal achievement using proprietary methods proven to achieve results in a shorter period of time than any other strategy method. This includes 2 one-hour follow-up meetings to ensure accountability and progress. Value $10,000 (i) The Reznick Group – Accounting and consulting services valued at $7,500 ; (j) IMC Water Coolers – A bottle-less water cooler valued at $500-900; (k) RMR - Marketing and Public Relations (l) Action Coach - Business Coaching; and more to come...

All equipment, merchandise, and the services will be selected by MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES at its sole discretion. All equipment, furnishings, merchandise, and the services will be delivered to the Grand Prize Winner and without representations or warranties, express or implied, other than those, if any, provided by the Business Partner/Provider/Vendor from whom MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES has agreed to acquire the Extreme Office Makeover, and other than any applicable manufacturers’ warranties. Taxes, including property taxes, are not the obligation of the Developer pursuant to an agreement with MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES to acquire the makeover shall be the sole responsibility of the Grand Prize Winner, as will all current and future taxes and all other taxes, costs, fees, and expenses related to the maintenance of the makeover commencing as of the date the Grand Prize Winner accepts the Grand Prize. Insurance and homeowner’s hazard and liability insurance shall be the sole responsibility of the Grand Prize Winner. Total ARV of Grand Prize is $50,000.00

General Prize Conditions: All costs, taxes, fees, and expenses associated with a prize or the acceptance and use of any element of a prize not specifically addressed above are the sole responsibility of the respective winner. All federal, state, and local taxes on prize are winner’s responsibility. Winner will be issued a 1099 tax form for the ARV of the prize. The specifics of all aforementioned elements of any prizes in the Sweepstakes shall be solely determined by Main Sponsor. Some restrictions may apply. Prizes cannot be transferred, substituted or redeemed for cash except at Main Sponsor’s sole discretion. Main Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any prize, or portions thereof, with a prize of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion.

Winner’s List: Beginning on or about February 12, 2010 you may obtain the name of the Grand Prize Winner, either by going to the contest website (www.extreme-office.com) or mailing a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Extreme Office Makeover created by MOSAIC TECHNOLOGIES Winner’s List, 15720 Crabbs Branch Way, Suite 2B, Rockville, MD 20855. Requests received after March 24, 2010 will not be processed.

Main Sponsor: Mosaic Technologies, 15720 Crabbs Branch Way, Suite 2B, Rockville, MD 20855.

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