This MAGGI^® MEE MY WAY™ Contest [“Contest”] is organised by Nestlé Products Sdn. Bhd. [45229-H] [“the Organiser”] and is open to all Malaysian residents older than 18 years of age as of 28th September 2009.

This Contest will run from 28th September 2009 at “00:00:00” to 18th January 2010 at “23:59:59” [“the Contest Period”]. The Organiser reserves the right to amend the Contest Period at any time. All entries received outside the Contest Period will be disqualified.

To participate in this Contest, the participants must be registered as a member of the www.maggi.com.my website [“MAGGI^® Website”] or MAGGI^® MEE MY WAY™ Facebook application [“Facebook App”]. Registration is via the said MAGGI^® Website and/or Facebook website.

Each participant may only have one [1] MAGGI^® Website member account. Please refer to the privacy policy and the terms and conditions on the MAGGI^® Website, which will bind the members and users of the MAGGI^® Website.

No proof of purchase is required for entry to the Contest. Each participant is entitled to submit more than one [1] entry.

Submission of entries and voting for this Contest must be sent online via the MAGGI^® Website and/or Facebook App, and the entries must be written in either English, Bahasa Malaysia or Mandarin subject to the stated terms and conditions.

Participants are required to capture photos with the theme MAGGI^® MEE MY WAY™ and photos must include MAGGI^® mee as one of the ingredients and the consumption of the prepared MAGGI^® mee dish.

Participants must upload a set of photos, consisting of a minimum of three [3] to a maximum of five [5] photos, together with a caption in not more than ten [10] words relating to the set of photos. Each set of photos must also be submitted with a short story of how participants have prepared and consumed the MAGGI^® mee, in not more than 200 words. Any/all of the MAGGI^® mee pack[s] must be featured in at least one [1] of the photos within the set of photos submitted.

Participants are strongly encouraged to use other MAGGI^® products as well and non-HALAL ingredients and all/any other competing brands are not to be featured in the preparing of the MAGGI^® mee.

Each entry received during the Contest Period will be serialized according to the time of receipt (yy/mm/dd/hh/mm/ss/). In the event of duplicate entries from the same participant, the submitted entry which is most recent will be treated as a valid entry. In the event of duplicate submissions from different participants, time of receipt will be used to determine qualification of the participant who first submitted an entry which will be treated as a valid entry.

All submissions must be received by the Organiser by 23:59:59 of 22nd November 2009. Submissions after this date will be disqualified.

Participants who have successfully submitted their entries via the MAGGI^® Website or Facebook App will be notified via email and their submissions will be posted on the MAGGI^® Website and the the Facebook App for public viewing.

The panel of judges will select thirty [30] finalists [“the Finalists”] from the qualified submissions. The judging criteria shall be based on completeness, creativity, originality and relevancy of the photo, caption and short story entries to the Contest.

The Finalists’ entries will be posted on the MAGGI^® Website for public feedback, comments, viewing and voting for a period of six [6] weeks, starting from 00:00:00, 7th December 2009 and ending at 23:59:59, 18th January 2010 [“the Voting Period”].

During the Voting Period, all members of the MAGGI^® Website are allowed to cast one [1] vote per day for any of the Finalists at the MAGGI^® Website only. Only votes received during the Voting Period will be considered as valid votes.

Based on the votes, five [5] of the Finalists with the highest votes will be chosen as the Grand Prize Winners.

The Grand Prize Winners will be notified via email and/or telephone. The Organiser will not be held responsible should there be any error, delay or defect in notification via the email and/or telephone to the Winners. Please refer to the Liability & Responsibility section in this MAGGI^® Website which will bind the members and users of this MAGGI^® Website.

There is a Voters’ Incentive Category to encourage and reward voters for their interest in the Contest. Voters must be members of the MAGGI^® Website.

In order to qualify for this category, Website members will have to vote for their favourite photo entry and complete the slogan, “I voted for this entry because…” in not more than twenty-five [25] words.

Only voters with the most creative slogan who voted for the Grand Prize Winners will qualify to win the Voters’ Incentives. From this qualified list, the three [3] voters with the most creative slogans will be selected to win the Voters’ Incentive. The judging criteria of the submitted slogans will be based on completeness, creativity, originality and relevancy of the slogan to the Contest.

There is also a Refer Friends Incentive Category that encourages participants to invite as many friends to the Website [“Viral Email”]. Once the participant’s friends have received the Viral Email, they must OPEN, READ and CLICK on the URL in the Viral Email and REGISTER as a MAGGI^® Website member. One [1] point will be awarded to the referrer for each new MAGGI^® Website registration.

The URL in the Viral Email [e-blast] can only be clicked once [1] and will be counted as an entry as per their email addresses. Should the friends receive the Viral Email the second time, the second click will NOT be counted as an entry.

Only the top three [3] referrers with the highest points will qualify to win the Refer Friends Incentive.

Winners will be notified via emails or phone at their contact numbers provided to the Organiser when they registered as a MAGGI^® Website member or upon submission via Facebook App. The Organiser will not be held liable in the event the winner[s] cannot be contacted for whatever reasons. All prizes must be claimed within three [3] months from the date of notification. All unclaimed prizes will be forfeited. The Organiser will not be held liable in the event of non-receipt or delayed delivery of the postal notification to the winner[s]. The Winners list will also be announced on the MAGGI^® Website.

The Organiser shall reserve the right at its absolute discretion to substitute any of the prizes with that of similar value, at any time without prior notice. The values of the prizes are correct at the time of printing. All prizes are given on an “As Is” basis and all hampers are not exchangeable for cash, credit, other items or voucher, in part or in full. The cash prizes will be paid in the form of cheque, issued in the name as per submission via MAGGI^® website or Facebook App.

All winners must abide by the terms and conditions of the party[ies] arranging and/or providing for the prizes and the terms and conditions attached to the prizes, if any.

Winners shall assume full liability and responsibility in case of any liability, mishap, injury, damage, claim or accidents [including death] resulting from their participation in this Contest, redemption and/or utilisation of the prizes.

All transportation, accommodation, personal costs and/or any other costs, fees and/or related expenses that are incurred to participate in this Contest and to redeem the prize is the sole responsibility of the winner.

The Organiser is also not responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction, unauthorized access to, or alteration of, user or member communications, or any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of e-mail or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet.

The Organiser reserves the right to use the names and/or photographs of the winners as materials for the purposes of advertising, trade and/or publicity, without any prior notice to the winners and the winners shall not be entitled to claim ownership or other forms of compensation on the materials.

The Organiser reserves the right to modify, suspend or cancel this Contest in the event that it becomes not capable of running as planned, technically interfered or corrupted, including but not limited to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Organiser, despite the best efforts of the Organiser.

The Organiser reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any participant that is found or suspected of tampering with the Contest submission process, the operation of this Contest or to be in violation of the Conditions of Access of the MAGGI^® Web-site and/or Facebook App. The Organiser reserves the right to terminate the MAGGI^® Website member account of any person who it reasonably suspects has violated or infringed any of these general terms and conditions and the Organiser reserves the right to pursue legal action against any individual it believes has undertaken fraudulent activities or other activities harmful to this online Contest, the Contest submission process or the MAGGI^® Web-site.

All photos, captions, short stories and slogans submitted must be original and shall not breach any intellectual property rights belonging to any party. The participants shall not pose, distribute, reproduce or submit in any way whatsoever, any scripts and videos containing any intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyrights, or other proprietary information owned by another party without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such intellectual property rights or proprietary information. If you believe that your work has been copied and posted on in a way that constitutes an intellectual property infringement, please contact the Organiser.

The Organiser reserves the right to modify, suspend or cancel this Contest in the event that it becomes not capable of running as planned, technically interfered or corrupted, including but not limited to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Organiser, despite the best efforts of the Organiser.

The Judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence thereon will be entertained

The Organiser, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to modify this Rules & Regulations without any prior notice, if required for the smooth running of the Contest.

By participating in this Contest, participants agree to be bound by this Contest Rules & Regulations, and the decisions of the Organiser.

The Organiser shall not be held liable or responsible for any delay and/or failure in the receipt of entry due to the inability of the respective Internet Service Provider [ISP] company and/or telecommunication network to provide timely and/or efficient internet and/or telecommunication services.

Participants also agree that the Organiser is not responsible nor liable for any delay, injury or damage to the participant’s and/or any third party's computer, computer system or apparatus relating to or resulting from the access to, participation in this Contest, including the playing, downloading of any materials or information from the MAGGI^® Website and/or Facebook App and in connection with this Contest, submission/uploading of the photographs for this Contest, including without limitation any server failure, lost, delayed or corrupted data or other malfunction.

The Organiser is also not responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction, unauthorised access to, or alteration of, user or member communications, or any problems or technical malfunction of any telecommunication network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of e-mail on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet and/or telecommunication networks.

The Organiser reserves the right to modify, suspend or cancel this Contest in the event that it becomes incapable of running as planned, technically interfered or corrupted, including but not limited to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Organiser, despite the best efforts of the Organiser.

The MAGGI^® Website is provided on an "as is" basis and, except as otherwise prohibited by applicable law, the Organiser expressly disclaim any warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. The Organiser cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of MAGGI^® Website and/or Facebook App. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us, or through www.maggi.com.my shall create any warranty not expressly stated herein.

Below is a partial list of content that is illegal or prohibited to be posted on the MAGGI^® Website and/or Facebook App . Posting of any of this content by the participant may, in the Organiser’s sole discretion, result in termination of membership of the MAGGI^® Website in addition to the disqualification of participation. In addition, the Organiser reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action, in its sole discretion, against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the MAGGI^® Website and/or Facebook App and reporting such violators to the appropriate legal authorities. Prohibited content includes, but is not limited to, contents which, in the Organiser’s sole judgment:

• is offensive to the online community, such as content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
  include ingredients that are offensive to other religious practices and/or competitive products that appear in the photographs
• harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
• involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," "spam," or any other unsolicited mass mailing, e-mailing, or other communication;
• includes any information that [1] the participant knows is false or misleading, [2] promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, or [3] is threatening, obscene, defamatory, or libelous;
• constitutes or includes any illegal or unauthorised copy of another person's copyrighted or copyrightable work, including, but not limited to, [1] pirated computer programs or links to them, [2] information which circumvents manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, [3] pirated music or links to pirated music files;
• displays obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind;
• includes material that exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
• provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses.