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Samsung GS8/8+ - Platinum Experience with Samsung Rewards
Terms and Conditions
1. Eligibility: The Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ Platinum Experience with Samsung Rewards Offer (the "Offer") is open to individuals who are legal residents of the 50 United States including D.C., Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands and are eighteen (18) years old or older and have a mobile plan with a U.S. carrier. Offer is void where prohibited or restricted by law. Data rates may apply to participate in Offer. Eligible individuals are each, a “Participant”, collectively the “Participants” (and may be referred to throughout these Terms and Conditions as “you” or “your”).
2. Timing: The Offer begins on April 18, 2017 at 12:00 a.m. Pacific Time ("PT") and ends on June 30, 2017 at 4:59 p.m. PT (the "Offer Period"). Sponsor’s server is the official time-keeping device for the Offer.
3. How to Participate in Offer: During the Offer Period, Participants who purchase the U.S. Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+
device must take the following actions on their new device to receive the "Platinum Experience" with Samsung Rewards.
(a) Download the Samsung Pay App ("App”) from Google Play;
(b) Sign in to the App with your Samsung Account. If you don't have an account, you can create an account here. Accounts are free, but subject to Terms and Conditions;
(c) Visit Samsung Rewards (on the home page of the App);
(d) Read, and if you agree, accept the Samsung Rewards Program Terms and Conditions (if you have previously joined using another device, this will not be required).
4. “Platinum Experience” with Samsung Rewards Description:
By completing all steps detailed in Section 3 on their new U.S. Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ device Participants will receive an automatic upgrade to Platinum Tier Status (defined in the Samsung Rewards Program, Section D.2) for all purchases made through the App with a qualifying credit or debit card (see details below), as detailed in the chart below:
Complete Section 3 Requirements |
Platinum Status applies to all purchases through |
By May 31, 2017 |
June 30, 2017 at 4:59 p.m. PT |
Between June 1 – June 30, 2017 |
July 31, 2017 at 4:59 p.m. PT |
(a) All Participants who purchase the Samsung GS8/8+ device and take steps 3(a) – (d) detailed above on their new device will receive 1000 Samsung Rewards Points.
(b) Participants can earn Samsung Rewards Points by taking the following actions on their new Samsung GS8/8+ device (from time of purchase through June 30, 2017):
(i)Register a qualifying credit card or debit card ("Qualifying Card") with the Samsung Pay App and you will automatically receive 300 Rewards Points. NOTE: Not all cards are qualifying; check the Samsung Pay Support page for a compatibility list: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/app/samsung-pay. Private label (PLCC) cards and the Samsung Rewards Visa® Prepaid card are not eligible.
(ii)Make your first qualifying purchase transaction ("Qualifying Transaction" defined below) using the App and you will receive 300 Rewards Points (in addition to the points you automatically earn as a Platinum member of the Rewards Program).
(iii)Make your fifth Qualified Transaction using the App and you will receive 400 Rewards Points (in addition to the points you automatically earn as a Platinum member of the Rewards Program).
(iv)Make your tenth Qualified Transaction using the App and you will receive 500 Rewards Points (in addition to the points you automatically earn as a Platinum member of the Rewards Program).
Limit: One (1) Platinum Experience per Samsung Account.
A Qualifying Transaction must be completed by using Samsung Pay to authorize payment with a Qualifying Card. Only one (1) Qualifying Transaction per Samsung Pay account per five (5) minutes will count toward this Offer. If multiple transactions are made within five (5) minutes, only one (1) will count toward this Offer.
5. Sponsor: Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 85 Challenger Rd., Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660.
6. Release: By receipt of the Platinum Experience ("Reward"), Participant agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, and its respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion, agents, and offer suppliers, and each of their respective parent companies and each such entity’s officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Offer or receipt or use or misuse of the Reward.
7. General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Offer, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, human error or any other factor impair the integrity or proper functioning of the Offer, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the he operation of the Offer or to be acting in violation of these Terms and Conditions in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Offer may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
8. Limitations of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Participants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Offer; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the operation of the Offer; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of processing the Reward or the processing of Qualified Transactions of Participants; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from participation in the Offer or receipt or use or misuse of any Reward.
IN NO EVENT SHALL RELEASED PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS, EVEN IF ANY OR ALL OF THE FOREGOING OR ANY OF THEIR AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS MEANS THAT PARTICIPANT HEREBY WAIVES ANY AND ALL RIGHTS TO ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS FROM SPONSOR AND ITS LICENSORS. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, SPONSOR’S CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO PARTICIPANT ARISING FROM ANY CAUSE OF ACTION WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE LESSER OF (A) PARTICIPANT’S ACTUAL LOSS; OR (B) $1,000. THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EVEN IF ANY REMEDY FAILS ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
9. Disputes: Except where prohibited, Participant agrees that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Offer or Reward shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court in New York or an appropriate New York State Court. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Terms and Conditions, or the rights and obligations of the Participant and Released Parties in connection with the Offer, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York.
10. Participant's Personal Information: Information collected from participation is subject to Sponsor’s Privacy Policy http://www.samsung.com/us/common/privacy.html
and to the Samsung Pay Privacy Notice: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00045961/997435235.
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