BRYT Green® Dye Campaign Rules

Eligibility

Open to individuals who are at least 18 years old and are customers of Promega or visitors to the Promega website. The BRYT Green® Dye Campaign is limited to one entry per person. Employees of Promega and members of the immediate families of such employees are not eligible. Employees of authorized Promega distributors are not eligible.

The BRYT Green® Dye Campaign is not available in all geographic regions. Please check with your Promega representative or authorized Promega distributor for availability in your area. Void where prohibited by law and institutional policy.

Entry

Compare GoTaq® qPCR Master Mix, GoTaq® 1-Step RT-qPCR or GoTaq® 2-Step RT-qPCR System head-to-head with a similar product from your current supplier. After completing your comparison, return to www.promega.com/bryt to answer a brief survey and submit your comparison data (amplification curves).

Please consider that your organization’s internal policy may not allow you to receive incentives or your employer’s permission may be requested before participating in the drawing. Limit one entry per person.

The following paragraph illustrates the information you will be asked when submitting your entry into the challenge. Highlighted fields (in yellow) will be displayed publicly. The other fields will be used for Promega internal purposes only.

CONTACT INFORMATION: First name, last name (last name initial), email address, telephone, institute, street address, city, state/province (as applicable), postal code/ZIP, country.

EXPERIMENT INFORMATION: Which GoTaq Real-Time PCR product did you evaluate?, rating you'd give the product, did you compare GoTaq qPCR to another qPCR master mix, how would you define the primary purpose of your experiment, experiment organism, who is your current supplier of RT and qPCR reagents, who is your current supplier of RT and qPCR enzymes, which real-time instrument are you currently using, experiment short description, experiment full description, how did the GoTaq qPCR Master Mix perform compare to your current qPCR master mix, would you switch to GoTaq qPCR Master Mix (based on your results), would you recommend this product to a colleague.

OTHER INFORMATION: For which applications are you using real-time PCR, how many wells do you use (on average) per run, what real-time PCR detection systems do you use, what is your typical real-time PCR reaction volume, what real-time PCR formats do you use, how did you learn about this promotion, how often do you use your real-time qPCR instrument.

DATA UPLOAD: Upload an image (.JPG, .GIF, .BMP or .PNG) from your computer showing your amplification curves.

Reward and Prizes

Within one week of each entry deadline (below), Promega will conduct a random drawing from among all eligible entries received prior to the deadline. The winner will be notified by e-mail, phone and/or postal mail at the sole discretion of Promega. In the event a winner cannot receive his/her prize for any reason, the prize shall be awarded to an alternate winner via another random drawing. All entrants remain eligible for the BRYT Green® Dye Campaign drawings listed below that occur after the date of submission. Entry deadlines may be extended without prior notice.

Upon accepting a prize, the winner will be posted on www.promega.com/bryt in the form of First Name, Last Initial, Type of organization, City, State, Country. For example: John D., University, Madison, WI. USA.

Drawing Date Prize
1 March 30, 2012 Eppendorf Kary Mullis Limited Edition Repeater® Xstream
GoScript Reverse Transcriptase – 10rxs
Recombinant RNasin® Ribonuclease Inhibitor - 2,500u
RNA Markers - 50μl
2 April 30, 2012 Eppendorf Kary Mullis Limited Edition Repeater® Xstream
GoScript Reverse Transcriptase – 10rxs
Recombinant RNasin® Ribonuclease Inhibitor - 2,500u
RNA Markers - 50μl
3 May 31, 2012 Eppendorf Kary Mullis Limited Edition Repeater® Xstream
GoScript Reverse Transcriptase – 10rxs
Recombinant RNasin® Ribonuclease Inhibitor - 2,500u
RNA Markers - 50μl
4 June 29, 2012 Eppendorf Kary Mullis Limited Edition Repeater® Xstream
GoScript Reverse Transcriptase – 10rxs
Recombinant RNasin® Ribonuclease Inhibitor - 2,500u
RNA Markers - 50μl
5 July 31, 2012 Eppendorf Kary Mullis Limited Edition Repeater® Xstream
GoScript Reverse Transcriptase – 10rxs
Recombinant RNasin® Ribonuclease Inhibitor - 2,500u
RNA Markers - 50μl

Only entries received through the online submission system will be eligible for submission reward and prize drawings. If you cannot post data to the online system for any reason, you cannot participate in the BRYT Green® Dye Campaign.

Region-Specific Rules and Conditions

Applicable for data submitted after March 1, 2012.

AUSTRALIA: 35% discount valid for six (6) months from the date of data submission to the first ten submissions.

BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS and LUXEMBOURG: iTunes gift card of 20€ or 2 months free Spotify Premium per submission. Maximum of one submission per lab.

BRAZIL: 50% discount valid for 12 months from the date of data submission.

CHINA: 1500 Promega Points per submission.

CROATIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY, ROMANIA, SLOVAKIA, SLOVENIA, TURKEY, RUSSIA: 20% discount off first order when order is placed by August 31, 2012.

DENMARK, ESTONIA, FINLAND, ICELAND, NORWAY and SWEDEN: iTunes gift card of 20€ (or 200 SEK) per submission.

FRANCE: One free kit to choose between GoTaq® qPCR master mix, GoTaq® 1-step RT-qPCR or GoTaq® 2-step RT-qPCR. Only one submission per lab. Samples are available only from local sales representative.

GERMANY: Amazon gift card of 5€ per submission.

ITALY: Amazon gift card of 20€ per submission. Samples are available only from local sales representative.

JAPAN: Special discount for GoTaq Club members.

KOREA: 25% discount valid for 3 months from the date of data submission.

NEW ZEALAND: 20% discount for six (6) months from submission of data, for the first four (4) submissions.

SINGAPORE: 50% discount valid for six (6) months from the date of data submission to the first 10 submissions.

SPAIN: 3000 Promega Points per submission.

SWITZERLAND: 35% discount valid for 6 months from the date of data submission to the first ten submissions.

UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND: One (1) iPod Shuffle per submission. Sales promotion of three (3) GoTaq products for the price of two (2) valid for three months from the date of data submission.

UNITED STATES: 50% discount valid for 12 months from the date of data submission.

Promotion may not be available in your regions. Contact local office for local promotional details.

Discount cannot be combined with any other offers.

If participant is located in an area not supported by a Promega representative or authorized Promega distributor, the participant is responsible for all duty taxes, customs clearance cost and freight in a timely manner.

General

In case of a dispute regarding the identity of the person submitting an online entry, the entry will be deemed to be submitted by the person in whose name the email account is registered. The person granted the 12-month discount may be required to provide evidence that he/she is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the winning entry. Return of any prize notification as undeliverable will result in forfeiture of the prize.

Promega reserves the right to remove content submitted as a part of the BRYT Green® Dye Campaign that it deems to be inappropriate, in its sole discretion.

By entering the BRYT Green® Dye Campaign, you grant Promega the unrestricted right to use the information or data for marketing or commercial purposes.

No prize transfer or cash redemption permitted. No prize substitution, except by the sole discretion of Promega, in which case a prize of comparable or greater value will be awarded.

Taxes on prizes are the sole responsibility of the winner.

By participating, entrants agree to abide by and be bound by the rules and decisions of Promega which shall be final in all respects relating to the BRYT Green® Dye Campaign, including without limitation the interpretation of this rule. Participants agree to release, discharge and hold harmless Promega, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and their officers, directors, agents and representatives and their respective employees from any and all claims, charges, injuries, liability, losses and/or damages of any kind resulting from or arising out of the participation in the BRYT Green® Dye Campaign. Promega, its subsidiaries, affiliates, and their officers, directors, agents and representatives and their respective employees are not responsible and shall not be liable for: (a) late entries due to delays in delivery of product or product samples, (b) any condition caused by events beyond the control of Promega that may cause your entry to be disrupted or delayed.

Discount offer ends August 2012.