Originally posted by ozzie Hi, I've been away for a long while and now I'm back to have some fun. I have a question and not sure where to post it. I've been reading some contest rules & regulations and have come across this: By entering this Contest, each entrant consents to the use of his/her name, city of residence, photograph, voice and/or image for any promotion/publicity and programming purposes, commercial or otherwise, in all media used by the Sponsors, their promoters, advertising and promotional agencies, without any payment or compensation. Is this common and it I can understand it applying to the winner, but to every entrant, it sounds like an invasion of privacy. They can use your name, address, etc and give this info to their promotional agencies. Does anyone have a comment or info about this?

Ozzie, it doesn't imply they will "give this info to their promotional agencies", what it says is that they have your permission to publish your name and city if you win. This doesn't mean they will publish your phone number or sell your email for spam, just that they will publish a winners list. It also means that if you happen to win, say, a trip to meet and greet a rock star at a concert that they may publish photo of you at the event WITHOUT PAYING YOU FOR THEM.

Frankly, I would be suspicious of any contest that does NOT publish a winners list - I would wonder what they are hiding....like maybe all the winners are pals of the v.p. of marketing. And I think NOT being paid for use of your image and/or comments is a small price to pay when you win a trip worth $25,000.