NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. THIS SWEEPSTAKES IS ONLY OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES WHO ARE 21 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. VOID IN CA AND TN AND WHEREVER ELSE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW

The "Explore Your Flavor" Contest (#066) is sponsored by Reader's Digest Association, the publisher of Every Day with Rachael Ray Magazine and Pernod-Ricard USA LLC ("Sponsors"). Contest begins September 15, 2009 and ends January 11, 2010.

1. Eligibility: This sweepstakes is only open to legal residents of the United States who are 21 years of age or older except CA and TN and wherever else prohibited or restricted by law. Employees of the following entities and members of their families or households are not eligible for participation under any circumstances: Pernod-Ricard USA LLC, Reader's Digest Association, and its respective affiliates, printers, advertising and promotion agencies, alcohol beverage suppliers, importers, wholesalers, distributors or retailers. Contest is governed by laws of the USA. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

2. How To Enter: Contest begins 12:01 A.M. ET on September 15, 2009 and ends on January 11, 2010. All online entries must be received by 11:59 P.M. EST on January 11, 2010. To enter, visit Exploreyourflavor.com, follow the online entry instructions and submit your best quick and easy Mexican-inspired recipe. In addition, create an original drink recipe using Kahlua and ingredients commonly available at retail. Recipes must list all ingredients in exact common U.S. household measurements, step-by-step with preparation instructions. Recipe should serve one drink. The amount of alcohol in the drink recipe cannot exceed 1.5 oz. Online entries submitted in geographic areas in which the entry is not permissible will be disqualified. If entries do not contain all necessary information, entrant will be disqualified. Please be certain to follow all directions.

The Submission must be the original work of entrant and not previously published. Submission must not infringe the copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity. All entries become the property of the Sponsors and will not be returned. Winner will be required to grant to Sponsors all rights, titles and interest in the submitted entry. We reserve the right to use your entry in all print and electronic media, and to edit it for brevity and clarity.

3. Judging: One (1) Entrant will be selected as the Grand Prize winner and ten (10) entrants will be selected as the runner-up winners. A qualified panel of judges ("Judges") will evaluate all the eligible Entries based on the following criteria: Originality 50%, Adherence to the Contest Theme 25%, and Creativity 25%. The Judges will evaluate and attribute a score between 0-100 to each Entry made up of scores between 0-25 or 0-50 for each of the above listed criterion. The one (1) Entry that receives the highest overall score will be selected as the Grand Prize Winner. The ten (10) Entries that receive the next highest overall scores will be selected as the Runner-up Winners. In the event of a tie, the Entry that received the higher score from the Judges in the category of "Creativity" will be selected as a winner. Decision of the judges is final and binding on all matters relating to this Contest.

4. Prizes:
GRAND PRIZE: One (1) Grand Prize will be awarded. The Grand Prize Winner will receive a vacation for two (2) with Funjet Vacations including round-trip coach air transportation for winner and a guest from the airport closest to the winner's home serviced by United Airlines to the Cancun International Airport and, seven (7) nights accommodations in the Riviera Maya at the all-inclusive Occidental Grand Xcaret, including round trip airport to hotel transfers in destination. Approximate Retail Value ("ARV"): $3,198. All taxes, fees, and surcharges on the prize and all meals, gratuities, spending money, and all other expenses not specified herein are the sole responsibility of the prizewinner. Government-imposed per passenger travel taxes are approximately $150.00, are not included and are payable by winner prior to travel. Travel must be completed by August 31, 2010 and is subject to availability and is not allowed over holidays, blackout dates or convention periods. Confirmation will be given on a space available basis only. Once a reservation is made, no changes are permitted. Prize is not transferable, assignable or redeemable for cash. No prize substitutions, except as provided herein. Winner is responsible for providing all necessary travel documentation, including passports. It is the traveler's responsibility to provide proper documentation. Funjet Vacations will not rebook or revise any reservations if travelers do not possess a valid US Passport by their date of departure. Married or divorced women traveling under names other than what is printed on their travel documents must supply a marriage license and/or divorce decree. Travel arrangements are subject to availability. Travel arrangements are subject to availability. Winner and guest will be required to sign the Funjet Vacations Bill of Rights.

FIRST PRIZE: Ten (10) First Prizes will be awarded. Ten (10) runner-up winners will have their recipes published in a cookbook called Explore Your Flavor. They will also receive a link to download the Explore Your Flavor cookbook, a basket of classic Mexican spices and a copy of Marcela Valladolid's cookbook, Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor. The Total Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of each Runner-up prize package is $100.

Total approximate value of all prizes: $4,198.00.

Prizes are not transferable and cannot be assigned, substituted or redeemed for cash., except at the sole discretion of the Sponsors. Acceptance of delivery of the prize must be within 30 days after the Winner is notified, and the specific dates of travel will be subject to availability and Sponsor discretion. If the Winner does not accept the prize within this timeframe, an alternate winner will be selected at the sole discretion of the Sponsors. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value in the event that the stated prize is no longer available/cannot be awarded due to circumstances beyond the control of the Sponsors. All expenses not specified herein are the sole responsibility of Winner. Neither the Sponsors nor their affiliates nor subsidiaries will be responsible for any loss, liability or damage arising out of the Winner's acceptance or use of any of the prizes. All prizes will be awarded.

Odds of winning: 1:5,000.

5. Selection of Winner: The winner will be notified by mail on or about February 22, 2010 and will be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release within seven (7) days of notification or prize will be forfeited and may be awarded to another winner at Sponsor's sole discretion. If winner cannot be located or does not respond within seven (7) days, prize will automatically be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected at Sponsors' sole discretion. Trip winner's guest must sign and return a liability/publicity release form prior to travel. Except where prohibited by law, acceptance of prize constitutes winner's consent for Sponsors to use an entrant's name, city and state of residence, voice, signature, statements, Contest entry, biographical information, photograph and/or likeness for advertising and/or publicity purposes without any additional compensation or consideration. Entrants expressly agree to waive any and all rights to publicity that they have or may have arising out of or relating to the Contest. Return of prize or prize notification as undeliverable will result in disqualification and an alternate Winner will be selected at the sole discretion of the Sponsors.

Conditions: Contest entry must be original, not have been entered in any other drink recipe competition or violate the rights of other parties, including any intellectual property, trade secret or other proprietary right of any other parties. Contest entry may not be offensive, defamatory, discriminatory, obscene, libelous, reflect poorly on Kahlua or be inappropriate for use in advertising or for promotional publicity purposes as determined by the Sponsors and/or the Judge(s) in their sole discretion. Sponsors reserve the right to conduct a background check of any criminal records of the prizewinners and travel companions. To the extent necessary and permitted by law, prizewinners and travel companions shall authorize this background check. Sponsors reserve the right, at their sole discretion, to disqualify prizewinners and/or travel companion(s) from any prize element, based on the background check. Winner also accepts sole responsibility for any miscellaneous costs relating to acceptance of prize.

Entrants hereby agree to indemnify and hold Sponsors harmless from and against any third party claims, actions or proceedings of any kind and from any and all damages, liabilities, costs and expenses, including attorney fees and court costs, arising out of any breach or alleged breach of any of the warranties and representations set forth above.

The value of the prize won by a participant under the contest may be taxable as income to its winner. Winner is solely responsible for any and all taxes and/or fees associated with the prize. Upon receipt of a prize, the winner shall be required to comply with any and all applicable federal, state and local law, rules and regulations.

In consideration of the undersigned's receipt of any prize, prize winner for himself or herself and his or her guests, heirs, personal representatives and assigns shall voluntarily and knowingly completely and forever shall release, waive and discharge Sponsors and all related parties from and against any and every kind of claim, demand, injury, costs, attorney fees, right, liability or cause of action or other liabilities of whatever kind or nature, known or unknown, absolute or contingent, and whether or not fixed, which the prize winner ever had, now has or might in the future have arising in any way or related to this Contest, including, but not limited to, prize winner's participation in the Contest; prize winner's Contest entry; use of prize winner's name, likeness, biographical information, signature, image or likeness; prize winner's receipt, use or inability to use any prize or part thereof, including but not limited to injury or loss sustained in any travel related to the prize; financial claims; physical and/or emotional injury; and/or any other legal claim that mar arise, whether under contract, tort, warranty or any other theory or claim.

7. Electronic Entries: Sponsors are not liable for any technical malfunctions of any telephone network or lines, computer internet system, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the internet or at any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading/uploading any materials in this Contest, or other technical difficulties or failures or other errors of any kind. Sponsors are not responsible or liable for any injury or damage to an entrant's or third person's computer and/or its contents, related to or resulting from Contest. Sponsors reserve the right to terminate or modify the Contest at any time for any reason in such a circumstance, finalists and Grand Prize Winner will be selected based on entries received to date of termination. In the event that two similar entries are received, only the entry judged to best meet criteria as set by Reader's Digest will be included in the final judging. Entrants agree to indemnify Reader's Digest, their affiliated and subsidiary companies from and against any and all claims and liabilities arising out of or in connection with this Contest. In the event of a dispute, on-line entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry. The authorized account holder is the natural person who is assigned to the e-mail address by an internet access provider, on-line service, or other organization that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses. Sponsors and their agencies are not responsible for lost, late, damaged, illegible, misdirected, or incomplete entries, or for on-line entries not received due to lost, failed delayed or interrupted connections or miscommunications, or to other electronic malfunctions, delays, or errors of any kind in the transmission or receipt of entries. Sponsors are not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry information, whether caused by web-site visitors or by any human or technological error that may occur in the processing of entries in this Contest. Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel or suspend all or a portion of the Contest, should viruses, bugs or other causes beyond control of the Sponsors corrupt the administration, security or proper operation of the Contest. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS 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.

8. Winner List/Consumer Information: If you wish to receive a list of prize winners, have any questions about the Contest, or you do not want to receive future sweepstakes or skill contest mailings from Reader's Digest, specify your request and write to: [Explore Your Flavor Contest (#066), 16 East 34th Street, 14th Floor, NY, NY 10016].

Sponsors: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, NY and Pernod Ricard USA LLC, Purchase, NY.

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