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RetailMeNot Real Deal Sweepstakes

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. INTERNET ACCESS IS REQUIRED TO ENTER.

1. ELIGIBILITY: The RetailMeNot Real Deal Sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes”) is offered and open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia (“United States”) who are 18 years of age or older and who currently reside in the United States at time of entry. Corporate employees, officers and directors of RetailMeNot (“Sponsor”), Extole, Inc. (“Administrator” or “authorized representative”), and their respective subsidiaries and affiliated companies, contractors, agents, individuals engaged in the development, production, or distribution of materials for or the implementation of the Sweepstakes (collectively referred to herein as the “Sweepstakes Entities”), and the immediate family members (spouse, siblings, children and parents) and those living in the same household as such individuals (whether or not related) are not eligible to enter. Void where prohibited.

2. PROMOTION PERIOD: Sweepstakes starts on or about 12:00 am Pacific Time (“PT”) on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 and ends at 11:59 pm PT on Friday, March 15, 2013 (“Promotion Period”). All time referenced herein is Pacific Time. Sponsor (or its authorized representative’s) server’s clock is the official time keeping device for the Sweepstakes.

3. HOW TO ENTER: During the Promotion Period,to enter: (i) access the Sponsor’s Sweepstakes and Referral Program through this website: www.retailmenot.com/blog, (ii) enter your email address, first and last name, and (iii) affirmatively agree to these complete official rules to submit your entry (“entry”). Failure to follow all steps or include all information will void the entry. The order of these steps may vary. Limit one (1) initial entry per person, or per email address. Once submitted, entry cannot be modified, deleted or cancelled. You may opt out of the Referral Program at any time without affect to your initial entry.

Upon entry confirmation, you will also have the opportunity (without obligation) to share/send an invitation (“Referral Link”) to third parties (“Referred Friend”). For every valid Referred Friend to whom you Share a Referral Link, you will receive an additional entry into the Sweepstakes (up to twenty-five (25) additional entries), with a limit of twenty-six (26) total entries per person. A “Share” is defined as: each individual email address sent through the program portal (if a referrer sends multiple emails, each individual email is calculated as one share), one Facebook message or one Twitter message.

Registered entrants may obtain additional entries (up to twenty-five (25) additional entries, with a limit of twenty-six (26) total entries per person) without referring any friends and/or having Referred Friends enter in the Sweepstakes, by legibly hand-writing on a separate piece of paper: Entry Request RetailMeNot Real Deal Sweepstakes, entrant’s name, age and email address, and sending it in a sufficiently U.S. stamped envelope to: RetailMeNot Real Deal Sweepstakes c/o Extole, 625 2^nd Stree, Suite 101, San Francisco, CA 94109. All requests must be postmarked by 03/15/2013 and received by Sponsor by 03/18/2013. For each separately mailed entry request, entrant will receive one (1) additional entry into the Sweepstakes, up to twenty-five (25) mail-in entries per person, with a limit of twenty-six (26) total entries per person). Mail-in requests from individuals who are not registered eligible entrants during the Promotion Period will not receive entry via this method. In no event will an entrant receive more than twenty-five (25) combined entries from their Referral Friend’s entering the Sweepstakes and/or the mail-in method.

Entrants who provide referrals must respect the spirit of the Sweepstakes by only referring real individuals who meet the requirements of these rules, and may not refer themselves. If an entrant Referrer provides a Referral Link to a Referred Friend by email, the email must be created and distributed in a personal manner that is appropriate and customary for communications with friends, colleagues and family members. By submitting the email addresses, entrants represent and warrant that he/she has their prior consent. Bulk email distribution, distribution to strangers, or any other promotion of a Referral Link in a manner that would constitute or appear to constitute unsolicited commercial email or “spam” in the Sweepstakes Entities’ sole discretion is expressly prohibited and may be grounds for immediate disqualification of the entrant, and deactivation of their Referral Link.

Entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. You may enter once- under one name and one email address only. Entrants may not share email addresses, nor enter with multiple e-mail addresses, identities, logins or registrations, nor may entrants use any other device or artifice to enter multiple times. Any entrant who uses fraudulent entry methods, enters through a sweepstakes-entry service or similar methods, or otherwise attempts to participate more than hereby permitted will be disqualified and all entries by that entrant will be void. In case of dispute, entries will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.

Sweepstakes Entities assume no responsibility for lost, late, incomplete, inaccurate, stolen, misdirected, or illegible entries; nor for any computer, telephone, cable network, electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, failures, connections, or availability, or garbled, corrupt, or jumbled transmissions; nor service provider, Internet, Web site, user net accessibility or availability, hardware/software incompatibility, traffic congestion, or unauthorized human intervention or any technical error; or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry or other information; nor for the failure to capture any such information. Only eligible entries received by Sponsor in accordance with these Official Rules will be considered. By entering you agree, among other things, to receive future email communications regarding the Sweepstakes, and Sponsor’s advertising, promotional and marketing communications (you may opt out of the latter at any time without affect to your entry).

4. DRAWING/NOTIFICATION: On the morning after each date specified in Section 5 below, ,a random drawing will be held by Sponsor (or its authorized representative) from all eligible entries received from the beginning of the Promotion Period through such specified date. Twenty (20) winners will be chosen through each random drawing. Subject to the terms of these Official Rules, each winner will receive a prize consisting of one (1) Starbucks Gift Card with a maximum redemption value of twenty five dollars ($25). Only the number of prizes stated herein will be awarded. In no event will Sponsor be responsible for awarding more than the stated number of prizes. Limit one (1) prize per person per day.

Eligible potential winner(s) will be notified using the email address (in Sponsor’s discretion) provided at time of entry. In the event a potential winner cannot be reached or fails to respond as directed within two (2) days (or as otherwise directed), prize will be forfeited. Sponsor may, but without obligation, attempt prize award to an alternate potential winner. Potential prize winners may be required to complete, have notarized and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability and, where legal, Publicity Release (the “Release Documents”) within three (3) business days of notification.

In the event that technological, programming, or other errors cause more than the stated number of prizes in any category, as indicated in these Official Rules, to be sent as notifications, distributed, claimed or received for any prize, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to award only the stated number of prizes (in such prize category if applicable) by random drawing among all eligible claimants (in that prize category if applicable). Prize award is subject to verification of eligibility, and compliance with these Official Rules.

5. PRIZE(S)/ODDS:

Drawing 1: March 6, 2013 Prizes:

Twenty (20) Winners will each receive a $25 Starbucks Gift Card

Drawing 2: March 7, 2013 Prizes: