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Submission Guidelines 

Babble’s “Best of Blogs” feature provides bloggers and their fans the opportunity to nominate a blog post (each, a “Submission,” which shall have the same meaning as “Solicited Submissions” or “Submissions” in the Terms of Use, and shall include the link to the blog post but not the underlying blog post itself) to be featured on Babble.com and its social media pages, including Facebook and Twitter (collectively, the “Sites”). The editors at Babble and Hyperion will then choose which nominations will be invited to be memorialized in a new book series of twelve (12) ebooks and one (1) print book. Submit your nomination by telling us why you like a blog post that you have either written or have read on a blog and why you want to nominate the blogger of that blog post, whether the blogger is you or another blogger. By submitting, you agree to the following guidelines (the “Submission Guidelines”):

GENERAL GUIDELINES

• Your Submission (and any photo included with your Submission) must be original work. DO NOT COPY OTHERS’ WORKS.

• Other than the blogger’s name and your e-mail address, please do not provide any other personal information about yourself or others, including in the uploaded text content, and do not share others’ personally identifiable information in your Submission.

• Submissions must not violate or infringe any right of any third party, including but not limited to copyright, trademark or patent rights, or rights of publicity or privacy.

• Submissions may not contain any content that: (i) is profane, obscene, indecent or offensive; (ii) disparages any party or entity; (iii) promotes any illegal conduct; or (iv) is otherwise inappropriate, objectionable, or unsuitable for public display.

• Without limiting any of the rights granted pursuant to the Terms of Use, by submitting, you grant Babble a non-exclusive, perpetual and worldwide license to use and exploit your Submission(s) in all media formats and channels now known or hereafter devised for any and all purposes. For more details, please see our Terms of Use at http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/terms.html.

• By submitting, you represent and warrant that no person or entity other than you has any right, title or interest in and to any part of your nomination (where you are nominating yourself), and that there is no agreement or arrangement that would interfere with your granting all the rights granted hereunder or that would conflict with any other documentation required hereunder.

• Approved Submissions will be displayed on the Sites. Blog posts selected by Babble and Hyperion’s editors may be invited to be published in an ebook or print book, subject to a signed release and other requirements as determined by Babble. Babble reserves the right to remove any Submission from any Site at any time and for any reason.

• These Submission Guidelines may be updated from time to time.

• Please note that this is not a contest and there are no prizes available.

HOW DO I UPLOAD A SUBMISSION?

• You may select a category from one of the options listed that best fits the theme of your Submission: (1) Breastfeeding, (2) Getting Pregnant, (3) Pregnancy, (4) Giving Birth, (5) Those First 12 Weeks, (6) Post-Partum Depression, (7) Body After Baby, (8) Sex After Baby, (9) Sleep Training, (10) Discipline, (11) Potty Training, or (12) Life After Baby. You may only choose one category per Submission. Do not resubmit the same Submission twice, even if the category is different.

• You must include the blogger’s name of the blog post, blog post title, and blog name in your Submission.

• You must include a short description of why you are nominating the blog post. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THE BLOG POST YOU ARE NOMINATING.

• If you are nominating yourself, then you may include a photo that you have taken with your Submission. DO NOT INCLUDE A PHOTO WHEN NOMINATING ANOTHER BLOGGER.

• You must include a valid email address with your Submission.

• In order for your Submission to appear on the Sites, you must first review your post in “Preview” and click “Submit.” Once you click “Submit,” you will not be able to go back and edit your entry.

• Once you have submitted your nomination, you will be able to see it on Babble.com and the editors at Babble and Hyperion will review it. If we are interested in potentially using your nominated blog post in an ebook or print book, as a courtesy, we may try to reach out to you via the email address provided at the time of your Submission.

• If you are nominating another blogger, then Babble will send that blogger an email requesting completion of the nomination. If that blogger does not respond to Babble’s email within twenty-four (24) hours for the Breastfeeding category or seven (7) days for the other categories and the print book, their nomination will not be considered. Bloggers who have accepted their nomination in writing by signing a release for use of their name/likeness/images, as well as other requirements as determined by Babble, must also accept these Submission Guidelines and the Terms of Use in order to be considered.

• Blog posts chosen by Babble and Hyperion may be published in a future ebook published by Hyperion Books. All Submissions submitted from February 11, 2013 through February 28, 2013 may also be chosen by Babble and Hyperion to be published in a print book published by Hyperion Books.

• For each category, you must enter your Submission during the Schedule below (individually and
  collectively, the “Category Period(s)”).