NOTICE TO ONLINE ENTRANTS

In the event of a dispute over the identity of an online entrant, entry will be deemed submitted by the "Authorized Account Holder" of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry. Authorized Account Holder means the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Entry materials/data that have been tampered with or altered, or mass entries or entries generated by a script, macro or use of automated devices are void. The Sponsor is not responsible for: (i) lost, late, misdirected, damaged, or illegible entries; or (ii) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or any combination thereof; or (iii) any injury or damage to entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating in the Sweepstakes. By participating in the Sweepstakes, you (i) agree to be bound by these official rules, including all eligibility requirements, & (ii) agree to be bound by the decisions of Sponsor & the independent judging organization, which are final & binding in all matters relating to the Sweepstakes. Failure to comply with these official rules may result in disqualification from the Sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves the right to: (i) permanently disqualify from any sweepstakes it sponsors, any person it believes has intentionally violated these official rules; & (ii) withdraw the online method of entry if it becomes technically corrupted, (including if a computer virus or system malfunction inalterably impairs its ability to conduct the sweepstakes), & to select winners from among all eligible entries received prior to such withdrawal.

LEGAL WARNING: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN INDIVIDUAL, WHETHER OR NOT AN ENTRANT, TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE, DESTROY, TAMPER OR VANDALIZE THIS WEB SITE OR INTERFERE WITH THE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES, IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL & CIVIL LAWS & SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES & DILIGENTLY PURSUE ALL REMEDIES AGAINST ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

The Destination Dorm Back To School Sweepstakes ("Sweepstakes") begins on 7/03/05 and ends 9/03/05 ("Sweepstakes Period"). There will be 9 Weekly Prize Drawings during the Sweepstakes Period, beginning on each applicable Sunday at 12:01 A.M. (ET) & ending 11:59 P.M. (ET) on the succeeding Saturday ("Weekly Entry Period"). To be eligible for a given Weekly Prize Drawing, your entry must be received prior to or during the Weekly Entry Period. All non-winning eligible weekly entries will be entered in the Grand Prize Drawing and subsequent Weekly Prize Drawings, if any. If no entries are received for a given Weekly Prize Drawing, the next week's entries will be used to award the previous week's prize.

TO ENTER: Visit www.LNT.com and follow all entry instructions to complete & submit the entry. Online entries must be received between 12:01 AM Eastern Time ("ET") on 7/03/05 and 11:59 PM (ET) on 9/03/05. Entrants are subject to all notices posted online including but not limited to privacy policy. Limit: one online entry per person or email address per day. No responsibility is assumed for entries that are illegible, lost, stolen, late, misdirected, or damaged entries. Mechanically produced, computer generated incomplete or illegible entries are void. All entries become property of Linens 'n Things, Inc. ("Sponsor") & will not be returned or acknowledged.

CONSUMER DISCLOSURES: No purchase necessary to enter or win. You have not yet won. Sweepstakes ends 9/03/05. Prizes and Approximate Retail Values ("ARV"): 9 Weekly Prizes (one awarded per week): $500 LNT Gift Card. 1 Grand Prize (drawn from all entries received during the Promotion Period): A Segway® Human Transporter (ARV: $4,495.00). Odds of winning depend on number of eligible Weekly or Grand Prize entries received, estimated at 1:184,000. Total prize ARV: $8,995.00. Sponsor: Linens 'n Things, Inc., 6 Brighton Road, Clifton, New Jersey 07012.

All prizes guaranteed to be awarded. Any winner in a Weekly Prize Drawing will not be eligible for any further Weekly Prize Drawing(s), but will remain eligible for the Grand Prize drawing.

DRAWING: Weekly drawings will be conducted 14 days after each Weekly period. Grand Prize random drawing will be conducted on or about 9/16/05 from among all eligible entries received. All drawings conducted by an independent judging organization whose decisions are final & binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Winners will be notified by mail & Grand Prize winner will be required to sign & return an Affidavit of Eligibility & a Liability/Publicity Release within 14 days of the date printed on the prize notification letter or s/he will be disqualified & an alternate winner will be selected. Canadian residents, to win, must first correctly answer, unaided, a time-limited mathematical skill testing question administered by mail. If a prize or a prize notification letter is returned as undeliverable, it will result in forfeiture & the same prize will be awarded to an alternate winner. If a winner is otherwise eligible under these official rules, but is nevertheless deemed a minor in his or her state of primary residence, the prize will be awarded in the name of winner's parent or legal guardian. If a prize is forfeited for any reason, the corresponding prize will be awarded to an alternate winner. Grand Prize will be delivered within approximately eight weeks of prize notification & winner verification. Grand Prize is subject to local laws and regulations in winner's hometown. It is the winner's responsibility to consult the Department of Motor Vehicles in his or her hometown before using Grand Prize. Gift card prizes awarded within approximately 30 days after winner verification. Each gift card is subject to the terms and conditions printed on the gift card, including, but not limited to the expiration date. Any credits remaining on a gift card prize after the expiration date (if any) will be forfeited. No cash refund for any unused portion of a gift card will be given. Winners may not substitute or transfer their prize. Winners are responsible for all taxes, including sales tax & incidental expenses not mentioned herein. Except where prohibited by law, entry constitutes permission to use each winner's name, likeness, hometown & prize won for promotional purposes, including but not limited to online posting, without further compensation.

By participating in this Sweepstakes all entrants agree that all prizes are awarded upon the condition that Sponsor, & each of its respective directors, divisions, agencies or employees will have no liability whatsoever for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind resulting from the acceptance or use of any prize, including the Grand Prize. The winners acknowledge that the Sponsor and all other businesses concerned with this sweepstakes and their agents do not make, nor are in any manner are responsible for any warranty, representations, expressed or implied, in fact or in law, relative the quality, conditions, fitness or merchantability of any aspect of prize except that the prize shall be subject to manufacturer's standard warranty.

ELIGIBILITY: Sweepstakes open to legal residents of the 50 United States, including the District of Columbia., and Canada (except the province of Quebec) age 18 & older at time of entry. Employees, immediate family members, & persons living in the same household, of: the Sponsor and its respective parent companies, divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising & promotion agencies & any other persons involved with this promotion are not eligible to win. All federal, state & local laws & regulations apply. Void in the province of Quebec and where prohibited by law. Sweepstakes is governed by U.S. law.

Sweepstakes' Administrator: Ventura Associates, Inc., 1040 6th Ave., NY, NY 10018.

WINNER'S LIST: For winners' list, available between 11/2/05 - 12/31/05, visit lntwinner@LNT.com.

If you do not wish to receive future sweepstakes mailings or emails from the Sponsor, write to Linens 'n Things, Inc., Attn.; Marketing, 6 Brighton Road, Clifton, New Jersey 07012.



Privacy Policy

Updated February 2004

GSI Commerce Solutions, Inc. ("GSI") operates this Web site, www.lnt.com, pursuant to agreements with Linens 'N Things ("LNT"). Both GSI and LNT ("we" or "us") recognize that you care how information about you is used and shared. We have created this Privacy Policy to inform you of our information collection, use and sharing practices for this Web site.

Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy apply only to information gathered through this Web site and, where applicable, through our Customer Service Department in connection with this Web site, and do not necessarily reflect our practices with respect to information gathered through other Web sites that we operate or through other off-line means.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you should contact our Customer Service Department by email at privacyconcerns@lnt.com.

What Information About Me Is Collected and Stored?

We collect and store information that you enter into this Web site or that you provide to our Customer Service Department. For example, when you open an account or place an order, we collect and store some or all of the following information that you provide: name, billing address, shipping address, email address, telephone number, credit card number and expiration date. This information is used to provide the products and services that you have ordered or requested, to process and ship orders, to send order and shipping confirmations and to provide customer service. This information also may be used to contact you about sales, special offers and new site features, unless (except with respect to gift registry services) you have opted not to receive promotional communications in connection with this Web site. Gift registry participants can opt not to receive promotional communications only by discontinuing their participation in the gift registry services.

We collect and store certain other information automatically whenever you interact with this Web site. For example, we collect your IP address, browser information and reference site domain name every time you visit this Web site. We also collect information regarding customer traffic patterns and site usage. This information is used to analyze and improve this Web site and to provide our customers with a fulfilling shopping experience.

Also, like many Web sites, we use "cookies", which are files stored on your computer's hard drive by your browser. Cookies help us to identify account holders and to optimize their shopping experience. Cookies also allow us to hold selections in a shopping cart when a user leaves this Web site without checking out. Most browsers accept cookies automatically but allow you to disable them. We recommend that you leave cookies "turned on" so that we can offer you a better shopping experience on this Web site.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous. If you would like more information about this practice and your choices, click here.

We also may collect and store information about you that we receive from other sources, to enable us to update and correct the information contained in our database and to provide product recommendations and special offers that we think will interest you.

Is Information Collected From Children?

We do not sell or ship any items ordered through this Web site directly to anyone who we know to be under the age of 18, nor do we collect any personal information from anyone who we know to be under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, you should use this Web site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian and should not submit any personal information to us.

With Whom Do You Share Information?

We do not share with others any personal information that you provide to us through this Web site or through our Customer Service Department, except with your consent or as described in this Privacy Policy.

We engage third parties to perform services in connection with the operation of our business. Examples of these services include payment processing and authorization, fraud protection and credit risk reduction, product customization, order fulfillment and shipping, marketing and promotional material distribution, Web site evaluation, data analysis and, where applicable, data cleansing. We provide personal information to these third parties, but we authorize them to use this information only in connection with the services they perform.

We also may offer you the opportunity to purchase products and services provided by third parties, such as magazine subscriptions and extended warranty plans. If you purchase any of these products or services, we will provide your personal information to the third parties that provide them, but we authorize these third parties to use this information only in connection with the products and services they provide.

We may release personal information if we believe in good faith that: the law or legal process requires it; we have received a valid administrative request from a law enforcement agency; or such release is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of GSI or LNT, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, customers or others.

We may share non-personal information with our marketing partners, advertisers and others from time to time. Examples of such non-personal information include the number of users who visited this Web site during a specific time period or purchased a specific product through this Web site. This information generally is shared in an aggregated form.

What Steps Are Taken To Keep Personal Information Secure?

We use various security measures, including Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology, to protect personal information that we collect. If you place an order through this Web site, you will be asked to set up an account and provide an email address and password. You must provide an appropriate email address and password in order to access account information. In order to help protect your personal information further, you should be careful about providing your password to others. If you wish to cancel a password, or if you become aware of any loss, theft or unauthorized use of a password, please contact our Customer Service Department by email at customersupport@lnt.com or by phone at 866-568-7378.

How Can I Access, Correct and Update Personal Information?

You can access, correct and update certain personal information that you have provided to us by clicking on "Manage Your Account" within the Help Desk area of this Web site. If you are a gift registry participant, you can update your gift registry account information by logging into your existing gift registry account.

Can I Indicate Whether or Not I Want To Receive Promotional Communications?

There are several ways in which you can tell us whether or not you want to receive promotional communications from us. When you set up an account, or click on "Manage Your Account" within the Help Desk area, or place an order, you will have an opportunity to make or change your selections in this regard. You also will have an opportunity to change these selections by clicking on an "unsubscribe" hyperlink contained in promotional emails we send you. Gift registry participants can opt not to receive promotional communications only by discontinuing their participation in the gift registry services.

What Happens When I Link To or From Another Web Site?

This Web site may contain links to Web sites operated by third parties. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy do not apply to information gathered through these other Web sites. We encourage you to be aware of when you leave this Web site and to read the privacy policies of each and every Web site that you visit.

If you have accessed this Web site through a link from certain of our advertising or marketing partners, this Web site may include a frame of the applicable advertising or marketing partner. Nevertheless, the information you provide to us through these framed Web pages is collected by us, and our use of this information is governed by this Privacy Policy.

What About Contests and Sweepstakes?

When we run a contest or sweepstakes relating to this Web site, it will be accompanied by a set of rules. The rules for each contest/sweepstakes will specify how the information gathered from you for entry will be used and disclosed.

How Will I Be Informed About Changes Regarding This Privacy Policy?

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post a notice on this Web site notifying users of the changes. In some cases, we also may send an email notifying users of the changes. You should check this Web site periodically to see if any recent changes to this Privacy Policy have occurred.