The Giftee Awards recognize the best in gifting from across the web, and will celebrate the top picks in ten high-interest categories, as nominated & voted on by the public. The Giftee Awards are hosted and administered by Gifts.com, the premier online gift recommendation service.

The Giftee Awards contest is intended to reward consumers who nominate great products to be eligible for a Giftee award. By sharing a link to a favorite product or "gift" in a specific category, a user can nominate that gift for consideration. Any nominator of a Giftee Award-winning gift is entered to win the grand prize of a $500 holiday shopping spree.

Anyone can participate in The Giftee Awards contest by visiting The Giftee Awards microsite and nominating a gift. Users will be asked to submit their contact information, including name, age and email. They will then have the opportunity to designate the category that they're nominating for, provide a link to a product that is available for purchase within the United States, upload an image and provide a text description. Only one nomination can be accepted, per person.

A panel of gift experts made up of the Gifts.com Gift Gurus and the editors of esteemed lifestyle magazines and blogs will use their full discretion as experts in the field of gift giving to identify ten finalists in each category. These finalists will be hosted on the Giftees microsite and put to public vote. The gift that receives the most votes in each category will become a Giftee Award winner. Any eligible person who originally nominated a Giftee Award winner will be entered into the Grand Prize drawing from which one person will be randomly selected to win the $500 prize. If a winning gift is nominated by more than one person, both or all nominators will be entered in to the Grand Prize drawing.

The Gifts.com Gift Gurus, along with a panel of guest judges, will use their full discretion as experts in the field of gift giving to identify the finalists in each of ten categories. They will take in to consideration overall giftability of the product, any social feedback available, suitability for the specific category, and other criteria as needed in order to produce the best possible collection of ten finalists per category.

The Giftees Awards contest is comprised of three phases. During Phase 1, we will accept nominations, and the nomination period will close on October 21st. Users will be unable to vote until all nominations are in, and the Gifts.com Gift Gurus and our panel of guest judges have selected 10 finalists from each category. Phase 2 (Voting Phase) begins on October 31st. During Phase 2, users will be unable to nominate new gifts, but will be able to vote on any gifts selected as finalists. Phase 3 is the Announcement phase in which the Giftee Award-winning gifts are announced and the Grand Prize winner is notified. No voting or nominations will be possible during this final phase. Email reminders will be sent prior to key contest dates.

Once the voting phase of the contest opens, a user can vote for any Giftee Award finalists in any or all of the ten categories, including those which they nominated. Encouraging others to vote is recommended, and will increase the nominator's odds of winning the Grand Prize.

Visitors to the Giftees Microsite can vote for their favorite gift in each category a maximum of once per 24 hour period. (There are ten categories, so you can cast ten votes per day).

United States residents, of age 18 years or older, provided they are not an employee of Gifts.com or Gifts.com's parent company, an employee of one of Gifts.com's merchant partners, a Giftees partner or employee of a partner, or an immediate family member of any of the same.

The Grand Prize drawing will take place on November 28, 2011. The winner will then be notified via email.

Gifts.com will announce the winners of the 2011 Giftee Awards on November 28th. The list of winning gifts will be available on the Giftees microsite year-round.