Zbar Outdoor Experts Sweepstakes
OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING.
OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50
UNITED STATES, D.C. AND PUERTO RICO,
18 YEARS AND OLDER.
The Sweepstakes
is no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Meta
Platforms, Inc. Sponsor is not affiliated with Meta Platforms, Inc. in any way.
1. TO ENTER: Zbar Outdoor Experts Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”), sponsored by Mondelēz Global LLC (“Sponsor”), begins
at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET on July 22, 2024 and
ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on September 30, 2024 (the “Sweepstakes Period”).
Participation Requirements: A personal
Facebook and/or Instagram account (each, a “Social Account”) is required to
participate; business or shared Social Accounts are not permitted. If you
participate using your Instagram account, your account must also be public. If
you do not have a Facebook or Instagram account, you may open one for free at Facebook.com or Instagram.com, respectively. When you create a Social Account, you (or your parent or legal guardian if you
are deemed a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside (“Minor”)) are indicating that
you have read and agree to accept and abide by applicable Terms of Service
(Facebook Terms of Service; Instagram Terms of
Use) as well as Meta Platforms, Inc.’s Privacy Policy (https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/ or https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy). If you use your wireless mobile
device to enter, standard message and data rates may apply. Please consult your
wireless service provider regarding its pricing plans prior to entering via
your wireless mobile device. None of the
“Promotion Parties” (defined below in Section 3) shall be responsible for any
message or data rate charges which may apply. A wireless mobile device is
not required to enter the Sweepstakes.
Entry Requirements: To enter, take the
following actions during the Sweepstakes Period on the applicable “Social
Platform” (Facebook and/or Instagram).
(a) Entry Requirements for Entering on
Facebook:
(1)
Follow
Zbarofficial on Facebook;
(2)
Locate
the Facebook post posted by Zbarofficial that
advertises this Sweepstakes (herein “Facebook Sweepstakes Post”);
(3)
Comment
on the Facebook Sweepstakes Post with a photo or video of your minor child,
children or legal ward(s) playing outdoors and include the hashtag
#ZbarSweepstakes (your “Facebook Comment”). You do not need to show your
child’s, children’s or legal ward’s face(s) in the photo or video. Your
Facebook Comment need not include any reference or image, positive or negative,
to Sponsor’s products or services (aside from the required hashtag). Including
such a reference or image will not improve your chance of winning. Your Facebook Comment must also comply with the Guidelines
and Content Restrictions stated below; and
(4)
There is no requirement that your Facebook account is
public. However, you must keep the same Facebook account during the Sweepstakes
Period and until the prizes are awarded (as described in Section 4, below) so
that we can communicate with you if you are selected as a potential winner.
(b) Entry Requirements for Entering on
Instagram:
(1)
Follow
@zbarofficial on Instagram;
(2)
Post
a photo or video of your minor child, children or legal ward(s) playing
outdoors and include the hashtag #ZbarSweepstakes in the original caption to
your post (herein your “Instagram Post”). You do not need to show your
child’s, children’s or legal ward’s face(s) in the photo or video.
(3)
Your Instagram Post need not include any reference or
image, positive or negative, to Sponsor’s products or services (aside from the
required hashtag). Including such a
reference or image will not improve your chance of winning. Your Instagram Post must also comply with the Guidelines
and Content Restrictions stated below; and
(4)
Your Instagram account must be public when you post
and must stay public until the prizes are awarded (as described in Section 4,
below). You must also keep the same Instagram handle during the Sweepstakes
Period and until the prizes are awarded so we may communicate with you if you
are selected as a potential winner.
Guidelines and Content Restrictions for all
Entries:
· Your Entry/Entries must
be in English;
· Your Entry/Entries must
meet the applicable Social Platform’s format and size requirements;
· Your Entry/Entries must
be your original work, created only by you;
· Your Entry/Entries
need not
include any reference, positive or negative, to Sponsor’s products, aside from
the required hashtags. Including such a reference in your Entry/Entries will
not improve your chances of winning;
· Your Entry/Entries must
not convey any claims of Sponsor’s products or services that would be deemed
unsubstantiated or deceptive if made by Sponsor;
·
All
minors included in your Entry/Entries must be your own
child/children/legal ward(s). You must have permission to include the names, likenesses or any
references to any other individuals in your Entry/Entries and to grant the
rights set forth in Section 2, below. If requested, entrant must be able to
provide such permissions in a form acceptable to Sponsor;
· Your Entry/Entries must
not mention and/or prominently display material that violates or infringes
another’s rights, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or
intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement.
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Therefore your Entry/Entries must not contain
content created by a third party, such as logos (including, but not limited to,
the logos of sports teams or brands), branded products (other than Sponsor’s
products, which are not required), music, images or artwork;
· Your Entry/Entries must
not disparage Sponsor or its products or services or any other product, person
or party;
· Your Entry/Entries must
not promote or reference alcohol, marijuana, illegal drugs, tobacco,
firearms/weapons, any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any
particular political agenda or message;
· Your Entry/Entries must
not contain material that is inappropriate, offensive, indecent, obscene,
sexually explicit or suggestive, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous
in the opinion of the Administrator (as defined in Section 3, below);
· Your Entry/Entries must
not contain material that promotes bigotry, racism, violence, hatred or harm
against any group or individual or is derogatory or promotes discrimination of
any ethnicity, race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation,
profession or age;
· Your Entry/Entries must
not contain any personal identification, such as license plate numbers,
personal names of individuals other than entrant, e-mail addresses or street
addresses; and
· Your Entry/Entries must
not contain material that is unlawful, in violation of, or contrary to the laws
or regulations in any jurisdiction where your Entry/Entries is/are created.
Should your Facebook Comment or Instagram Post
meet all of the above requirements, you will receive
one (1) Entry into the Sweepstakes. Facebook Comments and Instagram Posts will
not be judged. Facebook Comments and Instagram Posts that violate any of the
above Entry Requirements or Guidelines and Content Restrictions
will be disqualified. POSTED ENTRIES
REPRESENT SOLELY THE VIEWS/OPINIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ENTRANTS AND DO NOT
REFLECT THE VIEWS/OPINIONS OF any of the Promotion Parties (AS DEFINED IN
SECTION 3, BELOW) IN ANY MANNER.
Entry Limit: You may enter one (1)
time on Facebook and one (1) time on Instagram during the Sweepstakes Period. Use of any robotic,
automatic, programmed or similar entry method will void your Entry/Entries and
result in disqualification. Any attempt by any individual to exceed the
above-indicated entry limit by using multiple/different e-mail or IP addresses,
Social Accounts, identities, or any other methods will void all
of that individual's Entries and that individual will be disqualified.
All Entries must be received during the Sweepstakes Period to be eligible for
inclusion in the prize drawing described in Section 4, below. In the event of a
dispute as to the identity of an entrant, Sponsor and Administrator will rely
on entrant’s social handle and other information included in their Social
Account profile. If additional information provided by entrant to claim the
prize is inconsistent with the Social Account used to enter, Sponsor and/or
Administrator may disqualify such entrant and such disqualification may result
in the forfeiture of any prizes won. Sponsor, in its discretion, may request
additional documentation from entrant to confirm entrant’s identity.
2. SPONSOR’S USE OF ENTRIES: Posting an
Entry/Entries constitutes entrant’s (and their parent’s
or legal guardian’s, if entrant is a Minor) consent to give Sponsor a
royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce,
modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display the Entry/Entries,
in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it/them into
other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed,
including for promotional or marketing purposes without limitation and without
further notice or approval. If requested, entrant (and their parent or legal
guardian, if entrant is a Minor) will sign any documentation that may be
reasonably required for Sponsor to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant
is granting in and to the Entry/Entries. Each entrant (and their parent or
legal guardian, if entrant is a Minor) agrees that the products of such use, if
any, shall become the property of Sponsor and/or Sponsor’s licensees, and shall
be freely assignable by Sponsor and its licensees. Entrant (and their parent or
legal guardian, if entrant is a Minor) hereby agrees that they will not be paid
or compensated for any such use of their Entry/Entries by Sponsor or its
licensees, and further waives any “Moral Right of Authors” (Droit Moral) in the Entry/Entries.
3. ELIGIBILITY: The Sweepstakes is open
to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia (“D.C.”), and
Puerto Rico (“PR”), who are eighteen (18) years of age or older at time of
entry. The respective employees, officers and directors of the Sponsor, Merkle Inc. (“Administrator”), The David Agency,
Kaboom!, Daniel J. Edelman Holdings, Inc., Hogarth Worldwide Inc., Vayner
Media, Goodness, Inc., HMT Associates, Inc., Dentsu, Inc. and the respective parent companies,
affiliates, subsidiaries and agencies of each of the foregoing
(collectively the “Promotion Parties”), and members of their
immediate families (defined as including spouse, biological, adoptive and
step-parents, grandparents, siblings, children and grandchildren, and each of
their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) or households
(whether related or not) of any of the above are not eligible to participate in
the Sweepstakes. Void outside the 50 United States, D.C. and PR and where
prohibited.
4. SWEEPSTAKES DRAWING: Administrator
is an independent organization whose decisions are final and binding in all
matters related to the Sweepstakes, including but not limited to those related
to the selection of the potential winners. Administrator will select two
hundred and thirteen (213) potential prize winners in a random drawing from all
Entries received during the Sweepstakes Period via Facebook and Instagram,
combined, on or around October 4, 2024. Each potential
winner will be notified by Sponsor via direct message on the Social Platform
they used to enter after the date of the drawing and will be directed to a
secure website where potential winners will be required to provide their name,
date of birth, valid email address and mailing address within three (3) days of
the date notice or attempted notice is sent in order to claim the prize. If
a potential winner cannot be contacted, or a prize or prize notification is returned
as undeliverable, or if a potential
winner fails to provide the requested information within the required time
period, or if a potential winner
is deemed ineligible to receive a prize for any reason, the applicable prize will be forfeited and may be awarded to an alternate winner in a
random drawing from among all remaining eligible Entries. If necessary, this
process will be repeated up to three (3) times, after which the applicable
prize will not be awarded if it remains unclaimed. Each prize will be awarded
provided it is claimed properly in accordance with these Official Rules.
Receiving a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules.
5. PRIZES, APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUE (“ARV”) AND
ODDS: Two
hundred and thirteen (213) prizes will be awarded, as follows:
THREE (3) GRAND PRIZES: One (1) REI
Co-Op gift card. Terms and conditions apply. ARV: $500.00
each.
TEN (10) FIRST PRIZES: Zbar snack bars for a year
(one (1) bar per day for 365 days), delivered in four (4) total shipments, one
(1) shipment to be made every three (3) months until fulfilled. Bar flavors to
be selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion. ARV: $390.00 each.
TWO HUNDRED (200) SECOND PRIZES: Five (5) 6-count boxes
of assorted Zbar snack bars, as selected by Sponsor
in its sole discretion. ARV: $28.00 each.
Odds of winning a prize will depend on the
number of eligible Entries received during the Sweepstakes Period via Facebook
and Instagram combined.
Prizes are
non-transferable and no substitution or cash redemption in whole or in part
will be made except as provided herein or at the Sponsor’s sole discretion.
Sponsor may substitute a prize (or portion thereof) for one of equal or greater
value if an advertised prize (or portion thereof) becomes unavailable. Grand
Prizes, Second Prizes and the first shipment of First Prizes will be shipped to
winners’ home mailing addresses within approximately 8-10 weeks following the
conclusion of the Promotion and verification of all winners. Winners
acknowledge that all prizes are awarded “as is” and that Released Parties (as
defined in Section 6, below) have not made, and are not in any manner
responsible or liable for, any representation, guarantee or warranty, express
or implied, in law or in fact, relative to the prize or any portion thereof,
including, but not limited to its quality, mechanical condition or fitness for
a particular purpose. Total ARV of all prizes is $11,000.00. Limit: One
(1) prize household.
6. RELEASE: By entering the Sweepstakes, entrants (and
their parents/legal guardians if entrants are Minors) accept and agree to these
Official Rules and the decisions of the Administrator. By entering the
Sweepstakes, entrants, (and their parents/legal guardians if entrants are
Minors) further agree to release and hold Promotion Parties, Meta Platforms,
Inc., their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, promotion agencies
and agents, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees and assigns
(the “Released Parties”), harmless from and against any and all claims, cause
of action and liability arising out of participation in the Sweepstakes, including,
but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property,
third party claims involving the right to privacy, right of publicity, or
intellectual property infringement, or receipt, redemption, use or misuse of
any prize
(as applicable). Acceptance of a prize constitutes winner’s (and their parent’s or legal guardian’s, if winner is a Minor)
permission to the Promotion Parties to use winner’s name, Social Account
handle, Entry, likeness (and biographical information) and photograph
(including, without limitation, winner's Social Account profile photo) for
marketing purposes in all media worldwide without limitation or further
compensation, notice or right of approval, unless prohibited by law.
7. GENERAL RULES: Sponsor reserves the
right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Sweepstakes, if any fraud, technical
failures, human error, or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper
functioning of the Sweepstakes, or any event or cause beyond Sponsor’s control
(e.g. events such as natural calamities, national emergencies, wide spread
illnesses, declarations of war, acts of God, acts of terrorism) interferes with
any aspect of the Sweepstakes, including but not limited to fulfillment of the
prize(s), as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. In such event,
Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among
all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance. Sponsor
reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it
finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the
Sweepstakes, including but, not limited to submitting fraudulent entries, or to
be acting in violation of the Official Rules of this or any other promotion
offered by Sponsor or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt
by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the
Sweepstakes may be a violation of criminal and civil law, 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. Sponsor’s failure to
enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that
provision. In no event will more prizes than are stated in these Official Rules
be awarded. If, for any reason, more prize notifications are sent (or more
claims are received) than the number of prizes offered, as set forth in these
Official Rules, Sponsor reserves the right to award the intended number of prizes
through a random drawing from among all eligible prize notifications /claims
received. In the event there is a discrepancy or inconsistency between
disclosures or other statements contained in any Sweepstakes-related materials
or notifications and these Official Rules, these Official Rules shall prevail,
govern and control.
8. Limitations
of Liability:
The Released Parties are not responsible for: (a) any incorrect or inaccurate
information either caused by printing errors
or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the
Sweepstakes or provided by entrants; (b) technical failures of any kind,
including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections to
the internet, in phone lines, social media platforms, or network hardware or
software; (c) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the Sweepstakes,
including but not limited to the entry process; (d) technical or human error
which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes, including but not
limited to the processing of entries; (e) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or
stolen mail; or (f) lost, late, unreceived, damaged, incomplete, invalid,
un-intelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected Entries or failure to receive
Entries due to limitation of third-party social network platforms. If for any
reason an entrant's entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost,
or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in
the Sweepstakes, if it is possible.
9. WAIVER AND DISPUTES: Except where prohibited, each entrant (and
their parent/legal guardian if the entrant is a Minor) agrees that: (a) any and
all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this
Sweepstakes or any prize shall
be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and
exclusively by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
Michigan or the appropriate Michigan State Court located in Oakland County,
Michigan; (b) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to
actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering
this Sweepstakes, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (c) to the extent
allowed by applicable law, under no circumstances will entrant be
permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant (AND THEIR PARENT/LEGAL GUARDIAN IF
ENTRANT IS A MINOR) hereby waives all rights to claim, indirect, punitive,
incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for
actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages
multiplied or otherwise increased. SOME JURISDICTIONS
DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS
OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE
MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation
and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of
the entrant (and their parent/legal guardian if the entrant is a Minor) and Sponsor in connection with the
Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws
of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict
of law rules (whether of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction),
which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than
the State of Michigan. Furthermore, entrant (AND THEIR PARENT/LEGAL GUARDIAN IF ENTRANT IS A MINOR)
and each of the Promotion Parties hereby waive, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, any right THEY may have to a trial by jury in
respect of any claim or dispute arising from or relating to the Sweepstakes or
these Official Rules.
The invalidity or unenforceability of any
provision of these Official Rules shall not affect the validity or
enforceability of any other provision. In the event that
any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or
illegal, these Official Rules shall otherwise remain in effect and shall be
construed as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein.
10. Entrant's Personal
Information: Information collected
from entrants is subject to Sponsor’s Privacy Policy.
11. WINNERS list: For a list of winners, please click HERE. The winners list will be posted after winner
confirmation is complete.
12.
SPONSOR:
Mondelēz
Global LLC, 100 Deforest Avenue, East Hanover, NJ 07936.
13. SWEEPSTAKES ADMINISTRATOR: Merkle
Inc., 3000 Town Center, Suite 2100, Southfield, MI 48075.
All trademarks
used herein are the property of their respective owners.
Any questions,
comments or complaints regarding this Sweepstakes must be directed to the
Sponsor or Administrator only, and NOT to Meta Platforms, Inc.