The Valpak Celebrate the Heroes Sweepstakes

OFFICIAL SWEEPSTAKES RULES 

1.         SPONSOR: The Valpak Celebrate the Heroes Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by Valpak Direct Marketing Systems, Inc., 805 Executive Center Dr. W., St. Petersburg, FL 33702 (“Valpak” or “Sponsor”).

2.         ELIGIBILITY: Subject to the additional limitations set forth below, the Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are eighteen (18) years of age or older, or the age of majority in their state of residence, whichever is older at time of entry. Sweepstakes is not open to employees of Sponsor, Susan G. Komen, SLSH Enterprises, Inc., KitchenAid (the “Prizing Partner”) or any of their parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, franchisees and advertising or promotional agencies, or to the immediate family members of, or to any persons domiciled with, any such employees. For purposes of the Sweepstakes, “immediate family members” are defined as spouses, children, siblings, parents, grandparents and grandchildren.

3.         HOW TO ENTER: The Sweepstakes will begin at 12:01:00 a.m. (EDT) on September 25, 2018 and end at 11:59:59 p.m. (EDT) on November 2, 2018 (the “Sweepstakes Period”). To enter, visit valpak.com/komen (the “Sweepstakes Website”) click on the Sweepstakes banner, complete the submission form and tell us how you or someone you know has proven they are More Than Pink in the fight against breast cancer (“Essay”) (collectively, the “Entry”).  Essay requirements are below. You must also confirm that you meet the eligibility requirements and have read and agree to these Sweepstakes rules. By submitting your online Entry in the Sweepstakes, you agree to be bound by Sponsor’s Visitor Agreement and Privacy Policy, which are hereby incorporated by reference and are posted on www.valpak.com. Only one (1) Entry per person during the Sweepstakes Period. All entries become the property of Sponsor and none will be returned. In the event of a dispute in connection with the identity of the individual who submitted an Entry, the Entry will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized account holder of the email account identified on the online Entry form, provided that such person satisfies all other Sweepstakes eligibility requirements. The authorized account holder is deemed to be the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, service provider, or other online organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Multiple entries submitted by the same person will be disqualified. Any questions regarding the number of entries submitted or the identity of the individual who submitted an online Entry shall be determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion whose decisions shall be final and binding, and Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entries by persons who submit false or misleading Entry information or who Sponsor determines to be tampering with or abusing any aspect of the Sweepstakes. Sponsor may communicate with you using electronic means in relation to your participation in the Sweepstakes. 

By submitting an Entry, you grant Sponsor a worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable, and transferable right and license to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, publish and display your Entry on Sponsor’s websites, and Sponsor’s (and its successors’) business in any media format, and through any media channel. The foregoing license will be perpetual and non-exclusive. The right and license granted to Sponsor includes the right of Sponsor (but not the obligation of Sponsor) to (1) post the Entry on Sponsor’s websites; (2) use the Entry to promote Sponsor’s marketing campaigns or initiatives; (3) edit, modify, format, or adapt the Entry for Sponsor’s purposes and use such revised version to the same extent as the original Entry; and (4) use the Entry for advertising and promotional uses.

Essay Requirements: 
Your original Essay should be a minimum of 200 words and celebrate a hero who is More Than Pink in the battle against breast cancer by detailing how they’ve taken action, donated or become involved. (i.e. hosted a fundraiser, made a donation, taken care of someone who was diagnosed, or participated in a Race for the Cure event).

Your Essay must be truthful and accurate, and reflect your honest opinions, beliefs, and/or personal experiences.  Do not provide any personal information about any other individual without his/her prior express consent to do so. By submitting your Essay, you agree that you have complied with these requirements.  Entrants may be required to submit evidence of such express consent from the third party.

Your Entry information including your Essay may be posted on the Sweepstakes website.

Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to determine eligibility of each entrant and reserves the right to disqualify an Entry at any time for any reason. All decisions by Sponsor are final, binding and conclusive.

Content Guidelines and Prohibited Content 
All Entry content must be appropriate for all ages. You represent and warrant that you will not submit any content that contains (a) content not in English; (b) information that violates any obligation of confidentiality; (c) any viruses, spyware, malware, or other malicious components that are designed to harm the functionality of a computer in any way; (d) inappropriate content, for example but not limited to, profanity, defamatory statements, words or symbols widely considered offensive to individuals of any certain race, ethnicity, religious, sexual orientation or socioeconomic groups, threats to any person, place, business, or group (e) content that infringes on the intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyright, trademark or the right of publicity, of a third party. Sponsor, in its sole and absolute discretion, will determine if an Entry violates the guidelines in these Official Sweepstakes Rules or any applicable law.

4.         PRIZES AND ODDS: The award of a prize is subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules. Twenty-five (25) Grand Prize Winners will receive the following KitchenAid appliances: 2-speed hand (immersion) blender, stand mixer, 5-speed hand mixer, and a blender (“Grand Prize”). Total ARV of each Grand Prize package is $809.96. ARV of all prizes is $20,249.00. The prizes are non-assignable and nontransferable. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or lesser value.  The Grand Prize Winners are solely responsible for payment of all federal, state and local taxes on the prize value awarded and for all costs and expenses not specified herein, related to any merchandise prize, including but not limited to delivery, installation, service activation fees, and other expenses incurred by accepting the merchandise prize is the sole responsibility of the Grand Prize Winner. Participants selected as the Grand Prize Provisional Winners (as defined in Section 5) will be required to provide his/her valid Social Security Number to Sponsor for tax purposes and/or complete an IRS W-9 form in order to claim the prize. As a condition of receiving a prize, the Grand Prize Provisional Winners will be required to complete, sign and have notarized an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release or similar documents as outlined by Sponsor and except where prohibited by law, a publicity release, which must be returned via mail or hand delivery within ten (10) business days of date of sender’s notification postmark. Failure of a Grand Prize Provisional Winner to timely sign and return any required documents or the return of any prize or prize notification as undeliverable, or failure of a Grand Prize Provisional Winner to claim the prize or to comply with any term or condition of these Official Rules, may result in disqualification, the forfeiture of his or her interest in the prize, and the award of the prize to a substitute Grand Prize Provisional Winner.

Odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entrants.

 5.         GRAND PRIZE WINNER NOTIFICATION: Sponsor’s fulfillment center will conduct a random drawing from among all eligible Grand Prize drawing entries received. The drawing will be conducted during regular business hours on or about November 5, 2018 to select twenty-five (25) Grand Prize Provisional Winners. The Sponsor’s fulfillment center will attempt to contact the selected Grand Prize Provisional Winners in person by telephone during regular business hours (9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (EST)) on or about November 5, 2018 using the telephone number provided on the selected Grand Prize Provisional Winner’s Entry form and if an email is provided, Sponsor will email the Grand Prize Provisional Winner. If Sponsor’s fulfillment center is (a) unable to reach a Grand Prize Provisional Winner in person by telephone (Sponsor’s fulfillment center will attempt to reach Grand Prize Provisional Winner up to three (3) times during a twenty-four hour period and no messages will be left) or (b) if a Grand Prize Winner does not respond to the emailed notification according to the directions in the emailed notification within twenty-four hours of the time the email was sent by Sponsor’s fulfillment center, then that Grand Prize Provisional Winner will be disqualified and a substitute Grand Prize Provisional Winner will be selected. The first twenty-five eligible Grand Prize Provisional Winners that the Sponsor successfully contacts personally by telephone or email and who claim the Grand Prize in accordance with these Official Rules will be declared the Grand Prize Winners. Prizes will be shipped within 7-14 business days.

Unless prohibited by law, acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for the Sponsor and their respective advertising and promotional agencies to use a Grand Prize Winner’s name, address (city and state), and photo, image and/or likeness for any commercial, publicity or promotional purposes without further notice, compensation, review or approval, worldwide and in perpetuity, in any and all forms of media, now known and hereafter devised, including without limitation the Internet.

 A PARTICIPANT, INCLUDING A PROVISIONAL WINNER, IS NOT A WINNER OF A PRIZE UNLESS AND UNTIL SPONSOR HAS COMPLETED ITS VERIFICATION OF PARTICIPANT’S ELIGIBILITY AND COMPLIANCE WITH THESE OFFICIAL RULES.

 6.         PARTICIPATION.  By participating, you agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor and any administrators appointed by Sponsor, which shall be final and binding in all respects. Any person attempting to defraud or in any way tamper with the Sweepstakes will be ineligible for the prize and may be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

 7.         RELEASE. By participating in the Sweepstakes, each participant agrees to fully release, forever discharge and hold harmless Sponsor and its respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and franchisees, and the officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives and successors and assigns of all of the foregoing companies (collectively, the “Sweepstakes Entities”) from and against any claims, costs, liabilities, losses, injuries and damages arising out of the Sweepstakes, including, but not limited to, any claims for personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, loss of enjoyment, or any other harm whatsoever arising out of: (1) participation in the Sweepstakes; (2) the quality, receipt, possession, use, or misuse of any prize; or (3) any travel or activity that is related to the Sweepstakes or any prize.

 8.         DISCLAIMERS OF LIABILITY. By entering, participants acknowledge and agree that the Sweepstakes Entities will not be liable for losses, damages or injuries of any kind resulting from acceptance/possession/use/misuse of and/or inability to use a prize(s), the theft of prizes or mail, travel to and from or participation in any prize-related activity, participation in the Sweepstakes (including as a result of the use of the “Share” functionality), printing, mailing or distribution errors, or any malfunctions of the telephone network, computer internet system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, software, or any combination thereof, or for any entries that are late (including delayed data transmissions), tampered with, garbled, incomplete, misdirected, lost, postage-due, forged, illegible, inaudible, mutilated, mechanically duplicated, mass machine printed, or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules. Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible or liable for any injury or damage to any participant’s or third person’s computer or mobile device and/or their contents, related to or resulting from the Sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves the right to terminate, suspend or modify the Sweepstakes if, in its sole discretion, it determines that for any reason the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as originally planned, or fraud, technical failures, printing, mailing or distribution errors, or any other unanticipated causes or occurrences have compromised the fairness or integrity of the Sweepstakes. In the event the Sweepstakes is terminated prior to the stated end date, Sponsor reserves the right to award the prize in a random drawing from among all eligible entries received as of the date of termination, though in such a context. BY ENTERING, PARTICIPANTS FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT EVERYTHING REGARDING THIS SWEEPSTAKES, INCLUDING THE WEBSITES, APPS, ENTRY PAGES AND THE PRIZE, ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND THAT TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS REGARDING THE PRIZES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR OR GENERAL USE OR PURPOSE. Any and all guarantees and warranties and conditions for merchandise prizes are subject to the manufacturer's and/or service providers terms and conditions, and winners agree to look solely to such manufacturers and/or service providers for any warranty, condition or guarantee claim.  

Except where prohibited, by participating in the Sweepstakes entrants agree that:  All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of participant(s) and Sponsor and its agents shall be governed by and construed exclusively in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, USA without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law of any jurisdiction.  Entrant agrees that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to this Sweepstakes, or awarding of the prizes, shall be filed individually, without resorting to any form of class action and shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in the State of Florida, USA and entrant hereby consents and submits to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action.

 Sponsor will not be responsible for typographical, printing or other inadvertent errors in these Official Rules or in other materials or announcements relating to the Sweepstakes.

9.         SWEEPSTAKES MAIL OPT-OUT REQUEST/WINNERS LIST. To request the names and hometowns of the Winners (available after November 23, 2018) or a copy of these Official Rules, send a self-addressed, stamped business-size envelope to The Valpak Celebrate the Heroes Sweepstakes, P.O. Box 13428, St. Petersburg, Florida 33733, USA, Attn: Promotions Department. Indicate whether you are requesting the names of the Winners, or a copy of these Official Rules, or any combination of the foregoing. Residents of Vermont may omit return postage for rules. If you no longer wish to receive mailings for contests or sweepstakes sponsored by Valpak, write to 805 Executive Center Dr. W., St. Petersburg, FL 33702, USA – Attn: Sweepstakes Removal.