Official Rules for the Lower Green Kayak Trip 4-Pack Sweepstakes
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MAKING A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW.
PROMOTION DESCRIPTION: The Lower Green Kayak Trip 4-Pack Sweepstakes (‘Sweepstakes') begins on 2023-07-17T20:53:53+00:00 and ends on 2023-07-31T12:00:00+00:00 (the ‘Promotion Period').
The sponsor of this Sweepstakes is Carolina Traveler (‘Sponsor'). By participating in the Sweepstakes, each Entrant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor, which shall be final and binding in all respects. Sponsor is responsible for the collection, submission or processing of Entries and the overall administration of the Sweepstakes. Entrants should look solely to Sponsor with any questions, comments or problems related to the Sweepstakes. Sponsor may be reached by email at [email protected] during the Promotion Period.
ELIGIBILITY: Open to legal residents of undefined who are 18 (the ‘Entrant'). Sponsor, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, retailers, sales representatives, advertising and promotion agencies and each of their respective officers, directors and employees (the ‘Promotion Entities'), are ineligible to enter the Sweepstakes or win a prize. Household Members and Immediate Family Members of such individuals are also not eligible to enter or win. ‘Household Members' shall mean those people who share the same residence at least three months a year. ‘Immediate Family Members' shall mean parents, step-parents, legal guardians, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses. This Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited or restricted by law.
HOW TO ENTER: Enter the Sweepstakes during the Promotion Period online by posting a photo in the ‘Carolina Traveler' Facebook Group (https://facebook.com/groups/carolinatravelr) of an adventure you took in North Carolina or South Carolina. Automated or robotic Entries submitted by individuals or organizations will be disqualified. Internet entry must be made by the Entrant. Any attempt by Entrant to obtain more than the stated number of Entries by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations, logins or any other methods, including, but not limited to, commercial contest/sweepstakes subscription notification and/or entering services, will void Entrant's Entries and that Entrant may be disqualified. You may enter the contest without posting a photo a photo in the ‘Carolina Traveler' Facebook Group by mailing your name, mailing address, phone number and email address to KAYAK TRIP, CAROLINA TRAVELER, PO BOX 1175, CORNEILUS, NC 20831. Mailed entries must be received by the contest deadline. Final eligibility for the award of any prize is subject to eligibility verification as set forth below. All Entries must be posted by the end of the Promotion Period in order to participate. Sponsor's database clock will be the official timekeeper for this Sweepstakes.
WINNER SELECTION: The Winner(s) of the Sweepstakes will be selected in a random drawing from among all eligible Entries received throughout the Promotion Period. The random drawing will be conducted within about 7 days after the Promotion Period by Sponsor or its designated representatives, whose decisions are final. Odds of winning will vary depending on the number of eligible Entries received.
WINNER NOTIFICATION: Winner will be notified by Messenger (Facebook private messaging) at the Facebook Messenger address provided in the Entry approximately within 3 days after the random drawing. Potential Winner must accept a prize by email as directed by Sponsor within 3 days of notification. Sponsor is not responsible for any delay or failure to receive notification for any reason, including inactive account(s), technical difficulties associated therewith, or Winner’s failure to adequately monitor any email account.
Any winner notification not responded to or returned as undeliverable may result in prize forfeiture. The potential prize winner may be required to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and release of liability, and a Publicity Release (collectively ‘the Prize Claim Documents'). No substitution or transfer of a prize is permitted except by Sponsor.
PRIVACY: Any personal information supplied by you will be subject to the privacy policy of the Sponsor posted on the Sponsor's website. By entering the Sweepstakes, you grant Sponsor permission to share your email address and any other personally identifiable information.
ELIGIBILITY: By submitting an entry to the Sweepstakes, entrants certify that their participation in this Sweepstakes is not illegal or in violation of any law, regulation, treaty or administrative act, and that the laws of their governing jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry do not prohibit or restrict the receipt of any Prize under this Sweepstakes.
The following submissions are ineligible:
- Photos that violate or infringe upon another person’s rights, including but not limited to copyright and photographs of persons without the necessary consent required by law in your jurisdiction. Carolina Traveler reserves the right to require entrants to submit evidence of the subject’s legal consent to be photographed for the submitted photograph, which may include a signed waiver from the subject or the subject’s legal guardian or representative. NOTE: Waiver requirements vary by jurisdiction, and the entrant is responsible for obtaining a legally enforceable waiver from any photographed subject.
- Photos that contain sexually explicit, nude, obscene, violent or other objectionable or inappropriate content.
- Images that involve the willful harassment of wildlife.
- Images taken that cause or caused damage to the environment by the photographer; this includes taking photos from areas where human presence is restricted by authorities or relevant property managers.
- Images that involve putting any individual or animal in danger.
IMAGE RIGHTS: If you submit a photograph to the Sweepstakes, you grant Carolina Traveler and its related entities such as affiliates and subsidiaries a royalty-free, non-exclusive right in perpetuity to:
- Display the photograph on Carolina Traveler and affiliate websites.
- Allowing third parties, including but not limited to Carolina Traveler media partners and individuals, to share the photograph on social media.
- Use the photograph on the Internet and in social media.
- Use of the photograph in Carolina Traveler’s and related entities’ internal and external communications materials including but not limited to web sites and publications.
- Providing your photograph to other individuals and organizations for Conservancy and related entities’ related use in news stories, social media, newsletters, reports, slide shows, displays, web pages, videos, membership premiums, and the like.
- Use of, in connection with the Sweepstakes, your name, city, state and country of residence in promotions and other publications.
- Retaining a digital copy of your photograph that will be archived.
LIMITATION of LIABILITY: By entering, You agree to release and hold harmless Carolina Traveler and its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, partners, representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors from any liability, illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim, or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (i) such entrant’s participation in the Sweepstakes and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, or software, or other mechanical equipment; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or Internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (v) electronic or human error in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries.
DISPUTES: This Sweepstakes IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF United States, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in this Sweepstakes, participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees. Participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
WINNER LIST: To obtain a copy of the Winner List, send your request along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Carolina Traveler at PO Box 1175, Cornelius, NC 28031. Requests for the names of the winners must be received no later than 30 days after the Promotion Period has ended.
SPONSOR: Carolina Traveler, PO Box 1175, Cornelius, NC 28031, [email protected]