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Bars, Cakes & Love Letters - Giveaway Official Rules (Aug. 2023)
Bars, Cakes & Love Letters - Giveaway Official Rules (Aug. 2023)
By participating in the Giveaway, you agree to be bound by these Official Rules and
the decisions of the sponsors of the Giveaway, Amazon Prime and Boston Globe
Media Partners LLC (“BGMP”) (together, “Sponsors”), which are binding and final on
matters relating to this Giveaway. The Giveaway is subject to all applicable federal,
state and local laws. This Giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by,
or associated with Instagram. Entrants are providing information to Sponsors and
not to Instagram. These Official Rules and the Giveaway are subject to modification
by Sponsor at any time in its sole discretion.
2. TO ENTER. To enter, follow these steps: (a) register for a Discord account
and join the Love Letters channel via the discord.gg/tKRX5Mg8 link before 12:00PM
Eastern on August 31, 2023; (b) you will receive a link to access the film screening
event (the “Event”) via email from Ticketbox (an Amazon Prime affiliate) on the
afternoon of August 31, 2023; (c) click on the Event access link by 7:30PM Eastern
Time on August 31, 2023; (d) the first fifty (50) entrants to access the Event via
that link will be granted entry (note: Event attendance is limited to a maximum
capacity of fifty (50) attendees). Sponsors are not responsible and shall not be
liable for late, incomplete, undelivered, or lost entries, or for any network or service
failures or malfunctions related to the Giveaway and/or the Event. Entries that are
garbled in transmission, incomplete, not received or lost shall not be taken into
consideration. Entries become the sole property of Sponsor. Entrants using
multiple email addresses may be disqualified. The authorized account holder of the
email account used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant. Entries become the
sole property of Sponsor.
4. PRIZE. Fifty (50) winners will receive free access to a virtual advance
screening of the upcoming Amazon Prime film, Sitting in Bars with Cake, on August
31, 2023 at 7:30PM Eastern, including a cake recipe and an opportunity to engage
live with other winners via the Love Letters Discord channel (the “Prize”).
Prize is awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied,
and is subject to expiration dates. Details of the Prize may change, based on
availability. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute the Prize or portions thereof if
Prize cannot be awarded as described. Sponsors will determine all elements of the
Prize in their sole discretion. Sponsors disclaim all and any liability for the actual
provision, quality, or nature of any third party product or service related to the
Prize. Sponsors are not liable for injuries, losses, or damages of any kind arising
from participation in this Giveaway and use of the Prize. Winner must comply with
any third party terms and conditions applicable to the redemption and use of the
Prize.
Winner may not substitute, assign, or transfer the Prize or redeem the Prize for
cash. Winner is responsible for all applicable federal, state, and local taxes, as well
as any other costs and expenses associated with the Prize. Winner forfeits any
unused portions of the Prize. The awarding of any Prize is contingent on full
compliance with these Official Rules. If a winner is found to have violated the
Official Rules or otherwise does not meet eligibility criteria, that winner will forfeit
the Prize and the Prize may be awarded to an alternate winner.
7. Privacy and Publicity. You agree that Sponsors may add your email
address and those of other entrants to their newsletter mailing list(s). You may
opt-out by following instructions in the newsletter mailing list(s).
9. RELEASE. Released Parties (as defined below) are not responsible for lost,
late, incomplete, damaged, inaccurate, stolen, delayed, misdirected, undelivered, or
garbled entries or email for whatever cause or other errors whether human,
mechanical, electronic, computer, network, typographical, printing or otherwise
relating to or in connection with the Giveaway. Released Parties are also not
responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website
users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or
utilized in the Giveaway. Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage
to participants' or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from
participating in this Giveaway or downloading materials from or use of the website.
Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the Giveaway or website, who are
in violation of these Official Rules, as solely determined by Sponsors, will be
disqualified and all associated entries will be void. Each Sponsor reserves the right
at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the Giveaway at any time and
for any reason, including, but not limited to, if any portion of the Giveaway is, in
Sponsor’s sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human
intervention or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or
impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play, or submission of entries,
and, if terminated, Sponsor may select the potential winner in a random drawing
from among all non-suspect, eligible entries received for such drawing prior to
action taken or as otherwise deemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor.
By participating, you agree that Sponsors, suppliers of the Prize, Instagram, and
their respective parent entities, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and
promotion agencies and all of their respective officers, directors, employees,
representatives and agents (collectively, “Released Parties”) will have no liability
whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by you against, any liability, for any
injuries, losses or damages of any kind, including death, to persons, or property
resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession,
misuse or use of the prize or participation in this Giveaway. In the event of a
dispute regarding entries received from multiple users having the same email or
social media account, the authorized subscriber of the email or social media account
at the time of entry will be deemed to be the entrant and must comply with these
Official Rules. Authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is assigned
the email address or account by the internet service provider (ISP), online service
provider, social media platform, or other organization responsible for such
assignment. Released Parties are not responsible for any unauthorized use of
Entries by third parties.
Any and all claims, judgments and awards will be limited to actual out-of-pocket
costs incurred, including costs associated with participating in this Giveaway but in
no event attorneys' fees and under no circumstances will any entrant be permitted
to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to claim, 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.
Sponsor will interpret these Official Rules and resolve any disputes, conflicting
claims or ambiguities concerning the Official Rules, and Sponsor’s decisions shall be
final. If any provision of these Official Rules is found to be invalid by any court
having competent jurisdiction the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining provisions of these rules, which shall remain in full force
and effect. Sponsor reserves the right to modify or terminate the drawing to make
such other decisions regarding the administration or outcome as Sponsor deems
appropriate. All decisions by Sponsor are final.