Official Goodwill Northern Michigan Contest Rules
Goodwill Northern Michigan Official Contest Rules
1. How to Enter: No purchase necessary. Select the contest link; submit all required entry information and opt-in to receive future e-mails. All entries must be received between the opening date and the closing date of the contest to be eligible for the final drawing–refer to contest information. To qualify for the drawing entrants must provide valid and correct information. Entries must be legible. Entries must include a valid name and email address. Normal Internet access and usage charges imposed by your online service will apply. Use of computer programs and other automatic means to enter is prohibited.
2. Goodwill Northern Michigan is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information or failure, whether caused by website users, tampering, or by any of the programming or equipment associated with or used in this promotion and assumes no responsibility for any errors, omission, deletion, defect, interruption or delay in operation or transmission or communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized website access to, or alteration of, entries.
3. Winner Selection: Winner will be selected on or shortly after contest closing date. Winner will receive an email notification from Goodwill Northern Michigan staff. Winner must confirm acceptance of prize within three days of Goodwill Northern Michigan sending email notification. Winner will need to communicate with Goodwill Northern Michigan staff to arrange prize pick-up. Return of e-mail prize notification as undeliverable or failure of contestant to respond to notification may result in disqualification and alternate selection drawn.
4. Odds of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received. Prizes are nontransferable and no substitutions are allowed, except by Goodwill Northern Michigan who reserves the right to award a prize of equal or greater value if advertised prize is unavailable. Goodwill Northern Michigan assumes no responsibility or liability for damages, losses or injury resulting from acceptance or use of any prize. Winners are required to respond to the email notification within 72 hours and receive confirmation of their response. If winner is unreachable after 72 hours, or if winner is unavailable for prize fulfillment, an alternate winner will be selected at random from all remaining eligible entries received.
5. Eligibility: Promotion open to legal residents of the Continental United States, 21 years of age or older on or before the opening date of the contest–refer to contest information for opening date. Employees of the Goodwill Northern Michigan, parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotional agencies, website providers/webmasters and immediate family members (and those living in their same households) of each employee are not eligible.
6. This offer is void wherever prohibited or restricted by national, state, municipal, provincial or any other government laws. This offer is subject to all federal, state, local, municipal, provincial and local laws. By entering this promotion, each entrant accepts and agrees to be bound by these official rules and acknowledges that they have read the eligibility requirements and that he/she meets those requirements.
7. Prize Terms and Conditions: Prize packages are described on Entry Form pages. Prizes are subject to availability and restrictions. Winners are responsible for transportation. All taxes, gratuities and incidental expenses are the sole responsibility of winner. These prizes cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion or offer. Prizes cannot be redeemed for cash, transferred, assigned or substituted.
8. Winners grant permission to Goodwill Northern Michigan, media sponsor, and those acting under its authority, to use his/her name, likeness, voice and/or hometown, for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law. General practice of Goodwill Northern Michigan is to use a winner’s first name, initial of last name and town where they live in materials announcing giveaway winners. For example, Mary S., Cheboygan. Winners waive the right to review, inspect or approve the finished product wherein Winner’s name, likeness, voice and/or hometown appear.
9. Entrants agree to release and hold harmless Goodwill Northern Michigan, Sponsor, Affiliates, parent companies, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, suppliers of prizes, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents from any and all liability or injuries, losses or damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property, resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from this Promotion, any prize won or in any Promotion-related activity. All sweepstakes entrants will agree to release claims against the sponsor and other providers for this contest.
10. Any taxes related to the prize are the responsibility of the winners. If prize package value exceeds $600, Goodwill Northern Michigan will report this prize to the IRS for appropriate taxes.
11. Goodwill Northern Michigan, sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions, telephone failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, or failed, incorrect, inaccurate, incomplete, garbled or delayed electronic communications whether caused by the sender or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Promotion which may limit the ability to participate or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the entries in this promotion.
12. In its sole determination, Goodwill Northern Michigan or Sponsor may disqualify any person who tampers with or abuses any aspect of the Promotion or website, or who acts in violation of the Official Rules, or acts in any manner to threaten or abuse or harass any person. Should any portion of the Promotion, in Goodwill Northern Michigan‚ or the Sponsor’s sole opinion, be compromised by virus, software defects, non-authorized human intervention or other causes thus corrupting or impairing administration, security, fairness or proper play of this Promotion, or submission of entries, Goodwill Northern Michigan may suspend, modify, or terminate the Promotion and randomly select winners from valid Internet entries received prior to such action.
13. Disputes: In the event of any dispute, all parties agree that the judgment and determination of Goodwill Northern Michigan will be final and binding in the awarding of the prize. In event of a dispute regarding entries received from multiple users having the same e-mail account, the winner will be the authorized account holder of the e-mail account used to enter the Promotion. The potential winner may be requested to provide the Sponsor with proof that the potential winner is the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the winning entry. All entries become the property of the Goodwill Northern Michigan and its Affiliate Destinations and will not be returned to entrant.
14. As a benefit of entering a Goodwill Northern Michigan contest or downloading a free article, all participants will be subscribed, free, to Goodwill Northern Michigan’s email newsletter, The Good Life. The Good Life is an email newsletter that comes out monthly, offering discounts, tips, stories, sale notices, new products, and opportunities to volunteer. You can unsubscribe at any time.
15. We do not sell, rent or otherwise disclose personal information collected by our site to third parties in the ordinary course of business. However, certain third party agents (ISP et al.) and other third parties performing services for the site sponsor (email delivery software providers, technical auditors, developers, order fulfillment operations) may have access to the personally identifiable information in order to do their jobs. If you would like your personal identifiable information removed, email marketing@goodwillnmi.org with the subject Remove Me and Goodwill Northern Michigan will remove your personally identifiable information. If you have unsubscribed from Goodwill Northern Michigan email marketing, your email is maintained by the software managing that process and preventing you from receiving emails from Goodwill Northern Michigan, as decried by the CAN-SPAM Act.
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