NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.MAKING A
PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING A PRIZE.
This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or
associated with Meta Platforms or Instagram. Meta Platforms and Instagram
are not affiliated with the Sponsor in any way.
1. Overview/Sweepstakes Period: The UScellular® “2023
Summerfest Social” Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”), sponsored by UScellular
(the “Sponsor”), begins on June 15, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. Central Time (“CT”)
and ends on June 29, 2023 at 11:59:59 p.m. CT (the “Sweepstakes Period”).
There will be three (3) separate opportunities to enter the Sweepstakes
during the Sweepstakes Period, as described in Rule 3, below (each, an
“Entry Period”). For each Entry Period, there will be a corresponding
separate, individual random drawing to award the prizes described in Rule 5,
below. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state and local
laws and regulations. Participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes entrant’s
full and unconditional agreement to abide by and be bound by these Official
Rules and Sponsor’s decisions, which shall be final and binding in all
matters related to the Sweepstakes. The Sweepstakes is void outside the
states listed in Rule 2, below and where prohibited by law.
2. Eligibility: The Sweepstakes is open only to legal
residents of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin who: (a) are
at least 18 years of age at time of entry; and (b) are registered users of
Instagram with a personal, publicly viewable account. If you do not have an
Instagram account, you may open one free of charge at
Instagram.com. Your account may not be
a shared or corporate account. Please note: You must keep the Instagram
handle you used to enter through the date on which the prizes are
awarded.
Employees, officers and directors of UScellular,
Summerfest and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, authorized agents,
sales representatives, distributors, advertising and promotional agencies,
and members of the 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 this Sweepstakes. Non-eligibility or
non-compliance with any of these Official Rules will result in
disqualification.
3. How to Enter: On each the following dates and times—
June 15, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. (Noon) CT, June 22, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. (Noon)
CT, and June 26, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. (Noon) CT— the Sponsor will post a
unique post in connection with this Sweepstakes on its Instagram account
@UScellular. Each post will invite eligible individuals to leave a specific
comment on the post
within three (3) days of the original posting (inclusive of the posting
date).
Follow all instructions to leave an appropriate comment (your “Comment” or
“entry”), and you will be entered into the appropriate prize drawing
described in Rule 5, below. Comments for the June 15, 2023 post must be
received by 11:59:59 p.m. CT on June 18, 2023; Comments for the June 22,
2023 post must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. CT on June 25, 2023; and
Comments for the June 26, 2023 post must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. CT on
June 29, 2023. Your Comment must comply with the Comment Requirements and
Restrictions described in Rule 4, below.
Limit one (1) entry per person/Instagram account per Entry Period.
Non-winning entries in an individual drawing will not be included in
subsequent drawings.
If you choose to enter using a mobile device, standard message and data
rates apply in accordance with your personal mobile service plan.
Check details of your plan prior to using a mobile device to enter. A mobile
device is not required to enter the Sweepstakes.
Comments will not be judged. Winners will be selected in random
drawings as described in Rule 5, below. Any attempt by any individual to
exceed the above-indicated entry limit by using multiple/different e-mail or
IP addresses, Instagram accounts, identities, or any other methods will void
that individual's entry(ies) and that individual will be disqualified. In
the event of dispute as to the identity or eligibility of a potential
winner, the winning entry will be declared made by the "Authorized Account
Holder" of the Instagram account used to enter the Sweepstakes provided
he/she is eligible according to these Official Rules. The “authorized
account holder” is the natural person in whose name the Instagram account
was created.
4. Comment Requirements and Restrictions: Each Comment must
conform to the following Requirements/Restrictions:
Comment
cannot: (a) be derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious,
professional or age group; (b) promote alcohol, marijuana, illegal drugs,
tobacco, or any activities that may be unsafe or dangerous; (c) be offensive
(in the opinion of the Sponsor), or endorse any form of hate or hate group;
(d) defame, misrepresent or disparage Sponsor or its products/services, or
other people, products, services or companies; (e) contain trademarks owned
by others (except Sponsor’s trademarks to the limited extent allowed
hereunder*), or advertise or promote any brand or product of any kind
(except Sponsor’s brand), without permission, or contain any personal
identification, (other than that of the entrant as may be required for the
Comment), such as license plate numbers, personal names, email addresses or
street addresses; (f) contain copyrighted materials owned by others without
permission; (g) communicate messages or images inconsistent with the
positive images and/or goodwill to which Sponsor wishes to associate; and
(h) be unsuitable for family audiences and for public display and
dissemination, in the sole opinion of Sponsor.
The above list is not meant to be exhaustive. If a Comment is determined by
Sponsor, in its sole discretion, to be in violation of any of the foregoing
requirements, or unsuitable for inclusion in this Sweepstakes for any
reason, the Comment and related entrant will be disqualified from the
Sweepstakes. *LIMITED LICENSE: THE SPONSOR’S TRADEMARKS MAY BE USED FOR
PURPOSES OF THIS SWEEPSTAKES ONLY. NO OTHER RIGHTS IN OR TO SPONSOR’S
TRADEMARKS ARE GRANTED UNDER THESE OFFICIAL RULES. Note: Use of Sponsor’s
trademarks/brand in Comments is optional.
By submitting a Comment, entrant hereby warrants and represents as follows:
(i) Comment conforms to all Requirements and Restrictions set forth herein;
(j) Comment is entrant’s original creation (modifying, enhancing or altering
a third party’s preexisting work does not qualify as a entrant’s original
creation); (k) Comment was created solely by entrant; (l) Comment has not
been previously published or won any awards; (m) Comment does not infringe
upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other
intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity; and (n)
publication of the Comment, or portions thereof, via various media,
including Web posting, will not infringe on the rights of any third party.
Each entrant hereby releases, indemnifies, and holds Sponsor harmless from
and against any claims contrary to the above warranties and representations.
All incomplete or non-compliant Comments, and the entrants who
submitted them, will be disqualified.
5. Prize Drawings/Prizes/Odds: On or about each of the
following dates — 6/19/2023, 6/26/202, and 6/302023 — Sponsor will conduct a
separate random drawing from among all eligible entries received during the
corresponding Entry Period to select eight (8) potential winners of the
following prize package: Each verified winner will receive two (2) one
(1)-day Summerfest General Admission tickets (for winner and one (1) guest)
on a date to be determined by Sponsor. The Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”)
of each prize is $52. A total of twenty-four (24) prizes will be awarded,
with a total ARV of $1,248. The awarding of each prize is subject to
verification of each winner’s eligibility and compliance with these Official
Rules. The odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entries
received for each individual drawing.
Each winner’s guest must
be eighteen (18) years of age or older, subject to the following limited
exception: A guest may be a minor if s/he is the child or legal ward of the
winner. The prizes consist only of the items described above. All other
expenses related to the acceptance and use of the prize that are not
specified above as being included in the prize will be the responsibility of
each winner. Such expenses include but are not limited to transportation,
parking, lodging, meals, beverages, and souvenirs.
Alcohol beverages will be available at the Summerfest event. If a winner
chooses to consume alcohol beverages, s/he will be solely responsible for
any consequences related thereto.
Any behavior by a winner that the Sponsor deems disruptive or inappropriate,
or that is prohibited by the Summerfest event operators, may result in the
winner being ejected from the event site at the discretion of the Sponsor or
the event operators.
Each winner is encouraged to comply with all state, federal and local
guidelines and/or mandates pertaining to Covid-19 and attendance at mass
public events.
6. Winner Notification/Prize Claim: Each winner will be
notified by Instagram direct message within approximately two (2) days
following the date of the drawing in which s/he was selected and may be
required to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and
Liability/Publicity Release within a specified time period as a condition of
receiving his/her prize. At Sponsor’s discretion, guests may also be
required to sign and return Liability/Publicity Releases as a condition of
accompanying winners.
Failure to comply will result in
disqualification and forfeiture of the prize. If disqualified, the winner’s
prize will be awarded to an alternate winner from among all remaining
entries in the applicable drawing pool (time permitting). If necessary, this
process will be repeated up to three (3) times (time permitting). If the
prize is not claimed by the third attempt to award it, the prize will not be
awarded.
Prizes cannot be transferred, assigned, substituted,
sold, offered at auction, or redeemed for cash except at Sponsor’s sole
discretion or as described herein. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute
a prize of equal or greater value if the advertised prize becomes
unavailable.
All federal, state, and local income taxes on the prizes are the
responsibility of each winner.General Admission tickets will be emailed to each winner within
approximately two (2) days following confirmation of each winner’s
eligibility.
7. Release: Acceptance of a prize constitutes winner’s
consent to Sponsor’s use of his/her name, limited biographical information,
city and state, voice, statements and/or filmed, taped or otherwise recorded
likeness in commerce and in all media worldwide, including but not limited
to social media, for advertising/publicity/trade purposes without additional
compensation, notice or approval except where prohibited by law.
By submitting an entry, you warrant and represent that you have complied
with all of these Official Rules, and agree to release Sponsor, Meta
Platforms, Instagram, Summerfest and each of their respective parent
companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising/promotion agencies and the
directors, officers, employees and agents of each of the foregoing
(collectively the “Released Parties”) from and against any and all claims
and liability for any injuries, including but not limited to personal
injury, Covid-19 transmission, death, loss or damage of any kind arising
from or in connection with participation in the Sweepstakes, the acceptance,
possession, use and or misuse of a prize or participation in prize-related
activities, if applicable (including all travel related thereto), and/or
claims based on right of publicity/right of privacy or defamation.
8. Rights Granted to Sponsor: By submitting a Comment, each
entrant hereby grants to the Sponsor a non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully
paid, universal license to use, copy, sublicense, transmit, distribute,
publicly or privately perform, publish, edit, delete, make derivative works
from or display such Comment, or any portion thereof, in any media
worldwide, including but not limited to the internet, without compensation
or limitation and without any further notice or right of approval. Each
entrant agrees that the results and proceeds of such use shall become the
property of Sponsor and shall be freely assignable by Sponsor. Sponsor is
not obligated to use any of the above-mentioned right. Each entrant releases
and holds Sponsor harmless from and against any and all claims or liability
arising from or in connection with any use of entrant’s Comment. Each
entrant further acknowledges that Sponsor does not waive any rights to use
similar or related ideas previously known to Sponsor, or developed by its
employees, or obtained from sources other than the Comment.
Each
entrant expressly waives all rights to review or approve any use that
Sponsor makes of his/her Comment in accordance with these Official Rules. By
submitting a Comment, each entrant further agrees to waive all rights of
attribution if his/her Comment is used by Sponsor or anyone Sponsor
authorizes, and to waive any moral rights in the Comment.
By submitting a Comment, each entrant further agrees that his/her Comment is
gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction, and will not place Sponsor
under any obligations other than those contained in these Official Rules,
and that Sponsor is free to disclose the ideas contained in the Comment on a
non-confidential basis to anyone. Each entrant further acknowledges that
he/she will not instigate, support, maintain, or authorize any action or
lawsuit against Sponsor on the basis that any use of his/her Comment
infringes any of his/her rights as creator of such Comment.
By
submitting a Comment, each entrant understands and acknowledges that he/she
will not now or in the future be paid or compensated in any way for the
Comment or for granting the Sponsor any of the rights set out in these
Official Rules.
Sponsor may, at any time, require any entrant to
execute documents to confirm the grant of rights hereunder; failure to do so
may result in disqualification.
9. Miscellaneous: The Released Parties are not responsible
for: (a) electronic transmissions or entries that are lost, late, stolen,
incomplete, illegible, damaged, garbled, destroyed, misdirected, or not
received by Sponsor for any reason; (b) any problems or technical
malfunctions, errors, omissions, interruptions, deletions, defects, delays
in operation or transmission, communication failures or human error that may
occur in the transmission, receipt or processing of entries, or for
deletion, theft or destruction of, unauthorized access to, or alteration of,
entries; (c) failed or unavailable hardware, network, or software; (d)
causes beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control that jeopardize the
administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this
Sweepstakes; (e) any entries submitted in a manner that is not expressly
allowed under these Official Rules (all such entries will be disqualified);
(f) incorrect or inaccurate entry information whether caused by entrants,
tampering, hacking, or by any of the equipment or programming associated
with or utilized in the Sweepstakes; (g) any typographical or other error in
any printing or advertising relating to the Sweepstakes, in the
administration or execution of the Sweepstakes, or in the announcement of
the prize winners; or (h) cheating or fraud by any participant.
If, for any reason, the Sweepstakes cannot be executed as planned, including
but not limited to any printing, administrative, human or other error of any
kind, transmission failure, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering,
unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, pandemic, social media
mandate or any other causes beyond the control of Sponsor that corrupt or
affect the security, administration, fairness, integrity or proper conduct
of the Sweepstakes, or if the Sweepstakes is compromised or becomes
corrupted in any way, electronically or otherwise, Sponsor reserves the
right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the
Sweepstakes and, if terminated before the intended end date of the
Sweepstakes Period, to select the potential winners in a random drawing from
among all eligible, non-suspect entries received for the Entry Period then
in progress prior to the date/time of termination.
Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any
individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation
of the Sweepstakes, to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any
laws, or to be attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the
Sweepstakes by cheating, hacking, deception, misappropriation, infringement,
or any other unfair playing practices or poor sportsmanship, or to be acting
with the intention of annoying, abusing, threatening, or harassing any other
participants or Sponsor.
10. Privacy: Any personally identifiable information
collected in connection with an entrant’s participation in this Sweepstakes
will be used by Sponsor, its affiliates, and agents only for purposes of the
proper administration and fulfillment of the Sweepstakes, as described in
these Official Rules, and in any manner consistent with Sponsor’s Privacy
Policy, available at
uscellular.com/site/privacy/index.html.
11. Disputes/Venue/Governing Law: By participating,
entrants agree that: (a) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action
arising out of, or connected with, this Sweepstakes or the prizes, shall be
resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and
exclusively by the appropriate federal, state or local court located in Cook
County, Illinois; (b) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be
limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including but not limited to
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 entrants
hereby waive all rights to claim, punitive, incidental and/or consequential
damages and/or any other damages, other than 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 PORTIONS OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY
TO YOU.
All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity,
interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, participants’
rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor in
connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in
accordance with, the laws of the State of Illinois, without giving effect to
any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of Illinois or any other
jurisdiction), that would cause the application of the laws of any
jurisdiction other than Illinois.
In the event there is a
discrepancy or inconsistency between disclosures or other statements
contained in any Sweepstakes-related materials or made by Sponsor’s
representatives, and the terms and conditions of these Official Rules, these
Official Rules shall prevail, govern and control.
12. Severability: 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 in
accordance with their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not
contained herein.
13. Winners List: To obtain a list of winners, please email
Zach Pospisil at socialteam@uscellular.com by July 30, 2023.
14. Sponsor: The Sweepstakes is sponsored solely by
UScellular, 8410 W. Bryn Mawr, Suite 700, Chicago, Illinois 60631.
Any questions, comments or complaints regarding this Sweepstakes must be
directed to the Sponsor only, and NOT to Meta Platforms or Instagram.
© 2023 UScellular. All rights reserved.