Food
Lion Sweepstakes
Official
Rules
NO
PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MAKING A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR
CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE
PROHIBITED. Food Lion Sweepstakes ("Promotion") begins at 9:00:00 AM
Eastern Time (“ET”) on April 15, 2015 and ends at 11:59:59 PM ET on April 28,
2015 (“Promotion Period”). The Promotion contains a game of chance
(“Sweepstakes”). The computer clock of Sponsor is
the official time-keeping device in the Promotion.
1. ELIGIBILITY: The Promotion is open only
to legal residents of Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and the District
of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of
Promotion registration. Employees, officers and directors of Food Lion LLC
(“Sponsor”), PromoPoint, Snipp Interactive Inc., Realtime Media LLC
(“Administrator”), their respective parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries,
advertising, and fulfillment and marketing agencies, (collectively, “Promotion
Parties”) their immediate families (parent, child, sibling & spouse and
their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and persons living
in the same households as such individuals (whether related or not) are not
eligible to participate in the Promotion. By participating in the Promotion,
you release, discharge and hold harmless Promotion Parties, and all of their
respective officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, “Released
Parties”), from any and all damages whether direct or indirect, which may be
due to or arise out of participation in the Promotion or any portion thereof,
or the acceptance, use/misuse or possession of any prize. By participating, you
agree to these Official Rules and to the decisions of the judges and Sponsors,
which are final and binding in all respects. Void outside of Delaware, Georgia,
Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
Maryland, and the District of Columbia and where prohibited by law, rule or regulation.
All applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.
2. HOW TO
PARTICIPATE: No Purchase Necessary.
There are two (2) ways to enter:
1)
Receipt Method: In order to
participate using the receipt method, you will be required to purchase three
(3) qualifying items at any participating Food Lion location in a single
transaction during the Promotion Period. After purchasing three (3) qualifying
Food Lion items during the Promotion Period, you may enter the Promotion by
submitting an image of your valid receipt of your qualified purchase and
registering for the Food Lion Sweepstakes. All submissions of receipts must be
received by April 28, 2015 at 12:00:00PM EST. Before submitting the receipt;
you must highlight the qualifying Food Lion item on the receipt with a star or
check. You will then submit your receipt and register using one of the two (2)
methods detailed below: There is a limit
of one entry per person, per email address, per household, per day.
a) After purchasing a qualifying
item at any Food Lion Grocery Store location during the Promotion Period you
can submit a photo of your receipt by texting the keyword “CLEAN” to 811811.
a. You will first receive a
disclosure message and instructions for receipt submission. Unregistered users
will also receive a link to register. You must completely enter your true and
correct information in the required fields (required fields include: First
Name, Last Name, Full Mailing Address, E-mail Address and Phone Number). An
eligible receipt received will earn one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes. After
receipt validation (may take up to 48 hours), you will be entered into the
daily drawing and will then receive an invalid message for non-qualifying
receipts, or a message stating your receipt was validated and did not win the
daily drawing, or a message stating you won a prize in the daily drawing.
Message and data rates may apply. For terms of service & privacy policy
visit www.foodlion.com/springcleaning.
By texting CLEAN to 811811 you
consent to receive up to 10 text messages for each message sent from user's
device from Snipp Interactive on behalf of Food Lion LLC.”. No further text
messages will be sent once the Promotion has ended. You understand that consent
is not required to make a purchase. Your text is your electronic signature
agreeing to these Official Rules and to giving electronic written consent.
b) After purchasing a qualifying
item at any Food Lion Grocery Store location during the Promotion Period, if
you are unable or prefer not to text your entry, you can upload a photo of your
receipt to www.foodlion.com/springcleaning. Upon uploading your receipt, you
must also complete the registration form by entering your true and correct
information in the required fields (required fields include: First Name, Last
Name, Full Mailing Address, E-mail Address and Phone Number). An eligible
receipt received will earn one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes.
2)
Free Mail-in Method: To enter without making a
purchase, hand-print your Full Name, Full Mailing Address, Email Address, Phone
Number, and Birth Date on a plain 3x5 inch paper. Mail your completed entry to Realtime Media,
Attn: Food Lion Sweepstakes Entry, 200 Four Falls Corporate Center, Suite 100,
Conshohocken, PA 19428. Any Entry that
that does not include an Email Address will not be accepted. Each entry must be
mailed separately in a hand-addressed, stamped envelope. No photocopied or mechanically reproduced
entries will be accepted. No
responsibility is assumed for lost, late, incomplete, illegible, misdirected or
postage-due entries. No responsibility
is assumed for (i) technical, electronic, telephone, hardware, software or
network, computer or data transmission errors, malfunctions or difficulties of
any kind or (ii) any incorrect data contained in any Promotion entry. Mail-in
entries will be only be accepted from April 10, 2015 (prior to the official
launch date of the Promotion) through May 3, 2015. All Mail-in Entries received
before April 28, 2015 will be eligible for the daily drawing on the next day
after the Mail-in Entry is received. All Mail-in Entries received after April
28, 2015 will be eligible for only the Grand Prize drawing. All entries become
the property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged. Limit of one (1) entry per person, per
email address, per phone number, per mailing address, per day, throughout the
Promotion Period.
Limit
one (1) entry per person, per email address, per household, per day, regardless
of method of entry. Entries in excess of the states limit will be voided.
Entries generated by script, macro or other automated means, which subvert the
entry process, are void. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will
not be acknowledged or returned.
Message and data rates may apply.
Contact your carrier for plan details and pricing. Entry via text-messaging may
not be available via all wireless carriers. TEXT “Stop” to 811811 to opt-out. Carrier specific charges for text messages
may apply, depending on your individual cellular pricing plan, in accordance
with your cellular customer agreement. SMS
may not be available for all service providers or for all handsets. Cellular
phone carrier’s instructions for text messaging may be different. Check your
phone capabilities for specific instructions. The text message entry portion of
this game works with most U.S cellular carriers and requires a two-way text
messaging enabled cellular phone. Sponsor makes no guarantee that any
particular wireless service provider will participate. Check with your service
provider for details. By selecting to play via text messaging, the entrants
grant permission to the Sponsor to notify them via return text message and must
agree to accept all applicable charges associated therewith. Wireless service
providers may charge entrants for each text message, including any error
message that is sent and received in connection with the Game, based on the
applicable wireless service plan. You are responsible for all applicable fees
and taxes associated with placing an SMS entry. Sponsor in its sole discretion
may add or delete a cellular carrier at any time, without notice.
3.
SWEEPSTAKES DRAWING/ODDS: One Thousand and Five (1,005)
Potential Promotion winners will be selected in electronic, randomized drawings
throughout the Promotion. Each day, throughout the Promotion, there will be an
electronic, randomized drawing conducted to select Seven (7) potential Second
Prize winners and sixty-four (64) potential Third Prize Winners. There will be
an additional two (2) potential Second Prize winners and four (4) potential
Third Prize Winners selected on the last day of the Promotion. On or about May
4, 2015, five (5) Potential Grand Prize winners will be selected from all
eligible entries received during the Promotion Period. Odds of winning depend
on the number of eligible entries received.
4.
WINNER NOTIFICATION: Potential Promotion winners will
receive prize notification via email and/or phone call, within three (3) days
of the drawing date or as soon thereafter as reasonably practicable. The
potential winners will be sent, via email, an Affidavit of
Eligibility/Liability Release/Publicity Release and an IRS W9 Form. All forms
must be completed, signed, notarized and returned to Realtime Media within ten
(10) days of date of issuance. The potential winner then and only then becomes
the “winner.” If a potential winner cannot be contacted within a reasonable
time period, if a potential winner is ineligible, if any notification is
returned undeliverable, or if a potential winner otherwise fails to fully
comply with these Official Rules, he/she will forfeit that prize and an
alternate winner may be selected from among all remaining eligible entries received,
at Sponsor’s discretion.
5.
PRIZES/RESTRICTIONS: One Thousand and Five (1,005)
Promotion Prizes will be awarded during the Promotion as detailed below:
GRAND PRIZE (5): Five (5) Grand Prizes
will be awarded, each consisting of:
• One (1) $2,000 Best Buy eGift Card
The Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) of
each Grand Prize is $2,000
SECOND
PRIZE (100): One Hundred (100) Second Prizes will be awarded, each
consisting of:
• One (1) $500 Kohl's eGift Card
The
ARV of each Second Prize is $500
THIRD
PRIZE (900): Nine Hundred (900) Third Prizes will be awarded, each
consisting of:
• One (1) $50 Food Lion Grocery
Store Gift Card
The
ARV of each Third Prize is $50
Total
ARV of ALL Promotion Prizes is $105,000
PRIZE
LIMITATIONS: Limit of one (1) prize per person/per household.
If it is discovered during prize verification you have entered, attempted to
enter, or used multiple accounts to enter more than the stated limit you will
be disqualified at the discretion of the Sponsors. Promotion Parties are not
responsible for late, lost, stolen, damaged, delayed, or undelivered prizes.
GENERAL
PRIZE CONDITIONS: Prize will only be awarded by
Sponsor upon potential winners’ verification of eligibility and final approval by
Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right to perform a detailed background check on
the potential Grand Prize winner by entering the Promotion, you hereby
authorize Sponsor to perform the same in the event that you are selected as a
potential Grand Prize winner. No prize substitution, transfer or assignment of
prizes is permitted, except by Sponsor which reserves the right to substitute a
prize with one of comparable or greater value, in its sole discretion. The use
of a gift card is subject to the terms and conditions set forth thereon which
shall govern the use of the gift card. A gift card will not be redeemed or
exchanged for cash, except where required by law. A gift card will not be
replaced or replenished if it lost, stolen, damaged, destroyed or used without
the winner’s permission and will be voided if altered or defaced. All trademarks are property of their
respective owners. The listed merchants are not affiliated or associated with
the Promotion in any way.
6.
MISCELLANEOUS: Released Parties are not
responsible for late, lost, incomplete, misdirected, corrupted, stolen,
garbled, damaged, delayed, undelivered, or inaccurate entries, all of which are
void. Online entries will be considered to be entered by the authorized account
holder of the e-mail address submitted at time of entry and he/she must comply
with these Official Rules. The authorized account holder is deemed as the
natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access
provider, online service provider or other organization that is responsible for
assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail
address. By entering the Promotion, you recognize and agree that the
registration information provided by you will be made available to Sponsor; use
of such information will be governed by Food Lion’s Privacy Policy found at http://www.foodlion.com/PrivacyStatement.
Upon entering the Promotion, winners grant Sponsor and its designees the right
to print, publish, broadcast, and use world-wide in any media now known or
later developed, the winner's name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, city
and state of residence, and biographical information for any purpose, including
but not limited to, in advertisements, publicity, and other communications,
worldwide, in perpetuity, without additional compensation, notification or
permission, except where prohibited by law.
7.
RELEASE: As a condition of entering the Promotion, you agree that
(1) under no circumstances will you be permitted to obtain awards for, and you
hereby waive all rights to claim punitive, incidental, consequential or any
other damages, and any claims, judgments or awards shall be limited to actual
out-of-pocket expenses; (2) all causes of action arising out of or connected
with this Promotion, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually,
without resort to any form class action; and (3) in no event will you be
entitled to receive attorneys’ fees or other legal costs. BY ENTERING THE PROMOTION, YOU AGREE TO RELEASE, DISCHARGE AND HOLD
HARMLESS RELEASED PARTIES FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY INJURY, LOSS, OR
DAMAGE OF ANY KIND TO PERSONS, INCLUDING DEATH, AND PROPERTY, WHETHER DIRECT OR
INDIRECT, WHICH MAY BE DUE TO OR ARISE OUT OF PARTICIPATION IN THE PROMOTION OR
ANY PORTION THEREOF, OR THE ACCEPTANCE, USE/MISUSE OR POSSESSION OF PRIZES, OR
ANY PRIZE-RELATED TRAVEL OR ACTIVITY. YOU WAIVE ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
8.
DISCLAIMER: Released Parties are not responsible for printing or
typographical errors in these Official Rules or in any Promotion-related
materials. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify
any individual that tampers with the entry process and void all associated
entries. Sponsor also reserves the right to terminate, suspend, cancel or
modify the Promotion and award the prizes for the Promotion from among all
eligible, non-suspect entries received as of the date of termination in a
random drawing if for any reason this Promotion is not capable of running as
planned due to any reason, including infection by computer virus, bugs,
tampering, fraud, unauthorized intervention, technical failures or other causes
that may corrupt or impair the integrity, fairness or proper play of the
Promotion. Released Parties are not responsible or liable for any events which
may cause errors and/or the Promotion to be stopped, including but not limited
to any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or
transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized
access to, or alteration of, entries, nor are they responsible for any problems
or technical malfunction of any telephone, network or telephone lines, computer
on-line systems, servers, or cable, satellite, or Internet Service Providers,
computer equipment, software or any other failure of any email or entry to be
received by Sponsor on account of technical problems, human error or traffic
congestion on the Internet or at any web site, or any combination thereof,
including any injury or damage to yours or any other person's computer relating
to or resulting from participation in this Promotion or downloading any
materials in this Promotion. Released Parties are not responsible for computer,
mechanical, technical, electronic, network or other errors or problems,
including any errors or problems that may occur in connection with the
administration of the Promotion, the processing of entries, the announcement of
prizes, or in any other Promotion-related materials. Released Parties may stop
you from participating in this Promotion (and void all associated entries) if
you violate Official Rules or act, in Sponsor’s sole discretion: (a) in a
manner Sponsor determines to be not fair; (b) with an intent to annoy, threaten
or harass any other entrant or the Sponsor; or (c) in any other disruptive
manner. Should more prizes be awarded through a computer, hardware, or software
malfunction, error or failure, or for any other reason, in any prize category,
than are stated for that category in the Official Rules, Sponsor reserves the
right to award only the number of prizes stated in the Official Rules for that
category. In no event will more prizes be awarded than that listed in Section
5.
CAUTION:
ANY ACT OR ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR
UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS PROMOTION IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL
AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, PROMOTION PARTIES RESERVE THE
RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES AND OTHER REMEDIES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES) FROM ANY
SUCH INDIVIDUAL(S) TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
9.
CHOICE OF LAW AND JURISDICTION: Except where prohibited, all issues
and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation, and
enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of
entrants or winners, Sponsor, and Administrator in connection with this
Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of
the State of North Carolina, without giving effect to any choice of law or
conflict of law rules or provisions (whether of the State of North Carolina or
any other jurisdiction), which might otherwise cause the application of the
laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of North Carolina. Any action
seeking legal or equitable relief arising out of or relating to the Promotion
or these Official Rules shall be brought only in the courts of the State of North
Carolina. You hereby irrevocably consent to the personal jurisdiction of said
courts and waive any claim of forum non-convenience or lack of personal
jurisdiction they may have.
10.
TAX INFORMATION: All federal, state, local, and
other taxes on prizes and any other costs and expenses associated with prize
acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided, are the sole
responsibility of the applicable winner.
A 1099 tax form will be issued to the winner.
11.
WINNERS LIST: To receive the list of winners of prizes, send a #10
self-addressed stamped envelope for receipt by July 15, 2015 to: Food Lion
Sweepstakes Promotion Winners List Request, c/o Realtime Media, 200 Four Falls
Corporate Center, Suite 100, Conshohocken, PA 19428.
SPONSOR:
Food Lion LLC, 2110 Executive Drive, Salisbury, NC 28147.
ADMINISTRATOR:
Realtime Media LLC, 200 Four Falls Corporate Center, Suite 100, Conshohocken,
PA 19428