Deschutes Patiofyre Sweepstakes
Official
Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
TO ENTER OR WIN. MAKING A PURCHASE DOES
NOT IMPROVE CHANCES OF WINNING. THE
FOLLOWING SWEEPSTAKES IS VALID ONLY IN THE FIFTY (50) UNITED STATES (“U.S.”)
AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (“D.C.”), AND IS OPEN ONLY TO
QUALIFIED PERSONS (AS DEFINED IN THE RULES BELOW). VOID ELSEWHERE AND WHEREVER PROHIBITED. BY PARTICIPATING IN THIS SWEEPSTAKES, YOU
AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND THE DECISIONS OF SPONSOR AND
ADMINISTRATOR. DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE
SWEEPSTAKES IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND FALL WITHIN THE
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AS SET FORTH BELOW.
Sweepstakes
Name: Deschutes Patiofyre
Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”).
Sweepstakes Dates: Registration begins at 12:00:01am Eastern
Time (“ET”) on 6/23/2025 and ends at
11:59:59pm ET on 12/31/2025 (the
“Registration Period”). The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable
federal, state and local laws and regulations.
Void outside of the fifty (50) U.S. and D.C., and wherever restricted or
prohibited by law.
Who may Enter: Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents
of the fifty (50) U.S. and D.C., who are age 21 or older as of date of entry,
and have a valid driver’s license or government issued photo ID, except the
following persons who are not eligible to enter, participate or win:
(a)
Employees,
officers, and directors of Deschutes
Brewery (“Sponsor”), Million Dollar Media (the “Sweepstakes
Administrator”), and each of their respective franchisees, parents, affiliated
companies, subsidiaries, contractors, distributors or wholesalers, printers,
advertising and promotion agencies, and any and all other companies associated
with the design or execution of this promotion, or any employees, officers,
directors, members, shareholders or agents of any alcohol-beverage retailers,
distributors, wholesalers or manufacturers (collectively, “Released Parties”),
and the members of the immediate families or households, whether or not
related, of any of the above. “Immediate family members” includes, for purposes
of this promotion, parents (including in-laws), grandparents, siblings
(including step-siblings), children (including step-children), grandchildren (including step grandchildren)
and each of their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside.
How to Enter –
Two Ways:
Online Registration: To enter
online via the registration website, scan the QR Code on applicable point of
sale material using your mobile device’s camera or directly visit www.deschutesbrewery.com/pages/patiofyre (the “Registration
Website”) during the “Registration Period”.
Each entrant must fully complete the online registration page with all
required information including his/her name, valid email address, phone number (including area code), state of
residence, and date of birth. After
having read and agreed to these Official Rules, click the submit button to
submit your online entry. All online entries
must be fully complete for all required information and must be received by
11:59:59pm ET on 12/31/2025 to be
eligible.
Instagram Comment: During
the Registration Period, follow @deschutesbrewery and
find an applicable post about the Sweepstakes and comment on the post from your
own Instagram account and tag at least one friend that you know with hashtags
#FyreItUp and #Sweeps. You must submit
your comment from your own Instagram account.
To enter the Sweepstakes in this method, you must be an active holder of
an Instagram account. If you do not have
the Instagram application, you may download it through the application store on
your mobile device. The Instagram application is free, and Instagram’s Terms of
Use apply. For details, visit http://instagram.com/legal/terms/. Meta and Instagram are not a Sponsor
or in any way affiliated with this Sweepstakes. If you enter using a mobile device on a
wireless service provider’s network (as opposed to a Wi-Fi network), your
carrier’s text and data rates will apply. You should consult your wireless
service provider’s pricing plan for details. You agree to incur any and all charges demanded by your wireless carrier. All Instagram post
entries must be fully complete and must be received by 11:59:59pm ET on 12/31/2025 to be eligible.
Any available
opt-in opportunities are not required to enter the
Sweepstakes, and opting-in will not improve your chances of winning. By participating and submitting an entry, entrant agrees that Sponsor
and participating parties are authorized to contact entrant via email, text,
mail, phone, direct message, or any other form of media to make entrants aware
of information pertinent to the Sweepstakes, and to distribute information
regarding the Sponsor(s) featured products, special events or future
sweepstakes, contests, promotions or offers.
Entrants may opt-out of any further email communication
at any time by simply replying REMOVE to any email
message, or following the provided opt-out instructions.
Maximum of one entry per entry method per
person, email address, or Instagram account from all entry methods combined for
a maximum total of two (2) entries
Any incomplete or illegible entries will be disqualified. Any entry submitted
with an invalid email address, or other inaccurate, incomplete, false or
incorrect information will be disqualified.
Released Parties are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected,
illegible, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, damaged entries, or for entries
submitted in a manner that is not expressly allowed under these rules, or for any entry not submitted or received due to any
technical error or failure, unauthorized human intervention, inaccurate capture
or mis-entry of any required information, or the failure to capture any such
information for any reason including programming or technical errors, or
effects of hackers or failure of any electronic equipment, computer or cellular
transmissions and/or network connections; all of which will be disqualified.
Each
entrant must submit an entry on his/her own behalf. Any entry submitted on behalf of another
individual or using another person’s email address, name or mobile number will
be disqualified and ineligible to claim any prize. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more
than the stated number of entries allowed by using same, multiple/different
email addresses, mobile numbers, identities, or any other methods void that
entrant's entries and that entrant may be
disqualified. No mechanically reproduced
or automated entries permitted. Use of
any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in
disqualification and all such entries will be deemed void. All entries received become the property of
the Sponsor and will not be returned.
In
the event of a dispute as to any online registration, the authorized account
holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the
registrant and he/she must be eligible according to these Official Rules. The “authorized email account holder” is the
natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online
service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email
addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address.
By
registering to enter the Sweepstakes, you affirm that you have read and
accepted these Official Sweepstakes Rules. All
entries received become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned. All
entrants agree to be bound by and abide by the official rules of the Sweepstakes.
General Submission
Requirements:
(a)
Each
entry must be submitted in a format as accepted by Instagram, and must be the
entrant’s own original creation and not previously submitted in the
Sweepstakes; and,
(b)
Any
entry that is not properly submitted or received for any reason, including any
technical difficulties, upload failures, failures to save or properly store the
entry and/or submitted comment, busy signals, efforts of hackers or any lost or
disconnected Internet connections, will be disqualified.
Additional Submission
Requirements: Sponsor
reserves the right to, in its sole and absolute discretion, disqualify any entry
and/or submission for any reason that it considers to not be appropriate for
the Sweepstakes. Entry submission restrictions
include, but are not limited to, the following requirements:
·
may
not include, depict or reference any individual under
the age of twenty-one (21), or that appears to be under the age of twenty-one
(21);
·
not
be, or ever have been, previously submitted in the Sweepstakes;
·
except
as relates to the Sponsor’s brand(s) or approved partners, not include
trademarks, logos or copyrighted material not owned by entrant or material that
is used without permission (including, but not limited to, company names,
photographs, works of art or images published on any media) or that otherwise
infringes or violates the rights of any third-party (including, but not limited
to, copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, logos, contract and
licensing rights, rights of publicity or privacy, moral rights (i.e., “droit
moral”) or any other intellectual property rights);
·
not
feature, display, refer to, or mention any companies or brands in competition
with Sponsor;
·
not
include any unauthorized photos, images, comments or plagiarism of any kind;
·
not
depict or promote excessive or underage drinking, drugs, tobacco or firearms;
·
not
contain or reference nudity, inappropriate, indecent, sexually explicit,
pornographic or obscene content or images (which shall be determined by
Sponsor, in its sole and absolute discretion);
·
not
contain any political or politically themed or motivated messages, comments,
statements or images;
·
not
defame, slander, libel, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks or any
other content that could adversely affect the name, reputation or goodwill of the
Released Parties or any other individuals and/or entities affiliated or
associated with Sponsor, the Sweepstakes or any prizes, the determination of
which shall remain in the sole discretion of Sponsor;
·
not
depict or include any
comments, descriptions or images that may be considered unlawful, harmful,
threatening, violent, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar,
libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, religiously,
ethnically or otherwise objectionable in any manner as solely determined by Sponsor;
·
not
be subject to any third-party agreement or require payment or incurrence of any
sums to obtain further permissions of any person or entity as
a result of its use or exploitation of the comment(s), photo, idea or
rights therein or portions, or modified versions or derivative works thereof;
·
not
include any name, likeness, description, photograph or any other identifying
element, in whole or in part, of any person, living or dead, without permission;
·
not
depict or describe the mistreatment or abuse of animals; and,
·
not
depict or describe misuse or
irresponsible use of Sponsor’s products or any other similar product;
·
not
depict over consumption or irresponsible consumption of alcohol.
Representation
and Release of Rights to Grand Prize Sweepstakes Entry and/or Submission: By submitting any entry, each entrant
represents that s/he has sole and exclusive ownership and proprietary rights of
all content submitted; has full permission of all parties within any comment, photo
or video to publish and release their images and actions shown within the photo
or video; and agrees that each entry and/or submission becomes the sole and
exclusive property of Sponsor, and Sponsor may publish, display, promote or
utilize the submission, content and/or photo or video in any manner of its
choosing in relation to the promotion or advertising of the Sweepstakes or
Sponsor. Entry into the Sweepstakes and
upload of any entry, comment and/or photo constitutes permission for the
Sponsor and its designees to use that entrant’s entry, comment, photo, video, name,
city and state of residence and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and
trade in any and all media now or hereafter known worldwide in perpetuity
without limitation or further compensation, notification or permission, unless
prohibited by law. Submissions will not
be acknowledged or returned by Sponsor.
Sponsor
reserves the right to request proof from any entrant, at any time, in a form
acceptable to Sponsor, of any permission required or possibly required to use
such entrant’s entry in the Sweepstakes.
Failure to provide such proof, if requested, may disqualify such entry
from the Sweepstakes.
Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole
discretion, to disqualify any individual (and all of his or her entries) who
tampers or attempts to tamper with or abuse the entry process or the Sweepstakes
website in any way or who is otherwise in violation of these Official Rules, as
determined by Sponsor or the Sweepstakes judges appointed by Sponsor in their
sole and absolute discretion. Any
questions regarding the number of entries submitted or the authorized account
holder shall be determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. ANY ATTEMPT BY
ANY PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY SWEEPSTAKES WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE
LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND
CIVIL LAWS AND, SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE,
SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DISQUALIFY AND SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Winner Selection and
Notification (maximum of 9 grand prize winners): On or about 7/31/2025, 11/6/2025, and
1/6/2025, a random drawing will be held to randomly select a maximum total
of three (3) potential grand prize winners per drawing date from among all
eligible entries received from all entry methods combined for a maximum total
of nine (9) potential grand prize winners from all drawing dates.
Potential
winners will be notified initially by phone, email, and/or Instagram direct
message following their selection. If
the Administrator is unsuccessful in its attempt to reach and speak directly
with a selected potential prize winner by phone within 48-hours of the
initial notification attempt to the phone number, email address, and/or
Instagram account associated with that entrant’s entry, then that entrant may
be disqualified and an alternate potential winner may be randomly selected from
among the remaining eligible entries and notified as per the procedures
outlined above (time permitting).
During
winner notification, each selected potential winner must confirm their
eligibility and indicate their willingness and ability to accept the
prize. The potential winner will then
receive official notification via email delivery, including prize acceptance
documents which must be completed and returned per the
provided instructions and as outlined below. If any selected winner does not meet the
eligibility requirements, or is unable or unwilling to accept the prize, elects
to decline the prize or fails to return the required prize acceptance documents
within the required time frame, s/he will be disqualified and, at Sponsor’s
discretion and time permitting, an alternate winner will be randomly selected
from among all remaining eligible entries and notified as per the procedures
outlined above. Any
disqualified entrant will not receive any alternate
prize substitution or compensation. Decisions of the Administrator in the
selection and determination of the winners and all matters relating to this Sweepstakes are final and binding.
All
of the following will apply to each winner: 1) Winner will be required to
complete and return, within 48-hours of date of receipt, a prize
acceptance form, including an affidavit of eligibility and a
liability/publicity release (publicity release where permitted) and a W-9 form
for prizes valued over $600; 2) Winner
may be required to present a copy of a valid social security card and a valid
driver’s license or government issued photo ID as a condition of receiving any
prize; and 3) Winner is responsible for
paying all applicable taxes (including, but not limited to all local, state and
federal taxes) on all prizes awarded, and prize winner shall be issued a 1099
form reflecting the value of the prize award.
Grand
Prize Award (maximum 9 prize awards): Each eligible
entrant designated as a grand prize winner shall be awarded one (1) Patiofyre Metro Jetlamp outdoor patio
heater. Actual make, model, size and
style of prize award as solely designated and determined by Sponsor, subject to
availability. Each grand prize award has
an approximate retail value (“ARV”) of $1,000.
All
merchandise prize items are awarded ‘as is’ without
warranty, express or implied. Prize
winners must accept delivery of prize in the method as solely determined and
designated by Sponsor. Prize shall be
shipped only to the designated winner residential address as submitted during
initial online registration and/or as provided during winner notification, via
the carrier as determined and designated by Sponsor (i.e. UPS, USPS or other Sponsor designated carrier), or as otherwise specified
by Sponsor. Allow 8 – 12 weeks for merchandise prize delivery.
Once
shipped, prize shall be considered as awarded and delivered, and Sponsor shall
not be responsible for actual receipt of delivery by winner. Sponsor shall not be
responsible for any lost, late, undelivered, misdirected, damaged or stolen
delivery; or any incorrect delivery address provided by winner
during registration or prize claim. In
the event of any delivery issues, including undelivered, misdirected, lost or
stolen deliveries, Sponsor shall have no responsibility to replace the prize
award, and prize award shall not be substituted by Sponsor with any alternate
prize award or compensation. Winner shall look solely to
designated shipper/carrier for any lost, damaged, stolen or mis-delivered
packages and not to Sponsor for any delivery issues.
General
Prize Conditions: No
alcoholic beverage is part of any prize award.
Grand All other
costs and expenses related to prize acceptance, delivery, redemption or use not
specified herein as being provided are the sole responsibility of winner. All income, federal, state and local taxes are
the winner’s sole responsibility. All
prize awards are non-transferable and no cash
redemption or prize substitution allowed, except at Sponsor’s sole discretion
or as provided herein. Sponsor reserves
the right to substitute a prize with one of comparable or greater value, at its
sole discretion.
All prizes
are awarded as is, without any warranty, express or implied, by Sponsor. Failure to collect or properly claim prize in
accordance with these rules will result in forfeiture of the prize. If forfeited for any reason, entrant will not receive any other prize substitution or
compensation, and the prize will
remain the property of Sponsor and will not be
awarded, except as provided herein. All properly claimed prizes will be awarded. Any unclaimed prizes will not be
awarded. TOTAL ARV OF ALL AVAILABLE
PRIZE AWARDS: $9,000.
Additional Rules &
Restrictions: By participating, entrants agree to abide by and be bound by
the Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and Administrator, which
shall be final in all matters relating to this Sweepstakes. In the event an entrant wins a prize, and is later found to be in violation of these rules
he/she will be required to forfeit the prize or to reimburse Sponsor for the
stated value of the prize if such violation is discovered after winner has used the prize. Participation in Sweepstakes constitutes
permission for the Sponsor and its designees to use
entrants’ names, cities and states of residence and/or likenesses for purposes
of advertising and trade in any and all media now or
hereafter known worldwide on perpetuity without limitation or further
compensation, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law. False, fraudulent or deceptive entries or
acts shall render entrants ineligible for any prize.
By
participating, entrants agree to hold all Released Parties harmless from any
claims, losses, actions, or damages of any kind, whether actual, incidental or
consequential, for injury (including but not limited to death), damages, losses
or expenses arising out of or relating to entrant’s participation in this
Sweepstakes, or the acceptance, possession or use/misuse of any prize, or
participation in prize-related activities (including but not limited to travel
or activity related thereto), and to assume all liability therefor.
Released
Parties shall not be liable to winner or any other person for failure to supply
the prize or any part thereof by reason of any acts of God, pandemics, any
actions, regulations, orders, or requests by any governmental entity, equipment
failure, terrorist acts, war, fire, unusually severe weather, embargo, labor
dispute or strike, labor or material shortage, transportation interruption of
any kind, or any other cause beyond Released Parties’ sole control.
Entrants
are restricted to use of ordinary and typical computer
equipment, mobile phone equipment, Internet access and cellular networks.
Sponsor disclaims all liability for the inability of an entrant to complete or
continue an entry due to equipment malfunction, busy lines, inadvertent
disconnections, acts beyond the Sponsor’s control, or otherwise. The Sponsor
disclaims any liability for entries not received due to technical difficulties
or transmission errors. The Sponsor disclaims all liability for any delays,
mis-delivery, loss, or failure in the delivery of any item sent by mail,
courier, express, electronic transmission, or other delivery method. Released Parties are not responsible for
mechanical, technical, electronic, communications, telephone, computer,
hardware or software errors, malfunctions or failures of any kind, including:
failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed transmission of online entries, traffic
congestion on telephone lines, the Internet or at any website or lost or
unavailable network connections which may limit an online entrant's ability to
participate in the Sweepstakes, and any injury or damage to entrant’s or any
other person’s computer or mobile phone related to or resulting from
participating in or downloading any information necessary to participate in the
Sweepstakes. Released Parties are not
responsible for any other errors of any kind, whether computer, technical,
typographical, printing, human or otherwise, relating to or in connection with
the Sweepstakes, including, without limitations, errors which may occur in
connection with the printing or advertising of this Sweepstakes, administration
or execution of the Sweepstakes, the cancellation of the Sweepstakes, the
processing of entries or in the announcement of the prizes or prize winners. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the
right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process or the
operation of the Sweepstakes website.
Sponsor
reserves the right to cancel, modify, reschedule or terminate the Sweepstakes
for any reason including, but not limited to acts of God, pandemics, force
majeure, government regulatory action or ruling, fraud, misconduct, or if any technical
failures destroy or threaten the integrity of the Sweepstakes, in the opinion
of the Sponsor/Administrator, or if a computer virus, bug, or other technical
problem corrupts the administration, security, or proper conduct of the Sweepstakes
as determined by Sponsor/Administrator, in their sole discretion. In the event
of early termination of the Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right to
determine prize winners in a random drawing from among all eligible,
non-suspect entries received as of the time/date of such termination.
IN CASE OF DISPUTES: By
participating, each entrant agrees that (1) any and all disputes, claims, and
causes of action arising out of or in connection with this Sweepstakes, or any
prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of
class action, and any judicial proceeding shall take place in a federal or
state court within the State of New Jersey; (2) any and all claims, judgments,
and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including
costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes, and in no event will entrant
be entitled to received attorneys' fees or other legal costs; and (3) under no
circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant
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. All
issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and
enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of
entrant and Sponsor in connection with this Sweepstakes, shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, without
giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions
(whether of the State of New Jersey or any other jurisdiction), that would
cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of
New Jersey.
Odds: Odds of being selected as a winner are
dependent upon the total number of eligible entries received from all entry
methods combined as of the date and time of each prize drawing.
Official Rules &
Winners List: For a copy of these Official Rules, or the
name of prize winners, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to be received by
2/15/2026 to: Deschutes Patiofyre Sweepstakes, c/o
Million Dollar Media, P.O. Box 278, Woodbridge, NJ 07095. PLEASE SPECIFY which you are requesting, Official
Rules or Winners List.
Sponsor: This Sweepstakes is sponsored by Deschutes
Brewery, 975 SW Colorado Ave., Bend, OR, 97702.
Sweepstakes Administrator:
The
Sweepstakes is administered by Million Dollar Media, P.O. Box 278, Woodbridge,
NJ 07095.
Instagram
and Meta are not a sponsor or administrator
of the Sweepstakes, and are in no way responsible for
the administration of the Promotion, the verification of winners or the
fulfillment of prizing. All inquiries regarding the Sweepstakes should be
directed to Sponsor/Administrator.