J.P. Wiser’s VIP Weekend 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: J.P. Wiser’s VIP Weekend Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”).
Sweepstakes Dates: Registration begins at 12:00:01am Eastern
Time (“ET”) on 4/1/2024 and ends at
11:59:59pm ET on 6/30/2024 (the
“Registration Period”). The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable
federal, state and local laws and regulations.
Void outside of the (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 (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 Sazerac
Company, Inc. (“Sponsor”), Million Dollar Media (the “Sweepstakes
Administrator”), 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.
(b)
In order to be eligible to claim the grand prize award (see
below), the entrant and their guest must each possess or be able to obtain a
valid passport with an expiration date a minimum of 6-months from the scheduled
travel return date a minimum of sixty (60) days prior to travel, and produce
any required proof of vaccination and/or negative testing for COVID-19 prior to
travel.
How to Enter –
Online Registration: To enter, visit www.JPWvipweekend.com 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), home address, 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 11:59pm ET on 6/30/2024 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 or any other form of media to make entrant aware of information
pertinent to the Sweepstakes, and to distribute information regarding the
Sponsor(s) featured products, special events or future 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
person during the Registration Period. 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 Sweepstakes, you affirm that you have read and accepted
these Official Sweepstakes Rules. All entrants agree to be bound by and abide
by the official rules of the Sweepstakes.
Winner Selection and
Notification (1 grand prize winner): On
or about 7/1/2024, one (1) potential grand prize winner will be randomly
selected from among all eligible entries received. If eligible entries are less than the
scheduled number of prizes available, then associated prize award(s) shall not
be awarded.
Potential
winner will be notified initially by phone and/or email 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 and/or email address 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, the 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 winner and all matters relating to this
Sweepstakes are final and binding.
All
of the following will apply to the potential winner: 1) winner will be required
to complete and return, within 3-days
of date of receipt, a prize acceptance form, including an affidavit of
eligibility and a liability/publicity release (where permitted) and a W-9 form
in order to be eligible to claim the prize; 2) winner may be required to
present a copy of a valid driver’s license or government issued photo ID with
valid residential address and a copy of a valid social security card as a
condition of receiving the prize, and (3) winner shall be solely responsible
for paying all applicable taxes (including, but not limited to, all local,
state and federal taxes) that may be or become due in connection with their
respective prize award, and winner shall be issued a 1099 form reflecting the
value of the prize award.
Grand Prize Award
(maximum 1 prize award): The eligible entrant designated as a grand
prize winner shall be awarded a 3-day, 2-night trip for two (winner and one
(1) guest, age 21 or older) to Detroit, MI and the Hiram Walker & Sons
distillery in Windsor, ON, Canada. Travel
dates shall be as solely determined and designated by Sponsor, and all travel
must be completed by 6/30/2025, and subject to change based upon availability.
The grand prize trip for two has a maximum retail value not to exceed $3,400,
and includes:
· Roundtrip coach-class airfare
for winner and one (1) guest (21 years of age or older) from the nearest
major metro airport to the winner’s home to Detroit, MI (DTW airport).
Airline, class of service, and departure/arrival airports as solely determined
and designated by Sponsor and subject to availability.
o
NOTE: If grand prize winner resides within 250-miles of the
greater Detroit, MI metro area, Sponsor reserves the right to provide a $500
gift card toward ground transportation in lieu of airfare.
· Two (2) nights in a standard
double-occupancy hotel in the greater Detroit, MI metro area. Hotel and dates
of stay as solely determined and designated by Sponsor based upon availability;
· Private tour for the
winner and one guest (age 21 or older) to the Hiram Walker & Sons
distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Tour date and time as solely determined and designated by Sponsor,
subject to availability;
· Two (2) tickets to a
Sponsor-designated regular season professional hockey home game in Detroit,
MI. Game date and seat type as solely
determined and designated by Sponsor, subject to availability;
·
One
(1) $500 gift card toward ground transportation and incidentals. Gift card
subject to the terms and conditions, including any expiration, of the issuing
gift card provider policy.
NOTE:
Winner and guest must have valid Passports in order to travel, with expiration
dates a minimum of 6-months following scheduled return date. If winner or guest fail to produce valid
Passports at time of departure, they shall forfeit the prize award, and shall
not receive any alternate prize award or compensation.
The
grand prize award has an approximate retail value (“ARV”) of $3,400. Actual ARV based upon final travel
accommodations, dependent on dates of travel and winner’s home location.
All ground transportation, airport/hotel
transfers, parking, meals, gratuities, checked baggage fees, airline seat
assignment fees, hotel resort fees, travel or departure taxes, incidental
expenses, applicable taxes (including, but not limited to all local, state and
federal taxes) and any other expenses not specified herein as being included in
the prize award are the sole responsibility of winner.
Winner and
guest shall be subject to any qualifying conditions prior to and during travel
including any local government regulations in the departure or destination
location, airline and/or hotel requirements, or any regulation related to
COVID-19 testing requirements, vaccination status or policy. Any testing requirements, vaccination and/or
any related quarantine requirements and expenses are the sole responsibility
of, and at the sole expense of winner and guest.
Travel
dates are based upon availability, and
as solely determined and designated by Sponsor, and must be completed by
June 30, 2025 or prize award may be forfeit.
Sponsor is not responsible for any travel delays, flight delays or
cancellations or travel difficulty related to prize award, redemption or
use. If travel delays or difficulty
prevent arrival in time for any and all elements of such prize award, Sponsor
is not responsible for awarding any compensation in lieu thereof. Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost,
damaged or stolen luggage.
The
winner and his/her guest must travel together on the same itinerary. Any changes to completed travel arrangements,
once booked, are the sole responsibility of the winner, and are solely at the
winner’s expense. Actual value of the
trip will depend on point of departure, and any airfare fluctuations. If actual value of prize is lower than the
stated ARV of the prize award when it is procured and fulfilled, then the
difference will NOT be awarded to the winner.
The winner and travel companion are solely responsible for all costs
incurred to and from the nearest major airport to the winner’s home as
designated by Sponsor as the prize originates and terminates at such departure
point unless otherwise agreed to by Sponsor in writing.
Grand
prize winner and guest must be of legal age of majority in his/her state of
residence (and at least 21) and will be required to execute and return a
liability/publicity release prior to prize award. It is recommended that winner and travel
companion obtain sufficient personal insurance prior to departure. Winner and travel companion hereby release
Sponsor from any duty to provide, check, or verify any and all necessary ID’s,
passports, visas and tourist cards, birth certificates, vaccination certificates,
and any other travel requirements (“Personal Documents”). Sponsor shall not have any responsibility for
the replacement of lost or stolen Personal Documents or tickets, coupons,
vouchers, receipts or other documents pertaining to the prize (“Travel
Documents”) once the Travel Documents have been provided to winner and travel
companion.
Sponsor
will not be responsible for any travel delay, rescheduling, postponement or
cancellation for any reason including but not limited to weather, pandemic, an
Act of God, Force Majeure, government regulation or restriction, an act of
terrorism, civil disturbance, work stoppage, or any other reason. No
substitute prize award or compensation shall be provided by Sponsor in the
event of any travel delay, rescheduling, postponement, or cancellation for any
reason, and winner shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the airline
ticket and hotel policy, and shall solely look to the airline ticket and hotel
provider.
Winners
and guest agree to comply with all applicable airline and hotel provider rules,
requirements and regulations in connection with the prize award, redemption and
use. Sponsor and travel provider reserve the right to remove or deny entry
to any winner and/or his/her guest who do not comply with any rule,
requirement, instruction, policy, or who engage in a disruptive manner, or with
intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any other person. Winner and guests shall be solely responsible
for their behavior while traveling, must follow the instructions and direction
from any travel provider or associated staff or security. If winner or
any guest violates the standards of the travel provider, behaves in an
inappropriate, irresponsible or offensive manner, or is deemed by staff or
security to have violated any rule, regulation or policy of the travel
provider, or to be a security threat in any manner, the winner and guest shall
be ejected or denied travel arrangements, and shall immediately forfeit the remaining
prize award.
In
the event travel arrangements are unable to be booked due to a Force Majeure
Event, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to extend the
deadline for travel beyond 6/30/2025 or to award the winner an alternate prize
award of approximate equal value, in lieu of the trip and such alternate prize
shall be the full and final Grand Prize award.
Event tickets delivery method is at sole
discretion of tour provider which will be either sent to winner by mail, email,
mobile ticketing or placed at venue Will Call the day of tour under the
winner’s name. Winner must be present to pick up tickets and a valid photo ID
will be required if tickets are placed at Will Call. Event tickets are subject
to age restrictions. Resale of event
tickets is prohibited. Event and stadium management (“Event Entities”) reserves
the right to revoke full or partial prize from winner or winner’s guest who Event
Entities personnel deem may, in its sole discretion, be intoxicated, be a
safety risk, have violated any ticket or venue policy or law, or may bring Event
Entities into disrepute. By claiming event tickets, you agree to the Event
Entities’ policies, and to abide by the health and safety measures in effect at
the time of the event, which may include, without limitation, wearing masks,
providing proof of vaccination status and/or providing proof of negative
COVID-19 test administered by an approved facility. Should any event be
cancelled or access to the venue be restricted, you will be notified as soon as
reasonably possible.
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 such as
e-ticket delivery to the email address provided during registration and/or as
provided during winner notification. Allow 8 – 12 weeks for prize delivery.
Once emailed, delivered, transferred via
mobile delivery or shipped, prize shall be considered as awarded and
delivered, and Sponsor shall not be responsible for actual receipt of delivery
by winner. Winner is solely responsible for any required software
application for access to mobile ticket delivery. Sponsor shall not
be responsible for any lost, late, undelivered, misdirected, damaged or stolen
delivery; or any incorrect delivery address or information 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.
The terms and conditions of the tickets awarded as a prize will
govern in the event of any cancellation, postponement, rescheduling or
attendance restriction due to any Force Majeure Event including weather,
pandemic, an Act of God, an act of terrorism, civil disturbance, work stoppage
or any other reason. Sponsor will not be responsible for event date delay,
rescheduling, postponement or cancellation due to any Force Majeure
Event or any other event that may cause the cancellation, rescheduling or
postponement of the event as scheduled. No substitute prize award or
compensation shall be provided by Sponsor in the event of any event
cancellation for any reason.
Each winner and guest shall be solely responsible for their
behavior while in attendance at the event, must follow the instructions of
Sponsor, policy of the venue/event and directions from any associated staff or
security. If winner or any guest violates the standards of the
venue/event, behaves in an inappropriate, irresponsible, or offensive
manner, or is deemed by staff or security to have violated any policy of the
venue or event, or to be a security threat in any manner, the winner and their guest
shall be ejected from the venue and event, and shall immediately forfeit the
prize award.
General
Prize Conditions: No
alcoholic beverage is part of any prize award.
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.
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 a 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 a prize winner 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 Promotion, 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 Promotion, 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 Promotion, 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.
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
7/15/2024 to: J.P. Wiser’s VIP Weekend 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 Sazerac Company, Inc., Sazerac Inc,
10401 Linn Station Rd, Lousiville, KY, 40223.
Sweepstakes Administrator:
The Sweepstakes is administered by Million Dollar Media, P.O. Box 278,
Woodbridge, NJ 07095.