Liquid Light Après Ski 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 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: Liquid Light Après Ski
Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”).
Sweepstakes Dates: Registration begins at 12:00:01am Eastern
Time (“ET”) on 1/1/2026 and ends at
11:59:59pm ET on 3/31/2026 (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 U.S. 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 Ste. Michelle
Wine Estates LLC (“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, agents, or advertising or promotional agency
of any alcohol-beverage retailers, distributors, wholesalers, manufacturers, or
any state alcohol commission (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 –
Online Registration: To enter, scan the QR Code on
the applicable point of sale material using your mobile device’s camera or
directly visit www.LiquidLightApres.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), 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
11:59pm PT on 3/31/2026 to be
eligible.
Proof of scanning QR codes does not constitute proof of completion
or submission of an Entry. To scan a QR
code, participants must have a smart phone or other web-enabled device with a
camera feature and QR scanner application and may incur data charges from their
wireless service provider. If you do not
have a QR reader already installed on your phone type “QR reader” in your
mobile device’s application store search field to find available QR readers for
your smart phone or other web-enabled device.
You will receive a response which will contain a link to download a QR
reader for your specific device. Data or
other rates may apply. Check with your wireless provider for details on these
and other applicable charges.
Participants are solely responsible for any such wireless charges. Not all wireless carriers participate.
All information submitted by Participant is subject to and will be
treated in a manner consistent with Sponsor’s Privacy Policy accessible at https://www.ste-michelle.com/privacy.
By participating in the Sweepstakes, Participant hereby agrees that Sponsor may
collect and use their personal information, as detailed in the Privacy Policy,
and acknowledges and agrees that they have read and accepted Sponsor’s Privacy
Policy. All entries become the property
of Sponsor and will not be returned to entrant.
Every entry submission must be manually keystroked and manually entered
by the individual entrant; automated and/or repetitive electronic submission of
entries (including but not limited to entries made using any script, macro, bot
or sweepstakes service) will be disqualified and transmissions from these or
related phone numbers may be blocked.
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 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
person per day. 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 entrants agree to be bound
by and abide by the official rules of the Sweepstakes.
Winner Selection and
Notification (maximum 1 grand prize winner): On or about 4/1/2026, Sponsor will
conduct a drawing from among all eligible entries received to randomly select a
maximum of one (1) potential grand prize winner.
If
eligible entries are fewer than the scheduled number of prizes available, then
associated prize award(s) shall not be awarded.
The
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 the 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 winners and all matters relating to this Sweepstakes are final and binding.
All
of the following will apply to each potential 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 (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 responding 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 the grand
prize winner shall be awarded a 4-day and 3-night trip for the winner and one
(1) guest (age 21 or older) to a Sponsor designated ski destination
within the continental forty-eight (48) United States. The grand prize award has a maximum
approximate retail value (“ARV”) of $4,950, and shall include:
·
Roundtrip coach class
airfare for the winner and one (1) guest (age 21 or older) to the airport
closest to the designated ski destination, as solely designated and determined
by Sponsor, subject to availability;
· Dates of flights and departure/arrival airports
are solely designated and determined by Sponsor, subject to availability and
black-out dates.
· If winner resides within 250-miles of the
designated ski destination, Sponsor reserves the right to award one (1) $500
gift card toward ground transportation in lieu of airfare.
·
Three (3) nights in a
standard double-occupancy hotel room;
· Hotel location and dates of stay solely
designated and determined by Sponsor, subject to availability.
·
One (1) $1,650 gift card
from the Sponsor designated gift card provider toward lift tickets, equipment
rentals, and incidentals.
Travel
must be booked a minimum of four (4) weeks prior to initial date of travel and
must conclude by 12/31/2026. Actual grand prize value based upon final
travel accommodations, dependent on dates of travel and winner’s home location.
The grand prize winner and their guest
must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age and will be required to execute
and return a liability/publicity release prior to prize award. Gift cards are subject to the terms and
conditions of the gift card provider policy, including any expiration. All ground transportation including airport
and hotel transfers, parking, meals, gratuities, checked baggage fees, airline
seat assignment fees, hotel resort fees, 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 the winner.
Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost, damaged or stolen luggage. It is recommended that winner and travel companion
obtain sufficient personal insurance prior to departure. The 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 each winner and travel companion.
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 or all elements of trip or prize award, Sponsor is not
responsible for awarding any compensation in lieu thereof. 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, destination and any airfare fluctuations. If actual value of prize is lower than the
stated maximum ARV of the prize award when it is procured and fulfilled, then
the difference will not be awarded to the winner. 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.
Winner
and guest shall be subject to any qualifying conditions prior to and during
travel and for any ski resort attendance, including any local, state or federal
government regulations in the departure or destination location, airline and/or
hotel requirements, or requirements including any regulation or policy related
to COVID-19 testing requirements or vaccination status. 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. Winner and guest are subject to vaccination
requirement and policy, and if unable or unwilling to comply with requirements,
then all related prize award elements for which they fail to meet shall be
forfeit.
Sponsor
will not be responsible for any 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, hotel, ski equipment, or other
travel provider (collectively “Travel Providers”) policy and shall solely look
to the Travel Providers as applicable.
Winner
and guest must be twenty-one (21) years old and agree to comply with all
applicable Travel Providers’ rules requirements,
and regulations in connection with the prize award, redemption, and use.
Sponsor and Travel Providers 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 guest shall be solely responsible
for their behavior while traveling, and must follow
the instructions and direction from any Travel Providers
or associated staff or security. If
winner or guest violates the standards of the Travel Providers, 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
Providers, or to be a security threat in any manner, the winner and guest shall
be ejected or denied entry, and shall immediately forfeit the remaining prize
award.
Allow 8 – 12 weeks for gift card 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. Winners
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: NOTE: 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. Total
ARV of all available prizes: $4,950.
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 this Sweepstakes constitutes permission for the
Sponsor and its designees to use entrants’ names, cities, counties, 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 release, discharge, indemnify, defend, and 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 Washington; (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 Washington, without
giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions
(whether of the State of Washington or any other jurisdiction), that would
cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Washington.
Odds: Odds of being selected as the 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
5/15/2026 to: Liquid Light Après Ski 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 Ste.
Michelle Wine Estates LLC, 14111 NE 145th Street, Woodinville, WA,
98072.
Sweepstakes Administrator:
The
Sweepstakes is administered by Million Dollar Media, P.O. Box 278, Woodbridge,
NJ 07095.