Clorox’s Stand with Teachers Sweepstakes
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT
INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
1. Eligibility: Clorox’s Stand with Teachers Sweepstakes
(the “Sweepstakes”) is open only to legal
residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are at
least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Employees of The Clorox Company (“Sponsor”),
Merkle Inc. (“Administrator”), Ketchum, Inc., and their parent and affiliate
companies as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and
children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. The
Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and
regulations and is void where prohibited. Participation constitutes entrant’s,
school’s and school representative’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules. Sponsor’s and Administrator’s decisions are final and binding in all matters
related to the Sweepstakes. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling
all requirements set forth herein.
2. Sponsor: The Clorox Company,
1221 Broadway, Oakland, CA, 94612. Administrator:
Merkle Inc., 3000 Town Center, Suite 2100, Southfield, MI 48075.
3. Timing: The
Sweepstakes begins on July 20, 2020 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET")
and ends on September 20, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the "Promotion
Period"). Sponsor’s computer is the
official time-keeping device for the Sweepstakes.
4. How to Enter:
During the Promotion Period,
go to www.Clorox.com/Support-Our-Teachers and then follow the links and
instructions to complete and submit the registration form including your full
name and valid email address. You will automatically receive one (1)
entry into the Sweepstakes.
Limit: You may enter one (1) time during the
Promotion Period. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by
using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that entrant's
entries and that entrant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to
participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder
of the email address used to
register will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized 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. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being an authorized account holder.
Bonus Sweepstakes Entry Opportunities: There are two (2) opportunities:
- Twitter Share: After
you enter the
Sweepstakes, follow the links
and instructions to click on
the Tweet button to tweet a message about the Sweepstakes on
Twitter. By doing so, you will receive one (1) bonus Sweepstakes entry. Limit: one (1) bonus Sweepstakes
entry during the Promotion Period via this method, subject to overall
limit below.
Your Twitter
Share message must be posted to your Twitter account (as applicable) through
the Sweepstakes website www.Clorox.com/Support-Our-Teachers. If you share the Sweepstakes through any
other means, including directly to your personal feed, you will not earn bonus
Sweepstakes entries.
- Mail-In Method:
After you enter the Sweepstakes and to earn bonus entries without sharing
on Twitter, hand print your name, home mailing address, phone number,
email address, and date of birth on a 3" x 5" piece of paper and
mail it in an envelope with proper postage to “Clorox’s Stand with Teachers Sweepstakes,” c/o Merkle
Inc., P.O. Box 5011,
Department 844886, Kalamazoo, MI 49003-5011, You
will receive one (1) bonus entry into the Sweepstakes. Limit: one (1) bonus Sweepstakes entry
during the Promotion Period via this method, subject to the overall limit
below. All mail-in bonus entries
must be handwritten and must be postmarked by September 21, 2020 and
received by September 28, 2020. All
entries become the exclusive property of Sponsor and none will be
acknowledged or returned. Proof of
sending or submission will not be deemed to be proof of receipt by
Sponsor. Sponsor is not responsible
for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, illegible,
misdirected or postage-due entries, which will be disqualified.
Bonus Entry Limit: You may only earn up to one (1) bonus entry
during the Promotion, regardless of opportunity or combination of opportunities
used. Any attempt by any entrant to
obtain more than the stated number of bonus entries will
void that entrant's entry and bonus entries and that entrant may
be disqualified.
5. Drawings:
Administrator is an independent
judging organization whose decisions as to
the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes and the selection of the potential winners are final and binding in all
matters related to the Sweepstakes. Administrator
will randomly select the potential Sweepstakes winners from all eligible entries
received during the Promotion Period, on or around October 2, 2020. The potential winners will be notified by email. Each potential Grand and First Prize winner (or
parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor in his/her state of residence)
will be required to sign and return
a Declaration of Compliance, Liability Waiver and where not prohibited a Publicity
Release ("Declaration") which must be received by Administrator within
seven (7) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, in order to claim his/her prize. Further, each Grand Prize winner will be required
to designate a U.S. K-12 public school and provide the contact info for the school,
its principal and the school district’s superintendent, including valid email
addresses, within seven (7) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent. An authorized representative of each potential
winning school will be required to sign and return a Declaration which must be
received by Administrator within thirty (30) days of the date notice or
attempted notice is sent, in order to accept the applicable prize. Each potential Second Prize winner will be
required to provide or confirm his/her
home mailing address (P.O. Boxes not permitted) and date of birth to confirm
eligibility and for purposes of prize fulfillment within seven (7) days of the date
notice or attempted notice is sent, in order to
claim his/her prize. If a potential winner of any prize, or a designated
school, cannot be contacted, fails to
sign and return the Declaration or provide any other requested information within
the required time period (if applicable), is disqualified for any reason, or
the prize is returned as undeliverable, the potential winner or the designated
school forfeits the applicable prize. Receiving
a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules. In the event that a potential individual winner
is disqualified for any reason or forfeits the prize, Sponsor will award the applicable
prize to an alternate winner by
random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries. Only three (3) alternate drawings will be held,
after which the prize will remain un-awarded.
If a designated school is disqualified for any reason or forfeits the
prize, Sponsor will either request another designation by the applicable winner
or designate its own school. Prizes for
individuals will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after all individual
winners are confirmed. Prizes for
schools will be fulfilled approximately 12-14 weeks after all schools are
confirmed.
6. Prizes: THREE
(3) GRAND PRIZES: A $5,000 check payable to winner and a $20,000 check to the specific K-12 U.S. public school designated by the winner
and approved by the Sponsor. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $5,000
to the winner and $20,000 to the school.
TEN
(10) FIRST PRIZES: A $1,000 check payable to winner. ARV: $1,000.
THIRTY
(30) SECOND PRIZES: A $500 check payable to winner. ARV: $500.
Prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made
except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves
the right to substitute a prize for
one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable
for any reason. Winning
individuals and schools are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with their
respective prize receipt and/or use.
Odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entries received
during the Promotion Period. Limit: one
prize per person/per school. Total ARV
of all prizes: $100,000.
7. Release: By participating and/or receipt of any
prize, participants, winners, schools and school representatives agree to release
and hold harmless Sponsor, Ketchum, Inc., Administrator,
Twitter, Inc., and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize
suppliers, and each of their respective parent companies and each such company’s
officers, directors, employees and
agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or
cause of action, including, but not limited to,
personal injury, death, or damage to
or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt
or use or misuse of any prize.
8. Publicity:
Except where prohibited, participation in the Sweepstakes and/or acceptance of
any prize constitutes each winner’s, school’s and school representative’s agreement
and consent to Sponsor’s and its
agents’ use of winner’s, school’s or school representative’s name, likeness,
photograph, prize information, voice,
opinions and/or hometown and state
for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or
consideration.
9. General Conditions: Sponsor reserves
the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Sweepstakes, if any fraud, technical
failures, human error, or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper functioning
of the Sweepstakes, or any event or cause beyond Sponsor’s control (e.g. events
such as natural calamities, national emergencies, wide spread illnesses, declarations
of war, acts of God, acts of terrorism) interferes with any aspect of the Sweepstakes,
including but not limited to fulfillment of the prize(s), as determined by
Sponsor in its sole discretion. In such event, Sponsor, in its sole discretion,
may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up
to the date of discontinuance and may modify the prizes offered herein. Sponsor
reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds
to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or
to be acting in violation of the Official Rules of this or any other promotion
or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to
deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes may be a
violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made,
Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest
extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s
failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a
waiver of that provision.
10. Limitations
of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any
incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors
or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the
Sweepstakes; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in
phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention
in any part of the entry process or the Sweepstakes; (4) technical or human error
which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the processing of
entries; (5) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen
mail; or (6) any injury or damage to
persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in
part, from entrant’s participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for any reason an entrant's entry is confirmed
to have been erroneously deleted,
lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another
entry in the Sweepstakes, if it is possible. No more than the stated number of
prizes will be awarded. In the event
that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause
more than the stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the
right to award only the stated
number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, un-awarded, eligible
prize claims.
11. Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees
that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or
connected with this Sweepstakes or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Southern
Division) or the appropriate Michigan State Court located in Oakland County,
Michigan; (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, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (3) under no circumstances will
entrant be permitted to obtain
awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to
claim, indirect, 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 the entrant and Sponsor in
connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance
with, the laws of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether
of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the
application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Michigan.
12. Entrant's Personal
Information:
Information collected from entrants is subject to
Sponsor’s Privacy Policy https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/privacy/.
13. Winner List: For a winner list, visit https://bit.ly/2Amk0t6.
The winner list will be posted after winner confirmation is complete.
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This promotion is in no
way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Twitter, Inc.