DELICATO FAMILY WINES WIN YOUR OWN BACKYARD BBQ BASH Text-to-Win SWEEPSTAKES - OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. NO ALCOHOL IS INCLUDED IN THE PRIZE(S). This Sweepstakes is sponsored by Delicato Family Wines, 12001 S. Highway 99, Manteca, CA 95336 (the "Sponsor").
The following individuals are not eligible: employees, contractors, directors and officers of Sponsor and each of its respective parent, affiliates, subsidiaries and web-design, advertising and promotion agencies, fulfillment, judging or other agency involved in the administration, development, fulfillment and execution of this Sweepstakes (collectively, "Parties"), and the immediate family members (parent, spouse, sibling, child, and their respective spouses or "step" of each, all lineal descendants, including those by adoption, regardless of where they reside) and those living in their same households whether or not related. Licensed distributors or retailers of alcoholic beverages, and their employees, are not eligible. Any individuals (including but not limited to employees, consultants, independent contractors, and interns) who, within the past six (6) months, performed services for Sponsor, agency or any organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the Sweepstakes or supplying the prize, and/or their respective parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, and successor companies, and immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or win. "Immediate family members" shall mean parents, stepparents, children, stepchildren, siblings, stepsiblings, or spouses. "Household members" shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year.
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Enter using your SMS-enabled mobile phone by texting "BBQBASH" to shortcode 55755. You (sometimes referred to herein as an Entrant) will receive a reply text message(s) prompting you to provide your date of birth (DOB), state abbreviation and full email address. After your age is confirmed, state verified and email address accepted, you will be automatically entered into the Sweepstakes. Limit one Entry per person or email address for the duration of the Entry Period. Participants must have a mobile phone with text messaging and web browsing capabilities, as may be applicable, to Enter and may incur a standard text message and/or data charge from their wireless service provider for each message sent and received. Check with your wireless service provider for details on these and other applicable charges. Participants are solely responsible for any such wireless charges. Not all wireless carriers participate. Texting Entrant must be the authorized account holder of the account from which the Entry is submitted. Entrant understands the text message sent is considered an electronic signature agreeing to the terms and to giving consent to receive automated text messages from Sponsor.
By participating in the Sweepstakes, Entrant agrees that Sponsor shall have the right to use all personal information provided to Sponsor in accordance with the privacy policy found at https://www.delicato.com/privacy-policy . At the time of Entry, Entrants might be given the opportunity to opt-in to receive further communications from Sponsor. Entrants are not required to opt-in and opting in will not improve your odds of winning. No more than four (4) messages per month, and in some months, there may be none. Entrant may text STOP to 55755 to stop receiving text messages.
ALTERNATIVE METHOD
BY MAIL: Instead of entering via text message, you may enter by mail by hand printing your full name, zip code, telephone number, email address and date of birth on a plain 3" x 5" card and mail it to: DFV2014557W Delicato Family Wines Sweepstakes, c/o Avid Marketing Group, P.O. Box 1008, Rocky Hill, CT 06067-1008. Group and mechanically reproduced Entries, including photocopies, are not eligible. Sponsor will not be responsible for late, lost, illegible, mutilated, incomplete, misdirected or postage due Entries.
Each Entrant may enter a maximum of one (1) time for the duration of the Entry Period regardless of method of Entry. Entrant agrees to comply with these Official Rules. The Sweepstakes and all content thereof is intended only for those who are of legal drinking age or older. Entrant should not share content with those who do not meet legal drinking age requirements. Entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged except as may be provided herein. By submitting an Entry, Entrant irrevocably grants Sponsor and its affiliates, legal representatives, assigns, agents and licensees, the unconditional and perpetual right and permission to reproduce, encode, store, copy, transmit, publish, post, broadcast, display, publicly perform, adapt, exhibit and/or otherwise use or reuse (without limitation as to when or to the number of times used), the Entry, including but not limited to, the right to use Entrant's name and picture/photo ("Likeness"), and/or statements regarding his/her participation in this Sweepstakes (with or without using the Entrant's name) in any and all media without limitation as to time or territory, and without additional compensation or approval from the Entrant or any other party. Entrant expressly waives any intellectual property rights, privacy/publicity rights or other legal or moral rights that might preclude the Sponsor's use of the Entry, and agrees not to sue or assert any claim against the Sponsor for the use of the Entry or Entrant's Likeness or statements.
Entrant agrees to indemnify and hold Sponsor, its agencies and Parties and their respective affiliates, officers, directors, agents, co-branders or other partners, and any of their employees (collectively, the "Indemnitees"), harmless from any and all claims, damages, expenses, costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) and liabilities (including settlements), brought or asserted by any third party against any of the Indemnitees due to or arising out of the Entrant's Entry, or the Entrant's conduct in creating an Entry or otherwise in connection with this Sweepstakes, including but not limited to claims for trademark infringement, copyright infringement; violation of an individual's right of publicity or right of privacy; or defamation. Entrant further agrees to forever release and discharge Sponsor from any and all claims that any advertising subsequently produced, presented, and/or prepared by or on behalf of Sponsor infringes Entrant's rights with regard to any elements, characters or ideas contained in any Entry.
If for any reason the Sweepstakes cannot run as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failure or other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify and/or suspend the Sweepstakes and to disqualify any individual who tampers with the Entry process, violates these Official Rules, or acts in a disruptive manner. Any attempt by an Entrant to deliberately damage any website involved in the Sweepstakes or to undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes may be in violation of criminal and/or civil laws and should such an attempt be made, the Sponsor reserves the right to seek remedies and damages, including attorneys' fees, from any such Entrant to the fullest extent of the law, including criminal prosecution. No responsibility is assumed by Sponsor for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alteration of Entries or any problems or technical malfunctions of any telephone network or lines, typographical or other errors, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or electronic Entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or on any website or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer related to, or resulting from, participation in or downloading any materials from this Sweepstakes. Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Sweepstakes, or in the announcement of the prizes. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it determines to be tampering with the Entry mechanism, to be violating these Official Rules or to be acting in a disruptive manner.
Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
No substitution or cash equivalent of prize is permitted except at Sponsor's sole discretion. Winner is responsible for any and all federal, state and local taxes or assessments, as well as any forms as may be required by said taxing authorities (e.g., IRS Form W-9). Any person winning over $600.00 in prizes will receive an IRS Form 1099 Miscellaneous from Sponsor for the calendar year in which any prize is awarded. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible Entries received.
This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated Visa.
In the event of dispute concerning the identity of an Entrant, the Entry will be deemed submitted by the natural person who is the authorized holder of the email account. Sponsor and its agencies are not responsible for notifications that are misdirected because of email addresses that are no longer correct, or for any other reason beyond the control of the Sponsor. Return of any prize notification as "undeliverable" will result in disqualification. If for any reason any prize is not claimed or a winner is disqualified, the prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected from among all eligible Entries received during the Entry Period.
Without limiting the foregoing, everything regarding the Sweepstakes, including any websites used in connection therewith and any prize awarded hereunder, are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement, all of which are expressly disclaimed by Sponsor and the Parties.
ADMINISTRATOR. Sweepstakes administrator is Avid Marketing Group 100 Corporate Place, Suite 200, Rocky Hill, CT 06067.