Windy City LIVE’s Cancun Trip Giveaway

I.  NAME OF SPONSOR(S)

“Windy City LIVE” and WLS Television, Inc. (Hereinafter collectively referred to as “Sponsor”).

II.  ELIGIBILITY 

Open only to legal residents of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin; 18 years of age or older AS OF August 8, 2018 and must reside in one of the following counties: in Illinois - Lake, McHenry, DeKalb, Kane DuPage, Cook, Kendall, Will Grundy, Kankakee, La Salle; in Indiana - Lake, Porter, La Porte, Newton, Jasper; and in Wisconsin - Kenosha, Walworth, Racine.

Any individuals (including but not limited to employees, consultants, independent contractors, and interns) who have, within the past six months, performed services for WLS Television, Inc., any organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the Sweepstakes or supplying the prize, and/or their respective parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, and immediate family and household members of such individuals, are not eligible to enter or play.  "Immediate family members" shall mean parents, step-parents, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses.  "Household members" shall mean people who share the same residence at least three months a year.

III.  HOW AND WHEN TO ENTER

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY

To enter via Website: 

Entrants must go to the Windy City LIVE web site (http://www.WindyCityLIVE.com), click on the “Promotions” graphic and scroll down to the “Cancun Trip” Sweepstakes information to click the official entry link.  Entrants will be required to submit a first and last name, contact phone number, a valid email address. Entrants must also agree to the terms and conditions of the Sweepstakes.  

To enter via Facebook: 

Entrants must go to the Windy City LIVE Facebook page (http://www.Facebook.com/WindyCityLIVE) and click the link within the “Cancun Trip” post on the page.   Entrants will be required to submit a first and last name, contact phone number, a valid email address. Entrants must also agree to the terms and conditions of the Sweepstakes.  

Limit one (1) Entry per Facebook user.

Sweepstakes begins on August 8, 2018 at 1:00PM Central Time (CT) and ends on August 13, 2018 CT, 6:00AM CT (“Promotion Period”).

For Facebook entries, you understand that you are providing your information to Sponsor and not to Facebook, and that this sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered or associated with Facebook.  Any questions, comments or complaints regarding this sweepstakes should be directed to Sponsor, and not Facebook. 

Sponsor can provide no technical support and accepts no responsibility for insuring the receipt or successful submission of your entry.  Mass entries or entries generated by a script, macro or use of automated methods will be disqualified.  Sponsor is not responsible for failed, partial or garbled computer transmissions, or for technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to electronic malfunction or damage of any network, hardware or software.  If for any reason the sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or other causes that corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the sweepstakes.  No responsibility is assumed 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, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or electronic entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web-site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation in or downloading any materials from this sweepstakes.  In the event of a dispute over an electronic entry, prize will be awarded to the owner of the e-mail account, not the name on the entry form.  Except as otherwise contemplated by these Rules, and to the extent entrants may otherwise elect at the time of Entry, information provided by you for these Sweepstakes is subject to Sponsor’s privacy policy located at https://disneyprivacycenter.com/privacy-policy-translations/english (“Privacy Policy”).

Entries remain the property of Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged. 

During the entry process, you may be asked to consent to receive promotional and marketing emails from ABC, ESPN and/or other members of the Walt Disney family of companies or prize suppliers.  Consenting to receive promotional, marketing or reminder emails is optional, does not have to be agreed to in order to be eligible to enter the Sweepstakes and does not improve your chances of winning.  In the event you do consent to receive these emails, the use of such emails shall be subject to ABC’s Privacy Policy, available at www.disneyprivacycenter.com.  During the entry process, you may be asked to “like” Sponsor’s Facebook page.  Consenting to “like” Sponsor’s Facebook page is optional and does not improve your chances of winning.

By clicking the check box next to the statement: “I have read and accept these Official Rules,” and the submit button, you signify that you have read and agree to these official rules and meet the eligibility requirements.  If you do not check the box indicating your confirmation of and agreement to the above, then you will not be entered in the sweepstakes and cannot win a prize.

IV.  HOW AND WHEN WINNERS WILL BE SELECTED AND NOTIFIED 

One (1) Grand Prize Winner will be selected at random on or about 10:30am CT, August 13, 2018 from all valid entries. 

Winner will be notified by e-mail and/or phone on about 10:45AM CT, August 13, 2018.

Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

Final determination of winner is always conditional on verification of eligibility and compliance with all rules and procedures. 

In the event winner is deemed ineligible, fails to comply with Sweepstakes procedures, or is not available to claim prize during specified dates, then an alternate winner will be selected at random, time permitting.

Limit one prize per winner for this Sweepstakes; People who have won any other prizes on station within 90 days of entry are not eligible to enter this Sweepstakes.  

Odds of winning depend on number of valid entries received.

Final determination of winners are always conditional on verification of eligibility and compliance with all rules and procedures. 

V.  PRIZE(S)

Grand Prize winner will receive one (1) Cancun Vacation Getaway package which includes: Two (2) round-trip air fares from Chicago, IL to Cancun, Mexico on an airline of Winner’s choosing valued up to $750.00 each; one (1) 7-night stay at the TRS Coral Hotel in Costa Mujeres, Mexico in a room to be assigned by hotel; one (1) round-trip airport transportation in Cancun; ARV of Prize: $7150.00 US.

Winner and Guest must be at least 18 years of age as of August 8, 2018. Winner and guest must stay in the same room on the same itinerary.  All bookings must be made through travAlliancemedia group. Once requested dates are received a confirmation can take up to 48 hours to be processed and is subject to availability and holiday black-out periods. This award has no monetary value. It is strictly non-transferable.

Spa treatments and any special services are additional costs that are the responsibility of prize Winner and/or Guest.

US Citizens are required to possess a valid US Passport to travel to/from Mexico. All costs of obtaining a passport are the responsibility of prize Winner and Guest.

Final actual value at time of booking and travel may be substantially more or less depending on dates of travel, point of origin and ticket availability.  Some restrictions apply.  Sponsor reserves the right to structure travel route, on a Sponsor-selected carrier for air travel from a major airport near winner’s residence, in its sole discretion.  All aspects of the travel portion of the prize must be conducted on the dates within the range of options provided by Sponsor in its sole discretion.  Sponsor shall not be responsible for any cancellations, delays, diversions or substitution or any act or omissions whatsoever by the air carriers, hotels and/or other transportation companies or any other persons providing any of these services or accommodations.  Sponsor shall not be liable for any loss or damage to baggage.  Winner must possess all required travel documents, including a valid photo ID.

If winner elects to travel without a guest(s), no additional compensation will be awarded.  Each winner and his or her companions must travel together on the same itinerary and possess all required travel documents, including a valid photo ID.

If a Prize trip is outside the U.S., winner and guest(s) (if applicable) are solely responsible for obtaining all necessary travel documents including passports and visas.  For information on what documents are needed to travel internationally and/or into the United States from abroad, please visit the U.S. State Department's website www.travel.state.gov and/or the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's website www.dhs.gov.

All expenses not specifically provided for herein are the winner’s sole responsibility.  Some restrictions may apply.

Federal, state and local taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winner, who will receive an IRS Form 1099 reflecting the final actual value of any prize valued at $600 or more.

 

Winners are not entitled to exchange or transfer prizes or to obtain cash or other substitutes, but Sponsor in its sole discretion may substitute prizes of equal or greater value.

VI.  RELEASES

By participating, entrants agree to be bound by these Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, Judges and/or the Sweepstakes administrator, which shall be final in all respects.

By participating in this Sweepstakes and accepting any prize that they may win, entrants agree to release “Windy City LIVE,” WLS Television, Inc., their parent, subsidiary, affiliated and successor companies, advertising and promotion agencies and prize suppliers, including but not limited to Mexico Tourism Board, Palladium Hotel Group and TravelPulse.com, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, representatives and employees, as well as each of their respective successors, representatives and assigns, and Facebook (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any and all actions, claims, injury, loss or damage arising in any manner, directly or indirectly, from participation in this Sweepstakes and/or acceptance or use of the prize.

Winners agree that the Released Parties have not made nor are in any manner responsible or liable for any warranty, representation or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to any prize, including but not limited to its quality, mechanical condition or fitness for a particular purpose. Any and all warranties and/or guarantees on a prize, if any, are subject to the manufacturer’s terms and therefore winners agree to look solely to such manufacturers for any such warranty and/or guarantee.

Entrants authorize the Released Parties to use their name, voice, likeness, biographical data, city and state of residence and entry materials in programming or promotional material, worldwide in perpetuity, or on a winners’ list, if applicable, without further compensation unless prohibited by law.  Sponsor is not obligated to use any of the above mentioned information or materials, but may do so and may edit such information or materials, at Sponsor’s sole discretion, without further obligation or compensation.

To claim prize, winner may be required to: (a) provide proof of age, identity and residency; (b) sign and return affidavit of eligibility/compliance with Rules and publicity/liability release and indemnification; and (c) have their intended guest(s) or travel companion(s), if any, sign liability/publicity release, all within the time period specified by Sponsor.

VII.  MISCELLANEOUS; WINNERS’ LIST 

Void where prohibited.  All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process and to cancel, terminate, modify and/or suspend the Sweepstakes in the event of tampering or other circumstances, including but not limited to acts of God or civil disturbance that render it impractical or impossible to complete or fulfill the Sweepstakes as originally planned.

List of winners and these Rules will be posted on WindyCityLIVE.com for at least 30 days after winner(s) are notified or announced.