OFFICIAL RULES OF THE
CAMILLUS® “Are You Ready for the Hunt?” FACEBOOK GIVEAWAY
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
TO ENTER OR WIN
ENTRY INTO THIS SWEEPSTAKES CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
1. CAMILLUS® “Are You
Ready for the Hunt?” FACEBOOK GIVEAWAY (“Sweepstakes”) begins September
12th, 2016 12:00:00 am ET and ends October 30, 2016 11:59:59 pm ET.
2. Sponsor: Acme
United Corporation, 55 Walls Drive, Fairfield CT 06824
3. Eligibility:
Except where prohibited by law, the Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of
the United States (including the District of Columbia) who are 18 and older at
time of entry. Void in Puerto Rico. Employees of the Sponsor, their affiliates,
subsidiaries, advertising, promotion and production agencies, including those
entities’ respective officers, directors, shareholders, representatives,
agents, counsel, successors, and assigns (“Sponsor’s Affiliates”), as well as
employees’ immediate family members and persons living in the same household as
an employee, are not eligible to enter.
4. Acknowledgement of
Participants: Each entrant to the Sweepstakes (“Participant”)
acknowledges and agrees: (a) to be bound by these Official Rules; (b) that the
decisions of the Sponsor are final and binding on all matters relating to the
Sweepstakes; (c) that he/she is eligible to participate; (d) that the terms and
conditions of the Sweepstakes are subject to change; and (e) any Participant
who does not comply with the rules will be disqualified without recourse.
Participation in this Sweepstakes constitutes Participant’s full and
unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these official rules and Sponsor’s
website privacy policy
(http://www.camillusknives.com/Footer/Privacy+Policy/Privacy+Policy/574). Participants
must follow the entry instructions and provide complete, accurate, and truthful
information in his or her entry.
5. How to enter:
There is no entry fee and no limit on the amount of times a Participant may
enter the Sweepstakes. Sweepstakes Participants must enter the Sweepstakes
through Facebook®. No entries may be submitted by mail and any such entries
will be considered void.
6. Winner Selection:
Winners will be selected in a random drawing of all eligible Participants on
the following dates: October 7, October 21 and October 30, 2016 (each a
“Drawing Date”) for a total of three (3) winners (each a “Winner,” collectively
“Winners”). Winners will be notified by email. After the notification, the
Winners may be sent a Publicity Release, an Affidavit of Eligibility, as well
as any other documents the Sponsor deems necessary (collectively the “Prize
Notification Documents”). Each Winner must sign, complete, and return to the
Sponsor, any Prize Notification Documents within two weeks of being notified as
a winner. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
All decisions of the Sponsor are final and binding in all matters relating to
the Sweepstakes, including the selection of Winners.
7. Prize: One
of three (3) identical prizes will be awarded on each Drawing Date for a total
of three (3) prizes and three (3) corresponding Winners. Each prize will
consist of the following with a total retail value of $133.99: one (1) Soar
fixed blade knife; one (1) M12 Bayonet fixed blade knife; one (1) M13 machete
and one (1) Rage folding knife (the “Prize”). The combined total retail value
of the three Prizes is $401.97.
8. Prize Redemption:
Prizes will be mailed to Winners upon completion of any required Prize
Notification Documents. The Winners shall solely be responsible for paying any
and all taxes, fees, and other charges, including withholding tax, associated
with winning a Prize that may be required by the laws or regulations of any
federal, state, territorial, or local government of the United States. In
addition, the Winners must comply with any local, state or federal laws
associated with accepting the Prize. The Prize is non-refundable,
non-assignable, non-transferable, and not redeemable for cash. The Sponsor
reserves the right to substitute the Prize (or a prize element) with one of
equal or greater value in case of unavailability or factors out of its control.
One (1) Prize per person, per email address.
9. Applicable Law:
The laws of the State of Connecticut shall govern this Sweepstakes, without
regard to Connecticut’s choice of law rules. The courts of Connecticut shall be
the exclusive forum for any dispute relating to these Rules and/or this
Sweepstakes. All Participants and winners agree, by their participation in the Sweepstakes,
to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts of Connecticut. Prizes may
be considered income, and any and all taxes associated with prizes are
responsibility of winner.
10. RELEASES BY
PARTICIPANTS AND WINNERS: Participants accept all the risk and consequences
of their entry and participation in this Sweepstakes and agree to release and
hold harmless the Sponsor, Sponsor’s Affiliates and Facebook® from any and all
consequences, liability, losses, damages (including without limitation, consequential,
punitive, incidental, special, or increased damages, and those related to
personal injury, death, or damage to property) and costs and expenses, of any
kind including reasonable attorneys’ fees, under any legal theory, arising from
or related to this Sweepstakes, including but not limited to their entry and
participation in the Sweepstakes, the acceptance of the Prize, printing errors,
and any claims based upon the rights of publicity, invasion of privacy, damage
to any computer system and defamation, even if the Sponsor, Sponsor’s
Affiliates or Facebook® were aware of the possibility of any such consequences,
losses, damages, etc. Without limitation, all Participants agree that the
Sponsor, Sponsor’s Affiliates and Facebook® shall not be liable for any claims,
damages, losses, costs, or expenses, of any kind, arising from or related to
circumstances beyond their reasonable control, including but not limited to
events of nature, acts of government, acts of terror, acts of war, civil
unrest, computer bugs, viruses or other technological related damages, labor
shortages and/or strikes, even if the Sponsor, Sponsor’s Affiliates or
Facebook® was aware of the possibility of any such events occurring.
Participants and the Winners further agrees to release the Sponsor, Sponsor’s
Affiliates and Facebook® from any and all claims that any advertising
subsequently produced, presented, and/or prepared by or on behalf of the
Sponsor infringes a Participant’s rights with regard to any elements,
characters, or ideas contained in any entry.
Participants are responsible for complying with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations and with these Sweepstakes Rules, and by entering, Participants agree to be bound to these Sweepstakes rules.
11. Facebook®:
This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or
associated with Facebook®. Any questions, comments or complaints regarding the
promotion shall be directed to Sponsor, and not Facebook®. You understand that
you are providing your information to Sponsor and not to Facebook® or its
affiliates. The information you provide will only be used for administering the
Sweepstakes and in accordance with these Official Rules. If you click “Allow”
in Request for Permission window appearing after you click “Enter” you’ll be
providing ongoing consent to Sponsor’s promotions application, which may offer
other promotions in addition to this one. You may change this consent at any
time through your Facebook® or Camillus® privacy and email settings.
12. Sponsor’s Rights
Toward Winner: Sponsor may, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable
law and in its sole discretion, change these rules or cancel the Sweepstakes at
any time or modify, terminate, or suspend the Sweepstakes should viruses,
worms, bugs, unauthorized human intervention or other causes beyond our control
corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the
sweepstakes or submission of entries. Sponsor is not responsible for: (a) lost,
misdirected, late, incomplete, or unintelligible entries or for inaccurate
entry information, whether caused by Participant or by any of the equipment or
programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes, or by any technical
or human error that may occur in the processing of entries; (b) any printing or
typographical errors in any materials associated with the Sweepstakes; (c) any
error in the operation or transmission, theft, destruction, unauthorized access
to, or alteration of, entries, or for technical, network, telephone, computer,
hardware or software, malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of,
or failure to receive any entry information on account of technical problems or
traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website; or (d) injury or damage
to Participants or any other computer resulting from downloading any materials
in connection with the sweepstakes. Sponsor may, in its sole discretion,
disqualify any individual found to be: (x) tampering with the entry process or
the operation of the Sweepstakes or website; (y) acting in violation of these
rules; or (z) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or with intent
to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. If a Participants entry
is incomplete or if he or she uses robotic, automatic, programmed or similar
entry methods, such Participants entry will be void. The authorized subscriber
of the e-mail account used to enter the Sweepstakes at the actual time of entry
will be deemed to be the Participant and must comply with these rules in the
event of a dispute as to entries submitted by multiple users having the same
e-mail account. The authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is
assigned an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider,
or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the
domains associated with the submitted e-mail addresses.
13. Non-Discrimination: The Sweepstakes is open to all eligible persons regardless of age, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, marital status, religion, or political beliefs.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN