2018 Lake Charles, Louisiana Facebook Southern Hospitality Getaway Sweepstakes
OFFICIAL RULES
OPEN ONLY TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ("U.S.")
WHO ARE 21 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
1. ELIGIBILITY: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR CLAIM PRIZE. PURCHASE WILL NOT
IMPROVE CHANCES OF WINNING. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of
Columbia ("U.S.") who are 21 years of age or older at time of entry. Employees, officers and directors of
Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana Convention & Visitors Bureau ("Sponsor"), its parents, subsidiaries,
affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, webmasters/suppliers, and members of the immediate
families (spouse, children, parents, siblings) and persons living in the same household (whether or not
related) of such employees, officers and directors are not eligible. Void in Quebec and where prohibited.
2. PROMOTION PERIOD: The Promotion begins on September 11, 2018 and ends at 11:59 pm PST on
September 15, 2018.
3. TO ENTER: To enter this sweepstakes, visit https://woobox.com/bo97qb ("Web Site"), and access
the sweepstakes entry form. Complete the entry form and submit as directed. Entries must be received
by Sponsor's server by 11:59 pm CST on September 15, 2018. Sponsor's server is the official clock for this
promotion. Limit one entry per person. A second entry will be awarded provided a separate
sweepstakes email is successfully delivered by Sponsor to the email address entered in the “Friend’s
Email Address” field of the sweepstakes entry form.
4. DRAWING/PRIZE: A random drawing will be conducted by Sponsor after October 22, 2016 from
among all eligible entries received. The winner will be contacted via e-mail provided from the entry
page. The winner will be given 48 hours to respond to the message to claim the prize. Should the winner
fail to contact the Sponsor within that time frame, an alternate winner may be chosen and given the
same amount of time to claim the prize. This process will be repeated until a winner is contacted with
the winner being awarded the following prize:
(1) Grand Prize(s): Package(s) include: Two (2) night stay at Holiday Inn Express and Suites Sulphur, LA, dinner two (2) at
Rosewater Grill & Tavern, $100 to play and $100 to Lagniappe gift shop at Delta Downs Racetrack
Casino, golf for two (2) at The Country Club at Golden Nugget, dinner for two (2) at Otis & Henry’s at Isle
of Capri Casino, and a $300 gift certificate to Spa du Lac at L’Auberge Casino Resort. All certificates valid at least
until October 1, 2019. No cash value if not redeemed. Winner must be at least 21 years old to redeem
prize. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with
Facebook. You are providing your information to Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana Convention &
Visitors Bureau, not to Facebook. Subject to availability. Some restrictions apply. Package expires
October 1, 2019. If winner cannot accept prize as stated, prize will be forfeited in its entirety. All
expenses not specified are winner's sole responsibility. Winner will be notified by email. Please add
eeustis@visitlakecharles.org to your "safe senders" list to ensure the email notification is delivered to
your inbox. Odds of winning will be determined by the number of entries received.
5. GENERAL: All taxes on prizes and expenses relating to acceptance and use of prizes and not
specified are the sole responsibility of winners. By participating, entrants (and entrant's parent/legal
guardian if entrant is a minor in his/her jurisdiction of residence) agree a) to these rules and decisions of
Sponsor which shall be final and binding in all respects and in all matters relating to this promotion; b) to
release, discharge, indemnify and agree to hold harmless Sponsor, its advertising and promotion
agencies and all of their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, agencies, agents and representatives
and all of their respective employees, officers and directors (individually and collectively "Releasees")
from any liability or responsibility whatsoever for any claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages (whether
due to negligence or otherwise) of any kind (including, without limitation, claims, costs, injuries, losses
and damages related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss of or destruction of property, or rights
of publicity or privacy), arising out of or in connection with the promotion or from their acceptance,
possession, use or misuse of any prize, or participation in the promotion or any promotion related
activity or travel related activity; and c) if a winner, by acceptance of prize, to the announcement/use of
name, voice, image and/or likeness, at any time or times, for trade, advertising, publicity and
promotional purposes without compensation (unless prohibited by law) by Sponsor and those acting
pursuant to Sponsor's direction, in all media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide, including
but not limited to the World Wide Web, without notice, review or approval and agrees to execute
specific consent to such use if asked to do so. In no event will Releasees be responsible or liable for any
damages or losses of any kind, whether direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive or other
damages. Winner (and winner's parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor in his/her jurisdiction of
residence) will be required to complete an affidavit of eligibility, liability and (where legal) publicity
release, which must be returned within time period specified by Sponsor or prize may be forfeited. If
any prizes or documents are returned as non-deliverable, or if a winner is found to be ineligible or not in
compliance with these Official Rules, winner will be disqualified and prize forfeited and an alternate
winner selected. If winner is not of the age of majority in his/her state of residence, prize may be
awarded in the name of or to parent or legal guardian (as solely determined by Sponsor) who must
execute all documents and agree to all undertakings of winner set forth in these Official Rules or prize
may be forfeited. Releasees are not responsible and shall not be liable for: a) telephone, electronic,
hardware or software or program, network, or Internet or computer malfunction, or any
communications accessibility, availability or lines, or technical errors of any kind or by any human error
which may occur in the processing of entries, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry or other
information, or the failure to capture, or loss of, any such or similar information; b) failed, incomplete,
garbled, corrupted or delayed computer transmissions; c) lost, late, misdirected, mutilated, incomplete,
illegible entries or postage-due mail, entries or email; or d) any condition caused by events that may
cause the promotion to be disrupted or corrupted. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to
cancel or suspend the promotion or any portion thereof should computer hardware or software
malfunctions (such as but not limited to virus, bugs, worms, tampering, unauthorized intervention,
fraud, technical failures) or any other causes corrupt the administration, security or proper play of the
promotion, and select the winners from entries received prior to the action taken or in such other
manner as deemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor.
6. ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS: Releasees are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate
information, whether caused by Web Site users, tampering, hacking or by any of the equipment or
programming associated with or utilized in the promotion and assume no responsibility for any error,
omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure,
theft or destruction or technical error or unauthorized access to the Web Site. Sponsor reserves the
right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or
the operation of the promotion or Web Site; to be acting in violation of the Official Rules; to be acting in
violation of the terms of the Web Site, or to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or
with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Releasees are not responsible for
injury or damage to participants' or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from
participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading materials or programs or software to any computer, or
downloading materials from or use of the Web Site. Any use of robotic, automatic, macro, programmed,
third party, or like entry methods, will disqualify all entries using such methods. No more than the stated
number of prizes will be awarded. Entry information and entries become property of Sponsor. In case of
dispute, the authorized subscriber of email account used to enter the Promotion, at actual time of entry,
will be deemed to be participant and must comply with these Official Rules. Authorized account
subscriber is deemed to be natural person who is assigned an email address by an Internet Access
Provider, online service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses.
No prize transfer or cash redemption or substitution, but Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize
with prize of equal or greater value should prize become unavailable.
IN NO EVENT WILL RELEASEES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND,
INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF
YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF INTERNET SITE WWW.VISITLAKECHARLES.ORG OR THE DOWNLOADING
FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM SAID SITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE
FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME
JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OR LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE
LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY
RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.
7. PRIVACY: Information submitted with an entry is subject to the Privacy Policy stated on the Web
Site. To read the Policy access the Web Site and click on the link- http://bit.ly/117b7H1.
8. ARBITRATION/CHOICE OF LAW: Except where prohibited, entrants (and entrant's parent/legal
guardian if entrant is a minor) agree that: (1) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising
out of or connected with this promotion, or any prize awarded, or the determination of the winner, shall
be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by arbitration
pursuant to the Rules of the American Arbitration Association, then effective, and (2) any and all claims,
judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated
with entering this promotion 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 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/or Sponsor in connection with the promotion, shall be
governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Arizona, without regard for
conflicts of law doctrine, and all proceedings shall take place in the State of Arizona.
9. WINNERS LIST: For a list of major winners, mail a self-addressed, stamped envelope to be received by
November 15 to: 2018 Southern Hospitality Giveaway Sweepstakes , 1205 N Lakeshore Dr. Lake Charles,
LA 70601.
Sponsor: Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana Convention & Visitors Bureau