Cheeziños Junior Chef
Contest
2. Sponsor: Synop LLC DBA Minas Kitchen,
225 Matlage Way #1942, Sugar Land, Texas 77487.
4.
Timing: The Contest
begins on April 15, 2020 at 12:00 a.m. Central Time ("CT") and ends
on June 30, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. CT (the "Contest Period") and consists
of three (3) phases as set forth in the chart below.
Phase |
Start
Date (at 12:00 a.m. CT) |
End
Date (at 11:59 p.m. CT) |
Submission |
April 15, 2020 |
June 30, 2020 |
Voting |
April 15, 2020 |
July 15, 2020 |
Judging |
July 16, 2020 |
July 31, 2020 |
Twitter/Instagram/Facebook’s
and Sponsor’s computers are the official time-keeping devices for the Contest.
Participation Requirements: To participate, you will need to have a
Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram account (each a “Social Account”). Creating each Social Account is free but is
subject to the applicable terms and conditions:
http://twitter.com/tos,
https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms or http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/#.
Posting
on Instagram requires a mobile device and therefore message and data rates may
apply. If entering via a mobile device and using your wireless
carrier’s network, standard data charges from your wireless carrier may
apply. Your account settings on the
Social Account you use to enter must be set to "unprotected" and/or
"public" in order for your Tweets, Posts or
comments to Sponsor's post(s)s are viewable by Sponsor.
To participate via Method 5(d), you must
have a YouTube account (also a “Social Account”). YouTube accounts are free, but subject to
YouTube, LLC’s terms of service: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms. Your account settings must be set to “public”
in order for your videos to be viewable by Sponsor and
its agents. If you upload a video to
YouTube using your wireless phone, message and data rates may apply. Please consult your wireless-service
providers regarding its pricing plans.
During the Contest Period, make up to a
120 second video of your 6 to 12 year old child or
legal ward preparing and explaining his/her unique recipe using Cheeziños (“Video”). In the Video, the child must do all of the following:
Your Video must also follow and comply
with the Guidelines, Permissions and
Content Restrictions below.
Next, during the Contest Period, enter the Contest as
follows. Please make sure to post on at
least one (1) social channel AND email Sponsor as outlined below:
Post/Tweet Your Video on Social Media:
Post/Tweet your Video on one (1) or more of
the following social channels as follows:
(a) Via Facebook: Visit Cheeziños’s Facebook
page (https://www.facebook.com/mycheezinos/);
find Sponsor’s Contest post (“Post”); and comment on the Post with your Video
and the hashtag #CheezinosJuniorChefContest.
(b) Via
Instagram: Post your Video and the hashtag #CheezinosJuniorChefContest within the original Instagram caption and post.
Instagram
stories, or Instagram posts where the hashtag is included in a comment to the
original post, will not be deemed entries.
(c) Via
Twitter: Tweet your Video and the hashtag #CheezinosJuniorChefContest within the original Tweet.
ReTweets or Tweets where
the hashtag is included in
a reply to the original Tweet will not be deemed entries.
(d) Via YouTube:
Upload your Video to
YouTube and include the hashtag #CheezinosJuniorChefContest and “Cheeziños Junior
Chef Contest” in the Video’s title
AND
Email Sponsor: After posting and/or Tweeting Your Video, send an email to juniorchefcontest@cheezinos.com
and in the
email provide (a) your name and mailing address (no P.O. Boxes allowed); (b)
name and date of birth of child in Video; (c) if posted on Facebook, your
applicable social handle and if posted on Instagram, Twitter and/or YouTube, the
URL for each social post or Tweet.
Your Facebook
comment/Instagram post/Tweet and its included content, including the Video and
recipe, and your email will collectively be referred to as your submission
(“Submission”). By posting/Tweeting and
emailing your Submission, you agree that it conforms
Guidelines:
·
The Submission must be your and your child’s own, original work;
·
Cheeziños must be a recipe ingredient and a Cheeziños
product package must be visible in the Video for at least five (5) seconds;
·
The
Submission must meet the format and size requirements of the social platform
used to enter;
·
The
Submission must not exceed one hundred twenty (120) seconds in length;
·
The
Submission must
conform with any applicable social media platform terms, including YouTube’s
Community Guidelines (https://www.youtube.com/about/policies/#community-guidelines);
·
The
Submission cannot have been submitted previously in a promotion of any kind;
·
The Video must be in English; and
·
If entering via Method 5(d), the Submission is strongly
recommended to use YouTube automatic captioning.
Permissions: Entrant must have
permission from any recognizable individuals who appear in the Submission to
use their names and likenesses in the Submission and to grant the rights set
forth herein. Entrant must be the parent or legal guardian of any minor
included in the Submission. If
requested, entrant must be able to provide such permissions or proof in a form
acceptable to Sponsor.
Content
Restrictions:
·
The
Submission must not contain material that violates or infringes another’s
rights, including but not limited
·
The
Submission must not contain content created by a third party, such as music, images
or artwork.
·
The
Submission must not contain brand names or trademarks other than those owned by
Sponsor, which entrant has a limited license to use in his/her Submission in
this Contest;
·
The
Submission must not disparage Sponsor or any other person or party;
·
Submission
must not promote or reference alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, or
firearms/weapons or any political agenda;
·
The
Submission must not contain material that is inappropriate, offensive, indecent,
obscene,
·
The
Submission must not contain material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or
harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race,
gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age; and
·
The
Submission must not contain material that is unlawful, in violation of, or
contrary
6. Sponsor's Use of
Submissions: Posting
a Submission constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free,
irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify,
publish, create derivative works from, and display such submissions, including
the Video and recipe, in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to
incorporate it into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or
later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. If requested,
entrant will sign any documentation that may be required for Sponsor or its
designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant is granting to use
the Submission.
7. Winner Determination: Winners will be determined according to the process set
forth below.
Voting Phase: During
the Contest Period, persons who have a Social Account can vote
for the Submission they believe has the most public appeal by “liking” the
Submission. Limit: Each person may vote one (1) time per social
channel during the Contest Phase. Any attempt by any entrant or voter to obtain votes by any
fraudulent or inappropriate means, including without limitation, offering
prizes or other inducements to members of the public as determined by Sponsor
in its sole discretion, by using any automated program, by using multiple/different
Social Accounts, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods,
will void those votes for the entrant's Submission and entrant may be
disqualified as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. A public vote
tally will be used to determine the score for the Public Appeal criterion (included
in the Judging Criteria described below) for each entrant's Submission. If an
Entrant posts a Submission on more than one Social Account, the highest public
vote tally from 1 Social Account will be used for his/her Public Appeal score;
the tallies from the other Social Account(s) will not be used. Entrants who receive a higher number of votes
will receive a higher Public Appeal score. Sponsor reserves the right to revise
voting tallies or not consider the score generated for the Public Appeal
criterion for purposes of determining the winners should the voting appear to
have been tampered with or manipulated in any way
Judging Phase: During the Judging Phase, a panel of qualified judges, determined by Sponsor
in its sole discretion, will select the five (5) entrants with the highest-scoring
Submissions ("Winners") based on the following Judging Criteria:
·
Recipe
Originality (30%);
·
Recipe
Selling Points (e.g., how easy to make, appealing to kids and adults)
(20%);
·
Preparation and final presentation of recipe in
Video (20%);
·
Quality and Creativity of Video (20%); and
·
Public Appeal (10%).
Subject to the entrants’ compliance with these Official Rules,
the entrant whose
Submission receives highest score will be deemed
the potential Grand Prize winner. The
four (4) entrants whose Submissions received the next highest scores,
respectively, are the potential First Prize, Second
Prize, Third Prize, and Fourth Prize winners. In the event of a tie, the entrant whose Submission
received the highest score for "Recipe Originality," as determined by the qualified judges in their
sole discretion, will be deemed the applicable potential winner
from amongst the tied entrants. Sponsor reserves the right to select fewer than five (5) winners,
if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient
number of eligible and qualified Submissions. Sponsor will not disclose judging scores.
8. Winner Requirements: Each potential winner will be notified
by email from juniorchefcontest@cheezinos.com on or about August 3, 2020 and will be required to provide his/her
date of birth and his/her relationship to the child in the Video to confirm
eligibility and for prize fulfillment purposes within three (3) days of the
date notice or attempted notice is sent to claim the prize. If a potential
winner of any prize cannot be contacted, fails provide any of the requested
information, within the required time period, or the prize is returned as undeliverable,
the potential winner forfeits his/her/the prize. If a potential winner is disqualified
for any reason, the prize may be
awarded to a runner-up, if any, in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Only three (3) alternate winners may be determined, after
which the applicable prize will remain un-awarded.
9. Prizes: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: A $500
check payable to winner. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $500.
ONE (1) FIRST PRIZE: A $250
check payable to winner. ARV: $250.
ONE (1) SECOND PRIZE: A $100 check
payable to winner. ARV: $100.
ONE (1) THIRD PRIZES: A $75
check payable to winner. ARV: $75.
ONE (1) FOURTH PRIZE: A $75 check payable to winner. ARV: $75.
Prizes are non-transferable,
and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s
sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right
10.
Release: By participating
in the Contest, each entrant agrees to release and hold harmless the Sponsor, Twitter,
Inc., Instagram Inc., Facebook, Inc., YouTube, LLC, Merkle
Inc., and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates,
suppliers, distribu
11. Publicity: Acceptance
of any prize shall constitute and signify each winner’s agreement and consent
that Sponsor and its designees may use the winner’s name, city, state,
likeness, photo, including winner’s Social Account profile photo, Submission,
and/or prize information in connection with the Contest for promotional,
advertising or other purposes, worldwide, in any and all media now known or
hereafter devised, including the Internet, without limitation and without
further payment, notification, permission or other consideration, except where
prohibited by law.
12. Ownership of Submission: Each
winner shall irrevocably grant, transfer, convey and assign to Sponsor the
entirety of the rights in and to the Submission and all renewals and extensions
of copyright, and the right to secure copyright registrations thereto in
perpetuity including, without limitation, the rights to use the Submission for
any and all purposes in any and all media whether now known or hereafter
developed, on a worldwide basis, in perpetuity. Each winner accepts and
acknowledges that Sponsor shall not be obligated to use the Submission and that
Sponsor in its sole discretion shall have the right to refrain from using the
Submission. Sponsor shall not incur any liability whatsoever to the extent
Sponsor chooses to refrain from any exploitation of its rights hereunder. Each
winner will indemnify Sponsor, Released
Parties, and any licensee of Sponsor against all claims, damages,
liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and legal
expenses) arising out of any breach of these terms.
13.
General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify
the Contest if any fraud, technical failures, human error, any other factor
impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Contest, 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 Contest, including but not limited
to fulfillment of the prize(s), as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. If terminated, Sponsor may, in its sole
discretion, determine the winner(s) from among all non-suspect eligible Entries
received up to the time of such action using the judging procedure outlined
above. Sponsor may also modify the
prizes offered. In addition, Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any
individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of
the Contest or to be acting in violation of the Official Rules of this or any
other promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner and void all
associated entries. Any attempt by any
person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be
a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made,
Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages and other remedies (including
attorneys’ fees) 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.
14.
Limitations of Liability: Released Parties are
not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether
caused by entrant, printing,
typographical or other errors or by
any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest;
(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 Submission
process or the Contest; (4) printing,
typographical, technical, computer, network or human error which may occur in the administration of
the Contest, the
uploading, the processing or judging of Submissions, the
announcement of the prizes or in any Contest-related materials; (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 Contest
or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. Released Parties are
not responsible for misdirected or undeliverable Submissions or
for any technical problems, malfunctions of computer systems, servers,
providers, hardware/software, lost or unavailable network connections or
failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmission or any combination
thereof. Released
Parties are not responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of any
Submission.
15. Disputes: Except where
prohibited, each entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and
causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest or any prize
awarded shall be resolved individually,
without resort
16. Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected from entrant is
subject
17.
Winner List: For a winner list, visit https://cheezinos.com/.
The winner list will be posted
after winner confirmation is complete.
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