OwnersBox™ Groceries Giveaway
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MAKING A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
1. Agreement
Please read these official rules (the “Official Rules”) carefully. They contain important information about your rights and obligations, as well as limitations and exclusions that may apply to you if you enter the OwnersBox™ Groceries Giveaway (the “Giveaway”) sponsored and promoted by OwnersBox 3.0 Corporation (the “Sponsor/Promoter”).
By participating in the Giveaway, you signify your agreement to these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor/Promoter. If you do not agree to the Official Rules, you may not enter the Giveaway.
2. Giveaway Period
The Giveaway shall begin at 12:00:01 AM Eastern Time (“ET”) on November 1, 2024 and end at 11:59:59 PM ET on November 30, 2024 (the “Giveaway Period”). Sponsor/Promoter’s database clock will be the official timekeeper for this Giveaway. The Giveaway consists of one (1) grand prize and thirty-five (35) additional prizes, which will take place on or about Monday, November 4, 2024 (as further described below).
3. Eligibility
The Giveaway is open only to current legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia (“DC”) in the United States of America, excluding Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and Washington (the “Excluded States”), who are at least eighteen (18) years of age or the age of majority in their province, territory or state of residence at the time of entry (“Participant,” “entrant” or “you”).
Employees, officers, directors, agents, or representatives, of the Sponsor/Promoter, each of their respective parent companies and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers of prizes, advertising and promotion agencies involved in the administration, development, fulfillment, and execution of this Giveaway (collectively, the “Giveaway Parties”), and the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) of, and/or those living in the same household of each, are not eligible to enter the Giveaway.
The Giveaway is subject to all applicable federal, provincial, territorial, state, municipal and local laws and regulations. If it is found that a person who does not meet the eligibility criteria set forth in these rules has submitted an entry, that entry may be deemed ineligible. Sponsor/Promoter reserves the right to verify eligibility requirements. Void in the Excluded States and where prohibited by law. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.
4. How to Enter
There are two (2) methods of entry into the Giveaway, as follows:
1. Purchase Method of Entry:
Visit https://ownersbox.com/ during the Giveaway Period and (i) login to your OwnersBox™ account, or (ii) create an account on OwnersBox™. To create an account on OwnersBox™, you will be required to provide your legal name (first name and surname), email address, date of birth, residential address (street number, street name, city, province, territory or state, postal or zip code, and country of residence), and create a username and password. By creating an OwnersBox™ account you acknowledge and agree to the OwnersBox™ Terms of Service: https://app.ownersbox.com/wfs/terms.
Once you have logged into your OwnersBox™ account, navigate to the Salary Cap NFL lobby (available at: https://app.ownersbox.com/wfs/lobby/daily/NFL). Select a contest with a grocery cart icon associated with it and build and submit a lineup with varying entry fees totaling anywhere between Zero U.S. Dollars (US $0.00) and Fifteen U.S. Dollars (US $15.00) (each, an “Eligible Purchase”). Participants will automatically receive one (1) entry into the Giveaway for every entry submitted on an Eligible Purchase.
2. No-Purchase (Mail-In) Method of Entry:
To enter without making a purchase:
(a) handwrite the following on the front of a 3” x 5” card: (i) the words: OwnersBox™ Groceries Giveaway, (ii) your first and last name, email address, date of birth, province, territory or state and country of residence, and (iii) a 150-word unique and original essay on your favorite football team or player; and
(b) insert the card into a #10 envelope and mail it, with sufficient postage, to: OwnersBox™ The Grocery Giveaway c/o 274 Shirley Avenue, Unit 201, Kitchener, Ontario, N2B 2E1 (each, a “Mail-in Submission”) Mail-In Submissions must be postmarked by October 31, 2024, and received (by the Sponsor, at the address listed herein) by November 4, 2024.
Limit of one (1) Mail-In Submission per envelope. Participants will receive ten (10) entries into the Giveaway for an eligible Mail-In Submission.
All Mail-In Entries must be handwritten and include all requested information (as stated above) to be eligible. Bulk shipments (multiple entries in one shipping package) will not be accepted and will be destroyed. Requests for confirmation of receipt of mail-in entries will not be acknowledged. No photocopies, facsimiles or reproductions of Mail-In Entries will be accepted. The Giveaway Parties are not responsible for late, lost, damaged, stolen, incomplete, illegible, postage due, or misdirected entries. Proof of mailing does not constitute proof of delivery.
Entry Limit: Limit of two thousand five hundred (2,500) entries per person during the Giveaway Period, regardless of entry method.
By entering the Giveaway, you signify your agreement to these Official Rules and the Sponsor/Promoter’s Privacy Policy. The Giveaway Parties are not responsible for lost, late, stolen, incomplete, inaccurate, invalid, unintelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected entries, all of which will be void. Entries which are incomplete, illegible, or fraudulent are null and void.
5. Prize/Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”)/Odds
There is one (1) grand prize (the “Grand Prize”) of groceries for a year*, and thirty-five (35) additional prizes available to be won (each a “Additional Prizes”). The Grand Prize and Additional Prizes may hereafter be referred to as a “Giveaway Prizes” or “prize”. The Giveaway Prizes consist of Kroger gift cards in varying denominations. Gift card terms and conditions may apply, see gift card for details.
Grand Prize: One (1) grand prize (the “Grand Prize”) is available to be won, consisting of groceries for a year*, valued at $5,200 USD in Kroger gift cards.
Additional Prizes: Thirty-five (35) prizes consisting of the following:
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Five (5) prizes consisting of Kroger gift cards valued at $1,000 each;
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Ten (10) prizes consisting of Kroger gift cards valued at $500 each;
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Twenty (20) prizes consisting of Kroger gift cards valued at $100 each
The ARV of the Grand Prize and Additional Prizes is $17,200 USD.
Giveaway Prize Conditions:
All expenses related to the acceptance or use of the Grand Prize or Additional Prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winner. Winners are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. The odds of winning a Giveaway Prize depend on the total number of eligible entries received.
No substitution of a prize will be allowed, except Sponsor/Promoter reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to substitute prize(s) of comparable value if listed prize is unavailable, in whole or in part, for any reason. The Giveaway Prizes are non-refundable, and no substitution or cash redemption will be made except as provided herein and at the Sponsor/Promoter's sole discretion. Sponsor/Promoter’s determinations regarding the awarding of the Grand Prize and the Additional Prizes is final. No prize substitutions except as provided herein.
All details and other restrictions of the Giveaway Prizes not specified in these Official Rules will be determined by Sponsor/Promoter in its sole discretion. Actual value of the Grand Prize and Additional Prizes under this Giveaway may be lower or higher at the time of its fulfillment, and any difference between actual value and the stated ARV (if actual value is lower than stated ARV) will not be awarded. The Grand Prize and Additional Prize ARV represents Sponsor/Promoter’s good faith determination, is final and binding and cannot be challenged or appealed. Sponsor/Promoter is not responsible if any element of the prize is delayed, postponed or cancelled for any reason.
Winners must be able to accept any Giveaway Prize as presented or the Giveaway Prize will be forfeited in its entirety and an alternate potential winner may be selected in Sponsor/Promoter's sole discretion. All other expenses not specified herein with respect to the Giveaway Prize are the sole responsibility of the winner.
Odds of Winning: The odds of winning will depend on the total number of eligible entries received during the Giveaway Period.
6. Winner Selection & Notification
Sponsor/Promoter will select one (1) potential winner for the Grand Prize in a drawing conducted at Sponsor/Promoter’s offices. Sponsor/Promoter’s decisions are final. One (1) potential winner for the Grand Prize will be randomly Selected from among all eligible entries received during the Giveaway Period on or about December 4, 2024.
Sponsor/Promoter will select one (1) potential winner for each Additional Prize in a drawing conducted at Sponsor/Promoter’s offices. Each Additional Prize will be randomly selected from among all eligible entries received during the Giveaway Period on or about November 4, 2024.
Sponsor/Promoter will contact the potential winner by email using the email address associated with the potential winner’s OwnersBox account (if available) or using the email address provided by the potential winner in their eligible Mail-In Submission(s).
Sponsor/Promoter will make a minimum of two (2) attempts to contact the potential winner within forty-eight (48) hours of the drawing.
If the potential winner cannot be contacted within ninety-six (96) hours of initial notification, after two attempts, including if there is a return of any notification as undeliverable; then he/she may, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor/Promoter, be disqualified (and, if disqualified, will forfeit any and all rights to the applicable prize) and the Sponsor/Promoter reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion to randomly select an alternate eligible entrant for the Giveaway Prize in a separate random drawing from the remaining eligible entries submitted and received in accordance with these Official Rules.
The potential winner will become a confirmed and verified winner (a “Winner”) after meeting the requirements that follow:
1. The potential winner will be required to sign and return, within ninety-six (96) hours of notification, an Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Waiver, and a Publicity Release (where allowable) (the “Releases”) as a condition of acceptance of the Giveaway Prize.
2. If the potential winner is a resident of the United States of America or DC, he/she will be required to complete and return, within ninety-six (96) hours of notification, an IRS W-9 tax form (the “W9”), which will require the potential winner to furnish his/her TIN for the sole purpose of tax reporting, as required by law. Sponsor/Promoter will only use information from the W-9 form to fulfill its tax obligations in connection with this Giveaway and for no other purpose.
The completed Releases and W9 (if applicable) must be received by Sponsor/Promoter by the date and time provided in the respective notifications.
If any potential winner cannot: (a) be contacted after two attempts, (b) fails to respond and/or to provide any of the requested Releases or the W9 (if applicable) within the required time period, (c) is otherwise in non-compliance with these Official Rules, (d) declines to or cannot accept the prize to be awarded, or (e) fails to satisfactorily meet the requirements as determined in Sponsor/Promoter's sole discretion, he/she will be disqualified and will no longer be eligible for a chance to win a prize.
No one is a Winner unless and until the Sponsor/Promoter officially confirms him/her as a Winner in accordance with these Official Rules.
7. Release; Indemnification; Disclaimer of Warranty
By participating in the Giveaway, each entrant, his/her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, releases, waives, discharges, and holds harmless the Sponsor/Promoter, each of their parent companies, and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers of prizes, advertising and promotion agencies involved in the administration, development, fulfillment and execution of this Giveaway (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damage, injury, cost or expense of any nature whatsoever (including attorneys' fees) (collectively, "Losses") which may occur in connection with (a) the Giveaway or any element thereof, including entry or participation therein, (b) delivery, possession, acceptance and/or use or misuse of any prize or component thereof, or (c) participation in any Giveaway-related activity or prize-related activity including without limitation in each case any Losses that may be caused or contributed to by (1) any wrongful, negligent or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any of the Released Parties, or any of their independent contractors or any other person or entity not an employee of any of the Released Parties, or (2) any other cause, condition or event whatsoever beyond the control of any of the Released Parties.
In addition, by participating in this Giveaway, each entrant agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Released Parties from and against any and all damages, losses, costs and expenses (including amounts paid in settlement and reasonable attorneys' fees) incurred by any of the Released Parties in connection with any third-party claim, demand, liability, suit, proceeding or action arising out of or resulting from (i) breach or alleged breach of any representations, warranties or agreements of entrant hereunder, or (ii) entrant’s possession, use or misuse of any prize or component thereof. Each entrant hereby acknowledges that the Released Parties have neither 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 (or any components thereof) and that, except as prohibited by applicable law, prizes are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. Released Parties hereby disclaim all such warranties, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and/or non-infringement.
FOR RESIDENTS OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA: You acknowledge and agree that your release and waiver extend to the following, the protections of which you explicitly waive: California Civil Code Section 1542: A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him or her must have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor.
8. Publicity
Except where prohibited by law, entry into the Giveaway and acceptance of a prize constitutes entrants’ permission to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use, in any media now known or hereafter devised, worldwide, the Winner’s name, city, province, territory or state, and prize won, as news, publicity or information and for advertising, public relations and promotional purposes, without further payment or consideration, notice, review or approval.
9. General
Sponsor/Promoter reserves the right to terminate, cancel, suspend and/or modify the Giveaway, if intervening circumstances warrant, within Sponsor/Promoter's sole discretion, due to any fraud, virus or other technical problem which corrupts the administration, security, or proper entry into the Giveaway, or for any other reason. In such event, Sponsor/Promoter reserves the right to award the prize by random drawings from among the eligible entries received up to the time of the termination, cancellation, suspension and/or modification.
By participating in the Giveaway, you (i) agree to be bound by these Official Rules, including all eligibility requirements, and (ii) agree to be bound by the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding in all matters relating to the Giveaway.
Failure to comply with these Official Rules will result in disqualification from the Giveaway. Sponsor/Promoter reserves the right to permanently disqualify from any Giveaway it sponsors any person it believes has intentionally violated these Official Rules. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Giveaway may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and should such an attempt be made, Sponsor/Promoter reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor/Promoter's failure to enforce any term or provision of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that term or provision.
10. Limitation of Liability
Without limiting anything set forth above in these Official Rules, Released Parties shall not have any obligation, responsibility or liability, including any obligation or responsibility to provide a prize to any entrant, with regard to: (a) entries entered through the use of any robotic or automated device/computer program or any other non-human mechanism, entity, or device; (b) entries n excess of the stated entry limit; (c) entries that are illegible, late, forged, destroyed, lost, misplaced, stolen, misdirected, tampered with, incomplete, deleted, damaged, garbled, altered or otherwise not in compliance with or in violation of these Official Rules, whether caused by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Giveaway or any other reason beyond Released Parties' control; (d) any technical or human error which may occur in the creation, submission, assignment or processing of entries in the Giveaway, including any technical or human error in connection with any social media platforms, Giveaway Website and/or the hosting thereof; (e) entries, prize claims or notifications that are not received by the intended recipient due to transmission, technical, computer or human failures or error of any kind, including any entries, prize claims or notifications that are delayed, misdirected, or undelivered as a result of any failure or problem with the availability, functionality, operability or use of any network, server, ISP, website (including the Giveaway Website), computer, internet connection, hand-held mobile device, social media platform, or any other equipment or connection used in connection with the Giveaway; (f) changes in an entrant’s information which affects the ability to contact such entrant; (g) typographical errors in Giveaway promotional material; (h) cancellations and/or delays or any change by any company or any other persons providing any of components of the prizes due to reasons beyond the control of any of the Released Parties; (i) any interruptions/postponement/cancellation of Giveaway; (j) human error; incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information; (k) any technical malfunctions of the computer on-line system, computer dating mechanism, computer equipment, software, any social media platform, or internet service provider utilized by any of the Released Parties or by an entrant; (l) interruption or inability to access the Giveaway, any Giveaway-related Web pages (including the Giveaway Website), any social media platform, or any on-line service via the Internet due to hardware or software compatibility problems; (m) any damage to an entrant’s (or any third person's) computer and/or its contents related to or resulting from any part of the Giveaway; (n) any lost/delayed data transmissions, omissions, interruptions, defects; and/or (o) any other errors or malfunctions, even if caused by the negligence of any one or more of the Released Parties.
11. Disputes
Except where prohibited, Participants agree that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Giveaway or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the appropriate court located in the Province of Ontario, Canada. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, entrant’s rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor/Promoter in connection with the Giveaway, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the of Province of Ontario, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the Province of Ontario or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the Province of Ontario. The remedy for any claim shall be limited to actual damages, and in no event shall any party be entitled to recover punitive, exemplary, consequential, or incidental damages, including attorney’s fees or other such related costs of bringing a claim, or to rescind this agreement or seek injunctive or any other equitable relief.
THE PARTIES HEREBY WAIVE THEIR RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL WITH RESPECT TO ALL CLAIMS AND ISSUES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT OR TORT AND INCLUDING ANY CLAIM FOR FRAUDULENT INDUCEMENT THEREOF.
12. Privacy
Information collected through the administration of the Giveaway is subject to the Sponsor/Promoter’s Privacy Policy and applicable law, and will be used in connection with the administration of this Giveaway, including, but not limited to, notifying and verifying winners, and fulfilling prizes.
Personal information collected is otherwise subject to the Sponsor/Promoter’s Privacy Policy, available at
https://app.ownersbox.com/wfs/privacy.
13. Winners List Request
For a written list of the Winner, including first name, last initial, and city and province, territory or state of residence (available after December 4th, 2024), send an email to compliance@ownersbox.com with subject line: OwnersBox™ Groceries Giveaway Winners List Request. Requests must be received no later than December 6th, 2024.
14. Sponsor/Promoter
OwnersBox 3.0 Corporation - 274 Shirley Avenue, Kitchener, Ontario, N2B 2E1, Canada