Summer is a Go Road Trip Giveaway

Official Rules

 

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.  A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

 

1. Eligibility: Summer is a Go Road Trip Giveaway (the “Sweepstakes”) is open only to legal residents of the forty-eight (48) contiguous United States and the District of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry.  Employees of Pilot Travel Centers LLC (“Sponsor”), Merkle Inc. (“Administrator”), promotion agencies, and their parent and affiliate companies, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible.  The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. The Sweepstakes is void in Alaska, Hawaii and where prohibited.  Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules. Sponsor’s and Administrator’s decisions are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes; such decisions shall be final and legally binding in all respects and not subject to further review in any forum.  Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.

 

2. Sponsor: Pilot Travel Centers LLC, 5508 Lonas Drive, Knoxville, TN 37909. Administrator: Merkle Inc., 3000 Town Center, Suite 2100, Southfield, MI  48075.

 

3. Timing: The Sweepstakes begins on May 24, 2021 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET"), ends on September 5, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the "Promotion Period"), and consists of three (3) Monthly Entry Periods as defined in the chart below.  The servers of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are the official time-keeping devices for the Sweepstakes.

 

Monthly Entry Period

Starts at

12:00 a.m. ET

Ends at

11:59 p.m. ET

Mail-In Receipt Date

Approximate Drawing Date

June

May 24, 2021

June 30, 2021

July 7, 2021

July 12, 2021

July

July 1, 2021

July 31, 2021

August 7, 2021

August 11, 2021

August

August 1, 2021

September 5, 2021

September 14, 2021

September 17, 2021

 

4. How to Enter:

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. 

 

Entry Requirements: During the Promotion Period, take the following actions to receive one (1) Entry into the applicable Monthly Entry Period drawing (associated with the date and time of your social post) and one (1) Entry into the Grand Prize drawing.

 

Photo Content: Take a “Road Trip Photo” that displays a summer “Road Trip”.  Your Road Trip can include any drive that you take this summer. You may include your family members (including you minor children) and other adults where you have permission to include them in your Road Trip Photo.  You may not include a minor who is not your child or ward.  See additional Road Trip Photo Contest Restrictions below.

 

 

Post a Road Trip Photo on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook as follows:

 

For Facebook:

(a)  Locate Sponsor’s post on its Facebook page advertising this Sweepstakes (herein “Sweepstakes Post”); and

(b) Comment on the Sweepstakes post with your Road Trip Photo.

 

For Instagram and Twitter:

Tweet or post on Instagram your Road Trip Photo and include #SummerIsAGoGiveaway in your Tweet or caption of your Instagram post. NOTE: Retweets, Instagram stories, and Instagram posts where the hashtag is included in a comment rather than the caption of the original post will not be deemed entries.

 

For all of your social posts:  Your Twitter or Instagram account settings must remain public during the Promotion Period and until the prizes are awarded (as described in Section 6).  Once you enter, you may not change your Facebook, Instagram or Twitter handle until the prizes are awarded (as described in Section 6).

 

How to Receive Bonus Entries:

 

Road Trip Photo:  Include a Pilot Flying J branded cup/mug in the Road Trip Photo that you post on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and you will receive one (1) extra Entry into both the applicable Monthly Entry Period drawing and the Grand Prize drawing.  Limit: You may receive up to an additional fifteen (15) entries by including the Pilot Flying J branded cup/mug in your Road Trip Photos posted as directed above.

 

Mail In:  To enter without purchase of the branded cup/mug, hand print your name, address, phone number, email address, and date of birth on a 3" x 5" piece of paper and mail it in an envelope with proper postage to Summer is a Go Road Trip Giveaway,” c/o Merkle Inc., P.O. Box 5010, Department 848481, Kalamazoo, MI 49003-5010.  You will receive one (1) entry into the applicable Monthly Entry Period drawing based on the date of receipt and the Grand Prize drawing.  Limit: One (1) entry request per envelope.  All mail-in entries must be handwritten and must be received by the dates listed in Section 3 to be included in the applicable Monthly Entry Period drawing. All entries become the exclusive property of Sponsor and none will be acknowledged or returned.  Proof of sending or submission will not be deemed to be proof of receipt by Sponsor.  Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, illegible, misdirected or postage-due entries, which will be disqualified.  Limit:  You may receive up to fifteen (15) entries using this method of entry.

 

Content Restrictions for your Entry:

·        Your Entry must be your original work;  

·        Your Entry must not disparage Sponsor or any other parties;

·        You must have permission to include the names or likenesses of other individuals and to grant the rights set forth in Section 5. You should only include minors in your Entry if they are your children/wards. If requested, entrant must be able to provide such permissions in a form acceptable to Sponsor; 

·        Your Entry must not contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights and therefore may not include logos, trademarks or any other intellectual property other than those of the Sponsor;

·        Your Entry must not make references to or include: alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, or firearms/weapons, any activities that are or appear to be dangerous, or any political agenda;

·        Your Entry may not be indecent, obscene, sexually explicit, hateful, 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

·        Your Entry may not be tortious, defamatory, libelous, disparage Sponsor or any other person or party, or contain material that is unlawful in any way.

 

By complying with all requirements above, you will receive at least one (1) entry for each qualified social post. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may disqualify any post that it finds unlawful, or in violation of these Official Rules.

 

Entry Limit: You may Enter by posting on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram up to fifteen (15) times during the Promotion Period to receive up to fifteen (15) entries.  Each social post should be a unique photo. You may receive up to an additional fifteen (15) bonus entries by any combination of social posts that includes Pilot Flying J branded cup/mug in your Road Trip Photo OR by the mail in method.

 

Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same Social Account.  Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different Social Accounts identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that entrant's entries and that entrant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder of the Social Account used to register will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses used to create the Social Account. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. Released Parties (as defined in Section 8, below) are not responsible for lost, late, unreceived, damaged, incomplete, invalid, un-intelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected Submissions or failure to receive Submissions due to limitation of third-party social network platforms all of which will be void. 

5. Sponsor’s Use of Social Post Content: Posting your Road Trip Photo (herein your “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 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. 

   

6. Prize Drawings & Winner Notification: Administrator is an independent judging organization whose decisions as to the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes and the selection of the potential Monthly and Grand Prize winners are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Administrator will randomly select the potential Monthly Sweepstakes winners from all eligible entries received during the applicable Monthly Entry Period on or around Promotion Period, on or around dates listed in Section 3.  Administrator will randomly select the potential Grand Prize winner from all eligible entries received during the Promotion Period on or around September 17, 2021.

 

Each potential winner (whose winning entry was a social post) will be notified through the Social Account used to enter (@pilottravelcenters on Facebook and @pilotflyingj on Instagram and Twitter) and will be directed to a secure online claim form and asked to provide his/her name, email address, mailing address and date of birth to confirm eligibility and for prize fulfillment purposes within 3 days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent into order to claim the prize. Potential winners who entered through Facebook, may be required to send a private message to @Pilottravelcenters to receive prize claim instructions. The potential Grand Prize winner (or parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor in his/her state of residence) will be required to sign and return a Declaration of Compliance, Liability Waiver and, where not prohibited, a Publicity Release ("Declaration") and an IRS Form W-9 which must be received by Administrator within four (4) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, in order to claim the prize. If a potential winner of any prize cannot be contacted, fails to sign and return the Declaration or provide any other requested information, within the required time period (if applicable), or the prize is returned as undeliverable, the potential winner forfeits the prize. Receiving a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules. In the event that a potential winner forfeits the prize or is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor will award the applicable prize to an alternate winner by random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries. Only three (3) alternate drawings will be held, after which the prize will remain un-awarded. 

 

7. Prizes: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: A $5,000 Pilot gift card. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $5,000.

THREE (3) MONTHLY PRIZES (1 awarded each Monthly Entry Period):  $250 Pilot gift card. ARV: $250. 

 

Terms and conditions included on gift cards apply. Prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason.  Winners are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use.  Odds of winning a Monthly prize depend on the number of eligible entries received during the applicable Monthly Entry Period. Odds of winning the Grand Prize depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Period.  Limit: One (1) prize per person. Total ARV of all prizes: $5,750. Prizes will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after winner confirmation for each prize.

 

8. Release: By receipt of any prize, winners agree to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Administrator, Twitter, Inc., Instagram, Inc., Facebook, Inc., and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize suppliers, and each of their respective parent companies and each such company’s officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.

9 Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes each winner’s consent to Sponsor’s and its agents’ use of winner’s name, prize information, likeness, Submission, photograph (including, without limitation, winner's Social Account profile photo), voice, opinions and/or hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.

10. General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Sweepstakes, if any fraud, technical failures, human error, or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Sweepstakes, or any event or cause beyond Sponsor’s control including but not limited to, fire, flood, natural or man-made epidemic of health of other means, earthquake, explosion, labor dispute or strike, act of God or public enemy, satellite or equipment failure, riot or civil disturbance, terrorist threat or activity, war (declared or undeclared) or any federal state or local government law, order, or regulation, public health crisis (e.g. SARS, COVID-19), order of any court or jurisdiction, or other cause not reasonably within Sponsor’s control (each a “Force Majeure” event or occurrence) that interferes with any aspect of the Sweepstakes, including but not limited to fulfillment of the prize(s), as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. In such event, Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance and may modify the prizes offered herein. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or to be acting in violation of the Official Rules of this or any other promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner.  Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages 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.

 

11. Limitations of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes; (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 entry process or the Sweepstakes; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the processing of entries; (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 Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.  If for any reason an entrant's entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, not received, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the Sweepstakes, if it is possible. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded.  In the event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than the stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, un-awarded, eligible prize claims.

12. Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Southern Division) or the appropriate Michigan State Court located in Oakland County, Michigan; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes, 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, indirect, 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 the entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Michigan.

13. Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected from entrants is subject Sponsor’s Privacy Policy: https://www.pilotflyingj.com/privacy-policy.

 

14.  Winner List: For a winner list, visit https://bit.ly/2RR3cCT.  The winner list will be posted after winner confirmation is complete.

 

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