#KFDFavorites Contest
OFFICIAL RULES

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.

1. Eligibility: #KFDFavorites Contest (the "Contest") is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Employees of The Clorox Company (“Sponsor”), and any of their parents, subsidiaries and affiliate companies and advertising and promotion agencies as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and household members of each such employee, whether or not related, are not eligible. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited.

2. Sponsor: The Clorox Company, 1221 Broadway, Oakland, CA, 94612.

3. Agreement to Official Rules: Participation in this Contest constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor's decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to this Contest. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.

4. Timing: The Contest begins on July 7, 2016 at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time ("PT") and ends on October 11, 2016 at 11:59 a.m. PT (the "Contest Period"), and includes seven (7) independent Contest Entry Periods as set forth in the chart below:

Contest Entry Period Starts at 12:00 p.m. PT Ends at 11:59 p.m. PT Approximate Notification Date
1 July 7, 2016 July 20, 2016 July 27, 2016
2 July 21, 2016 August 3, 2016 August 10, 2016
3 August 4, 2016 August 17, 2016 August 24, 2016
4 August 18, 2016 September 7, 2016 August 31, 2016
5 September 8, 2016 September 14, 2016 September 21, 2016
6 September 15, 2016 September 28, 2016 October 5, 2016
7 September 29, 2016 October 11, 2016 October 18, 2016

Facebook, Twitter and Instagram's servers are the official time-keeping devices for the Contest.

5. How to Enter: Throughout the Contest period, Sponsor will be featuring various charcoal grilled recipes in its email communications and during each Contest Entry Period will challenge consumers to recreate these recipes and share on their Social channels to enter the Contest.

To participate, you will need to have a Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account (”Social Account”). Creating a Social Account is free, but is subject to the applicable terms and conditions ( https://www.facebook.com/policies/, https://twitter.com/tos 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 phone using your wireless carrier’s network, standard data charges from your wireless carrier may apply. If you enter using Twitter or Instagram, your account settings must be set to "unprotected" and/or "public" in order for your Tweets or posts to be viewable by Sponsor and in order to participate in the Contest.

Take the following actions to receive an entry into the Contest for one (1) Social Account:

  • A) Facebook: During a Contest Entry Period, visit the Kingsford Charcoal Facebook page at www.facebook.com/kingsfordcharcoal (herein, the "Facebook Timeline Page"). Locate the Sponsor's Contest post for the applicable Contest Entry Period on the Facebook Timeline Page and comment with a picture showing your rendition of the recipe provided in the post. You must also include the following hashtags: #kfdfavorites and #contest.
  • B) Instagram/Twitter: During a Contest Entry Period, Tweet or Post on Instagram a photo showing your rendition of the recipe for the applicable Contest Entry Period. You must also include the following hashtags: #kfdfavorites and #contest.

Your photo and hashtags will be herein referred to as your submission ("Submission”).

By uploading your Submission, you agree that it conforms to the Submission Guidelines, Permissions and Content Restrictions as defined below and that Sponsor, may disqualify you from the Contest if it believes, in its sole discretion, that your Submission fails to conform to the Guidelines, Permissions and Restrictions or is otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules.

Submission Guidelines:
• The Submission must be in a format acceptable on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Permissions:
• Entrant must have permission from all individuals who appear in or are referenced in the Submission to use their names and or likenesses in the Submission and to grant the rights set forth herein. Any minor in the Submission must be Entrant's child or legal ward. If requested, entrant must be able to provide such permissions in a form acceptable to Sponsor.

Content Restrictions:

  • The Submission must be your original work;
  • The Submission must not contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement;
  • The Submission must not prominently feature brand names or trademarks other than those owned by Sponsor, which entrant has a limited license to incorporate in his/her Submission in this Contest. Please note: using and/or showing Kingsford Charcoal in your Submission will have no impact on your opportunity to win;
  • The Submission should not include personally identifiable information about entrant or others and should only contain first names (if any);
  • Submission must be in keeping with Sponsor’s image and may not be indecent, obscene, hateful, tortious, defamatory, or libelous or contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, or disparage Sponsor, its products or services, or any other person or party affiliated with the Contest, or contain material that is unlawful in any way.

Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entrant where it finds the Submission to be unlawful, or in violation of these Official Rules, all in its sole and absolute discretion.

Limit: One (1) entry per person per Contest Entry Period. Submissions received from any person or Social Account in excess of the stated limit or duplicate or similar Submissions (as determined by Sponsor) will be void. Submissions generated by script, macro or other automated means or by any means that subvert the entry process are void. In the event of a dispute regarding any Submission, the authorized account holder of the Social Account used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant and he/she must comply with these Official Rules. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being an authorized account holder.

Uploading 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 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 required for Sponsor or its designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant is granting to use the Submission. Released Parties (as defined in Section 9, below) are not responsible for lost, late, stolen, damaged, incomplete, invalid, un-intelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected Submissions, all of which will be void.

6. Winner Determination: After the conclusion of each Contest Entry Period, a panel of qualified judges determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion will select the potential winner from among all eligible Submissions received, based on an application of the following criteria (“Judging Criteria”):

  • Taste Appeal of the food pictured (34%);
  • Quality of the photo (33%); and
  • Presentation of the food pictured (33%)

The entrant whose Submission receives with the highest score will be deemed the potential winner for the applicable Contest Entry Period. In the event of a tie, the entrant whose Submission received the highest score for "Taste Appeal of the food pictured," as determined by the qualified judges in their sole discretion, will be deemed the potential winner.

Sponsor reserves the right not to select a winner for any Contest Entry Period if, in its sole discretion, it does not receive a sufficient number of eligible and qualified Submissions. Decisions of the Sponsor and judges will be final and binding in all matters. Sponsor will not disclose judging scores.

7. Winner Requirements: Sponsor (@Kingsford for Twitter and Instagram and @KingsfordCharcoal for Facebook) will notify potential winners via the Social Account which they used to enter on or around the dates listed in Section 4. Each winner will be required to provide his/her full name, home mailing address and birthdate to confirm eligibility and for prize fulfillment purposes within two (2) days of the date notice, in order to claim the prize. Receiving a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules. If a potential winner cannot be contacted within a reasonable time period, fails to provide any \requested information within the required time period, does not comply with these Official Rules, or prize is returned as undeliverable, potential winner will be disqualified and forfeits the prize. If a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, the prize may be awarded to a runner-up determined by the qualified judges, in Sponsor's sole discretion. Only three (3) alternate winners may be determined, after which the applicable prize will remain un-awarded. Prizes will be fulfilled 8 – 10 weeks after conclusion of each Contest Entry Period.

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, 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. Without limiting the generality of these Official Rules, 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 Released Parties and any licensee against all claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and legal expenses) arising out of any breach of these terms.

8. "Prizes: SEVEN (7) ENTRY PERIOD PRIZES (One (1) awarded each Contest Entry Period): Pit Barrel Cooker. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $299.

TOTAL ARV OF ALL PRIZES: $2,093.

For all Prizes: Prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied. Prizes are non-transferable, cannot be redeemed for cash 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 comparable or greater value, in its sole discretion. Winners are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Limit: One (1) prize per person.

9. Release: By entering, entrants agree to release and hold harmless the Sponsor, Twitter, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Instagram, LLC, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize suppliers, and each of their respective 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 Contest or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.

10. General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Contest, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, human error or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. If terminated, Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, determine the winners from among all non-suspect, eligible Submissions received up to time of such action using the judging procedure outlined above or as otherwise seemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the Submission 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 Submissions. 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.

11. 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, or lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the Submission process or the Contest; (4) other errors or problems of any kind relating to or in connection with the Promotion, whether printing, typographical, technical, computer, network, mechanical, r human error or otherwise, which may occur in the administration of the Contest, the uploading, the processing of entries or the processing or judging of Submissions, the announcement of the prizes or in any Promotion-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 any unauthorized third-party use of any Submission.

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 Contest 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 Contest, and in no event will entrant be permitted to obtain attorneys’ fees or other legal costs; 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 Contest, 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 entrant is subject to Sponsor’s Privacy Policy http://www.clorox.com/legal/global-privacy.

14. Winners List: For a winners list, visit www.kingsfordcharcoal.com.au/favorites-winners. The winners list will be posted after winner confirmation is complete.

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