NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT WILL NOT IMPROVE ONE’S CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. SPONSOR: Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., dba D23 Worldwide, 500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91521-8394 (“Sponsor”).
2. ADMINISTRATOR: Ventura Associates International LLC, 60 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10165 (“Administrator”), an independent judging organization whose decisions are final and binding with respect to this sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes”).
3. ELIGIBILITY: Open only to persons who are, as of entry, not minors as defined by their state of primary residence , and who are legal residents of, and physically located within, the 50 United States or D.C. (collectively, “Territory”), and are not employees of Sponsor, Administrator, Target, Van’s or any other sponsors of the D23 EXPO, their respective parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies; or the advertising, promotional or fulfillment agencies of any of them (individually and collectively, “Entities”), or members of their households or immediate families (defined as parents, children, siblings, step-parents, step-children, step-siblings and their spouses). Void where prohibited and subject to all applicable federal, state, local and municipal laws and regulations.
4. ENTRY: You may enter this Sweepstakes via the internet during the period beginning at 12:00 A.M., June 18, 2015, and ending at 11:59 P.M., August 3, 2015 (“Master Entry Period”). For purposes of these Official Rules (“Rules”), all times and days are Pacific Time (“PT”). The Sweepstakes will consist of four (4) separate and distinct drawings (each a “Drawing”) (see chart below for details). Non-winning Entries (as defined below) of any Drawing will roll over into the subsequent Drawing(s).
| Drawing | Drawing Entry Period | Selection of Winners (on or about) |
| One | 12:00 AM, 6/18/15- 11:59 PM, 7/13/15 | 7/14/15 |
| Two | 12:00 AM, 7/14/15 – 11:59 PM, 7/20/15 | 7/21/15 |
| Three | 12:00 AM, 7/21/15 – 11:59 PM, 7/27/15 | 7/28/15 |
| Four | 12:00 AM, 7/28/15 – 11:59 PM, 8/3/15 | 8/4/15 |
To enter, visit https://d23.com/entry/d23-expo-secret-suitcase-sweepstakes/ (“Website) and complete the Sweepstakes entry form (“Entry”). Normal Internet access and usage charges imposed by your on-line service will apply. Sponsor’s computer is the official time-keeping device for the Sweepstakes. It is your sole responsibility to notify the Sponsor of a change in your email address (“Address”).
5. LIMITATIONS: Entries are limited to one (1) Entry per person/Address during the duration of the Master Entry Period, whether you have more than one Address or more than one person uses the same Address. In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of the person submitting an Entry, the Entry will be deemed to be submitted by the person in whose name the Address is registered. Entries by any method other than set forth above in Section 4 are void. Any use of automated or programmed methods of effecting Entry is prohibited. Neither the Entities, nor any of their officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents or representatives (individually and collectively, “Releasees”) are responsible for any of the following (even if caused by the negligence of any of the Releasees): Entries from persons residing, or physically located, outside the Territory; Entries that are altered, delayed, deleted, destroyed, forged, fraudulent, improperly accessed, inaccurate, incomplete, interrupted, irregular in any way, late, lost, misrouted, multiple, non-delivered, stolen, tampered with, unauthorized, unintelligible or otherwise not in compliance with these Rules; lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, internet service provider, Website or other connections; telephone availability or accessibility; miscommunications; failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines or technical failure; failed phone, computer hardware or software, failures, technical errors or difficulties; telephone transmissions; technical failures; unauthorized human intervention; traffic congestion; garbled or jumbled transmissions; undeliverable emails resulting from any form of active or passive email filtering; insufficient space in entrant’s email account to receive email; or other errors of any kind, whether due to electronic, human, mechanical, printing, production or technical errors or other causes. . Each of such potential Entries will be disqualified, and any attempt by a person to use multiple email accounts to register more Entries than allowed by these Rules may result in disqualification at Sponsor and/or Administrator’s sole discretion.
6. PRIZES AND APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUES (“ARV”): There will be four (4) prizes (“Prize(s)”) awarded. Each Prize will be a suitcase filled with merchandise and at least one gift card (exact contents of each suitcase will be determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion). One (1) Prize will be awarded to each winner (“Winner”) as follows: (a) Prize One: Home Goods-related suitcase. ARV: $1,020; (b) Prize Two: Gaming-related suitcase. ARV: $700; (c) Prize Three: Footwear-related suitcase. ARV: $950; and (d) Prize Four: Toy-related suitcase. ARV: $1,340. Total ARV of all Prizes is $4,010. All benefits and payments associated with redemption of a Prize are personal to the Winners and are not redeemable for cash and neither is assignable nor transferrable. Any and all expenses associated with redeeming a Prize are not included and are solely the Winner’s responsibility. Any depiction of the Prizes is for illustrative purposes only and may not reflect actual Prize won. Any difference between ARV and actual value will not be awarded. If any portion of the Prize is not available for any reason, the Sponsor reserves the right to substitute that portion of the Prize with another Prize of comparable or greater value, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Any portion of the Prize not accepted by a Winner will be forfeited. Each Winner will be responsible for all federal, state and local taxes associated with the claiming of the Prize, including without limitation providing any and all tax documents (such as an IRS Form W-9), and will receive an IRS Form 1099 reflecting the final actual value of his/her Prize. Prize will be awarded provided a sufficient number of eligible Entries are received and Prize is validly claimed by August 30, 2015, after which no alternate Winners will be selected or unclaimed Prizes awarded. Limit one (1) Prize per person. Terms, and conditions of any gift card included will apply.
7. PROCEDURES: On or about the dates indicated in the chart set forth above in Section 4 (“Chart”), in a random drawing conducted by the Administrator, potential Winners will be selected from among all eligible Entries received for each applicable Drawing Entry Period outlined in the Chart. The decision of the Administrator shall be final and binding. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible Entries received during each Drawing Entry Period, including all the non-winning Entries that roll over to subsequent Drawing Entry Periods.
8. WINNERS: On or about three (3) business days after the “Selection of Winners” date as specified in the Chart, the potential Winner will be notified via email to obtain a mailing address as well as any additional required information or responses. Once the mailing address has been made available, potential Winner will be sent paperwork by overnight delivery service. At the sole discretion of the Sponsor, disqualification, forfeiture and the selection of an alternate Winner (if time permits) may result from any of the following: [a] potential Winner’s failure to respond to email notification within two (2) business days after transmission; [b] the return of an email notification as undeliverable after three (3) attempts; [c] the return of any other notification as undeliverable: [d] potential Winner’s failure to provide Sponsor with satisfactory proof of age, identity and residency; [e] potential Winner’s failure to provide Administrator with satisfactory proof that he/she is the authorized account holder of the Address associated with the winning Entry; [f] potential Winner’s failure to provide any required additional information upon Administrator’s request; [g] potential Winner’s failure to execute and return an Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability/Publicity Release within five (5) business days after its mailing; [h] potential Winner’s failure to validly claim the Prize by August 30, 2015, and [i] any other non-compliance with Rules. In the event of any Prize forfeiture, the Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, award or not award the forfeited Prize to an alternate Winner.
9. PRIVACY POLICY/DATA COLLECTION: Information provided by you for this Sweepstakes is subject to Sponsor’s privacy policy located at http://disneyprivacycenter.com (“Privacy Policy”).
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CONDITIONS: By entering this Sweepstakes and/or accepting any Prize you may win, you agree that: [a] you have all rights, permissions and consents necessary to grant the rights to Sponsor as expressed herein; [b] you will abide by and be bound by the Rules, the Sponsor’s and/or Administrator’s decisions, which are final and binding, and the Privacy Policy; [c] the Entry becomes solely the Sponsor’s property and will not be acknowledged or returned; [d] you release and hold harmless the Releasees from any and all liability for claims, injuries, losses or damages of any kind, including without limitation death and bodily injury, resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the awarding, delivery, acceptance, use, misuse, possession, loss or misdirection of the Prize; participation in the Sweepstakes or any Sweepstakes-related activity or travel or from any interaction with, or downloading of, computer Sweepstakes information; [e] the Prize is awarded “AS IS” and WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, express or implied (including without limitation any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose); [f] any Winner’s acceptance of a Prize constitutes the grant to Sponsor and assigns of an unconditional right to use Winner’s name, address (city and state only), voice, likeness, photograph, biographical and Prize information and/or statements about the Sweepstakes for any programming, publicity, advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation, except where prohibited by law; [g] in the event viruses, bugs, unauthorized human intervention, Acts of God, acts or regulations of any governmental or supra-national authority, war, national emergency, accident, fire, riot, strikes, lock-outs, industrial disputes, acts of terrorism or other matters beyond the Sponsor’s reasonable control, corrupt, prevent or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play of the Sweepstakes, so that it cannot be conducted as originally planned, Sponsor has the right, in its sole discretion, to modify the Rules or to cancel, modify, terminate or suspend the Sweepstakes, except where prohibited by law; and in such event, to select Winner by such method as Sponsor in its sole discretion shall consider equitable; [h] the Releasees are not responsible for typographical or other errors in the offer or administration of this Sweepstakes, including but not limited to: human error, errors in the advertising, Rules and selection and announcement of the Winners; [i] any portion of any Prize not accepted or used by any Winner will be forfeited; [j] the Releasees are not responsible for any inability of any Winner to accept or use the Prize (or any portion thereof) for any reason; [k] the Sponsor has the right, at any time and at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it suspects to be doing any of the following: (i) tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or the Website; (ii) violating the Rules; (iii) violating the terms of service, the Privacy Policy or other terms, conditions of use and/or general rules or guidelines of any Sweepstakes property or service; (iv) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person or (v) for any other good cause as determined solely by the Sponsor; [l] Sponsor has the right to lock out an entrant whose eligibility is in question or who has been disqualified or is otherwise ineligible to enter the Sweepstakes; [m] because any attempt by any individual to damage the Website or undermine the legitimate operation of this Sweepstakes or the Website is a violation of these Rules as well as criminal and civil laws, in the event Sponsor believes or becomes aware that such an attempt has been, is being, or will be made, it has the right to seek remedies and damages from any responsible individuals to the fullest extent permitted by law, including without limitation criminal prosecution; [n] all disputes, claims and causes of action at law or in equity (individually, “Claim”) arising out of or relating to this Sweepstakes, the meaning or interpretation of the Rules or any Prize awarded shall be resolved by applying the laws of California, without regard to conflict of laws provisions therein, and shall be solely and exclusively brought in the state or federal courts within that state; [o] all Claims shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; [p] all Claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, but in no event include attorneys’ fees, and under no circumstances will any entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and you hereby waive all rights to claim, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and waive all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased; [q] Sponsor has the right to modify Prize award procedures at its sole discretion; [r] the Releasees are not responsible for the cancellation, postponement or unavailability of contents of the Prize, and, if that should occur, that element of the Prize will be substituted with a prize of equal or greater value, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion; [s] any Winner’s acceptance of any Prize constitutes the grant of an unconditional right to Sponsor and assigns to photograph, film, or otherwise capture the fulfillment of the Prize (“Fulfillment Film”), and Sponsor shall have the unconditional right to reproduce, distribute, display, exhibit, transmit, broadcast, stream, synchronize with visual material, modify, amend, create derivative works, and otherwise use and permit others to use the Fulfillment Film throughout the universe in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, in all languages and in all versions, in perpetuity, without compensation, except where prohibited by law; [t] Sponsor’s use of the Fulfillment Film will not give rise to any claims of infringement, invasion of privacy, defamation or claims for performance or payment of any kind, including but not limited to payment of re-use fees, residuals or license fees, and [u] Sponsor shall have the right to make such changes to the Fulfillment Film and make such uses thereof as it deems necessary or desirable, including but not limited to the right to use, edit, and reproduce and/or alter said Fulfillment Film in perpetuity, in its entirety or in part, for any commercial and promotional purposes worldwide without any consultation or additional permission, or compensation, credit or attribution.
11. RULES & WINNERS’ LIST: For the names of the Winners (after August 30, 2015, and before September 30, 2015) and/or Rules (before August 2, 2015), send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: D23 EXPO Secret Suitcase Sweepstakes, Winner/Rules, c/o Ventura Associates, Dept. BW, 60 East 42nd Street, NYC, NY 10165, designating either Winners’ list or Rules. A copy of the Rules may also be obtained by printing this web page.