Royal Caribbean Star of the Seas
Godmother Sweepstakes
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF
ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
1. Eligibility: Royal Caribbean Star of the Seas
Godmother Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) is open only to legal residents of
the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are at least 21 years old
at the time of entry. Employees of Royal
Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Merkle Inc., 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 and is void where prohibited. Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official
Rules and Sponsor’s and Administrator’s decisions, which are final and binding
in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Winning a prize is contingent upon
fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.
4. How to Enter:
Participation
Requirements: To
participate, you will need to have a personal Instagram account. Creating an
Instagram account is free but subject to its Terms of Use.
If
entering via a mobile device and using your wireless carrier’s network,
standard data charges from your wireless carrier may apply.
(c) Your Comment need not include any
reference, positive or negative, to Sponsor’s products or services, and including
such a reference will not improve your chance of winning. However, your Comment must not violate any of
the Content Restrictions listed below; and
(d) You must not change your Instagram
handle once you post to enter this Sweepstakes and until the prizes are awarded
(as described in Section 6).
Content Restrictions for your Entry:
·
Your
Comment must not convey any claims of Sponsor’s products or services that would
be deemed unsubstantiated or deceptive if made by Sponsor;
·
Your
Comment must not disparage Sponsor or any other parties;
·
Your
Comment must not make references to or include:
alcohol, illegal drugs, marijuana, tobacco, or firearms/weapons, any activities
that are or appear to be dangerous, or any political agenda;
By posting a Comment that conforms to all of the above requirements, you will receive 1 Sweepstakes entry. 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 1
time during the Promotion Period. Multiple entrants are not permitted to
share the same Instagram account. Any attempt by any
entrant to obtain more than 1 entry by using multiple/different Instagram
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 the identity of an entrant, Sponsor and Administrator
will rely on entrant’s Instagram handle and other information included in their
Instagram account profile. If additional information provided by entrant to
claim a prize is inconsistent with the Instagram account used to enter, Sponsor
and/or Administrator may disqualify such entrant and
such disqualification may result in the forfeiture of any prize won. Sponsor,
in its discretion, may request additional documentation from entrant
to confirm entrant’s identity.
6. Grand Prize Drawings: Administrator is an independent organization whose
decisions as to the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes and the
selection of the potential winners are final and binding in all matters related
to the Sweepstakes. Administrator will randomly select
the potential Sweepstakes winners from all eligible entries received during the
Promotion Period on or around July 14, 2025. Each potential winner will be
notified by @royalcaribbean by direct message on
Instagram and will be directed to a secure online claim form and asked to provide their 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. Each potential winner will then be
required to sign and return a Declaration of Compliance, Liability Waiver and,
where not prohibited, a Publicity Release ("Declaration") and IRS
Form W-9 which must be received by Administrator
within 3 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, 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 3 alternate drawings will be held, time
permitting after which the prize will remain un-awarded.
7. Prizes:
10 Grand Prizes: Each Grand Prize Winner will be awarded
a 3-night Royal Caribbean cruise on Star of the Seas for winner and up to 3
eligible guests, sailing on August 20-23, 2025 out of
Port Canaveral, Florida. Cruise includes an ocean view balcony stateroom,
standard meal package and entertainment. Winners and guests will also be
invited to attend cruise ship naming ceremony. Sponsor
may, in its discretion, film and/or photograph winners and guests during the
naming ceremony (“Prize Footage”). All Prize Footage will be owned by Sponsor
as set forth in the Publicity section below. Sponsor has no obligation to film
Prize Footage or to use any Prize Footage that is filmed. Prize
is cruise only; winner is solely responsible for
roundtrip travel and any accommodations required to
get to/from the departure port. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”):
$1,662.40.
Winners
and guests are responsible for complying with any requirements set forth by
Sponsor at the time of the prize redemption and are solely responsible for
providing all necessary travel documents they will need in
order to sail, including identification documents. See Required Travel Documents for details. Failure to provide such documents may
result in trip cancellation upon cruise check-in.
Note: Should winner or any of winner’s guests over the age of 18 choose to use
air transportation to reach Port Canaveral for
the sailing (at their own expense), U.S. airports now require a REAL ID
compliant driver’s license/ state ID or U.S. passport for domestic air travel.
Winner and guests are solely responsible for obtaining a REAL ID.
All expenses and travel costs not expressly stated in the package
description above, including but not limited to, flights, accommodations near
the port, ground transportation, specialty dining meals, incidentals,
gratuities, passenger tariffs or duties, airline fees, surcharges, airport
fees, service charges or facility charges, personal charges at lodging,
security fees, taxes or other expenses are the responsibility solely of winner.
Winner must have a valid credit card or set up
a cash account to cover incidental expenditures. Unless child of winner, or child of another guest, all
guests must be 21 years of age or older as of the date of departure and must
travel on same itinerary and at the same time as the winner. Guests must
execute liability/publicity releases prior to issuance of travel documents.
Sponsor will not replace any lost, mutilated, or stolen tickets, travel
vouchers or certificates. Sponsor is not responsible if winner and/or guest
misses sailing for any reason, in which event of prize is forfeited in its
entirety and no substitution will be provided except as in Sponsor’s sole
discretion.
Winners
will not receive difference between actual and
approximate retail value. Prize is non-transferable, and no substitution will be made
except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves
the right to substitute the prize (or a component thereof) 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. Limit: 1 prize per person.
Cruise confirmation will be delivered to winners via email within 1-2 weeks of
winner confirmation.
Odds:
Odds of winning a prize
depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Period.
Total
ARV: Total ARV of all prizes: $16,624.
8. Release: By entering this Sweepstakes, entrants
agree to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Administrator, Instagram, Inc.,
Meta Platforms, 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, or third party claims involving the
right to privacy, right of publicity or intellectual property infringement,
arising out of participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize, include any
travel related thereto.
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, Comment, photograph (including, without limitation,
winner's Instagram profile photo), Prize Footage, 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 (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 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 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. 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. In the event there is a discrepancy or
inconsistency between disclosures or other statements contained in any
Sweepstakes-related materials or notifications and these Official Rules, these
Official Rules shall prevail, govern and control.
11. Limitations
of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible for: (a) 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; (b) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited
to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines, social media
platforms, or network hardware or software; (c) unauthorized human intervention
in any part of the entry process or the Sweepstakes; (d) technical or human
error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the
processing of entries; (e) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen mail;
(f) lost, late, unreceived, damaged, incomplete,
invalid, un-intelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected Comments or failure
to receive Comments due to limitation of third-party social network platforms
or (g) 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.
12. Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees
that: (a) 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 or the appropriate Michigan State Court
located in Oakland County, Michigan; (b) 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
(c) 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.
14. Winner List: For a list of winners, please see this winner list, which
will be posted after winner confirmation is complete.
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