Cubs Sweepstakes Rules

VIP Cubs Fan Experience Sweepstakes

OFFICIAL RULES

Eligibility: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A purchase will not improve chances of winning. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. The VIP Cubs Fan Experience (“Sweepstakes”) is open to individuals domiciled in the legal U.S residents who are 18 years or older (and not otherwise considered minors) at the time of entry. Employees of Fellowes, Inc., (“Sponsor”), Chicago Cubs Baseball Club, LLC (“Cubs”), the MLB Entities (as defined below) and each of their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, dealers, and wholesalers, advertising and promotion agencies, affiliates, and their respective family members (parent, spouse, sibling or child, and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and household members (whether or not related) are not eligible. The “MLB Entities” shall mean the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball (“BOC”), its Bureaus, Committees, Subcommittees and Councils, MLB Advanced Media, L.P. (“MLBAM” or “MLB.com”), Major League Baseball Properties, Inc., BAMTech, LLC, The MLB Network, LLC, the Major League Baseball Clubs (“Clubs”), each of their parent, subsidiary, affiliated and related entities, any entity which, now or in the future, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Clubs or the BOC, and the owners, general and limited partners, shareholders, directors, officers, employees and agents of the foregoing entities. Limit one entry per person/e-mail address per day. Robotic, programmed, script, macro or other automated entries or entries using third party software or website to register are void. Any attempt by any participant to obtain more than one entry by using multiple/different email addresses, mailing addresses, identities or any other methods will void that participant’s entries. No entries will be accepted by email, telephone, facsimile or in hard copy form. By entering the Sweepstakes, participants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, whose decision is final. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, territory, provincial and local laws, rules and regulations. This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, administered, executed, or produced by the Cubs or any MLB Entity.

Sweepstakes Period:

Sweepstakes begins at 12:01 A.M. on August 1, 2019 and ends at 11:59:59 P.M. on August 29, 2019, Central Standard Time.

Prize:

One (1) Prize will be awarded: a VIP Cubs Experience package.

Prize package includes:
  • • Four (4) Mobile (as defined below) tickets to the Chicago Cubs home game at Wrigley Field on September 14, 2019 (“Game”)
  • • One (1) $500 MasterCard Gift Card
  • • Four (4) passes to the exclusive W club
  • • Deliver the Lineup Card at the Game
  • • View Batting Practice at the Game
  • • Meet & Greet with a Cubs player before the Game
  • • Play catch in the outfield after the Game
  • • A Fellowes Workplace Wellness Prize Package including: (1) Fellowes Elea™ Office Chair one (1) Fellowes Lotus™ RT sit-stand workstation, one (1) Fellowes AeraMax® 300 air Purifier.


Odds: The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

Total ARV of all prizes is $2,500. TRANSPORTATION, PARKING, FOOD AND LODGING NOT INCLUDED. Exact seat locations at the game shall be determined in the sole discretion of Sponsor. There will be no substitution, transfer or cash equivalent for a prize, except at the discretion of Sponsor. Sponsor is not responsible for specific Cubs player availability for Meet & Greet events or postponement, cancellation or rescheduling of Cubs home games for tickets awarded or postponement, cancellation or rescheduling of Pre-Game or Post-Game experiences awarded.

All Federal, state, or other taxes are the sole responsibility of each winner. Winner will be required to provide Sponsor with a valid social security number before the applicable prize will be awarded for tax reporting purposes. An IRS Form 1099 may be issued in the Winner for the actual value of the prize received. In no event will Sponsor award more prizes than are provided for in these Official Rules.

How To Enter/Drawing: Entry must be completed online at: Fellowes.com/Cubs (“Website”) no later than August 29, 2019 to be eligible. All required entry information must be completed in full by eligible participants. Potential winners will be randomly selected by Sponsor from all eligible entries received in a drawing held on or about August 30, 2019. Potential winners will be notified by mail, phone, and/or email within approximately 7 days following selection. If a potential winner cannot be reached after two business days, fails to notify Sponsor of acceptance or rejection of prize within five days of receiving prize or prize notification, is found to be ineligible, cannot or does not comply with these rules, or if the prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, such potential winner will be disqualified and an alternate potential winner may be selected at Sponsor’s sole discretion.

How To Claim Prize: Mobile tickets to the Game will be delivered via the Application (as defined below). Winner will receive an email with instructions on how to download the Application, create an account, and claim the tickets. A Cubs Representative will meet Winner on the day of the game for on-field pre-game opportunities. Please allow six to eight weeks for awarded Fellowes products to be shipped to winner’s address. “Mobile” means available only in the MLB Ballpark application (“Application”) (must download/have downloaded the Application to access the Tickets; data and usage rates may apply to download and use of the Application).

General Terms and Conditions: By entering, participants agree (a) that Sponsor, the Cubs, the MLB Entities, and each of their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents, (individually and collectively “Released Parties”) are indemnified, released and will be held harmless by participants from any and all liability, for any damages, injuries or losses of any kind (whether due to negligence or otherwise) to person(s), including death, or property, arising directly or indirectly from the acceptance, possession, misuse or use of a prize or his/her participation in this Sweepstakes or any Sweepstakes-related activity; and (b) each winner grants (and agrees to confirm such grant in writing promptly upon request) to Released Parties and those acting under Released Parties’ authority the right to the use of such winner’s name, photograph, likeness, voice, image, statements and biographical information at any time or times, in perpetuity, for advertising, trade, publicity and promotional purposes in any media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide and on the and Internet, without review, notification, approval or additional compensation, unless prohibited by law. Winner may be required to complete, sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability Release and, where lawful, Publicity Release within 14 days of receipt of notification. This contest is subject to all applicable laws. The decisions of the independent judging organization on all aspects of the Sweepstakes are final and binding on all participants in all respects.
Major League Baseball game, event and exhibition dates and times are determined in the sole discretion of the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball and/or the applicable Major League Baseball Club, as applicable, and may be subject to change. Winner will not receive compensation from Sponsor for tickets that the winner is unable to use due to cancellation of the event, but tickets may be subject to standard rain-check policies and procedures set by the issuer. On-field opportunities subject to field conditions and MLB rules. Sponsor and the applicable MLB Entities reserve the right to remove or to deny entry to any Winner and/or his/her guests who engage(s) in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person at the game, event or exhibition. Sponsor and the MLB Entities will not be responsible for weather conditions, Acts of God, acts of terrorism, civil disturbances, work stoppage or any other natural disaster outside their control that may cause the cancellation or postponement of any Major League Baseball game, event or exhibition. Major League Baseball game, event and exhibition tickets awarded as Prizes may not be resold or offered for resale or used for any commercial or promotional purpose whatsoever. Any such resale or commercial or promotional use may result in disqualification and Prize forfeiture, and may invalidate the license granted by the game, event or exhibition ticket(s). Sponsor is not responsible if event is delayed, postponed, or canceled for any reason.

Limitations of Liability: In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of a participant, such entry will be deemed to be made by the authorized account holder of the e mail address submitted at the time of entry. “Authorized account holder” is deemed as the natural person who is assigned to an e mail address by an Internet access provider, service provider or other online organization that is responsible for assigning e mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e mail address. Released Parties are not responsible for lost, late, stolen, illegible, misdirected, or non-delivered entries, or e-mail; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable satellite, network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), Website or other connections availability, accessibility or traffic congestion, or miscommunications, or failed computer, network, telephone, satellite, or cable hardware, software or lines, or technical failure, or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions, or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic or network, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry or other information or the failure to capture, or loss of, any such information. Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Website users, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Sweepstakes, and assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or tampering with or hacking of Website. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or operation of the Sweepstakes or Website, to be acting in violation of the terms of the Website or to be acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to threaten, abuse or harass any other person. Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to participants’ or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading or copying materials from or use of Website.
By entering the Sweepstakes, each entrance agrees (i) to waive any rights to claim ambiguity with respect to these Official Rules, and (ii) to waive all of his/her rights to bring any claim, action or proceeding against any of the Released Parties in connection with the Sweepstakes; and (iii) to forever and irrevocably agree to release and hold harmless each of the Released Parties from any and all claims, lawsuits, judgments, causes of action, proceedings, demands, fines, penalties, liability, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) that may arise in connection with: (a) the Sweepstakes, including, but not limited to, any Sweepstakes-related activity or element thereof, and the entrant’s entries, participation or inability to participate in the Sweepstakes; (b) the violation of any third-party privacy, personal, publicity or proprietary rights; (c) acceptance, attendance at, receipt, travel related to, participation in, delivery of, possession, defects in, use, non-use, misuse, inability to use, loss, injury, damage, destruction, negligence or willful misconduct in connection with the use of the Prize (or any component thereof); (d) any change in the prizing (or any components thereof); (e) human error; (f) any wrongful, negligent, or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any of the Released Parties; (g) lost, late, stolen, misdirected, damaged or destroyed prizing (or any element thereof); or (h) the negligence or willful misconduct by entrant.

IN NO EVENT WILL RELEASED PARTIES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEBSITE OR DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM SAID SITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THIS SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.
THIS SWEEPSTAKES IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in this Sweepstakes, participant agrees that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in DuPage County, Illinois having jurisdiction.

Additional Terms: This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, the Cubs or any MLB Entity.

Winners List: For the name of winner by mail, available after August 29, 2019 send a self-addressed envelope with proper postage affixed to Fellowes Ultimate Experience Cubs Sweepstakes Winners list, 1789 Norwood, Itasca, IL 60143.

Privacy: Participants will be given the opportunity to select whether or not they wish to receive offers and product information from Fellowes. Participants may unsubscribe from any mailing list at any time. Personal information collected by Sponsor will be governed by the Fellowes Privacy Policy (www.fellowes.com/us/en/Misc/Pages/privacy-policy.aspx).

Sponsor: Fellowes, Inc., 1789 Norwood Avenue, Itasca, Illinois U.S.A. 60143
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