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VICTORIA’S SECRET PINK SPRING BREAK SOCIAL BLITZ #PINKOOTD INSTAGRAM PROMOTION (the “Promotion”) OFFICIAL RULES (the “Official Rules”)



NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS PROMOTION.  A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.  ENTRANT MUST HAVE INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT TO ENTER.

1. Eligibility: Open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico) who are at least eighteen (18) years old and have reached the age of majority in their state or territory of residence at the time of entry (19 in Alabama and Nebraska; 21 in Mississippi). Entrants must have an Instagram account in good standing and Internet access. Individuals who are officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives of Victoria’s Secret Stores Brand Management, Inc., its parent company, subsidiaries, and affiliates, agencies, suppliers of materials or services related to this Promotion, as well as the immediate family members (defined as parents, children, siblings and spouses, regardless of where they live) and those with whom such officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives are domiciled (whether or not related), are not eligible to enter or win. The Promotion is subject to all applicable federal, state, provincial, municipal, territorial, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited by law. (NEW JERSEY NOTICE: This Promotion is not void in the state of New Jersey). Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor’s decisions and interpretations of these Official Rules, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Promotion.  Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein. The Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, approved or administered by, or associated with, Instagram.

2. Sponsor: Victoria’s Secret Stores Brand Management, Inc., 4 Limited Parkway East, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068, U.S.A.

3. Timing: The Promotion begins at 10:00 A.M. ET on March 13, 2019 and ends 9:59 A.M. ET on March 14, 2019 (the “Promotion Period”).  Sponsor’s computer is the official time-keeping device for the Promotion.

4. How to Enter:  At the start of the Promotion Period, Sponsor will publish a story on its Instagram account (@VSPINK) about the Promotion. To enter:
a. Follow the Sponsor on Instagram: @VSPINK;
b. Set your Instagram account to be publicly viewable and to receive direct messages and/or emails from the general public; and
c. Post a #PINKOOTD picture to your personal Instagram account and include #PINKSpringBreak and #Sweepstakes in the caption below the picture (an “entry”).
           
One (1) entry per Instagram account.  Entries must be posted during the Promotion Period to be eligible. Entries must also comply with the “Entry Requirements” described below. Any use of automated, robotic, macro, programmed or similar quick-entry programs, or attempts to exceed the maximum number of entries permitted, is prohibited and will result in disqualification.  In case of dispute, entries will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the Instagram account used to enter to Promotion. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned to the Instagram account by Instagram. Sponsor will not verify receipt of entries. Entries become property of Sponsor and will not be returned.

5.  ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Ineligible entries include entries that fail to comply with these Official Rules, as well as those that are, in whole or in part, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, hateful, embarrassing to another person or entity, deceptive, obscene, invasive of another’s privacy, violative of another’s intellectual property rights, tortious, contain racial slurs, or contain explicit or graphic descriptions or accounts of, sexual acts, or are not within the spirit of the Promotion, as determined by Sponsor in Sponsor’s sole discretion (“Entry Requirements”).

6. SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION OF THE PRIZE WINNER:  One (1) potential winner will be selected in a random drawing to be held on or about March 14, 2019. Following the selection, the potential winner will first be notified using a private message via Instagram and subsequently must email Sponsor, providing a mailing address where Sponsor should mail the check. If the potential winner does not submit a valid mailing address where (s)he can receive her/his prize as instructed within a twenty-four (24) hour period from when the notification is sent, then such person will be disqualified and an alternate potential winner may be selected via random draw, if time permits.  All notification requirements, as well as other requirements within these Official Rules, will be enforced. NOTE: Potential winners are subject to verification by Sponsor, whose decisions are final and binding in all matters related to the Promotion. An entrant is not a winner of any prize unless and until entrant’s eligibility has been verified and entrant has been notified that verification is complete.

7. PRIZE AND APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUES (“ARV”): One (1) winner will receive a check in the amount of one-hundred dollars ($100.00 USD).  The approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the prize is $100.00 USD.  Prize is non-transferable, non-exchangeable and not redeemable for cash. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute prize for one of equal or greater value if designated prize should become unavailable for any reason, or for any other reason in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor makes no representations or warranties with respect to prize. Any other costs or expenses associated with the prize will be the responsibility of selected winners. Prize winners are responsible for all federal, state, or local taxes associated with prize acceptance.

Except where prohibited by law, the potential winner may be required to complete an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability and Publicity Release (“Affidavit”) in accordance with the instructions listed in the prize notification correspondence. (NEW JERSEY NOTICE: The potential winner may be required to sign an Affidavit in accordance with the instructions listed in the prize notification correspondence.) If the potential winner fails to provide the Affidavit within the required period of time, Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, disqualify the potential winner and select an alternate potential winner. Non-compliance with these Official Rules, failure to return all required documentation by the stated deadline or Sponsors’ inability to contact the potential winner, as determined in Sponsors’ sole discretion, may result in disqualification.

8. DISQUALIFICATION: If an entrant is found to be ineligible, or if he/she does not comply with the Official Rules, then such entrant will be disqualified. If a prize, prize documentation or prize notification is returned as undeliverable or unclaimed, this will result in disqualification. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it suspects or finds: (i) to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Promotion; (ii) to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person or entity, (iii) to be acting in violation of the Official Rules of this or any other sweepstakes or promotion; (iv) to have used a software generated, robotic, programmed, script, macro or other automated entry; (v) to display behavior that will bring such individual or Sponsor in to disgrace; or (vi) to have provided inaccurate information in connection with the Promotion.  In the event an entrant is deemed ineligible or disqualified for any reason under the provisions of the Official Rules, then an alternate potential winner will be selected pursuant to the selection standards noted above from among all eligible entries received during the Promotion Period, if time permits. In the event that Sponsor is unable to award all of the prizes after vetting ten (10) potential winners, Sponsor reserves the right to award fewer than the number of prizes stated in Section 7, above, and the unawarded prizes will be forfeited, will not be awarded and Sponsor shall have no further liability in connection with this Promotion.

9. PRIVACY & PUBLICITY:  Except where prohibited by law, participation in this Promotion and/or acceptance of a prize constitutes permission for the Sponsor to use the entrant’s name, photograph, likeness, statement, biographical information, voice and address (city and state) on a worldwide basis and in all forms of media, in perpetuity and without further compensation or limitation in connection with this Promotion. (NEW JERSEY NOTICE: The potential winners may be required to sign an Affidavit in accordance with the instructions listed in the prize notification correspondence).  Entry in the Promotion constitutes consent to the transfer of the personal information collected from the entrant to the Sponsor for the purposes of administering the Promotion and for such other purposes to which entrant may consent as outlined herein or on the Promotion website.  Information collected from entrants is subject to the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy, which is available at: http://www.victoriassecret.com/privacy-and-security/.  By participating in the Promotion, entrants hereby agree to Sponsor’s collection and usage of their personal information in accordance with Sponsor’s privacy policy and acknowledge that they have read and accepted Sponsor’s privacy policy.

10. GENERAL CONDITIONS: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Promotion, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, virus, bugs, human error or any other factor impairs the integrity, availability, fairness or proper functioning of the Promotion, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Promotion 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: Sponsor, together with its respective affiliates and related companies, including without limitation its parent, sister and subsidiary companies, retailers, franchisees, advertising and promotion agencies, suppliers of material and services related to the Promotion, and any other corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship or other legal entity directly involved in the Promotion and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, and other representatives are not responsible for: (1) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines, websites, network hardware or software beyond the reasonable control of Sponsor; (2) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; or (3) technical or  human error which may occur in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries.

12. BINDING ARBITRATION: BY AGREEING TO ARBITRATION, PARTICIPANT UNDERSTANDS AND AGREES THAT THEY ARE WAIVING THEIR RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT.   PARTICIPANT AGREES THAT: (I)  ANY DISPUTE, CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE PROMOTION, OR ANY PRIZE AWARDED, SHALL BE RESOLVED INDIVIDUALLY -- WITHOUT RESORT TO ANY FORM OF CLASS ACTION -- BY BINDING ARBITRATION (BY A SINGLE NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR SELECTED BY SPONSOR IN ITS SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION) ADMINISTERED BY THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION RULES AND THE SUPPLEMENTARY PROCEDURES FOR CONSUMER RELATED DISPUTES (THE “AAA RULES”) THEN IN EFFECT; (II) ANY ARBITRATION SHALL BE HEARD BY ONE ARBITRATOR TO BE SELECTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AAA RULES, IN COLUMBUS, OH; (III) UNLESS BOTH PARTICIPANT AND SPONSOR AGREE IN WRITING, THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON’S CLAIMS, AND MAY NOT OTHERWISE PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING; AND (IV) JUDGMENT UPON ANY AWARD RENDERED MAY BE ENTERED IN ANY COURT HAVING JURISDICTION THEREOF.

13. RULES/WINNERS LIST: To receive the winners list or an additional copy of these Official Rules, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to be received by September 13, 2019 to: Victoria’s Secret PINK Spring Break Social Blitz #PINKOOTD Instagram Promotion Winner List, Attn: Legal Department, 3 Limited Parkway, Columbus, OH 43230.