Kidde National Fire Service Dog Photo Contest

Sponsor: Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc., 1016 Corporate Park Dr., Mebane, NC 27302 ("Kidde Fire Safety")

 

Eligibility: Kidde Fire Safety #KiddeFireServiceDog of the Year Contest ("Contest") is open only to legal residents of the United States and the District of Columbia (excluding Puerto Rico, and all United States territories and possessions), age 18 or older at the time of entry. Void in Puerto Rico, all U.S. territories and possessions and where otherwise taxed, prohibited or restricted by law. Employees of the Sponsor or its subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising agencies, and their immediate families and household members are not eligible. The Sponsor shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity or eligibility to participate in the Contest. Failure to provide such proof may result in disqualification. All information requested by and supplied to the Sponsor for the purpose of the Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate, and in no way misleading. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant should such entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading personal detail or information.

 

Contest Entry & Voting Period: The Contest will begin on Friday, September 1, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") and will end on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the "Contest Entry Period"). The voting will begin on Monday, September 25, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. ET and end on Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the Kidde "Voting Period").

To enter this promotion you must:

Only entries received during the Contest Entry Period and which are otherwise fully compliant with these Official Rules are "Valid Entries." Limit one (1) entry per person per Facebook account during the Entry Period. In the event of a dispute involving entries submitted by multiple individuals using the same email account or address, the entry will be deemed to have been submitted by the authorized subscriber of the email account used to enter the Contest at the time of entry. The authorized account holder is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by the relevant Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Entrants expressly agree to assume the risk of lost, late, incomplete, stolen, undelivered, garbled or misdirected photos or entries. Participants understand that they are providing information to Sponsor, and not to Facebook. By submitting an Entry, entrant hereby grants permission for the Entry to be posted on Kidde Fire Safety website and social media channels for public viewing. Entrant agrees that Sponsor is not responsible for any unauthorized use of Entries by third parties. Released Parties do not guarantee the posting of any Entry.

 

Content: Each post and photo must be suitable for display and publication in all forms of media, including but not limited to the Internet, the World Wide Web, print, radio, and network, cable or satellite television broadcast. Accordingly, posts and/or photos may not contain, as determined by the Sponsor, in its sole discretion, any content that: (i) is sexually explicit or suggestive (e.g., nudity or pornography); violent or derogatory; profane; (ii) promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; (iii) features, advocates, suggests, condones, or treats in a humorous manner the excessive, underage or irresponsible consumption of beverage alcohol products; (iv) is obscene or offensive, including but not limited to words or symbols that might be considered offensive to individuals of any race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or socioeconomic group; (v) portrays Sponsor or Sponsor's brands or products in any way that may give rise to public contempt, scandal, disrepute or ridicule or that defames, misrepresents or contains disparaging remarks about Sponsor or other people or companies; (vi) contains trademarks, logos, or trade dress (such as distinctive packaging or building exteriors/interiors) owned by others; contains any personal identification; (vii) contains copyrighted materials owned by others (including songs, photographs, sculptures, paintings, and other works of art or images published on or in websites, television, movies or other media; (viii) contains materials embodying the names, likenesses, voices, or other indicia identifying any person, including, without limitation, celebrities and/or other public or private figures, living or dead; (ix) communicates messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or good will to which Sponsor associates; (x) violates any law; and/or (xi) does not comply with the DISCUS Code of Responsible Practices and the Pernod Ricard Code for Commercial Communication, including, but not limited to, posts and/or photos that promote overconsumption, or the irresponsible consumption of alcoholic beverages. Sponsor reserves the right to make determinations of suitability in its sole and absolute discretion, and to disqualify any entries it determines to be inappropriate for any of the reasons listed above, or for any other reason.

 

1. Eight (8) Pet Oxygen Masks, each valued at $120. Actual/appraised value may differ at time of prize award.
2. A feature on Kidde.com as Kidde's Fire Service Dog of the Year (running October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.)
3. A feature on Kidde's social media accounts in October 2023 and two (2) subsequent features in the next 12 months.
4. Inclusion, as applicable, in Kidde's Pet Fire Safety campaign materials.
5. A trophy and bragging rights.
6. Kidde branded pet swag

General Prize Conditions: Prizes are awarded "as is" with no warranty or guarantee either express or implied by Sponsor. No transfers, assignments, cash redemption, or substitutions are permitted, except by Sponsor who reserves the right to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value in its sole and absolute discretion. Prize award is subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules. All prize details are at Sponsor's sole discretion.

 

General: By participating, all entrants warrant and represent that they have complied in full with these official rules, including but not limited to all eligibility requirements, and further agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor and/or the judging organization or entity, which are final and binding in all respects. Photocopies, facsimiles, incomplete or mechanically reproduced entries are not eligible. Entry materials that have been tampered with or altered, or mass entries or entries generated automatically or robotically, or by a script, macro or use of any automated device(s) are void. Neither Sponsor nor its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions and/or advertising or promotion entries are responsible for: (i) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor; (ii) hardware or software errors; faulty computer, telephone, cable, satellite, network, electronic, Internet Service Provider (ISP), wireless or Internet connectivity or other online communication problems; errors or limitations of any Internet service providers, servers, hosts or providers; garbled, jumbled or faulty data transmissions, failure of any e-mail transmissions to be sent or received; lost, late, delayed or intercepted e-mail transmissions; inaccessibility of the website in whole or in part for any reason; traffic congestion on the Internet or the website; unauthorized human or non-human intervention of the operation of the Contest, including without limitation, unauthorized tampering, hacking, theft, virus, bugs, worms; or destruction of any aspect of the Contest, or loss, miscount, misdirection, inaccessibility or unavailability of an email account used in connection with the Contest; or (iii) any injury or damage to entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from entering or otherwise participating in the Contest. If for any reason the Contest is not capable of running as planned, including without limitation, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion to cancel, modify or terminate the Contest.

 

License/Use of Photos: By entering and submitting a photo, when applicable, each participant understands that the Sponsor is not acquiring participant's copyright in and to his or her photo, but Sponsor is being granted a perpetual, worldwide, fully paid-up and royalty-free right and license to use and share the photo, in whole or part, in any media now known or hereafter devised, including, without limitation, all Sponsor's affiliated digital and social media channels without any further approval, compensation, or notification.

 

Privacy Policy: By entering this promotion you expressly consent to Sponsor's collection, processing and use of your personal information that you provide in connection with this promotion, and to the Privacy Policy stated on Kidde Fire Safety's website. To read the Privacy Policy, click here.

Warranty: By entering, each entrant warrants and represents (i) that the entrant owns all rights to the submission he/she is entering in this Contest; (ii) that the entrant grants full exhibition rights to the Sponsor as described in these Official Rules; (iii) and that his/her submission(s): (a) are original to the entrant and have been legally obtained and created, (b) do not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights or any other legal or moral rights of any third party, or violate applicable laws, rules, regulations, or network standards; and (c) have not been entered in or won any previous Contest or awards.

 

Assignment of Rights: If entrant's submission is selected as a winner, entrant will be required to execute such documents as may be required by Sponsor to irrevocably assign and transfer to Sponsor any and all rights, title and interest in the submission, including, without limitation, all copyrights, and forever waive all moral rights in the submission, any rights of privacy, intellectual property rights, and any other legal or moral rights that might preclude the Sponsor's use, alteration or modification of the submission or require the entrant's permission to use it for any purpose, and agrees to never sue or assert any claim against the Sponsor or any entity acting pursuant to Sponsor's direction for any use, or alteration of such submission.

 

By participating in the Contest and/or accepting a prize, the winners agree to release, defend, indemnify and hold harmless Sponsor, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising agencies, promotion agencies, franchises, fulfillment companies, dealers, retailers, present and former officers, directors, employees, and agents (collectively, the "Released Parties") from and against any and all claims, demands, expenses, losses and liabilities of any nature whatsoever caused or contributed to by entering or participating in the Contest, the acceptance, use or misuse of any prize (including any travel/activity related thereto), participation in any prize-related activities, including any claims of third parties claiming infringement of trademark, copyright, or other intellectual property rights, right of publicity, right of privacy or defamation, and further agrees to release and indemnify and hold harmless Sponsor from any and all claims that any commercial, advertising, presentation, web content or any other material subsequently produced, presented, and/or prepared by or on behalf of Sponsor infringes on the rights of entrant's work as contained in any submitted entry. By participating in the Contest, entrant irrevocably grants to Sponsor and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, legal representatives, assignees, agents and licensees, the unconditional and perpetual right and permission to copyright (as appropriate), reproduce, encode, store, copy, transmit, publish, post, broadcast, display, publicly perform, adapt, exhibit and/or otherwise use or reuse, without limitation, the entrant's name, address, image, voice, likeness, photos, statements, biographical material and entry/submission, including, but not limited to photos or other material contained in such entry/submission, as submitted or as edited, altered or modified in any way by the Sponsor or its designee(s) in the Sponsor's sole discretion in any media throughout the world for any purpose, without limitation and without additional review, compensation, or approval from the entrant or any other party.

 

Legal Warning: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN INDIVIDUAL, WHETHER OR NOT AN ENTRANT, TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE, DESTROY, TAMPER WITH OR VANDALIZE THE WEBSITE OR INTERFERE WITH THE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST, IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK ANY AND ALL REMEDIES AVAILABLE AGAINST ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

 

Disputes: THIS CONTEST IS GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND NORTH CAROLINA, WITHOUT RESPECT TO CONFLICT OF LAW DOCTRINES. As a condition of participating in this Contest, participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in North Carolina having jurisdiction. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances shall participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and hereby waives all rights to, punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, including reasonable attorney's fees, other than participant's actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e. costs associated with entering this Campaign.) Participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.

 

Winners' List: Available after October 1, 2023: For the list of prize winners, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Walter Kidde Portable Equipment Inc. #KiddeFireServiceDog Contest Winners' List, 1016 Corporate Park Dr., Mebane, N.C. 27302. Requests must be received no later than January 1, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

 

Unsubscribe: Sponsor shares your concerns about the privacy of your personal information. By entering this Contest, entrants agree to receive marketing materials, communications and other materials from the Sponsor that Sponsor feels might interest entrants at a future time. An entrant not interested in receiving future promotional offers should email: [email protected] to notify the Sponsor that he or she does not desire to receive such materials.

 

 

By participating in this promotion, you agree to the Official Rules.