Entrants of this Sweepstakes are eligible to win one (1) on two (2) $500 gift cards to Happy Harry’s Bottle Shop locations in Fargo and Grand Forks, ND.
1. ELIGIBILITY:
The “Win Deere Beere for a Yeere” (“Sweepstakes”) is open only to residents of Minnesota and North Dakota who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older at the time of entry. Employees, contractors, directors, officers and
agents of RDO Equipment Co. and members of their immediate family (spouse, parent, child or sibling), are not eligible to enter or win. No purchase or payment is necessary to enter the Sweepstakes, nor will making a purchase or payment increase
your chances of winning. 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 (RDO Equipment Co.) decisions which are final and binding in all matters related to this Sweepstakes. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements as set forth herein.
2. SWEEPSTAKES PERIOD:
Sweepstakes begins at 12:00:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time on May 26, 2022 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. Central Standard Time on June 30, 2022 (“Sweepstakes Period”). Winners will be announced July 1, 2022. Sponsor’s computer is the official
time keeping device for this Sweepstakes.
3. HOW TO ENTER:
In-Store: In-Store displays of packaged beer along with a poster detailing the Sweepstakes will be placed in each of the eight (8) participating locations1. Entrants will scan a QR code on the poster to take them to the Sweepstakes landing page where
they will be required to submit a valid email address and upload a photo of their choice showing how they’ve been enjoying their John Deere theme Busch Light. Entrant will also be required to choose a store location as their “Home Store”
to show whether they’re a Minnesota or North Dakota resident. Photos are required to follow program guidelines. Submitted photos will be reviewed by Sweepstakes Sponsor representatives to ensure that photos are, in Sweepstake Sponsor’s
sole judgment, consistent with responsible alcohol and equipment use. The following are examples of photos that are not acceptable for a valid submission:
Not Acceptable:
- Photos showing open alcoholic containers near or on John Deere equipment (e.g., cans or bottles whether full or empty, red disposable cups, ping pong balls, bottle caps, etc.)
- Photos showing open or closed alcoholic containers in John Deere cabs, or on open operator station
- Photos showing open or closed alcoholic containers in cabs or operating stations of any other farm and non-farm equipment or vehicles
- Photos showing entrants in situations deemed unsafe or unethical by Sweepstakes Sponsors
- Any other photos that the Sweepstake Sponsor considers inappropriate for any reason
Facebook: During the Sweepstakes Period, look for Sponsor’s Sweepstakes post inviting followers to enter for a chance to win a prize. Share Sponsor’s Sweepstakes post, “LIKE” or “TAG” at least two (2) friends who are
twenty-one (21) years of age or older and include the hashtag #FortheFarmers. You must be a registered user of Facebook and follow a participating RDO Equipment Co. stores’ Facebook page in order to enter the Sweepstakes. Facebook registration
is free and can be obtained by logging on to
www.facebook.com
and following the online instructions to open an account. Entrants will not be allowed to post pictures directly to the Sweepstakes Facebook posts. All photos are subject to review and must be submitted via the official Sweepstakes
Entry Submission website page.
https://www.rdoequipment.com/promotions/win-free-deere-beer
For all Entries:
Standard data costs from your wireless carrier may apply if you enter with a mobile phone or other web-enabled device and use their network. For further information on these and any other fees, contact your wireless service provider. Wireless charges
are the exclusive responsibility of the contestants.
All Entries must be received and recorded during the Sweepstakes Period. No other forms of Entry are valid. See Appendix A for additional Entry Guidelines & Prohibited Content. Entry must comply with these Official Rules. Sponsor reserves the right,
but not the obligation, to review any Entry for violation of these Official Rules and may, at its sole discretion, reject, delete, or otherwise exclude an Entry for any reason, including without limitation, if the Entry contains any Prohibited Content
(as defined in Appendix A) or any other commentary or material which Sponsor, in its sole discretion deems inappropriate.
4. SWEEPSTAKES DRAWING:
Two (2) winners will be selected by Sponsor in a random drawing to be held on or about each Drawing Date as defined in Rule #2. Odds of winning depend upon the number of eligible entries received for the applicable Entry Period. Non-winning Entries do
not carry forward to subsequent Entry Period drawings.
5. WINNER NOTIFICATION:
All prizes will be awarded. Potential winners will be notified via direct message on Facebook and will be required to respond to the notification within forty-eight (48) hours indicating whether he/she can accept the prize. If a potential winner does
not respond to the notification within the forty-eight (48) hour time period, prize will be forfeited, and an alternate potential winner will be selected. Any alternate potential winner selected will also be required to respond to the notification
within the time frame stated above.
Winners will be required to complete, sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release to Sponsor within forty-eight (48) hours of prize acceptance. Subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with the terms of
these Official Rules is at least twenty-one (21) years of age or older prior to winner notification, then the potential winner will be disqualified, and an alternate potential winner will be selected.
In the event of noncompliance within any stated time period, the prize will be forfeited, and an alternate potential winner will be selected. Any alternate potential winner selected will also be required to adhere to the time periods and other requirements
described herein. Any prize notification or prize returned to the Sponsor or its agencies as undeliverable will result in disqualification and the awarding of that prize to an alternate potential winner.
Released Parties (as defined below) are not responsible for suspended or discontinued Internet, wireless, or land-line phone service or a change in an entrant’s email, phone number or mailing address which may result in a potential winner not receiving
initial prize notification or his/her prize information.
6. PRIZE DETAILS:
Prizes (2 total; 1 per per state (Minnesota, North Dakota); See Rule #2; See Rule #4): Each winner will receive one (1) $500 gift card, valid at Happy Harry’s retail locations in Fargo or Grand Forks, North Dakota. If winner cannot accept
prize as specified, prize will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner.
Limit one (1) prize per winning Entrant. Prizes are non-transferable and no cash equivalent or substitution of prize is offered, except at the sole discretion of Sponsor. If a prize, or any portion thereof, cannot be awarded for any reason, Sponsor reserves
the right to substitute prize with another prize of equal or greater value.
7. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND RELEASE:
RDO Equipment Co. and each of their employees, owners, affiliates, subsidiaries and agencies (collectively the “Released Parties”) are responsible for lost, late, misdirected, unintelligible, returned or undelivered entries, telephone calls,
text messages, email, or for lost, interrupted or unavailable satellite, network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), Website, or other connections availability, accessibility or traffic congestion, miscommunications, failed computer, network,
telephone, satellite or cable hardware or software or lines, or technical failure, or jumbled, scrambled, delayed or misdirected transmissions, computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors of any kind whether
human, mechanical, electronic or network. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of this Sweepstakes or Website, or act in violation of the Official Rules, or act in any manner to threaten or abuse or harass any person, or violate Website’s
terms of service, as solely determined by the Sponsor, will be disqualified. Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information whether caused by Website users, tampering, hacking, or by any of the programming or equipment
associated with or used in this Sweepstakes, and assumes no responsibility for any errors, omission, deletion, interruption or delay in operation or transmission or communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized website access.
Any use of robotic, macro, automatic, programmed or like Entry methods will void all such entries, and may subject that entrant to disqualification. Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to winners or any other person’s
computer, or property related to or resulting from participating in this Sweepstakes. Should any portion of Sweepstakes be, in the Sponsor’s sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, unauthorized human intervention or other causes
which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair administration, security, fairness or proper play of this Sweepstakes, or submission of entries, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the Sweepstakes,
and randomly select the winner from among all valid Entries received prior to action taken, or otherwise as may be deemed fair and equitable by the Sponsor. In the event of a dispute regarding Entries received from multiple users having the same email
address or Facebook account, the authorized subscriber of the email address or Facebook account used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant and must comply with these Official Rules. The authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is
assigned the email address or Facebook account by the organization responsible for assigning the email address or Facebook account. All materials submitted become the property of RDO Equipment Co. and will not be returned.
Entrants agree (a) that Sponsor and its employees, owners, agents, parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, and advertising and Sweepstakes agencies, and their respective officers, directors, employees, wholesale distributors, representatives and
agents, will have no liability whatsoever for, and are released and shall be held harmless by entrants against, any liability, for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind, to persons, including death, or property, or rights of publicity or privacy,
defamation, copyright infringement or portrayal in a false light resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of the prize or participation in this Sweepstakes or in any Sweepstakes-related activity,
and (b) winner, by acceptance of prize, except where legally prohibited, grants permission for Sponsor (and agrees to confirm such agreement in writing) and those acting pursuant to its authority to use his/her name, submitted biography, voice and/or
likeness and prize information, and/or Entry (and assign the Entry, which may be altered, changed, modified, edited, used alone or with other works, as solely determined by Sponsor) for advertising, trade and Sweepstakes purposes without further compensation,
at any times or time, in all media now known or hereafter discovered worldwide and on the Internet without notice or review or approval.
8. PUBLICITY AND COPYRIGHT LICENSE:
You grant Sponsor an exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferrable right and license to exploit your Entry (including, without limitation, your name and likeness and the names and likenesses
of any and all persons in the Entry, and any intellectual property rights (e.g. copyright, trademark, etc.) contained in the Entry) in any media now or hereafter known, without any payment or other consideration of any kind, or permission or notification,
to you or any third party, for any purpose, including, without limitation, your Entry and any person’s property (physical, personal, intellectual property rights, and indicia) contained therein. The foregoing grant includes, without limitation,
the right to reproduce, display, distribute, publicly perform, create derivative works of, alter, amend, broadcast, edit, publish, use, merchandise, license, sublicense, and adapt the Entry in any and all media now or hereafter known, throughout the
world, for any purpose, whether commercial in nature or otherwise, including in contexts and circumstances that result in your Entry being associated with a particular Sponsor or Sponsors. Accordingly, you hereby waive any objection to, such use including
without limitation, distribution, reproduction, creation of derivative works of, public performance, or display of your Entry, and any claim for compensation whatsoever in connection therewith. Such waiver shall include any claim for infringement
of any so-called “Moral Right,” “Droit Moral” or similar right or interest.
9. DISPUTE RESOLUTION:
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, or any claim or dispute that has arisen
or may arise between you and Sponsor, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of North Dakota without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules. The place of arbitration shall be Fargo,
ND.
10. PRIVACY POLICY:
See Sponsor’s privacy policy located at
https://www.rdoequipment.com/policies/privacy-policy
for details of Sponsor’s policy regarding the use of personal information collected in connection with this Sweepstakes. If you are verified as a prize winner, your first name, last initial, city and state will be included
in a publicly available winner’s list.
11. WINNER’S LIST:
For the names of the winners, send a direct message to the RDO Equipment Co Facebook page of the store Entrant chose as “Home Store” during the entry process, and include “Deere Beere for a Yeere Giveaway Winner’s List Request”
in the direct message for receipt by August 31, 2022.
12. SPONSOR:
RDO Equipment Co., 225 Broadway North, Fargo, ND,58102.
This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook. Any questions, comments or complaints regarding this Sweepstakes shall be directed to Sponsor and not to Facebook.
APPENDIX A
ENTRY GUIDELINES & PROHIBITED CONTENT
Entries must meet the following requirements:
- Entry cannot defame, misrepresent or contain disparaging remarks about Sponsor or its products, or other people, products or companies or communicate messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or goodwill to which Sponsor wishes
to associate.
- Sponsor shall have full right and power to copy, publish, broadcast, display, distribute, use, edit, translate, alter, combine with other material, reuse and adapt any or all portions of the Entry in any way and for any purpose whatsoever, at any
time, now or in the future, in any media now known or hereafter devised throughout the World in any manner whatsoever and for any purpose.
- Entry cannot (a) be sexually explicit or suggestive, violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group, profane or pornographic, contain nudity or any materially dangerous activity; (b) promote the excessive
or irresponsible consumption of alcohol, or promote illegal use of alcohol, drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing), any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous or any particular political agenda or message;
(c) be obscene or offensive, endorse any form of hate or hate group; (d) contain an image of anyone under 21 years of age; (e) otherwise fail to comply with the Beer Institute Advertising and Marketing Code as made publicly available at the following
online location: http://www.beerinstitute.org/assets/uploads/general-upload/2015-Beer-Ad-Code-Brochure.pdf; (f) contain trademarks, logos or trade dress owned by others, or advertise or promote any brand or product of any kind (other than Busch),
without permission, or contain any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, email addresses or street addresses; (g) contain copyrighted materials owned by others without permission; (h) contain materials embodying
the names, likenesses or other indicia identifying any person, living or dead, without permission; (i) refer to or depict any names, logos or readily recognizable features of a retailer of alcohol beverages (such as a grocery store, convenience
store, restaurant, bar, or any other retail location that sells alcohol beverages);or (j) depict, and cannot itself be in, violation of any law.
- Each entrant warrants and represents that the Entry: (a) is his/her original work, (b) has not been previously published; (c) has not received previous awards; and (d) does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity
or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity.
- Any entrant whose Entry includes likenesses of third parties or contains elements not owned by the entrant (such as, but not limited to, depictions of persons, buildings, trademarks or logos) must be able to provide legal releases for such use including
Sponsor’s use of such Entry, in a form satisfactory to Sponsor, upon request, prior to award of prize and/or naming of entrant as a winner.
- Any Entry that, in the sole opinion of Sponsor, is not in accordance with the guidelines as stated herein or on the Website or is deemed to be inappropriate for publication is ineligible.
- Incomplete, illegible, deceptive or garbled Entries are not eligible.
- Any such entrant will indemnify and hold harmless, Sponsor from any claims to the contrary.
By submitting an Entry, you agree that your Entry is gratuitous and made without restriction, that it will not place Sponsor under any obligation other than as stated in these Official Rules, that Sponsor is free to publish or otherwise disclose the ideas
contained in the Entry on a non-confidential basis to anyone or otherwise use the ideas without any additional compensation to you. You acknowledge that, by acceptance of your Entry, Sponsor does do not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas
previously known to Sponsor or developed by its employees or obtained from sources other than you.
By participating, you acknowledge that your Entry may be used in Sponsor's sole discretion. Entries are the views/opinions of the individual entrant and do not reflect the views of the Sponsor in any manner. By entering, you acknowledge that Sponsor has
no obligation to use or post any Entry you submit.
1 Participating RDO Equipment Co. Locations
Minnesota:
Ada
2575 MN-200, 56510
Breckenridge
905 Buffalo Ave, 56520
Fergus Falls
1254 Tower Rd S, 56537
Hawley
110 Michael St S, 56549
Moorhead
2960 34th St S, 56560
North Dakota:
Casselton
1650 Governor's Dr, 58012
Kindred
110 Linden St, 58051
Lisbon
6610 ND-32, 58054
