2023 CATALOG UGC PROMOTION

BY COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING AN ENTRY FORM FOR THE SWEEPSTAKES, YOU UNCONDITIONALLY ACCEPT AND AGREE TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES, WHICH FORM A CONTRACT. WITHOUT LIMITATION, THIS CONTRACT INCLUDES RELEASES AND INDEMNITY OBLIGATIONS ON THE PART OF ENTRANT AND A LIMITATION OF ENTRANT'S RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. READ THESE FULL OFFICIAL RULES CAREFULLY BEFORE ENTERING.

 

This Sweepstakes is sponsored by City Furniture, Inc. (“City Furniture”), having a corporate address of 6701 N. Hiatus Road, Tamarac, FL 33321 (the “Sponsor”).  By participating in the Sweepstakes, each Entrant agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules (the “Official Rules”) and the decisions of City Furniture.

 

1. ELIGIBILITY: City Furniture 2023 Catalog UGC Promotion (the “Sweepstakes”) is open to legal residents of Florida who are eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of entry (the "Entrant"). Persons in any of the following categories are NOT eligible to win a prize: (a) employees or agents of Sponsor, City Furniture, Inc., its employees, and each of its companies, subsidiaries, advertising and Sweepstakes agencies, (b) individuals engaged in the development, production or distribution of materials for the Sweepstakes; (c) persons who are in the immediate family of any person in any of the preceding categories (including mother, father, sister, brother, daughter, son, spouse, grandmother, grandfather, children or grandchildren), regardless of where they live; or persons who reside in the same household, whether related or not, as any  person in any of the preceding categories. All eligibility is subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations. All entries submitted are the property of the Sponsor and may be used for marketing purposes. The Sponsor’s designated database clock will be the timekeeper for this Sweepstakes.

 

2. HOW TO ENTER: The Sweepstakes will consist of one drawing for a City Furniture gift card in the amount of two-thousand dollars ($2,000) (the “Grand Prize”). There are two methods to enter the Sweepstakes, to enter Entrant must either:

 

1. Sign in to your Instagram account, and do the following:
   1. Upload and post a picture of your City Furniture product to your Instagram page with both of the following hashtags in the caption: #mycityfurniture AND #contest.
   2. You will then be entered into the Sweepstakes.

 

2. Navigate to http://www.cityfurniture.com/inspiration/gallery and do the following:
   1. Click “Upload Media.”
   2. Upload a picture of your City Furniture product directly from your computer or device, or select the tab Facebook or Instagram and connect to your Facebook or Instagram to upload the picture directly from that platform.
   3. Add a caption (optional).
   4. Click “Next.”
   5. Complete all of the required information on the entry form, including your First and Last Name and Email Address.
   6. Check the checkbox to acknowledge and agree that you want to receive email updates from Sponsor.
   7. Check the checkbox to acknowledge and agree to the Sweepstakes Official Terms and Conditions. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE OFFICIAL RULES OR CITY FURNITURE’S GALLERY TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT CONTINUE.
   8. Click “Submit”.

 

After you have completed either of these methods, you will automatically be entered into the Sweepstakes.

 

LIMIT: One (1) entry per person during Sweepstakes Period. One (1) prize per person, family or household.  Multiple entries received from any person or family or email address or phone number or household in excess of the stated limitation will be void. Entry in this Sweepstakes does not constitute entry into any other promotion, contest or sweepstakes run by Sponsor.

 

If you opt to access the Sweepstakes via your wireless mobile device, data and messaging rates may apply according to the terms and conditions of your service agreement with your wireless carrier. Other charges may apply (such as normal airtime and carrier charges as well as charges for wireless Internet access) and may appear on your mobile phone bill or be deducted from your prepaid account balance. Wireless carriers' rate plans may vary, and you should contact your wireless carrier for more information on messaging rate plans and charges relating to your participation in this Sweepstakes. Mobile device service may not be available in all areas. Check your phone's capabilities for specific instructions. Sponsor is not responsible for any charges.

           

3. RANDOM DRAWINGS:

 

A random drawing for the Grand Prize will be conducted by the Sponsor on December 8, 2022, at or about 2:00pm ET from all eligible entries received during Sweepstakes Period. Odds of winning will be based on the number of entries submitted during the Sweepstakes Period. Sponsor’s decisions shall be final and legally binding in all respects and not subject to further review in any forum. 

 

4. GRAND PRIZE/APPROXIMATE RETAIL VALUE (“ARV”):

 

The Grand Prize is a City Furniture gift card in the amount of two-thousand dollars ($2,000).  Accordingly, the total approximate retail value (“ARV”) of the prize is two-thousand dollars ($2,000).

 

If prize(s) will be awarded in the form of a City Furniture Gift Card or Gift Certificate they cannot be exchanged for cash or other substitutes.  Terms and conditions of the Gift Card or Gift Certificate apply.  Only eligible for use at City Furniture stores.

 

Prize is awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. All approximate retail values are subject to change based on, among other things, normal price fluctuations associated with the subject industry in the marketplace. Sponsor or Sponsor's representative reserves the right to deny portions of the prize package to winner who engages in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person with no further compensation.

 

5. WINNER NOTIFICATION AND PRIZE ACCEPTANCE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE PRESENT TO WIN. Prize winner will be notified via Instagram message, phone, email, or text message as determined by the Sponsor and at its sole discretion based on the information the potential winner provided when registering in each Sweepstakes. Each prize winner will be notified within three (3) business days of the drawing. If the potential winner does not respond within three (3) days of the initial notification attempt, the potential prize winner will be disqualified and an alternate potential prize winner may be selected from the relevant drawing. Once eligibility has been verified and the Sponsor receives the prize winner’s requested information, the Sponsor will arrange to award the prize. Sponsor reserves the right to determine and to alter the method of notification

 

The winner will be required to provide proof of identity, verification of eligibility, and compliance with these Official Rules, and, unless prohibited by law, a complete written Affidavit of Eligibility/Release of Liability Form, W-9 tax payer request for identification form and, where legal, Publicity Release (“Affidavits”) as well as any other documents required by Sponsor, all of which must be received fully-executed within three (3) business days of receipt or such potential prize winner may be disqualified and an alternate potential prize winner may be selected from the relevant drawing.  Prize winner further grants full permission to the Sponsor and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, successors, and assigns, Sweepstakes agency and anyone authorized by any of them, to use winner’s entry, name, photograph, likeness, voice and biographical data, in whole or in part, in any and all media for the purposes of advertising, publicity and trade without additional compensation or right of approval.

 

Sponsor reserves the right to require a potential prize winner to submit to a confidential background check to confirm eligibility and help ensure that the use of any such person in advertising or publicity for the Sweepstakes will not bring the Sweepstakes or the Sponsor into public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule or reflect unfavorably on the Sweepstakes as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Winner will be required to provide the Sponsor with their U.S. driver’s license number and social security number.

6. ENTRY NOTES.  Any attempted form of entry other than as described herein is void. Sponsor will determine, in its sole discretion, what constitutes a valid entry and reserves the right to reject any submissions that it deems, in its sole discretion, to violate any of Sponsor’s policies, standards, or practices. All materials submitted become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned or acknowledged. Sponsor may use the information provided for marketing or other purposes.

 

Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or modify the Sweepstakes if fraud or technical failures impair the integrity of the Sweepstakes as determined by the Sponsor, in its sole discretion, and to award the prize based on eligible entries received prior to the cancellation.

                                   

Entries made on another’s behalf by any individuals or other entities, including but not limited to, commercial Sweepstakes/contest subscription notification and/or entering services, will be declared invalid and disqualified for this Sweepstakes. Tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes is prohibited and any entries deemed by Sponsor, in its sole discretion, to have been submitted in this manner will be void. In the event a dispute regarding the identity of the individual who actually submitted an entry cannot be resolved to Sponsor’s satisfaction, the affected entry will be deemed ineligible.

  

Sponsor is not responsible for problems with any Sweepstakes-related information or for any other technical malfunctions of electronic equipment, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer hardware or software failures, phone lines, failure of any electronic mail to be received by Sponsor on account of technical problems, traffic, congestion on the internet or the web site, or any other technical problems related to web site entries including telecommunication miscommunication or failure, and failed, lost, delayed, incomplete, garbled or misdirected communications which may limit an entrant’s ability to participate in this Sweepstakes.

 

Sponsor will be collecting personal data to be used for marketing purposes about the Entrants in accordance with Sponsor’s privacy policy which can be found at https://www.cityfurniture.com/privacy_page. 

 

7. DISCLAIMER: Sponsor makes no warranties, and hereby disclaims any and all warranties, express or implied, concerning any prize furnished in connection with the SWEEPSTAKES.  WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, PRIZES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND SPONSOR HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

 

Prize winner is responsible for any and all applicable fees, service charges, surcharges, all insurance, federal, state, and local taxes, and any other unspecified expenses associated with acceptance or use of the prize. 

 

If the prize or the prize notification is returned as undeliverable or any non-compliance with these Official Rules or failure to respond within the applicable time period, it will result in forfeiture of the prize and an alternate winner will be selected.

 

Prize will be awarded only if the prize winner fully complies with these Official Rules.

 

8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Neither Sponsor, Administrator, City Furniture, Inc., the Sweepstakes entities, prize suppliers, nor any of their respective parent, subsidiary or affiliated entities or any of their respective shareholders, officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys, successors and assigns (the “Released Parties”) shall be held responsible for, and Entrant hereby releases the Released Parties from, any claims arising from or in any way relating to: (i) technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunctioning of any computer, cable, network, hardware or software; (ii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions or telephone or Internet service; (iii) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Sweepstakes; (iv) electronic or human error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the processing of entries; (v) any injury, death or damage to persons or property, including but not limited to Entrant's computer, hardware or software, which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from Entrant's participation in the Sweepstakes; (vi) use of any prize; and (vii) the drawing process including the outcome of the Sweepstakes.

 

This Sweepstakes and/or promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Meta Platforms, Inc. (“Meta” or “Facebook”) or Instagram, Inc (“Instagram”), Twitter Inc. (“Twitter”), ByteDance Ltd. (“TikTok”), Snap Inc. (“Snapchat”), or any other social media platform.  By entering, Entrants confirm that they completely release Meta, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, and any other social media platform utilized in the advertising or promotion of the Sweepstakes, of any and all liability or responsibility and agree to terms and condition of use of each such social media platform(s).  Anyone found to use multiple accounts to enter the Sweepstakes will be ineligible.

 

9. GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Released Parties are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, inaccurate, stolen, misdirected, undelivered, delayed, garbled, postage due or damaged entries; or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors or difficulties of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, computer, network, typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Sweepstakes, including, without limitation, errors or difficulties which may occur in connection with the administration of the Sweepstakes, the processing of entries, the announcement of the prize or in any Sweepstakes-related materials. Released Parties are also not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes. Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to Entrants’ or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading materials from or use of the website. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the Sweepstakes or website or who are in violation of these Official Rules, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified and all associated entries will be void. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY A PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS SWEEPSTAKES IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS 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. If for any reason the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of the Sponsor, which corrupts or affects the administration or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, the Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, and/or to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes or any element thereof. In the event of cancellation, Sponsor will award the prize from among all eligible, non-suspect entries received prior to cancellation by random drawing. The use of any automated entry software or any other mechanical or electronic means that permits the Entrant to automatically enter repeatedly is prohibited. Any entries found or suspected to be submitted in this manner will be deemed ‘void’ by the Sponsor or Administrator. Entrants, by participating, agree that Sponsor and its respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries and advertising and Sweepstakes agencies and all of their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents will have no liability whatsoever for, and shall be held harmless by Entrants against, any liability, for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind, including death, to persons, or property resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any prize or participation in this Sweepstakes.

 

10. DISPUTES: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (1) 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 state of Florida or the appropriate Court located in the state of Florida; (2) 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 (3) unless otherwise prohibited, 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 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 Florida, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Florida or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Florida.

 

11. WINNERS LIST/ RULES: To obtain the name(s) of the winner(s) (available after December 18, 2022), send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: City Furniture, Inc., City Furniture 2023 Catalog UGC Promotion (“Winners”), Attn: Marketing Department, 6701 N Hiatus Road, Tamarac, FL 33321. All such requests must be received by March 18, 2023. For Official Rules visit  https://www.cityfurniture.com/terms/gallery.

 

The use of any prize manufacturer(s), name or trademark in connection with any of the prize(s) is solely for the purpose of describing such prize and is not intended to suggest any affiliation or sponsorship. Each prize manufacturer is not a sponsor of this Sweepstakes and has no obligation for the awarding of any prize or for the conduct of the Sweepstakes.