Little Wishes official rules | wfaa.com

1. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR TO WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR ODDS OF WINNING. SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

2. Eligibility. Subject to the extra restrictions under, the LITTLE WISHES CONTEST is open to authorized U.S. residents (excluding Puerto Rico) who’re 18 years or older on the time of entry. Entrants should not be convicted of a felony. Employees and contractors of WFAA-TV (“Sponsor”), TEGNA Inc., or SAM PACK AUTO GROUP, and every of their respective affiliated corporations, and promoting and promotional companies, and the fast members of the family of, and any individuals domiciled with, any such staff or contractors, aren’t eligible to enter or to win.

3. How To Enter. The Contest will start at 12:00 a.m. CST on January 1, 2023 and finish at 11:59 p.m. CST on DECEMBER 31, 2023. The Sponsor reserves the correct to shorten or prolong the Contest Period. To enter, log on by visiting wfaa.com/littlewishes, finishing all required information and following all posted directions. All essays should be the only, authentic work of the entrant, should be typewritten or legibly printed in English, and should be restricted to 500 phrases. Judges might disqualify beforehand revealed essays/video or those who have received earlier awards or competitions. A professional screener will evaluation all nominations and ship a listing of finalists to a panel of judges. On or across the first week of every month, a panel of certified judges the Sponsor selects will decide within the finalists for that month and choose one month-to-month winner.  Judges will award as much as 50 factors for entries that display a compelling want, and as much as 50 factors for high quality of the written essay nomination.  The finalist entry with the best total rating would be the winner.  In the occasion of a tie for first place, judges will re-judge the tied finalist entries utilizing the identical standards.  

Maximum one (1) entry per particular person. Multiple entries by the use of software program generated or different automated processes shall be disregarded.  Entries not chosen as a winner will robotically rollover to subsequent months of the Contest, if relevant.

Multiple entrants aren’t permitted to share the identical e mail tackle. Sponsor won’t be liable for incomplete, misplaced, late, postage-due, misdirected, or illegible entries, Entries that exceed the 500-word restrict that don’t adjust to the provisions of those Official Rules shall be disqualified. All entries grow to be property of Sponsor and none shall be returned. Contestants acknowledge and agree that Sponsor shall have the correct to edit, adapt, modify, reproduce, publish, promote, create a sound recording of, broadcast, or in any other case show or use entries in any method it sees match with out limitation or compensation to entrants. Sponsor additional reserves the correct to disqualify any entry that’s alleged to infringe on any third-party’s mental property rights, or that Sponsor, in its sole discretion, deems obscene, offensive or in any other case inappropriate for viewing by a basic viewers. By coming into, you conform to obtain e-mails from Sponsor or these directed by Sponsor. You can opt-out of the receipt of such e-mails by following the instructions on the Contest web site or in any e mail acquired from Sponsor.

4. Winner Selection. On or across the third Monday of the month following submissions till the tip of the Contest one month-to-month winner shall be visited in particular person by WFAA (i.e. the ultimate go to in December 2020). If the one that positioned the nomination can’t be reached inside 5 days after WFAA’s preliminary try on or across the first Monday of the month, or if the chosen winner shall be unavailable to just accept the prize, WFAA will choose an alternate winner from the remaining nominations.

5. Prizes and Odds.  One (1) Monthly winner for every month of the Contest between February 2020 and December 2020 inclusive (eleven (11) winners whole) will obtain a prize matching their nomination with a price not lower than $500.00 and no more than $6,000.00.

Odds of successful depend upon the variety of eligible entries acquired.

6. Winner Notification and Acceptance. The nominator(s) of every winner shall be notified inside 5 enterprise days of choice by the panel of judges on the phone quantity, and/or e mail tackle supplied on winner’s entry type. If notification is by cellphone, Sponsor will name throughout common enterprise hours at quantity supplied on entry type and can go away no messages. Failure to succeed in nominator by cellphone after three (3) makes an attempt, return of e mail notification as undeliverable, or failure of winner to reply to e mail notification might end in disqualification of winner, forfeiture of his or her curiosity in all prizes, and number of a substitute winner from amongst all remaining eligible entries. To declare prize, every winner should current a sound photograph identification. Winners might waive their proper to obtain prizes. Prizes are nonassignable and nontransferable. No substitutions allowed by winner. Prizes aren’t redeemable for money. Prizes and particular person parts of prize packages are topic to availability and Sponsor reserves the correct to substitute prizes of equal or higher worth. Winners are solely liable for reporting and fee of any taxes on prizes. Winners could also be required to finish an affidavit of eligibility/legal responsibility certifying that the entrant’s submission is entrant’s authentic work, that entrant owns proper to the work, that the submission has not beforehand received an award or prize in a contest and has not beforehand been revealed, and that entrant has complied with the Official Rules of the Contest, and a legal responsibility and publicity launch (besides the place prohibited by regulation) which should be returned as directed by Sponsor. Failure to signal and return the affidavit or launch, or to adjust to any time period or situation of those Official Rules, might end in a winner’s disqualification, the forfeiture of his or her curiosity within the prize, and the award of the prize to a substitute winner. Except the place prohibited, acceptance of any prize constitutes winner’s consent to the publication of his or her identify, biographical information and likeness in any media for any industrial or promotional function, with out limitation the Internet, or additional compensation. Prizes not received and claimed by eligible winners in accordance with these Official Rules won’t be awarded and can stay the property of Sponsor.

7. Participation. By collaborating, contestants conform to be certain by these Official Rules and the choices of Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the correct to disqualify individuals discovered tampering with or in any other case abusing any side of this Contest as solely decided by Sponsor. In the occasion the Contest is compromised by a virus, non-authorized human intervention, tampering or different causes past the cheap management of Sponsor which corrupts or impairs the administration, safety, equity or correct operation of the Contest, Sponsor reserves the correct in its sole discretion to droop, modify or terminate the Contest. Should the Contest be terminated previous to the said expiration date, Sponsor reserves the correct to award prizes based mostly on the entries acquired earlier than the termination date. Sponsors won’t be liable for incomplete, misplaced, late, postage-due, misdirected or illegible entries (both images or ballots), poor high quality images, or for failure to obtain entries or votes or different digital communications on account of transmission failures or technical failures of any type, together with, with out limitation, malfunctioning of any community, {hardware} or software program, whether or not originating with sender or Sponsor. The licensed account holder of the e-mail tackle submitted at time of entry shall be thought of the entrant. An “authorized account holder” shall imply the pure particular person assigned to such e-mail account by the Internet entry supplier, on-line service supplier, or different group liable for assigning e-mail addresses for the area related to such e-mail account. A possible winner could also be requested to offer proof that within the occasion of a dispute, all on-line entries shall be deemed to have been submitted by the proprietor of the ISP account from which they have been despatched. For these functions, an ISP account holder shall imply the pure particular person assigned to such ISP account by the Internet entry supplier, on-line service supplier or different group liable for assigning ISP addresses for the area related to such ISP account. Any questions concerning the variety of entries, or votes submitted, or the proprietor of an ISP account shall be decided by Sponsor in its sole discretion, and Sponsor reserves the correct to disqualify any entries or votes by individuals decided to be tampering with or abusing any side of the Contest.

8. Copyright. By coming into the Contest, every contestant grants to Sponsor an unique, royalty-free and irrevocable proper and license to publish, print, edit or in any other case use the contestant’s submitted entry, in complete or partially, for any function and in any method or media (together with, with out limitation, the Internet) all through the world in perpetuity, and to license others to take action, all with out limitation or additional compensation. Each contestant additional agrees that if his/her entry is chosen by Sponsor because the successful entry, he/she is going to signal any further license or launch that Sponsor might require and won’t publicly carry out or show his or her submission with out the categorical permission of Sponsor.

9. Construction. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of those rules shall not have an effect on the validity or enforceability of another provision. In the occasion that any such provision is set to be invalid or in any other case unenforceable, these rules shall be construed in accordance with their phrases as if the invalid or unenforceable provision was not contained therein.

10. Sponsor.  The Little Wishes Contest is sponsored by WFAA-TV. The selections of Sponsor and the Contest judges concerning the number of winners and all different points of the Contest shall be ultimate and binding in all respects. Sponsor won’t be liable for typographical, printing or different inadvertent errors in these Official Rules or in different supplies regarding the Contest. For a listing of winners obtainable after December 31, 2023 or a duplicate of those Official Rules, go to wfaa.com or ship a self-addressed, stamped envelope to “Winners List/Official Rules” (as relevant), Little Wishes 606 Young St., Dallas, TX, 75202. If you will have any questions concerning this Contest, please contact Pete Freedman: [email protected] or 214-977-6274.