Raise To Win Challenge 2018:
$10,800.00 in cash up for grabs when you fundraise through FlipGive from September 4th, 2018 through October 1st , 2018 at 11:59 pm EST.
SPONSORS. The Raise to Win Challenge (“Challenge”) is sponsored by FlipGive. (“Sponsor”).
OVERALL CHALLENGE PERIOD . The Challenge entry period begins at 12:00:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (“EST”) on Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 (“Challenge Start Date”) and closes at 11:59:59 p.m. EST on Monday October 1st , 2018 (“Challenge Close Date”).
ELIGIBILITY. To be eligible for the Raise To Win Challenge, you must be a verifiable legal resident of Canada or the USA, who has reached the age of majority in your province or territory or state of residence at the Challenge Start Date. You are not eligible if you are an employee of FlipGive or its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising, promotional and public relations agencies, or a member of the immediate family or household of such employees. For the purposes of these Rules, “member of the immediate family” means spouse, including common law spouse, father, mother, son, daughter, brother and sister of the entrant, regardless of where they reside. Entrants must be natural persons. The Challenge is void where prohibited or restricted by local, state or federal law.
All fundraising campaigns ("Teams") on the FlipGive.com platform that are approved by FlipGive administrators are eligible. Teams and fundraisers ("Team Members") must abide by the FlipGive.com Terms of Use.
HOW TO ENTER. To enter the Raise to Win Challenge, entrants must have a running Team during the Entry Period. Teams that earn the most overall are eligible to win Cash Prizes. Team funds can be raised through Shopping with an affiliated FlipGive merchant partner, the purchase of gift cards from flipgive.com and from the collection of Donations.
CHALLENGE PRIZING
The $6,000.00 Overall Raise to Win Challenge prizes are awarded to the Teams that have generated the highest amount of amounts raised over the entire period of the Challenge through Shopping and from the collection of Donations, from September 4th, 2018 through October 1st, 2018. Prizes will be awarded to Winners in the form of a credit for their Team. In all cases “cash” refers to a cash credit that is deposited into the Account of the winning Team.
OVERALL TEAM PRIZING
The Raise to Win Challenge overall team prizes are awarded to the teams that raise the most money through Shopping and from the the collection of Donations from September 4th, 2018 - October 1st, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST. Prizing is as follows:
Overall Shopping Challenge
1st prize: $1,500
2nd prize: $1,000 3rd prize: $500Overall Donation Challenge
1st prize: $1,500
2nd prize: $1,000 3rd prize: $500WEEKLY PRIZING
The Raise to Win Challenge Weekly prizing awards the Teams that have raised the most during each week of the challenge through Shopping and from the collection of Donations. Teams are not eligible to win more than one weekly prize during the duration of the contest. The prizes are as follows:
Weekly Shopping Challenge
1st prize: $300
2nd prize: $200 3rd prize: $100Weekly Donation Challenge
1st prize: $300
2nd prize: $200 3rd prize: $100Weekly prizing periods are as follows:
Week 1: September 4th 12:01am EST - September 10th 11:59pm EST
Week 2: September 11th 12:01am EST - September 17th 11:59pm EST
Week 3: September 18th 12:01am EST - September 24th 11:59pm EST
Week 4: September 25th 12:01am EST - October 1st 11:59pm EST
RAISE TO WIN CHALLENGE PRIZING RULES
Only monies earned or from Shopping or by Donations during the noted challenge periods will be counted toward the Challenge placement and prizing.
Overall and Weekly Challenge prizes will be awarded in the form of a credit to the Team. These credits will be awarded to the Teams after the Challenge closes on October 1st , 2018 at 11:59 EST and before October 12th 2018 only and after the winning team has signed and reviewed challenge affidavits.
Team beneficiaries must be approved by FlipGive.com administrators. Prizes will be awarded only to Teams in which the beneficiary has been approved.
All prize values are in the denomination of the Team’s country of origin.
Weekly winners will be determined based on the amount of funds earned and reconciled as of the end of the weekly period. Overall winners will be determined after a 7-day reconciliation period has occurred.
BRAND EXCLUSIONS: Please note that certain brands exceed the normal 48 hour reconciliation period and could impact your weekly standings. These include Hotels.com, Intercontinental hotels group, Expedia.ca, Priceline.com, car rental services, Loews Hotels, Best Western, Raddison, Sunset airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Atlantics Hotel, Hard Rock Hotel, Disney Vacations, or any other hotel partners with the exception of Bookings.com.
AGREEMENT TO OFFICIAL RULES AND DECISIONS. By participating in the Challenge, each Team fully and unconditionally agrees to be bound by and accepts these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor (including, without limitation, decisions regarding eligibility of entries, the approval of fundraising Teams and beneficiaries, and the awarding of prizes), which are final and binding in all respects.
NOTIFICATION. Sponsor will determine which fundraising Teams will be awarded prizes (“Winners) to Teams registered under the FlipGive program.
Grand prize winners will be notified no later than October 12th, 2018. Winners must comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. The potential Winners will be notified by phone and/or email. The potential Winners will be required to execute and return to Sponsor a notarized Affidavit of Eligibility, a Liability Release, and/or a Publicity Release (except where prohibited by law) (an “Affidavit/Release”) in the form(s) provided in order to claim the prize. The Affidavit/Release must be returned by the date and/or time indicated within the Affidavit/Release. If the potential Winners cannot be contacted within five (5) days of the first attempt to contact the potential Winners, or if the potential Winner fails to return the Affidavit/Release within the specified time, or if any bonus or bonus notification is returned as undeliverable, or if the potential Winner is found to be ineligible, or if the potential Winner does not comply with the Official Rules, then the potential Winner may be disqualified.
IN THE CASE OF A TIE. In the event of multiple Teams raising the same amount during the Overall Challenge, prizes will be prioritized based on the time which that amount was earned. The sooner the amount was earned, the higher that Team will rank. For instance if Team A raised $500 by 11pm on the Challenge Close Date and Team B raised $500 by 11:01pm on the Challenge Close Date, Team A will rank higher.
PUBLICITY. Except where prohibited by law, participation in the Challenge constitutes the Winners’ consent to Sponsor and Co-Sponsor’s use of the Winners’ name, biography, likeness, voice, photographs, video, opinions, statements, hometown, state/province and country for Challenge purposes in any manner or media (including, without limitation, online), worldwide, in perpetuity, and without further payment, consideration, notice, review or consent.
PRIVACY. The Sponsor will collect personal data about the participants for the sole purpose of administering this Challenge. The Sponsor respects your right to privacy. Please review the Sponsor's privacy policy at https://www.flipgive.com/pages/privacy for details on the manner in which we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise manage your personal information.
GENERAL CONDITIONS. The Sponsor reserves the right, in their sole discretion, to terminate, modify or suspend the Challenge if, in the Sponsor’s opinion, there is any suspected or actual evidence of electronic or non-electronic tampering with any portion of the Challenge, or if viruses, bugs, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical difficulties or failures or any other factor beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Challenge. In such event, the Sponsor reserve the right (but do not have the obligation) in their sole discretion to award prizes to eligible, non-suspect entries received up to the time of suspected impairment. The Sponsor reserve the right in their sole discretion to disqualify any individual or Team they find to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Challenge or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of this Challenge is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserve the right to seek damages and other remedies 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 or any other provision of these Official Rules. The decisions of the Sponsors are final and participants agree to abide by all of the instructions and decisions of the Sponsors. In the event of any dispute regarding the interpretation of these official challenge rules, the decision or interpretation of the Sponsors shall prevail. The Challenge Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual from the Challenge, and to ban that individual from any future Challenge of the Sponsor, if the Sponsor finds or believes such individual to be tampering with the registration process or the operation of the Challenge or where applicable, the Website; to be acting in violation of the Challenge rules or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass the Sponsor, the Sponsor's agencies, other participants or any other person. ANY ATTEMPT BY A PARTICIPANT OR ANY OTHER PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CHALLENGE IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSOR(S) RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REPORT ANY SUCH VIOLATION TO THE APPLICABLE AUTHORITIES AND TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
RIGHT TO TERMINATE, MODIFY OR SUSPEND. The Sponsor may at any time, at its sole discretion and without liability, terminate, modify or suspend the Challenge in whole or in part, subject only to the approval of any applicable regulatory authority, if fraud, technical failures including any network server or hardware failure, viruses, bugs, errors in programming, or communications or any other errors or other causes beyond the control of the Sponsor corrupt the administration, integrity or security of the Challenge or if any other factor interferes with the conduct of this Challenge as contemplated by these Official Rules.
In the event of conflict, these Official Rules shall prevail over any of the contents of any other Challenge materials advertising this Challenge. Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who tampers or attempts to tamper with the entry process, the operation of the Challenge and/or Challenge Website, violates the Official Rules, or acts with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. If the Challenge is not capable of running as planned for any reason, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause of any nature whatsoever beyond the reasonable control of the Challenge Entities which corrupt or affect the administration, security or proper conduct of this Challenge, the Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to, without advance notice, terminate or suspend the Challenge, in whole or in part, or modify it in any way.
RELEASE. By entering and/or accepting a prize, each Winner and potential Winner forever and irrevocably releases and holds harmless Sponsor, their respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliates, and their respective agents, advertising and Challenge agencies, affiliates, retail partners, Challenge partners and prize suppliers, and all of their respective employees, officers, directors, shareholders and agents from and against all claims, damages or liabilities arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the team’s participation and/or entry in the Challenge and/or the Winners’ prize, receipt or use of any prize awarded in the Challenge including, without limitation, personal injuries, death and property damage. By participating in this Challenge, participants agree to be bound of the Official Rules of this Challenge.
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY. Sponsor is not responsible for: (a) incorrect or inaccurate transcription of entry information or late, lost, stolen, unintelligible, illegible, damaged, mutilated, altered, incomplete, misdirected or postage due entries or entries received through impermissible or illegitimate channels, all of which will be disqualified; (b) technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunctioning of any telephone, computer online systems, computer equipment, website, server provider, network, hardware or software; (c) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any website or service; (d) unauthorized intervention in any part of the entry process or the Challenge; (e) printing, typographical, electronic or human errors which may occur in the offer or administration of the Challenge or the processing of entries; or (f) any injury or damage to persons or property, including but not limited to team’s computer, which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from the winning team’s participation in the Challenge, or from viewing, playing or downloading any material from website(s), regardless of whether the material was prepared by Sponsor or a third party, and regardless of whether the material is connected to Sponsor’s respective websites by a hypertext link. Any participants registration that is, incomplete, altered, or contains false information, is invalid. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected claims or entries during the Challenge Period. The Sponsor is not responsible for any errors or omissions with respect to the printing or advertising of this Challenge and reserves the right to withdraw or cancel this Challenge in the event of a printing or administrative error. For greater certainty, the Challenge Entities will not be liable for: a) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Website users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Challenge or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of entries in the Challenge; b) any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation of the Website or any transmission in connection with the Challenge; c) any communications line failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries; d) any problems with, or technical malfunction of, any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, or failure of email which may occur for any reason whatsoever, including technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination thereof; or e) any injury or damage to participants’ or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in this Challenge.
DISPUTES. Each Winner and Potential Winner agrees that: (a) any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Challenge, or any prizes awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and solely and exclusively in a federal or provincial court located in Toronto, ON, Canada; the Winners submit to sole and exclusive personal jurisdiction to said courts in the Province of Ontario for any such dispute and irrevocably waives any and all rights to object to such jurisdiction; (b) any and all claims, judgments, and awards shall be limited to actual out of pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Challenge but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (c) under no circumstances will the Winners be permitted to obtain awards for and the Winners hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the winning team or Sponsor in connection with the Challenge shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the Province of Ontario, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules of provisions (whether of the Province of Ontario, Canada, or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the Province of Ontario. This Challenge is subject to all applicable laws and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario. Any dispute or claim made by a party shall be filed in the judicial district of Toronto, Ontario to the exclusion of any other jurisdiction.
OFFICIAL RULES. These Official Rules are available to participants at https://www.flipgive.com/rtw2018 under “Terms and conditions” or by sending a self-addressed postage-stamped envelope to “Raise to Win 2018” C/O FlipGive, 325 Front St. West 4 th floor, M5V 2Y1, Toronto, ON Canada
WINNERS’ LIST. To request a list of winners, send a self-addressed postage-stamped envelope to “Raise to Win 2018” C/O FlipGive, 325 Front St. West 4th floor, M5V 2Y1, Toronto, ON Canada. Requests must be received by October 12th, 2018.
SPONSOR. The sponsor of the Challenge and the address at which the Sponsor may be contacted is “Raise to Win 2018” C/O 325 Front St. West 4 thfloor, M5V 2Y1, Toronto, ON Canada
FAQ:
1.How do I participate in the Raise to Win Challenge?
To participate, individuals and Teams must raise funds through the FlipGive platform. A FlipGive Team Member or Team that meet the requirements (see Terms and Conditions) and who raise the most funds in a given week, or overall during the period of September 4th 2018 through October 1st, 2018. Team funds can be raised through Shopping with an affiliated FlipGive merchant partner, the purchase of gift cards from flipgive.com or from the collection of Donations.
2. Do I have to enter or opt-in to participate in the challenge?
No, you do not have to enter or opt-in to participate in the challenge. If you have a FlipGive Team that is running, you are eligible to participate.
3. What are the Overall Challenge Grand Prizes?
Raise to Win Challenge Grand prizes are awarded to the Teams that have generated the highest amount of funds raised through Shopping or from Donations over the period of the challenge, from September 4th through October 1st, 2018. First prizes for the Shopping and Donation Challenges are $1,500. Second prizes for the Shopping and Donation Challenges are $1,000. Third prizes for the Shopping and Donation Challenges are $500. Prizes will be awarded to Winners in the form of a credit for their Team in the currency of the country in which their Team was created.
4. How do I win an overall prize?
The top six teams (three from most earned through Shopping and three from most earned from Donations) that raise the most money during the contest period will cash prizes that will be released as a Team credit.
5. What are the weekly prizes?
The weekly prizes are weekly Team credits that are awarded to the six (three shop, three donation) teams that raise the most money by donation and shop each week.
6. How can I win a weekly prize?
Shop and earn cash back for your team or collect Donations! Each week during the Raise to Win Challenge, there are six weekly prizes that will be awarded to teams that raise the most from Monday-Sunday at 11:59 EST. The Raise to Win Challenge leaderboard tallies up all the money raised through Shopping and from Donations during the period of the contest. Weekly prize winnings do not count towards your team’s ranking on the leaderboard.
7. I purchased something but I don’t see my cash back.
Please allow up to 48 hours for your purchases to appear on your Team page, or check your My Activity page to see when your cash back will be posted.