FOSTER A DOG, GET BUSCH®

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

NO BEER PURCHASE NECESSARY. PAYMENT OF DOG ADOPTION FEES IS REQUIRED.  THERE IS NO FEE TO FOSTER A DOG.  THE FOLLOWING OFFER IS INTENDED FOR VIEWING IN THE FIFTY (50) UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ONLY AND SHALL ONLY BE CONSTRUED ACCORDING TO UNITED STATES LAW. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. 

1.         ELIGIBILITY:

The “Foster A Dog, Get Busch” (“Offer”) is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and District of Columbia who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older.  Employees, contractors, directors, officers and agents of Anheuser-Busch, LLC, its affiliates and subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, wholesale distributors, retail licensees, and all other service agencies involved with the Offer, and members of their immediate family (spouse, parent, child and sibling), are not eligible to participate.  The Offer is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited.  Participation constitutes participant’s full and unconditional agreement to the Offer Terms and Conditions (“Terms and Conditions”) and Sponsor’s and Administrator’s decisions which are final and binding in all matters related to this Offer.  Receiving a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements as set forth herein. 

2.         OFFER PERIOD:  

Offer begins at 3:00:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (“EDT”) on March 25, 2020 and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. EDT on April 25, 2020, or until all prizes have been awarded, whichever comes first (“Offer Period”).  Sponsor’s computer is the official timekeeping device for this Offer.

3.        HOW TO PARTICIPATE:  

You may participate in the Offer by either “Adopting A Dog” or “Fostering A Dog” as more fully described below:

(1)   ADOPT A DOG:

During the Offer Period, visit https://www.midwestanimalrescue.org/ (“Website”) and follow the online instructions to complete the adoption process of one (1) dog from Midwest Animal Rescue Services (“Adoption Process”).  Upon completion of the Adoption Process, you will receive a confirmation email from Midwest Animal Rescue Services.  Send a photo of your confirmation email via direct message to the Busch Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account (“Submission”).  Upon verification of your Submission, you will receive the “Busch Beer for 3 months” prize, while supplies last.  See Rule #5 for prize details. 

(2)   FOSTER A DOG:

During the Offer Period, visit https://www.midwestanimalrescue.org/ and follow the online instructions to complete the foster process of one (1) dog from Midwest Animal Rescue Services (“Foster Process”). Upon completion of the Foster Process, you will receive a confirmation email from Midwest Animal Rescue Services. Send a photo of your confirmation email via direct message to the Busch Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account (also a “Submission”).  Upon verification of your Submission, you will receive the “Busch Beer for 3 months” prize, while supplies last.  See Rule #5 for prize details. 

For all Submissions:  Each Submission must be dated between 3:00:00 p.m. EDT on March 25, 2020 and 11:59:59 p.m. EDT on April 25, 2020.  Each Submission can only be submitted one (1) time. Submissions must be submitted between 3:00:00 p.m. EDT on March 25, 2020 and 11:59:59 p.m. EDT on May 9, 2020.  Limit one (1) Submission per household.  Late Submissions will not be accepted.  See Appendix A for additional Submission Guidelines & Prohibited Content.  Submission must comply with these Terms and Conditions.  Sponsor reserves the right, but not the obligation, to review any Submission for violation of these Terms and Conditions and may, at its sole discretion, reject, delete, or otherwise exclude a Submission for any reason, including without limitation, if the Submission contains any Prohibited Content (as defined in Appendix A) or any other commentary or material which Sponsor, in its sole discretion deems inappropriate.   

For all Facebook Submissions:  You must be a registered user of Facebook and follow Busch beer in order to enter the Offer via Facebook. Facebook registration is free and can be obtained by logging on to www.facebook.com and following the online instructions to open an account.

For all Instagram Submissions:  You must be a registered user of Instagram and follow Busch beer on Instagram in order to enter the Offer via Instagram. Instagram registration is free and can be obtained by logging on to www.instagram.com and following the online instructions to open an account.  

For all Twitter Submissions:  You must be a registered user of Twitter and follow @BuschBeer on Twitter in order to enter the Offer via Twitter. Twitter registration is free and can be obtained by logging on to www.twitter.com and following the online instructions to open an account.

If entering with a mobile phone or other web-enabled device and using your wireless carrier’s network, standard data charges from your wireless carrier may apply. Check with your wireless service provider for details on these and any other applicable charges. Entrants are solely responsible for any such wireless charges. 

5.         WINNER NOTIFICATION:  

Potential winner will be notified via direct message on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and will be required to respond to the notification within twenty-four (24) hours indicating whether he/she can accept the prize. If a potential winner does not respond to the notification within the twenty-four (24) hour time period, prize will be forfeited.

Potential winner may be required to complete, sign and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability and, unless prohibited by law, publicity release to Sponsor or Administrator within forty-eight (48) hours of prize acceptance. Subject to verification of eligibility and compliance with the terms of these Terms and Conditions, including verification that the winner is twenty-one (21) years of age or older, the potential winner will be declared an official winner of the Sweepstakes. If Sponsor cannot verify that the potential winner is twenty-one (21) years of age or older prior to winner notification, then the potential winner will be disqualified.

• In the event of noncompliance within any stated time period, the prize will be forfeited. Any prize notification or prize returned to the Sponsor or its agencies as undeliverable will result in disqualification.
• Neither Sponsor nor Administrator is responsible for suspended or discontinued Internet, wireless, or land-line phone service or a change in an participant’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:

            Prize (up to 500 total): The “Busch Beer for 3 months” prize consists of one (1) $100.00 pre-paid debit card.  Alcohol beverages are not part of the prize.  Terms and conditions received with delivery of pre-paid debit card apply.  Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) is $100.00. If participant cannot accept the prize as specified by Sponsor, prize will be forfeited. Total ARV of all prizes is $50,000.00.  Any difference between stated value and actual value will not be awarded.  

Limit one (1) prize per household.  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.  Participants are solely responsible for all federal, state and/or local taxes, and for any other fees or costs associated with the prize they receive, regardless of whether it, in whole or in part, is used.  You may be required to complete, sign, and return an affidavit of eligibility and liability and publicity release.

If Sponsor so elects, participant may be required to submit to a confidential background check.  Such background check may include (but is not limited to) investigation of criminal, sexual offenses, or other arrest or conviction record, and any other factor deemed relevant by the Sponsor to help ensure that participant will not bring the Sponsor into public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule or reflect unfavorably on the Sponsor.  If requested, participant agrees to sign waiver forms authorizing the release of personal and background information.  In the event of noncompliance, to be determined at the sole discretion of Sponsor.

7.        LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY AND RELEASE:  

Anheuser-Busch, LLC, Administrator and each of their affiliates, subsidiaries, and agencies (collectively the “Released Parties”) are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, unintelligible, returned or undelivered orders, 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 Offer or Website, or act in violation of the Terms and Conditions, or act in any manner to threaten or abuse or harass any person, or violate Sponsor’s terms of service, as solely determined by the Sponsor, will be disqualified. Release Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information whether caused by users, tampering, hacking, or by any of the programming or equipment associated with or used in this Offer, 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 Submission methods will void all orders, and may subject that participant to disqualification. Release Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to participants or any other person’s computer or property related to or resulting from participating in this Offer.  Should any portion of the Offer 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 Offer, or submission of orders, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the Offer. In the event of a dispute regarding order received from multiple users having the same Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account, the authorized subscriber of the Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account used to enter will be deemed to be the participant, and must comply with these Terms and Conditions.  The authorized account subscriber is the natural person who is assigned the Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account by the organization responsible for assigning the Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account. All materials submitted become the property of Anheuser-Busch, LLC and will not be returned.

Entrants agree (a) that Sponsor and its parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, and advertising 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 Offer or in any Offer-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 Submission (and assign the Submission, which may be altered, changed, modified, edited, used alone or with other works, as solely determined by Sponsor) for advertising, trade and Offer 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 Submission (including, without limitation, your name and likeness and the names and likenesses of any and all persons in the Submission, and any intellectual property rights (e.g. copyright, trademark, etc.) contained in the Submission) 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 Submission 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 Submission 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 Submission 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 Submission, 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:

You agree that any claim or dispute at law or equity that has arisen or may arise relating in any way to or arising out of the Offer or the Terms and Conditions will be resolved in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Dispute Resolution section. PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS AND WILL HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT ON HOW CLAIMS YOU AND WE HAVE AGAINST EACH OTHER ARE RESOLVED.

You agree that whenever you have a disagreement with Administrator or Sponsor arising out of, connected to, or in any way related to the Offer or the Terms and Conditions, you will send a written notice to the Administrator (“Demand”). You agree that the requirements of this Dispute Resolution section will apply even to disagreements that may have arisen before you accepted these Terms and Conditions. You must send the Demand to the following address (the “Notice Address”): Legal Department, Merkle Inc., 3000 Town Center, Suite 2100, Southfield, MI 48075. You agree that you will not take any legal action, including filing a lawsuit or demanding arbitration, until 10 business days after you send a Demand. If the disagreement stated in the Demand is not resolved to your satisfaction within 10 business days after it is received, and you intend on taking legal action, you agree that you will file a demand for arbitration with the American Arbitration Association (the “Arbitrator”). THIS ARBITRATION PROVISION LIMITS THE ABILITY OF YOU, ADMINISTRATOR, AND SPONSOR TO LITIGATE CLAIMS IN COURT AND YOU, ADMINISTRATOR, AND SPONSOR EACH AGREE TO WAIVE YOUR RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OR A STATE OR FEDERAL JUDGE. YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT FILE ANY LAWSUIT AGAINST ADMINISTRATOR OR SPONSOR IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT. For any such filing of a demand for arbitration, you must effect proper service under the rules of the Arbitrator and notice to the Notice Address may not be sufficient. If, for any reason, the American Arbitration Association is unable to conduct the arbitration, you may file your case with any national arbitration company. The Arbitrator shall apply the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules effective September 1, 2014 (as may be amended) and as modified by the agreement to arbitrate in this Dispute Resolution section. You agree that the Arbitrator will have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute you have with Administrator or Sponsor. The Federal Arbitration Act allows for the enforcement of arbitration agreements and governs the interpretation and enforcement of the agreement to arbitrate.

YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT FILE A CLASS ACTION OR COLLECTIVE ACTION AGAINST ADMINISTRATOR OR SPONSOR, AND THAT YOU WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION OR COLLECTIVE ACTION AGAINST THEM. YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT JOIN YOUR CLAIMS TO THOSE OF ANY OTHER PERSON. Notwithstanding any other provision in the Terms and Conditions, if this class action waiver is invalidated, then the agreement to arbitrate is null and void, as though it were never entered into, and any arbitration dispute at that time will be dismissed without prejudice and may be refiled in a court. Under no circumstances do you, Administrator, or Sponsor agree to class or collective procedures in arbitration or the joinder of claims in arbitration. Administrator and Sponsor agree that we will submit all disputes with you to arbitration before the Arbitrator.

All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Terms and Conditions, or the rights and obligations of the Participant, Administrator, and Sponsor in connection with the Offer, or any claim or dispute that has arisen or may arise between you, Administrator and Sponsor, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Missouri without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules.  The place of arbitration shall be St. Louis, Missouri.
 

10.      PRIVACY POLICY:

See Sponsor’s privacy policy located at https://anehuser-busch.com/privacy-policy/ for details of Sponsor’s policy regarding the use of personal information collected in connection with this Offer. 

11.      SPONSOR:

Anheuser-Busch, LLC, One Busch Place, St. Louis, MO 63118. 

12.      ADMINISTRATOR:

Merkle Inc., 3000 Town Center, Suite 2100, Southfield, MI 48075.

© 2020 Anheuser-Busch, Busch® Beer, St. Louis, MO

© 2020 Merkle Inc.  All Rights Reserved.

This Offer is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by or associated with Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.  Any questions, comments or complaints regarding this Offer shall be directed to Sponsor and not to Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. 

APPENDIX A

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & PROHIBITED CONTENT

Submissions must meet the following requirements:

• Submission 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 Submission 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.
• Submission 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 beer), 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 Submission: (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 Submission 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 Submission, in a form satisfactory to Sponsor, upon request, prior to award of prize and/or naming of entrant as a winner.
• Any Submission 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 Submissions are not eligible.
• Any such entrant will indemnify and hold harmless, Sponsor from any claims to the contrary.

All Submissions are subject to Sponsor’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act policy, as follows: Digital Millennium Copyright Act—Anheuser-Busch is committed to respecting and protecting the legal rights of copyright owners. As such, Anheuser-Busch adheres to the following notice and take down policy, in full compliance with Section 512(c)(3) of the DMCA (17 U.S.C. § 512 et seq.). If you believe any of the Submissions infringes upon your intellectual property rights, please submit a notification alleging such infringement (hereafter a “DMCA Takedown Notice”). To be valid, a DMCA Takedown Notice must (i) be provided to the Anheuser-Busch designated agent, (“Copyright Agent”), as set forth below, and (ii) include the following:

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works;
• Identification of the material claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
• Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail;
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and,
• A statement that, under penalty of perjury, the information in the notification is accurate and you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Anheuser-Busch’s Copyright Agent to receive DMCA Takedown Notices is: email: trademarks@anheuser-busch.com. For clarity, only DMCA Takedown Notices should go to the Copyright Agent; any other feedback, comments, online purchases or other communications should be directed to the applicable customer service links posted on the Website. You acknowledge that in order for Anheuser-Busch to be authorized to takedown any Content, your DMCA Takedown Notice must comply with all of the requirements of this Section.

By submitting an Submission, you agree that your Submission is gratuitous and made without restriction, that it will not place Sponsor under any obligation other than as stated in these Terms and Conditions, that Sponsor is free to publish or otherwise disclose the ideas contained in the Submission 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 Submission, 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 Submission may be used in Sponsor's sole discretion. Submissions 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 Submission you submit.