The "Chipotle Celeb Card" Contest OFFICIAL RULES - Chipotle Mexican Grill
The “Chipotle Celeb Card” Contest
OFFICIAL RULES
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CONTEST DESCRIPTION: The “Chipotle Celeb Card” contest (the “Contest”) begins on or about June 24, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) and ends on July 3, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. PT (the “Contest Period”). To enter, eligible entrants must: apply for the honorary Celeb Card Holder Position (the “Position”) on LinkedIn using the “Easy Apply” button to submit their application and attach a video, photograph, or other submission which shows why they should be selected for the Position that complies with the “Submission Guidelines” (defined below). At the end of the Contest Period, a judge or panel of judges will select up to five (5) winners of a prize from all “Submissions” (as defined below) received during the Contest Period, as more fully set forth below. Entry in the Contest does not constitute entry into any other promotion, contest or sweepstakes. By participating in the Contest, each entrant unconditionally accepts and agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of CMG Strategy Co., LLC, 610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1400, Newport Beach, California, 92660 (“Sponsor”), which shall be final and binding in all respects.
ELIGIBILITY: Only legal U.S. residents of the fifty (50) United States and District of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years of age at the time of entry are eligible to enter. Officers, directors and employees of Sponsor, and each of its respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, distributors, retailers, sales representatives, advertising and promotion agencies involved in the Contest (all such individuals and entities collectively referred to herein as the “Contest Entities”), and the immediate family members and/or those residing in the same household of each are ineligible to enter the Contest or win a prize. This Contest is void where prohibited. A free LinkedIn account is required if you choose to enter the Contest. To sign up for LinkedIn, go to www.linkedin.com. Use of LinkedIn will be subject to LinkedIn’s privacy policy and terms of service, which are available at: LinkedIn Privacy Policy and LinkedIn User Agreement. This Contest is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or affiliated with LinkedIn.
HOW TO ENTER: There are two ways to enter the Contest:
On LinkedIn: On June 24, 2024 between 9:00 a.m. PT and 3:00 p.m. PT, to enter the Contest, eligible entrants must: (i) create or login to their LinkedIn account; (ii) submit an application for the Position on LinkedIn using the Easy Apply button and providing the information requested in the application; and (iii) attach a video, photograph, essay, poem, song, artwork or other attachment which shows why the entrant should be selected for the Position in the “Resume” section of the application (for file types that are not .PDF or .DOC, please upload a document with a link to where the submission is posted online) (each a “LinkedIn Submission”). By submitting LinkedIn Submission, eligible entrants will receive one (1) entry into the Contest.
By Posting on Social Media: To enter the Contest during the Promotion Period, eligible entrants must: (i) create an original photo or video which shows why the entrant should be selected for the Position that complies with the “Submission Guidelines” below; and (ii) post the photo or video on the entrant’s Instagram, TikTok, or X account using the hashtag #CelebCardContest (each, a “Social Media Submission”, and collectively with the LinkedIn Submissions, the “Submissions”). By posting a Social Media Submission, entrants will receive one (1) entry into the Contest. Each entrant’s account must be public in order to enter the Contest. Social Media Submissions must be published as “public posts” to be eligible to enter.
The Submission must meet the following “Submission Requirements”:
- The Submission should be limited to 5,000 words in length if the Submission contains any written product.
- The Submission must be the submitting entrant’s original, previously unpublished work and not feature or focus on any copyrighted material, logos or trademarks that are owned by third parties (other than the Chipotle trademark).
- The entrant should either be the only person who appears in the Submission or, if anyone else appears in the Submission, the entrant must obtain written permission from that person or those people to include them in the Submission. If Sponsor asks to see the written permissions, the entrant must provide them upon request.
- The Submission must not include images that are deemed by the Sponsor to be obscene, pornographic, libelous or otherwise objectionable.
WINNER SELECTION AND NOTIFICATION: At the end of the Contest Period, a judge or group of judges selected by the Sponsor (in either case, the “Judging Panel”) will review the Submissions that have been received and select up to five (5) potential winners based on the following criteria: (i) creativity (50%); (ii) quality and entertainment value (30%); and (iii) appropriateness to the public image of the Contest Entities (20%) (the “Judging Criteria”).
The potential winners will be notified by email at the email address used by the entrant to enter the Contest. If any potential winner does not respond within the time required by Sponsor, or if the winner notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable to any potential winner, such potential winner will forfeit the prize and an alternate winner may be selected.
PRIZES: Five (5) prizes are available. Each prize consists of one (1) “Celebrity Card,” which entitles the holder to one (1) free Chipotle meal per day for one (1) year at participating Chipotle restaurants in the United States and one (1) catering order for up to fifty (50) people. Each meal consists of one (1) regular entrée item, one (1) side, and one (1) non-alcoholic drink. The approximate retail value (“ARV”) of each Celebrity Card is Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000). In addition to the prize, the Contest Entities will provide the verified winner with a single cash payment of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).
GENERAL PRIZE CONDITIONS: Prizes will be awarded only if each potential prize winner fully complies with these Official Rules. All portions of the prize are non-assignable and non-transferable.
RIGHTS IN SUBMISSIONS: Each entrant hereby irrevocably grants to the Contest Entities, and their successors, licensees and assigns, a non-exclusive license to reproduce, publicly display, stream, and otherwise use the Submission and the Winner Photo (if applicable), in whole or in part, for any purpose, including without limitation commercial purposes, in any and all media now or hereafter devised throughout the universe in perpetuity.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES/INDEMNIFICATION: Each entrant represents and warrants that the Submission and the Winner Photo (if applicable) does not and will not violate or infringe upon the intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or entity; and agrees to indemnify the Contest Entities and hold them harmless from and against any and all third party claims arising out of a breach of these representations.
PUBLICITY RELEASE: Acceptance of a prize constitutes winner’s permission for the Contest Entities to use each winner’s Submission and the Winner Photo and the winner’s name, social media handle, photograph, likeness, and biographical information for advertising and promotional purposes without further compensation.
GOVERNING LAW/JURISDICTION: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Colorado.
ARBITRATION PROVISION: By participating in this Contest, each entrant agrees that any claim or dispute may be resolved in binding arbitration in accordance with AAA Consumer-Rules.
Winners List/Official Rules: To obtain a copy of any legally required winners list, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: The Chipotle Celeb Card Contest Winners List, CMG Strategy Co, LLC, 610 Newport Center Drive, Suite 1400, Newport Beach, California, 92660. All such requests must be received within six (6) weeks after the end of the Contest Period.