2026 CUTWATER TIKI
GETAWAY
OFFICIAL RULES
NO
PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND NECESSARY TO ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT
INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. THE
SWEEPSTAKES IS OPEN ONLY TO PERSONS WHO ARE, AT THE TIME OF ENTRY, LEGAL
RESIDENTS OF THE FIFTY (50) UNITED STATES AND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND AT LEAST
TWENTY-ONE (21) YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. SWEEPSTAKES WILL BE
GOVERNED BY UNITED STATES LAW. VOID
WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. ELIGIBILITY:
The “2026 Cutwater Tiki
Getaway” (“Sweepstakes”) 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 at the time of entry. Employees, contractors, directors, officers, and
agents of Anheuser-Busch, LLC, its affiliates and subsidiaries, advertising and
promotion agencies, wholesale distributors, retail licensees, all other service
or governmental agencies and their employees involved with the Sweepstakes,
Traeger, and members of their immediate families (spouse, parent, child, or
sibling; whether biological, adopted, step, or in-law) or households (whether
related or not) are not eligible to enter or win. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable
federal, state, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited.
Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these
Official Rules (“Official Rules”) and Sponsor’s decisions which are final and
binding in all matters related to this Sweepstakes. Winning a prize is
contingent upon fulfilling all requirements as set forth herein.
2. SWEEPSTAKES
PERIOD:
Sweepstakes begins at
12:00:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (“EDT”) on May 1, 2026, and ends at
11:59:59 p.m. EDT on August 31, 2026 (“Sweepstakes Period”). Sponsor’s computer
is the official time keeping device for this Sweepstakes.
3. HOW TO
ENTER:
(a) Internet: During the Sweepstakes Period,
visit https://www.cutwaterspirits.com/2026CWTikiGetawaySweeps (“Website”) and
follow the online instructions complete and submit an online entry (“Entry”)
(b) QR Code:
Use your smart phone or other web-enabled device with data plan to scan
the Sweepstakes quick response (“QR”) code featured on signs or promotional
materials at participating stores with the QR read application already
installed on your phone. You will be directed to a mobile Web page at https://www.cutwaterspirits.com/2026CWTikiGetawaySweeps. Follow the online instructions to complete
and submit an online entry (also an “Entry”).
For
all QR Code Entries:
Proof of scanning QR
codes does not constitute proof of completion or submission of an entry. To
scan a QR code, participants must have a smart phone or other web-enabled
device with a camera feature and/or QR scanner application and may incur
message or data charges from their wireless service provider for each message
sent and received. If you do not have a QR reader already installed on your
phone, type ‘QR reader’ in your mobile device’s application store search field
to find available QR readers for your smart phone or other web-enabled device.
You will receive a response which will contain a link to download a QR reader
for your specific device. Check with your wireless service provider for details
on these and other applicable charges. Participants are solely responsible for
any such wireless charges. Not all wireless carriers participate.
For all Entries:
All Entries must be
received and recorded during the Sweepstakes Period. Only the methods of entry
described herein are valid. No other forms of entry are valid. To be valid, each Entry must comply with all
of these Official Rules. Limit one (1)
Entry per person during the Sweepstakes Period.
Automated Entries are
prohibited, and any use of automated devices will cause disqualification. Entrants may not enter with multiple email
addresses nor use any other device or artifice to enter multiple times or as
multiple entrants. Any entrant who
attempts to enter with multiple email addresses under multiple identities or
uses any device or artifice to register multiple times will be disqualified and
forfeits all prizes won, in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share
the same email address. Should multiple users of the same email account enter
the Sweepstakes and a dispute thereafter arise regarding the identity of the
entrant, the authorized account holder of said email account at the time of
entry will be considered an entrant and must comply with these Official
Rules. The authorized account subscriber
is the natural person who is assigned the email address by the ISP or other
organization responsible for assigning email addresses. Potential winner may be required to show
proof of being the authorized account subscriber.
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.
4. SWEEPSTAKES
DRAWING:
One (1) potential
winner will be selected in a random drawing to be held on or about September 1,
2026, from among all eligible Entries received by Sponsor, whose decisions are
final in all matters relating to this Sweepstakes. Odds of winning depend on
the number of eligible Entries received during the Sweepstakes Period. See Rule 6 for prize details.
5. WINNER
NOTIFICATION AND PRIZE OBLIGATIONS:
All prizes will be
awarded. Potential winners will be
notified by email or phone call and will be required to respond to the
notification within forty-eight (48) hours indicating whether they can accept
the prize. If a potential winner does
not respond to the notification within the forty-eight (48) hour time-period,
prize will be forfeited, and an alternate potential winner will be randomly
selected. Any alternate potential winner
selected will also be required to respond to the notification within the time
frame stated above. Sponsor will attempt
to award the prize three (3) times. If
no alternate potential winner responds within the forty-eight (48) hour
time-period following the third attempt, Sponsor reserves the right to make
attempts via alternate methods or to award no prize.
Obligations of the
Potential Winner:
·
Potential
winner will be required to complete, sign, and return an affidavit of
eligibility and liability and, unless prohibited by law, publicity release to
Sponsor within forty-eight (48) hours of prize acceptance.
·
If
Sponsor elects, potential winner 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
the potential winner will not bring the Sponsor into public disrepute,
contempt, scandal, or ridicule or reflect unfavorably on the Sponsor. If
requested, the potential winner 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, prize will
be forfeited, and an alternate potential winner will be randomly selected.
Subject to verification of
eligibility and compliance with the terms of these Official Rules, 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 and an alternate potential winner will be randomly selected.
In the event of
noncompliance within any stated time-period, the prize will be forfeited, and
an alternate potential winner will be randomly selected. Any alternate
potential winner selected will also be required to adhere to the time periods
described herein. Any prize notification or prize returned to the Sponsor or
its agencies as undeliverable will result in disqualification and the awarding
of that prize to an alternate potential winner.
Sponsor will attempt to award the prize three (3) times. If no alternate potential winner responds
within the forty-eight (48) hour time-period following the third attempt,
Sponsor reserves the right to make attempts via alternate methods or to award
no prize.
Released
Parties (as defined in Rule 9) are not responsible for suspended or
discontinued Internet, wireless, or land-line phone service or a change in an
entrant’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 (one [1] prize to be awarded): Winner will
receive one (1) $10,000.00 pre-paid gift card that can be used to host you and
your friends on a “Tiki Getaway” in San Diego, California, one (1) “Cutwater
Tasting Room” tour for winner and three (3) guests (tour date to be determined
by Sponsor, in Sponsor’s sole discretion, and is subject to availability and
change), and Cutwater swag (exact merchandise to be determined by Sponsor, in
Sponsor’s sole discretion).
Air transportation, ground transportation,
accommodations, meals, gratuities, personal purchases, and all other expenses
not specified herein are winner’s responsibility.
If winner cannot accept the prize as
specified, the prize will be forfeited, and an alternate winner will be
randomly selected. Approximate Retail
Value is $10,250.00. Any difference
between stated value and actual value will not be awarded.
Prize is
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. Prize winners will be
solely responsible for all federal, state and/or local taxes, and for any other
fees or costs associated with the prizes they receive, regardless of whether
it, in whole or in part, is used.
7. PUBLICITY:
Acceptance of prize
offered constitutes permission for Sponsor to use winner’s name, voice,
biographical information and/or likeness for purposes of advertising and
promotion without further compensation in all media now known or hereafter
discovered worldwide and on the Internet without notice or review or approval
as permitted by law.
8. RELEASE:
By accepting a prize,
winner agrees to release and hold Anheuser-Busch, LLC, and Cutwater Spirits,
LLC, harmless from all losses, damages, rights, claims and actions of any kind
resulting from acceptance, possession, or use of any prize, including without
limitation, personal injuries, death and property damage.
9. GENERAL CONDITIONS:
Anheuser-Busch, LLC, Cutwater Spirits, LLC, and each of their respective
affiliates, subsidiaries, and agencies (collectively the “Released Parties”)
are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, unintelligible, returned or
undelivered Entries, telephone calls, text messages, 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 Sweepstakes or Website, or act in violation of the Official Rules, or
act in any manner to threaten or abuse or harass any person, or violate
Website’s terms of service, as solely determined by the Sponsor, will be
disqualified. Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or
inaccurate information whether caused by Website users, tampering, hacking, or
by any of the programming or equipment associated with or used in this
Sweepstakes, 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 entry methods will void all such Entries, and may subject
that entrant to disqualification.
Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to
participant's or any other person’s computer, or property related to or resulting
from participating in this Sweepstakes.
Should any portion of Sweepstakes 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 Sweepstakes, or
submission of Entries, Sponsor reserves the right at their sole discretion to
suspend, modify or terminate the Sweepstakes, and randomly select the winner
from valid Entries received prior to action taken, or otherwise as may be
deemed fair and equitable by the Sponsor. In the event of a dispute regarding
the identity of an online entrant, the authorized subscriber of the email
account used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant and must comply with
these rules. The authorized account
subscriber is the natural person who is assigned the email address by the ISP
or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses. All materials submitted become the property
of Anheuser-Busch, LLC and will not be returned.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO
NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, OR OTHER DAMAGES; AS A RESULT, THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR
EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND THE FOREGOING PARAGRAPHS SHALL NOT APPLY
TO A RESIDENT OF NEW JERSEY TO THE EXTENT DAMAGES TO SUCH NEW JERSEY RESIDENT
ARE THE RESULT OF SPONSOR’S NEGLIGENT, FRAUDULENT OR RECKLESS ACT(S) OR
INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT.
10. DISPUTE RESOLUTION:
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, or any claim or dispute that has arisen or may arise
between you 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.
11. PRIVACY POLICY:
The information you
submit in connection with this Sweepstakes may be used by Sponsor for purposes
of administration and fulfillment of the Sweepstakes, and in accordance with
Sponsor’s privacy policy located at https://www.anheuser-busch.com/privacy-policy (also a
“Website”). If you are verified as a
prize winner, your first name, last initial, city and state will be included in
a publicly available winner’s list.
12. OFFICIAL
RULES:
The
Official Rules of the Sweepstakes are available for viewing at https://www.cutwaterspirits.com/2026CWTikiGetawaySweepsRules (also a “Website”) during
the Sweepstakes Period.
13. SPONSOR:
Anheuser-Busch, LLC, One Busch
Place, St. Louis, MO 63118
Cutwater Spirits, LLC, 9750 Distribution
Ave, San Diego, CA 92121
14. WINNER’S LIST:
For the name of the winners, handprint “2026 Cutwater Tiki Getaway Winners' List
Request”, your first and last name, and your complete address on a 3” x 5” card
and mail to: 2026 Cutwater Tiki Getaway Winners’ List Request, Anheuser-Busch, LLC, One
Busch Place, St. Louis, MO 63118, for receipt within
sixty (60) days after the end of the Sweepstakes Period.
Ó 2026 Anheuser-Busch,
LLC, St. Louis, MO
© 2026 Cutwater Spirits, LLC, San Diego, CA
