2026 CUTWATER ULTIMATE
HAUNTED HOUSE PARTY
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 Ultimate
Haunted House Party” (“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,
subsidiaries, owners, shareholders, officers, directors, agents,
representatives, employees, advertising and promotion agencies, wholesale
distributors, retail licensees, all other service or governmental agencies and
their employees involved with the Sweepstakes, 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
participate. 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
September 1, 2026, and ends at 11:59:59 p.m. EDT on October 18, 2026
(“Sweepstakes Period”). Sponsor’s
computer is the official time keeping device for this Sweepstakes.
3. HOW TO
ENTER:
(a) QR Code - AR
Experience: During the Sweepstakes
Period, 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/ExploreAR (“Website”) where you will see two
(2) LINKS. Click on the “Enter if You
Dare” LINK to access the Augmented Reality (“AR”) experience, locate the
Sweepstakes entry section of the experience, and follow the online instructions
to complete and submit an online entry (“Entry” and “AR Entry”). NOTE:
Entry via the AR Entry is optional.
See Rule 3(b) and 3(c) below for details on how to enter using the
alternate non-AR methods of entry.
(b) QR Code -
Non-AR Experience: During the
Sweepstakes Period, 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/ExploreAR
where you will see two (2) LINKS. Click
the “Enter the Ultimate Haunted House Party Sweepstakes” LINK to by-pass the AR
experience and follow the online instructions to complete and submit an online
entry (also an “Entry”).
(c) Internet: During the Sweepstakes Period,
visit https://www.cutwaterspirits.com/2026UltimateHauntedHouseParty (also a “Website”),
and 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, entrants 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. Entrants 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 per day during the Sweepstakes Period regardless of method of
entry. A “day” is defined as a
twenty-four (24) hour period beginning at 12:00:00 a.m. EDT and ending on the
same day at 11:59:59 p.m. EDT.
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 October 19,
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.
5. WINNER
NOTIFICATION AND PRIZE OBLIGATIONS:
Potential winner 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, social media presence, 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 the “Ultimate Haunted House Party Experience” that
includes one (1) 4-pack of “Cutwater Halloween Glassware” and one (1) $5,000.00
pre-paid card or digital e-Card that may be used to purchase “Haunted House
Party Décor”, “Ambience Setup” (ex: “Halloween DJ Services” or “DJ Halloween
Music Mix”), and “Catering” for frightfully delicious bites.
Alcohol beverages are
not part of the prize. If winner cannot
accept the prize as specified, prize will be forfeited and will be awarded to
an alternate potential winner.
Approximate Retail Value is $5,020.00.
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 winner 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,
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,
and each of their parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, and advertising
and Sweepstakes agencies, and each of their respective employees, officers,
directors, shareholders, agents, retailers, distributors and representatives (collective
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 entrants 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 resolved
exclusively by final and binding arbitration and not in a court of law. The
arbitration shall be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA)
in accordance with its applicable rules. The arbitration shall be governed by
the Federal Arbitration Act and, to the extent applicable, 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. All claims must
be brought solely in an individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class
member in any purported class, collective, representative, or consolidated
proceeding. The arbitrator shall have no authority to arbitrate any claim or a
class or collective basis.
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 www.cutwaterspirits.com/2026UltimateHauntedHousePartyOfficialRules during the Sweepstakes
Period.
13. SPONSOR:
Anheuser-Busch, LLC, One Busch Place, St. Louis, MO 63118
14. WINNER’S LIST:
For the name of the winner, handprint “2026 Cutwater Ultimate
Haunted House Party”, your first and last name, and your complete address on a 3”
x 5” card and mail to: 2026 Cutwater Ultimate Haunted House Party Winner’s List
Request, Anheuser-Busch, LLC, Attn: DraftLine, One Busch Place, St.
Louis, MO 63118, for receipt within sixty (60) days after the end
date of the Sweepstakes Period.
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