2026 CUTWATER® SPRING PATIO
MAKEOVER SWEEPSTAKES
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 THE 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 Spring
Patio Makeover Sweepstakes” (“Sweepstakes”) is open to legal residents of the
fifty (50) United States and the 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, Cutwater Spirits, 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, 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 Standard Time on February 23, 2026, and ends at 11:59:59
p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 1, 2026 (“Sweepstakes Period”). Sponsor’s computer
is the official time keeping device for this Sweepstakes.
3. HOW TO
ENTER:
(a) Internet: Visit https://www.cutwaterspirits.com/SpringPatioMakeover (“Website”) during the
Sweepstakes Period and follow the online instructions to 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/SpringPatioMakeover (also the “Website”).
Follow the online instructions to complete and submit an online entry (also an
“Entry”).
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.
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 June 2,
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:
The prize will be
awarded. 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, the 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.
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 so 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, social media presence, and any other factor deemed relevant by the
Sponsor to help ensure that the potential winner will not bring the Sponsor 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.
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 a check in the amount of $5,000.00, which may
be used towards a patio makeover. If winner cannot accept the prize as
specified, the prize will be forfeited and will be randomly awarded to an
alternate potential winner. Approximate Retail Value is $5,000.00. Any
difference between stated value and actual value will not be awarded.
Alcohol beverages are
not part of the prize. 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 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 its 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. 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/SpringPatioMakeoverRules 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 winner, hand print your name and complete address
on a 3” x 5” card and mail to: 2026 Cutwater Spring Patio Makeover Sweepstakes Winner’s List Request, c/o Martech, One Busch Place, St. Louis, MO
63118 for
receipt within sixty
(60) days after the end of the Sweepstakes Period.
Ó 2025 Anheuser-Busch,
LLC, St. Louis, MO
© 2025 Cutwater Spirits, LLC, San Diego, CA
