Rules

The Eat Just, Inc. JUST Egg Hacks Contest Official Rules  

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1. SPONSOR: The Eat Just, Inc. JUST Egg Hacks Contest (the “Contest”) is sponsored by Eat Just, Inc., located at 300 Wind River Way, Alameda, California 94501 (“Sponsor”).   This Contest is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Maplebear, Inc. dba Instacart or Meta Platforms, Inc. dba Meta or its related products, including but not limited to Instagram.   

2. BINDING AGREEMENT: By entering or attempting to enter this Contest, participants (“Participants”) agree to abide by all terms of these Official Rules, applicable social media terms and to be bound by the decisions of the Sponsor. All federal, state, and local laws apply.  Failure to comply with these rules may result in disqualification.

3. ENTRY PERIOD: Entries must be made between 10:00 am Pacific Standard Time (PST) on Tuesday, August 8, 2023, and 10:00 am PST and Tuesday, August 22, 2023 (the “Entry Period”).  The Sponsor’s computer system is the official timekeeping device concerning all matters relating to the Contest. PST means the time in California on the dates in question.  

4. ELIGIBILITY: Open to all legal United States residents age 18 years or older. Employees, officers, directors, agents, or other Sponsor representatives, members of their immediate families, and persons living in the same household are not eligible.

5. HOW TO ENTER: Eligible entrants (“Entrants”) may enter in one of two ways:

(i) Through the online contest entry form; OR
(ii) By using the contest hashtag #JUSTEggHacksContestEntry on Instagram. 

1. Online Entry Form 
   To enter by online form, an Entrant must visit the entry form website and submit the following:
   1. Email address;
   2. A photo of an easy recipe made with JUST Egg Folded; and
   3. A short caption describing the dish in the image. 
2. Instagram Entry
   To enter by hashtag, an Entrant must log into their Instagram account during the Entry Period (Entrant may create a non-private Instagram account for free if Entrant does not already have one) and take the following steps, which together constitute a single entry (“Entry”):
   1. Post a photo of an easy recipe made with JUST Egg Folded; AND
   2. Include the hashtag #JUSTEggHacksContestEntry in the caption. 

If entering via hashtag, Entrant must have a non-private Instagram account for their Entry to be publicly visible and entered in the Contest. 

In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of the individual entering the Contest or of the Winner of any Prize, the authorized account holder, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion,  of the social media account used to participate in the Contest will be deemed to be the Entrant. 

6. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: All Entries must meet the following criteria or risk being disqualified by Sponsor in its sole discretion:

• Not be derogatory, offensive, threatening, defamatory, disparaging, libelous or contain any content that is inappropriate, indecent, slanderous, discriminatory or make any disparaging remarks about any third party.
• Not contain content, material, or any element that is unlawful or otherwise in violation of or contrary to all applicable federal, state, or local laws and regulations;
• Contain any content, material, or element that displays any third-party advertising, slogan, logo, trademark, or representation of characters indicating sponsorship or endorsement by a third party;
• Must be original, unpublished works that do not contain, incorporate, or otherwise use any content, material, or element owned by a third party or entity.
• It cannot contain any content, element, or material that violates a third party's publicity, privacy, or intellectual property rights.
• Cannot make either implicitly or expressly any claims about the JUST Egg Folded which are untrue.  

7. LIMIT: One Entry per person (regardless of method of Entry).   

8. USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION: By participating in the Contest, Entrant agrees that they are providing their information to Sponsor to use of Entrant’s personal information by Sponsor for both online and offline direct marketing purposes, as well as for administration of the Contest including, without limitation, verifying Entrant’s eligibility, contacting Entrant regarding Entrant’s Entry, awarding the Prize, avoidance of fraud/tampering, compliance with legal obligations, and analytics and improvement of offerings. For additional information about how the Sponsor uses the Entrant’s data and to opt-out of communications from the Sponsor, visit Sponsor’s Privacy Policy at https://www.ju.st/privacy. 

9. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: As between the Sponsor and the Entrant, the Entrant retains ownership of all intellectual and industrial property rights (including moral rights) in and to the doodle (excluding the Sponsor’s rights in the JUST logo/trademark). As a condition of entry, Entrant grants Sponsor a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, distribute, publicly perform, create a derivative work from, and publicly display the doodle for any purpose, including display on the Sponsor’s website, without any attribution or compensation to Entrant. Entries will not be returned. Sponsor retains all rights in Sponsor’s products and services, and entry into this Contest will in no case serve to transfer any Sponsor intellectual property rights to the Entrant. 

10. WINNER SELECTION & NOTIFICATION: On or about Aug. 24, 2023, Sponsor will select five (5) potential prize winners (“Potential Winners”) from among all eligible Entries. 

Eligible Entries will be judged by Sponsor based on the following weighted criteria:

1. 40% quality of the image (in focus, properly lit, content is recognizable);
2. 40% quality of the recipe shown (does it sound delicious; does it qualify as an easy or quick recipe) and;
3. 20% clarity of the caption (does it accurately describe the pictured dish.)  

The five (5) Entries with the highest overall score will be selected as Potential Winners for five (5) grand prizes. Potential Winners may be announced, subject to verification, on the Sponsor's social media pages and Sponsor’s website. Each Potential Winner will be contacted via direct/private message within twenty-four (24) hours of selection to the social media account from which the Entry was posted to enter the Contest or the email submitted. Each Potential Winner must respond to the winner notification message and fulfill any additional requirements contained in the winner notification message, including signing and returning an Affidavit of Eligibility and Release within the time frame specified by the Sponsor. Upon satisfaction of these requirements, the Potential Winner will be declared a Winner. If Sponsor is unable to contact a Potential Winner within 24 hours of its first attempt, or a Potential Winner does not comply with all requirements in the winner notification message within the timeframe stated, Sponsor will disqualify that Potential Winner and award the Prize to the Entrant (a “Replacement Potential Winner”) with the next highest score according to the judging. The Replacement Potential Winner must comply with all the requirements of this paragraph and the winner notification message in the same timeframes as if they had been selected as the disqualified Potential Winner or be disqualified in the manner outlined in this paragraph, in which case additional Replacement Potential Winner(s) will be selected in the same way as outlined in this paragraph until the Prize is awarded. The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible Entries received.  

11. PRIZE: Five (5) grand prizes consisting of a $100 Instacart gift card will be awarded, one to each Winner (the “Prize”). The approximate retail value of the Prize collectively totals $500.00 USD. Prizes may not be exchanged or redeemed for cash, sold, or traded.  No Prize transfer, assignment, or substitution by Winner(s) is permitted. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a Prize, in which case a prize of equal or greater value will be awarded.  Winner(s) will be solely responsible for all local, state, and federal taxes, as well as any license and registration or other fees incurred by participation in the Contest, including but not limited to transportation costs, gratuities, and other items of an incidental nature.  The value of the Prize may be taxable as income, and each Winner is solely responsible for any taxes relating to the Prize received, including, but not limited to, all applicable federal, state, and local taxes if applicable. Each Winner will be required to provide their social security number. Sponsor will report any individual winnings over $600 (in cash or fair market value of goods or services) in one year to the Internal Revenue Service.  Winner(s) will receive a Form 1099 from Sponsor if Sponsor reports any winnings to the Internal Revenue Service.   

12. DISQUALIFICATION: Sponsor, in addition to all other available rights and remedies,  reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify from this Contest any Entrant permanently it believes has attempted to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by violating the Official Rules, cheating, deception, or other unfair playing practices or annoys, abuses, threatens or harasses any other entrants or Sponsor.  

13. WARRANTY AND INDEMNITY: Entrants warrant that their Entry is their original work and does not (a) infringe any third-party proprietary rights, intellectual property rights, industrial property rights, personal or moral rights, or any other rights, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, trade names, industrial designs, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity, or confidentiality obligations; or (b) otherwise violates applicable state, federal, or local law. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Entrant indemnifies and agrees to keep indemnified Sponsor from and against any liability, claims, demands, losses, damages, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees). 

14. RELEASE OF LIABILITY: As a condition of entering the Contest, all Participants agree to RELEASE, DISCHARGE, AND COVENANT NOT TO SUE Eat Just, Inc., GOOD Meat, Inc., Maplebear, Inc. dba Instacart or Meta Platforms, Inc. dba Meta, and each of their respective direct and indirect affiliates, divisions, parent and subsidiary companies, officers, employees, shareholders, representatives, managers, members, directors, owners, agents, insurers, attorneys, predecessors, successors, and assigns thereof (collectively, the “Released Parties”), from and against all claims, damages, charges, injuries, losses, proceedings, suits, actions (including but not limited to tort actions, product liability actions, wrongful death actions, warranty actions, breach of contract actions, privacy and defamation actions, misappropriation of likeness actions, identity theft, loss of consortium claims), expenses and attorney fees that they or anyone on their behalf (including but not limited to their heirs, representatives or next of kin) have or might have for any death, injury, damage or claimed injury or damage arising out of, involving or relating to their participation in the Contest, including, but not limited to, any claim that the act or omission complained of was caused in whole or in part by the strict liability or negligence in any form of the Released Parties. 

Furthermore, the Participant expressly waives and relinquishes all rights and benefits afforded by Section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California, understanding and acknowledging the significance and consequence of such specific waiver of Section 1542.  Section 1542 of the Civil Code of the State of California states: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.”  

Participant expressly acknowledges that this release is intended to include, in its effect, without limitation, all claims that Participant does not know or suspect to exist in Participant’s favor at the time of execution hereof and that this release contemplates the extinguishment of any such claim or claims.  Participant acknowledges and agrees that this general release is intended to be as broad and comprehensive as California law permits.  

15. DISPUTES; GOVERNING LAW: By entering this Contest, Entrant agrees that all matters arising out of or relating to this contest and these Official Rules are governed by, and construed under, the laws of California, without giving effect to any of its conflict of laws provisions thereof. Entrant further agrees that any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising from or relating to this sweepstakes and these Official Rules shall be brought exclusively in the applicable federal or state courts in San Francisco, California. ANY AND ALL DISPUTES, CLAIMS, AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THE CONTEST OR ANYTHING AWARDED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTEST WILL BE RESOLVED INDIVIDUALLY WITHOUT RESORTING TO ANY FORM OF CLASS ACTION. ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IS HEREBY WAIVED.  

16. WINNERS LIST REQUEST: Participants may receive notice of the Prize winner(s) by contacting Sponsor at the address above or via wecare@ju.st by September 8, 2023, at 3:00 pm PST.