1. ELIGIBILITY. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER AND WIN. Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and Canada who are 14 years of age or older at time of entry and who have access to the Internet as of the date of entry. Employees of Percussion Marketing Council (“PMC”) members and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, dealers, and their immediate family members are ineligible to enter and win. Void where prohibited by law, regulation and ordinance. By participating in this Sweepstakes, entrants agree to these Official Rules and PMC’s Privacy Policy as stated herein.
2. ENTRY. Sweepstakes begins at 12:01 a.m. (PT) on April 20, 2025, and ends at 11:59 pm (PT) on May 31, 2025 (“Sweepstakes Period”). During the Sweepstakes Period, all Entrants must submit a completed online entry form available at www.Playdrums.com and submit it via the respective website. All designated information must be submitted to be eligible to enter and win. Limit one entry per individual and per email address. Entries must be received by PMC’s servers no later than 11:59 (PT) on May 31, 2025. No automated entries are accepted; incorrect, incomplete, untimely, lost, misaddressed, misdirected, or unverifiable entries are void.
3. ODDS. The odds of winning will depend upon the total number of eligible entries received.
4. WINNER SELECTION, NOTIFICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. On or about June 15, 2025,
5 winners will be chosen by random drawing from all eligible entries received by PMC. The winners will be notified by email, to the email address given on the entry form, within 24 hours of drawing, and the winner must respond to PMC’s email notification within 5 calendar days, or prize winner will be disqualified, the prize will be forfeited, and an alternate potential winner may be selected by random drawing. If the prize notification is unclaimed or returned as undeliverable, or in the event of non-compliance with these Official Rules, the prize will be forfeited and may be awarded to an alternate winner. The prize winners are solely responsible for all federal, state, and local taxes and other costs pertaining to the awarded prize. The prize winners agree to allow PMC to use their name (whether in print publication, online, or other means of communication), without compensation, to notify the public of their winnings and may be required to sign a publicity release.
5. PRIZES AND THEIR VALUE. Five (5) Prizes: Each winner will receive a one-hour Zoom lesson with the professional drummer of their choice and a $200 gift card to spend at their local music store. Retail value is subject to change without notice to entrants. Winners will be identified on PMC’s website at www.Playdrums.com. PMC is not responsible for lost or misdelivered prizes due to the entrant’s inaccurate or improper address information. No prize substitutions, cash equivalent, or transfer of prizes are permitted except at the sole discretion of PMC.
6. INTERNET. If, for any reason, PMC is unable to conduct this Sweepstakes as planned due to technical failures, such as those caused by a computer virus, hacking, other unauthorized interference, fraud, or any other cause beyond the control of PMC which obstructs or otherwise adversely affects the proper administration, reliability, fairness, or integrity of the Sweepstakes, PMC reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any person found to have interfered or tampered with the Sweepstakes, and if deemed necessary by PMC, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes. PMC assumes no responsibility for any failure in transmission, however caused, including any omission, interruption, deletion, defect, communications line failure, theft or destruction of information or unauthorized access to entries, their damage or alteration. PMC is not responsible for its failure to receive any email or entry form due to software failure, technical problems, human error or transmission congestion on the Internet or at any Website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to an Entrant’s, or any other person’s, computer relating to or resulting from participation in this Sweepstakes or downloading of any materials in this Sweepstakes. CAUTION: PMC reserves the right to seek damages or other penalties or remedies, to the fullest extent permitted by law, from any person(s) attempting to interfere with the conduct of this sweepstakes deliberately or to damage the website.
If a dispute arises over the identity of the person who transmitted an entry via an identified email address, the “Authorized Account Holder” of the email address submitted at time of entry will be deemed to be the Entrant. The “Authorized Account Holder” is defined as the natural person assigned to an email address by an internet access provider, online provider or other organization (e.g. business, education institution, etc.) responsible for assigning email addressees for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Any entry sent through the use of an automated sending device will not be accepted and will not be considered a valid entry.
7. PRIVACY. Except as provided above, all personal information supplied by entrants will be subject to PMC’s Privacy Policy, as stated herein.
8. RELEASE. By participating in this Sweepstakes, all entrants and prize winners release, discharge, and hold harmless Percussion Marketing Council and it’s respective members, affiliates, and agencies, including, without limitation, their respective officers, directors, shareholder and employees (collectively “Released Parties”) from and against any and all liability or claims for any injury, loss, illness, litigation or damages arising out of their participation in the Sweepstakes and/or the acceptance, use, misuse, non-use or possession of the prize. Released Parties are not responsible for printing or typographic errors in any Sweepstakes or related material or for stolen, lost, late, misdirected, damaged, incomplete, postage due, and/or illegible entries or mail. If, in PMC’s opinion, there is any suspected or actual evidence of a virus, bug, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud technical failures or other causes beyond PMC’s control corrupt the administration, securities, fairness integrity or proper play of the Sweepstake and award the prize from all eligible entries received to date tampering with any portion of the Sweepstakes, PMC reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual and/or void any entries submitted fraudulently, to modify or suspend the Sweepstakes, or to terminate the Sweepstakes and conduct a drawing to award the prize using all non-suspect eligible entries received as of the date of such action. In the event that any dispute arises regarding the meaning or interpretation of these Official Rules, participants agree that the dispute shall be resolved by applying the laws of California and that it shall be resolved by and within the courts of that state.
9. GENERAL CONDITIONS. All federal, state, and local laws apply. Percussion Marketing Council is the final interpreter of these Official Rules. The decisions of PMC are final in all matters relating to the Official Rules. By participating in this Sweepstakes, you agree to the use of your name, photograph, likeness, and/or identity for advertising, publicity, and promotional purposes, without compensation, unless prohibited by law. You will also be added to PMC’s mailing list subject to PMC’s Privacy Policy and opt-out provisions.
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