The 101st anniversary of Veterans Day is only a few days away, and we’re trying to make it one to remember. With your help, we hope to mail 101 heartfelt messages of gratitude to former service members across the country. Post your salute with a message to our Veterans on Instagram or submit to IHGAHSweepstakes@ihg.com to be entered to win. After Veterans Day we will take your messages and send them to Veterans across the country with the help of Operation Gratitude.
To thank everyone who takes part in this incredible effort, we’ll gift 10 random participants 100,000 IHG® Rewards Club Points.
Continue reading for the full terms and conditions.
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
- Eligibility: IHG Army Hotels Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, who are at least eighteen (18) years old, who are active/retired military or the immediate family of an active/retired service member and have reached the age of majority in their state at the time of entry. Employees of IHG® Army Hotels, LLC, Six Continents Hotels, Inc. or their parent companies, subsidiaries, and/or affiliates (collectively referred to herein as “Sponsor” or “Sponsor Parties”), and their immediate families (parents, children, siblings, spouses) or members of the same household (whether related or not) of such employees, officers and directors are not eligible to enter. The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, municipal, and local laws and regulations and is void where prohibited.
Sponsor: IHG® Army Hotels, LLC, Three Ravinia Drive, Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30346.
- Agreement to Official Rules: Participation constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein. Entrant acknowledges that this Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by or associated with Instagram. All information provided by entrants is provided to the Sponsor and not to Instagram.
- Timing: The Sweepstakes begins at 9:00 AM EST on 11/6/2020 and ends 11:59PM EST on 11/15/2020 (the "Sweepstakes Period").
- How to Enter: There are two (2) ways to enter.
1) Enter the Sweepstakes using Instagram:
You will need to have an active, public Instagram account if entering to participate in this Sweepstakes. Creating an Instagram account is free and may be accessed via desktop or mobile device and is subject to Terms of Use (https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511) for Instagram accounts as applicable. Data and message rates may apply when entering through mobile platform.
To receive one (1) entry for the Instagram Sweepstakes, eligible entrants will need to follow @IHGArmyHotels Instagram account and
- Make sure their account is public
- Post a relevant photo/image with a caption honoring a specific service member (veteran), or veterans in general as part of their salute submission
- Tag @IHGArmyHotels in the post
- Include the hashtag #sweepstakes #101Salutes
By posting your image/photo and honoring the veteran(s) in your comment caption will be your entry (“Entry”) By entering the Sweepstakes, you agree that your Entry conforms to the Content Restrictions as defined below, you will receive one (1) Entry to the Sweepstakes. Entrants will only receive one (1) total Entry for the Sweepstakes. Duplicate submissions will be void. Sponsor may disqualify you from the Sweepstakes if it believes that your Entry fails to conform to the Content Restrictions.
2). Enter via Email:
To enter by email, eligible entrant must submit a photo or image and a salute caption/message honoring a specific veteran or veterans in general IHGAHSweepstakes@IHG.com.
Content Restrictions:
- The Entry must be entrant's original work;
- The Entry must be for a specific veteran or veterans in general
If using a veteran’s photo, you have the permission of the person in the picture to use their image.
- The Instagram Entry must contain the hashtags #sweepstakes, #101Salutes
- The Entry must not contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, including but not limited to privacy, publicity or intellectual property rights, or that constitutes copyright infringement;
- The Entry must not disparage Sponsor or any other person or party affiliated with the Sweepstake;
- The Entry must not contain brand names or trademarks other than those owned by Sponsor’s parent company, InterContinental Hotels Group, which entrant has a limited license to use to incorporate in his/her Submission in this Sweepstakes;
- The Entry must not contain material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, hateful, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous;
- The Entry must not contain material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred, or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; and
- The Entry must not contain material that is unlawful, in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations in any state where Entry is created.
Limit: You may enter the Sweepstakes only once during the Sweepstakes Period. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different Instagram accounts, email accounts, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that entrant's Entry and that entrant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder of the Instagram account or email used to register will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address by an internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being an authorized account holder.
- Sweepstakes Drawings: Sponsor’s decision as to the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes and the selection of the potential winner is final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Sponsor will randomly select 5 (five) winners from all eligible entries received during the Sweepstakes Period at the end of the Sweepstakes Period.. Odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entries received during the applicable Sweepstakes Period. The potential Sweepstakes winners will be notified on 11/17/2020, via Instagram or email, as applicable by reply to their winning comment with prize claim instructions. If a potential winner of any prize cannot be contacted within the required time period, the potential winner forfeits the prize. Receiving a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules and verification of military service. In the event that a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor will award the applicable prize to an alternate winner by random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries. Only three (3) alternate drawings will be held, after which the prize will remain un-awarded.
- Prizes: There will be total ten (10) winners total. Each of the ten (10) winners will receive 100,000 IHG Rewards Club Points. Should the winner desire to share their points with a veteran, they will need to provide the Veteran’s contact information.
Prizes are awarded “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied by Sponsor. Winners may not substitute, assign or transfer prize or redeem prize for cash, but Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to substitute a prize (or portion thereof) with one of comparable or greater value. Winner is responsible for any and all local, state and/or federal taxes, as well as any other costs and expenses not specified herein.
- Rights Transfer and Release: By receipt of any prize, winners agree to release and hold harmless Sponsor Parties, Instagram and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize suppliers, and each of their respective parent companies and each such company’s officers, directors, franchisees, employees and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. Without limiting the generality of these Official Rules, each winner shall irrevocably grant, transfer, convey and assign to Sponsor the entirety of the rights in and to the Entry and all renewals and extensions of copyright, and the right to secure copyright registrations thereto in perpetuity including, without limitation, the rights to use the Entry for any and all purposes in any and all media whether now known or hereafter developed, on a worldwide basis, in perpetuity. Each winner accepts and acknowledges that Sponsor shall not be obligated to use the Entry for any purpose other than one entry into the Sweepstakes and that Sponsor in its sole discretion shall have the right to refrain from using the Entry in any other way. Sponsor shall not incur any liability whatsoever to the extent Sponsor chooses to refrain from any exploitation of its rights hereunder. Each winner will indemnify Sponsor, Released Parties and any licensee of Sponsor against all claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and legal expenses) arising out of any breach of these terms. This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with, Instagram.
- Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes each winner’s consent to Sponsor Parties’ and its agents’ use of winner’s name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions and/or hometown and state or province for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration. Participation also constitutes the winner’s consent to allow Sponsor and its agents’ to take and use photos of winner and create other content and/or share such content (including photos) of winner’s prize experience, including using winners name and likeness (e.g. sharing of social content on Sponsor’s social channels).
- General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Sweepstakes, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, human error, or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Sweepstakes, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. In such event, Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the prizes offered herein. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or to be acting in violation of the Official Rules of this or any other promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
- Limitations of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Sweepstakes; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the processing of entries; or (5) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant’s participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for any reason an entrant's entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry in the Sweepstakes, if it is possible. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In the event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than the stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, un-awarded, eligible prize claims.
- Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia or the appropriate Georgia State Court located in Dekalb County, Georgia; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes, but in no event attorneys’ fees; and (3) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. 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, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Georgia without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Georgia or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Georgia.
- Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected from entrants is subject to Sponsor’s Privacy Policy found at https://www.ihg.com/content/us/en/customer-care/privacy_statement#16.
- Winner’s List: For a winner list, please email IHGAHSweepstakes@ihg.com on 11/17/2020
