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Spooky At Sea Sweepstakes

OFFICIAL RULES



NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

1. Eligibility: The Carnival Spooky at Sea Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are at least twenty-one (21) years old at the time of entry. Employees of Carnival Corporation, Carnival Cruise Line, HelloWorld, Inc., and their parent and affiliate companies as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. 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 and Sponsor’s and Administrator’s decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Winning the prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein. .

2. Sponsor: Carnival Cruise Line, a division of Carnival Corporation, 3655 NW 87th Avenue, Miami, FL 33178. Administrator: HelloWorld, Inc., 3000 Town Center, Suite 2100, Southfield, MI 48075. Carnival Cruise Line is not responsible for the Sweepstakes administration or winner selection. .

3. Timing: The Sweepstakes begins on October 5, 2017 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") and ends on November 6, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the "Promotion Period"). The servers of Twitter Inc. and Instagram LLC are the official time-keeping devices for the Sweepstakes. .

4. How to Enter: There are two ways to enter: Enter by posting a Halloween Photo from your Cruise: To participate, you will need to have a Twitter and/or Instagram account (each a “Social Account”). Creating each Social Account is free but is subject to the applicable terms and conditions (http://twitter.com/tos) or (http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/#). Posting on Instagram requires a mobile device and therefore message and data rates may apply. If entering via a mobile device and using your wireless carrier’s network, standard data charges from your wireless carrier may apply. Your account settings on the Social Account you use to enter must be set to "unprotected" and/or "public" in order for your Tweets or posts are viewable by Sponsor. .

During the Promotion Period, take a photo of yourself (you may include your friends and family who have given you permission) showing you on a Carnival Cruise in Halloween costume. NOTE: Your costume must not reflect a celebrity or other person who has not given you permission. Tweet or post the photo to Instagram and include the following hashtags: #SpookyatSea #sweepstakes. .

Your Tweet/post and its included content will hereafter be referred to as your Submission. Your Submission must be your original work. If you include the names or likenesses of other individuals, you must have their permission to be included and to grant the rights set forth in Section 5. If requested, entrant must be able to provide such permissions in a form acceptable to Sponsor. Your Submission may not reflect negative sentiment, be indecent, obscene, hateful, tortious, defamatory, relate to political or religious issues, libelous, contain material that violates or infringes another’s rights, disparage Sponsor or any other person or party, or contain material that is unlawful in any way. The Submission must not contain a third party’s likeness, or brand names or trademarks other than those owned by Sponsor, which entrant has a limited license to use to incorporate in his/her Submission. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Submission that it finds unlawful, or in violation of these Official Rules, all in its sole discretion. .

You automatically will receive one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes drawing for a qualified Submission. .

Enter by Mail: Hand print your name, address, day and evening phone numbers, email address, and date of birth on a 3" x 5" piece of paper and mail it in an envelope with proper postage to Carnival Spooky at Sea Sweepstakes” c/o HelloWorld, Inc., P.O. Box 5006, Department 833301, Kalamazoo, MI 49003-5006, You will receive one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes. Limit: One (1) entry per envelope mailed. All mail-in entries must be handwritten and must be postmarked by November 6, 2017 and received by November 13, 2017. All entries become the exclusive property of Sponsor and none will be acknowledged or returned. Proof of sending or submission will not be deemed to be proof of receipt by Sponsor. .

Released Parties (as defined in Section 8, below) are not responsible for lost, late, unreceived, damaged, incomplete, invalid, un-intelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected Submissions; all of which will be void. .

Limit: You may enter up to three (3) times by any combination of entry methods during the Promotion Period. Each Submission must be unique to qualify as an entry. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same Social Account. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different Social Accounts, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that entrant's entries 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 Social Account used to register will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned an email address used to create the Social Account. The potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. .

5. Sponsor’s Use of Submissions: Tweeting/Posting a Submission constitutes entrant’s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display such submissions in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis, and to incorporate it into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. If requested, entrant will sign any documentation that may be required for Sponsor or its designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights entrant is granting to use the Submission. .

6. Grand Prize Drawing: Administrator is an independent judging organization whose decisions as to the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes and the selection of the potential winner are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Administrator will randomly select the potential Sweepstakes winner from all eligible entries received during the Promotion Period, on or around November 16, 2017. The potential winner will be notified by @carnivalcruise via Direct Message on Twitter or @carnival via Message Direct on Instagram and will be required complete and return a Declaration of Compliance, Liability Waiver and where not prohibited a Publicity Release within five (5) days to claim the prize. If the potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to sign and return the Declaration or provide any other requested information within the required time period, the potential winner forfeits the prize. Receiving a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules. In the event that the 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. .

7. Prize: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE: A One Thousand Five Hundred Dollar U.S. ($1,500.00 USD) Carnival Cruise Line gift card that may be used to book any cruise with Carnival Cruise Line departing from North America. Winner will work with a Carnival representative to utilize the gift card by booking a cruise by 12/31/17. The sail date may be through April 28, 2019. Winner will be responsible for any amounts in excess of $1,500 attributable to the selected cruise. Sponsor does not guarantee availability on the exact sailing or travel dates and times requested by winner. Terms, conditions and restrictions on Carnival Cruise Line Gift Card may apply, as designated by issuer. Other limitations and restrictions may apply. Use of the Carnival Cruise Line credit is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in these Official Rules and those set forth and detailed in Carnival’s passenger Ticket Contract found here: http://www.carnival.com/about-carnival/legal-notice/ticket-contract.aspx. Approximate Retail Value: $1,500. .

Prize is non-transferable, not redeemable for cash, and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Winner is responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. Odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Period. Sponsor will contact winner within four weeks to initiate discussions about booking a cruise. .

8. Release: By receipt of any prize, winner agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Administrator, Twitter, Inc., Instagram, LLC, and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize suppliers, and each of their respective parent companies and each such company’s officers, directors, 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. .

9 Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes winner’s consent to Sponsor’s and its agents’ use of winner’s name, prize information, likeness, Submission, photograph (including, without limitation, winner's Social Account profile photo), voice, opinions and/or hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration. .

10. 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. .

11. 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; (5) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen mail; or (6) 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, not received, 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. .

12. 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 Eastern District of Michigan (Southern Division) or the appropriate Michigan State Court located in Oakland County, Michigan; (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 Michigan without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Michigan. .

13. Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected from entrants is subject to Sponsor’s Privacy Policy (http://www.carnival.com/about-carnival/legal-notice/privacy-policy.aspx) and to Administrator’s Privacy Policy (http://www.helloworld.com/privacy-policy). .

14. Winner List: For a winner list, visit http://bit.ly/2ydrFXV. The winner list will be posted after winner confirmation is complete. .

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