The CESAR Spin TikTok Sweepstakes Official Rules

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

ELIGIBILITY: The CESAR Spin Sweepstakes (“Promotion”) is open only to residents of the fifty (50) United States and Washington, D.C, who are eighteen (18) years of age or older as of date of entry. By participating in the Promotion, participant fully and unconditionally agrees to and accepts these Official Rules and the decisions of Mars Petcare US, Inc. (“Sponsor”), which are final and binding in all matters related to the Promotion. Employees of Sponsor, Weber Shandwick and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, promotion and advertising agencies, and members of their immediate family (spouse and parent, children and siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and persons living in the same household, whether or not related, of such employees, are not eligible to enter or win. Void where prohibited by law. Promotion is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws. This Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with TikTok. 

PROMOTION PERIOD: Promotion begins at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on April 30, 2025 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on May 30, 2025 (“Promotion Period”). Sponsor’s clock is the official time keeping device for this Promotion. Entries not received within the Promotion Period will be void. 

HOW TO ENTER: During the Promotion Period, create an original video of you and your dog doing “The CESAR Spin”. Examples can be found on Alan Bersten’s TikTok account @alan.bersten. 

Then, log-in to your TikTok account and post your video to your account, and tag @CESARCanineCuisine and include the hashtags #CESARSpinSweepstakes and #CESARShare in your caption to receive one (1) entry into the Sweepstakes. 

Please Note: The content of your TikTok posts or comments will not be judged and therefore will not increase or decrease your chances of winning a prize. 

Entries must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on May 30, 2025 to be eligible. A TikTok account is required to enter and can be opened for free by signing up at www.tiktok.com.

Limit of one (1) entry per person using only one (1) TikTok account throughout the Promotion Period. Your Tik Tok account must be on public setting in order to receive notifications concerning the Promotion.  Entries received from any person or TikTok account in excess of the above stated limitation will be void. Standard data rates on your mobile phone may apply if entering the Promotion via your mobile phone. See your wireless service provider for pricing plan details.

 

REQUIREMENTS OF ENTRIES: Entry must be in compliance with TikTok’s Terms of Service and Community Guidelines and may not contain, as determined by Sponsor, in its sole discretion, any content that:

  • is sexually explicit or suggestive; unnecessarily violent or derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group; profane or pornographic; 

  • promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing); promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; promotes any particular political agenda or message;

  • is obscene or offensive; endorses any form of hate or hate group;  

  • defames, misrepresents or contains disparaging remarks about other people or companies;

  • contains trademarks, logos, or trade dress (such as distinctive packaging or building exteriors/interiors) owned by others (excluding those belonging to Sponsor), without permission; 

  • contains any personal identification, such as license plate numbers, personal names, e-mail addresses or street addresses;

  • contains copyrighted materials owned by others (including photographs, sculptures, paintings, and other works of art or images published on or in websites, television, movies or other media), without permission;

  • contains materials embodying the names, likenesses, voices, or other indicia identifying any person, including, without limitation, celebrities and/or other public or private figures, living or dead, without permission; 

  • communicates messages or images inconsistent with the positive images and/or good will to which Sponsor wishes to associate; and/or

  • violates any law.

RANDOM DRAWING/ODDS: One (1) potential winner will be selected in a random drawing on or about June 6, 2025 from among all eligible entries received during the Promotion Period. Odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entries received throughout the Promotion Period.

WINNER NOTIFICATION: Sponsor’s decisions are final and binding on all matters relating to this Promotion. The potential winner will be notified via direct message and/or comment from the Sponsor’s TikTok account and will be asked to respond and provide their full name, telephone number (including area code), date of birth, mail and/or email address within forty-eight (48) hours of the initial request. Return of prize or prize notification as undeliverable, failure to sign and return requested information within the specified time period, should a potential winner decline the prize for any reason prior to award, or the inability of Sponsor to contact a potential winner within a reasonable time period or noncompliance with these Official Rules by the potential winner will result in disqualification and, at Sponsor’s sole discretion, the prize may be awarded to an alternate winner. In the event the winner is at least eighteen (18) years of age but still considered a minor in their jurisdiction of residence, Sponsor reserves the right to award the prize in the name of their parent or legal guardian who will be responsible for fulfilling all requirements imposed on winners set forth herein. 

PRIZE (1): The prize consists of a CESAR brand prize pack which includes:

  • A one (1) year supply (equal to three-hundred sixty-five (365) bowls) of CESAR WARM BOWLS™ products;

  • One (1) CESAR® branded swag kit (water bottle, stainless steel dog bowl, collapsible dog bowl, and poop bag dispenser); and

  • One (1) $3,000 prepaid gift card (gift card is subject to separate terms and conditions imposed by issuer).

The Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”) of the prize is $4,200.

The winner is responsible for all applicable federal, state and local taxes, if any, as well as any other costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided. All prize details are at Sponsor’s sole discretion.

GENERAL CONDITIONS: By participating, each entrant agrees: (a) to abide by these Official Rules and decisions of Sponsor, which shall be final and binding in all respects relating to this Promotion; (b) to release, discharge and hold harmless Sponsor, Weber Shandwick, TikTok, and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and advertising and promotion agencies, and the respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, agents and representatives of the forgoing (collectively, “Released Parties”) from any and all injuries, liability, losses and damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property resulting, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from entrant’s participation in the Promotion or any Promotion-related activity or the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any awarded prize; and (c) to the use of his/her name, voice, performance, photograph, image, entry, and/or likeness for programming, advertising, publicity and promotional purposes in any and all media, now or hereafter known, worldwide and on the Internet, and in perpetuity by Sponsor and its designees, without compensation (unless prohibited by law) or additional consents from entrant or any third party and without prior notice, approval or inspection, and to execute specific consent to such use. By participating, entrant also agrees not to release any publicity or other materials on their own or through someone else regarding their participation in the Promotion without the prior consent of the Sponsor, which it may withhold in its sole discretion. 

LICENSE/USE OF ENTRIES: By submitting an entry, and to the extent allowed by law, you grant the Released Parties a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub licensable, unconditional and transferable license to edit, modify, cut, rearrange, add to, delete from, reproduce, encode, store, modify, copy, transmit, publish, post, broadcast, display, adapt, exhibit and/or otherwise use or reuse your entry, name, photo, comment, post, and biographical material including, but not limited to, all materials submitted in connection with the Promotion in any and all media, throughout the world, and in any manner, for trade, advertising, promotional, commercial, or any other purposes without further review, notice, approval, consideration, or compensation to entrant or any third party.

MISCELLANEOUS: Released Parties are not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, damaged, inaccurate, delayed, misdirected, undelivered, or garbled entries, comments, posts, or for lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server, Internet Service Provider (ISP), website, or other connections, availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed computer, satellite, telephone or cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties, or other errors or difficulties of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, computer, network, typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Promotion, including, without limitation, errors or difficulties which may occur in connection with the administration of the Promotion, the processing of entries, comments, posts, the announcement of the prize, or in any Promotion-related materials. Released Parties are also not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by site users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Promotion. Released Parties are not responsible for injury or damage to any person's computer related to or resulting from participating in this Promotion or downloading materials from or use of the website. Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the Promotion or website, who act in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner or who are in violation of these Official Rules, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified and all associated entries will be void. Should any portion of the Promotion be, in Sponsor’s sole opinion, compromised by virus, worms, bugs, non-authorized human intervention or other causes which, in the sole opinion of the Sponsor, corrupt or impair the administration, security, fairness or proper play, or submission of entries, posts, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to suspend, modify or terminate the Promotion (or portion thereof) and, if terminated, at its discretion, select any remaining potential winners from all eligible, non-suspect entries received prior to action taken. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK ANY AND ALL REMEDIES AVAILABLE FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

ARBITRATION: Except where prohibited by law, as a condition of participating in this Promotion, participant agrees that (1) any and all disputes and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion, or the prize awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by final and binding arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association and held in Miami, Florida; (2) the Federal Arbitration Act shall govern the interpretation, enforcement and all proceedings at such arbitration; and (3) judgment upon such arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. Under no circumstances will participant be permitted to obtain awards for, and participant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys' fees, other than participant's actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with participating in this Promotion), and participant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased. 

CHOICE OF LAW: All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of participant and Sponsor in connection with the Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the substantive laws of the State of Tennessee, USA.

REQUEST FOR WINNER’S NAME: For the name of the winners (available after June 6, 2025) send a self-addressed, stamped, envelope by July 6, 2025 to: The CESAR Spin Sweepstakes Winner, c/o Weber Shandwick, 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60654.

SPONSOR: Mars Petcare, 2013 Ovation Pkwy, Franklin, TN 37067.

“The CESAR Spin” Instagram Giveaway Terms

The “CESAR Spin” Instagram Giveaway (“Promotion”) begins at 12:00 AM Eastern Time (“ET”) on May 30, 2025 and ends at 11:59 PM ET on May 30, 2025 or when offer (“Offer”) supplies are exhausted, whichever occurs first (“Promotion Period”).Open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and Washington, D.C., who are eighteen (18) years of age or older. Void where prohibited by law. Subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations. 

To participate in the Promotion and claim one (1) free CESAR WARM BOWLS™ sample box, including one (1) CESAR WARM BOWLS product (each, an “Offer Item”), first, open Instagram and locate “The CESAR Spin” post from CESAR Canine Cuisine and Alan Bersten; then, follow @CESARCuisine and comment on the post with your favorite way to bond with your dog, tag @CESARCuisine, and include the hashtag #CESARSpinOffer. Your Instagram account must be set to public in order to participate. Offer Items are available on a first-come, first-served basis to the first two-thousand (2,000) participants. No purchase or payment is necessary to claim an Offer Item.

If you are one of the first two-thousand (2,000) participants you will receive a direct message from Sponsor with a link to complete a request form with your name, email, mailing address, pets name and pets date of birth to receive your free sample box. While supplies last.

Limit one (1) Offer Item per person, per e-mail address, and per household using only one (1) Instagram account for the duration of the Promotion Period. Multiple Instagram comments received from any person will be void. The authorized account holder of Instagram account and associated email address at the time of participation will be considered the participant and required to comply with these terms and all requirements set forth herein. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person assigned to an email address. Potential Offer recipients may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. Use of any automated system and use of any other devices to subvert the Offer request process is prohibited and will result in disqualification (and all associated Offer claims will be void).

Offer Items are provided “as is” with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied by Mars Petcare US, Inc. (“Sponsor”). By participating, the participant consents to being contacted by Instagram direct message if determined to be a potential Offer recipient. Failure of any potential Offer recipient to comply with these Terms and Conditions may result in the Offer item being forfeited. Offer Items are not transferable, redeemable for cash, or substitutable except by Sponsor, which reserves the right in its discretion to substitute any Offer Item. Allow approximately 4-6 weeks from the conclusion of the Promotion Period to receive your Offer Item via mail to the mailing address provided to Sponsor at time of Offer claim confirmation. Any Offer Item returned as non-deliverable will not be re-sent. Sponsor reserves the right to not award all Offer items if there are less than two-thousand (2,000) eligible Offer participants throughout the Promotion Period.

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION/RELEASES: All applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. By participating, each Participant agrees to be bound by these Terms & Conditions and the decisions of Sponsor, which shall be final in all respects. By participating in this Promotion and/or by accepting any Offer, each Participant agrees to release Sponsor and each of its respective successors, employees, officers, directors, agents, representatives and assigns (collectively, the "Released Parties") from any and all actions, claims, injury, loss or damage arising in any manner, directly or indirectly, from participation in this Promotion and/or acceptance or use of an Offer Item. Each Participant authorizes Sponsor and its designees to use their name, biographical data, and city and state of residence in programming or promotional material, worldwide in perpetuity, without further compensation, notification, or permission, unless prohibited by law. The Released Parties shall not be liable for: (i) any injuries, losses, liabilities or damages of any kind caused by the Promotion or resulting from acceptance, possession or use of an Offer Item, or from participation in the Promotion; (ii) telephone system, telephone or computer hardware, software or other technical or computer malfunctions, lost connections, disconnections, delays or transmission errors; (iii) data corruption, theft, destruction, unauthorized access to or alteration of entry or other materials; (iv) late, lost, delayed, stolen, incomplete, unreadable, inaccurate, garbled or unintelligible submissions, direct messages, emails, or other communications of any kind, regardless of the method of transmission; (v) any inability of Participant to accept or use any Offer Item (or portion thereof) for any reason and such Offer Item or portion thereof shall be forfeited; or (vi) any printing, typographical, human administrative or technological errors in any materials associated with the Promotion. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, modify or suspend the Promotion (or any portion of the Promotion) should a virus, bug, computer problem, unauthorized intervention, extenuating circumstance or other problem/cause corrupt or inhibit the administration, security or proper administration of the Promotion and, in such situation, will provide any remaining Offers Items using all eligible non-suspect Offer claims received prior to and/or after such action or in such manner as deemed fair and appropriate by Sponsor. Sponsor may prohibit a participant from participating in the Promotion or receiving an Offer Item if, in its sole discretion, it determines participant is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Promotion by cheating, hacking, deception, or any other unfair practices or intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other participants or Promotion entities or representatives. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND WILL RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION FROM PARTICIPATION IN THE PROMOTION. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING ATTORNEY FEES) TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. BY PARTICIPATING IN THE PROMOTION, PARTICIPANT AGREES THAT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW: (1) ANY AND ALL DISPUTES, CLAIMS AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THE PROMOTION, OR ANY AWARD AWARDED, WILL BE RESOLVED INDIVIDUALLY, WITHOUT RESORT TO ANY FORM OF CLASS ACTION; (2) ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, JUDGMENTS AND AWARDS WILL BE LIMITED TO ACTUAL THIRD-PARTY, OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS INCURRED, (IF ANY), NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($50.00), BUT IN NO EVENT WILL ATTORNEYS’ FEES BE AWARDED OR RECOVERABLE; AND 3) UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ANY PARTICIPANT BE PERMITTED TO OBTAIN ANY AWARD FOR, AND PARTICIPANT HEREBY KNOWINGLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES ALL RIGHTS TO SEEK, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, AND/OR ANY RIGHTS TO HAVE DAMAGES MULTIPLIED OR OTHERWISE INCREASED.  SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY, SO THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Each Promotion participant understands and agrees that all rights under California Civil Code Section 1542 (“Section 1542”) and any similar law of any state that may be applicable with respect to the foregoing release are hereby expressly waived. Each Offer participant acknowledges that Section 1542 provides that: “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 MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.” 

GOVERNING LAW: ALL ISSUES AND QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE CONSTRUCTION, VALIDITY, INTERPRETATION AND ENFORCEABILITY OF THESE TERMS & CONDITIONS OR THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF PARTICIPANTS OR SPONSOR IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROMOTION SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO ANY CHOICE OF LAW OR CONFLICT OF LAW RULES OR PROVISIONS THAT WOULD CAUSE THE APPLICATION OF ANY OTHER STATE’S LAWS.

ARBITRATION PROVISION:  By participating in this Promotion, each participant agrees that any and all disputes the participant may have with, or claims participant may have against, the Released Parties relating to, arising out of or connected in any way with (i) the Promotion, (ii) the awarding or redemption of any Offer, and/or (iii) the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, will be resolved individually and exclusively by final and binding arbitration administered by the National Arbitration Forum (the “Forum”) and conducted before a sole arbitrator pursuant to the Code of Procedure established by the Forum.  The arbitration shall be held at a location determined by the Forum pursuant to the Code of Procedure, or at such other location as may be mutually agreed upon by the Participant and Sponsor.  The arbitrator’s decision shall be controlled by the terms and conditions of these Terms & Conditions and any of the other agreements referenced herein that the applicable participant may have entered into in connection with the Promotion. There shall be no authority for any claims to be arbitrated on a class or representative basis; arbitration can decide only the participant’s and/or Sponsor individual claims and the arbitrator may not consolidate or join the claims of other persons or parties who may be similarly situated. The arbitrator shall not have the power to award special or punitive damages against the Participant or Released Parties. For more information on the Forum and/or the Forum's Code of Procedure, please visit their website at www.arb-forum.com.  If any part of this Arbitration Provision is deemed to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, the balance of this Arbitration Provision shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein.

PRIVACY POLICY: Any personal information supplied by you to Sponsor will be subject to Sponsor's privacy policy posted at Mars.com/Privacy. By participating in the Promotion, you grant Sponsor permission to share your email address and any other personally identifiable information with the other promotion entities for  ,the purpose of Promotion administration and Offer fulfillment. Sponsor will not sell, rent, transfer or otherwise disclose your personal data to any third party other than as explicitly described herein or in accordance with Sponsor’s privacy policy.

The CESAR® brand names, logos, and related marks are trademarks of Mars Incorporated.

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