NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. MANY WILL ENTER, FEW WILL WIN.
1. Eligibility: K12 ANC Scholarship Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) is open only to K12 Operators that are legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including District of Columbia) and who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older at the time of entry. The Sweepstakes is not open to the general public. Employees of General Mills Sales, Inc., and their parent and affiliate companies, suppliers 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 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.
2. Sponsor: General Mills Sales, Inc., One General Mills Blvd, Minneapolis, MN 55426.Administrator: Arrowhead Promotion & Fulfillment Co., 1105 SE 8th Street, Grand Rapids, MN 55745
3. Timing: The Sweepstakes begins on March 10, 2025, at 12:00 a.m. Central Standard Time ("CST") and ends on June 2, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. CST (the "Sweepstakes Period"). Administrator’s computer is the official time-keeping device for this Sweepstakes.
4. Sweepstakes Sales Zones: The Sweepstakes will consist of four (4) separate sales zones (each a “Sales Zone”). Each Sale Zone will have its own pool of entries and its own drawing. Your Sweepstakes entry will be entered into the Sales Zone in which your school district is located. The four Sales Zones are as follows:
5. How to Enter: There are two (2) ways to enter the Sweepstakes, as outlined below.
Complete the following criteria, including a purchase of an eligible product, to receive one entry into the Sweepstakes for your applicable Sales Zone.
Once you have completed the required information listed above, visit https://cloud.info.generalmills.com/K12_Sweepstakes and complete and submit the registration form including, but not limited to, your first and last name, your age, and a valid business email address, business phone number and state. Then follow the instructions to attach a PDF copy of your menu, and a copy of your purchase receipt/invoice. Once verified you will receive one (1) entry into your applicable Sweepstakes Sales Zone.
To receive an entry without making a purchase: To enter without making a purchase, hand print your first and last name, age, street address and zip code, your school district name, business email address, and phone number on a 3"x5" piece of paper (mechanical reproductions void) and send to K12 ANC Scholarship Department S9563, P.O. Box 4006, Grand Rapids, MN 55730-4006. Only potential Grand Prize Winners will be notified. Entry must be postmarked by May 27, 2025 and received by June 2, 2025. Limit one (1) request per outer envelope. Once verified you will receive one (1) entry into your applicable Sweepstakes Sales Zone.
At the time of entry, entrant and entrant’s school must be in good standing with Sponsor.
Limit: Each entrant may enter the Sweepstakes two (2) times during the Sweepstakes Period, regardless of method of entry. Each entrant may only enter the Sweepstakes in the Sales Zone in which their school district is located. Limit of only one (1) entrant per school district. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different email addresses, 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. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or misdirected registrations, which will be disqualified. In the event of a dispute as to any registration or play, the authorized account holder of the email address 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. All Grand Prize Winners (as defined below) may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.
6. Administrator is an independent judging organization whose decisions as to the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes.
7. ALL THE GRAND PRIZE WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY SPONSOR OR ADMINISTRATOR, WHOSE DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE SWEEPSTAKES. AN ENTRANT IS NOT A WINNER OF ANY PRIZE, EVEN IF SWEEPSTAKES SHOULD SO INDICATE, UNLESS AND UNTIL ENTRANT’S ELIGIBILITY, AND THE SWEEPSTAKES GRAND PRIZE WINNERS HAVE BEEN VERIFIED AND ENTRANT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED THAT VERIFICATION IS COMPLETE. SPONSOR WILL NOT ACCEPT SCREEN SHOTS OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF WINNING IN LIEU OF ITS VALIDATION PROCESS.
8. Potential Winner Selection and Verification of Potential Winners: Receiving a prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules. Administrator will randomly select 5 potential grand prize winners (each a “Grand Prize Winner” and collectively “Grand Prize Winners”), for each Sales Zone from all eligible entries received in each Sales Zone on or around June 4, 2025. The potential Sweepstakes Grand Prize Winners will be notified by email or phone on or around June 9, 2025. The potential Grand Prize Winners will be required to sign and return a Declaration of Compliance, Liability and Publicity Release which must be received by Administrator, within five (5) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, in order to claim the prize. If any Grand Prize Winner cannot be contacted, or fails to sign and return the Declaration of Compliance, Liability and Publicity Release, or provide any other requested information within the required time period (if applicable), or prize is returned as undeliverable, the Grand Prize Winner forfeits the prize. Sponsor will have no liability for any notification that is not received by a potential Winner for any reason. If, despite reasonable efforts by Sponsor, a potential Winner does not respond to the notification and accept prize as required herein or if prize notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable, such potential Winner will be disqualified and forfeit prize. If a potential Winner is found to be ineligible, has not complied with these Official Rules, declines the prize, such potential Winner will be disqualified and forfeit any prize in this Sweepstakes. If a potential Winner is disqualified or forfeits prize, the Sponsor may, but shall not be required to, select an alternate potential, Winner.
9. Grand Prizes: There will be five (5) Grand Prizes for each Sales Zone, for a total of twenty (20) Grand Prizes to be won. Each Grand Prize will include one (1) ANC conference registration, airfare for one (1) to San Antonio, TX, and three (3) nights hotel accommodations. Trip package includes round trip, coach-class air transportation for one (1) from a major airport near winner’s home (determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion) to San Antonio, TX (winner is responsible for transportation to and from their home and major airport); three (3) nights' accommodations at a 3 or 4-star hotel determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion (single room). Grade Prize Winners are responsible for transportation to and from the San Antonio International Airport and the hotel. Trip must be booked at least twenty-one (21) days prior to departure. Travel and accommodations are subject to availability and blackout dates. Travel must be round trip. Sponsor will determine airline and flight itinerary in its sole discretion. No refund or compensation will be made in the event of the cancellation or delay of any flight. Travel is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Sweepstakes, and those set forth by the Sponsor’s airline carrier of choice as detailed in the passenger ticket contract. The Grand Prize Winners are responsible for all (if any) federal If in the judgment of Sponsor, state, and local taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. Prizes will be awarded "as is" with no warranty or guarantee, either express or implied offered by Sponsor. All expenses and incidental travel costs not expressly stated in the package description above, including but not limited to, ground transportation, parking fees, meals, alcoholic beverages, souvenirs, incidentals, gratuities, passenger tariffs or duties, airline fees, surcharges, airport fees, service charges, phone charges, or facility charges, personal charges at lodging, security fees, taxes or other expenses are the responsibility solely of winner. Grand Prize Winners are solely responsible for obtaining United States government-approved travel documents including, but not limited to, valid driver’s licenses, passports and/or any other documents necessary for travel. Travel restrictions, conditions and limitations may apply. air travel is not required due to Grand Prize Winner’s proximity to prize location, ground transportation will be substituted for round trip air travel at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Once in the Grand Prize Winner’s possession, Sponsor will not replace any lost, mutilated, or stolen tickets, travel vouchers or certificates or similar items. Sponsor is not responsible if event is delayed, postponed or cancelled for any reason, in which event that portion of prize is forfeited in its entirety and no substitution will be provided except as in Sponsor’s sole discretion. Any unclaimed and/or unused trip elements will be forfeited by and will remain the property of Sponsor. Unused components of the trip have no redeemable cash value. Grand Prize Winner must comply with all hotel check-in requirements, including the presentation of a major credit card. All airline tickets issued in connection with the trip are not eligible for frequent flyer miles or upgrades and cannot be used in conjunction with any other promotion or offer. In the event Grand Prize Winner (and/or a companion traveling with Grand Prize Winner) engages in behavior that (determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion) is obnoxious or threatening, illegal or that is intended to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person, Sponsor reserves the right to terminate the trip or other applicable experience early, in whole or in part, and send Grand Prize Winner and/or his or her travel companion home with no further compensation. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $5,000. Actual value may vary based on airfare fluctuations and distance between departure and destination. Winner will not receive difference between actual and approximate retail value. Odds of winning the Sweepstakes Grand Prize depend on the number of eligible entries received within each applicable Sales Zone during the Sweepstakes Period. Total ARV for all prizes: $100,000.00.
10. Release: By receipt of any prize, Grand Prize Winners agree to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Administrator, and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies 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.
11. Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes Grand Prize Winner’s consent to Sponsor’s and its agents’ use of winner’s name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions and/or hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.
12. 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 reserves the right to award the prizes at random from among the eligible entries received up to the time of the impairment. 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 any and all available remedies from any such person to the fullest extent of the law, including criminal prosecution. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
13. 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 or play is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another Sweepstakes entry, if 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 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.
14. 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 Administrator or 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.
15. Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected from entrants is subject to the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy http://www.generalmills.com/en/Company/privacy-policies/privacy-policy-US.
16. Winner List: For a winner list, visit our sweepstakes website. The winner list will be posted after winner confirmation is complete.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. OPEN TO LEGAL RESIDENTS OF THE 50 UNITED STATES AND D.C. THAT ARE K12 OPERATORS AND 21 AND OLDER. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. Sweepstakes is not open to the general public. Sweepstakes starts March 10, 2025, and ends June 2, 2025. 5 Grand Prizes in each Sales Zone to be won. There are 4 Sales Zones for a total of 20 Grand Prizes. Scholarship includes conference registration, airfare and hotel accommodations. Limit 2 entries per person. Limit 1 entrant per school district. For Official Rules, alternate method of entry, and complete details, visit https://www.generalmillsfoodservice.com/industries/k12/support-tool-categories/anc-2025-sweepstakes. Sponsor: General Mills Sales, Inc.