THIS CONTEST IS IN NO WAY SPONSORED, ENDORSED OR ADMINISTERED BY, OR ASSOCIATED WITH META PLATFORMS, INC., OR ANY ENTITY OR PERSON OTHER THAN THE SPONSOR IDENTIFIED HEREIN.

No purchase necessary to enter or win. A purchase will not increase your chances of winning. 

By entering, you understand that you are agreeing to these Official Rules and to provide your information to Health Alliance Plan (HAP) to administer the Contest (as defined herein). VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.

This is a contest based on random drawing. These Official Rules apply only to the Win Your Wish List Contest. By entering, you will not be entered into any other contest, sweepstakes or promotion that HAP may be running simultaneously.

1.     Contest Entry Period:

The Contest entry period begins at 12:00 a.m. EST, August 4, 2025 and ending 11:59 p.m. EST. August 10, 2025. Eligible participants who follow HAP on social media and provide their wish list during this period will be entered to win. Names will be selected via random drawing.

All Winners will be announced publicly on social media on or about August 15, 2025. All Prize Winners will be notified by Meta private messenger on or about August 15, 2025 from a HAP Social Media Representative.

HAP will complete the winners’ Amazon wish lists provided in the comments section of the contest. Wish lists will be cleared up to $500 per winner.

2.     Eligibility:

The Contest is open only to teachers within the lower peninsula of Michigan who are eighteen (18) years of age or older.

All entrants agree to be bound by the official rules and the decisions of HAP, which shall be final and legally binding in all respects. All entrants hereby release HAP, its affiliated companies, subsidiaries and all other businesses involved in this contest, as well as respective employees, officers, directors, shareholders, representatives, agents, and successors and assigns of the foregoing (collectively, the “Released Parties”), from all claims, liability, lawsuits, costs, expenses, fees, injuries (including death), losses and damages relating to their participation, acceptance and use or misuse of any prize (as defined below).

Winners assume all liability for any injury or damage, including death, caused or claimed to be caused by participation in this contest or use or redemption of a prize. Winning a prize is contingent on fulfilling all requirements in these Official Rules.

3.     How To Enter:
   

During the Contest Entry Period you may enter by:

• Following HAP on Facebook
• Providing a link to your eligible classroom Amazon wish list on HAP’s Facebook contest post. 

ENTRY NOTES:

1. must not contain material that violates or infringes any rights of any other party, person or entity, including but not limited to copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or any other intellectual property rights;
2. must not in any way disparage HAP or any other person, entity or party;
3. must not contain material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, hateful, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous;
4. 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;
5. must not contain material that is unlawful, in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations of the United States or of any jurisdiction where the submission is created;
6. must not promote illegal drugs or illegal firearms (or the use of any of the foregoing), or any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous, or any particular political agenda or message;
7. must be consistent with the image and values of HAP and be consistent with and satisfy the purpose of the contest.

Engaging directly or indirectly in any (apparent or suspected) artifice, cheating, fraud, spamming, phishing, online clubs (or similar methods), exchange sites, robotic, automatic, macro, programmed or similar participation methods, as determined in HAP’s sole discretion, will void all such entries and disqualify any entrant suspected of using or benefiting from such methods.

Without limiting the foregoing, an entry or entrant will be disqualified if HAP believes the entry is not in the spirit of the contest, is not compliant herewith, or awarding the prize to any person will have a detrimental impact on HAP, this contest, or any of HAP’s brands, products or services.

Entrants must not engage in phishing or spamming. Apparent or suspected phishing or spamming, sending of junk communications or the use of any unauthorized method or automated system to participate is prohibited and, if discovered at any time, will void the applicable entry and disqualify the entrant.

Once an entry is submitted, the entrant cannot revise it. In the event a dispute regarding the identity of the person who submitted the entry cannot be resolved to HAP’s satisfaction, the entry will be deemed ineligible. 

BY SUBMITTING AN ENTRY, ENTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THEIR NAME, IMAGE, OR LIKENESS MAY BE POSTED ACROSS ANY OR ALL OF HAP’S AND OTHER RELEASED PARTIES’ DIGITAL AND SOCIAL ASSETS AND OTHER MEDIA, AT HAP’S DISCRETION. Submission grants HAP and its agents the right to publish, use, adapt, edit, publicly perform and/or modify such entry in any way, in any and all media, including for use in advertising and marketing, without limitation, and without consideration to the entrant.

 

4.     Winner Selection:

At the conclusion of the entry period, HAP will hold a random drawing to select winners. The winners will be announced on or about Aug. 11, 2025, and notified via Meta private messenger by the official HAP Facebook page. The number of winners will be determined by the cost of the wish lists for the randomly selected winners.

If the selected Winner is unable to accept a Prize in its entirety for any reason, the selected Winner will forfeit the Prize and the Prize will be awarded to an alternate winner.

By accepting a prize, winners irrevocably grant HAP the right and permission (except where prohibited by law) to use their names, prizes won, likenesses, photographs, voices, state of residence and biographical information in any media throughout Michigan in perpetuity for advertising, online posting and publicity without additional compensation.

 

5.     Winner Notification:

Potential winner will be notified by HAP via Meta private messenger. Failure to respond to such notification or a potential winner’s noncompliance with these Official Rules may result in disqualification, and at HAP’s sole discretion, an alternate Winner may be selected, alternate winners will be selected by random drawing.

 

6.     Prize:

Subject to entrant’s compliance with these Official Rules and while supplies last, each winner will receive up to $500 toward their school supplies wish list. Wish list purchases will be completed by HAP.

Winners are responsible for all applicable federal, state and local sales and income taxes, as well as any costs or fees related to the prize.

To receive the prize, winners must coordinate with the HAP social media marketing team for delivery of a HAP swag bag to their school of employment. Winners must also create and share at least one Facebook post showing their use of the classroom supplies and HAP swag. Each post must:

1. mention @HealthAlliancePlan;
2. comply with Meta’s community standards, terms of use and privacy policy;
3. contain original, respectful content suitable for HAP’s audience;
4. reflect the winners’ honest opinions and experiences;
5. comply with all applicable laws and FTC endorsement guidelines;
6. refrain from offensive language, misinformation or objectionable content;
7. refrain from making false or factually incorrect statements;
8. refrain from violating the intellectual property rights of others;
9. refrain from including personally identifiable information about anyone other than the winner; and
10. refrain from using the name, image or likeness of anyone other than the winner.

IN NO EVENT WILL THE RELEASED PARTIES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST OR FROM AN ENTRANT’S DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL DOWNLOADED FROM ANY WEBSITE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CONTEST. 

 

7. Conditions of Participation:

By entering the contest, entrants agrees

1. to be bound by these rules and the decisions of HAP;
2. to waive any right to claim ambiguity in the rules
3. to waive all of his or her rights to bring any claim, action or proceeding against any contest entities or released parties in connection with the contest; and
4. to forever and irrevocably agree to release, defend, indemnify and hold harmless each of the contest entities and released parties, and the social media platforms used to facilitate entry, from and against any and all alleged or actual claims, lawsuits, judgments, causes of action, proceedings, demands, fines, penalties, liability, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable outside attorneys’ fees) for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind to persons, including death, or property resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from:
   1. the contest, including but not limited to any contest-related activity or element thereof, and the entrant’s entry, participation or inability to participate in the contest or any component thereof;
   2. the violation of any third-party privacy, personal, publicity, proprietary or other rights;
   3. typographical or printing errors in these official rules or any contest materials and/or announcements;
   4. acceptance, attendance at, receipt, travel related to, participation in, delivery of, possession, defects in, use, non-use, misuse, inability to use, loss, damage, destruction, negligence or willful misconduct in connection with the use or misuse of a prize (or any component thereof);
   5. any change in the prizing (or any components thereof) due to unavailability or for reasons beyond HAP’s control, including but not limited to acts of God, any action, regulation, order or request by any governmental or quasi-governmental entity (whether or not such action, regulation, order or request proves to be invalid), equipment failure, threatened or actual terrorist acts, earthquake, war, fire, flood, explosion, unusually severe weather, hurricane, embargo, labor dispute or strike (whether legal or illegal), labor or material shortage, transportation interruption of any kind, work slowdown, civil disturbance, insurrection, riot, event cancellation or delays, or any other cause beyond any of the released parties’ control, or as otherwise permitted in these official rules;
   6. any interruptions in or postponement, cancellation or modification of the contest;
   7. human error;
   8. incorrect or inaccurate transcription, receipt or transmission, or any failure with respect thereto of any part of the entry (including, without limitation, the information or any parts thereof);
   9. any technical malfunctions or unavailability of the website, social media platform, telephone network, computer system, computer online system, computer timing and/or dating mechanism, computer equipment, software or internet service provider, social media platform or mail service used by any of the released parties or by an entrant;
   10. interruption or inability to access the contest, the website, the social media platform or any other contest-related web pages or platforms, or any online service via the internet due to hardware or software compatibility problems;
   11. any damage to entrant’s (or any third person’s) computer and/or its contents related to or resulting from any part of the contest;
   12. any lost or delayed data transmissions, omissions, interruptions, defects or any other errors or malfunctions;
   13. any late, lost, stolen, mutilated, misdirected, illegible, delayed, garbled, corrupted, destroyed, incomplete, undeliverable or damaged entries;
   14. any wrongful, negligent or unauthorized act or omission on the part of any of the released parties;
   15. lost, late, stolen, misdirected, damaged or destroyed prizing (or any element thereof);
   16. the collection, use and/or sharing of entrants’ personally identifiable information by HAP or its designees; or
   17. the negligence or willful misconduct by entrant.

You further agree that none of the contest entities will be liable to you under tort, contract, strict liability, negligence or any other legal or equitable theory for any loss or damages of any kind (including, without limitation, any direct, indirect, economic, exemplary, special, punitive, incidental or consequential losses or damages); that damages, if any, caused to you are not irreparable or sufficient to entitle you to an injunction preventing any exploitation of any website, service, property, product or other content owned or controlled by HAP; and that you will have no rights to enjoin or restrain the development, production, distribution, advertising, exhibition or exploitation of any website, property, product, service or other content owned or controlled by HAP.

You agree that HAP is not responsible for the actions, content, information or data of third parties, and you release the released parties from any claims and damages, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with any claim you have against such third parties.

You also agree to the use of your name, voice, performance, photograph, caption, 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, in perpetuity, by HAP 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.

Any failure by HAP to enforce any of these official rules will not constitute a waiver of such rules. If there is a conflict between any term of the official rules and any marketing or entry materials used in connection with the contest, the terms of the official rules will govern.

You represent and warrant that you have all necessary authority to (a) agree to the terms and conditions of these official rules and (b) perform fully any obligations you have under these terms and conditions..

 

8. Winners :

For name of all prize winners, please visit HAP’s webpage on August 11, 2025, at https://hap.org /back-to-school-contest.