LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — You possibly can win a $100 Visa present card by submitting a single picture of your baby or kids going again to highschool. When selecting a single picture, we propose that you simply keep away from together with recognizable areas, names (use solely the primary identify), or ages.
This contest runs via September 8, 2025, at 1 p.m. The winner might be chosen by a random draw of all of the entries. Bear in mind – you possibly can solely enter ONE picture.
Again to Faculty in Mid-Michigan
2025 Again to Faculty Photograph – VISA Giveaway
Official Guidelines
1. Sponsors. This sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by WLNS-TV (“Station”), 2820 East Saginaw Avenue, Lansing, Michigan 48912 (collectively, the “Sponsor(s)”).This Sweepstakes is void the place taxed, restricted, or prohibited and is topic to all native, state, and federal legal guidelines. By coming into this Sweepstakes, every entrant accepts and agrees to be certain by these Official Guidelines and the choices of the Sponsor(s), which shall be remaining and never topic to enchantment.
APPLE IS NOT INVOLVED IN ANY WAY IN THIS CONTEST/SWEEPSTAKES. THE SPONSOR(S) IS/ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING THE PRIZE(S) LISTED HEREIN. THE PRIZE(S) WON ARE NOT APPLE PRODUCTS, NOR ARE THEY RELATED TO APPLE IN ANY WAY. THE RESPONSIBIITY OF ORGANIZING THIS Sweepstakes AND DISTRIBUTING THE PRIZE(S) ARE THE SPONSORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES. APPLE DOES NOT SPONSOR THIS CONTEST/SWEEPSTAKES IN ANY WAY.
2. Eligibility. No buy essential to enter. The Sweepstakes is open to everlasting authorized U.S. residents who reside inside WLNS’s viewing space and who’re a minimum of 18 years of age on the time of entry. Present or former staff of WLNS, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries, Mission Broadcasting, Inc., the opposite Sponsors, the opposite tv and radio stations and multichannel video programming distributors in WLNS’s viewing space, their mum or dad corporations, subsidiaries, associates, promoting or promotional businesses (together with anybody who prepares and/or distributes Sweepstakes supplies), and the quick relations or individuals residing in the identical family (whether or not associated or not) of all of the foregoing are usually not eligible to take part or win. The time period “immediate family members” consists of spouses, grandparents, mother and father, siblings, kids and grandchildren.
Members are eligible to win a WLNS contest or sweepstakes solely as soon as (1) each sixty (60) days. Just one (1) winner per family is permitted in any contest or sweepstakes. Members are eligible to win a prize valued at $600.00 or extra solely as soon as (1) each six (6) months. Textual content, information, or messaging charges might apply.
3. Entry. This Sweepstakes will settle for entries starting on August 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET and ending on September 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET. To enter the Sweepstakes, entrants should go to www.WLNS.com/share to submit the entry type and picture. Entrants should embrace their identify, cellphone quantity, e-mail deal with and date of beginning to be able to enter. Incomplete entries is not going to be thought of. All entries have to be obtained by September 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM ET. One (1) entry per individual might be accepted.
Sponsor(s) is/are usually not accountable for technical or laptop, phone service outages, delays, gear malfunctions, busy alerts, hang-ups, errors or information lack of any variety, misplaced or unavailable connections, or late, misplaced, failed, illegible, incomplete, garbled or deleted entries, transmissions, or voicemails or different community or technological difficulties that will stop a person from finishing his/her phone name or on-line entry, or for printing errors in any commercial, entry type, or the principles.
An entrant might use just one (1) e mail deal with to submit entries throughout the Sweepstakes. If an entrant makes use of a number of e mail addresses to submit a couple of (1) entry per day, the entrant might be disqualified. For entries submitted on-line, entries might be deemed made by the licensed account holder of the e-mail deal with submitted on the time of entry. The licensed account holder is the pure one who is assigned to the e-mail deal with by an Web entry supplier, on-line service supplier, or different group that’s accountable for assigning the e-mail deal with or the area related to the submitted e-mail deal with. Any automated or computer-generated entries, pretend or duplicate identities, spam, or improper strategies (as decided by the Sponsor(s)) might be disqualified. Any questions relating to the validity, completeness, or variety of entries submitted by a person or the identification of the licensed account holder of an e-mail deal with, cellphone quantity, or social media profile shall be decided by Sponsor(s) in its/their sole discretion. The Sponsor(s) reserve(s) the suitable to disqualify any entrant who acts in a disruptive, harassing, vulgar, or unsportsmanlike method, as decided by the Sponsor(s) in its/their sole discretion.
Entry supplies which were tampered with or altered are void. If the Sponsor(s) decide(s), in its/their sole discretion, that there’s any suspected or precise tampering with the Sweepstakes (digital or in any other case) or if technical difficulties (e.g. an infection by laptop virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or every other causes past the management of Sponsor(s)) compromise the safety, equity, integrity or administration of the Sweepstakes, the Sponsor(s) reserve(s) the suitable to void the entries at problem and/or modify, droop, cancel or terminate the Sweepstakes and conduct a random drawing to award the prize amongst all eligible entries obtained as of the termination date. If the Sweepstakes is terminated resulting from tampering or technical difficulties previous to its expiration date, discover might be posted on-line at www.wlns.com. Sponsor(s) reserve(s) the suitable to disqualify any entrant that tampers with the operation of the Sweepstakes or web site or violates the Official Guidelines of the Sweepstakes. Entries not conforming to introduced entry specs is not going to be acknowledged or returned.
CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE PROMOTION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND/OR CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSORS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO PROSECUTE OR SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
By coming into this Sweepstakes on-line, contributors conform to www.wlns.com Phrases of Use and the Privateness Coverage situated at www.nexstar.television/privacy-policy. All entry info turns into the property of the Sponsor(s), and entrants grant the Station the suitable to distribute all of their entry info to the opposite Sponsor(s). By coming into, entrants grant the Sponsor(s) the suitable to broadcast and distribute their identify, picture, likeness, voice, entry supplies, and biographical info in any media in anyway, together with on the air on the Station and on www.wlns.com, for any goal in anyway, worldwide, in perpetuity, with none additional authorization from or compensation to the entrant. The Sponsors reserve the suitable to reject and disqualify any submissions that don’t meet the phrases and circumstances of those Sweepstakes guidelines.
4. Odds of Profitable. The percentages of successful rely upon the variety of eligible entries obtained.
5. Prize(s). There might be one (1) winner on this Sweepstakes.On September 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM ET, the winner might be randomly chosen from all eligible entries and notified that they received by e-mail.
The winner will obtain a $100 VISA present card. The approximate retail worth of the prize package deal is $100.00. Entrants can win solely as soon as.
The potential winner might be contacted by a consultant of the Sponsors, and should reply inside 5 days to keep up eligibility. If a possible winner can’t be contacted inside this time interval or fails to reply to any tried contact, such potential winner might be disqualified, his/her entry might be declared null and void and the Sponsors reserve the suitable, of their sole and absolute discretion, to decide on one other potential winner by the method referred to above.
All outcomes are unofficial till winner(s) is/are verified by the Sponsor(s). Prizes might not be exchanged, substituted, transferred or redeemed for different prizes by winner. Money is not going to be awarded as an alternative choice to prize. Prizes are awarded ‘as is’ with no ensures or warranties as to make use of, merchantability, or health for a selected goal, and the Sponsor(s) is/are usually not accountable for faulty prizes. Sponsor(s) reserve(s) the suitable to substitute a prize of their sole discretion with out an on-air or off-air announcement, by which case a prize of equal or higher worth might be awarded. Different phrases and circumstances might apply.
6. Circumstances for Acceptance of the Prize(s). The winner should declare the prize(s) in-person on the Station, situated at 2820 East Saginaw Avenue, Lansing, Michigan 48912, throughout common enterprise hours (Monday – Friday from 8:00 AM ET – 4:00 PM ET)). Prize(s) is not going to be mailed underneath any circumstances. The prize(s) have to be claimed by October 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM ET or it/they are going to be forfeited. Winner might be required to supply a legitimate authorities issued picture identification card and to execute an affidavit of eligibility and publicity and legal responsibility launch previous to receiving their prize(s). The Station might require the winner’s visitors, invitees, or journey companions to signal legal responsibility releases previous to receiving the prize. All unclaimed or rejected prizes might be forfeited. Failure by the winner(s) to reply to the Station’s messages, calls, e-mails or different notification will result in forfeiture of the prize(s). Failure to fully fill out and signal all waivers, releases, or types requested by the Station will lead to forfeiture of the prize(s). The Station then has the suitable, at its discretion, to award that prize to a different winner utilizing the tactic described above. A winner who forfeits any prize shouldn’t be eligible to win one other contest or sweepstakes carried out by the Station for thirty (30) days.
If this Sweepstakes is open to entrants underneath the age of 18, a winner is underneath the age of 18, a mum or dad or authorized guardian might be required to say the prize(s) and execute all releases on behalf of the minor. If a prize winner is a minor, that winner’s journey companion have to be his/her mum or dad or authorized guardian.
Fee of all federal, state and native taxes is the only real duty of the winner(s) and the winner(s) might obtain an IRS 1099 Type or equal from the Sponsor(s). The Sponsor(s) will report any particular person winnings over $600 (in money or truthful market worth of products or providers) in a one yr interval to the Inside Income Service. Winner(s) is/are required to fill out any tax types requested by the Sponsor(s) to be able to obtain their prize(s).
Winner(s) might be solely accountable for any and all license and registration charges, lodging, transportation prices, gratuities and all different objects of an incidental nature. All bills on receipt and use of prize(s) are the only real duty of the winner(s), the Sponsor(s) is/are usually not accountable for any climate modifications or extenuating circumstances referring to a prize obtained. The Sponsor(s) is/are usually not accountable for changing or reimbursing winners with any type of compensation for occasions which are delayed or canceled. All delays and cancellations are deemed past the management of the Sponsor(s). This consists of, however shouldn’t be restricted to, occasion cancellations, journey schedule modifications, flight cancellations, modifications in journey preparations, journey delays of any type and length, recreation cancellations and delays, in addition to all acts of nature. The Sponsor(s) is/are usually not accountable for any bills incurred by Sweepstakes winners because of such delays or cancellations. Sponsor(s) is not going to be accountable for failure to provide the prize(s) by cause of any drive majeure occasions, corresponding to acts of God, conflict, terrorist assaults, unusually extreme climate, labor strikes, or different causes past the management of the Sponsor(s).
By accepting the prize, the winner or winners (or, within the case of a minor, their mum or dad/authorized guardian) conform to have their identify, voice, likeness, biographical info, and entry supplies utilized in any promoting or broadcasting materials referring to this Sweepstakes, and in any media in anyway, together with the Station and on www.wlns.com, for any goal in anyway, worldwide, in perpetuity, with none additional authorization or compensation to the winner(s).
7. Social Media. For contests or sweepstakes carried out or promoted on Fb, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, iHeartRadio, or every other social media web site (every a “Social Media Site” and collectively the “Social Media Sites”), the Sponsors reserve the suitable to void any entrant’s entry within the Sweepstakes for failure to abide by the rules, insurance policies, or procedures of the relevant Social Media Web site, and to delete or take away any of entrant’s associated “Likes,” feedback, posts, tweets, movies, photographs, person generated content material, or different digital messages, communications, or submissions at their discretion. The Sponsors additionally reserve the suitable to dam, ignore, report, and/or fully stop any entrant, account, person, or profile from accessing the Sweepstakes and/or the Sponsors’ profile(s), account(s), web site(s), weblog(s) or deal with(s). This Sweepstakes is by no means sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or related to the Social Media Websites. By coming into this Sweepstakes, entrants conform to launch and maintain the Social Media Websites innocent from all or any claims, legal responsibility, damages, judgments, fines, prices, bills associated to or related to their participation on this Sweepstakes. Entrants perceive that by logging-in to the relevant Social Media Web site, that they comply with adjust to the Social Media Web site’s Phrases of Service, and that their private info is topic to the Privateness Insurance policies and knowledge assortment practices of the Social Media Web site. Entrants agree that the Sponsors are usually not accountable for the gathering, disclosure, switch, or dissemination of their private info, whether or not immediately or not directly, by third celebration advertisers, entrepreneurs, or every other transferees. For entries submitted via the Social Media Websites, the Sponsors could also be restricted to utilizing the knowledge in a way set forth by the Social Media Websites and in no different approach.
8. Limitation on Legal responsibility. Sponsor(s) disclaim(s) all liabilities to the winner(s) with respect to receipt and use of the prize(s). Winners and their visitors or journey companions, by acceptance of their prize(s), conform to launch and maintain the Sponsor(s) and its/their affiliated corporations, their promoting, promotion and manufacturing businesses, and their respective mum or dad corporations, subsidiaries, associates, officers, shareholders, administrators, staff, brokers and representatives innocent from any and all legal responsibility, claims, causes of actions, damages, fines, and prices of any variety in anyway (together with affordable legal professional’s charges) which can be sustained immediately or not directly to individuals or property in reference to the receipt, possession or use of the prize or whereas getting ready for, taking part in, and/or touring to any Sweepstakes or prize-related exercise.
9. Reservation of Rights. Sponsor(s) reserve(s) the suitable to make modifications to those Official Guidelines of their sole discretion which is able to turn out to be efficient upon announcement. Sponsor(s) reserve(s) the suitable to cancel or terminate this Sweepstakes for any cause within the occasion that it can’t be run or administered as meant by the Sponsor(s). Any such modifications or termination might be introduced on www.wlns.com.
10. Contact Info. For questions or extra details about this Sweepstakes, please contact WLNS-TV at 2820 East Saginaw Avenue, Lansing, Michigan 48912. For a replica of those guidelines, addendum, and/or checklist of winners, please go to www.wlns.com or ship a self-addressed stamped envelope to WLNS-TV, 2820 East Saginaw Avenue, Lansing, Michigan 48912 inside sixty (60) days of the tip of this Sweepstakes.
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