1. Eligibility: Employees of Lincoln Electric Holdings, its subsidiaries, retailers, distributors, and members of their immediate families (parent, child, sibling, spouse and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside) and households, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter or win. This Sweepstakes contest is only open to legal US residents. Grand Prize winner and guest must be at least 18 years of age.
2. Contest Period: July 16, 2018 through July, 22 2018.
3. How to Enter: Comment the Facebook post answering the prompt, “Tell us why you #weldred.”
4. Grand Prize
• Up to four (4) general admission tickets to Toyota NHRA Sonoma Nationals for July 29, 2018.
• Private tour of behind the scenes with your favorite team.
• Starting line access for a limited amount of time
• Prize pack including a cooler, tumbler, and t-shirt
• One (1) general parking pass
• Ride around the grounds in the Lincoln Electric golf cart
5. Winner Selection: Two eligible users will be selected on July 23, 2018. A direct message will be sent to the account holders with eligibility confirmation instructions.
6. Except where prohibited, participation in the Promotion constitutes winners consent to Sponsor’s and its agents’ use of winner’s name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions, hometown and state, and/or uploaded photo or slide show for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.
7. No transfer, cash equivalent or Prize substitution is allowed, except at the sole discretion of Lincoln Electric (Sponsor). The Sponsor may require winner(s) to sign an affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release (as more fully discussed below). Decisions made by the Sponsor are final in all matters, including interpretation of these official rules and awarding of the Prize(s). If legitimately claimed, the Prize(s) will be awarded. In no event will more than the stated number of Prizes be awarded. All expenses not specified herein; including, without limitation, all federal, state and local taxes are each winner’s sole responsibility.
8. All entrants, as a condition of entry, agree to be bound by these official rules and the decisions of the Sponsor. Except where prohibited by law, by entering a Sweepstakes, each entrant consents to the use of his/her name, voice, picture, likeness and biographical data and/or any other information contained in his/her entry in advertising, promotional and marketing materials produced by the Sponsor and Sponsor Affiliates without additional compensation. In addition, by entering, all entrants, except where prohibited by law, consent to being photographed, filmed, taped and/or interviewed about their participation in the Sweepstakes. In connection therewith, all entrants grant full permission and consent to the Sponsor and the Sponsor Affiliates to utilize any of the results of such photographing, filming, taping and/or interviewing in any and all media now known or hereafter devised and hereby release Sponsor and the Sponsor Affiliates from all related liability.
9. If this Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned, including, because of any infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failure or other cause beyond Sponsor’s control which corrupts or threatens to corrupt or adversely affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Sweepstakes, Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, suspend and/or modify this Sweepstakes and Sponsor can perform the random drawing from among all eligible entries received prior to such cancellation, suspension or modification of the Sweepstakes.
10. Winner, by acceptance of any Prize, agrees to release Sponsor and the Sponsor Affiliates from any and all liability, claims or actions of any kind whatsoever for injuries, damages or losses to persons and property which may be sustained in connection with the receipt, ownership or use of any Prize or while traveling to and from a location to obtain or use any Prize. Further, no responsibilities are accepted for any additional expenses, omissions, delays, re-routing, or acts of any government or authority. Neither Sponsor nor the Sponsor Affiliates make any warranty, representation, or guarantee, express or implied, in fact or in law, relative to the use of any Prize including, without limitation, quality, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.
11. Neither Sponsor nor the Sponsor Affiliates are responsible for technical, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind caused by Sponsor or the Sponsor Affiliates, the user or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this Sweepstakes or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the entries in this Sweepstakes and which may limit a participant's ability to participate in this Sweepstakes. Entries that are incomplete, illegible or corrupted are void and will not be accepted. Any person who supplies false information, enters by fraudulent means, or is otherwise determined to be in violation of these official rules in an attempt to obtain any Prize will forfeit the Prize won and may be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Submission of an entry is acknowledgment of and agreement to be bound by all terms and conditions of these official rules.
12. Questions can be submitted via the Lincoln Electric Facebook inbox.