Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. You must be at least 18 years of age and a legal resident of the United States, residing in the United States, to participate in voting for the Essence Ventures LLC’s (“Essence”) ESSIES’ Choice Award™ presented by Diet Coke® (“Award”).
SPONSOR: the Coca-Cola Company and its Diet Coke® brand (“Brand”) (collectively, “Sponsor”)
VOTING PERIOD: February 11, 2025, 9:00AM EST to February 25, 2025, 11:59 EST. All votes must be received by February 25, 2025 at 11:59 pm ET (“Voting Period”).
HOW TO VOTE: To cast your vote, go to http://essence.com/blackwomeninhollywood or open the Essence mobile application and follow the written instructions on how to submit your vote. The information consumers provide will only be used for participation in determining the winner of the “2025 ESSIES’ Choice Award™ presented by Diet Coke®” for any future communications, should you opt in. By submitting a vote, you agree to the Essence Website Terms of Use, available in-app and online at https://www.essence.com/terms-of-use/.
Limit one entry per hour per person. Each vote is tied to a person’s One.ID profiles used to access the Essence website or Essence mobile app. If Essence believes you have created duplicate One.ID profiles, Essence may suspend your accounts, disqualify your votes, and pursue any and all remedies available at law and equity.
Nominees are determined by Essence in its sole discretion prior to Voting Period.
AWARDING: The winner(s) will be selected by the majority of votes cast after the conclusion of the Voting Period. Essence will tabulate all completed and submitted votes received. The selection of the winner of the Award will be final and may not be contested.
Essence and Sponsorare not in any way liable for damage, loss or injury resulting from computer malfunctions, misdirected or incomplete votes. Essence reserves the right in its sole discretion, to cancel or suspend voting should virus, bugs or other causes beyond the control of Sponsor corrupt the administration, security or proper voting of the ESSIES’ Choice Award recipient. Essencereserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the voting process, and to cancel, terminate or suspend the Award voting. Essence and Sponsorassume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, vote submissions.
CAUTION: Any attempt by an entrant to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the voting is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Essence reserves the right to seek damages from any such attempt. Essence reserves the right to seek damages from any such entrant to the fullest extent of the law.
BY VOTING FOR THE AWARD, YOU: (A) AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE OFFICIAL RULES AND BY THE INTERPRETATIONS OF THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY SPONSOR/ESSENCE AND BY THE DECISIONS OF SPONSOR/ESSENCE; (B) ACKNOWLEDGE COMPLIANCE WITH THESE OFFICIAL RULES; (C) REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU MEET ALL THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA SET FORTH IN THESE OFFICIAL RULES; (D) AGREE TO COMPLY WITH ANY AND ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS;AND (E) AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS ESSENCE AND SPONSOR FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING IN ANY WAY TO ENTRANT’S VOTING AND TO RELEASE ALL RIGHTS TO BRING ANY CLAIM, ACTION OR PROCEEDING AGAINST ESSENCE AND SPONSOR. THIS INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, DAMAGES AND CAUSES OF ACTION FOR PERSONAL INJURIES OR DEATH AND/OR DAMAGE TO PERSONAL OR REAL PROPERTY, THEFT, LOSS OR ANY OTHER HARM, SUFFERED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM SUBMISSION OF YOUR VOTE, AND FOR ANY CLAIM INCLUDING CLAIMS BASED ON DEFAMATION, PUBLICITY RIGHTS, INVASION OF PRIVACY, COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT, OR ANY OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
PRIVACY: By submitting your vote, you consent to the use by Essence and Sponsorfor marketing, promotional and advertising purposes in connection with this promotion, and general use, of the personal data you submit with your vote, without further compensation. Except as otherwise contemplated in these Official Rules, your contact information and any other information submitted by you, or collected by Essence, in connection with this sweepstakes will be used in accordance with the Essence privacy policy (https://www.essence.com/privacy-policy). All data you provide to Sponsor is governed by Sponsor’s privacy policy https://www.coca-cola.com/us/en/legal/privacy-policy).
WINNERS LIST: For the name of the Award winner, please tune into the ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood Award Show on YouTube or check out http://essence.com/blackwomeninhollywood February 27, 2025.
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