Make your Free Declaration of Compliance and Release for Sweepstakes Rules

If you run a business, holding a sweepstakes can be a great way of increasing your visibility in the marketplace and attracting new customers. You can use a Declaration of Compliance and Release for Sweepstakes Rules to help ensure that the winning contestant of your sweepstakes complies with the rules you have set, so that you can limit your liability.

Use the Declaration of Compliance and Release for Sweepstakes Rules document if:

• You're in charge of a sweepstakes and you want the winner's assurance that they've played by the rules before you hand out the prize.
• The sweepstakes is over and you want the winner to give you permission to use their name, image or other information for promotional use.

In signing a Declaration of Compliance and Release for Sweepstakes Rules, the winner of the sweepstakes affirms that he or she has played by the rules, has been awarded the specified prize, agrees to pay any related state and/or federal taxes associated with the prize, and releases you, the operator of the sweepstakes, from liability with respect to the contestant's participation in the sweepstakes and the awarding and use of the prize. A Declaration of Compliance and Release for Sweepstakes Rules also grants you full use of the winner's name and photo, or moving image, for promotional purposes.

Other names for this document: Declaration of Compliance and Release for Competition Rules