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CAVA Custom Contest

Skill Contest Official Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. VOID OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY STATE LAW.

THIS CONTEST IS IN NO WAY SPONSORED, ENDORSED, ADMINISTERED AND/OR ASSOCIATED WITH TIKTOK.

  1. Eligibility: Contest is open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Employees, officers and directors of CAVA Group, Inc. and its parent, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, partners, suppliers and manufacturers or distributors of Contest materials, as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members (whether related or not) of each such employee, officer, and director are not eligible. You are not authorized to participate in the Contest if you are not located within the 50 United States (excluding Rhode Island) or the District of Columbia. Subject to and governed exclusively by the federal, state, and local laws and regulations applicable to the United States. Participation constitutes each entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to be bound by these Official Rules and decisions of the Contest judges, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Contest. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.

  2. Timing: The Contest begins on April 2, 2024, at 12:00:01 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends on April 21, 2024, at 11:59:59 p.m. ET (the “Contest Period”). Sponsor’s computer is the official time keeping device forth is Contest.

  3. How to Enter: To enter and participate in this Contest, individuals must have a public TikTok account. If you don’t already have a TikTok account, visit www.tiktok.com to create one for free. By doing so, you will be required to agree to the TikTok terms of service and privacy notice. If you do not agree to the aforementioned terms and notice, you will not be able to create a TikTok account or participate in the Contest. During the Contest Period, please read these Official Rules. Log in to your public TikTok account and then post your video entry featuring your actual go-to build-your-own bowl or a drawing or artistic rendering of your go-to build-your-own bowl along with a complete list of all of its ingredients and a description of why your bowl is unique. Your video entry must include the hashtag #cavacustomcontest, and you must tag CAVA on TikTok. By entering, you confirm your agreement to follow the Official Rules. CAVA is not responsible for incorrectly posted, late, lost, stolen, illegible, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, misdirected, technically corrupted, or garbled entries, which will be disqualified, or for errors in the printing of the offer, administration of the Contest, or the announcement of the prize(s), or for problems of any kind whether mechanical, human, or electronic. Entries will not be acknowledged or returned. Proof of entering information does not constitute proof of delivery or receipt. Failure to comply with these Official Rules, to complete all entry instructions, or abide by the Official Rules will result in disqualification.

  4. Entry Guidelines: Entries deemed to be inconsistent with these Official rules and the following Guidelines are subject to disqualification at the Sponsor’s sole discretion: 1. Entries must be the single work of original material created by the Contest entrant; 2. Entries must not infringe on the intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity and, by submitting an entry, you represent that you have the rights required to comply with these Official rules; 3. Entries must not have been submitted previously to any contest or exhibited or displayed publicly (beyond immediate family or circle of friends) for any purpose; 4. Entries must not include material that is sexually explicit, indecent, obscene, violent, hateful, defamatory, slanderous, libelous, invades the privacy or publicity rights of any person, offensive to any protected groups or that violates any laws or regulations; 5. Entries should not reveal any personal information about other individuals without the express permission of such individuals; 6. Any and all music, lyrics, verses, literary references must be the original works of the entrant, in the public domain or used only with the express permission of the artist or holder of the rights to such content or otherwise lawfully licensed or used; 7. No artwork should appear in any entry unless it is the original work of the entrant; 8. Entries may not infringe on the trademark or other intellectual property rights of any third party due to the unauthorized display or depiction of branding, logos, or trade dress; and 9. Entrant must not submit any entry, if selected to win the Contest, that cannot be assigned to Sponsor pursuant to the Publicity and Intellectual Property section below, and these Official Rules.

  5. Entry Limit: One (1) entry per person and per public TikTok account during the Contest Period. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same TikTok account. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different TikTok accounts, identities, registrations and logins, or any other similar methods will void that entrant's entries. Use of any automated system, device or program to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any entry, the authorized account holder of the TikTok account used to enter will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized account holder” of a TikTok account is defined as the one natural person assigned a TikTok account by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning TikTok accounts for the domain associated with the submitted handle. Potential winners may be required to provide proof of being the authorized account holder before being deemed a winner of the prize.

  6. Winner Determination, Notification and Verification: After the end date of the Contest Period, members of Sponsor’s Social Media Team as selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion will select twenty (20) aforementioned entries based on Video Originality (i.e., the video entry’s uniqueness compared to other entries and current social media trends). From such twenty (20) entries, Sponsor’s team of judges from its Culinary Team as selected by Sponsor in its sole discretion (the “Judges”) will select three winners (plus two back-up winners) based on the following judging criteria: 1. Culinary Uniqueness (30%) (i.e., based on the uniqueness of ingredient combinations from among CAVA’s menu as compared to other entries and current food trends); and 2. Deliciousness (30%) (i.e., based on the balance of flavors created by selected ingredients and their mouthwatering impact and “craveability” (i.e., the capacity to be craved) characteristics) (collectively, “Judging Criteria”). Based on the total score that the Judges assign to each of the twenty (20) selected entries, the five (5) entries with the highest scores will be selected as finalists. Using the same Judging Criteria as stated above, the Judges will select the three (3) entries from the five (5) finalists with the highest scores as potential winners. If there is a tie after the Judges apply the Judging Criteria, Sponsor will bring in a tie-breaking Judge in its sole discretion to apply the Judging Criteria to break the tie and determine the potential winner(s). Potential winners must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. Each potential winner will be notified via TikTok comment on their TikTok post and requested to follow CAVA on TikTok (if not already doing so) in order to receive a receive a direct message from CAVA with prize acceptance and verification details. If the potential winner cannot be contacted with a response back for any reason within twenty-four (24) hours of our first notification attempt, if the prize or prize notification is returned as undeliverable, if the potential winner rejects his/her prize or fails to complete prize verification, or in the event of any noncompliance with these Official Rules, then such prize may be deemed forfeited by Sponsor in its sole discretion and an alternate winner may be selected by Sponsor from one of the two (2) remaining finalists and/or initial twenty (20) entries selected as described above, as necessary to obtain three (3) verified winners. Each potential winner may be required to execute and return an affidavit of eligibility and release of liability, publicity release and/or service and performance agreement (“Release Documents”), except where prohibited by law. Failure to timely provide any Release Documents may result in disqualification of potential winner, forfeiture of prize, and selection of an alternate winner.

  7. Prizes: Three (3) verified winners will receive 5,000 CAVA Rewards Dollars applied to their CAVA Rewards accounts plus, at CAVA’s option, have their bowl displayed on the CAVA website, CAVA app, CAVA in-restaurant menu boards, and other places. Rewards Dollars may be applied to purchases at CAVA locations found at cava.com (excluding those at airports) and to online orders placed through cava.com. Winners must have or create a CAVA Rewards account at www.cava.com in order to receive the prize. Approximate retail value (“ARV”) is $5,000 per prize. The total ARV of all 3 prizes is $15,000. By entering into this Contest, each entrant agrees to allow CAVA to use their name or any other name that CAVA selects to describe their bowl. No cash equivalent prizes are allowed, and prizes are non-transferable and non-redeemable for cash. No substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor’s sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any listed prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Winner is solely responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use and shall provide a completed IRS Form 1099 and any other tax forms requested by Sponsor.

  8. PUBLICITY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: EXCEPT WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW, BY PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTEST, WINNER GRANTS TO SPONSOR AND ITS AGENTS THE RIGHT TO USE HIS/HER/THEIR NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS, PHOTOGRAPH, PORTRAIT, PICTURE, VOICE, OPINIONS, STATEMENTS AND/OR HOMETOWN, STATE, AND BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOR ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES IN ANY AND ALL MEDIA NOW KNOWN OR HEREAFTER DEVELOPED (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ON THE INTERNET OR VIA WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOL), WORLDWIDE (IN ANY PLACE), IN PERPETUITY, WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE OR CONSIDERATION. BY PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTEST, ENTRANTS IRREVOCABLY GRANT SPONSOR AND EACH OF ITS LICENSEES, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS, THE NON-EXCLUSIVE AND PERPETUAL, ROYALTY-FREE, NO COST LICENSE AND RIGHT TO USE AND OTHERWISE EXPLOIT THEIR VIDEO ENTRY AND SELECTED BOWL, AND ALL IMAGES, TEXT, AND MATERIALS INCLUDED OR DEPICTED THEREIN, IN WHOLE OR IN PART (COLLECTIVELY, THE “WORK PRODUCT”), IN ANY MANNER OR MEDIUM NOW OR HEREAFTER KNOWN OR DEVISED, THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE AND IN ANY AND ALL LANGUAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE RIGHT TO DISPLAY, REPRODUCE, RECREATE, RECORD, PERFORM, EXHIBIT, DISTRIBUTE, COPY, EDIT, CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD TO, SUBTRACT FROM, RE-TITLE, AND ADAPT THE SAME OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, TO COMBINE THE WORK PRODUCT WITH OTHER MATERIAL OR OTHERWISE USE AND EXPLOIT IT WITHOUT HAVING TO GIVE ANY COMPENSATION, REIMBURSEMENT, ROYALTIES, OR ATTRIBUTION TO ENTRANTS OR THIRD PARTIES, EXCEPT FOR THE AWARDING OF THE PRIZES TO THE VERIFIED WINNERS OF THE CONTEST. ENTRANTS AGREE THAT, DURING THE PERIOD OF THE CONTEST PERIOD, THEY NOT MAKE AND SHALL NOT PERMIT, ANY OTHER PUBLIC USE, DISPLAY, OR DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORK PRODUCT, AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN ALL RIGHTS TO IT WITHOUT ENCUMBRANCES SO THAT THE ENTRANT HAS THE RIGHT AND AUTHORITY TO ASSIGN ALL RIGHT, TITLE, AND INTEREST IN AND TO THE WORK PRODUCT, IF SELECTED AND VERIFIED AS A WINNER. IF SELECTED AND VERIFIED AS A WINNER, ENTRANTS HEREBY AUTOMATICALLY (WITH NO FURTHER ACTION REQUIRED BY EITHER PARTY) MAKE ASSIGNMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP OF THE WORK PRODUCT (INCLUDING, FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, THE NAMES, TRADEMARKS, RECIPES, TRADE DRESS, AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INCLUDED IN THE WORK PRODUCT AND ASSOCIATED THERETO) TO SPONSOR, WITHOUT COMPENSATION, REIMBURSEMENT, ROYALTIES, OR ATTRIBUTION OF ANY KIND. TO THE EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, THE WORK PRODUCT OF WINNERS SHALL BE “WORKS MADE FOR HIRE” OWNED BY SPONSOR UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. SPONSOR AND ITS LICENSEES, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE UNLIMITED DERIVATIVE WORKS FROM ENTRIES AND SELECTED BOWLS, TO ASSIGN OR TRANSFER ANY OR ALL OF SPONSOR’S GRANTED RIGHTS, AND SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO USE THE ENTRIES SUBMITTED AS PART OF THE CONTEST. BY PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTEST, ENTRANTS REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT (A) THEIR ENTRY IS AN ORIGINAL WORK, (B) THEIR ENTRY IS OWNED BY THEM AND THAT (C) THEY HAVE COMPLIED WITH THE OFFICIAL RULES WITH REGARD TO THE PROTECTION OF THE PRIVACY, PUBLICITY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF ANY AND ALL THIRD PARTIES (INCLUDING WITH RESPECT TO ANY MUSIC RIGHTS). ENTRANTS AGREE THAT UPON SPONSOR’S REQUEST THEY WILL PROVIDE PROOF OF THEIR RIGHT TO USE, DISPLAY, OR PUBLISH ANY AND ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR ENTRIES.

  9. RELEASE FROM LIABILITY: BY PARTICIPATING, ENTRANTS AND WINNERS AGREE TO RELEASE SPONSOR, TIKTOK, AND THEIR SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATED COMPANIES, SUCCESSORS, ASSIGNS, AGENTS, PARTNERS, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, SUPPLIERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND DISTRIBUTORS OF CONTEST MATERIALS OR OTHERWISE ASSISTING WITH THE CONTEST, AND EACH OF THE FOREGOING COMPANY’S OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, AND AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “RELEASED PARTIES”) FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS OR CAUSES OF ACTION, LOSSES, LIABILITIES, HARM, DAMAGES, INJURY, COSTS OR EXPENSES WHATSOEVER (COLLECTIVELY, “LIABILITIES”), ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH AN ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST AND ANY CONTEST-RELATED ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING RECEIPT OF ANY PRIZE IN THE CONTEST, AND FOR ANY OTHER CLAIMS INCLUDING CLAIMS BASED ON PUBLICITY RIGHTS, DEFAMATION OR INVASION OF PRIVACY DUE TO AN ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST.

  10. General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to cancel, terminate, suspend, extend, and/or modify the Contest, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures, virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, or any other factor beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Contest, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. In such event, Sponsor reserves the right to award the prize at random from the eligible entries received prior to and/or after (if appropriate) the action taken by Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or any Sponsor websites or to be acting or attempting to act in violation of these Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike, improper, or disruptive manner. Sponsor may prohibit an entrant from participating in the Contest or winning a prize if, in its sole discretion, it determines that said entrant is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, hacking, deception, or other unfair playing practices (including the use of automated quick entry programs) or intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrants or Sponsor representatives. Any attempt by any person to deliberately damage Sponsor’s Page or any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest may be a violation of law. Should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify such person and to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

  11. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: THE RELEASED PARTIES ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR: (A) ANY INCORRECT OR INACCURATE INFORMATION, WHETHER CAUSED BY ENTRANTS, PRINTING ERRORS OR BY ANY OF THE EQUIPMENT OR PROGRAMMING ASSOCIATED WITH OR UTILIZED IN THE CONTEST; (B) TECHNICAL FAILURES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION MALFUNCTIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, OR DISCONNECTIONS IN CELLULAR NETWORKS, PHONE LINES OR NETWORK HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE; (C) UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY INTERVENTION IN ANY PART OF THE ENTRY PROCESS OR THE CONTEST; (D) TECHNICAL OR HUMAN ERROR WHICH MAY OCCUR IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONTEST OR THE PROCESSING OF ENTRIES; (E) ANY INJURY OR DAMAGE TO PERSONS OR PROPERTY WHICH MAY BE CAUSED, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM AN ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST OR RECEIPT OR USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE, OR (F) ANY OTHER ACTS OR OMISSIONS TO ACTS THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF SPONSOR’S OR ANY RELEASED PARTIES’ CONTROL. IF FOR ANY REASON AN ENTRANT'S ENTRY IS CONFIRMED TO HAVE BEEN ERRONEOUSLY DELETED, LOST OR OTHERWISE DESTROYED OR CORRUPTED, ENTRANT’S SOLE REMEDY IS ANOTHER ENTRY IN THE CONTEST. NO MORE THAN THE STATED NUMBER OF PRIZES WILL BE AWARDED. IN THE EVENT THAT PRODUCTION, TECHNICAL, SEEDING, PROGRAMMING OR ANY OTHER REASON CAUSES MORE THAN THE STATED NUMBER OF PRIZES AS SET FORTH IN THESE OFFICIAL RULES TO BE AVAILABLE AND/OR CLAIMED, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO AWARD ONLY THE STATED NUMBER OF PRIZES BY A RANDOM DRAWING AMONG ALL LEGITIMATE, UNAWARDED, ELIGIBLE PRIZE CLAIMS.

  12. Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (a) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest or any prize awarded (including any issues concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of this provision and these Official Rules) shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively by final and binding arbitration conducted in accordance with the rules of AAA Consumer-Related Disputes Supplementary Procedure effective September 15, 2005 (as may be amended) and as modified by the agreement to arbitrate in this paragraph, and this this arbitration agreement is made pursuant to a transaction involving interstate commerce, and shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”); and (b) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Contest, but in no event attorneys’ fees or other costs; (c) entrant waives all rights to trial in any action or proceeding instituted in connection with these Official Rules, including without limitation the Contest; (d) any claims brought under this binding arbitration agreement shall be brought in the individual capacity of entrant and the binding arbitration provision herein shall not include consolidation or joinder of other claims or controversies involving any other entrants, or permit such claims or controversies to proceed as a class action, collective action, private attorney general action or any similar representative action, and no arbitrator shall have the authority to order any such class or representative action; and (e) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor and any other issues in connection with the Contest shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Delaware or any other jurisdiction).

  13. Use of Data: Personal information collected from entrants online will be handled in accordance with Sponsor’s Privacy Policy, posted at https://cava.com/privacy.

  14. Winner List: For winner information, available approximately one week after the end of the Contest Period, please send a self-addressed envelope to be received within thirty (60) days of the end date of the Contest to: CAVA, Attn: Marketing (Rules/Winner’s List/Guest Customs), 14 Ridge Square NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20016.

  15. Sponsor: CAVA Group, Inc., 14 Ridge Square NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20016.