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Facebook Raffle Rules Template: A Step-by-Step Guide
Facebook raffles are one of the best ways to generate traffic, engagement, Likes and new subscribers online. But the rules and regulations for running them can be tough to understand. And Facebook doesn’t make it any easier by making their own policy and platform changes all the time.
In this guide, I’ll shows you a complete overview for creating the official rules and regulations for your Facebook raffle:
Facebook’s Promotions Guidelines (and what they mean)
Best practices for Facebook Raffle rules
A fill-in-the-blank Facebook Raffle Rules template
Disclaimer: The following is just an overview of some of the rules and guidelines for Facebook giveaways. This is not legal advice. Please obtain legal guidance from an experienced attorney before publishing your Facebook giveaway rules and regulations.
This is only a brief overview and template of a Facebook raffle rules documents. It is not legal advice. You need to have an experienced attorney sign-off on any Facebook raffle rules you create.
Let’s get started.
Best Practices for Facebook Raffle Rules & Regulations
Let’s start with a quick briefing on the best practices for running a legal Facebook raffle:
Where you can/cannot run a Facebook raffle:
You can run a raffle on your Page’s Timeline, in a Facebook Page Tab and on a Facebook App page. But, You aren’t allowed to run a raffle on your personal Profile Timeline.
What your Facebook Raffle Must Include:
Your official Facebook Raffle Rules (or a link to it)
Which people are eligible to enter your raffle (based on their age, location, etc.)
A disclaimer that your raffle isn’t sponsored by or associated with Facebook itself
Legal Facebook Raffle Entry Methods:
You can ask people to do each of these actions to enter your Facebook raffle:
Like a Post
Comment on a Post
Post on a Page
Message a Page
Submit personal information in an entry form
Submit a photo, video or text content
Vote in a competition
Illegal Facebook Raffle Entry Methods:
You can’t ask people to do any of these things to enter your Facebook raffle:
Share a Page
Tag themselves in a photo that they aren’t in
Post on their own Timeline
Share on a friend’s Timeline
Like-Gating:
Like-gating is a tactic in which you force a person to Like your Facebook Page before they can enter your raffle.
Facebook used to allow you to do this with a Facebook Contest App like Wishpond. But, unfortunately, they don’t anymore.
How to Contact Raffle Winners:
Facebook was once very strict about how you could contact winners of your Facebook raffles. They didn’t want you using methods like Facebook posts and messages, as they thought it would lead to spamming. But they’ve since lifted those restrictions.
Here are a few methods you can use to contact your Facebook raffle winners:
Email (recommended)
Facebook message
Tweet
Comment on a Post on your Page’s Timeline
Facebook message
Facebook Post on your Page’s Timeline.
Email is recommended as it’s the most reliable way we’ve found to reach someone.
Click here to check out more ways to announce raffle winners.
Facebook Page Guidelines for Promotions (explained)
Facebook has strict guidelines of their own for running any kind of promotion, raffle or contest on Facebook. As of now, Facebook doesn’t allow you to run a raffle on a personal profile/timeline, so you need to do it through your Facebook Page.
If you want to change a personal Profile to a Facebook Page you can do it really easily here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/create/migrate. It allows you to keep all of your friends (they will be converted to Likes) and keep your profile and cover photos, but it won’t transfer your posts to the new page.
Let’s look at Facebook’s Page Promotion Guidelines (Date of Last Revision: December 27, 2016) as quoted directly from their Facebook Page Terms:
What You Need to Know:
Here’s what Facebook is saying of these guidelines:
You and your raffle participants cannot sue Facebook or hold them liable if anything goes wrong with your raffle. They are not liable if something goes changes in the Facebook Platform that causes your raffle any disruption. It also means that a raffle entrant can’t hold Facebook accountable if a business run a fraudulent giveaway.
Your Facebook raffle rules must be accessible from the raffle entry page. Generally Facebook raffle rules are very extensive, so you will need to have a link on the raffle entry page that takes entrants to a separate page to read them.
In your Facebook raffle rules, your must specify who exactly is eligible to enter the raffle, based on their age (such as 21+) and location (such as U.S. and Canada)
You must follow all raffle/lottery laws of your country/state/province. Remember, just because you’re on the internet doesn’t mean you are outside of law enforcement’s jurisdiction
You must acknowledge on the raffle entry page that the raffle is not sponsored, endorsed or associated with Facebook. Most Facebook sweepstakes raffle apps, like Wishpond’s, include this by default on the raffle page, like this:
Raffle must be hosted in a Facebook Page Tab or Timeline. It can’t be hosted on a personal Profile
You can’t use the following actions as raffle entry methods:
Share on an entrant’s timeline
Share on a friend’s timeline
Tag yourself (or your friend) in a photo that you’re not in
Facebook won’t help with your raffle. Even if they make an update that disrupts your raffle they won’t help you.
There are also a few Facebook Page Guidelines (outside of the Promotions section) that pertain to Facebook raffles. Here’s an overview of the one’s you need to comply with:
Collection of Data:
What you need to know:
If you ask people to enter their contact details, such as email, phone, etc. or any images, videos or text, you need to make it clear on your raffle page that you are collecting it, and not Facebook. To comply with this rule, you need to use your own branding, company name and imagery on the raffle page and not say, in ay way, that Facebook is a part of it.
This isn’t something you need to worry about, unless you’re trying to trick people into thinking you’re Facebook.
If you ask people to submit any personal details, video, photos or text content, you must get their permission to reuse it in the future. This is applicable if, for example, you want to create a banner ad showing off pictures of people who entered your raffle.
The simplest method to ask people for their permission is to include an opt-in checkbox on your raffle’s entry form that allows them to choose to give you their permission.
Tagging:
What you need to know:
In a nutshell, this says that you can’t ask raffle entrants to tag themselves (or their friends) in a photo that they are not present in. This provision is in place to stop people from spamming their friends Newsfeeds with erroneous content.
Facebook Raffle Rules Template
We’ve created an easy fill-in-the-blank template to help you create your Facebook Raffle rules. Keep in mind that this is just a guide, and you need to use a lawyer to make sure your rules comply with all applicable laws.
This template is based off of a number of past Facebook raffles done by large companies and small ones – generally in North America. There may also be local regulations that this template does not discuss, but it’s a good place to begin.
Wrapping it Up
Hopefully this article has given you a good foundation for your raffle’s rules and regulations. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out in the comment section below.
Related Reading:
The 2017 Guide to Instagram Contest Rules
Social Media Marketing Plan: An 11-Step Template
4 Amazing Facebook Giveaway Examples
Facebook Landing Pages: 38 Ideas, Tips and Examples
5 Facebook Landing Page Template Examples Critiqued
10 Terrific Instagram Tools for Business
5 Awesome Ideas for Giveaways on Facebook
5 Sure-Fire Facebook Contest Ideas
10 Amazing Examples of Branded Facebook Contests Done Right
Written by James Scherer
James Scherer is the content editor at Wishpond. When he’s not writing or designing for Wishpond he’s risking his life biking around the city. Reach out to him on Twitter @JDScherer.
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Drug-filled Mice Airdropped Over Guam to Kill Snakes
Dead mice filled with a generic version of Tylenol are being airdropped to kill the invasive brown tree snake, U.S. officials say.
BY KER THAN
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
A brown tree snake in Queensland, Australia (file photo).
PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE GRALL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Dead mice packed with drugs were recently airdropped into Guam’s dense jungle canopy—part of a new effort to kill an invasive species of snake on the U.S. Pacific island territory.
In the U.S. government-funded project, tablets of concentrated acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, are placed in dead thumb-size mice, which are then used as bait for brown tree snakes.
In humans, acetaminophen helps soothe aches, pains, and fevers. But when ingested by brown tree snakes, the drug disrupts the oxygen-carrying ability of the snakes’ hemoglobin blood proteins.
"They go into a coma, and then death," said Peter Savarie, a researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Wildlife Services, which has been developing the technique since 1995 through grants from the U.S. Departments of Defense and Interior.
Only about 80 milligrams of acetaminophen—equal to a child’s dose of Tylenol—are needed to kill an adult brown tree snake. Once ingested via a dead mouse, it typically takes about 60 hours for the drug to kill a snake.
"There are very few snakes that will consume something that they haven’t killed themselves," added Dan Vice, assistant state director of USDA Wildlife Services in Hawaii, Guam, and the Pacific Islands.
But brown tree snakes will scavenge as well as hunt, he said, and that’s the "chink in the brown tree snake’s armor."
Snakes Pests Decimated "Naïve" Wildlife
The brown tree snake is an arboreal species native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and several Pacific islands. The snake preys on birds, lizards, bats, and small mammals.
Inadvertently introduced to Guam (map) from the Solomon Islands after World War II, brown tree snakes are responsible for the extinction or severe reduction of several of the island’s native species.
The brown tree snake "is a nocturnal, arboreal predator. There’s just nothing like it here. It arrived here and found an island full of very naïve native wildlife," Vice said. (See "Snake Plague on Guam Impacts Trees.")
Over the years, scientists have developed several strategies to fight the reptile pest, including traps, snake-detecting dogs, and nighttime spotlight searches along airport and seaport fence lines.
Most of these strategies have focused on keeping the snake species from leaving Guam and sneaking onto ships headed for other islands, such as Hawaii, where scientists fear the predators could wreak similar havoc.
(See "Alien Giant Snakes Threaten to Invade Up to 1/3 of U.S.")
By contrast, this latest approach aims to take the fight into Guam’s jungles, where most of the invasive snakes reside.
A popular misconception about Guam, Vice said, is that the entire island is overrun by brown tree snakes. In reality, most of the snakes are concentrated in the island’s jungles, where it is difficult for humans to reach.
"You don’t walk out the front door and bump into a snake every morning," Vice said.
Radio-tagged Bait to Help Track Effectiveness
Before the laced mice are airdropped, they are attached to "flotation devices" that each consist of two pieces of cardboard joined by a 4-foot-long (1.2-meter-long) paper streamer.
The flotation device was designed to get the bait stuck in upper tree branches, where the brown tree snakes reside, instead of falling to the jungle floor, where the drug-laden mice might inadvertently get eaten by nontarget species, such as monitor lizards.
There are few other species on Guam that could be tempted by the mouse bait, USDA’s Savarie said, because the brown tree snakes have eaten most of them.
(Related: "World’s Biggest Snake Ate New Prehistoric Croc Species.")
On September 1 USDA researchers performed a small-scale airdrop of about 200 baited mice onto 20 acres (8 hectares) of jungle around the U.S. Naval Base in Guam. USDA personnel flying low over Guam’s jungles in helicopters dropped the baited devices one at a time, to ensure even coverage.
The drop was only the second in the project’s history, and was done to help refine the technique before a larger field test is conducted in late 2010 or early 2011.
A small subset of mice in the latest drop was equipped with radio transmitters, which the team will use to determine the baits’ efficiency.
"If we go out tomorrow and the radio signal from the bait has moved, it’s very likely that [it was eaten by] a snake," Savarie said.
Wildlife Services collects the bodies of only the snakes that eat the mice that have radiocollars.
"We would not find other snakes that would eat the bait," said Kathy Fagerstone, Technology Transfer Program Manager for USDA Wildlife Services.
"However, the amount of acetaminophen in each mouse is small and would not present environmental hazards."
(Also see: "USDA Fights Invasive Fire Ants With Flies.")
Tree Snakes Have a Chink in Their Armor
The baited mice could prove to be an effective tool against Guam’s brown tree snakes, especially medium- and large-size adults, said Haldre Rogers, a biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who researches the effects of bird loss on Guam’s native forests.
"The development of more tools like this is very important for restoring Guam’s forests in the long run," said Rogers, who was not involved in the USDA project.
But all the tools currently at scientists’ disposal, including the drug-filled mice, will at best simply control the island’s snake population, not eradicate it entirely, she said.
"It’s another arrow in our quiver," she said. "Unfortunately, we don’t have the silver bullet for brown tree snakes yet."
USDA’s Vice agreed: "There are a lot of things out there to control brown tree snakes. They all work, but they don’t work completely," he said. "The idea of this aerial delivery of oral toxicants is that we now have a control tool that we can apply across a larger landscape."
(Related: "Are Birds Best Hope for Pest-Ridden Coffee Crops?")
Longer term, USDA researchers hope to create a nonbiological substitute for dead mice in the bait, something that the snakes will eat but that won’t rot or attract flies, ants, and maggots in the jungle.
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Boat Registration Overview Northern Mariana Islands registers all non-exempt boats operating within their jurisdiction. These are administered by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Saipan.
There are approximately 402 boats registered in the Northern Mariana Islands. This accounts for 0.003% of all nationwide registrations.
Marking Requirements Boat registration numbers in the Northern Mariana Islands begin with a "CM" designation which is followed by four numbers and then two letters. These must be displayed on all non-documented boats along with registration sticker tabs.
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