Participate in Surveys and Win an Amazon Gift Card!
Your opinions are valuable! Take surveys on various topics and gain a chance to win a $250 Amazon gift card. Each completed survey gives you another entry into the drawing.
Here are some survey categories currently available:
- Home Security Services, Cameras, and Locks
- Gaming Systems and Gear
- VPNs and Secure Browsers
- Antivirus and Security Suites
- Photo and Video Editing Software and Apps
- Tech Retailers (Rate them!)
- Robot Vacuums and Mops
Official Sweepstakes Rules
No purchase is necessary to enter or win. Making a purchase will not increase your chances of winning. This sweepstakes is void where prohibited.
Sweepstakes Period
The sweepstakes begins on May 15, 2025, at 12:00 AM ET and ends on August 10, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET. Entries submitted outside of this period will not be considered.
Sponsor
The sweepstakes is sponsored by Ziff Davis, LLC, located at 360 Park Ave South, Floor 17, New York, NY 10010.
Eligibility
- Participants must be eighteen (18) years of age or older at the time of entry.
- Participants must be legal residents of the fifty (50) United States of America or the District of Columbia.
- Previous winners of any sweepstakes sponsored by the Sponsor during the nine (9) month period prior to the Selection Date are not eligible to enter.
- Employees (including employees, consultants, independent contractors, and interns) who have, within the past six (6) months, held employment with or performed services for Sponsor or any organizations affiliated with the sponsorship, fulfillment, administration, prize support, advertisement, or promotion of the Sweepstakes are not eligible to enter or win.
- Immediate Family Members (parents, step-parents, legal guardians, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, or spouses of an Employee) and Household Members (individuals who share the same residence with an Employee at least three (3) months a year) are also not eligible to enter or win.
How to Enter
There are two methods of entry: online survey and mail-in entry. Only one (1) entry per person is permitted, regardless of the entry method used. Subsequent attempts to submit multiple entries may result in disqualification.
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Online Survey Entry
- Visit the survey page during the Sweepstakes Period.
- Complete the survey.
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Mail Entry
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On a 3″ x 5″ card, print your first and last name, street address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and email address.
- Mail your completed entry to:
Readers’ Choice Sweepstakes – Security 2025
c/o E. Griffith
624 Elm St. Ext.
Ithaca, NY 14850-8786
* Mail entries must be postmarked by August 11, 2025, and received by August 19, 2025.
Entry Details
- Only contributions submitted during the Sweepstakes Period will be eligible.
- No other methods of entry will be accepted.
- All entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned.
- Entries are limited to individuals only; commercial enterprises and business entities are not eligible.
- Use of a false account will disqualify an entry.
- The Sponsor is not responsible for entries not received due to difficulty accessing the internet, service outage or delays, computer difficulties, and other technological problems.
- Multiple participants are not permitted to share the same email address.
- Entries will be disqualified if found to be incomplete.
- Entries that are late, lost, stolen, mutilated, tampered with, illegible, incomplete, mechanically reproduced, inaccurate, postage-due, forged, irregular in any way, or otherwise not in compliance with these Official Rules will be disqualified.
Winner Selection and Notification
- The winner will be selected on or about August 25, 2025.
- The winner will be notified via email to the contact information provided in the entry.
- The selected winner will be required to respond (as directed) to the notification within seven (7) days of attempted notification.
- The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
- The Sponsor reserves the right to choose an alternative winner if a possible winner has been disqualified or is deemed ineligible for any reason.
Prize
- One (1) winner will receive a $250 Amazon.com gift code via email.
- No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded.
- No cash or prize substitution is permitted, except at the discretion of the Sponsor.
- The Prize is non-transferable.
- If the Prize cannot be awarded due to circumstances beyond the control of Sponsor, a substitute Prize of equal or greater retail value will be awarded.
Acceptance and Delivery of the Prize
- The Winner will be required to verify his or her address and may be required to execute and return Prize Claim Documents within seven (7) days of receipt of such documents.
- The Prize will not be awarded until all such properly executed and notarized Prize Claim Documents are returned to Sponsor.
- The Prize will be shipped to the Winner within 7 days of Sponsor’s receipt of a signed Affidavit and Release from the Winner.
- The Winner is responsible for all taxes and fees related to the Prize received, if any.
Other Rules
- This sweepstakes is subject to all applicable laws and is void where prohibited.
- All submissions become the sole property of the sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned.
- Winner assumes all liability for any injuries or damage caused or claimed to be caused by participation in this sweepstakes or by the use or misuse of any prize.
- By entering the sweepstakes, each winner grants the Sponsor permission to use his or her name, city, state/province, e-mail address and, to the extent submitted as part of the sweepstakes entry, his or her photograph, voice, and/or likeness for advertising, publicity or other purposes.
Disclaimer
The prize is provided to the winner on an “as is” basis, without further warranty of any kind.
Limitation of Liability
By entering the sweepstakes, entrants release and hold the Sponsor harmless from any and all claims, actions, injury, loss, damages, liabilities, and obligations of any kind whatsoever.
Disputes
As a condition of participating in the Sweepstakes, entrant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between entrant and Sponsor shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court of competent jurisdiction located in New York, New York.
Privacy
Information collected from entrants in connection with the Sweepstakes is subject to the Sponsor’s privacy policy.
Social Media
This Sweepstakes is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or in association with Twitter, Facebook, and/or other social media platforms.
Winner’s List
For a list of name(s) of prizewinner(s), after the Selection Date, please send a stamped, self-addressed No. 10/standard business envelope to Ziff Davis, LLC, Attn: Legal Department, 360 Park Ave South, Floor 17, New York, NY 10010 (VT residents may omit return postage).
By entering, you agree that you have read and agree to all of these sweepstakes rules.
