The Rules
Bloom The 420 Hookup Sweepstakes
Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. MAKING A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
1. Agreement & Overview
Please read these official rules (the “Official Rules”) carefully. They contain important information about your rights and obligations, as well as limitations and exclusions that may apply to you if you enter the 420 Hookup Sweepstakes (the “Sweepstakes”) sponsored by Hollander Management Group, LLC, d/b/a Bloom (the “Sponsor or “Bloom”). To participate in the Sweepstakes, you must be twenty-one (21) years of age or older and a legal resident of the State of Maryland at the time of entry.
By participating in the Sweepstakes, you signify your agreement to these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and RAVEN5 Ltd. (the “Administrator”). If you do not agree to the Official Rules, you may not enter the Sweepstakes.
2. Eligibility
The Sweepstakes is open only to legal residents of the State of Maryland, age twenty-one (21) or older at the time of entry (“participant”, “entrant”, or “you”).
Employees, officers, directors, agents, or representatives, of the Sponsor, Administrator, their respective parent companies and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers of prizes, advertising and promotion agencies involved in the administration, development, fulfillment, and execution of this Sweepstakes (collectively, the “Sweepstakes Parties”), and the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) of, and/or those living in the same household of each, are not eligible to enter.
The Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, territorial, municipal and local laws and regulations. If it is found that a person who does not meet the eligibility criteria set forth in these rules has submitted an entry, that entry will be deemed ineligible. Sponsor reserves the right to verify eligibility requirements. Void outside the State of Maryland and where prohibited by law.
3. Sweepstakes Period
The Sweepstakes begins at 12:00:01 AM Eastern Time (“ET”) on March 20, 2025 and ends at 11:59:59 PM ET on April 20, 2025 (the “Sweepstakes Period”). Sponsor’s database clock will be the official timekeeper for this Sweepstakes.
4. How to Enter
To enter the Sweepstakes, you must opt-in to the sweepstakes at any point during the Sweepstakes Period by visiting https://www.the420hookup.com (the “Sweepstakes Website”) and following the instructions to complete the online entry form. You will be required to provide your first name, last name, email address, mobile number and date of birth. In addition to providing the above information, check the box to confirm your agreement to these Official Rules and the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy. Optionally, you may check the box to opt-in to receive marketing communications from the Sponsor.
After completing the online entry form on the Sweepstakes Website, entrants can receive entries into the sweepstakes as follows:
Purchase Entries: Eligible entrants who make a purchase at a Bloom retail store in the State of Maryland during the Sweepstakes Period will receive one (1) entry for every $1.00 (USD) spent on the purchase of any Bloom product. The number of entries you receive will be based on the list price of the eligible purchase (excluding sales tax) and rounded down to the nearest dollar. For example, purchase $34.99 of product (before taxes) and receive thirty-four (34) entries into the Sweepstakes. If any purchase is returned prior to the drawing, any entries associated with that purchase will be void. All purchase transactions must be received during the Sweepstakes Period to be eligible for entries in this Sweepstakes.
Mail-In Entries (No Purchase Entries): To enter without making a purchase, handwrite your first and last name, street address, city, state, zip code, and date of birth (mm/dd/yyyy), email address, phone number and a 100-word essay describing your perfect 420 celebration on a 3” x 5” piece of paper or card. Next, insert the paper or card into a #10 size envelope and mail it, with sufficient postage to: Bloom The 420 Hookup Sweepstakes, c/o RAVEN5 Ltd., 1400 W. Lombard St Ste A #2112, Baltimore, Maryland, 21223, United States. Please note: Mail-In Entries and the outer mailing envelope must be handwritten, legible and must include all requested information (as stated above) to be considered eligible. Only one (1) Mail-In Entry per mailing envelope will be accepted. Bulk shipments (multiple Mail-In Entries in one shipping package) will not be accepted and will be destroyed. Mail-In Entries must be postmarked by April 20, 2025 and received by April 25, 2025 to be considered eligible.
Entrants will receive thirty (30) entries into the Sweepstakes for submitting a valid Mail-In Entry. Mail-In Entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. Requests for confirmation of receipt of mail-in entries will not be acknowledged. No photocopies, facsimiles or reproductions of Mail-In Entries will be accepted. Sponsor is not responsible for late, lost, damaged, stolen, incomplete, illegible, postage due, or misdirected entries. Proof of mailing does not constitute proof of delivery.
Bonus Entry Multipliers:
Throughout the Sweepstakes Period, opportunities will be offered to increase the number of entries received on Purchase Entries or Mail-In Entries by a multiplier of two (2) (a “Bonus Entry Multiplier”).
When a Bonus Entry Multiplier is offered, entries received during this time will be multiplied by two (2). For example, an eligible purchase of $30.00 during a Bonus Entry Multiplier offer will earn an entrant sixty (60) entries into the Sweepstakes. Timing for each Bonus Entry Multiplier offer will be solely determined by the Sponsor and will be announced on the Sweepstakes Website.
To receive additional entries during a Bonus Entry Multiplier offer without making a purchase, follow the instructions outlined above to complete and submit a Mail-In Entry during the Bonus Entry Multiplier offer. Mail-In Entries that are postmarked corresponding to the dates of a Bonus Entry Multiplier offer and received within five (5) business days of such Bonus Entry Multiplier offer will receive sixty (60) entries into the Sweepstakes.
There is no limit to the number of entries an entrant may receive in the Sweepstakes, regardless of entry method. By participating in the Sweepstakes, you signify your agreement to these Official Rules and the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy. Sweepstakes Parties are not responsible for lost, late, stolen, incomplete, inaccurate, invalid, un-intelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected entries, all of which will be void. Entries which are incomplete, illegible, or fraudulent are null and void.
5. Prizes/Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”)/Odds
Ten (10) prizes are available to be won, each consisting of a $420.00 USD store credit at Bloom stores in the State of Maryland. The ARV of each prize is $420.00 USD. The total ARV of all prizes is $4,200.00 USD.
The odds of winning will depend on the total number of eligible entries received during the Sweepstakes Period.
Prize Conditions:
No substitution of a prize will be allowed, except as listed herein. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to substitute prize(s) of comparable value if a listed prize is unavailable, in whole or in part, for any reason. Prizes are non-transferable. In accepting a prize, winners are responsible for all federal, state, county, local and all other taxes (including income and withholding, where applicable) on the prize awarded and any costs and expenses not specifically listed above as part of a prize. Each Winner must be able to accept the prize as presented, or the prize will be forfeited in its entirety and awarded to an alternate winner (to be determined in a separate random drawing in accordance with these Official Rules).
6. Winner Selection & Notification
Administrator will select the potential winners in a random drawing conducted at Administrator’s offices. Ten (10) potential winners will be selected from among all eligible entries received during the Sweepstakes Period on or about April 28, 2025 (the “Winner Notification Date”). Administrator will make a minimum of two (2) attempts to contact the entrants who submitted the potential winning entries within forty-eight (48) hours of the Winner Notification Date.
If any potential winner cannot be contacted within seventy-two (72) hours of notification, or if there is a return of any notification as undeliverable; then he/she may, in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor, be disqualified (and, if disqualified, will forfeit any and all rights to the prize) and the Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion to randomly select an alternate eligible entrant for the prize in a separate random drawing from the remaining eligible entries submitted and received in accordance with these Official Rules.
Additional Requirements to Win: The potential winners will become confirmed winner (a “Winner”) after meeting the requirements that follow. Failure to do so will result in disqualification and an alternate winner will be selected by the means set forth above.
The potential winner will be required to sign and return, within seventy-two (72) hours of initial notification, an Affidavit of Eligibility & Liability / Publicity Release form (the “Release”). No one is a Winner unless and until the Sponsor officially confirms him/her as a Winner in accordance with these Official Rules.
7. Publicity
Except where prohibited by law, and pursuant to a signed Release (as described above), entry into the Sweepstakes and acceptance of a prize constitutes permission to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use, worldwide in any media now known or hereafter in perpetuity and throughout the World, each Winner’s name, city, state of residence, and prize won, as news, publicity or information and for advertising, public relations and promotional purposes without limitation and without additional compensation, notification or permission.
Sponsor reserves the right to use any and all information related to the Sweepstakes for promotional, marketing and any other purpose, including online announcements unless prohibited by law.
8. Limitation of Liability
By participating in the Sweepstakes and as a condition of acceptance of a prize, each entrant his/her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, releases, waives, discharges, and holds harmless the Sponsor, the Administrator, their respective parent companies and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers of prizes, advertising and promotion agencies involved in the administration, development, fulfillment and execution of this Sweepstakes, (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from, and against any and all loses, damages, rights, claims, actions, causes of action, personal injury, property damage or death (including without limitation any and all costs and liabilities of any kind including but not limited to lawyer’s fees), and including, without limitation, any such arising from any act of negligence of the Released Parties, that the entrant now has, or may hereafter have against the Released Parties directly or indirectly resulting from participation in the Sweepstakes or the awarding, acceptance, use, or misuse of a prize. Entrants assume all liability for any injury or damage caused or claimed to be caused by participation in this Sweepstakes or use/misuse or redemption of a prize.
9. General
By participating in the Sweepstakes, you (i) agree to be bound by these Official Rules, including all eligibility requirements, and (ii) agree to be bound by the decisions of Sponsor, which are final and binding in all matters relating to the Sweepstakes.
Sponsor is not responsible for any typographical or other error in the printing of the offer, administration of the Sweepstakes or in the announcement of the prizes. The Released Parties are not responsible for: (i) lost, late, misdirected or damaged entries; or (ii) error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operations or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials, or for technical, network, telephone equipment, electronic, computer, hardware or software malfunctions of any kind, or inaccurate transmission of or failure to receive entry information by Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or any combination thereof; or (iii) any injury or damage to Participant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in the Sweepstakes.
Failure to comply with these Official Rules will result in disqualification from the Sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves the right to permanently disqualify from any Sweepstakes it sponsors any person it believes has intentionally violated these Official Rules. If for any reason this Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned due to any causes beyond the control of the Sponsor which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, the Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes, at which time, Sponsor will conduct a random drawing from among all eligible entries received at the time of the Sweepstakes termination.
10. Disputes
Except where prohibited, Participants agree that any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of, or connected with, the Sweepstakes or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the appropriate court located in the State of Maryland, USA, and all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, entrant’s rights and obligations, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor in connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Maryland, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Maryland or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction. The remedy for any claim shall be limited to actual damages, and in no event shall any party be entitled to recover punitive, exemplary, consequential, or incidental damages, including attorney’s fees or other such related costs of bringing a claim, or to rescind this agreement or seek injunctive or any other equitable relief.
THE PARTIES HEREBY WAIVE THEIR RIGHT TO JURY TRIAL WITH RESPECT TO ALL CLAIMS AND ISSUES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT OR TORT AND INCLUDING ANY CLAIM FOR FRAUDULENT INDUCEMENT THEREOF.
11. Privacy
Personal information collected from Participants is subject to the Sponsor’s Privacy Policy, available at: https://bloommarijuana.com/md/privacy-policy.
In addition, any personal information that you provide may be used in connection with the Sweepstakes as necessary, to administer, manage and operate the Sweepstakes (including coordinating and fulfilling the prizes and releasing a list of winners, as discussed below) and otherwise as permitted in our privacy policy referred to above.
Personal information collected will be stored on servers located in the United States and may be accessible to U.S. law enforcement, courts and other governmental institutions pursuant to the laws of the United States.
12. Winner List Requests
For a written confirmation of the Winners (available after May 9, 2025), send an email to [email protected] with subject line: Bloom The 420 Hookup Sweepstakes Winners List Request.All requests must be received by July 10, 2025 at 4:59:59 PM ET. Requests received after this time will not be fulfilled.
13. Sponsor
Hollander Management Group, LLC, d/b/a Bloom, 129 NW 13th Street, Suite 27, Boca Raton, FL 33432, USA.
14. Administrator
RAVEN5 Ltd., 11 Orsett Street, Oakville, Ontario, L6H 2N8, Canada.