Terms and Conditions

RAFFLE LOCATION:

Not limited.

RAFFLE PERIOD:

From the beginning of each to end determined by the selling of the final entry.

DRAWING DATES:

To be announced after the raffle is completely sold-out and entries are accounted for.

RAFFLE LIVE DRAWING INFORMATION:

All raffle live drawing information to be posted to the specific Rally-Up raffle page.

 

ELIGIBILITY:

To enter, you must be: (1) Eighteen (18) years of age or older; (2) Can’t be an employee, officer, director or agent of the Project Pinball Charity, or any of their respective affiliates, subsidiaries or promotion agencies (collectively Sponsor and its affiliates and related individuals); and (3) Can’t be an immediate family member or living in the same household of any individual identified in (2) above. (4) Must be a citizen of the United States or Canada. (Prize will not be shipped to any outside countries). All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply. Limitations may be included in states, in which, prohibit raffles as a form of gambling. Void where prohibited or restricted by law or regulations. If deemed as prohibited or restricted you may still donate by other means. CHECK LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.

 

HOW TO ENTER:

Project Pinball Machine Raffle is a randomized drawing. To constitute a complete entry, you must provide your name, shipping address, e-mail address and entry payment received. An entry cannot be completed unless this information is given for this purpose. Incomplete entries are void. P.O. Boxes will be not be permitted as a shipping address. After entering the correct information in all the fields online and clicking on the submit button, you will immediately be entered into a database for a random drawing to win the prize offered in the raffle.

 

Participants may enter as many times as they desire over the course of the raffle period as outlined above. The potentially winning entry must provide the Project Pinball Charity with proof that the potential winner is the named person of the winning entry. All potential winners are subject to verification before any prize will be awarded. False or deceptive entries or acts will render the entrant ineligible. Entries become the official property of the Project Pinball Charity and will not be acknowledged or returned. Project Pinball Charity and its affiliates and related individuals will not accept correspondence or telephone inquiries regarding the status of entries or the administration of the raffle. Status of entries will be updated on a specific raffle page. If 200 entries fail to be committed for the current raffle, it will be open until all entries are spoken for. If not drawing is not held and a winner announced, then entry donations will be returned to original donors. By entering this raffle, each participant agrees to be bound by these official rules and by all decisions of Project Pinball Charity, whose decisions regarding all aspects of the raffle shall be final.

 

SELECTION OF WINNERS:

One (1) winner for each of the prizes will be selected from among all entrants in a random drawing to be held on dates as listed. The winners will be notified by email. To claim the prize, each winner must: (1) Respond as directed within ten (10) days of the first notification attempt; and (2) return to Project Pinball Charity, by the date, and in the manner Project Pinball Charity directs in writing. If the winner cannot be reached or fails to timely respond or comply with any of these requirements or if Project Pinball Charity determines the winner ineligible or disqualified, then, in Project Pinball Charity’s sole discretion, the winner may be disqualified and the Prize forfeited. By accepting a prize, the winner grants permission for Project Pinball Charity’s use of the name, hometown, likeness, photograph, voice, and statements of winner and winner’s travel companion(s) for advertising/publicity purposes without further compensation or permission, unless prohibited by law.

 

ODDS OF WINNING:

Project Pinball Charity will conduct a drawing through which one (1) winner will be randomly selected from among all eligible entries received in accordance with these rules. Odds of winning are based on the number of qualified entries submitted for each raffle which is recorded to be 200.

 

WINNER’S LIST:

A winner’s list will be posted at https://projectpinball.org/pinballmachineraffles/.

The winner’s list will be updated after each drawing date.

 

PRIZES:

The winning prize is: One (1) A brand new pinball machine specific to the specific raffle. (2) Shipping will be included as part of the prize. Project Pinball Charity will arrange shipping directly to an address supplied by the winner. If the prize winner cannot take the prize during scheduled dates specified by the Project Pinball Charity and if additional costs are added by the delay because of this failure, they will be the responsibility of the winner. Project Pinball Charity shall have no further obligation to the prize winner for warranty of product or other similar guarantees. The prize is NON-TRANSFERABLE AND MAY NOT BE SOLD; no substitutions or cash awards allowed. Any taxes, customs regulations, security mandates, and/ or duties/fees on prizes are the sole responsibility of the prize winner. All details of any prize not specified herein shall be determined solely by Project Pinball Charity.

 

USE OF INFORMATION:

By entering the raffle, you agree that your entry and any other personally identifiable information collected or used in connection with the raffle may be used by the Project Pinball Charity in accordance with the privacy policy. The prize winner’s name and state of residence will be posted on the website. All email addresses will be added to our database. If you wish to not be included please send us an email with your request. Entries will be shared with raffle sponsors only for marketing purposes. We will not share nor will we sell any names and their corresponding emails with any third party.

 

SPONSOR:

This raffle is sponsored by the Project Pinball Charity, PO Box 368022, Bonita Springs, FL 34136

 

CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION:

 

BY PARTICIPATING IN THIS RAFFLE, EACH PARTICIPANT RELEASES AND HOLDS HARMLESS PROJECT PINBALL CHARITY AND ITS AFFILIATES AND RELATED INDIVIDUALS FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, DAMAGES, LOSSES, EXPENSES, INJURIES, CLAIMS AND ACTIONS OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM PARTICIPATION IN THIS RAFFLE OR FROM ACCEPTANCE, USE OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, CLAIMS BASED ON DEATH, PUBLICITY RIGHTS, DEFAMATION OR INVASION OF PRIVACY. By participating in this raffle, each participant further agrees that any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or in connection with this raffle, or any prize awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and any judicial proceeding shall take place in a state court within the state of Florida. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceable of these official rules, or the rights and obligations of entrant and Project Pinball Charity in connection with the raffle, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Florida, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions (whether the state of Florida or any other jurisdiction), that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of Florida. Project Pinball Charity reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of this raffle or any website related to this raffle, acting in violation of these official rules or acting in a non-sportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Any use of robotic, automatic, programmed or the like entry methods will void all such entries by such methods, and disqualify any entrant using any such method. ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE RELATED TO THIS RAFFLE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS RAFFLE MAY BE VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE; PROJECT PINBALL CHARITY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM SUCH ENTRANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. Project Pinball Charity is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by users of any website related to this raffle, by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this raffle or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of submissions in this raffle. Project Pinball Charity assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or tampering with or hacking of, any website related to this raffle or any technical failure or malfunction.

 

The Project Pinball Charity Group and their choice of a distributor are not responsible for extending the warranty past the 90-day manufacture warranty. Any parties in this transaction will not be responsible for any cost occurred after that warranty period.

 

Project Pinball Charity is not responsible for any injury or damage to entrants’ or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this raffle or use of any website related to this raffle. If, for any reason, this raffle is not capable of running as planned, including, without limitation, by reason of, infection by computer virus, bugs, worms, tampering, hacking, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which, in Project Pinball Charity’s sole judgment, corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this raffle, Project Pinball Charity reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this raffle, and select winners from entries received prior to action taken, as Project Pinball Charity, in its sole judgment, deems fair and in accordance with these official rules without notice to entrants. In the event that this raffle is challenged by any legal or regulatory authority, Project Pinball Charity reserves the right to discontinue or modify this raffle or to disqualify participants residing in any affected geographic areas. In such event, Project Pinball Charity shall not have any liability to any participants who are disqualified as a result of such an action. IN NO EVENT WILL PROJECT PINBALL CHARITY AND ITS AFFILIATES AND RELATED INDIVIDUALS (EITHER JOINTLY OR INDIVIDUALLY) BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF PARTICIPATION IN THIS RAFFLE, ANY PRIZES WON, ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE PROJECT PINBALL CHARITY’S WEBSITES OR THE DOWNLOADING OR COPYING FROM AND/OR PRINTING OF ANY MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM SUCH WEBSITES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, EVERYTHING ON THE PROJECT PINBALL CHARITY’S WEBSITES IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY. CHECK LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.

I have been engrossed in the pinball community for 7 years now and I can say without a doubt it has changed me forever. Growing up in Springfield, OH I never really ran into any pinball machines out in the wild before. It wasn’t until I moved to Florida and was going to college that I ever played a real pinball machine. After my first game on Theatre of Magic, I was hooked, to say the least.

 

After volunteering for Project Pinball, I was quickly hired onto the Team. At first, I was the Media Relations Specialist, then the Media Director, and now I oversee the whole operation as the Director of Operations. I am blessed to have such a rewarding career. To see the children and their families receive the gift of Pinball and be able to utilize the machines for their therapeutic benefit is huge for recovery and rehabilitation. Not to mention, the amount of stress relief that pinball provides is truly incredible.

 

After assisting in over 50 pinball machine dedications, I can say how inspiring these children and their families are. Pinball is truly therapeutic and empowering for each individual who comes in contact with it.

 

My favorite pinball machines are Circus Voltaire, Godzilla, and The Addams Family, because you can’t have just one favorite.

Hi there! My name is Taj Kniceley (she/her/hers) and I am the Marketing and communications Specialist/Grant Writer for Project Pinball Charity. I grew up in Springfield, OH, and I now live in Western Michigan on a soon-to-be farm with my partner Tyler! My biggest (unkept) secret is that I am absolutely in love with my two cats Laela and Rosie.

 

In 2021, I joined the Team when I heard they were searching for a writer. Language is incredibly powerful and I knew I could help elevate the mission by providing a new perspective. What I love most about my role is that I not only have the opportunity to serve patients and families but that I am also able to deepen community relations. Project Pinball Charity is truly a grassroots charity, and strengthening connections is necessary when it comes to a community’s health and longevity.

 

My favorite pinball machine, as well as Broadway show, is The Phantom of the Opera. A close second is The Addams Family, although my favorite Morticia Addams is Carolyn Jones - the OG. If Pennywise ever makes it onto a pinball machine, though, then it’s game over for the other two!

As far as I can remember, I’ve been a pinball machine enthusiast. Growing up in the 1970’s & 1980’s, pinball machines were everywhere. I bought my first pinball machine at age 12 with paper route money and the neighborhood kids lined up to play. Today I’m living my childhood dream - fortunate enough to own a collection of 25 machines; most of them from the 70’s & 80’s.

 

I host Orange County NY Pinball Club events and host my own tournaments called The Catskill Classic. I enjoy competing in pinball tournaments, always meeting interesting people, and making new friends. Some of my best friends I’ve met through pinball.

 

I met Daniel Spolar at The Southern Pinball Festival near Orlando Florida in 2011. At the time, Daniel was seeking support from the local pinball community, in raising funds and technical assistance to rehabilitate a pinball machine that was donated to a Children’s Hospital for the kids to enjoy, but it wasn’t being maintained - thus defeating its intended purpose. Daniel was so passionate about the need to fix this pinball machine for the kids and keep it regularly maintained, that it was an extremely easy cause for me to support. I was impressed by Daniel’s desire to involve the pinball community, rather than fixing the problem on his own. As time went by, I became very good friends with Daniel, and as Project Pinball Charity has grown, I’ve continued my support by helping to spread awareness about its mission.

 

I’ve organized and promoted fundraising events, worked the booth at pinball conventions, attended several pinball machine dedications at Children’s Hospitals and Ronald McDonald Houses, prepared donated machines for fundraising, and I’ve talked about Project Pinball Charity in the local media. It’s a wonderful cause that provides so many benefits to countless individuals and families, it’s been easy for me to encourage others to help support our mission. I’m always thankful and humbled by the generous support we receive. I hope to continue my association with Project Pinball Charity for many years to come!!

 

My favorite pinball machines are Gottlieb 300, Stern Stars, The Addams Family, and Iron Maiden.

It was more than 20 years ago when I picked up three System 11 machines and 'found' the pinball community. The friendships that I've developed are invaluable. I learned fairly early on that the hobby is as much about the people as the machines, if not more so.

 

It was in 2019 that I had a 5-hour breakfast with Daniel. It was during that time I realized I wanted to do what I could to help Project Pinball. I had the idea of a silent auction at Pinball Expo and worked to organize it. The feedback was great and we've had one each year since. I was invited to attend a local dedication and it was transformative. As soon as the machine was ready, children immediately came to check it out. One child played with his rolling IV stand at his side which was incredible to witness. I was asked if I'd be interested in helping the charity as the Technician Coordinator.

 

I came to Project Pinball to do something that would have a positive and tangible impact on the lives of others. I would like to assist in the expansion of the charity and branding while working to do whatever is necessary to support operations. I would love to see 100+ machines placed all over the world! I know we have supporters in the UK who would be happy to be Volunteer Technicians supporting machines, let's see if we can make it happen. It can't be put into words the impact the machines have on the children and their families. I am excited to have the charity continue to have a positive and lasting impact on so many lives.

 

My favorite pinball machine is Transporter the Rescue.

Daniel Spolar originally from Pittsburgh, once lived in Bonita Springs, and now resides in Fort Myers with his adorable miniature pinscher, Maggie.

 

He is a pinball enthusiast with a collection of well over 30 pinball machines, as well as an avid road cyclist.

 

He enjoys traveling the country and placing pinball machines for the pure joy that they bring to others around him.

 

He is usually outdoors doing all kinds of adventurous activities, including hang gliding.

 

He will never back down from a challenge and is always working to better others' lives. Daniel does not have a favorite pinball machine because there are too many to choose from!