OFFICIAL RULES

01. SPONSOR AND ADMINISTRATION

The ProTruthNews Monthly Reader Giveaway (the “Promotion”) is sponsored and administered by SSP Organization, LLC (“Sponsor”), publisher of ProTruthNews, with a mailing address of 15920 Hickman Road, Ste. 400, PMB 444, Clive, IA 50325. Questions, winner-list requests, and notices concerning this Promotion may be sent to noah@protruthnews.com or to that address, Attention: ProTruthNews Giveaway. A third-party website, newsletter publisher, advertising platform, email provider, product manufacturer, or social network displaying an advertisement is not the Sponsor unless expressly identified in a Monthly Drawing Notice.

These Official Rules establish the base terms for the announced monthly drawings. A Monthly Drawing Notice forms part of these Rules and supplies the prize and timing information for the particular drawing. No partner, affiliate, or advertising placement may alter these Rules or promise extra entries.

02. FREE NEWSLETTER MEMBERSHIP; NO PURCHASE NECESSARY

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Entry and the ProTruthNews newsletter are free. No paid membership, donation, entry fee, paid upgrade or payment to claim a prize is required. Sponsor pays standard prize delivery. Ordinary participant internet or device costs are not charged by Sponsor.

Newsletter membership is required. An eligible person must enroll in the giveaway, affirm newsletter consent, confirm their email and remain an eligible active ProTruthNews subscriber at the announced monthly drawing eligibility timestamp. There is no independent nonmember entry route in this proposed program.

No opens, clicks, article views, referrals, social follows, political contributions or purchases are required or earn extra chances. Political views do not affect selection. This members-only structure is a prelaunch proposal requiring jurisdiction-specific legal review; “no purchase necessary” does not certify every other condition as lawful.

03. U.S. ADULTS ONLY; ELIGIBILITY AND EXCLUSIONS

The proposed initial launch is for individual legal residents of the 50 United States and Washington, D.C., who meet Sponsor’s adult-entry minimum at entry: 19 in Alabama and Nebraska, 21 in Mississippi, and 18 elsewhere. Any higher legally applicable minimum also controls. These are Sponsor’s stated eligibility limits, not a claim that every state requires those ages for every free promotion. Non-U.S. residents and U.S. territories or possessions are not included. Any necessary jurisdiction exclusion must be finalized and disclosed before entry opens. The Promotion is void where prohibited.

Employees, officers, directors and persons administering the Promotion for Sponsor or a promotion agency, and their immediate family or household members, are ineligible. Immediate family means spouse or domestic partner, parents, children and siblings, including step relationships. Household members share a residence for at least three months in a year. Businesses, trusts, estates, groups and automated accounts cannot enter as individuals.

Entrants must provide truthful information, control the submitted email and satisfy adult residence and newsletter-membership requirements. Potential winners must substantiate identity, age, residence and entry eligibility. An attestation is not a substitute for verification. Identity documents and tax identifiers must not be submitted through the public form or consent Sheet.

04. PROGRAM TERM, MONTHLY PERIODS, AND THE OFFICIAL CLOCK

The Promotion operates only during the finite program term and monthly periods affirmatively published in the Drawing Notices below. A statement that the program features a new prize and a new drawing every month describes the announced program term. It is not a promise of a perpetual promotion. No entry period begins until its Notice is complete and published and entry is expressly marked open.

Each Notice identifies its drawing ID, entry opening time, entry closing time, subscription-eligibility snapshot time, drawing time or window, prize description, quantity, approximate retail value (“ARV”), eligible locations, and planned fulfillment deadline. All advertised times are stated in U.S. Central Time, using the applicable daylight-saving offset. Sponsor’s server clock records receipt in UTC and controls timely online submission. An entry is received when Sponsor’s system accepts it, not when a browser button is pressed or an email is sent.

The entry deadline applies to every entrant. Any required email confirmation must be completed before that deadline. Entries received before opening or after closing do not count for that drawing. A later confirmation does not retroactively establish a timely entry. Sponsor will not extend the entry deadline selectively for an advertising partner or preferred source.

05. HOW TO ENTER: SUBSCRIBE, CONFIRM AND STAY SUBSCRIBED

During an open period, visit Giveaway.ProTruthNews.com, submit first name, email and state, affirm adult U.S. eligibility and Rules acceptance, and separately affirm your consent to the free ProTruthNews newsletter. The checkbox is not preselected. Complete the secure verification link and affirmative confirmation button before the entry deadline. Opening an email or verification page alone does not enroll you.

The exact disclosure is: “Yes, subscribe me to the free ProTruthNews newsletter—normally twice daily, plus occasional special editions and sponsor messages. Unsubscribe anytime.” Verified enrolled members receive one entry in each announced monthly drawing within the published program term while they remain eligible and active subscribers at its drawing eligibility timestamp. Purchases or duplicate submissions never increase chances.

Consent is specific to ProTruthNews, not Kit-Skeeter, WLT Report or another brand. Partner subscriber files are not imported as consent or entries. Suppressed or undeliverable records do not qualify as active newsletter membership. Canceled or globally suppressed records are not silently reactivated.

06. REQUIRED MEMBERSHIP AT THE DRAWING; RIGHT TO UNSUBSCRIBE

You must be an eligible active ProTruthNews subscriber at the published monthly drawing eligibility timestamp to qualify. The snapshot and announced drawing time are the same timestamp. Enrollment and verification must be complete by the entry deadline. Unsubscribe, cancellation or disqualifying suppression before the drawing timestamp ends eligibility for that and future drawings. Opens or clicks are not required.

You may unsubscribe at any time through the normal newsletter link. Sponsor honors that choice without a fee, login, reason, survey or additional consent. Sponsor does not keep sending marketing because opt-out affects drawing eligibility and does not automatically resubscribe anyone.

Once eligibility is frozen at the published drawing timestamp, unsubscribing afterward does not retroactively cancel a valid frozen entry or require re-subscription to receive a selected verified prize. It ends automatic qualification for later drawings.

A later current-state query is not proof of past subscription status. Sponsor retains reliable as-of evidence. If an outage prevents a trustworthy snapshot, Sponsor preserves records and uses a lawful documented fair process without inventing a result or imposing a new membership period after entry opens.

07. EXISTING SUBSCRIBERS AND VOLUNTARY REENROLLMENT

Existing ProTruthNews subscribers may enroll and confirm like new subscribers. An existing subscription without giveaway enrollment does not create an entry. Earlier subscription or repeated enrollment does not earn extra chances.

An unsubscribed person is not silently reactivated. A lawful reenrollment must be an affirmative verified new request, respect global suppression and provider restrictions, and arrive before the relevant deadline. It does not restore a closed drawing’s eligibility.

This proposed program has one entry route: free newsletter-member enrollment. A legacy “free entry” URL directs to the same subscription-and-confirmation route, not a nonmember route. If counsel concludes a separate entry method or jurisdiction restriction is needed, the program must be revised before launch.

08. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON; DUPLICATES AND IDENTITY DISPUTES

One entry per person per monthly drawing, regardless of email, alias, device, household, advertising source or number of submissions. Enrollment carries forward within the published term only while the member qualifies at each drawing. Household members may enter individually with separate addresses they control.

Sponsor deduplicates normalized email addresses and consolidates records proved to belong to one person. Ordinary duplicate requests are consolidated; deliberate multiple identities, automated enrollment, false attestations or documented evasion may invalidate that individual’s entries after reasonable review.

Identity disputes require proportionate evidence. An email billing relationship alone is not conclusive identity proof. A potential winner unable to substantiate a valid individual entry is ineligible. Disputes never produce extra entries.

09. PRIZES, ACTUAL VALUES, AND SUBSTITUTION

Each finalized Monthly Drawing Notice specifies the actual prize, make and model where applicable, condition, included accessories, prize quantity, ARV, and any material restrictions. The planned monthly prize cap is $500 in total ARV. “Up to $500” is a maximum planned value, not a claim that every month offers a $500 prize or that every entrant receives money. Exact published ARV governs the particular offer. Illustrative product artwork is not a model specification or proof that a product has been purchased.

Unless the Notice expressly provides otherwise, a monthly drawing has one prize and one verified winner. No cash alternative is offered to a merchandise winner solely on request. A cash prize is offered only if expressly identified in a legally reviewed Notice. Any necessary product subscription, activation fee, accessory, travel requirement, or usage limitation must be stated before entry opens. No unannounced purchase may be required to receive the prize.

If an advertised merchandise prize becomes genuinely unavailable for reasons outside Sponsor’s reasonable control, Sponsor will not unilaterally substitute an advertised prize. Any alternative requires applicable legal and regulatory permission and the verified winner’s informed agreement, must have equal or greater ARV, and must not eliminate the obligation to award the advertised prize. Substitution may not be used to reduce a published prize commitment. The verified winner will receive a written explanation. Retail price fluctuations do not ordinarily produce an additional cash payment.

Product manufacturers are responsible only for warranties they actually provide. Sponsor does not invent or extend a manufacturer’s warranty. Nothing in these Rules eliminates nonwaivable consumer rights. Apple, iPad, and Apple Watch are trademarks of their respective owners. Apple Inc. does not sponsor, administer, endorse, or participate in this Promotion.

10. RANDOM SELECTION, ODDS, AND SELECTION RECORDS

After the entry period ends and the published eligibility snapshot has been preserved, Sponsor selects a potential winner using a cryptographically secure random procedure from the deduplicated pool of eligible individual newsletter members. No weighting is applied for newsletter opens, clicks, referrals, revenue, source partner, opinion, location within the eligible area, or advertiser preference.

Odds depend on the number of eligible individual entries received for the month. If there is one prize and N eligible entries, each eligible entrant’s chance is 1 in N. Exact odds cannot be known before the entry period closes. Advertising will not claim fixed odds, universal winning, or guaranteed selection.

Sponsor preserves the drawing ID, entry-pool hash, eligibility snapshot, pool size, random-selection timestamp, selection record, and verification outcome. A selection is potential until eligibility and acceptance are verified. Alternates, if needed, are selected randomly from remaining eligible persons, not chosen by staff preference. Sponsor may use a qualified independent administrator, but will not claim independent auditing unless it actually occurred.

11. POTENTIAL-WINNER NOTICE AND RESPONSE DEADLINE

Sponsor contacts a potential winner at the verified entry email address within three business days after selection, unless a different lawful notification schedule was published in the Notice before entry opened. The first notice identifies the drawing, prize, Sponsor, the verification steps, and a response deadline of seven calendar days after that first notice. A reasonable reminder may be sent during that interval. Sponsor will consider a demonstrated delivery failure fairly; the record will state any extension applied.

A potential winner should monitor the submitted inbox and junk folder. Sponsor will never require a fee, gift card purchase, cryptocurrency transfer, bank password, email password, or payment to release a prize. A public social comment, unrelated direct message, or unsolicited payment request is not official proof of winning. Entrants may verify a notice by contacting the published Sponsor address.

If a potential winner declines, fails to respond within the stated deadline, cannot satisfy eligibility, or is proved to have materially violated these Rules, Sponsor records the reason and randomly selects an alternate. Sponsor will not discard a valid winning entry merely because its newsletter subscription ended after the frozen eligibility snapshot.

12. WINNER VERIFICATION AND PRIZE ACCEPTANCE

Before fulfillment, Sponsor may request the potential winner’s legal name, age confirmation, residence confirmation, delivery address, a reasonable declaration of eligibility, and a receipt or acceptance acknowledgment. Requests must be proportionate to verification and securely handled. Sponsor may request tax documentation when legally required. Identity documents, tax identifiers, or Social Security numbers must not be submitted through the public entry form or a general Google Sheet.

Publicity permission is separate from any legally required winner disclosure. A photograph, testimonial, interview, or promotional appearance is voluntary and is not a condition of prize acceptance unless a specific lawful requirement was clearly published before the relevant drawing; the base Promotion does not impose such a requirement. No document may require a winner to waive rights that applicable law makes nonwaivable.

A winner is final when eligibility and acceptance are verified and Sponsor records the award. Sponsor may share only the information needed with the fulfillment provider. A prize cannot be transferred to another person before verification to evade eligibility. Sponsor will accommodate a reasonable lawful delivery arrangement where practical.

13. FULFILLMENT, DELIVERY, AND UNAWARDED PRIZES

Sponsor pays standard delivery costs to the verified winner’s eligible U.S. address. Unless the Notice specifies an earlier deadline, Sponsor plans to ship merchandise or issue the stated prize within 30 calendar days after completed verification. Any material expected delay is disclosed directly to the winner with a revised estimated fulfillment date. Sponsor retains purchase or payment proof, tracking where available, delivery confirmation, and award records.

A winner is not required to pay a shipping, handling, processing, administrative, verification, or redemption fee. Sponsor will correct an error it caused. If the winner provides a wrong or unusable address, Sponsor will seek a practical correction; any documented inability to fulfill is handled fairly and consistently with applicable law, not by quietly withholding the prize.

Every advertised prize for an opened drawing must be awarded or resolved according to applicable law. If no eligible entries exist, Sponsor records that outcome and publishes the lawful disposition rather than fabricating a winner. A technical incident, partner cancellation, poor marketing results, or low subscriber retention does not by itself permit Sponsor to keep an otherwise valid advertised prize.

14. TAXES AND REQUIRED INFORMATION REPORTING

Prize recipients are responsible for any taxes legally imposed on them. The absence of an information return does not make a prize tax-free. Sponsor will apply the reporting and withholding rules in effect for the year and circumstances of the award, including annual aggregation of reportable payments to the same recipient and applicable state requirements.

When a tax form is legally required, Sponsor requests it through a secure process and provides the required information return. Sponsor will not collect tax identifiers from ordinary entrants or store them in the giveaway consent Sheet. Prize ARV and any reportable fair market value are stated honestly; the published retail cap is not a tax determination. Entrants and winners may obtain their own tax advice.

15. PRIVACY, AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT AND PERMITTED DATA USE

The Giveaway Privacy Notice describes collected data and purposes. Records include entry details, adult residence attestation, exact affirmative newsletter disclosure, Rules version, submission and confirmation times, source attribution, subscription and eligibility evidence, operational status and limited anti-abuse information.

Newsletter marketing relies on the entrant’s specific affirmative ProTruthNews request. Partner membership, a page visit, unchecked box, silence or someone else’s request is not consent. The newsletter is free and membership is a condition of this proposed drawing; the right to unsubscribe remains intact.

Necessary drawing messages are limited to administration. Opt-outs are honored even if they prevent future qualification and do not erase eligibility already frozen for a completed drawing. Privacy requests are evaluated under applicable law and lawful contest-record, consent and suppression obligations.

16. FAIR CONDUCT, DOCUMENTED ABUSE, AND DISQUALIFICATION

Entrants may not use bots, scripts, purchased or fabricated identities, deceptive aliases, unauthorized address submissions, compromised accounts, malware, or deliberate interference to evade the one-person limit or damage the entry system. Sponsor may reject an ineligible or fraudulent record when supported by reliable evidence and will preserve the reason. Blocking a technical abuse source does not authorize discrimination against ordinary eligible entrants from the same advertising partner.

Suspicion alone, political criticism, a complaint about Sponsor, an advertiser’s preference, newsletter inactivity, or a routine accidental duplicate is not sufficient reason to deny an otherwise valid prize. Sponsor will apply these Rules consistently, consider relevant information, and correct administrative mistakes. An entrant may contact Sponsor regarding an eligibility determination or suspected system error.

17. TECHNICAL INCIDENTS, CHANGES, SUSPENSION, AND CANCELLATION

If a verified technical failure, fraud, security incident, natural disaster, regulatory requirement, or other event materially compromises fair administration, Sponsor may temporarily suspend affected intake while preserving accepted records. Sponsor will post a notice explaining the material issue and any revised administration that can lawfully protect entrants. An outage must not be described as a completed drawing or a negative eligibility result.

After a drawing opens, Sponsor will not materially worsen the published prize, odds structure, eligibility, deadline, or acceptance conditions for already-entered persons merely by editing this page. Changes required by law or necessary to restore fair administration will be documented, communicated, and made with required regulatory approval where applicable. An entry-window extension, if legally permitted, must apply equally to every entrant.

Cancellation is not a blanket right to avoid an advertised prize obligation. Where lawful and feasible, Sponsor will complete selection from the unaffected eligible pool or use another fair process consistent with published terms and applicable law. Records of any cancelled or rescheduled drawing remain available. Future, unopened drawings may be discontinued after appropriate notice, but this does not eliminate obligations for opened drawings.

18. RESPONSIBILITY AND LIMITS SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE LAW

Sponsor is responsible for fair administration and fulfillment of its published obligations. Internet providers, email services, carriers, and product manufacturers may experience errors or outages outside Sponsor’s reasonable control. Sponsor will use reasonable efforts to investigate a material reported failure, preserve relevant evidence, correct its own errors, and communicate a fair resolution.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, Sponsor is not liable for a participant’s ordinary internet charges or losses caused solely by unrelated third-party service failures, unauthorized interference, or use of a product contrary to its instructions. This provision does not excuse failure to award an advertised prize, deceptive conduct, Sponsor’s gross negligence or intentional misconduct, or any liability or consumer protection that cannot lawfully be excluded.

These Rules do not create an unlimited release, waive rights regardless of state law, or require an entrant to indemnify Sponsor for Sponsor’s own wrongdoing. Any lawful limitation is applied only to the extent enforceable in the entrant’s jurisdiction. A court’s rejection of one limitation does not invalidate a valid prize commitment.

19. QUESTIONS, DISPUTES, GOVERNING LAW, AND NONWAIVABLE RIGHTS

For an administration question or dispute, contact Sponsor at the published email or mailing address and identify the drawing, the relevant dates, and the issue. Sponsor will review the underlying records and seek a reasonable resolution. Giving Sponsor notice does not shorten a statutory deadline or bar a participant from contacting a regulator or exercising a legal right.

Except where the entrant’s jurisdiction requires otherwise, Iowa law governs these Rules without applying a conflict-of-laws rule that removes mandatory consumer protections. Court jurisdiction and venue are governed by applicable law. These base Rules do not impose mandatory arbitration, a class-action waiver, a jury-trial waiver, a contractual limitation period, or a waiver of statutory remedies.

Administrative decisions are subject to these published Rules, reliable evidence, and applicable law. Language describing Sponsor’s administration does not make an unlawful or arbitrary decision unreviewable. If a term is unenforceable, the remaining lawful terms continue to the extent they can operate fairly without rewriting the advertised bargain.

20. WINNER INFORMATION AND PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

After verification and award, Sponsor may publish a winner’s first name, last initial, state, prize, drawing month, and award date on the Past Winners page, subject to applicable law and a legitimate safety or privacy concern. Sponsor will not publish an email address, exact birth date, home address, identification document, or tax identifier. Optional photos or testimonials require separate permission.

A free winner list may be requested using the published contact details after the relevant drawing throughout the legally required availability period, and for at least three years after the program ends. Sponsor will supply the information required by applicable law using a reasonable privacy-preserving method. Any regulator-required list is provided directly as required. Before the first verified award, Sponsor will explicitly state that no winners have yet been announced and will not use fabricated winner stories or photos.

21. ADVERTISING PARTNERS, PRODUCTS, AND PLATFORM DISCLAIMERS

This Promotion is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Apple Inc., Google, Kit, Meta, Facebook, Instagram, X, or any other advertising or technology platform merely because their products or services are used. Information is provided to Sponsor and its disclosed service providers for the stated purposes, not to a social platform as the sponsor of the drawing.

Cross-promotion by a partner newsletter is advertising placement, not automatic enrollment of that partner’s audience. Partners must accurately describe free entry, material eligibility limits, the announced deadline, actual prize details, and the location of these Rules. A rules link does not cure a misleading headline. Claims of independent certification, government approval, a bonded promotion, guaranteed prizes to all subscribers, or an audited drawing may be used only when factually true.

22. RECORD PRESERVATION, VERSION CONTROL, AND ACCESSIBILITY

Sponsor preserves the Rules and Notice version in force for each drawing, consent evidence, relevant entry and suppression records, eligibility snapshot, random selection record, award verification, fulfillment record, and applicable regulatory filings for the legally required period and otherwise as described in the Privacy Notice. An editable Google Sheet is a reporting copy, not permission to overwrite the authoritative entry or drawing record.

A correction is dated and retained with its prior version. Sponsor will not backdate a Notice or claim an unperformed verification. The online system provides accessible labels and accessible free member enrollment. An entrant who has an accessibility problem may contact Sponsor before the deadline for a reasonable lawful accommodation without paying a fee. An accommodation must preserve the same free newsletter membership, verification, adult eligibility and deadline conditions; it is not a nonmember entry route.

23. JURISDICTION-SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS AND PRIZE COMMITMENTS

ADVANCE FILINGS AND WINNER REPORTS

For a covered integrated promotion offering more than $5,000 in total announced prizes, New York requires advance registration at least 30 days before commencement and prize security; Florida requires advance filing at least seven days before commencement and required security or a qualifying approved waiver. A twelve-month offer of twelve $500 prizes totals $6,000. Rhode Island’s separate filing rule applies to qualifying retail-establishment promotions exceeding $500; it is not described here as automatically applying to every online publisher. Applicability and actual filings are verified before entries open.

For covered registered programs, Sponsor provides the required New York winner report within 90 days after program completion and the Florida certified winner report within 60 days after winners are finally determined. These reports include legally required information for prizes over $25. Legally required regulator disclosures may include a winner’s full name and address; the abbreviated public webpage does not replace them. Required winning-entry and program records are preserved for the applicable period.

PRIZE AND ADVERTISING DISCLOSURES

The finalized Notice states the prize quantity, description, value, entry dates, drawing and announcement schedule, eligible locations, free membership condition, odds basis and delivery deadline. Material conditions must also appear clearly in advertising where law requires them, not solely behind a link. Paid or incentivized endorsements and partner placements must be identified as required. No individualized advertisement claims that someone has already won, is a selected finalist, or is guaranteed a prize when that is untrue. Verification and prize delivery never require another sales presentation, newsletter opens, a new marketing permission, or continued subscription after the qualifying drawing.

PRIVACY AND LOCAL LAW

Applicable privacy rights remain available. A lawful incentive, if covered by California law, requires the applicable notice, affirmative enrollment and supported value assessment described in the Privacy Notice. This Rules page does not itself create an exemption from a lottery or privacy law. Ordinary registration exceptions, where they exist, are not represented as universal permission to require ongoing marketing consent. A required legal interpretation, actual filing, prize security or substantiated valuation cannot be replaced by the words “void where prohibited.”

Sponsor must complete the applicable legal and registration review before accepting entries in a jurisdiction. Some jurisdictions evaluate the total value of a promotion or related series, not merely one monthly prize. The $500 monthly cap is not a representation that registration, security, winner reporting, or other legal requirements never apply. Sponsor will not divide an integrated promotion into artificial monthly pieces to evade legal obligations.

A jurisdiction requiring advance filing or security is included only after the necessary requirements have been met, or excluded clearly before the affected entry period opens. Sponsor will not advertise “nationwide” if material locations are excluded. Required filings, bonds, trust deposits, winner reports, advertising disclosures, and public rules will be provided as applicable. A government’s receipt of a filing is not an endorsement or certification that the Promotion complies with every law.

Once an eligible location and prize are offered in an open Notice, Sponsor cannot silently remove an entrant or reduce a prize because a filing was overlooked. Any legally required correction must be documented and handled consistently with participant rights, applicable law, and the technical-incident provisions above. An entrant may contact the published Sponsor address for the applicable drawing’s locations and material restrictions.

24. ENTIRE RULES AND MONTHLY NOTICES

These Rules, the finalized Monthly Drawing Notice, and the Giveaway Privacy Notice describe the Promotion. Advertising copy is a summary and must remain consistent with them. If a Notice conflicts with the base Rules, Sponsor must resolve the conflict before opening entry and preserve the corrected version; a conflict is not a license to choose the harsher term after entry. Applicable law controls over any inconsistent provision.

The review version currently displayed is not a certification of legal compliance and is not an open offer. Before launch, Sponsor must finalize the finite program term, actual prizes, jurisdiction coverage, entry and drawing dates, operational verification, and any necessary legal review, registrations, bonding, or other legal requirements. This statement describes the present prelaunch status, not a disclaimer that excuses a live promotion.

25. MONTHLY DRAWING NOTICES

Program starts: Not yet announced. Program ends: Not yet announced. Announced total program ARV: $0.00.

No drawing is currently open. The first finalized Monthly Drawing Notice will be published here before entry opens. No prize is presently offered for an active entry period.