PRIZEY serves a broad audience of parents and offers a proven megaphone for publicizing quality giveaways of products that appeal to them. In order to best serve our readers, we adhere to a set of guidelines designed to ensure that giveaways are easy to enter and offer a pleasurable experience for participants in our site. PRIZEY reserves the right to reject any submission for any reason.
Requirements
Before submitting your sweepstakes to PRIZEY, please ensure it meets the following conditions:
- Total respect for privacy. Entrants must be allowed to opt-out of any ongoing communications in the process of submitting an entry. No "opt out at any time" fine print allowed; you must allow them to designate at the outset whether and how they wish to be contacted, if at all. Entry methods that involve emailing others about contests are strongly discouraged and rarely published. Websites must link to a privacy policy that does not invoke ongoing communications privileges; blogs are assumed to follow similar policies unless stated otherwise. Blogs which utilize collected information for future contact without explicit permission from entrants will be banned from listing on PRIZEY, sometimes publicly.
- Ease of entry. The giveaway must be open to non-bloggers via a simple, easily understood, and non-time-consuming entry method. The two most common are sending an email to the sponsor or commenting on a blog post, perhaps visiting a sponsor site first. Random drawings are preferred but "juried" giveaways with clear guidelines and criteria may be published. Additional entries for blogging or ongoing contact (blogging about post, subscribing to a feed, etc.) should be kept tightly in check; if a "basic" method of entry is outweighed more than 3:1 by other entry methods, PRIZEY will probably decline to list it.
- Established prize value and interest. Prizes must be items that are sold somewhere, and must have a clearly discernible value. Prizes which are valued at less than $10 are usually rejected. Pre-packaged promotional giveaways offered on multiple blogs often see their first occurrences posted to PRIZEY and latter ones rejected. We occasionally designate internal bans on listings of particular prizes that have "worn out their welcome." Please keep this in mind when working with companies to develop giveaways you would like listed on our site.
If you believe your giveaway meets the above criteria, email us at prizeyblog (at) gmail (dot) com with:
- the name of the item you're giving away,
- the prize's value (list, not sale or discount) per winner,
- number of winners (if more than one)
- the name of your site as you'd like it to appear in the listing
- entry requirements ("Comment on post," "Email entry," etc.)
- entry deadline (date only or date and time with time zone)
- a live link to your giveaway post or web page (no advance notifications, please)
Thank you for your interest in PRIZEY! We invite you to contact us if you have any suggestions or comments regarding how we can improve our free listing service.
