A successful giveaway comes down to a few things: clear prizes, an announced period, accessible rules, a draw you can justify, and a winner who actually receives the prize. Each step is easy to get wrong, and most are hard to fix once the campaign is live.
A giveaway where entry is free and with no purchase necessary does not fall under the same regulation as a paid lottery. As soon as money is required to enter, you are in gambling territory, with the licensing that implies.
DrawSeal is built for the first case only: entrants never pay, only the organiser pays for the tool.
This guide is not legal advice. If prizes are valuable or you target several countries, have your setup reviewed.
Describe each prize precisely: nature, approximate value, delivery conditions. Note that one winner is drawn per prize, later ranks being drawn from the remaining pool — nobody wins twice.
The rules are the document that protects you, and the one everyone rushes. DrawSeal generates them automatically from the giveaway’s configuration — ten sections, from the organiser to personal data. It is not a generic template: the text describes your giveaway as actually configured. Each section is explained on the giveaway rules page.
Open sign-up: a public page is published, entrants leave their email and confirm through a link. That double opt-in is what keeps your list clean.
Your own list: import entrants as CSV, one address per line in the first column. They are treated as already confirmed, which assumes the list is yours.
A draw is scheduled at least 24 hours ahead. Before it runs, the seed fingerprint and the drand round are published. At that moment the value that will decide the winner does not exist yet.
The winner is computed deterministically. The verification page publishes the seeds, the round and the algorithm. You no longer ask to be believed: you provide the means to check.
The winner is notified and has a deadline — 72 hours by default, adjustable per giveaway — to come forward. After that, they forfeit and a verifiable re-draw designates a new winner. The reason is published.
You collect emails, so you process personal data. Use is limited to what is necessary. IP fingerprints serve fraud prevention only. An entrant can request erasure; on a sealed draw their data is replaced by an anonymous identifier, so the draw stays verifiable while nothing points to them.
No, as long as no payment is required to enter.
You can restrict the delivery zone and announce it beforehand.
At least 24 hours. In practice, one to two weeks of entries gives a usable volume.
They forfeit when the deadline expires, and a verifiable re-draw picks a new winner.