The rules are the document that protects you when something goes wrong: a winner who disputes, an entrant who feels wrongly excluded, a platform asking questions. They are also the document almost everyone rushes, copied from another campaign and never re-read.
Who is running it: legal name, form, address. An entrant should know who they are dealing with without investigating.
What the giveaway offers and, above all: is entry free with no purchase necessary? That line decides which legal regime applies.
Nature, approximate value, quantity. A vaguely described prize is a dispute in the making. With several prizes, say how they are allocated — one winner per prize, later ranks drawn from the remaining pool.
Start, end, time zone. A date without a time and zone gets disputed, especially with an international audience.
The exact conditions and, for each: is it verified or merely declared? “Follow the account” is declarative — nobody checks it. Saying so protects you better than implying a check that never happens.
How the winner is designated — usually reduced to “draw carried out by the organiser”, which commits to nothing. Rules generated by DrawSeal describe a cryptographically verifiable draw: the fingerprint of a secret seed and a drand round published beforehand, the seed revealed afterwards, and a deterministic computation anyone can replay.
Which entries are excluded and under which rules. They must be public and deterministic, applied before the draw: mandatory double opt-in, disposable domains excluded, duplicates removed, rate limiting per IP.
What they must provide, and by when. Without a written deadline, an unreachable winner blocks the campaign indefinitely — 72 hours by default with DrawSeal, adjustable per giveaway.
Which data, for what purpose, for how long, and how to request erasure. You collect email addresses: data protection law applies whatever the size of the giveaway.
Where the entrant can go and check. Rules announcing a verifiable draw without saying where to verify it are no better than rules promising nothing.
DrawSeal produces these rules automatically from your giveaway’s actual configuration: the ten sections above, filled with your prizes, dates, conditions and the draw method actually used. Change a prize or the weighting, and the text follows.
This page describes common practice; it is not legal advice.
It gives you the structure, not the accuracy. The risk is not a missing section, it is describing a different giveaway from yours.
Yes. They must be accessible to the entrant before they enter.
Best avoided, and impossible for anything touching the draw: the cryptographic commitment is published beforehand, and any later change would show.
The rules must cover it: at deadline the winner forfeits and a verifiable re-draw designates a new one, with the reason published.