Effective August 1, 2007, these Official Rules govern Box Tops for Education and its
Web site, located at www.boxtops4education.com. General Mills reserves the right
to make changes to these Official Rules at any time. Please check www.boxtops4education.com
from time to time to ensure you are aware of any updates or changes. Your participation
in Box Tops for Education indicates acceptance of these Official Rules.
Eligibility
Box Tops for Education is open to any accredited public, private or parochial school,
containing any class with students from Kindergarten to 8th grade, in the United
States that is organized and primarily operated for educational purposes and to
any United States military school, containing any class with students from Kindergarten
to 8th grade, worldwide. It is also available to accredited home school associations,
containing any class with students from Kindergarten to 8th grade, in the United
States organized and operated primarily for educational purposes and have 15 or
more students.
Box Tops for Education Overview
Box Tops for Education has three separate program components – Clip, Shop, and Book Club.
(1) The Clip program allows you to earn cash for your school by clipping Box Tops
for Education coupons from hundreds of participating products. (2) The Shop program
allows you to earn cash for your school by shopping online through the Box Tops
for Education Marketplace accessed at www.boxtops4education.com. (3) The Book Club
program allows you to earn cash for your school by purchasing books through the Box
Tops for Education Book Club.
Maximum Fundraising Amount
Each eligible school participating in Box Tops for Education may earn up to, but
not more than, $20,000 cash per year (June 1 — May 31) from each of the three separate
Box Tops for Education program components – Clip, Shop, and Book Club – for a total
maximum annual amount of $60,000 per school.
Promotions and Bonus Programs
From time to time, General Mills may run promotional programs whereby consumers
and/or schools may earn Bonus Box Tops, participate in a sweepstakes or receive
coupons, special offers, or recipes. All Bonus Box Tops earnings are counted over
and above the maximum annual fundraising amount of $60,000 per school. Bonus Box
Tops are issued through a printed official Bonus Box Tops certificate or automatically
credited to a school’s account. To receive payment for Bonus Box Tops, schools must
be enrolled in Box Tops for Education. General Mills reserves the right to limit
the redemption of expired, invalid, or fraudulent Bonus Box Tops.
Payments
Checks will be made payable only to schools enrolled in Box Tops for Education.
Checks can be made payable to a school PTA/PTO if previously specified. Payments
made to schools are not tax-deductible by schools, participants or purchasers. Payments
will be made twice each school year, on December 15th and April 15th. Each payment
will include amounts earned by schools from Clip, Shop, Book Club and Bonus programs.
The December 15th payment will reflect the amounts earned from March 1st through
the following October 31st, and the April 15th payment will reflect the amounts
earned from November 1st through February 28th. Schools that accrue total earnings
of less than $20.00 from March 1st through the following October 31st will not be
issued a December 15th payment. Instead, those earnings will carry over and a payment
will be issued for the entire school year to those schools in the April 15th payment.
Allow 2 to 4 weeks for checks to arrive. Box Tops for Education will not replace checks
requested more than 18 months after the original check was issued.
School Coordinators
Each participating school must designate a school coordinator in order to be enrolled
in the Box Tops for Education program.
Submitted Ideas, Suggestions and Information
All comments, suggestions, ideas, notes, drawings, concepts, recipes or other information
disclosed or offered to Box Tops for Education shall be deemed and shall remain
the property of General Mills. By submitting any suggestion, idea or other information,
you consent to its use by General Mills, including but not limited to its publication.
You understand and acknowledge that General Mills has both internal resources and
other external resources which may have developed or may in the future develop ideas
identical to or similar to the suggestion or comments and that General Mills is
only willing to consider the suggestion on these terms. In any event, any suggestion,
comment or idea is not submitted in confidence and General Mills assumes no obligation
express or implied by considering it. Without limitation, General Mills shall exclusively
own all now known or hereafter existing rights to the suggestions of every kind
and nature throughout the Universe and shall be entitled to unrestricted use of
the comments for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise without compensation
to the provider of the suggestions.
Program Changes
General Mills reserves the right to cancel or alter the terms of the Box Tops for
Education program at any time.
All submissions become the property of Box Tops. Reproduction, purchase, sale or trade of any Box Tops coupon, Super Box Top or Bonus certificate is prohibited. Box Tops for Education is not responsible for late, lost or misdirected mail. Box Tops for Education reserves the right to return boxes or envelopes mailed without sufficient postage.
Collect, Send and Earn
Clip Box Tops coupons from hundreds of participating products. Send your collected
Box Tops coupons to an enrolled school of your choice. Your school coordinator will
submit collected Box Tops coupons to General Mills for processing and verification.
Each Box Tops coupon is worth 10 cents.
Qualifying Box Tops
Qualifying Box Tops coupons can be found on packages of participating General Mills
Big G cereals, Betty Crocker® products including Betty Crocker® fruit snacks, Yoplait®
yogurt multipacks, Yoplait® Go-GURT™ yogurt , Lloyd’s® barbeque buckets, Gold Medal®
flour, Progresso® soups, Green Giant® frozen meal kits and frozen sides, Old El
Paso® products, Totino’s® frozen pizzas and snacks, Pillsbury® refrigerated and
frozen products, General Mills and Pillsbury® food service products, Pop Secret®
popcorn, Gardetto’s® and Chex Mix® snack mixes, Bugles® corn snacks, Pillsbury®
fresh bread, Cascadian Farms™ cereals, S.C. Johnson Ziploc®, and Kimberly-Clark and Pactiv Corporation products. Qualifying
products are subject to change. For a complete list of participating products visit
www.boxtops4education.com.
Redemptions and Program Deadline
To redeem qualifying Box Tops for Education coupons for cash, a school coordinator
must complete an official Box Tops Submission Form and enclose the form with each
shipment of qualifying Box Tops coupons. Submissions must be postmarked by October
31st for earnings to be included on December 15th checks and by February 28th to
be included on April 15th checks. Schools that accrue total earnings of less than
$20.00 from April 1st through the following October 31st will not be issued a December
15th payment. Instead, those earnings will carry over and a payment will be issued
for the entire school year to those schools in the April 15th payment. All submissions
are subject to verification.
Unacceptable Submissions
Box Tops coupons that have been defaced, mutilated, forged or in any way altered
will not be accepted, nor will any Betty Crocker catalog points or UPC symbols.
Expired Box Tops
Box Tops coupons submitted after their printed expiration date are considered void
and will not be honored.
Payments to Schools
Payments to schools resulting from eligible Box Tops coupon submissions will be
made twice each school year, on December 15th and April 15th. The December 15th
payment will reflect confirmed earnings from shipments postmarked between April
1st through the following October 31st, and the April 15th payment will reflect
confirmed earnings from shipments postmarked between November 1st through February
28. Schools that accrue total earnings of less than $20.00 from April 1st through
the following October 31st will not be issued a December 15th payment. Instead,
those earnings will carry over and a payment will be issued for the entire school
year to those schools in the April 15th payment. Schools can earn a maximum of $20,000
each school year from the Clip program. Allow 2 to 4 weeks for checks to arrive.
Shipping Charges
All postage and shipping charges are the responsibility of the sender.
Box Tops for Education Marketplace
Through www.boxtops4education.com, General Mills operates an interactive online
marketplace program that enables you to access the Web sites of third-party merchants
and purchase various goods or services from these merchants’ sites. The Box Tops
for Education Marketplace allows you to designate a school to which a portion of
your qualifying online purchase will be paid as the result of a commission payment
earned from that merchant. (Your designated school must already be enrolled in Box
Tops for Education.) The Box Tops Marketplace is active 7 days a week, 52 weeks
a year.
To earn cash for your school by shopping at the Box Tops for Education Marketplace,
you must choose a link from www.boxtops4education.com to a participating merchant’s
site, make a purchase, accept delivery, and pay the merchant for the purchase. (If
you access a participating merchant’s site in any manner other than by linking directly
from the Box Tops for Education Marketplace, your purchase WILL NOT result in a
donation to your school.) The merchant must then send the correct commission payment
to General Mills’ fulfillment center for processing and payment to your designated
school. The amount of the donation to the school varies depending on the merchant
and depending on the item or service purchased. The donation amount for each merchant
in effect at the time of purchase will be posted throughout the Box Tops Marketplace.
Please note that certain merchants place restrictions on the types of products that
will earn donations or have a maximum donation amount per purchase. Visit www.boxtops4education.com
and click on “Questions” for more details. General Mills is not liable or responsible
in any way for inaccuracies that may be displayed on www.boxtops4education.com relating
to payment amounts or percentages, whether as a result of human or mechanical error
or otherwise.
Shipping and Handling Costs
Sales taxes, shipping costs, gift certificates, packaging or handling fees, gift-wrapping
services, governmental fees, and certain other charges may not be included in the
calculation of the school donation amount.
Returns, Refunds and Cancellations
School donations are subject to adjustment if you later return purchased item(s),
cancel your purchase, or obtain a refund from the merchant.
Qualifying Purchases
Purchases must be made from approved merchants and by users who have properly registered
at, and linked from www.boxtops4education.com. No other purchases will qualify for
inclusion in the Box Tops for Education Marketplace program, and no donations will
be made to a school for non-qualifying or fraudulent purchases. Purchases made by
users who have not properly designated a school to receive payments will support
the general Box Tops for Education program.
Cookies
The use of “cookies” is necessary to accurately track your purchases from participating
merchants. If you set your Internet browser to disable or reject cookies, we will
not be able to track and confirm your purchases and make the proper donation to
your school.
Payments by Merchants
Online purchases made through the Box Tops Marketplace from affiliated merchants
will earn a percentage of that purchase for a designated school, or, if a shopper
is unregistered, for the general Box Tops for Education program. Donation amounts
appear throughout the Box Tops Marketplace site. Payments to schools will only be
made once the commission payment has been received from the participating merchant.
Commission payments from merchants are normally received by General Mills on a monthly
or quarterly basis, but in some cases payments may not be received for up to six
months from the date of purchase. If a participating merchant fails to provide payment
of the proper amount for any reason (including, but not limited to, bankruptcy or
a cessation of business operations), no donation – or only a partial donation –
will be made to the designated school.
Payments to Schools
Payments to schools resulting from eligible purchases at Box Tops Marketplace merchants
will be made twice each school year, on December 15th and April 15th. The December
15th payment will reflect confirmed earnings from April 1st through the following
October 31st, and the April 15th payment will reflect confirmed earnings from November
1st through February 28th. Schools that accrue total earnings of less than $20.00
from April 1st through the following October 31st will not be issued a December
15th payment. Instead, those earnings will carry over and a payment will be issued
for the entire school year to those schools in the April 15th payment. Schools can
earn a maximum of $20,000 each school year from the Shop program. Allow 2 to 4 weeks
for checks to arrive.
Your Account
You can access a record of the donations you have earned for your school through
the “Shop” program in the Your Account section of the Box Tops Marketplace. Your
account will be updated on the 15th of each month to reflect the previous month’s
activity. (For example, a January statement of accounts will post on February 15th.)
Please note that it may take six to eight weeks for some merchants to report your
purchases to General Mills. Additionally, it is not possible to track purchases
at an individual user level at certain merchants. (Earnings from these merchants
will be tracked at the school level, however, and will be included in your school’s
total program earnings.)
If you have made a purchase and do not see it reflected on your account, please
wait at least six to eight weeks before contacting General Mills. Due to the way
some merchants report data, it may take this long for General Mills to post information
to your account. If after six to eight weeks a transaction still has not posted,
please go to www.boxtops4education.com and click on “Questions” to learn how to
report the error so that we can investigate. Please keep all records of your purchases
from participating merchants for at least six months just in case there is a problem
with the merchant or your account.
Merchants are Responsible for Their Own Products
General Mills is not responsible for and does not control the products and services
offered by participating merchants in the Box Tops for Education Marketplace. Merchants
accessed through the Site are responsible for all aspects of their order processing,
order fulfillment, shipping and handling, billing, and customer service. General
Mills is not a party to the transactions entered into between you and the merchants
with which you choose to do business. If you buy products or services from merchants
through the Box Tops Marketplace, you become a customer of those merchants and therefore
should direct any comments, complaints or inquiries regarding your purchases to
those merchants, and not to General Mills.
Box Tops For Education Book Club Program Rules
Through the Book Club, students at your school will be able to purchase high-quality books that add up to extra Box Tops. Your school can spend its earnings on whatever it chooses. For each dollar spent on a book purchase made through the Book Club, you earn one 10¢ Box Top Coupon up to $20,000 additional dollars each year.
Eligibility
All Box Tops Coordinators are invited to register for the Book Club to receive book order forms. All Coordinators who register to participate in the Book Club will be asked to indicate the number of forms they require for each of the three grade level segments. Following a coordinator’s initial registration for the Book Club, schools will have the opportunity to place orders up to eight times per year from September through April. Coordinators will distribute grade-level book order forms to the appropriate teachers for all students in each teacher’s classroom. Students and their parents may choose the books they want to order. All completed book order forms must be accompanied by a check made out to the Box Tops for Education Book Club for the exact amount. No cash will be accepted. Teachers should collect the order forms and checks, and forward them to the coordinators. Each coordinator will compile orders onto master order forms for all grade segments for their school, and send those forms to Box Tops along with all of the individual checks. Coordinators will keep each individual student’s order form to aid in the distribution of the books once they arrive at the site designated by the Coordinator in four to six weeks after the postmark deadline.
Payments to Schools
Payments to schools from appropriately completed book orders will be mailed twice each school year, on December 15th and April 15th. It may take two to four weeks for checks to arrive. The December 15th payment will reflect confirmed earnings from book orders postmarked between March 1st through the following October 31st, and the April 15th payment will reflect confirmed earnings from shipments postmarked between November 1st through February 28th. Schools that accrue total earnings of less than $20.00 from March 1st through the following October 31st will not be issued a December 15th payment. Instead, those earnings will carry over and a payment will be issued for the entire school year to those schools in the April 15th payment. Earnings totaling less than $5 within one school year shall also carry over until the next check period occurs in which a school’s total earnings accumulate to this minimum payment threshold. Schools can earn a maximum of $20,000 each school year from the Book Club program. Allow 2-4 weeks for checks to arrive.
Shipping Charges
There will be no postage, handling or shipping charges assessed to the individual order. All postage and shipping charges for the mailing of the master order forms and individual checks shall be the responsibility of the sender.
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