Terms and Conditions

• Max refund is $60 or total cost of registration, whichever is lower. This amount shall not exceed total amount paid for registration if coupons or other codes were used.
• No raincheck or backdating referrals. Those who sign up without your link will not be added to your referral count.
• Eligible referrals registrations are when your friends/family register through your referral link for the IU Health 500 Festival Mini-Marathon or Challenges.
• The refund will be automatically processed and returned to the credit card you used to purchase your registration.
• Refund only applies to registration fee portion of the entry, not the transaction or additional purchase fees tied to the registration.
• Limited time offer. Race reserves the right to stop or change promotion at any time.

Restrictions

In connection with your participation in the Referral Program, you expressly agree to the restrictions listed below. When distributing, promoting or communicating your Referral Link you agree that:

• No spamming. You agree that you will not “spam” anyone with invitations to register, and that you at all times will remain compliant with CAN-SPAM, the TCPA, and other applicable laws. The following specific activities are prohibited:
  • Mass emailing, texting or messaging people you do not personally know;
  • Use of automated systems or bots through any channel to distribute, post or respond to your Referral Code;
  • Use of scripts, programed or automatic dialers to send invites or to communicate Referral Codes; and
  • Posting referral codes on event or venue pages without express permission from the owner.
• No Misrepresentations. You agree that you will not attempt to mislead anyone in connection with the Referral Program, either by affirmative representation, implication, or omission. In particular, you agree that you will not:
  • Impersonate any person or entity
  • Create fake accounts, blogs, webpages, profiles, websites, links or messages
  • Misrepresent your relationship with the 500 Festival or any other third party (Don’t create content or communications that could have the effect of leading a consumer to believe that it is an official communication from the 500 Festival or the IU Health 500 Festival Mini-Marathon.)
  • Suggest that an affiliation or partnership exists with a third party where none exists. Don’t make misrepresentations with respect to the characteristics or qualification requirements for any referral rewards. You acknowledge that 500 Festival may change the characteristics or qualification requirements for referral rewards in its discretion, and therefore you shall not represent any fixed characteristics (e.g., amount of credit, expiration date).
• Prohibited content. You agree that you will not use the 500 Festival or IU Health 500 Festival Mini-Marathon brand in connection with:
  • Disparaging or defamatory content concerning 500 Festival or third parties;
  • Content which promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, discrimination or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
  • Offensive, abusive, intimidating or harassing content
  • Content that is sexually explicit, obscene and/or contains nudity
  • Any political and/or religious statement;
  • Content containing images or reference to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, weapons or firearms
  • Content that violates someone else’s privacy
• Other restrictions. You also agree that you will not:
  • Create websites, domains, URLs, social media handles or email addresses containing the word “500 Festival”;
  • Use images of celebrities or other public or private figures without their written consent
  • Use someone else’s brand name or intellectual property without their written consent (for example, referencing “Super Bowl” or “Coachella” would be prohibited);
  • Engage in phishing or attempting to obtain financial or other personal information
  • Solicit passwords or personally identifiable information
  • Sell your Referral Code. You agree that you will only distribute your 500 Festival Referral Code free of charge only for promotional purposes. You may not sell, trade, or barter your 500 Festival Referral Code under any circumstances. You may not pay or provide anything of value to an invited user beyond any referral credit or collateral supplied by 500 Festival.
    vii. Violate or infringe the rights of a third party. You will not create any 500 Festival Referral Code that infringes on the intellectual property rights of any third party. You will adhere to the License terms in any use of referral program
    viii. Advertise. You agree that you will not pay to advertise your 500 Festival Referral Code or the Referral Program, including via Google, Facebook, Twitter, Bing and Craigslist.
  • Create printed materials other than those authorized by 500 Festival
  • Post printed materials on public or private property without the express written consent.
  • Engage in fraudulent activity. You agree that you and your referrals will not defraud or abuse (or attempt to defraud or abuse) 500 Festival, the terms of the 500 Festival Referral Program, or any invited users.

If you violate any of these restrictions 500 Festival may, in its discretion, remove your eligibility to participate in the Referral Program, and/or deny you any Referral Rewards earned in violation or suspected violation of these restrictions.