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Official Rules / T&Cs | Privacy Notice
TERMS & CONDITIONS PlayUSA Slot Bracket 2026
1. Sponsor
The PlayUSA Slot Bracket 2026 (the “Promotion“) is sponsored and administered by Catena Operations Limited, a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of Malta with company number C62481 and having its registered office at Quantum Place, Triq ix-Xatt Ta’ Xbiex, Gzira GZR 1052, Malta (the “Sponsor“). The Promotion is run through the PlayUSA Instagram account @playusacom (the “Account“).
The featured slot titles are included solely as the subjects of the bracket vote. The relevant game providers and rights holders are not sponsors or administrators of the Promotion and have no role in winner selection or prize provision. The titles are used in plain text for identification purposes only, and their inclusion does not, by itself, imply sponsorship or endorsement of the Promotion.
Amazon and Apple are not sponsors, endorsers or administrators of the Promotion and have no responsibility for its administration, winner selection or prize provision by the Sponsor.
2. Eligibility
The Promotion is open to natural persons who, at the time of entry, are legal residents of the fifty (50) United States or the District of Columbia and are twenty-one (21) years of age or older. Void where prohibited or restricted by applicable law.
The following persons are not eligible to enter or win:
employees, officers, directors, contractors, agents and representatives of the Sponsor and its parent companies, subsidiaries and affiliates;
employees, contractors and agents of the game providers and rights holders featured in the Promotion;
creators/influencers engaged in connection with the Promotion, and their agencies;
any other person or entity directly involved in the development, administration or fulfillment of the Promotion; and
the immediate family members and household members of any person listed above.
For these purposes, “immediate family” means a spouse or domestic partner, parent, stepparent, child, stepchild, sibling, stepsibling, and the spouse or domestic partner of any such person, whether or not they live in the same household.
3. Promotion Structure & Match Entry Periods
The Promotion is a single-elimination bracket featuring sixteen (16) bracket contestants and fifteen (15) Matches over four rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final. Each Match is a separate voting period and prize drawing.
The Promotion begins when the first Round of 16 Match post is published on the Account on Monday, November 16, 2026 and ends at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, December 11, 2026 (the “Promotion Period“). Each Match Entry Period begins when the relevant
| Match post is published and ends at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the applicable Friday shown below (each, a “Match Deadline“). Sponsor’s systems and records are the official timekeeping method. Round | Matches | Posts published | Match Deadline |
| Round of 16 | 1-8 | Monday, November 16 to Wednesday, November 18, 2026 | Friday, November 20, 2026, 12:00 p.m. ET |
| Quarterfinals | 9-12 | Monday, November 23 to Tuesday, November 24, 2026 | Friday, November 27, 2026, 12:00 p.m. ET |
| Semifinals | 13-14 | Monday, November 30 to Tuesday, December 1, 2026 | Friday, December 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m. ET |
| Final | 15 | Monday, December 7, 2026 | Friday, December 11, 2026, 12:00 p.m. ET |
Round of 16 pairings will be determined by a recorded random draw before the first Match and announced on the Account on Sunday, November 15, 2026. Pairings in later rounds follow the bracket, subject to Section 11 below.
4. How to Enter
During a Match Entry Period, an eligible entrant must (a) follow @playusacom on Instagram and (b) post one comment on the relevant Match post consisting solely of the single character “1” or the single character “2”, corresponding to the bracket contestant the entrant wishes to vote for as identified in that Match post.
Following the Account and posting the valid comment are the only actions required to enter. No purchase, payment, subscription, deposit, wager, gameplay, like, save, share or tag is required. Creating an Instagram account and following the Account are free.
Only the entrant’s first valid comment on a Match post counts. Comments containing both choices, additional text, emojis or symbols, or comments submitted after the Match Deadline are invalid. An entrant must be following the Account at the time of the relevant prize drawing. If a potential winner is not following the Account at that time, the entry is invalid and an alternate potential winner may be selected.
Entry does not require purchasing, playing or otherwise accessing any featured slot title or any gambling or gaming product.
5. Entry Limits & Account Misuse
Limit one (1) entry per natural person per Match, regardless of the number of Instagram accounts that person owns or controls. An eligible person may enter each Match, but entries do not carry over from one Match to another.
Use of multiple Instagram accounts, automated tools, bots, scripts, false identities or other methods to circumvent the entry limit is prohibited and may result in disqualification of all related entries. If such conduct is discovered after a prize has been awarded, the Sponsor reserves the right, to the extent permitted by law, to require return of the prize or reimbursement of its value.
6. How a Match is Decided
After each Match Deadline, the Sponsor will count the comments for each of the two (2) bracket contestants that meet the requirements of Section 4 as to form and timing. The Sponsor will not verify each voter’s eligibility before counting, and eligibility will be verified for potential winners only. The bracket contestant with the greater number of valid votes advances to the next round. If the valid vote count is tied, the advancing bracket contestant will be selected by a recorded random draw.
Except where Section 11 applies, the prize pool for a Match consists only of valid entries that voted for the bracket contestant that advances from that Match. Entries that voted for the non-advancing bracket contestant are not eligible for that Match prize.
7. Prize Drawing and Odds
Within three (3) business days after each Match Deadline, the Sponsor will select one (1) potential winner at random from the applicable Match prize pool using a verifiable random selection method. The Sponsor will retain an audit record of the relevant entry export, exclusions and draw.
Odds of winning a Match prize depend on the number of valid entries in the applicable Match prize pool. Fifteen (15) prizes will be awarded in the Promotion, one for each Match, subject to these Terms & Conditions.
8. Prizes
| Round | Prize per Match | ARV per Prize | Number of Prizes | Subtotal ARV |
| Round of 16 | $50 Amazon.com digital gift card | $50 | 8 | $400 |
| Quarterfinals | $100 Amazon.com digital gift card | $100 | 4 | $400 |
| Semifinals | Apple AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation, or Apple gift card of equal ARV at winner election | $179 | 2 | $358 |
The approximate retail value (“ARV“) of all prizes in this Promotion is $1,507. The Sponsor will select the retailer for each gift card and the make and model of each hardware prize. Gift cards are subject to the issuer’s terms and conditions. Gift card prizes will be delivered electronically to the email address provided by the verified winner. Hardware prizes will be delivered to a valid United States street address provided by the verified winner. A Semifinal or Final winner who elects the stated gift card alternative must make that election during winner verification.
Prizes are not transferable and may not be redeemed for cash. The Sponsor may substitute a prize with another prize of equal or greater value if the stated prize becomes unavailable for any reason. All federal, state and local taxes and any other costs not expressly stated in these Terms & Conditions are the sole responsibility of the winner. The Sponsor may request information reasonably required to comply with applicable tax or reporting obligations.
A person may win more than one gift card prize across different Matches. However, there is a limit of one (1) Semifinal or Final prize, whether hardware or gift card, per person and per household across this Promotion and the Bonus.com Sweeps Casino Bracket 2026 combined.
9. Winner Notification & Verification
The Sponsor will contact each potential winner by direct message from the Account within two (2) business days after the relevant prize drawing. The Sponsor may also reply publicly to the winning comment to direct the potential winner to check messages from the Account.
A potential winner must respond within forty-eight (48) hours of the Sponsor’s first direct message and confirm eligibility, including age and U.S. residence. The potential winner must provide their name, a valid email address for a digital gift card and, if a hardware prize is selected, a valid U.S. street address for delivery. The Sponsor may require a copy of government-issued identification or other reasonable evidence to verify the potential winner’s identity, age and residence.
If a potential winner does not respond within the required period, is ineligible, declines the prize, or fails to complete the verification process, the potential winner forfeits the prize, and the Sponsor may select an alternate potential winner at random from the same applicable prize pool. The Sponsor will never request payment, passwords or authentication codes as a condition of receiving a prize.
10. Conduct & Disqualification
The Sponsor may disqualify any entrant who tampers with the entry or voting process, interferes with the fair administration of the Promotion, uses automated or fraudulent means, provides false information, breaches these Terms & Conditions or applicable Instagram terms, or otherwise acts in a disruptive, abusive or unsportsmanlike manner.
Buying, selling or trading votes, or offering money, prizes, discounts, credits or anything else of value in exchange for an entry or vote, is prohibited. If a bracket contestant, or a person acting on its behalf, is found to have arranged or offered anything of value for votes, the Sponsor may remove that bracket contestant in accordance with Section 11.
11. Removal or Replacement of a Bracket Contestant
The Sponsor may remove or replace a bracket contestant where reasonably necessary because of an objection by the relevant operator, provider or rights holder, an intellectual property issue, a legal or compliance concern, a platform requirement, or another circumstance beyond the Sponsor’s reasonable control.
Results of completed Matches and completed prize drawings will not be affected by the removal of a bracket contestant. If a bracket contestant is removed:
(a) before the Round of 16 Match post in which it features is published, it may be replaced by another eligible contestant selected by the Sponsor and the bracket will be updated before publication;
(b) before any later-round Match post in which it features is published, its place will be taken by the bracket contestant it beat in its previous Match or, if that contestant is unavailable, by another eligible contestant selected by the Sponsor;
(c) while a Match in which it features is open, the Sponsor may close and remove the Match post after recording the valid entries received, the remaining bracket contestant will advance, and the Match prize will be drawn at random from all valid entries received for either bracket contestant before the Match was closed;
(d) where a bracket contestant is removed after winning a completed Match, the result of that Match and any prize already awarded will remain unaffected. If a further round remains, its place will be taken by the bracket contestant it beat in its most recently completed Match or, if that contestant is unavailable, by another eligible contestant selected by the Sponsor. If the next-round Match post has already been published, that Match will be closed and republished with the replacement contestant and a new entry period, and entries submitted to the original post will not carry over; and
(e) after it has been eliminated from the bracket, the bracket will not be affected.
The Sponsor will remove the name of a removed bracket contestant from later Promotion materials so far as practicable, but is not required to edit or delete posts already published. The Sponsor will announce any material bracket change on the Account.
12. Platform Interruption, Suspension or Cancellation
If Instagram, Meta or another relevant platform restricts, disables or otherwise prevents use of the Account or Promotion content, or if fraud, technical failure or another event beyond the Sponsor’s reasonable control materially affects the integrity or operation of the Promotion, the Sponsor may suspend, modify or cancel the Promotion or any affected Match to the extent reasonably necessary.
Where an affected Match is already open, the Sponsor will use reasonable efforts, where legally and operationally possible, to preserve valid entries received before suspension and
to award the applicable prize using a fair method consistent with Section 11. Any material change will be communicated on the Account or, if the Account is unavailable, through another reasonable channel selected by the Sponsor.
13. Publicity
If you are selected as a winner, the Sponsor may use your first name, last initial, state of residence and Instagram username solely to announce the results of the Promotion, including in Promotion-related winner announcements on the Account and in the Sponsor’s email communications. No other use of a winner’s name, likeness or personal information for advertising or promotional purposes will be made without the winner’s consent.
14. Privacy
The Sponsor will process personal information submitted or generated in connection with the Promotion for the purposes of administering the bracket, validating entries, counting votes, preventing fraud, selecting and verifying winners, delivering prizes, announcing Promotion results, responding to inquiries and maintaining an appropriate audit record.
For entrants, this may include Instagram usernames, comments, timestamps and related entry records. For potential winners, this may additionally include age and residence confirmation, name, a copy of government-issued identification where required for verification, an email address and, where a hardware prize is selected, a U.S. shipping address. The Sponsor does not require payment information to award a prize.
Promotion administration records containing participant or winner personal data will be retained for twelve (12) months after final prize fulfillment and then deleted or anonymized, unless they must be retained longer because of an ongoing complaint, regulatory inquiry, litigation hold, or other legal requirement. Tax and statutory reporting records will be retained for the period required by applicable law and the Sponsor’s finance procedures.
Any personal information collected in connection with the Promotion, including information collected from potential winners for eligibility verification and prize fulfillment, will be processed in accordance with the Sponsor’s Privacy Notice available at the Privacy Notice.
15. Instagram & Meta
By entering, each entrant releases Instagram and Meta Platforms, Inc. from responsibility in connection with the Promotion to the fullest extent permitted by law and acknowledges that the Promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram or Meta Platforms, Inc. Entrants remain responsible for complying with applicable Instagram terms and platform rules.
16. Release & Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, entrants agree to release and hold harmless the Sponsor, its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors and agents from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses arising out of participation in the Promotion or acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a prize, except to the extent caused by fraud, willful misconduct or any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
The Sponsor is not responsible for entries that are lost, late, incomplete, corrupted, misdirected, not visible to the Sponsor, or not received because of technical failures, platform outages, account restrictions, network problems or other circumstances beyond the Sponsor’s reasonable control.
17. General
The Sponsor’s decisions regarding eligibility, validation of entries, vote counts, winner selection and administration of the Promotion are final, subject to applicable law. If any provision of these Terms & Conditions is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.
These Terms & Conditions and the Promotion are governed by the laws of Malta, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to the Promotion will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the public courts of Malta.
PRIVACY NOTICE
Effective Date November 16, 2026
Welcome to the Bracket Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) of Catena Operations Limited and its related, affiliated or subsidiary companies (collectively “Catena”). The purpose of this Notice is to inform you how we collect, use, and share your information when you participate in promotional campaigns or offers in connection with the PlayUSA Slot Bracket 2026 run on the PlayUSA Instagram account @playusacom (the “Promotion”), or otherwise engage with the websites, social media accounts and other services used by Catena to administer or support the Promotion (collectively the “Services”). It supplements the PlayUSA Privacy Policy available at https://www.playusa.com/privacy-policy/ (the “Privacy Policy“), which continues to apply to your use of PlayUSA.com and to any marketing you have separately agreed to receive. If this Notice and the Privacy Policy differ in relation to the Promotion, this Notice applies.
When we refer to “you” or “your” in this Notice we mean any individual who interacts with or uses our Services. By using the Services, you represent that you understand and agree to this Notice, and consent to the collection, use, and sharing of information as described in this Notice. If you do not consent to our practices, you can choose not to use the Services.
Privacy Notice Changes. We reserve the right to modify this Notice at any time without notice. All changes are effective immediately upon posting. Your continued use of the Services after changes are posted constitutes your acknowledgement of the modified privacy notice and agreement to abide and be bound by that privacy notice. For reference, the effective date of this Notice is posted at the top of this page. Therefore, it is important that you periodically check this page for changes made to this Notice.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Catena may collect information about you when you interact with our Services including information that you voluntarily provide when you use the Services from one or more of your devices or otherwise interact with the Services. A description of the types of information we may collect is described in detail below.
Identifiers and entry information such as first name, last name, Instagram username, comments, timestamps and related entry records, copy of government-issued ID, date of birth, email, telephone number and postal address. Additional identifiers may be collected from selected potential winners. A selected potential winner will be asked by Instagram direct message to provide additional information, including their legal name, confirmation of their age and state of residence, an email address and, where required for delivery of a hardware prize, a U.S. shipping address, for eligibility verification and prize fulfilment. Where we are required to report a prize for tax purposes, we may also ask for a taxpayer identification number, such as a Social Security Number. Instagram direct messages are processed by Meta under its own terms and privacy policy. Where a winner is announced in connection with the Promotion, this may include the winner’s first name or Instagram username.
Marketing and Communications Information such as communications with us, marketing campaign data, click-throughs, and user preferences. Where you separately choose to receive marketing communications, this may also include your marketing preferences and consent records.
Location Data. We may approximate your location using your IP address signal.
Information We Collect When You Use the Services
Automated technologies or interactions. As you navigate around our websites and/or use the Services, Catena may collect certain information using various technologies. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, time zone setting and location, language preferences, device type and ID, and other technical information from the devices you use to access our Services.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies. We and our service providers use cookies, pixels, and other tracking technology to recognize your browser or device and to capture and remember certain information about your activities on our website. For example, cookies gather information about how long you spend on a web page so that we can understand what web pages are of interest to users. If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off cookies by adjusting your browser settings. If you turn off your cookies, some of the features of the website may not function properly. Pixel tags generally work in conjunction with cookies, registering when a particular device visits a particular page. You cannot decline pixel tags; however, if you turn off cookies the pixel tag will simply detect an anonymous visit. We also use pixel tags in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by the recipients and whether any links have been clicked. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you prefer not to be tracked through our emails, most email services will allow you to turn off pixels by disabling external images in settings.
Analytics. We use third party analytics providers such as Google Analytics, to assist us in better understanding how users use our Services. These providers collect usage data, including IP address and usage data, such as the length of time a user spends on a page, the pages a user visits, and the websites a user visits before and after visiting our Site. In addition to reporting usage statistics, Google Analytics can also be used to help show more relevant ads on Google properties (like Google Search) and across the web. For more information on Google Analytics, visit Google’s Privacy and Terms. You can access the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser Add-on, currently located here. You can also opt out of advertising cookies using the Google Ad Settings.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may process your information for the following business purposes:
● Provide our Services and to operate our business.
● Process, evaluate, and respond to your requests or inquiries.
● Communicate with you about content, products, services, updates, events, promotional offers, insights, and other information that may be of interest to you from us and our clients.
● To understand user preferences and deliver more relevant content and advertising, including to deliver, measure, or manage advertising campaigns and to create custom or lookalike audiences.
● Send you information regarding our relationship with you or regarding the Site, such as information about changes to our terms, conditions, policies, and other administrative information.
● Resolve disputes and/or questions about our Services.
● Problem troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting data.
● Enforce our Terms for use of our Services and the terms of this Notice.
● Customize, measure and improve our Services.
● For our own internal business purposes.
● Protect our interests, including establishing, exercising and defending legal rights and claims.
● As necessary to comply with legal requirements, to prevent fraud, to co-operate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities, and to stop other prohibited, illegal, or harmful activities.
● For purposes disclosed at the time you provide/we request your information or as otherwise set forth in this Notice.
INFORMATION WE SHARE
Clients. We share your personal information with our clients when you request information about the client or participate in a client’s promotion or bonus offer. Featured operators, game providers or other third parties in a Catena-administered Promotion do not receive entrant or winner personal information solely because they are featured in the Promotion.
Service Providers. We may use third-party service providers to perform certain business services and may disclose your information to such service providers as needed for them to perform these business services. Service providers include, but are not limited to, hosting services, marketing, promotional, and email services, tools used to export entries and conduct prize draws, gift card and prize fulfilment providers, and analytics services. Creators who co-publish Promotion posts with us can see public comments on those posts in the same way as any Instagram user. We do not otherwise share entrant or winner information with them.
Internal Third Parties. We may share your information with our parent, subsidiaries, affiliated entities, successors, predecessors, assigns, licensees, or business partners, and others who may use the information for the purposes described above.
Advertising Partners. We may share your information with our advertising partners to deliver, customize, measure, or manage advertising and audience modelling.
Business Transactions. We may do business with third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then your information may be transferred to the new owners who may use your information in the same way as set out in this Notice.
Legal Process. Subject to applicable law, we may disclose information about you i) if we are required to do so by law, regulation or legal process, such as a subpoena; ii) in response to requests by government entities, such as law enforcement authorities; iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical, financial, or other harm, injury, or loss; or iv) for the purposes of cooperation with law enforcement agencies’ and/or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual unlawful activity.
Third Party Websites. The Services may include links and plug-ins to websites and other online platforms operated by our clients and advertising partners (“Third-Party Sites”). Catena does not control any Third-Party Sites and is not responsible for any information they may collect. The information collection practices of a Third-Party Site are governed by their own privacy policies and terms.
CHILDREN
The Services are intended for users aged twenty-one (21) or older. If you are under the age of twenty-one (21), you are not authorized to provide us with any personally identifying information, nor access or use
our Services in any manner whatsoever. By using the Services, you represent that you are twenty-one (21) or older.
USE OF THE SERVICES
By accessing and using the Services, you acknowledge and agree that the Services are intended for use by users located in the United States of America. Unless expressly stated to the contrary, we make no representation that the Services are appropriate or will be available for use in other locations.
RETENTION PERIOD
We retain personal data relating to the administration of our Promotions, including, without limitation, entry records, draw records, winner verification records and prize fulfilment records, for 12 months following final prize fulfilment. Personal data of entrants who did not win is retained for the same period, unless needed to resolve a query or complaint about a Promotion. This does not affect comments that remain visible on Instagram, which you can delete at any time.
At the end of the applicable period, we delete or irreversibly anonymize this data, unless longer retention is necessary to handle an ongoing complaint or dispute, respond to a regulatory enquiry, comply with a legal hold, or meet a legal obligation (such as tax or accounting record-keeping requirements). In those cases, we retain only the data relevant to that purpose, and only for as long as that purpose requires.
The selected winner may be asked to provide additional information, including their legal name, age/residence confirmation, email address and, where required for delivery of a hardware prize, shipping address for eligibility verification and prize fulfillment. Where a winner is announced in connection with the Promotion, this may include the winner’s first name and Instagram username.
NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
Your California Privacy Rights. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents who have provided personally identifiable information to us or our third-party advertisers and marketing partners, if any, to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personally identifiable information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. Requests should be submitted via email to privacy@catenamedia.com and should include CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS in the subject line. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the requirements of Section 1798.83 and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.
Your ‘Do Not Track’ Browser Setting. Some web browsers incorporate a Do Not Track (“DNT”) feature that signals to the websites that you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Our website does not currently respond to DNT signals. We may allow certain third-party advertising partners to place tracking technology, such as cookies and pixels on our Services. This technology allows us and/or third parties to collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different websites.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Notice, please contact us at: privacy@catenamedia.com.