How Can I Ensure My Mother's Day Giveaway Complies With Legal Requirements?

Start with these four checks. They cover the common problems, not every law, and this isn't legal advice.

1. Terms. Gleam generates Terms & Conditions for every Competition from your dates, locations and prizes. Writing your own needs the Hobby Plan or above.
2. A free way to enter. If an Action needs a purchase, switch on A Purchase or Donation is Required to Complete This Action in that Action. We add a free entry alternative to your terms and show it only where the law requires one.
3. Instagram. Each entrant must give a complete release of Instagram, and you must say Instagram doesn't sponsor, endorse or run the giveaway. Don't ask people to tag themselves in photos they aren't in.
4. Facebook. Meta's promotion policy asks for official rules, a release of Meta by each entrant and an acknowledgement that Meta isn't involved. You can't require or reward sharing, reposting or tagging others on Facebook.

Where you run it matters too. In Australia, some states and territories need a permit for a random draw above a set prize value, so check your regulator's site. Our Instagram giveaway rules post covers point 3 in more detail.