Official Rules
Contents
1. Sponsor
American Light Design, LLC, Marshall, Virginia (“ALD”).
2. No purchase necessary
No purchase necessary. A purchase does not improve the chance of receiving an award.
3. Entry period
Entries accepted from October 19, 2026 through November 9, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET, via americanlight.design/giveaway/.
4. How to enter
Submit a video or written story nominating a homeowner, including yourself, and explaining why they should receive an award. Limit 1 entry per nominee. An entry is complete only when the entrant accepts the publication agreement in Rule 9; entries without it will not be accepted or judged.
5. Selection
This is a contest judged on merit. Entries are scored by a panel of independent outdoor living industry experts against the criteria in Schedule B. ALD confirms eligibility and feasibility of selected entries. Judges’ decisions are final. No recipient is selected at random or by chance.
6. Awards
ALD may select one or more entries to receive an award. The total value of all awards will not exceed $50,000. ALD reserves the right to determine the number and value of awards, and to award fewer than the maximum, at its sole discretion based on the judging criteria.
Each award’s value is ALD’s standard retail price for the installed project; this is the figure used for tax reporting. Awards are not transferable and not redeemable for cash. Recipients must sign a publicity and rights release, provide tax information, and schedule installation to be completed by December 25, 2026.
7. What the award includes
Each award covers only the supply and installation by ALD of MagnaTrack Motorized Shades by Progressive Screens. Awards do not include custom work, painting, staining, electrical work, structural preparation, permits, plumbing, or any other work or materials beyond installing the MagnaTrack Motorized Shades. Any excluded work needed to complete an installation, including providing electrical power for the motorized shades, is the recipient’s responsibility and cost and must be performed by appropriately licensed professionals.
8. Other promotional offers
ALD may, at its discretion, extend separate promotional offers to entrants. Any such offer is not an award and is governed by its own terms.
9. Rights
Publication agreement (required for every written and video entry). By entering, the entrant grants ALD a perpetual, royalty-free license to use, edit, excerpt and publish the submitted video or story, in whole or in part, in ALD advertising, social media, website and other marketing, whether or not the entry receives an award, without further compensation. The entrant confirms the submission is their own work, that they have permission from everyone who appears in or is described in it (including the nominee, and a parent or guardian for anyone under 18), and that it does not include copyrighted music or material they don’t have rights to.
10. Publicity
Recipients agree to the use of their name, likeness, home and story in ALD marketing, subject to a separate signed release.
11. Taxes
Recipients are responsible for any taxes on the award. ALD may require tax information and may issue an IRS Form 1099.
12. Platform
This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook or Instagram.
13. Privacy
Entry information is used as described in ALD’s Giveaway Privacy Policy.
Schedule A — Eligibility
To receive an award, the nominee must:
- own a single-family home or townhome (condos and apartments are not eligible), or be a nonprofit organization with the property owner’s written permission to install at its location;
- live in ALD’s service area: Prince William, Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier, Page or Warren County, Virginia;
- be 18 or older and a legal U.S. resident;
- agree to be nominated, and agree in writing to filming and publicity; and
- not be an ALD employee, contractor or immediate family member of one.
Schedule B — Judging criteria
| Criteria | Weight | What judges look for |
|---|---|---|
| Impactful story | 70% | How the shades would make a real difference for the nominee, and how compelling the entry is: heartfelt, humorous, insightful, creative, well thought out or well produced. |
| Likes | 10% | Likes on the entry’s post on ALD’s Facebook and Instagram pages, scored relative to other entries. |
| Shares | 10% | Shares of the entry’s post from ALD’s pages, scored relative to other entries. |
| Video entry | 10% | The entry includes a video. Any video earns this credit in full, including a simple phone video; strong production can also count under Impactful story. |
ALD must confirm during the site check that any finalist’s home or property can take MagnaTrack Motorized Shades, and an entry that can’t be installed is not eligible. Likes and shares are counted only on ALD’s own post of each entry, over the same fixed window for every entry (November 10 through November 23, 2026), and judges may disqualify engagement that appears bought or automated. Written entries need to be posted by ALD to earn likes and shares. ALD posts every entry on its Facebook and Instagram pages on November 10, 2026. The promotion ends on a specific date; ALD can take up to two weeks to select recipients, during which time likes and shares will be counted. Recipients will be announced by November 23, 2026.
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