Celebrate the season with us! We’re giving away $250 in gift cards to local businesses to support our community and spread holiday cheer.
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Build Community. Win Big. Celebrate Local.
This December, we’re spreading holiday cheer, supporting local businesses, and growing our Facebook community. Enter West Shore Bank’s Building Community Contest for a chance to win $250 in gift cards to local businesses! Follow us on Facebook and complete the form below to be entered.
Check out the official rules below for full details on eligibility, entry, and prize information. The contest is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States who are 18 and older. Don’t miss your chance—follow us by December 31, 2025, to be included in the contest. The winner will be announced on January 7, 2026.
Promotion Terms & Conditions
No purchase is necessary to win, and making a purchase will not improve the chance of winning. The promotion is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States who are 18 years of age or older. Void where prohibited by law. Employees, directors and officers, and their immediate families (spouse, parents, children, siblings, and their respective spouses, regardless of where they reside), and their respective household members, whether or not related, of West Shore Bank, and affiliated companies are not eligible to enter. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
To enter, follow West Shore Bank on Facebook and fill out the entry form on this page. By entering, you confirm that you satisfy the eligibility requirements.
Contest runs from 8:00 AM EDT on Monday, December 1, 2025, through 11:59 PM EDT on Wednesday, December 31, 2025 (the “Contest Period"). Entries must be received no later than 11:59 PM EDT on Wednesday, December 31, 2025. The winner will be announced on January 7, 2026.
One (1) entry per person/Facebook account. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. West Shore Bank is not responsible for lost, incomplete, damaged, illegible, late, or misdirected entries, errors in mechanical transmission, technical difficulties, or inability to transmit internet entries. In the event of a dispute as to any entry, the authorized account holder of the Facebook account used to enter the Contest will be deemed to be the entrant. The “authorized account holder” is the natural person assigned a Facebook account by Facebook. Potential winners may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.
On or about 9:00 AM EDT Monday, December 1, 2025, West Shore Bank will randomly select a winner from all eligible entries, subject to verification and compliance with the rules. The winner of the $250 in local business gift cards will be notified via a Direct Message (DM) to the Facebook account used to enter the Contest. If an entrant selected as the winner cannot be reached after ten (10) days, is found to be ineligible, or otherwise fails to comply with these official rules, that entrant shall be disqualified and an alternate winner may be selected at random from among remaining entries. West Shore Bank is not responsible for a winner’s failure to answer or respond to the DM. The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
By participating, you agree to be fully and unconditionally bound by these rules, and you represent and warrant that you meet the eligibility requirements. Entrants agree West Shore Bank has the sole right to decide all matters and disputes arising from this Contest and that its decision is final and binding. ANY ATTEMPT TO DAMAGE OR UNDERMINE THE FAIR AND LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST WILL RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION FROM THE CONTEST. Contest rules shall be governed and enforced pursuant to Michigan law, excluding choice of law provisions. Receiving the prize is contingent upon compliance with these Official Rules.
Except where prohibited by law, all entrants agree to allow use of their name, voice, photograph, likeness, and any information provided on entry form, in any medium of communication, including print, internet, radio and/or television and for any purpose, including trade, advertising, promotional or other purposes, by West Shore Bank and/or its affiliates, without additional compensation.
Winner, by acceptance of their prize, agrees to release, indemnify and hold harmless West Shore Bank, its affiliates, and each of their employees, representatives, contractors, sponsors and advertisers, from any and all liability, loss, damage, costs or claims related to any allegation regarding the award of, the receipt of, or the use of their prize. West Shore Bank is not responsible for personal injury of any prize winner incurred in connection with the use of their prize. Winner may be required to execute an affidavit of eligibility and release of liability prior to receiving their prize. If for any reason an entrant’s entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant’s sole remedy is another entry. No more than the slated number of prizes will be awarded. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and any other social media platform. Each entrant and the prize winner forever releases and holds harmless West Shore Bank, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and any other social media platform and their respective affiliated persons from any liability or claims made by such entrant or prize winner in any way related to participation in this contest.
West Shore Bank will contact the winner via email used to enter the Contest. You may also send a request for the winner’s name by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope after Wednesday, December 31, 2025, to: Attention: Marketing Department – West Shore Bank, Building Community Contest, 201 W. Loomis St., Ludington, MI 49431. Requests for the winner's name must be received by Wednesday, January 7, 2026. By accepting the prize, the winner grants West Shore Bank a royalty-free license to publish the winner's name on various social media platforms.
Contest is sponsored by West Shore Bank, at 201 W. Loomis Street, Ludington, MI 49431.
If for any reason, the internet-related portion of this contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, tampering, fraud, technical failure, or any other cause which corrupts or threatens the administration, security or integrity of the contest, West Shore Bank a reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate or suspend the contest or any portion of the contest. West Shore Bank a is not responsible for internet crashes or slowdowns caused by network congestion, viruses, sabotage, satellite failures, phone line failures, electrical outages, natural disasters or acts of man.
West Shore Bank will not share information received with any third-party vendors. This contest will not be published without the written permission of West Shore Bank.