MINNESOTA'S BEST NDA
Minnesota’s Best 2025 voting has come to a close. This year's contest was a great success, with over 1,229,929 votes cast by Star Tribune readers. To finish in the top three positions of your category is a great accomplishment.
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As a winner, you are required to read, understand and agree to the following non-disclosure agreement (the "NDA"):
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The results shared with you are confidential and may not be made public until July 13, 2025 (the “Official Announcement Date”). (The time period from today’s date until the Official Announcement Date is the “Confidentiality Period.”)
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To promote Minnesota’s Best 2025, we are publishing a comprehensive winner's guide with excellent distribution, along with our digital destination that will premiere on July 13, 2025 at minnesotasbest.com.
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You agree that you will keep the results confidential throughout the Confidentiality Period and will not publish or promote the results in any way (or allow, permit or assist anyone else to do so) prior to the Official Announcement Date (i.e., July 13, 2025). For clarity, you agree that, during the Confidentiality Period (i.e., from now to July 13, 2025), you will not, except as provided in the following paragraph, disclose or disseminate the results to any other person or entity, whether via website, mobile app, social media, word of mouth, advertising, flier, email, general staff announcement or any other method.
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The purpose of our disclosure to you about your status is to allow you adequate time to create advertising and marketing materials, obtain creative assets, and plan your own announcements pertaining to the results. You agree that, within your own business and with any outside parties you work with on your advertising and marketing, you will share the results only with those individuals (i) who need to know the results in order to create or carry out your marketing plan regarding the results, and (ii) who have signed a written agreement with you that they will keep the information strictly confidential until the Official Announcement Date.
You acknowledge and agree that we may disqualify your business (and any parent company, if applicable) from the contest entirely if you fail to keep the results strictly confidential throughout the Confidentiality Period.
To indicate that you acknowledge and agree to all of the above (collectively, the “Non-Disclosure Agreement”), click the box at the beginning of the Business Information form.