Terms of participation: Instagram giveaway “Dein Foto als Licht” (Your photo as a light)

1. Organiser

The organiser of the giveaway is:

Michael Plumbohm, Cookie Prints Co.
Auf der Höhe 10
75181 Pforzheim
Germany
E-mail: info@cookieprints.org

(hereinafter “CookiePrints” or “we”)

The giveaway takes place on our Instagram account @cookieprintsco.

This giveaway is in no way associated with Instagram and is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by Instagram. The sole contact for all questions about the giveaway is CookiePrints, not Instagram or Meta.

2. Period

The giveaway starts with the publication of the giveaway post on Friday, 30.10.2026 (approx. 6:30 pm) and ends on Saturday, 07.11.2026 at 11:59 pm (German time). Entries after the end of the period will not be considered. For the voluntary extra entry (section 4), customer accounts newly created from Friday, 30.10.2026, 12:00 am (midnight) count, i.e. also accounts created on 30.10.2026 before the giveaway post was published.

3. Eligibility

Natural persons who are at least 18 years old and resident in Germany may take part. Your own, genuine Instagram profile is required.

Excluded are Michael Plumbohm as well as persons involved in organising the giveaway, and their relatives. We reserve the right to exclude participants who violate these terms, provide false information, use fake or giveaway accounts or manipulate the giveaway (e.g. through automated comments).

4. How to take part

1. Follow the Instagram account @cookieprintsco.
2. Like the giveaway post.
3. Tag 2 people who would love the light in a comment under the giveaway post. A comment only counts as an entry if it tags 2 different real people (not yourself and not @cookieprintsco).

Multiple entries: Every further comment with a new pair of people counts as a further entry. A pair you have already tagged does not count again – not even in reverse order. A person may appear again in a new pair (e.g. first person A + person B, then person A + person C). There is at most one entry per comment, even if more than 2 people are tagged. Tagged accounts must be real people (no brand, celebrity or fake accounts).

Bonus entry (voluntary): Anyone who shares the giveaway post in their Instagram story and tags @cookieprintsco receives one additional entry (maximum one per person). The story must mention @cookieprintsco so that we receive the mention notification. If we cannot see or check the story, for example because the profile is private and the mention does not reach us, the bonus entry cannot be counted. Nobody has to grant us access to their profile for this; without a verifiable mention, however, the bonus entry does not count.

Extra entry (voluntary) for a new customer account: Anyone who, between Friday, 30.10.2026, 12:00 am (midnight) and Saturday, 07.11.2026, 11:59 pm (German time), newly creates a customer account on cookieprints.org and completes the registration (confirmation with the 6-digit code from the e-mail) receives one additional entry – a maximum of one extra entry per person. Accounts created on 30.10.2026 before the giveaway post was published also count. Accounts created before 30.10.2026 do not count. A valid entry according to steps 1–3 is required.

Assignment: So that we can assign the extra entry to your Instagram profile, send us a DM to @cookieprintsco by Saturday, 07.11.2026, 11:59 pm from the Instagram profile you are taking part with, stating the e-mail address you registered with. We then only check whether a new, completed customer account was created for this address between 30.10.2026, 12:00 am and 07.11.2026, 11:59 pm. Incomplete registrations do not count. We therefore will not contact you on our own initiative and will not send you a link for this – you send us the DM on your own initiative.

Voluntariness: The extra entry is voluntary. Your participation in the giveaway and your other entries do not depend on whether you create a customer account. You can have your customer account deleted at any time (by e-mail to info@cookieprints.org) – even immediately after registering. An extra entry already received is retained.

Newsletter: A newsletter sign-up is not required for the giveaway and has no influence on your chances of winning; it does not earn an entry. The newsletter checkbox during registration is not ticked by default. Anyone who voluntarily subscribes to the newsletter can unsubscribe at any time via the unsubscribe link in every newsletter or by sending us a message.

At the time of the draw, all participation steps (follow, like, comment) must still be fulfilled. Participation is free of charge and independent of any purchase, customer account or newsletter sign-up.

5. Prize

The prize is 1 Geisterlicht: a lithophane photo light with a photo of the winner’s choice. Thanks to the click lid, the picture can be changed. The light is cordless with a rechargeable battery and is charged via USB-C.

A cash payment of the prize or a transfer to other persons is not possible; the prize cannot be exchanged for other products. The prize will be shipped free of charge within Germany or can be collected in Pforzheim by appointment.

6. Selection and notification of the winner

The winner will be drawn at random from all valid entries on Sunday, 08.11.2026.

We will announce the winner with their Instagram username in our Instagram story and notify them by direct message (DM) exclusively from the account @cookieprintsco.

The winner must reply to us by DM within 72 hours of our DM and send us the delivery address and the desired photo. If nobody replies within this period, the prize is forfeited and we will draw a new winner (same procedure, new 72-hour period).

Beware of fake accounts: We only contact you from @cookieprintsco and never ask for data via links. We never ask for passwords, bank or card details and never demand payments (not even a “shipping fee”). Please report and ignore messages from other accounts pretending to be CookiePrints.

7. The winner’s photo

The winner sends us a photo from which the Geisterlicht is made. By sending it, the winner confirms that they hold the necessary rights to the photo and that all persons depicted (for children, their legal guardians) agree to its use. We use the photo exclusively to make the prize. Publication (e.g. as a photo of the finished light) only takes place with separate, express consent.

We reserve the right to reject photos with unlawful, offensive or objectionable content and to ask for a different photo.

8. Shipping

After receiving the photo, we make the prize and ship it (or have it ready for collection in Pforzheim by appointment) so that it arrives in good time before Christmas. This requires a reply within the period stated in section 6. We accept no liability for delays caused by the shipping service provider.

9. Data protection

The controller for data processing is the organiser (section 1). To run the giveaway (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), we process: your Instagram username, your comments with the accounts tagged in them, for a bonus entry the story mention of @cookieprintsco (username and the story visible to us) and, for the voluntary extra entry, the e-mail address you send us by DM, which we compare once with our customer accounts. We use this data only for the giveaway. For the winner, we additionally process name, delivery address and the submitted photo in order to make and ship the prize; we pass the address on to the shipping service provider for this purpose. There is no other disclosure to third parties and no use for advertising purposes.

Extra entry (customer account): We process your data in the customer account as described in our privacy policy. For the giveaway, we compare the e-mail address sent by DM once with our customer accounts in order to assign your new customer account to your Instagram name (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). We use this assignment (Instagram name ↔ e-mail address) for nothing else and delete it together with the other giveaway data. A customer account is not a newsletter subscription: unless you tick the box yourself during registration, you will not receive a newsletter.

By taking part, you agree that, if you win, we will mention your Instagram username in our story.

We delete participants’ data after the giveaway has ended, at the latest 30 days after the prize has been shipped, unless statutory retention obligations apply. You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. To do so, contact info@cookieprints.org. Further information can be found in our privacy policy.

The data protection terms of Instagram (Meta) apply to the processing of data by Instagram (Meta).

10. Early termination and changes

We reserve the right to interrupt, change or end the giveaway early, in whole or in part, for good cause (e.g. technical problems, manipulation, legal reasons).

11. Miscellaneous

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies. Should any provision of these terms be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.

Questions about the giveaway? Write to us at info@cookieprints.org or by DM to @cookieprintsco.