Electrical Safety Authority Toronto National Home Show Flash Giveaway Contest (the Contest ) Official Rules THIS CONTEST IS OPEN TO ONTARIO RESIDENTS ONLY AND IS GOVERNED BY CANADIAN LAW AND THE LAWS OF THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. SEE BELOW FOR FULL CONTEST DETAILS. PARTICIPATION IN THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES YOUR FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF, AND AGREEMENT TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY THESE CONTEST RULES (THE CONTEST RULES ). 1. Eligibility 1.1 To be eligible for the Contest, a Participant must: a. be a legal resident of the province of Ontario, Canada; b. be 18 years of age or older at the time of entry; and c. have a Facebook account and Like the Electrical Safety Authority Home and Safety Facebook Page; or d. have a Twitter account and Follow the Electrical Safety Authority Home and Safety Twitter Profile. 1.2 Employees of the Electrical Safety Authority (the Sponsor ) and its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies or parties engaged in the development, production and distribution of materials related to the Contest and the household members or immediate family of any of the above, are not eligible to enter the Contest. In these Contest Rules immediate family means husband, wife, spouse, mother, father, brother, sister, son and daughter, whether or not they reside in the same household. 1.3 Electrical Safety Authority may require, at any time, proof of identity and/or eligibility from the Participant to allow him or her to enter the Contest. Failure to provide such proof within a reasonable period of time could result in his or her immediate disqualification. 1.4 All information supplied to the Sponsor for the purpose of this Contest must be truthful, accurate and complete. The Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Participant should his or her Entry Form (hereinafter defined) comprise false, inaccurate or incomplete information. 1
2. Deadlines for entry 2.1 The Contest begins on Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 9:00:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time ( EST ) (the Contest Starting Date ) and closes on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 5:00:00 p.m. EST (the Contest Closing Date ). The period between the Contest Starting Date and the Contest Closing Date is the Contest period (the Contest Period ). 3. How to enter the contest NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO ENTER OR WIN. 3.1 The Participant enters by correctly responding to the question posted on Facebook or Twitter. The Participant will comment or @reply (the comment/@reply comprising the Entry Form ) on the post for a chance to win. 3.2 Winners will be notified via the method outlined in section 4 of these Contest Rules. Winners will be required to correctly answer a time-limited, multiple-step, skill-testing mathematical question and fully and legibly complete, sign and return a waiver form. 3.3 There is no purchase necessary to enter or win the Contest. A Participant may only submit one (1) entry per post, per platform during the Contest Period. 4. Prize winner selection 4.1 Prior to 5:00:00 p.m. EST on the day of the posted message during the Contest Period (each a Draw Date ), the Sponsor will select one (1) Winner (the Winner ) per platform by a random draw among all the eligible Entry Forms. There are five (5) Draw Dates during the Contest Period. 4.2 Each draw will take place at 175 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The odds of being selected are dependent upon the total number of eligible and correct entries received by the Sponsor on each Draw Date. 4.3 Each Winner will be notified via @ mention under the Facebook post on the Draw Date or via @ reply to their correct response on Twitter. The Winner will be asked to send the Electrical Safety Authority a Direct Message with their e-mail contact information. A representative of the Sponsor will contact the winner by e-mail. In the event that the Winner doesn t reply to the contact from the Sponsor s representative within one (1) business day or did not correctly answer the timelimited, multiple-step, skill-testing mathematical question on the Declaration and Release Form, such Winner will be immediately disqualified and the Sponsor will 2
have the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to withdraw the Prize (hereinafter defined) and randomly draw, among all of the eligible Entry forms, and contact a new Winner. A declaration and release form (the Declaration and Release Form ) will be attached to the notification email sent to each Winner. In order to receive his or her Prize the Winner must execute such Declaration and Release Form which acknowledges and confirms his or her compliance with these Contest Rules and the right of the Sponsor to publicize the selected entrant s first name and city or town or residence and/or the results of the contest in any form of advertising relating to the Contest without further notice or compensation, and further releases the Sponsor and its affiliates, subsidiaries, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from any liability in connection with the Contest, the entrant s participation therein and/or the awarding and use or misuse of the Prize(s). 4.4 The Declaration and Release Form must be received by the Sponsor by email within two (2) business days of its transmission to the Winner; otherwise the Prize will be considered forfeited. 4.5 There are ten (10) prizes (each a Prize ). Each Prize consists of two (2) tickets to the Toronto National Home Show event that the Electrical Safety Authority team is participating in. Each prize is valued at approximately $34.00 CAD. 4.6 Each Entrant Prize will be delivered via post mail to the Entrant Winner within one (1) business day of receipt of the Winner s Declaration and Release Form. 5. Additional prize details 5.1 Each Prize must be accepted as awarded and may not be substituted, assigned or converted to cash. The prize is non-transferable. No substitution is possible, except in the Sponsor s sole and absolute discretion. Any portion of the Prize not accepted by the Winner will be forfeited. The Sponsor will not be responsible if any event results in the cancellation of the Prize or if other factors beyond its reasonable control prevent the Prize or any part thereof from being fulfilled. The Sponsor makes no express or implied warranties of any kind with respect to safety, appearance or performance of any aspect of the Prize. In no circumstance whatsoever, shall the Winner have any recourse against the Sponsor with respect to any warranty of the Prize. 6.2 NOTE: Each Prize is for Toronto National Home Show tickets only and does not include, and the Sponsor will not pay for, transportation, lodging, or any other expenses incurred by the Prize winner. 3
6. General conditions 6.1 All Entry Forms become the property of the Sponsor. 6.2 Any attempt to deliberately damage the Electrical Safety Authority s website or social media profiles, or any related website, or to undermine the legitimate operation of this Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws. In such cases, the Sponsor reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, up to and including criminal prosecution. 6.3 All Entry Forms are subject to verification at any time and for any reason and will be declared invalid if they are received outside the Contest Period or are illegible, incomplete, mechanically reproduced, forged, falsified, altered or tampered with in any way. The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to require proof of identity and/or eligibility (in a form acceptable to the Sponsor, including but not limited to, government issued photo identification) for the purposes of verifying eligibility to participate in the Contest or for any reason whatsoever the Sponsor deems necessary for the purposes of administering the Contest in accordance with these Contest Rules. Failure to provide such proof in a timely manner may result in immediate disqualification. The sole determinant of the time for the purposes of a valid entry in the Contest will be the Contest server machine(s). 6.4 This contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by Facebook, Twitter or the Toronto National Home Show. All Participants acknowledge and agree by entering this Contest that they are providing their information to the Sponsor and not to Facebook, Twitter or the Toronto National Home Show. 7. Indemnification by Participant 7.1 By entering the Contest, a Participant: Releases the Sponsor and its directors, officers, employees, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, sponsors and agents from any and all liability for any injury, loss or damage of any kind to the Participant or any other person, resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any Prize, participation in this Contest, or any breach of these Contest Rules; and Agrees to fully indemnify the Sponsor and its directors, officers, employees, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, sponsors and agents from any and all claims by third parties relating to my participation in the Contest, without limitation. 4
8. Conduct 8.1 By entering this Contest, a Participant agrees to be bound by these Contest Rules, which are posted on the Electrical Safety Authority website which can be viewed by visiting: www.esasafe.com/consumers/power-your-reno/contests throughout the Contest Period. A Participant further agrees to be bound by the decisions of the Sponsor with respect to all aspects of the Contest, which are final, without any right of appeal, including, without limitation, any decisions regarding the eligibility or disqualification of entries and/or entrants. 8.2 The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to disqualify any Participant it finds to be: Violating these Contest Rules; Tampering or attempting to tamper with the Entry Form process or the operation of Electrical Safety Authority social media profiles, or any related website; and Acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. 9. Limitation of liability 9.1 The Sponsor assumes no responsibility or liability for lost, delayed, destroyed or misdirected Entry Forms, Declaration and Release Forms, emails or for any computer, online, telephone, hardware, software or technical malfunctions that may occur. 9.2 The Sponsor is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest. 9.3 The Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend, withdraw or amend this Contest in any way, without prior notice or obligation or liability, should a virus, bug, technical failure or problem, tampering, unauthorized human intervention, fraud or corruption of security or proper administration of the Contest, or other causes beyond the Sponsor s control, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Contest. 5
10. Release/privacy/use of Participant information 10.1 By accepting the Prize, the Winner grants permission to the Sponsor to use his or her name, username, profile picture, photograph, likeness, voice, image and/or Entrant Prize information, for promotional purposes and on Electrical Safety Authority social media channels, where it may be viewed, shared (by users of such social media channels) and commented on by the Sponsor and the general public, without further compensation unless prohibited by law, and in accordance with the ESA s Privacy Policy. To view a copy of the Policy or for more information on ESA s commitment to privacy, please visit: https://www.esasafe.com/about-esa/servicepages/privacy-policy. No commercial or other communications unrelated to the Contest will be sent to entrants unless they have otherwise agreed to receive such communications. 11. Intellectual property 11.1 All intellectual property and all of the promotional materials are owned by the Sponsor and/or its affiliates. All rights are reserved. Copying or unauthorized use of any copyrighted material or trade-mark without the express written consent of its owner is strictly prohibited. 12. Laws 12.1 These are the official Contest Rules. This Contest is subject to federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. Void where prohibited or restricted by law. These Contest rules are subject to change without notice in order to comply with any applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws or the policy of any other entity having jurisdiction over the Sponsor. 13.2 All issues and questions concerning the Contest Rules or the rights and obligations of any entrant shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, including procedural provisions, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions that would cause the application of any other jurisdiction s laws. All entrants expressly agree to submit to the laws of and the jurisdiction of the federal and provincial courts of the Province of Ontario, and hereby waive the jurisdiction of any other court that now or in the future could be considered competent for any reason. All actions, proceedings or litigation relating to the Contest shall take place in the Province of Ontario. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of the Contest Rules shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. If any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, the Contest Rules shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or unenforceable provision was not contained therein. 6