In conjunction with “The Gleaner – Publicity Contest Rules” listed below, these are the official Contest Rules for particular contests.
Participation in a contest constitutes your full and unconditional acceptance, and agreement to be legally bound by all contest rules.
For more information, contact Dianna at promotion@the-gleaner.com or toll free at 1-844-450-5055 extension 712.
Floral contest sponsored by: Les Jardins Rivière la Guerre in Saint Anicet
Send us your best floral photo. To enter, submit your photo to FLORAL CONTEST by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, June 3.
Maximum of one photo per entry. Three winners will be selected by our panel of judges:
1st Place = $50 gift certificate sponsored by Les Jardins Rivière la Guerre
2nd Place = $30 gift certificate sponsored by Les Jardins Rivière la Guerre
3rd Place = $20 gift certificate sponsored by Les Jardins Rivière la Guerre
The winning photos and other favourites will be published in our June 17 print edition and featured on our website on June 22.
Staff and freelancers of The Gleaner, members of the CVCIS Board, and their immediate family members are not eligible for prizes.
For more info, contact Dianna at promotion@the-gleaner.com or 1-844-450-5055 (712).
See below for complete Full Contest Rules.
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The Gleaner’s Full Contest Rules
In conjunction with any rules and further conditions provided for particular contests, these are the official Contest Rules. Participation in a contest constitutes your full and unconditional acceptance, and agreement to be legally bound by all contest rules.
- How to enter
- No purchase necessary. In the cases of contests where an entry form is provided in an edition of The Gleaner, contact promotion@the-gleaner.com to request an official entry form.
- Contests begin when published by The Gleaner in print or online, or at the date and time as described in the announcement of a particular contest, and close at the deadline indicated for the particular contest (the “Entry Period”). All times are Eastern Time (ET).
- The submission of any item(s) requested for a particular contest constitutes an “Entry”. Some contests may be limited to one entry per person. All Entries become the property of The Gleaner and will not be returned.
- To enter any contest, follow the instructions provided for the particular contest. All Entries must be submitted no later than the end of the Entry Period.
- Unless indicated, no Entries will be accepted by any other means than those described for each contest.
- Illegible, unintelligible, incomplete, late, or garbled Entries will be disqualified.
- Entries are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are illegible, incomplete, mechanically reproduced, mutilated, forged, falsified, altered or tampered with in any way.
- Eligibility
- Contests are open to all residents of Canada, except employees, contractors, and freelancers of The Gleaner, members of the board of directors of Chateauguay Valley Community Information Services (CVCIS), particular Contest partner(s), and any person domiciled with such individuals. Staff and freelancers of The Gleaner, members of the CVCIS Board, and their immediate family members are not eligible for prizes.
- Entrants under the legal age of majority are eligible to participate provided that the name and contact information of the entrant’s parent or legal guardian is submitted with the Entry and that the winning entrant’s parent or legal guardian accepts the prize on his/her behalf.
- A correct answer to a skill-testing question is required to win.
- Entries received online shall be deemed to be submitted by the holder of the email account. In the event of a dispute, the Entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the email address, submitted at the time of entry. “Authorized account holder” is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Selected Entrants may be requested to provide The Gleaner with proof that they are the authorized account holder of an e-mail address associated with the winning Entry.
- Winner selection
- Winners’ names will be published at www.the-gleaner.com/contests within 30 days of the end of the entry period for a contest. By entering a contest, you are giving The Gleaner permission to publish your name in the newspaper and/or online.
- Winners will be selected by random draw, jury, or other means as described in the rules for each particular Contest.
- Selections will be made from among all eligible entries received and will take place on or around the deadline indicated for the Contest.
- If a contest has multiple prizes, each winner will be selected from the eligible entries.
- Where applicable, the first entry drawn is eligible to win the Contest’s Grand Prize. The subsequent entries drawn will win the runner up prizes.
- Only one prize will be awarded per entrant per contest. If more than one entry is drawn from a particular entrant, only the first entry drawn will be awarded a prize. Any subsequent entry drawn for a particular entrant will be disregarded and a new entry will be drawn in its place.
- The selected entrants will be required to correctly answer a skill-testing question prior to being deemed a winner and demonstrate that they have complied with all the Contest Rules.
- The winning entrant will be notified by phone or email within 10 business days of the contest closing date.
- Neither The Gleaner nor Contest partners will be responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of selected Entrants not being able to receive notification or for the selected Entrants not being able to respond as prescribed above.
- Prizes
- Prizes are as described for each particular contest.
- Odds of winning are solely dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.
- Only one prize will be awarded per entrant per contest. See 3.2.
- Prizes must be accepted as awarded and cannot be transferred, substituted, or redeemed for cash.
- The Gleaner and Contest partners reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to substitute any and all of the prizes for prizes of equal or greater value should all or part of a prize become unavailable for any reason.
- Prizes will be shipped via Canada Post unless other arrangements are mutually agreed upon between The Gleaner and the winner.
- Indemnification by Participants
- By entering the Contest, each Entrant releases and holds harmless The Gleaner, Contest partners, and administrators and their respective directors, officers, employees, parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, partners, and agents from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to persons, including death, or property damage, resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any prize, participation in this Contest, or participating in any prize-related activity and agrees to fully indemnify those listed from any and all claims by third parties without limitation.
- Conduct
- By entering this Contest, Entrants agree to be bound by these Contest Rules.
- Entrants further agree to be bound by the decisions of the judges, which shall be final and binding in all respects.
- The Gleaner reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any Entrant it finds to be:
- tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest;
- violating the Contest Rules;
- violating the terms of service, conditions or use and/or general rules or guidelines of The Gleaner, or
- acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person
- Any attempt to deliberately damage or undermine the legitimate operation of a Contest will not be tolerated. The Gleaner reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law.
- Limitation of Liability
- The Gleaner, Contest partners, and Contest administrators:
- assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, delayed, misdirected or incomplete Entries, or technical malfunctions that may occur (including but not limited to malfunctions that may affect the transmission or non-transmission of an Entry);
- are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by participants or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of Entries in the contest;
- assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, Entries.
- are not responsible for any problems, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, providers, computer equipment, software, email, players, or browsers, on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, at any website, or on account of any combination of the foregoing.
- are not responsible for any injury or damage to Entrants or to any computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in a contest.
- If, for any reason, the contest is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of The Gleaner which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest, The Gleaner reserves the right at their sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest.
- The Gleaner, Contest partners, and Contest administrators:
- General Conditions
- Contests are subject to all federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations.
- 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 Gleaner.
- The Gleaner reserves the right to amend or terminate all or any portion of Contests at any time for any reason without prior notice.
- Any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the board only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.