Contest Rule & Regulations
DAS Nexera canola contest
Contest begins September 18, 2009 (00:00:01, PT) and ends January 31, 2010 (23:59:59, PT).
No purchase necessary. To enter, visit www.healthierfarming.ca and click the Contest entry icon, and an entry form will appear. Enter all requested information including your name, postal address and e-mail address. When completed, click the submit button and your entry will be entered automatically. Only one entry per person and/or email address by this method of entering.
Subject to the provisions in this paragraph, this contest is only open to owners or renters of a farm that grows canola in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba. Contest participants must be 18 years or older on the day they enter the contest. Limit of 1 entry per farm. If the entry is entered by someone other than the owner or lessee of the farm, it will be deemed to have been made in the name of the owner or lessee of the farm in which they reside, work or are employed and the prize will be awarded in the name of the owner or lessee and only the owner or lessee may use the prize. If the entry is entered by someone other than the owner or lessee of the farm, and the entrant does not reside or work on a farm or is not employed on a farm, then that person's entry will be deemed to be invalid and they will forfeit any opportunity to win the prize and the prize will be awarded. To enter and be eligible to win, a person cannot be an employee of, or domiciled with an employee of the contest sponsor. Prize must be accepted as awarded, no cash value will be given for the prize and no substitution will be made for the prize.
Only one prize will be given away in this contest and that prize is a trip for the winner and a travelling companion to the 2010 Canola Council of Canada convention being held in San Francisco California and in this regard that prize consists only of the following (approx. retail value is $4000): round trip economy airfare for two from the closest gateway city to the winner's residence (as the term gateway city is defined by the airline selected by sponsor) to San Francisco via an airline to be selected by Sponsor, 4 nights double accommodation for two at the Hotel Fairmont San Francisco or another hotel to be selected at sponsor's option, 2 entry passes to the Convention and an invitation to a Dow Agro event. Costs of everything not stated as included in the Prize in the previous sentence are the responsibility of the winner including but not limited to the following costs: transportation from the winner's residence to the gateway airport nearest to the winner's residence (as the term gateway airport is defined solely by Sponsor), all meals, all taxes (including departure and airport taxes), round trip transportation to the hotel in San Francisco from the San Francisco airport, gratuities, health insurance, items of a personal nature, service charges. To travel on the flights specified by sponsor may require the winner to overnight at either or both of the gateway city and in San Francisco and if this is necessary all costs associated with doing so (such as hotel and meals) are the responsibility of the winner.
The following general conditions apply to the Prize: (i) the prize is for attendance at the 2010 Canola Council of Canada convention being held in San Francisco California between March 16, 2010 and March 19, 2010, (ii) in the event that winner is not able to take this trip, and/or is not able to travel for these stated dates and/or does not return the releases to be received by the Sponsor within 10 days of their being sent to the winner, that person will forfeit the Prize in its entirety and no other prize will be awarded to that winner in its place and the prize will be re-awarded. Travel arrangements may only be made through the Sponsor or its agents. Winner and travelling companion must have valid passports and visas (with the term "valid" being defined as what is valid under Canadian and United States) at the time of departure from Canada including up to and including the time of return to Canada and in the event for any reason the winner does not have a valid passport/visa at the time of departure neither the winner nor their travelling companion may travel and the prize will be forfeited in its entirety and nothing will be substituted in its place but if at the time of departure the winner does have a valid passport/visa and travelling companion does not have a valid passport/visa the winner may travel though the winner may not substitute a new travelling companion and (vi) by accepting their Prize, the winner agrees to waive all recourse against the contest sponsor, and those associated with them, if any part of the trip or any services that form part of the trip prize, do not prove satisfactory, either in whole or in part.
A random selection to determine the winners will be made on or about February 5, 2010 from among all eligible entries received. The odds of being selected will depend upon the total number of eligible entries received. Winner will be notified of their having won by registered mail or courier at the municipal mailing address stated on their entry form. If winner does not return their release received as part of the winner's notification within 10 days of it having been sent to the winner by sponsor, that person will automatically forfeit their prize and nothing will be given to that person and the prize will be re-awarded.
By entering: (i) contestants agree to the contest rules (in the event of any conflict with anything contained in these Official Rules and promotion details contained in advertising and other promotion materials, the details of the promotion set forth in these Official Rules shall govern and prevail), (ii) to the use of their personal information for purposes of administering this contest and (iii) by accepting a prize a winner also agrees to the use without compensation of their photograph, filmed or recorded image, name and city of residence in all publicity campaigns related to the contest including on the sponsor's web site (the "publicity usages").
Before being declared a winner, a selected entrant must: (i) first correctly answer, without mechanical or other assistance, sponsor's mathematical, skill-testing question administered as part of winner's release, (ii) be in full compliance with these rules and (iii) sign and return sponsor's release within 10 days of it having been sent (in the case of a travelling companion who is under the age of majority in their Province of residence the release must be signed by their parent or guardian). Potential prize winners who do not or fail to comply fully with the contest rules will automatically forfeit their opportunity to win that prize and nothing else will be substituted or given to that potential winner and no alternate winner will be chosen in their place.
General rules:
Contest is being sponsored by Dow AgroSciences Canada (the "sponsor") No correspondence will be entered into except with a potential winner. The decision of sponsor and their representatives in respect of any matter related to this contest (either before or following selection) is final and without appeal. Contest is subject to all applicable Federal, Provincial and Municipal laws.
All entries become the property of the sponsor. Entries will be rejected if not fully completed. Persons tampering with or abusing the entry policy will be disqualified. The sponsor, including its agents, representatives and those associated with them, are not responsible for any entry, a prize winning notification or the claim for prize, which fails to get entered, is lost, misdirected or which arrives late, as the case may be, whether or not due to the fault of the sponsor or of any other person or thing and whether or not due to an interrupted or unavailable browser or network server or malfunction, congestion, incompatibility, misconnection or miscommunication, failed or lost computer transmissions, or if the sponsor's Email/Web site portal is compromised by virus, bugs, unauthorized human or unauthorized non-human intervention, or for any technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on line systems, servers access providers, computer equipment, software failures, or failure of any entry to be received due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or sponsor's web site or other similar technical problems beyond the reasonable control of the sponsor (collectively, the "technical problems"). Proof of transmission (screenshots) does not constitute proof of delivery. The sponsor reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify, amend or suspend the on-line portion of the contest, in its sole discretion, if any of the foregoing technical problems prevents the fair or proper administration of the on-line portion of the contest and if sponsor does so, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor, sponsor further reserves the right when terminating the on-line portion of the contest to conduct the drawing that includes those valid on-line entries previously received during the contest period. The Contest sponsor will have no liability whatsoever if for any reason the contest is not capable of running as planned due to technical problems, including due to computer virus, bugs, unauthorized tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes. The Contest sponsor reserves their right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the contest or to be acting in violation of these rules or otherwise in a disruptive manner. Contest sponsor shall not be held responsible for any errors or negligence that may arise or occur in connection with the contest including any damage to an entrant’s computer equipment, system, software or any combination thereof, as a result of their participation in this contest or from downloading any material from the contest Website or elsewhere. Entries, no-purchase entry requests, etc. generated by script, macro, robotic, programmed, or any other automated means are prohibited and will be disqualified.
The Sponsor, in its sole discretion, and for any reason, reserves the right to: (i) place reasonable restrictions on the availability or use of a prize or (ii) substitute a prize or aspect of a prize of equal or greater value for a prize or aspect stated in the rules and advertising and promotion materials as being offered to be awarded.
By completing the entry form all entrants consent to the collection, use and distribution of their personal information by the Contest sponsor for the purposes of running the contest and as permitted by these rules (for example, pursuant to these rules, all entrants who accept a prize consent to the use of their personal information for publicity usages) including as permitted by any release signed. Personal information is defined as anything that identifies an entrant as an individual, such as home telephone number, age, home address, email address, gender. Contest sponsor will not sell or transmit this information to third parties except for the purposes of administering the Contest. Any inquiry concerning the personal information held by the Contest sponsor should be addressed to the Contest sponsor at the following address:
Privacy Officer
Dow AgroSciences Canada
2100 – 450 1 St. SW
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 5H1