1. The Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down contest (hereafter “Contest”) is organized by Weblocal.ca – property of Transcontinental Media G.P. (“Transcontinental”). It starts on February 6, 2012 and closes on February 24, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. (EST). Any reference to time in this document indicates Eastern Standard Time (EST).
ELIGIBILITY
2. The Contest is open to all residents of Canada who have reached the age of majority in the province in which they reside by the start date of this contest as identified above, with the exception of the employees, agents and/or representatives of Transcontinental, its distributors or affiliated companies, advertising agencies or any contributor to the Contest, as well as anyone with whom an employee, agent and/or representative is domiciled or any member of his or her immediate family. For these official rules, “immediate family” refers to the father, mother, brothers, sisters, children, husband, wife or partner of such an employee, agent and/or representative.
HOW TO ENTER
3. Registration
3.1. Log on to www.weblocal.ca and write a review on a business. Fill out the electronic review form (hereinafter the “Entry Form”) by completing all required fields. Then click on “Yes, I want to participate!” and click “submit”. You will then be entered in the Contest. You can enter the Contest until February 24, 2012 11:59 p.m. (EST).
3.2. Each entrant whose Entry Form will have been randomly selected will be contacted by Transcontinental; before the obtainment of the Prize and as essential condition to its obtainment, such entrant will have to answer correctly a Mathematical question. Following a correct answer to the Mathematical question, and as long as the entrant’s entry form contains a valid Clue, such entrant will be declared a winner (each such winner shall be hereafter collectively or individually referred to as “Winner” subject to every other condition stipulated in the present rules and regulations)
3.3. Each entrant can only use one email address (which must be valid) to enter via the Electronic Entry form. One (1) entrant per Electronic Entry form. One (1) Electronic Entry per review. The same email address cannot be used by more than one entrant.
3.4. No purchase necessary.
PRIZES
4. Three (3) winners per week for three (3) weeks of the Contest will each receive one (1) prize of their choice among the two (2) choices available to them for the current selected week as more fully detailed below.
The choices are as follows:
Choices
Approximate retail value per prize
Week 1
TV HD 60 inch Sharp
$1,299.99
Camera Canon Rebel
$1,259.99
Visa prepaid gift cards
$700.00
Camcorder Panasonic
$949.99
Camera Canon Rebel
$1,259.99
MacBook 500GB
$1,249.00
Week 2
iPad 2 32GB 3G
$749.99
Visa prepaid gift cards
$700.00
GPS Garmin
$249.99
Wii+Wii Fit
$249.98
Playstation 3
$299.99
Wine cooler Cavavin
$349.99
Week 3
iPad 2 32GB 3G
$749.99
Espresso maker Nespresso
$799.99
Wine cooler Cavavin
$349.99
Wii+Wii Fit
$249.98
Espresso maker Nespresso
$799.99
Camcorder Panasonic
$949.99
Prices may differ from the images shown in the promotion of the contest.
5. All Prizes are collectively referred to hereinafter as the “Prize”. Prizes may differ from the images shown on the Contest website.
6. Transcontinental reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to replace the Prize with another of comparable value or with the Prize value in money if it is not possible to award it to the Winner as described in paragraph 4 above for any reason.
DRAW
7. Among all the Entry Forms received by the server hosting the www.weblocal.ca website, three (3) random draws will be conducted on each of the following dates: February 13th, February 20th and February 27th, 2012, at 2:00 p.m., at the offices of Transcontinental located at 1100 René-Lévesque O. Blvd., 24th Floor, Montréal, Quebec, H3B 4X9 for the Prizes.
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
8. To be declared a Winner, the entrant whose Entry Form is randomly chosen for the Prize must respect the entry and eligibility conditions stipulated in this document. Failure to respect one or several of these conditions means the Winner will be disqualified and another random draw will be conducted to choose another Winner.
9. Limit of one (1) Prize per person.
10. One (1) Prize per residential address.
11. Transcontinental will contact the Winners by telephone and/or e-mail. In the event that Transcontinental cannot contact the selected entrant of one or several of the draws for whatever reason within forty-eight (48) hours following the draw, Transcontinental will conduct as many draws as necessary from the Entry Forms to find a Prize Winner.
12. To claim his Prize, a Winner must fill in and sign a Declaration of Compliance and a full Liability Release (hereafter “Form”) that will be sent to him by mail and/or courier and/or fax and/or e-mail by Transcontinental and return it filled in and signed within seven (7) days of receiving it. In the event that the Form is not signed and returned within the time limit, Transcontinental reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to conduct or not as many draws as necessary to award the Prize. If Transcontinental decides not to conduct a new draw, the Prize will simply not be awarded.
13. Upon receipt of the Form, Transcontinental will inform the Winner by e-mail and/or by mail and/or by phone and/or by messenger of all the details related to how the Winner will receive the Prize.
14. The Prize will be delivered to the Winner between March 13th and June 13th, 2012, inclusively.
15. In the event that it is not possible to deliver the Prize to the Winner, for whatever reason, the Prize must be claimed at Transcontinental’s offices by June 13th, 2012 at the latest, otherwise it shall become null and void. In such case, the Prize will not be redrawn and will simply not be awarded.
16. Transcontinental, its respective companies and divisions and any other moral person of its corporate group, its affiliated broadcast distributors, advertising and promotional agencies and their respective shareholders, administrators, executives, employees and agents, as well as any contributor to the Contest (hereafter called “Release recipients”) are not responsible for matters regarding the Prize or the Contest and provide no guarantee for either.
17. The Prizes must be accepted as awarded and cannot be transferred without the prior written agreement of Transcontinental, substituted with another prize or exchanged in whole or in part for money. Should Transcontinental for reasons out of its control and not related to the Winner, not be able to award the Prize as described in the present document, Transcontinental reserves the right to award a similar Prize (or a portion of the Prize) of equal value or, at its sole discretion, the value of the Prize indicated in this present document (or a portion of the Prize) in money.
18. Transcontinental shall not be held liable in any case where its inability to act results from a fact or situation beyond his control or from a strike, lock-out or any other labour dispute in his facilities or in the facilities of the organizations or companies whose services are used in the course of holding this Contest.
19. By entering this Contest, the Winner authorizes Transcontinental, if required, to use his name, photograph, place of residence, voice, image and (or) declaration regarding its prize for advertising purposes without any form of remuneration. Moreover, the Winner agrees to permit his name and town of residence to be broadcast on Weblocal.ca and (or) on newsletters and (or) on the Contest Internet page without any form of remuneration.
20. The Release recipients shall not incur any responsibility for incomplete or incomprehensible names and addresses from Contest entrants. Transcontinental reserves the right to reject any Entry Form that is incomplete, illegible or mutilated or that contains a human or mechanical error and to proceed with the selection of another Entry Form.
21. Any Entry Form and any attempt at entering using electronic, computer or other means which are contrary to the spirit of the Contest or to the Contest rules (e.g., computer pirating, mass emailing, etc.) will be automatically rejected and may be referred to the appropriate judicial authorities. Any automated entries will be noticed and rejected.
22. The Release recipients are not in any way responsible for any problem including, but not limited to, the technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, any other problem resulting directly or indirectly in a virus, bug or technical failure following the sending of e-mails to Transcontinental for any reason including, but not limited to, traffic congestion on the Internet network or on the website or a combination of both. Transcontinental and Release recipients are not responsible for any damage done to computer equipment following entering the Contest. The Release recipients will not be held responsible for any damage or problem due to a loss of signal or a technical failure occurring during the broadcast and/or signal reception from Weblocal.ca. Transcontinental and other Release recipients are not responsible for any problem that could prevent the proper conduct of the Contest in accordance with the rules established herein including, but without restricting the generality of the above, or the postponement of the Contest promotion or of the Contest.
23. Transcontinental reserves the right to modify or cancel the Contest without advance notice, subject to having obtained any required approval from Quebec’s Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux.
24. The decisions made by Transcontinental are final and without appeal.
25. For Quebec residents, any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a promotional 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 Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux only for the purposes of helping the parties reach a settlement.
26. The name of the Contest Winner will be available on www. thumbsupthumbsdowncontest.com ten (10) days at the latest after the draw, for a minimum period of ten (10) days.
27 The Contest rules are available on www. thumbsupthumbsdowncontest.com/rules/.
28. In case of incompatibility between the English and the French version of the present Rules, the French version shall prevail.