1. HOW TO ENTER: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.
Contest begins at 9:00 am ET on Thursday, May 1, 2008 and ends at 9:00 am ET
on Friday, May 30, 2008 (“Contest Period”). To enter, complete the
official online entry form available at gotransit.com (the “Contest
Website”) and click on Submit. Limit: One entry per person per email
address. All entries must be received during the Contest Period.
All fields on the entry form must be completed unless indicated as optional.
Automated, programmed, scripted or robotic entries are prohibited.
2. ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible to enter,
you must be a legal resident of Ontario who is 18 years of age or older,
with Internet access and a valid email address. Employees or
representatives of GO Transit (the “Sponsor”), the Ministry of
Transportation, Metrolinx, the Canadian Diabetes Association, the National
Hockey League, the independent judging organization, suppliers of materials
and services related to this Contest, and any member of the immediate family
(defined as parents, siblings, children, or spouses) or household (whether
related or not) of such employees, or representatives are not eligible to
enter or to win.
3. DRAWING: A random draw will be held
on or about Friday, May 30, 2008 upon contest closing from all eligible
entries received. Selected entrant(s) will be notified by phone within two
business days of the draw. In order to be declared a winner, the
selected entrant(s) must have correctly answered without assistance of any
kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a mathematical skill-testing question
on the official online entry form. The odds of winning depend upon the
number of eligible entries received. Return of any prize/prize
notification as undeliverable may result in disqualification and selection
of an alternate eligible entrant, at Sponsor’s sole discretion. If a
selected entrant cannot be contacted within five business days of the first
attempt to contact him or her, or does not complete the Release form
described in Rule 5 below, the prize may be forfeited and awarded to an
alternate entrant at Sponsor’s sole discretion.
4. PRIZES: There is one grand prize
available to be won, consisting of a chance to play ball hockey with a NHL
legend, two tickets to the NHL Awards show and return GO transportation
between Union Station and the GO Station closest to the prize winner’s
residence. Approximate retail value $1,500. There are two secondary
prizes available to be won, each consisting of two tickets to the NHL Awards
show and return GO transportation between Union Station and the GO Station
closest to the prize winner’s residence. Approximate retail value $1,100.
Prizes are not transferable, must be accepted as awarded, and cannot be
substituted, whether in cash or otherwise. Sponsor reserves the right
to substitute a prize of equal or greater monetary value if a prize, or any
component of a prize, cannot be awarded as described above for any reason.
Prizes will only be awarded to verified winners. Limit one prize per
person or household.
5. RELEASES: Before being declared a
winner, selected entrant(s) will be required to sign in person a Declaration
of Compliance with the Contest Rules and Release of Liability, releasing
Sponsor, the Ontario Provincial Government and its Ministries, the Canadian
Diabetes Association, the National Hockey League, the independent judging
organization, and suppliers of materials and services related to this
Contest (collectively, the “Releasees”), from any liability in association
with this Contest or the prize.
6. PRIVACY: Pursuant to Section 39(2) of
the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, you are hereby
notified that by entering this Contest, personal information relating to you
is being collected for the purpose of participating in promotional
activities, in accordance with GO Transit’s By-Law No. 2. Questions
about this collection should be addressed to the Manager, Marketing and
Communications, 20 Bay Street, Suite 600, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 1W3, (416)
869-3600. By accepting a prize, the winner agrees to use by Sponsor of
his/her name, address (city/province), likeness, and/or prize information
for promotional purposes in any medium, whether now known or hereafter
developed, including but not limited to any Internet-based medium, at any
time and in perpetuity, without additional compensation or notice. GO
Transit’s handling of all personal information is governed by the Freedom of
Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
7. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Without
limiting the release provided in Rule 5 above, by entering this Contest
entrants agree that Releasees will not be responsible or liable for: (a)
late, lost, stolen, damaged, garbled, incomplete, misdirected, or
undeliverable email communications; (b) errors, omissions, interruptions,
deletions, defects, or delays in operations or transmission of information,
whether arising by way of technical or other failures or malfunctions of
computer hardware, software, communications devices, or transmission lines
or data corruption; (c) theft, destruction, unauthorized access to or
alteration of entry materials; (d) any injuries, damages, or losses to any
person or property resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly,
from participation in this Contest (including, without limitation, damage to
any computer system resulting from accessing or downloading information
related to this Contest) or any Contest-related activity or from the
acceptance, possession, participation in, use or misuse of a prize; or
(e) electronic communications that are undeliverable and/or redirected from
an individual’s email inbox as a result of any form of active or passive
filtering of any kind, including but not limited to spam filtering, or
insufficient space in entrant’s email account to receive email messages.
8. GENERAL: Contest is subject to all
applicable federal, provincial, municipal and local laws. By entering the
Contest, entrants agree to comply with these Official Rules and the
decisions of the Sponsor and/or the independent judging organization, whose
decisions are final and binding in all matters related to this Contest.
Entrants who have not complied with these Official rules are subject to
disqualification. Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion
and without prior notice, to modify, cancel, terminate or suspend this
Contest should any virus, bug, worm, trojan horse, technical failures,
unauthorized human intervention, or other causes beyond Sponsor’s control
corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness or proper conduct
of the Contest. Paragraph headings are for convenient reference only
and are not to affect the interpretation of these Official Rules. No
correspondence will be entered into except with potential winners or as
otherwise in compliance with Rule 6 above. If any provision of these
Official Rules is declared invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be
deemed modified to the extent necessary and possible to render it valid and
enforceable. In any event, the unenforceability or invalidity of any
provision shall not affect any other provision of these Official Rules.
In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of the person who submitted
an online entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized
account holder of the email address submitted on the official online entry
form. “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 or person that is responsible for
assignment email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted
email address. A selected entrant may be required to provide Sponsor
with proof that s/he is the authorized account holder of the email address
associated with the selected entry.
Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify, from this
Contest and any future Contest or other promotion conducted by Sponsor, any
individual that it finds or believes to be tampering with the entry process
or operation of the Contest or Contest Website; to be acting in violation of
these Official Rules, or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with
intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. ANY
ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE
OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF
CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR
RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH INDIVIDUAL TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.