Canadian Living Forums Question of the Month Complete Rules and Regulations

Canadian Living Forums Question of the Month Complete Rules and Regulations

How to enter:
Enter online by visiting our forums at www.canadianliving.com/forums and posting your response in the Question of the Month section. Only one entry per person please. Entries must be received by 11:59 pm (ET) on the contest closing date, April 30, 2007. No purchase necessary.

Prize:
One winner will be selected by a panel of judges on May 10, 2007, in Toronto, Ontario at the executive offices of Canadian Living. One grand prize of a gift pack from Salt Spring Seeds valued at approximately $35 will be awarded.

Prizes have no cash value, must be accepted as awarded, are not transferable or convertible to cash, and may not be sold, traded or transferred. Should the winner refuse a prize, Canadian Living (Transcontinental Media G.P.) and their respective advertising and promotional agencies are released from any obligation related to the prize. The Contest Sponsors retain the right in their absolute discretion to make substitutions of equivalent kind or value in the event of the unavailability of any element of a prize for any reason whatsoever.

How to win:
Your online entry must be received by 11:59 pm (ET) on the contest closing date, April 30, 2007. To win a prize, selected entrants must have complied with the contest rules. The prize winner must return email notification of prize acceptance within five (5) days of receipt. If acceptance is not confirmed within the deadline, if the selected entrant is not eligible for any reason, or if the selected entrant cannot be contacted after five business days of the first attempt to contact the selected entrant, such entrant shall be disqualified and the Contest Sponsors shall have the right to select another entrant and the Contest Sponsors shall be released and discharged from any liability or responsibility in this regard. The selected entrant will be disqualified and another potential winner drawn from all eligible entries. By entering, contestants consent to the use of their photographs, names, and places of residence, without compensation, in print, radio or televised publicity relating to the contest.

Who can win:
This contest is open to all residents of Canada who have reached the age of majority in their province of residence except employees, directors and officers (and those with whom they are domiciled) of the Contest Sponsors and their respective advertising and promotional agencies. The Contest Sponsors and their respective affiliates, their advertising and promotional agencies accept no responsibility in any case where their inability to satisfy these contest rules arises from any situation which is outside of their control including but not limited to a situation of strike, lock-out or other labour strife in the sponsors' workplaces or in the workplaces of any organization or entity whose services are used for running this contest. The Contest Sponsors accept no responsibility for entries lost, misdirected, illegible, incomplete, delayed or destroyed or for the failure or malfunction of any hardware, software or telecommunication component relating to online entries. The Contest Sponsors have the right, subject to the approval of the Régie in Québec, to terminate or alter the rules of the contest at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

All entries become the property of Canadian Living (Transcontinental Media G.P.), which assumes no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged, postage-due or misdirected entries or for any failure of the websites during the promotional period, for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Canadian Living (Transcontinental Media G.P.) on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to an entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from playing or downloading any material in the promotion. Canadian Living (Transcontinental Media G.P.) reserves the right, in its sole discretion to cancel or suspend the e-mail portion of this contest should a virus, bug or other cause beyond the reasonable control of Canadian Living (Transcontinental Media G.P.) corrupt the security or proper administration of the contest. Any attempt to deliberately damage any web site or to undermine the legitimate operation of this promotion is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Canadian Living (Transcontinental Media G.P.) reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution. Entries are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are illegible, mechanically reproduced, mutilated, forged, falsified, altered or tampered with in any way. Entrants agree to abide by the Contest Rules and the decisions of the independent judging panel, which are final.

Quebec entrants:
For residents of Québec, any dispute concerning the conduct or administration of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any dispute concerning the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the Régie only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.

The entries:
The contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws. No correspondence will be entered into except with the selected entrants and individuals requesting a copy of contest rules. The odds of an entry being selected depend on the number of eligible entries received by the contest closing date. All entries become the property of Canadian Living (Transcontinental Media G.P.). The Contest Sponsors will be collecting data about entrants through the contest entry process. Any personal information will be handled in accordance with the privacy policy of Canadian Living (Transcontinental Media G.P.). By entering the contest, each entrant consents to the collection, use and distribution of his/her personal information (information that identifies an entrant as an individual, such as home telephone number, age and home address) by the Contest Sponsors for the purposes of implementing, administering and fulfilling the contest. The Sponsors will not sell or transmit this information to third parties unless the entrant has specifically consented to same, the Sponsors believe in good faith that it is required by law, to their affiliates (provided that such affiliates and their agents and advisors and their respective employees are restricted from using the information for any other purpose other than as described in these rules and regulations), or to their respective agents for data processing purposes, their respective professional advisors and promotional and marketing agencies (provided that such agents, professional advisors and promotional and marketing agencies are restricted from using the information for any purpose other than as described in these rules and regulations). Any inquiry concerning the personal information held by the Sponsors should be addressed to Transcontinental Chief Privacy Officer, 1 Place Ville Marie, Suite 3315, Montreal, Quebec, H3B 3N2, e-mail: chiefprivacyofficer@transcontinental.ca, fax: (514) 954-2802.

Contest sponsors:
The Contest Sponsor is Canadian Living (Transcontinental Media G.P.).