2009 Gemini Contest Official Contest Rules and Regulations
CONTEST DESCRIPTION
1. The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's (The Academy) 2009 Gemini Contest (the "Contest") commences 12:00p.m. (ET) Thursday, October 8th, 2009 and concludes 11:59 p.m. (ET) Friday, November 13th, 2009 (the "Contest Period"). The Contest is brought to you by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and Zip.ca.ELIGIBILITY
1. 1. The Contest is open to all legal residents of Canada who are eighteen (18) years of age or older as of the first day of the Contest Period (except residents of Quebec).2. Notwithstanding the above, the Contest is not open to individuals associated with the contest, including the employees, agents or representatives of the Contest Supporters (including their respective divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates and advertising or promotional agencies) and suppliers providing prizes or other materials or services in connection with this Contest (collectively, the Excluded Individuals"). This Contest is also not open to the immediate family members of the Excluded Individuals, and all other persons with whom the Excluded Individuals reside.
HOW TO ENTER
3. To enter, click on the "Gemini Zip Contest" link on the Gemini Awards website, (www.geminiawards.ca), follow the instructions, answer all 10 trivia questions and complete the online entry form. Entries will not be eligible if sent by any method not specified above or if not received during the Contest Period.4. No purchase is required to enter. Only one entry per home address will be accepted during the Contest Period. Multiple entries of any kind by the same home address will be disqualified, unless multiple entries are expressly permitted in paragraph 4.
PRIZE
5. There is one Grand Prize to be won. The Grand Prize consists of a Gemini Gift Prize Package and a membership to Zip.ca. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Contest Period.DRAW
7. Within five (5) days of the end from the Contest Period, one entrant will be randomly selected from all eligible entries as the potential Grand Prize winner.8. In order to be declared a winner by the Contest judges, a potential winner must be in compliance with these Official Contest Rules and Regulations and, in particular, the following:
8.1 An Academy employee must be able to reach the potential winner by telephone within five (5) days of the date on which the potential winner's entry was selected.
8.2 The potential winner must correctly answer, unaided and within a set timeframe, a mathematical skill testing question administered by an Academy employee by telephone.
8.3 The potential winner must complete, sign and return a standard form declaration and release prepared by The Academy within ten (10) days from the date on which the form is sent to the potential winner.
9. If a potential or declared winner is not in compliance with these Official Contest Rules and Regulations, the Contest judges reserve the right to disqualify such entrant from the Contest and randomly select further entrants from the remaining eligible entries until a winner is finally declared.
10. Each declared winner, or if a declared winner is a minor, the declared winner and his/her parent or legal guardian on his/her behalf, consents to the Contest Supporters' use of his/her name, photograph, voice, statement and image for any publicity or programming purposes, in all media, without remuneration, throughout the world in perpetuity.
11. Entrants will not be individually contacted, except for selected entrants or declared winners, who will be contacted by telephone.
GENERAL
13. The decisions of the Contest judges are final, and entrants agree to abide by all of the instructions and decisions of the Contest judges. In the event of any dispute regarding the interpretation of these Official Contest Rules and Regulations or any decision rendered by the Contest judges, the decision or interpretation of the Contest judges shall prevail.14. All entries become the sole property of, and are subject to verification by The Academy. Any entry that is illegible, incomplete, altered, or contains false information, is invalid. Should The Academy discover that more than one entry was received per household, it reserves the right to ban and/or disqualify all entries from that household. The use of any automated equipment to participate in this Contest is prohibited.
15. Any attempt to tamper with the entry process, interfere with these Official Contest Rules and Regulations, deliberately damage any website or undermine the administration, security or legitimate operation of the Contest, is a violation of criminal and civil laws and the Contest Sponsors reserve the right to seek damages and/or other relief from all persons responsible for such acts to the fullest extent permitted by law, which may include banning or disqualifying entrants from this and future Academy contests.
16. The Contest Supporters assume no responsibility for: entries lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected, or for the failure, interruption or delay of any email or other communication to be received, for any reason; problems with the function of any website or website feature howsoever caused; the malfunction of, or damage caused to, any telephone network or lines, computer equipment, data or software, online systems, servers or access providers; any functionality lost due to not having cookies enabled; traffic congestion on the Internet; the security or privacy of information transmitted via computer networks; or for breaches of privacy due to interference by third party computer "hackers".
17. The Contest Supporters reserves the right, in their sole discretion, to substitute any component of a prize for its cash value or a prize of approximately the same retail value. Prizes are non-transferable, must be accepted as awarded by The Academy and cannot be exchanged by a declared winner for cash or other substitutes. The refusal by an entrant to accept any prize releases and forever discharges the Contest Supporters and their agents of all obligations related to the prize including delivery.
18. The Academy reserves the right, at its sole discretion and without prior notice, to amend, cancel, close, suspend or reinstate this Contest at any time and for any reason whatsoever.
19. By entering the Contest, each entrant agrees to abide by these Official Contest Rules and Regulations, which are subject to change without notice to Contest entrants individually, and each entrant releases the Contest Supporters, their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, representatives, agents and advertising and promotional agencies, from any damage, loss or liability suffered as a result of or arising from the entrant's participation in the Contest or the use of any prize.
20. The Contest is void where prohibited by law and is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations.
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