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How to participate:

Beginning Monday, September 25, 2023, at 12 p.m., until Friday, December 15, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. (the “Contest Period”) participants of the Cooksville SNAP Community Survey are eligible to enter into a draw to win one (1) of five (5) gift cards from Presto, FreshCo, Food Basics and Tim Horton’s, each with a value of $50 CDN.

Complete the survey at Mississauga.ca/SNAP.

The draw will take place on January 7, 2023 at 11:30 a.m. EST. Winners must meet the eligibility criteria as outlined in section 1. Winners will be contacted by Contest Sponsor within five (5) days of the draw date, and must respond to the contact provided in the notification no later than 5 p.m. EST January 15, 2023.

1 – Eligibility

To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must be a legal resident of Ontario and must be over the age of majority of 18. Contest is void in whole outside the Province of Ontario. Entry in this Contest constitutes each entrant’s acceptance of, and agreement to be legally bound by, these Contest Rules.
To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must complete the Cooksville SNAP Community Survey.
To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must be willing to provide Contest Sponsor their name and email address.
Contest entrants may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that they are the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the Entry in Question.
Only one (1) e-mail address may be used for purposes of this Contest Entry. Unless otherwise directed by the Contest Sponsor, in its sole discretion, no communication or correspondence will be exchanged with entrants except the entrant selected as the potential Winner (as defined below).
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the person submitting an online Entry, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to deem the entrant to be the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the entry. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “authorized account holder” of an e-mail address is defined as the person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Each entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that the entrant is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the applicable entry.
Employees, representatives and agents of Contest Sponsor or Prize Supplier, advertising and promotional agencies, and the household members (whether related or not) and/or the immediate family of any of the above, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “immediate family” means husband, wife, spouse, common law spouse, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister, son and/or daughter, whether or not they reside in the same household.
Contest Sponsor shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Contest. Failure to provide such proof to the complete satisfaction of Contest Sponsor may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied to Contest Sponsor for the purpose of this Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate and in no way misleading. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Entry or entrant in its and their sole discretion, should any Entry or entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.

2 – CONTEST PERIOD

The Contest has one open registration period (the “Contest Period”):

Monday, September 25, 2023, at 12 p.m., EST until Friday, Dec 15, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. EST

3 – HOW TO ENTER

To earn one (1) Entry (an “Entry”), entrants must complete the survey  (“the Survey”) and follow the on-screen instructions to fully complete the survey form at Mississauga.ca/SNAP or call 905-670-1615 ext. 400 to fully complete the survey.
 For online participants, an entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that they are the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the Entry in Question.
Only one (1) e-mail address may be used for purposes of this Contest Entry. Unless otherwise directed by the Contest Sponsor, in its sole discretion, no communication or correspondence will be exchanged with entrants except the entrant selected as the potential Winner (as defined below).
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the person submitting an online Entry, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to deem the entrant to be the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the entry. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “authorized account holder” of an e-mail address is defined as the person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Each entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that the entrant is the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the applicable entry.

4- PRIZE

There will be five prizes available to be won, consisting of two (2) $50 gift card to Presto, one (1) $50 gift card to FreshCo, one (1) $50 gift card to Food Basics and one (1) $50 gift card to Tim Horton’s. The Prize is subject to the following conditions, and can change any time:

The prize must be taken as offered and is not redeemable for cash.
The prize cannot be sold.
The Contest Sponsor is not responsible for any delay of the delivery of the Prize, for any reason, and neither the Winner nor any other person or entity will be compensated in the event of such delay. Other restrictions may apply.
 The Prize is non-transferable and without limiting the foregoing, the Prize may not be sold or traded, the Prize must be taken as offered and cannot be substituted, redeemed or exchanged for cash, credit or alternative prizes, except in the Prize Suppliers sole discretion. Prize Supplier reserves the right to substitute the Prize with a Prize of equal or greater value. No credit or reimbursement will be provided if the Prize is not taken. The Prize cannot be combined with any other promotional offer or offers provided by the Prize Supplier.

Retail Value: The Prizes each have a retail value of $50 CAD.

The Prize is subject to all of the terms and conditions as stated by the Prize Supplier and will be delivered to the confirmed Winner directly from Contest Sponsor to the address provided after the potential Winner has been successfully contacted and notified of his/her Prize and has fully complied with the Contest Rules. Shipped Prizes shall not be insured and neither the Contest Sponsor nor any of the Released Parties (mentioned below) shall assume any liability for lost, damaged or misdirected Prizes. All bookings/confirmations must be made through the Contest Sponsor’s designated representatives or as the Contest Sponsor may otherwise direct.

5 – ELIGIBLE WINNER SELECTION

Five (5) Winners shall be selected as follows:

The odds of being selected as a potential Winner are dependent upon the number of eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Contest Rules. On December 7, 2023, in Ontario at approximately 11:30 a.m. EST (the “Draw Date”), a data pull for all eligible Entries will be completed and one (1) potential Winners will be selected by a random draw from all eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Contest Rules.

Following the Draw Date, the Contest Sponsor or its representatives will make no less than three (3) attempts to contact the eligible Winner by phone and/or email, during the five (5) day period (the “Contact Period”) immediately following the Draw Date. Upon notification, the eligible Winners must respond by telephone and/or email to the contact provided in the notification, and the eligible Winners’ responses must be received by the Contest Sponsor by no later than 5:p.m. EST on the required return date stipulated in such notification. If a potential Winner does not respond in accordance with these Contest Rules, he/she may be disqualified, at the sole and absolute discretion of the Contest Sponsor, in which event they will not receive the Prize and another potential Winner may be selected from the remaining eligible Entries, in the Contest Sponsor’s sole discretion, whom the Contest Sponsor or its representatives will attempt to contact, and who must respond or will be subject to disqualification, in the same manner (adjusting timeframes, including the Contact Period, accordingly). Neither the Contest Sponsor, nor the Released Parties are responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of the eligible Winner to receive notification or for Contest Sponsor to receive the eligible Winner’s response.
Before being declared the confirmed Winner, the eligible potential Winner will be required to answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question during a pre-arranged telephone call, and comply with the Contest Rules. Without limiting the generality of the forgoing, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to administer an alternate test of skill as it deems appropriate based on the circumstances and/or to comply with applicable law. No individual will be declared a Winner until the Contest Sponsor officially confirms them as the Winner in accordance with the Contest Rules.

6- RELEASE

Each Winner and his/her guest will be required to execute a legal agreement and release (“Release”) that confirms each Winner’s and/or guest’s:

Eligibility for the Contest and compliance with these Contest Rules;

Acceptance of the Prize as offered;
Release of the Contest Sponsor and its respective affiliates, employees, directors, officers, sponsors and administrators (the “Released Parties”) from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in this Contest, participation in any Contest-related activity or the acceptance, use, or misuse of the Prize or any portion thereof, including but not limited to costs, injuries, losses related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light, or from any and all claims of third parties arising there from; and
Grant to the Contest Sponsor’s individual discretion, to produce, reproduce, publish, broadcast, communicate by telecommunication, exhibit, distribute, adapt and otherwise use or re-use each Winner’s name, photograph, likeness, voice and biography, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, in connection with the Contest and the promotion and exploitation thereof.

The executed Release must be returned within five (5) business days of the verification as a Winner or the selected potential Winner may, in the sole discretion of the Contest Sponsor, be disqualified and the Prize be forfeited.

8 – INDEMNIFICATION BY ENTRANT

By entering this Contest, each entrant releases and holds Released Parties harmless from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to the entrant, Released Party or any other person or entity, including, without limitation, personal injury, death, or property damage, resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any Prize, participation in this Contest, any breach of these Contest Rules, or in any Prize-related activity. Each entrant agrees to fully indemnify the Released Parties from any and all claims by third parties relating to the Contest, without limitation.

9- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Released Parties assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, misdirected or incomplete Entries, notifications, responses, replies requests or any Release, or for any telephone, hardware, software or technical malfunctions that may occur, including but not limited to malfunctions that may affect the transmission or non-transmission of an Entry. The Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest. The Released Parties assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, Entries. The Released Parties are not responsible for any problems, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines on account of technical problems or otherwise.
The Released Parties are not responsible for any injury or damage caused to any entrant, person or entity relating to or resulting from participating or attempting to participate in the Contest. Entrant assumes liability for injuries caused or claimed to be caused by participating in the Contest, or by the acceptance, possession, use of, or failure to receive the Prize or any portion thereof. The Released Parties assume no responsibility or liability in the event that the Contest cannot be conducted as planned for any reason, including those reasons beyond the control of Contest Sponsor, such as infection by tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or corruption of the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest.

10 – CONDUCT

By entering this Contest, each entrant agrees to be bound by these Contest Rules, which will be posted at cvc.ca/contestrules throughout the Contest Period. Each entrant further agrees to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Sponsor’s, which shall be final and binding in all respects. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant found to be:

Violating the Contest Rules;
Tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest;
Acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE RELATED TO THE CONTEST OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, CONTEST SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW

11 – PRIVACY & USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

By participating in the Contest, the entrant:

a. grants to the Contest Sponsor the right to use his/her name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address (the “Personal Information”) for the purpose of administering the Contest, including, but not limited to, contacting the Winner;
grants to the Contest Sponsor the right to use their Personal Information for publicity and promotional purposes relating to the Contest, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, without further compensation unless prohibited by law, and,
acknowledges that the Contest Sponsor may disclose his/her Personal Information to third-party agents and service providers of any of the Contest Sponsor in connection with any of the activities listed in (a) and (b) above.
The Contest Sponsor and any supplier and/or vendors of the Contest Sponsor will use the entrant’s Personal Information only for identified purposes, and protect the entrant’s Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with Credit Valley Conservation  Privacy Policy available at https://cvc.ca/privacy-policy/. This section does not limit any other consent(s) that an individual may provide the Contest Sponsor or others in relation to the collection, use and/or disclosure of their personal information.

12 – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

All intellectual property, including but not limited to trade-marks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source code, drawings, illustrations, slogans and representations are owned by the Sponsors/Suppliers and/or their affiliates. All rights are reserved. Unauthorized copying or use of any copyrighted material or intellectual property without the express written consent of its owner is strictly prohibited.

13 – TERMINATION AND AMENDMENTS

The Contest Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, amend, modify or terminate all or any portion of this Contest at any time for any reason without prior notice. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to adjust any of the dates, timeframes and/or other Contest mechanics stipulated in these Contest Rules, to the extent necessary, for purposes of verifying compliance by any entrant or Entry with these Contest Rules, or as a result of any technical or other problems, or in light of any other circumstances which, in the opinion of the Contest Sponsor, in its sole and absolute discretion, affect the proper administration of the Contest as contemplated in these Contest Rules, or for any other reason

14 – LAW

These are the official Contest Rules. This Contest is subject to applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. These Contest Rules are subject to change without notice in order to comply with any applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws or the policy of any other entity having jurisdiction over the Contest Sponsor.

OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES (“Contest Rules” or “Rules”)

The Contest is sponsored by Credit Valley Conservation (known as the “Contest Sponsor).”

1. Contest Summary

Attend CVC Watershed Plan Open Houses for your chance to enter into one of three CVC Watershed Plan Open House draws for a chance to win one (1) of nine (9) CVC Parks gift cards, each with a retail value of $75 CAD.

The draw will take place on November 21, 2023, at approximately 10:30 a.m. EST. Winners must meet eligibility criteria outlined in section 6 Winners will be contacted by Contest Sponsor within five (5) days of the draw date, and must respond to the contact provided in the notification no later than 5 p.m. EST December 13, 2023.

2. Contest Period

The Contest has three open registration period (the “Contest Period”):

Virtual Open House:

· October 4 to October 26, 2023, 4 p.m.

In-Person Open Houses:

Wednesday, November 8, 6 to 7:59 p.m.
Saturday, November 18, 10 a.m. to 11:59 a.m.

3. Prizing

Eligible winners will receive one (1) CVC Parks Gift Card, each with a retail value of 75$ CAD.

Gift cards can be used to purchase merchandise, services, event tickets or rentals at Credit Valley Parks locations or online. This card must be presented at time of service and cannot be used for security deposits on rentals.

4. How to Enter

Virtual Open House:

To earn one (1) ballot (an “entry”) entrants must complete the following:

Register for the Virtual Watershed Plan Open House and complete the Contest Entry Form during the event registration. To be eligible to earn one (1) Entry, your submission must be received online within the Contest Period.
Attend the Watershed Plan Virtual Open House.

In-Person Open Houses:

To earn one (1) ballot (an “entry”) entrants must complete the following:

Attend one in-person Watershed Plan Open House.
Complete the Contest Entry Form at the event. To be eligible to earn one (1) Entry, your submission must be received within the Contest Period.

5. How to Claim Your Prize

Winners will be contacted by Contest Sponsor within five (5) days of the draw date and must respond to the contact provided in the notification no later than 5 p.m. EST November 30, 2023.

6. Eligibility

Winners must meet the following eligibility criteria:

To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must be a legal resident of Ontario and must be over the age of majority of 18. Contest is void in whole outside the Province of Ontario. Entry in this Contest constitutes each entrant’s acceptance of and agreement to be legally bound by, these Contest Rules.
To be eligible for this Contest, participants must attend a Watershed Plan Open House, either virtually or in-person.
To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must be willing to provide Contest Sponsor their name and email address.
Contest entrants may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that they are the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the Entry in Question.
Only one (1) e-mail address may be used for purposes of this Contest Entry. Unless otherwise directed by the Contest Sponsor, in its sole discretion, no communication or correspondence will be exchanged with entrants except the entrant selected as the potential Winner (as defined below).
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the person submitting an online Entry, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to deem the entrant to be the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the entry. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “authorized account holder” of an e-mail address is defined as the person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Each entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that the entrant is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the applicable entry.
Employees, representatives and agents of Contest Sponsor or Prize Supplier, advertising and promotional agencies, and the household members (whether related or not) and/or the immediate family of any of the above, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “immediate family” means husband, wife, spouse, common law spouse, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister, son and/or daughter, whether or not they reside in the same household.
Contest Sponsor shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Contest. Failure to provide such proof to the complete satisfaction of Contest Sponsor may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied to Contest Sponsor for the purpose of this Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate and in no way misleading. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Entry or entrant in its and their sole discretion, should any Entry or entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.

7. Prize

The Prize is subject to the following conditions, and can change any time:

The prize must be taken as offered and is not redeemable for cash.
The prize cannot be replaced if lost or stolen.
Credit Valley Conservation is not responsible for any delay of the delivery of the Prize, for any reason, and neither the Winner nor any other person or entity will be compensated in the event of such delay. Other restrictions may apply.
The Prize is non-transferable and without limiting the foregoing, the Prize may not be sold or traded, the Prize must be taken as offered and cannot be substituted, redeemed or exchanged for cash, credit or alternative prizes, except in the Prize Suppliers sole discretion. Prize Supplier reserves the right to substitute the Prize with a Prize of equal or greater value. No credit or reimbursement will be provided if the Prize is not taken. The Prize cannot be combined with any other promotional offer or offers provided by the Prize Supplier.
The Prize shall be emailed to an email address, otherwise the Winner can request a printed gift card that will be mailed.
The Prize is subject to all of the terms and conditions as stated by the Prize Supplier and will be delivered to the confirmed Winner directly from Contest Sponsor to the address provided after the potential Winner has been successfully contacted and notified of his/her Prize and has fully complied with the Contest Rules. Shipped Prizes shall not be insured and neither the Contest Sponsor nor any of the Released Parties (mentioned below) shall assume any liability for lost, damaged or misdirected Prizes. All bookings/confirmations must be made through the Contest Sponsor’s designated representatives or as the Contest Sponsor may otherwise direct.

8. Eligible Winner Selection

Nine (9) Winners shall be selected as follows:

The odds of being selected as a potential Winner are dependent upon the number of eligible. Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Contest Rules.
- On November 21, 2023, at approximately 10:30 a.m. EST (the “Draw Date”), a data pull for all eligible Entries will be completed and up to three (3) potential Winners from each event will be selected by a random draw from all eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Contest Rules. One prize will be awarded per entrant.
Following the Draw, the Contest Sponsor or its representatives will make no less than three (3) attempts to contact the eligible Winner by phone and/or email, during the five (5) day period (the “Contact Period”) immediately following the Draw Date. Upon notification, the eligible Winners must identify themselves to the contact provided in the notification, and the eligible Winners’ responses must be received by the Contest Sponsor by no later than 5 p.m. EST on November 30, 2023. If a potential Winner does not respond in accordance with these Contest Rules, he/she may be disqualified, at the sole and absolute discretion of the Contest Sponsor, in which event they will not receive the Prize and another potential Winner may be selected from the remaining eligible Entries, in the Contest Sponsor’s sole discretion, whom the Contest Sponsor or its representatives will attempt to contact, and who must respond or will be subject to disqualification, in the same manner (adjusting timeframes, including the Contact Period, accordingly). Neither the Contest Sponsor, nor the Released Parties are responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of the eligible Winner to receive notification or for Contest Sponsor to receive the eligible Winner’s response.
Before being declared the confirmed Winner, the eligible potential Winner will be required to answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question and comply with the Contest Rules. Without limiting the generality of the forgoing, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to administer an alternate test of skill as it deems appropriate based on the circumstances and/or to comply with applicable law. No individual will be declared a Winner until the Contest Sponsor officially confirms them as the Winner in accordance with the Contest Rules.

9. Release

Each Winner will be required to execute a legal agreement and release (“Release”) that confirms each Winner’s:
- Eligibility for the Contest and compliance with these Contest Rules;
- Acceptance of the Prize as offered;
Release of the Contest Sponsor and its respective affiliates, employees, directors, officers, sponsors and administrators (the “Released Parties”) from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in this Contest, participation in any Contest-related activity or the acceptance, use, or misuse of the Prize or any portion thereof, including but not limited to costs, injuries, losses related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light, or from any and all claims of third parties arising there from; and
Grant to the Contest Sponsor’s individual discretion, to produce, reproduce, publish, broadcast, communicate by telecommunication, exhibit, distribute, adapt and otherwise use or re-use each Winner’s name, photograph, likeness, voice and biography, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, in connection with the Contest and the promotion and exploitation thereof.
The executed Release must be returned within five (5) business days of the verification as a Winner or the selected potential Winner may, in the sole discretion of the Contest Sponsor, be disqualified and the Prize be forfeited.

10. Indemnification by Entrant

11. Limitation of Liability

The Released Parties assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, misdirected or incomplete Entries, notifications, responses, replies requests or any Release, or for any telephone, hardware, software or technical malfunctions that may occur, including but not limited to malfunctions that may affect the transmission or non-transmission of an Entry. The Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest. The Released Parties assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, Entries. The Released Parties are not responsible for any problems, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines on account of technical problems or otherwise.
The Released Parties are not responsible for any injury or damage caused to any entrant, person or entity relating to or resulting from participating or attempting to participate in the Contest. Entrant assumes liability for injuries caused or claimed to be caused by participating in the Contest, or by the acceptance, possession, use of, or failure to receive the Prize or any portion thereof. The Released Parties assume no responsibility or liability in the event that the Contest cannot be conducted as planned for any reason, including those reasons beyond the control of Contest Sponsor, such as infection by tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or corruption of the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest.

12. Conduct

By entering this Contest, each entrant agrees to be bound by these Contest Rules, which will be posted on the survey during the Contest Period. Each entrant further agrees to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Sponsor’s, which shall be final and binding in all respects. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant found to be:

Violating the Contest Rules;

Tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest;
Acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

13. Privacy & Use of Personal Information

By participating in the Contest, the entrant:

Grants to the Contest Sponsor the right to use his/her name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address (the “Personal Information”) for the purpose of administering the Contest, including, but not limited to, contacting the Winner;
Grants to the Contest Sponsor the right to use their Personal Information for publicity and promotional purposes relating to the Contest, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, without further compensation unless prohibited by law, and,
Acknowledges that the Contest Sponsor may disclose his/her Personal Information to third-party agents and service providers of any of the Contest Sponsor in connection with any of the activities listed in (a) and (b) above. The Contest Sponsor and any supplier and/or vendors of the Contest Sponsor will use the entrant’s Personal Information only for identified purposes, and protect the entrant’s Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with Credit Valley Conservation Privacy Policy available at https://cvc.ca/privacy-policy/. This section does not limit any other consent(s) that an individual may provide the Contest Sponsor or others in relation to the collection, use and/or disclosure of their personal information.

14. Intellectual Property

All intellectual property, including but not limited to trademarks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source code, drawings, illustrations, slogans and representations are owned by the Sponsors/Suppliers and/or their affiliates. All rights are reserved. Unauthorized copying or use of any copyrighted material or intellectual property without the express written consent of its owner is strictly prohibited.

15. Termination and Amendments

16. Law

How to participate:

Beginning November 20, 2023, at 12 p.m., until December 13, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. (the “Contest Period”) participants of the Plantation Survey are eligible to enter into a draw to win a gift basket with a total value of $140.00 including a CVC Parks gift card.

The draw will take place on December 18, 2023 at 11:30 a.m. EST. Winners must meet the eligibility criteria as outlined in section 1. Winners will be contacted by Contest Sponsor within five (5) days of the draw date and must respond to the contact provided in the notification no later than 5 p.m. EST December 22, 2023.

1 – Eligibility

To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must be a legal resident of Ontario and must be over the age of majority of 18. Contest is void in whole outside the Province of Ontario. Entry in this Contest constitutes each entrant’s acceptance of, and agreement to be legally bound by, these Contest Rules.
To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must complete the Plantation Survey online, mailed into Credit Valley Conservation or by phone.
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the person submitting an online Entry, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to deem the entrant to be the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the entry. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “authorized account holder” of an e-mail address is defined as the person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Each entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that the entrant is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the applicable entry.
Employees, representatives and agents of Contest Sponsor or Prize Supplier, advertising and promotional agencies, and the household members (whether related or not) and/or the immediate family of any of the above, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “immediate family” means husband, wife, spouse, common law spouse, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister, son and/or daughter, whether or not they reside in the same household.
Contest Sponsor shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Contest. Failure to provide such proof to the complete satisfaction of Contest Sponsor may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied to Contest Sponsor for the purpose of this Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate and in no way misleading. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Entry or entrant in its and their sole discretion, should any Entry or entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.

2 – CONTEST PERIOD

The Contest has one open registration period (the “Contest Period”):

November 20, 2023, at 12 p.m., EST until December 13, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. EST

3 – HOW TO ENTER

To earn one (1) Entry (an “Entry”), entrants must complete the survey (“the Survey”) and follow the on-screen instructions to fully complete the survey form online, mail in their survey response or call 416-414-4325 between 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to fully complete the survey.
 For online participants, an entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that they are the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the Entry in Question.
Only one (1) e-mail address may be used for purposes of this Contest Entry. Unless otherwise directed by the Contest Sponsor, in its sole discretion, no communication or correspondence will be exchanged with entrants except the entrant selected as the potential Winner (as defined below).
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the person submitting an online Entry, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to deem the entrant to be the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the entry. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “authorized account holder” of an e-mail address is defined as the person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Each entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that the entrant is the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the applicable entry.

4- PRIZE

The Prize is a gift basket with a total value of $140.00 including a CVC Parks gift card. The Prize is subject to the following conditions, and can change any time:

The prize must be taken as offered and is not redeemable for cash.
The prize cannot be sold.
The Contest Sponsor is not responsible for any delay of the delivery of the Prize, for any reason, and neither the Winner nor any other person or entity will be compensated in the event of such delay. Other restrictions may apply.
 The Prize is non-transferable and without limiting the foregoing, the Prize may not be sold or traded, the Prize must be taken as offered and cannot be substituted, redeemed or exchanged for cash, credit or alternative prizes, except in the Prize Suppliers sole discretion. Prize Supplier reserves the right to substitute the Prize with a Prize of equal or greater value. No credit or reimbursement will be provided if the Prize is not taken. The Prize cannot be combined with any other promotional offer or offers provided by the Prize Supplier.

Retail Value: The Prize has a retail value of $140.00 CAD.

5 – ELIGIBLE WINNER SELECTION

One Winner shall be selected as follows:

The odds of being selected as a potential Winner are dependent upon the number of eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Contest Rules. On December 18, 2023, in Ontario at approximately 11:30 a.m. EST (the “Draw Date”), a data pull for all eligible Entries will be completed and one (1) potential Winner will be selected by a random draw from all eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Contest Rules.

Following the Draw Date, the Contest Sponsor or its representatives will make no less than three (3) attempts to contact the eligible Winner by phone and/or email, during the five (5) day period (the “Contact Period”) immediately following the Draw Date. Upon notification, the eligible Winners must respond by telephone and/or email to the contact provided in the notification, and the eligible Winner’s responses must be received by the Contest Sponsor by no later than 5:p.m. EST on the required return date stipulated in such notification. If a potential Winner does not respond in accordance with these Contest Rules, he/she may be disqualified, at the sole and absolute discretion of the Contest Sponsor, in which event they will not receive the Prize and another potential Winner may be selected from the remaining eligible Entries, in the Contest Sponsor’s sole discretion, whom the Contest Sponsor or its representatives will attempt to contact, and who must respond or will be subject to disqualification, in the same manner (adjusting timeframes, including the Contact Period, accordingly). Neither the Contest Sponsor, nor the Released Parties are responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of the eligible Winner to receive notification or for Contest Sponsor to receive the eligible Winner’s response.
Before being declared the confirmed Winner, the eligible potential Winner will be required to answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question during a pre-arranged telephone call, and comply with the Contest Rules. Without limiting the generality of the forgoing, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to administer an alternate test of skill as it deems appropriate based on the circumstances and/or to comply with applicable law. No individual will be declared a Winner until the Contest Sponsor officially confirms them as the Winner in accordance with the Contest Rules.

6 – RELEASE

The Winner will be required to execute a legal agreement and release (“Release”) that confirms the Winner’s:

Eligibility for the Contest and compliance with these Contest Rules;

Acceptance of the Prize as offered;
Release of the Contest Sponsor and its respective affiliates, employees, directors, officers, sponsors and administrators (the “Released Parties”) from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in this Contest, participation in any Contest-related activity or the acceptance, use, or misuse of the Prize or any portion thereof, including but not limited to costs, injuries, losses related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light, or from any and all claims of third parties arising there from; and
Grant to the Contest Sponsor’s individual discretion, to produce, reproduce, publish, broadcast, communicate by telecommunication, exhibit, distribute, adapt and otherwise use or re-use each Winner’s name, photograph, likeness, voice and biography, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, in connection with the Contest and the promotion and exploitation thereof.

7 – INDEMNIFICATION BY ENTRANT

8 – LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Released Parties assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, misdirected or incomplete Entries, notifications, responses, replies requests or any Release, or for any telephone, hardware, software or technical malfunctions that may occur, including but not limited to malfunctions that may affect the transmission or non-transmission of an Entry. The Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest. The Released Parties assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, Entries. The Released Parties are not responsible for any problems, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines on account of technical problems or otherwise.
The Released Parties are not responsible for any injury or damage caused to any entrant, person or entity relating to or resulting from participating or attempting to participate in the Contest. Entrant assumes liability for injuries caused or claimed to be caused by participating in the Contest, or by the acceptance, possession, use of, or failure to receive the Prize or any portion thereof. The Released Parties assume no responsibility or liability in the event that the Contest cannot be conducted as planned for any reason, including those reasons beyond the control of Contest Sponsor, such as infection by tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or corruption of the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest.

9 – CONDUCT

Violating the Contest Rules;
Tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest;
Acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

10 – PRIVACY & USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

By participating in the Contest, the entrant:

grants to the Contest Sponsor the right to use his/her name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address (the “Personal Information”) for the purpose of administering the Contest, including, but not limited to, contacting the Winner;
grants to the Contest Sponsor the right to use their Personal Information for publicity and promotional purposes relating to the Contest, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, without further compensation unless prohibited by law, and,
acknowledges that the Contest Sponsor may disclose his/her Personal Information to third-party agents and service providers of any of the Contest Sponsor in connection with any of the activities listed in (a) and (b) above.
The Contest Sponsor and any supplier and/or vendors of the Contest Sponsor will use the entrant’s Personal Information only for identified purposes, and protect the entrant’s Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with Credit Valley Conservation  Privacy Policy available at https://cvc.ca/privacy-policy/. This section does not limit any other consent(s) that an individual may provide the Contest Sponsor or others in relation to the collection, use and/or disclosure of their personal information.

11 – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

12 – TERMINATION AND AMENDMENTS

13 – LAW

How to participate:

Beginning Monday, October 14, 2023, at 12 p.m., until Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. (the “Contest Period”) participants of the Cooksville SNAP Events Draw are eligible to enter into a draw to win one (1) of five (6) gift cards from Presto, FreshCo and Food Basics, each with a value of $50 CDN.

The draw will take place on Friday December 1 at 10:00 a.m. EST. Winners must meet the eligibility criteria as outlined in section 1. Winners will be contacted by Contest Sponsor within five (5) days of the draw date, and must respond to the contact provided in the notification no later than 5 p.m. EST December 6, 2023.

1 – Eligibility

To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must be a legal resident of Ontario and must be over the age of majority of 18. Contest is void in whole outside the Province of Ontario. Entry in this Contest constitutes each entrant’s acceptance of, and agreement to be legally bound by, these Contest Rules.
To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must complete the Cooksville SNAP Community Survey.
To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must be willing to provide Contest Sponsor their name and email address.
Contest entrants may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that they are the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the Entry in Question.
Only one (1) e-mail address may be used for purposes of this Contest Entry. Unless otherwise directed by the Contest Sponsor, in its sole discretion, no communication or correspondence will be exchanged with entrants except the entrant selected as the potential Winner (as defined below).
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the person submitting an online Entry, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to deem the entrant to be the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the entry. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “authorized account holder” of an e-mail address is defined as the person who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Each entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that the entrant is the authorized account holder of the email address associated with the applicable entry.
Employees, representatives and agents of Contest Sponsor or Prize Supplier, advertising and promotional agencies, and the household members (whether related or not) and/or the immediate family of any of the above, are not eligible to participate in the Contest. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “immediate family” means husband, wife, spouse, common law spouse, mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, brother, sister, son and/or daughter, whether or not they reside in the same household.
Contest Sponsor shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Contest. Failure to provide such proof to the complete satisfaction of Contest Sponsor may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied to Contest Sponsor for the purpose of this Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate and in no way misleading. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any Entry or entrant in its and their sole discretion, should any Entry or entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.

2 – CONTEST PERIOD

The Contest has one open registration period (the “Contest Period”):

Monday, September 25, 2023, at 12 p.m., EST until Friday, Dec 15, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. EST

3 – HOW TO ENTER

To earn one (1) Entry (an “Entry”), entrants must complete the survey  (“the Survey”) and follow the on-screen instructions to fully complete the survey form at Mississauga.ca/SNAP or call 905-670-1615 ext. 400 to fully complete the survey.
 For online participants, an entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that they are the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the Entry in Question.
Only one (1) e-mail address may be used for purposes of this Contest Entry. Unless otherwise directed by the Contest Sponsor, in its sole discretion, no communication or correspondence will be exchanged with entrants except the entrant selected as the potential Winner (as defined below).
In the event of a dispute as to the identity of the person submitting an online Entry, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to deem the entrant to be the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the entry. For the purpose of these Contest Rules, “authorized account holder” of an e-mail address is defined as the person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet access provider, on-line service provider, or other organization responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address. Each entrant may be required to provide the Contest Sponsor with proof that the entrant is the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the applicable entry.

4- PRIZE

The prize must be taken as offered and is not redeemable for cash.
The prize cannot be sold.
The Contest Sponsor is not responsible for any delay of the delivery of the Prize, for any reason, and neither the Winner nor any other person or entity will be compensated in the event of such delay. Other restrictions may apply.
 The Prize is non-transferable and without limiting the foregoing, the Prize may not be sold or traded, the Prize must be taken as offered and cannot be substituted, redeemed or exchanged for cash, credit or alternative prizes, except in the Prize Suppliers sole discretion. Prize Supplier reserves the right to substitute the Prize with a Prize of equal or greater value. No credit or reimbursement will be provided if the Prize is not taken. The Prize cannot be combined with any other promotional offer or offers provided by the Prize Supplier.

Retail Value: The Prizes each have a retail value of $50 CAD.

5 – ELIGIBLE WINNER SELECTION

Five (5) Winners shall be selected as follows:

The odds of being selected as a potential Winner are dependent upon the number of eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Contest Rules. On December 7, 2023, in Ontario at approximately 11:30 a.m. EST (the “Draw Date”), a data pull for all eligible Entries will be completed and one (1) potential Winners will be selected by a random draw from all eligible Entries submitted and received in accordance with these Contest Rules.

Following the Draw Date, the Contest Sponsor or its representatives will make no less than three (3) attempts to contact the eligible Winner by phone and/or email, during the five (5) day period (the “Contact Period”) immediately following the Draw Date. Upon notification, the eligible Winners must respond by telephone and/or email to the contact provided in the notification, and the eligible Winners’ responses must be received by the Contest Sponsor by no later than 5:p.m. EST on the required return date stipulated in such notification. If a potential Winner does not respond in accordance with these Contest Rules, he/she may be disqualified, at the sole and absolute discretion of the Contest Sponsor, in which event they will not receive the Prize and another potential Winner may be selected from the remaining eligible Entries, in the Contest Sponsor’s sole discretion, whom the Contest Sponsor or its representatives will attempt to contact, and who must respond or will be subject to disqualification, in the same manner (adjusting timeframes, including the Contact Period, accordingly). Neither the Contest Sponsor, nor the Released Parties are responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of the eligible Winner to receive notification or for Contest Sponsor to receive the eligible Winner’s response.
Before being declared the confirmed Winner, the eligible potential Winner will be required to answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question during a pre-arranged telephone call, and comply with the Contest Rules. Without limiting the generality of the forgoing, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to administer an alternate test of skill as it deems appropriate based on the circumstances and/or to comply with applicable law. No individual will be declared a Winner until the Contest Sponsor officially confirms them as the Winner in accordance with the Contest Rules.

6- RELEASE

Each Winner and his/her guest will be required to execute a legal agreement and release (“Release”) that confirms each Winner’s and/or guest’s:

Eligibility for the Contest and compliance with these Contest Rules;

Acceptance of the Prize as offered;
Release of the Contest Sponsor and its respective affiliates, employees, directors, officers, sponsors and administrators (the “Released Parties”) from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in this Contest, participation in any Contest-related activity or the acceptance, use, or misuse of the Prize or any portion thereof, including but not limited to costs, injuries, losses related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light, or from any and all claims of third parties arising there from; and
Grant to the Contest Sponsor’s individual discretion, to produce, reproduce, publish, broadcast, communicate by telecommunication, exhibit, distribute, adapt and otherwise use or re-use each Winner’s name, photograph, likeness, voice and biography, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, in connection with the Contest and the promotion and exploitation thereof.

8 – INDEMNIFICATION BY ENTRANT

9- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Released Parties assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, misdirected or incomplete Entries, notifications, responses, replies requests or any Release, or for any telephone, hardware, software or technical malfunctions that may occur, including but not limited to malfunctions that may affect the transmission or non-transmission of an Entry. The Released Parties are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest. The Released Parties assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, Entries. The Released Parties are not responsible for any problems, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines on account of technical problems or otherwise.
The Released Parties are not responsible for any injury or damage caused to any entrant, person or entity relating to or resulting from participating or attempting to participate in the Contest. Entrant assumes liability for injuries caused or claimed to be caused by participating in the Contest, or by the acceptance, possession, use of, or failure to receive the Prize or any portion thereof. The Released Parties assume no responsibility or liability in the event that the Contest cannot be conducted as planned for any reason, including those reasons beyond the control of Contest Sponsor, such as infection by tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or corruption of the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest.

10 – CONDUCT

Violating the Contest Rules;
Tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest;
Acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.

11 – PRIVACY & USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

By participating in the Contest, the entrant:

a. grants to the Contest Sponsor the right to use his/her name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address (the “Personal Information”) for the purpose of administering the Contest, including, but not limited to, contacting the Winner;
grants to the Contest Sponsor the right to use their Personal Information for publicity and promotional purposes relating to the Contest, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, without further compensation unless prohibited by law, and,
acknowledges that the Contest Sponsor may disclose his/her Personal Information to third-party agents and service providers of any of the Contest Sponsor in connection with any of the activities listed in (a) and (b) above.
The Contest Sponsor and any supplier and/or vendors of the Contest Sponsor will use the entrant’s Personal Information only for identified purposes, and protect the entrant’s Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with Credit Valley Conservation  Privacy Policy available at https://cvc.ca/privacy-policy/. This section does not limit any other consent(s) that an individual may provide the Contest Sponsor or others in relation to the collection, use and/or disclosure of their personal information.

12 – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

13 – TERMINATION AND AMENDMENTS

14 – LAW

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