People Choice Award Voter Contest Details
OFFICIAL RULES AND REGULATIONS
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
1. TO ENTER the Calgary International Film Festival – People’s Choice Award Voter Contest (the "Contest"), voter/entrant must be the bearer of a pass or ticket containing a barcode used at the screening of the film for which they wish to vote. Log on to www.calgaryfilm.com . From the “Home” page, click on “Vote”. You will be prompted to enter the barcode number from your ticket or pass and assign your choice of rating to the film. Limit of one entry per ticket barcode throughout the Contest Period. Late, and/or incomplete, inaccurate or garbled entries will be declared invalid and are ineligible. Contest starts on September 24, 2009 at 10:00PM MT and closes on October 7, 2009 at 11:59PM MT (the "Contest Period"). There is one (1) grand prize (“Prize") to be won from among all the eligible entries received during the Contest Period. Void where prohibited.
2. The contest sponsor is: Calgary International Film Festival Society (hereinafter referred to as the "Contest Sponsor"). The Contest Sponsor shall have the right to request proof of age and identification at any time.
3. To enter and to be eligible to win, entrant must be a legal resident of Canada, excluding residents of the province of Quebec. Employees and persons domiciled with an employee of the Contest Sponsor, volunteers, participating filmmakers and distributors, their agents, affiliated or related companies, subsidiaries, divisions, Amex Bank of Canada, Amex Canada Inc., and promotional and advertising agencies and administrators, are ineligible to enter.
4. One Grand Prize: There is one (1) Prize consisting of: two Gold passes to the 2009 Whistler Film Festival, two ski lift tickets for the Whistler Blackcomb area, a 3 night stay at the Pan Pacific Whistler Mountainside Hotel, return ground transportation between Vancouver and Whistler, and two return economy airfare tickets from the international airport closest to the winner’s residence to Vancouver, B.C.. The winner and their travel companion must travel from the same departure airport and on the same itinerary. Approximate retail value is two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500.00 CDN).
The Prize winner and his/her companion are solely responsible for all costs not expressly described herein including, without limitation, applicable taxes, gratuities, meals, merchandise, and all personal expenses of any kind or nature. Trip must be taken during the 2009 Whistler Film Festival, between December 3 to 6 2009. In the event the winner lives within a two hundred kilometer radius of Whistler B.C. ground transportation will be provided in lieu of airfare.
5. The Prize must be accepted as awarded. The Prize may not be sold, transferred and is not convertible to cash. Contest Sponsor and Prize Sponsor reserve the right to provide a substitute for the Prize in whole or in part in the event that all or any component of the Prize is unavailable.
6. On or after October 8, 2009 at approximately 12:00 p.m. MT, a random draw will take place in Calgary, Alberta, by the Contest Sponsor, from among all eligible entries received during the Contest Period. The first entry drawn will be eligible to win the Prize. The odds of winning the Prize will depend upon the total number of eligible entries received during the Contest Period. The Contest Sponsor will attempt to contact the selected entrant, by telephone within forty-eight (48) hours after the draw. In the event the selected entrant cannot be contacted within forty-eight (48) hours after the draw, he or she will be disqualified and an alternate selected entrant will be drawn. In order to be declared a winner, selected entrant must first correctly answer, unaided, a time limited mathematical skill testing question administered by the Contest Sponsor. Before being awarded the Prize, the potential winner and the potential winner's travel companion (or their parent/legal guardian if a minor) will be required to sign and return within the time stipulated by the Contest Sponsor, a full release and indemnity form stating that he/she has read and understood these official rules and regulations (the "Rules"); grants all consents required, authorizes the Contest Sponsor to broadcast, publish and disseminate his/her name, city of residence, photograph, likeness, and voice, in connection with any promotion or publicity, and/or for general news, entertainment and information purposes at no additional compensation to the potential winner and companion, beyond the awarding of or participation in the Prize; acknowledges and grants the Contest Sponsor the right to use and publish statements and testimonials attributed to the winner and companion as accurate expressions of their experiences in their advertising, promotions, publications or other material at no additional compensation to the potential winner and companion; accepts the Prize as offered; and releases the Contest Sponsor from any and all liability of any kind arising out of the potential winner's and/or traveling companion's participation in this Contest and receipt and use of the Prize. In the event that the potential winner and companion do not comply with all the provisions as contemplated in these Rules, Contest Sponsor shall have the right to disqualify the potential winner and companion and draw an alternate potential winner and companion, time permitting and the Contest Sponsor shall be fully and completely released and discharged from any liability or responsibility in this regard. The provisions and procedures referred to above relating to selection and notification of a potential winner shall be applied, with the necessary amendments, until a qualified winner has been duly selected, time permitting.
7. By entering this Contest the entrants and participants automatically agree to accept and abide by these Rules. All decisions of the Contest Sponsor with respect to any aspect of this Contest, including without limitation the eligibility of entries, are final and binding on all entrants in all matters as they relate to this Contest.
8. All entries become the property of Contest Sponsor who assume no responsibility for lost, late, delayed, destroyed, entries or any computer errors or malfunctions. No correspondence will be entered into except with entrants requesting Rules or selected entrants. Contest Sponsor does not assume any responsibility for incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry information, technical malfunctions, human or technical error, printing errors, lost, delayed or garbled data or transmissions, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or failures of any telephone or computer line or network, computer equipment, software or any combination thereof. Entry materials/data that have been tampered with or altered are void. If for any reason, in the opinion of the Contest Sponsor, in its sole discretion, the Contest is not capable of running as originally planned, or if the administration, security, fairness, integrity or the proper conduct of the Contest is corrupted or adversely affected, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond their control, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify, amend, extend or suspend the Contest including canceling any method of entry, and select a winner from previously received eligible entries. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to modify the Rules without materially affecting the terms and conditions hereof. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual they find to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or to be acting in violation of the Rules or otherwise in a disruptive manner.
9. Contest is subject to all applicable Canadian federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. By entering this 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 Sponsor for the purposes of implementing, administering and fulfilling this Contest. Contest Sponsor will not sell or transmit this information to third parties except for the purposes of administering this Contest.
