TO ENTER
1. No purchase necessary. The contest begins on January 22, 2012 at 1:00:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time and ends on June 30, 2012 at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (the "Contest Period"). To enter the Para Paints ‘What’s Your Style” 2012 Colour and Design Trends Contest (the “Contest") presented by Para Paints, the contestant must visit www.para.com/contest and fill out an application form telling which of PARA’s Colour and Design Trend palettes is the best at inspiring their sense of style and upload a picture of their inspiring room if they choose to. The contestant then needs to fully complete the entry form (which requires a contestant to include his/her full name, address, daytime telephone number with area code, age range and e-mail address). Entries will be rejected if the entry form is not fully completed and submitted during the Contest Period. Limit of one entry per person or email address permitted during the Contest Period. If it is discovered that you attempted to enter more than once during the Contest Period all your entries will be void.
ELIGIBILITY
2. This Contest is open to Canadian residents, including Quebec who has reached the age of majority in the Province/Territory in which they reside at the time of entry. Directors, officers and employees of the Contest Sponsor and its advertising and promotional agencies are not eligible to enter this Contest nor are their immediate family (father/mother, brother/sister, son/daughter) or persons living under the same roof with them. Entry in the Contest is further restricted to only those who have or can obtain the right to authorize a room makeover.
PROCEDURE FOR AWARDING THE PRIZE
3. Fifteen (15) qualifying winners will be selected through judging of all entrants to be held on July 6, 2012, at Deb McCain Communications, (the “Contest Administrator”), Toronto, Ontario, at or around 10:00 a.m.
4. To be eligible to win the prize, the selected contestant must first a) correctly answer, unaided, a time-limited mathematical skill testing question to be administered by telephone at a prearranged mutually convenient time or by email, b) confirm and agree to all of the following, amongst other things, in a release prepared by the Contest Sponsor: (i) they agree to a world wide, non-revocable, perpetual and non exclusive and royalty free license in and to all intellectual property conceived or created in connection with the contestant’s participation in the Contest; (ii) sign a standard declaration and release form confirming compliance with the Contest rules (“Rules”), acceptance of the prize as awarded and releasing the Contest Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies, and its officers, directors, agents, representatives, successors and assigns (the "Releases") from any liability in connection with this Contest, the contestant's participation there in and/or the awarding and use of the prize or any portion thereof, including without limitation, for any damage caused to any property in the course of the execution of the prize, and if the contestant is the winner, the contestant (on his/her own behalf and that of the home owner, if different) releases and holds harmless the Releasees (iii) agree to the use without compensation of their photographed image, their name and city of residence in all publicity campaigns related to the Contest. If the selected contestant (i) cannot be contacted by email or telephone, (ii) fails to return the necessary Contest documents within the specified time, he/she will forfeit the prize and an alternate eligible contestant will be selected. This process will be repeated until the prize is awarded.
5. By accepting the prize, the winner agrees that their photograph/write-up and information pertaining to the Contest may be published on the Contest Sponsor’s websites, promotional advertisements, or any other form of promotion with Contest Sponsor’s products/services without further compensation.
DESCRIPTION OF PRIZE (needs approval by Para Paints)
6. There will be fifteen prizes awarded, each consisting of $250 (CDN) in an online room consultation provided by the contestant’s favourite of the four designers displayed online and $250 (CDN) in retail paint value from PARA Paints. The approximate retail value of the services and paint of all fifteen (15) will be $7,500 (CDN).
7. Prize must be accepted as awarded and is not transferable or convertible to cash. No substitutions except at the Contest Sponsor’s option. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the prize or a prize component with one of equal or greater value. The prize includes only what is specifically described above and no other allowance will be granted.
GENERAL RULES
8. By entering this Contest, contestants acknowledge that all entries become the property of the Contest Sponsor and will not be returned.
9. By entering the Contest the selected contestant agrees to the publication, reproduction and/or other use of his/her name, city of residence, voice, statements about the Contest and/or photograph or other likeness without further compensation, in any publicity or advertisement carried out by the Contest Sponsor in any manner whatsoever, including print, broadcast or the Internet. The Contest Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies and the Contest judges are not responsible for late, lost, misdirected, delayed or illegible entries.
10. Refusal to accept a prize releases the Contest Sponsor and its affiliates, as well as their respective directors, officers and employees, of any and all responsibility and obligation toward the selected contestant.
11. If it is discovered that an contestant has made a false statement, he/she shall be automatically disqualified from the Contest.
12. The Contest Sponsor and its affiliates, as well as their respective directors, officers and employees, shall assume no liability resulting from losses, delays, mistaken addresses on mail or e-mail received, typographical errors, technical, computer or telephone malfunctions, loss or theft of computer or telephone data, damage to software or computer equipment, fraudulent calls or any other mistake.
13. The Contest Sponsor and its affiliates, as well as their respective directors, officers and employees, shall assume no liability whatsoever for any situation in which their inability to act results from an event or situation unforeseeable or beyond their control, including a strike, lockout or any other labour dispute at their location or the locations of the organizations and businesses whose services are used to hold this Contest.
14. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right, to withdraw or amend this Contest in any way, in the event of an error, technical problem, computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failure or any other cause beyond the reasonable control of the Contest Sponsor that interferes with the proper conduct of this Contest as contemplated by these Rules. Any attempt to deliberately damage any website or to undermine the legitimate operation of this Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution.
15. In the event of a dispute, entries received shall be deemed to be submitted by one person who is the holder of the email account. An account holder may manually enter the Contest online. Entries cast using shared email accounts will not be considered valid entries. If the identity of an email account holder is disputed, the authorized account holder associated with the email account at the time of entry will be deemed to be the contestant. A selected contestant may be required to provide proof that he/she is the authorized account holder of the email account associated with the selected entry. The sole determinant of the time for the purposes of a valid online entry in this Contest will be the Contest server machine(s).
16. The Contest Sponsor, reserves the right to cancel or suspend this Contest in the event of any accident, printing, administrative, or other error or any kind without prior notice or obligation.
17. This Contest is subject to all applicable laws of Canada and the laws of each Province, as applicable. Void where prohibited by law. The decisions of the Contest Sponsor and determinations with respect to all aspects of this Contest are final and binding on all contestants without right of appeal.
18. By entering this Contest, each contestant expressly consents to the Contest Sponsor, its agents and/or representatives, storing, sharing and using the personal information submitted with his/her entry only for the purpose of administering the Contest and may be contacted for the use of research directly related to this Contest and in accordance with Contest Sponsor's Privacy Policies unless the contestant otherwise agrees.
19. By entering this Contest, contestants agree to abide by these Rules, which are final and binding on all contestants.
20. These Rules are available online at www.parapaints.com/contest
