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Rules

The Contest Period for the Canadian Cancer Society Driven To Quit Challenge (the “Contest”) starts at 8:00 AM EST January 4, 2010, and continues until 11:59 PM EST on March 31, 2010 (“Contest Period”). All entrants and their buddies must be registered by 11:59 PM EST February 28, 2010 to participate, as set out in more detail below (the “Entry Deadline”).

  1. No purchase necessary. To Enter:
    1. Find one support buddy who will support you in going smoke-free for the month of March 2010.
    2. Register yourself and your buddy:
      • Online at www.driventoquit.ca by 11:59 PM EST February 28, 2010.
      • By calling the Smokers’ Helpline at 1 877 513-5333 by 9:00 PM EST February 28, 2010.
      • By mailing a completed registration form to: The Driven to Quit Challenge, Canadian Cancer Society, 662 Concession Street, Suite 200, Hamilton ON L8V 1B8. Mail-in entries must be post-marked by February 28, 2010.
      • By faxing a completed registration form to 1 800 706-0112 (toll free). Faxes must be received by 11:59 PM EST on February 28, 2010. To obtain a hard copy of The Driven to Quit Challenge registration form, call the Canadian Cancer Society Smokers’ Helpline at 1 877 513-5333, visit your local Canadian Cancer Society Unit office or your local public health department office.
  2. Contest entrants must quit smoking or tobacco use on or after January 1, 2010, and remain smoke-free from March 1, 2010 through and including March 31, 2010 (or until all winners are confirmed for this Contest as described below). Smoke-free means no use of commercial tobacco products of any kind. Entrants are permitted to use nicotine replacement therapies (e.g. patch, gum, inhaler or lozenge and/or prescription medication). Limit one entry per person/e-mail address regardless of method of entry. Entries will be rejected if registration form is not fully completed and submitted by the dates and times listed above. Illegible and incomplete entries will be void.
  3. Eligibility: This Contest is open to residents of Ontario, who are over the age of 19 as of March 1, 2010, excluding current employees (and those domiciled with such employees) of the Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division (the “Contest Sponsor”), the Ministry of Health Promotion, Ontario Public Health, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, and their respective advertising and promotional agencies (“Excluded Entrants”). Each entrant must also be a person who uses or used tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco and/or snus) at least once weekly for a minimum of one year prior to January 1, 2010, and at a minimum used tobacco at least 100 times in his or her life.
  4. Buddy eligibility: Buddies must be residents of Ontario who are over the age of 19 as of March 1, 2010. Excluded Entrants may be buddies; however, they are not eligible for buddy prizes. Buddies may be smokers or non-smokers and may be of any relation to the participant, provided the buddy is a person other than the participant him or herself. 
  5. Random draws to select the potential winners from all eligible entries received will be conducted by a representative of the Contest Sponsor on March 31, 2010, at approximately 10:00 AM EST in Toronto, Ontario. The first selected entrant, drawn from all eligible entries received prior to 11:59 p.m. EST on January 31, 2010 (“Early Bird Prize Deadline”), will be eligible to win the early bird prize. Odds of winning the early bird prize depend on the total number of eligible entries received by the Early Bird Prize Deadline. Following the early bird prize draw, a random draw from all eligible entries received by the Entry Deadline will be conducted to select the entrant who will be eligible to win the grand prize. Odds of winning the grand prize depend on the total number of eligible entries received by the Entry Deadline. Following the grand prize draw, two random draws from all eligible entries received will be conducted to determine two selected entrants who will be eligible for the two secondary prizes. Odds of winning a secondary prize depend on the total number of eligible entries received by the Entry Deadline.  Then, seven random draws will be conducted, each to select one potential regional prize from all eligible entries received for each of the seven regions. Odds of winning a regional prize depend on the total number of eligible entries received by region by the Entry Deadline. Entrants will qualify as part of a region based on their postal code association with one of seven Ontario provincial tobacco control area regions. Entrants can confirm what region they are in by contacting their local public health unit.  Buddies associated with the selected early bird prize, grand prize, secondary prize and regional prize entrants will be eligible to win a buddy prize. Buddies are not required to live within to same region as the entrant to be eligible to win a buddy prize. Odds of winning a buddy prize depend on the number of eligible buddy entries received. Selected entrants will be contacted by telephone at the telephone number(s) indicated on his/her entry. If a selected entrant or buddy cannot be reached within 24 hours of the draw, or if the selected entrant declines the prize, or does not otherwise comply with these Contest Rules (“Rules”) he/she will forfeit his/her prize and another random draw will be conducted to select a replacement entrant in the same manner.
  6. Potential winners (including their buddies) may be requested to provide proof of identification and eligibility. All buddies will be asked to confirm that eligible contest entrants who are potential winners have in fact remained smoke-free for the month of March 2010. Each selected entrant will be required to take a urine test to be conducted by DriverCheck at a location of their choice in Ontario within 2-3 days following March 31, 2010, or following the day of initial contact with the Contest Sponsor, to verify his/her smoke-free status. In the event that the potential winner has used a sacred/traditional (non-commercial) tobacco product during the month of March 2010 or any time before the urine test, he/she must declare such use to the Contest Sponsor. Potential winners will need to remain smoke-free until after testing, and while testing results are evaluated, which can take up to a couple of weeks after the Contest Closing Date. Please note, we recommend all entrants remain smoke-free until after a winner is announced in the event that a re-draw is required for prizing.
  7. Each selected entrant and selected buddy will be required to correctly answer, unaided, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question to be administered by telephone at a mutually convenient time, before being named a winner. Each selected entrant and buddy must also return a signed Declaration and Release of liability and publicity within a specified period of time, before being named a winner, failing which he/she will forfeit his/her prize.

Contest Entrant Prizes:

  1. Early bird prize: There is one (1) early bird prize available to be won consisting of a $1,000 CDN Prepaid Promotional  MasterCard card valid anywhere MasterCard is accepted. Approximate retail value of the early bird prize is $1,000.
  2. There is one (1) grand prize available to be won consisting of a 2010 Ford Escape hybrid model number U4K 300A Series). Freight, PDI, sales taxes, and a/c tax are included. All other expenses not specifically mentioned herein, such as; vehicle insurance, licensing, registration, fuel and maintenance costs, personal expenses, etc. are the sole responsibility of the winner. Specifications are to be determined solely by the Contest Sponsor. It is the winner's responsibility to arrange for pick up, at the winner's sole expense, of the car from a Ford dealer located in Ontario, specified by the Contest Sponsor. Winner must have all necessary identification (including valid driver’s license) required to pick up the car. In the event the winner of the car does not have or cannot get a valid license and evidence of insurance, he/she will be permitted to transfer the prize to a family member of his/her choice with a license and insurance who must sign all appropriate releases. Delivery date will be within 90 days from the time the Contest Sponsor receives the signed declaration form from the winner. Approximate retail value of the grand prize is $34,899.
  3. Secondary prizes: There are two (2) secondary prizes to be won. Each secondary prize consists of one $5,000 CDN travel voucher valid for redemption through the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA). Winners are responsible for making all arrangements with CAA Travel to redeem the vouchers. Approximate retail value of each secondary prize is $5,000.
  4. Regional prizes: There are seven (7) regional prizes to be won. Each regional prize consists of $2,000 CDN Prepaid Promotional MasterCard card valid anywhere MasterCard is accepted. Approximate retail value of each regional prize is $2,000.

Buddy Prizes:

  1. There are eleven (11) buddy prizes available to be won, each consisting of $200 CDN Prepaid Promotional  MasterCard cards  valid anywhere MasterCard is accepted. Approximate retail value of each buddy prize is $200.
  2. Contest entrants are limited to one prize per person, excluding the early bird prize. Support buddies are able to be a buddy for multiple entrants, and are therefore eligible for multiple buddy prizes.

    Winners will be publicly announced on or about April 19, 2010
  3. Prizes must be accepted as awarded and may not be exchanged and have no cash surrender value. No substitutions, except at Contest Sponsor’s option. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for a substitute prize of at least equal value for whatever reason. Prizes may not be exactly as shown in contest advertising.
  4. The Contest Sponsor’s rulings are final and without appeal in all matters related to this Contest and the awarding of the Prizes. The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations.
  5. By entering this Contest, each winner of a contest entrant prize and a buddy prize consents to the use of his/her name, city of residence, and/or photograph in any publicity carried out by the Contest Sponsor and its advertising and promotional agencies without further notice or compensation.
  6. If the identity of an on-line entrant is disputed, the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry will be deemed to be the entrant. The individual assigned to the e-mail address for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address is considered the authorized account holder. A selected entrant may be required to provide proof that he/she is the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the selected entry. All on-line entries must be submitted from a valid e-mail account that may be identified by reverse domain name search. The sole determinant of time for the purposes of receipt of a valid entry in this Contest will be the Contest Sponsor’s server machine(s). Automated and/or repetitive submission of entries (including but not limited to entries made using any script, macro, bot or contest service) will be disqualified and transmissions from these or related email or IP addresses may be blocked.
  7. All entries become the property of the Contest Sponsor and will not be returned. Contest Sponsor, its advertising and promotion agencies assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged, illegible, incomplete, postage-due, garbled or misdirected entries or entries that have been submitted through illicit means, or do not conform to or satisfy the Contest Rules or for failure of the website during the Contest 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 entry to be received 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 contest.
  8. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, cancel or suspend this Contest should a virus, bug or other cause beyond the reasonable control of the Contest Sponsor 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 Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws. 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. The Contest Sponsor is not responsible for any errors or omissions in printing or advertising this Contest.
  9. The Contest Sponsor collects your personal information for the purposes of registration, program evaluation and to keep you informed about The Challenge. The Contest Sponsor will not share any personal data about entrants with any other party, unless otherwise indicated. The personal data collected for this Contest will not be used for any other purposes unless entrants provide explicit permission as indicated on the entry form. For more information about our privacy practices or to obtain a copy of our Privacy Policy, visit www.cancer.ca or e-mail privacy@ontario.cancer.ca or call 1 800 268-8874, extension 2257.
  10. By entering this Contest, entrants agree to release and hold harmless the Contest Sponsor and the Ministry of Health Promotion, Ontario Public Health Agencies, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, and their respective employees, officers, directors, agents, representatives, successors, assigns, advertising and promotional agencies from any liability for any loss or damage of any kind to the entrant, buddy or any other person in connection with this Contest or participation in any Contest related activities, including but not limited the taking of a urine test or, if declared a winner, the use or misuse of a prize or any portion of a prize including personal injury, death or property damage. This Contest will run in accordance with these Contest Rules, subject to amendment by the Contest Sponsor. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, amend, modify or terminate this Contest or the Rules at any time in its sole discretion and without notice. Entrants must comply with these rules, and will be deemed to have received and understood the rules if they participate in the Contest.

 
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The Driven to Quit Challenge is presented in collaboration with your local public health department.
Prizes made possible through the generous support of McNeil Consumer Healthcare.