Draw and Awarding of Prizes
1. The prizes will be awarded as follows: the two (2) first prizes, those being the Grand Prize for participants 18 and older and the Grand Prize for participants 17 and younger, will be drawn from all the duly registered individual participants in Quebec. The team and family prizes will be drawn from the registered teams and families and will be presented to the representative responsible for the team or family.A regional prize for each of the following regions will be drawn from the participants:
1) Bas Saint-Laurent
2) Saguenay–Lac Saint-Jean
3) Capitale Nationale (Quebec City)
4) Mauricie et Centre du Québec
5) Estrie
6) Montréal
7) Outaouais
8) Abitibi-Témiscamingue
9) Côte-Nord
10) Nord du Québec, Nunavik et Terres-Cries
11) Gaspésie–Iles-de-la-Madeleine
12) Chaudières-Appalaches
13) Laval
14) Lanaudière
15) Laurentides
16) Montérégie
2. The random draws for the twenty (20) potential winners will take place on April 12, 2008 at 9:00 AM (EST), at 300 rue Léo-Pariseau, 18th floor, City of Montreal, Province of Quebec. The prizes will be drawn in the following order: Grand Prize for participants 18 and older; Grand Prize for participants 17 and younger; the regional prizes; the team prize and the “5/30 Desjardins Family” prize.
3. Potential winners will be contacted by telephone starting on April 16, 2008, by the members of the eligibility committee, in order to answer a questionnaire designed to verify the eligibility criteria for the 5/30 Health Challenge contest listed in Section II of the present rules. Potential winners will not be informed of their status as potential winners nor of the nature of the eligibility criteria verification.
4. If the potential winner cannot be reached after three (3) days of attempts, at the rate of two (2) calls per day (72 hours after the first call), if there is no response or no callback after a message has been left on the individual’s voicemail, the potential winner will not have the right to a prize. In this case, the next potential winner on the list will be called. No delay may go beyond 72 hours from the time of the first call, for whatever reason.
5. To be declared a winner and receive a prize, potential winners must first demonstrate by their answers in the telephone interview that they have taken up the 5/30 Health Challenge in their own way to improve health during the six (6) weeks of the Challenge, that is from March 1 to April 11, 2008 inclusive. Potential winners will be taken at their word and presumed to be in good faith. Second, potential winners will have to correctly answer, without assistance, within a given time, a skill-testing mathematical question asked over the telephone at a time previously agreed to by the parties.
6. The potential winners of the Grand Prize for participants 18 and older and the Grand Prize for participants 17 and younger will not be eligible for the regional prizes, but will be eligible for the team and family prizes as long as they respect the eligibility conditions for these two (2) prize categories.
7. The potential winners of the regional prizes will be eligible for the team and family prizes, as long as they respect the eligibility conditions for these two (2) prize categories.
8. In the case of the “Desjardins 5/30 Family” prize, the representative responsible for the family will be declared the potential winner and will be contacted to verify his/her participation as well as that of the family members.
9. In the case of the team prize, the representative responsible for the team will be declared the potential winner and will be contacted to verify his/her participation as well as that of the team members.
10. After having reached the potential winners and having verbally confirmed, with witnesses, their eligibility for the 5/30 Health Challenge prizes, the organizers will supply, individually to all the potential winners, a written declaration attesting to the respect of the conditions set out in the present rules, as well as a waiver.
11. Said declaration must be read and signed by the potential winner. The potential winner must return one copy by fax to the organizers of the draw and send the original, duly signed, by mail within the prescribed deadline. If the deadline is not respected, the potential winner will be disqualified. A parent or guardian must sign the declaration of a potential winner who is a minor.
12. In the event of a person whose name was drawn not satisfying the requirements of the present rules, he/she will be automatically disqualified, and the prize will be awarded to a new participant by random draw, according to the same eligibility criteria.
13. ACTI-MENU, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Montreal Heart Institute are the initiators of the 5/30 Health Challenge and ACTI-MENU is solely responsible for the organization of the draws, which are supervised by a committee composed of representatives of the partners involved in the production of the 5/30 Health Challenge (“eligibility committee”).
14. Prizes must be accepted as awarded and described in the present rules for the 5/30 Health Challenge. They are not transferable and may not be replaced by other prizes, nor are they exchangeable, in whole or in part, for cash or other goods. ACTI-MENU reserves the right to substitute a prize of an equivalent value for a prize that cannot be awarded as described in the present rules.
15. The chances of winning depend on the number of registrations received during the registration period.
