Contests - Style at Home Holiday Countdown Contest

Style at Home Holiday Countdown Contest

CONTEST RULES

1. This contest is only open to Canadian residents over the age of 18. To enter the Style at Home Holiday Countdown Contest, an entrant must create a Contest account, complete and submit the online entry form and submit an optional photograph and one description.
2. A user must register for a Contest account and be logged-in in order to create an entry. A user may enter once for the entire duration of the contest. Duplicate entries are not allowed. Only one Contest account per person is allowed. Note: a Contest account is not the same as a My Home and Garden Network account.
3. All entries must be received by 11:59 PM (EST) December 17, 2009. Winners are announced by December 23, 2009.
4. Holiday Entertaining Tip Prize: One entry from the Holiday Entertaining Tips category will be selected by a StyleAtHome.com judging panel to win the Holiday Entertaining Tip Prize: Palm Pre valued at $599.95 CAD. The selection will be conducted at Transcontinental Media’s Toronto, Ontario, Canada office on December 18, 2009.
5. Holiday Organizing Tip Prize: One entry from the Holiday Organizing Tips category will be selected by a StyleAtHome.com judging panel to win the Holiday Organizing Tip Prize: Flip Video’s MinoHD (60 minute) Series valued at $249.99 CAD. The selection will be conducted at Transcontinental Media’s Toronto, Ontario, Canada office on December 18, 2009.
6. Holiday Decorating Tip Prize: One entry from the Holiday Decorating Tips category will be selected by a StyleAtHome.com judging panel to win the Holiday Decorating Tip Prize: Dell Mini 10v valued at $329.00 CAD. The draw will be conducted at Transcontinental Media’s Toronto, Ontario, Canada office on December 18, 2009.
7. All contest entries are moderated, and are only published online once the entries have been approved by our moderators. If the entry is approved by the moderators, an entrant can expect to see his/her entry published on the website on the next business day following the date of submission. If your contest entry is not approved, you will receive an email telling you why it was denied. Once your contest entry has been submitted, no changes can be made to it.
8. Winners will be required to sign a standard publicity/liability release. Prizes must be accepted as awarded and are not transferable or convertible to cash. There are no substitutions except at the Contest Sponsor’s option.
9. This contest is open to all residents of Canada aged 18 and older, excluding residents of Quebec, Transcontinental Media G.P. employees, directors and officers (and those with whom they are domiciled) of the Contest Sponsors and their respective advertising and promotional agencies. The Contest Sponsors and their respective affiliates, their advertising and promotional agencies accept no responsibility in any case where their inability to satisfy these contest rules arises from any situation which is outside of their control including but not limited to a situation of strike, lock-out or other labour strife in the Contest Sponsors’ workplaces or in the workplaces of any organization or entity whose services are used for running this contest. The Contest Sponsors accept no responsibility for entries lost, misdirected, illegible, incomplete, delayed or destroyed or for the failure or malfunction of any hardware, software or telecommunication component relating to online entries. The Contest Sponsors have the right to terminate or alter the rules of the contest at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.
10. Entrants may only submit one entry into the contest. Only one user account per person is allowed. Duplicate entries from the same person can result in disqualification.
11. All entries become the property of Style at Home (Transcontinental Media G.P.), which assumes no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged, or misdirected entries or for any failure of the websites during the promotional 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 e-mail or entry to be received by Style at Home and (Transcontinental Media G.P.) on account of technical problems 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 promotion. Any attempt to deliberately damage any web site or to undermine the legitimate operation of this promotion is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Style at Home (Transcontinental Media G.P.) reserve the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution. Entries are subject to verification and will be declared invalid if they are illegible, mechanically reproduced, mutilated, forged, falsified, altered or tampered with in any way. Entrants agree to abide by the Contest Rules and the decisions of the independent judging panel, which are final.
12. Style at Home (Transcontinental Media G.P.) take no responsibility for entries lost, late, illegible, incomplete, or misdirected. We take no responsibility for technical problems beyond our control. Entries must be received by 11:59 PM (EST), December 18, 2009 in order to be eligible to win. Entries become the property of Transcontinental Media G.P., and none will be returned. Style at Home (Transcontinental G.P.) will not enter into correspondence or discussion with any entrants.
13. Transcontinental Media G.P. reserves the right to disqualify any contest entry without warning if it is deemed that the entrant is cheating. Forms of cheating include (but are not limited to) creating several user accounts for the same person; creating an automated script (also known as a “bot”) to create multiple entries for the same person; or using photographs and text for which the entrant is not the copyright owner.
14. The contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws. No correspondence will be entered into except with the winning entrants and individuals requesting a copy of contest rules. All entries become the property of Style at Home (Transcontinental Media G.P.). The Contest Sponsors will be collecting data about entrants through the contest entry process. Any personal information will be handled in accordance with the privacy policy of Style at Home (Transcontinental Media G.P.). By entering the 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 Sponsors for the purposes of implementing, administering and fulfilling the contest. The Contest Sponsors will not sell or transmit this information to third parties unless the entrant has specifically consented to same, the Contest Sponsors believe in good faith that it is required by law, to their affiliates (provided that such affiliates and their agents and advisors and their respective employees are restricted from using the information for any other purpose other than as described in these rules and regulations), or to their respective agents for data processing purposes, their respective professional advisors and promotional and marketing agencies (provided that such agents, professional advisors and promotional and marketing agencies are restricted from using the information for any purpose other than as described in these rules and regulations). Any inquiry concerning the personal information held by the Contest Sponsors should be addressed to Transcontinental Chief Privacy Officer, 1 Place Ville Marie, Suite 3315, Montreal, Quebec, H3B 3N2, e-mail: chiefprivacyofficer@transcontinental.ca, fax: (514) 954-2802.

CONTEST SPONSOR: Style at Home (Transcontinental Media G.P.)