2019 Passport to China Full Contest Rules and Regulations
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2019 PASSPORT TO CHINA FULL CONTEST RULES AND REGULATIONS There are two ways to participate in the 40TH Anniversary Passport to China Contest (the “Contest”): in-restaurant (“In-Restaurant Contest”) and online (the “Online Contest”), as more fully detailed in these Official Rules and Regulations (“Rules”). 1. CONTEST PERIODS: The In-Restaurant Contest begins on March 4, 2019 and ends on November 30, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) (the “In-Restaurant Contest Period”). The Online Contest submission period begins at 12:00 p.m. ET on September 12, 2019 and closes on September 26, 2019 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET (the “Online Contest Submission Period”). The Online Contest voting period begins at 12:00 p.m. ET on October 3, 2019 and closes on October 10, 2019 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET. (the “Online Contest Voting Period”). 2. ELIGIBILITY: Contest is open to residents of Ontario, who have reached the age of 18, except employees (and those with whom such persons are domiciled, whether related or not) of Mandarin Restaurant Franchise Corporation (the “Sponsor”), its franchisees, prize suppliers, their advertising and promotional agencies, and any entity involved in the development, production, implementation, administration, judging or fulfillment of the Contest (collectively the “Contest Parties”). 3. HOW TO ENTER CONTEST: In-Restaurant Contest TO ENTER the In-Restaurant Contest, commencing on March 4, 2019, receive a Mandarin Restaurants Passport, while supplies last, at any Mandarin Restaurant location. Have one of the tear-out ballots in the passport stamped by a Mandarin Restaurant staff each time you make a purchase at a Mandarin Restaurant for dine in, pick-up, take- out, or show your delivery receipt. Limit one stamp per person per day. Stamps received for delivery orders will be considered to have been given on the date of the delivery order. Once you have received two stamps on the same ballot, fully complete that ballot and deposit it in the ballot box in the restaurant before restaurant-closing on November 30, 2019. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. To enter without a purchase, write a minimum 100-word hand-written essay about why you love eating at the Mandarin Restaurants. Essays must be original and cannot be mechanically reproduced. Include the essay along with the location of your favourite Mandarin Restaurant (for a complete listing, visit www.mandarinrestaurant.com), your name, address, postal code, and phone number and mail it in an envelope with sufficient postage to: Mandarin Restaurant 40th Anniversary Passport to China Contest, 8 Clipper Court, Brampton, ON, L6W 4T9. Limit one mail-in entry per outer envelope bearing sufficient postage. All mail-in entries must be post-marked by November 30, 2019. The Sponsor and its franchisees will not be responsible for late, lost, illegible, incomplete, postage-due, damaged, mutilated, garbled, destroyed or wrongly addressed entries or ballots. The ballot and mail-in entries shall be collectively referred to in these Contest Rules as the “In-Restaurant Contest Entries”. Online Contest NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. There are two ways to enter the Online Contest. a. To enter via Facebook, visit the contest page at facebook.com/mandarinrestaurants (the “Website”) and follow the on-screen instructions to obtain the Official Contest Entry Form (the “Entry Form”). Fully complete the Entry Form with all required information, which requires you to: (i) enter your full name, valid email address, and month and year of birth; (ii) post a link to a Video (as defined below) that you have uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo; and (iii) signify your agreement that you have read and agree to be legally bound by the terms and conditions of these Rules. The “Video” must be a recording of yourself explaining why you are the biggest Mandarin restaurant fan and why you love Mandarin restaurant (the “Theme”), must be no longer than 2 minutes and must otherwise be in accordance with the Submission Requirements set out in Rule 4 below (as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion). When all required steps of the entry process are complete (including fully completing the Entry Form and a link to the Video), follow the on-screen instructions to submit your completed entry (Entry Form and Video hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Facebook Entry”). To be eligible, your Facebook Entry must be submitted and received within the Online Contest Submission Period. The Entry Form will also include the opportunity to subscribe to the Sponsor’s newsletter. Any requested opt-in consent is not required to enter the Contest and will not increase your chances of winning. b. To enter via Instagram, post your Video during the Online Contest Submission Period by logging into his/her account on the Instagram platform and uploading his/her Video along with the following required language: “#Mandarinis40Contest” (collectively, “Instagram Entry Post”). Your Instagram Platform profile settings must not be set on private for your Instagram Entry Post to be eligible for the Contest. It is each entrant’s responsibility to timely set his/her account settings so that Sponsor is able to view his/her Instagram Entry Post. Sponsor is not responsible for misspellings, typographical errors, or other issues that may affect an Instagram Entry Post from being located using a search to find eligible entries. Your Instagram Entry Post will not be deemed an entry in the Contest until Sponsor verifies that it meets all the Submission Requirements detailed below and otherwise complies with these Official Rules and the Instagram Platform’s Terms of Use. Such approval or disapproval of an Instagram Entry Post will not be communicated. Sponsor, at its sole discretion, may accept or disqualify an Entry Post that is accompanied by a technically incorrect required unique term. Your Instagram Entry Post must remain active on your Instagram Platform account through winner selection and prize award for the Contest to be eligible. Your Instagram Entry Post will appear on your Instagram Platform account feed, may be included by Sponsor within select Sponsor media and may be visible to other users or the public. Incorrect and/or incomplete attempts at entry or those identified or received outside the Online Contest Submission Period, and/or Instagram Entry Posts that contain obscene, offensive, or objectionable language or that communicate messages inconsistent with the positive images to which Sponsor wishes to associate (all as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion) will be void and not eligible for entry. Only Instagram Entry Posts that are posted, identified and recorded on the Instagram Platform’s servers during the Online Contest Submission Period will be considered. Other proof of submitting an entry (such as a printed or copied confirmation screen or message) does not constitute actual receipt of the entry for purposes of this Contest. Each entrant must be the rightful owner of the Instagram Platform account utilized for entry. c. Facebook Entries and Instagram Entry Posts shall be collectively referred to herein as “Online Entries”. You can only enter the Online Contest one time during the Online Contest Submission Period, regardless of the number of Facebook and Instagram accounts you may hold. For greater certainty and the avoidance of any doubt, you can only use one (1) Facebook account or one (1) Instagram account to enter the Online Contest. If it is discovered by the Sponsor (using any evidence or other information made available to or otherwise discovered by the Sponsor) that any person has attempted to: (i) obtain more than one (1) Online Entry per person/email address during the Online Contest Submission Period; and/or (ii) use (or attempt to use) multiple names, identities email addresses and/or any automated, macro, script, robotic or other system(s) or program(s) to enter or otherwise participate in or disrupt the Online Contest; then he/she may be disqualified from the Online Contest in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor. Your Online Entry may be rejected if (in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor): (i) the required information in the Entry Form is not fully completed or the required information in the Instagram Entry Post is not posted during the Online Contest Submission Period; and/or (ii) your Video does not depict the Theme and/or is not in accordance with the specific Submission Requirements listed below in Rule 4 (all as determined by Sponsor in its sole and absolute discretion). The Released Parties (defined below) are not responsible for late, lost, misdirected, delayed, incomplete or incompatible Online Entries (all of which are void). All Entries are subject to verification at any time and for any reason. The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to require proof of identity and/or eligibility (in a form acceptable to the Sponsor – including, without limitation, government issued photo identification): (i) for the purposes of verifying an individual’s eligibility to participate in this Contest; (ii) for the purposes of verifying the eligibility and/or legitimacy of an Entry entered (or purportedly entered) for the purposes of this Contest; and/or (iii) for any other reason the Sponsor deems necessary, in its sole and absolute discretion, for the purposes of administering this Contest in accordance with these Rules. Failure to provide such proof to the satisfaction of the Sponsor in a timely manner may result in disqualification in the sole and absolute discretion of the Sponsor. The sole determinant of the time for the purposes of a valid Online Entry in this Contest will be the Contest server machine(s). 4. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: BY SUBMITTING AN ONLINE ENTRY FOR THE ONLINE CONTEST, YOU AGREE THAT THE ONLINE ENTRY (AND EACH INDIVIDUAL COMPONENT THEREOF) COMPLIES WITH ALL CONDITIONS STATED IN THESE RULES.