Rules

Canadian Living & The Home Depot's Ugly Kitchen Contest
Official Rules

  1. The Home Depot Kitchen Makeover contest (hereafter “Contest”) is organized by Canadian Living Magazine – property of Transcontinental Media G.P. (“Transcontinental”). It starts on Monday, October 5, 2009, and closes on Monday, January 15, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. (EDT). All entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. (EDT) Monday, November 30, 2009. Any reference to time in this document indicates Eastern Daylight saving Time (EDT).

ELIGIBILITY

  1. The Contest is open to all residents of Canada and is governed by Quebec/Canada law, who can show proof of home ownership and have reached the age of majority in the province in which they reside by the start date of this contest as identified above, with the exception of the employees, agents and/or representatives of Transcontinental, its distributors or affiliated companies, advertising agencies or any contributor to the Contest, as well as anyone with whom an employee, agent and/or representative is domiciled or any member of his or her immediate family. For these official rules, “immediate family” refers to the father, mother, brothers, sisters, children, husband, wife or partner of such an employee, agent and/or representative.

HOW TO ENTER

  1. Registration
    1. For a chance to win, you must upload a recent photograph or video of your kitchen in the form available at http://kitchencontest.canadianliving.com between the Contest opening date, Monday, October 5, 2009 and 11:59 p.m. (EDT) Monday, November 30, 2009 (hereafter the “Clue”). Take note of the Clue and include it in your entry form.
    2. Log on to http://kitchencontest.canadianliving.com. Complete the electronic entry form (hereafter the “Electronic Entry”) by filling all required fields. Include the Clue and answer a mathematical skill-testing question (hereafter “Mathematical question“). Click on “Submit”. You will then be entered in the Contest. You can enter the Contest until the Contest closing date, Monday, November 30, 2009.
    3. The entry forms described in paragraph 3.1 and 3.2 are hereinafter collectively called the “Entry Form”.
    4. The winning entrant must have correctly answered the Mathematical question appearing on the Entry Form and must have given a valid Clue (hereinafter referred to as the “Winner”, subject to every other condition stipulated in the present rules and regulations).
    5. Entry limited to one (1) per person for the duration of the Contest.
    6. Each entrant can only use one e-mail address (which must be valid) to enter via the Electronic Entry form. One (1) entrant per Electronic Entry form. The same e-mail address cannot be used by more than one entrant.
    7. No purchase necessary.

PRIZES

  1. One (1) winner will be awarded one (1) first prize consisting of a $25,000 kitchen makeover from Home Depot, a total approximative retail value of twenty-five thousand Canadian dollars (25,000$ CND) (hereinafter the “Prize”). The makeover will include consultation with a Home Depot representative, plus a total of $25,000 retail value worth of products chosen by the Winner from a selection of products predetermined by Home Depot. The winner agrees to pay any costs above the $25,000 total prize value offered by Home Depot.
  2. Transcontinental reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to replace the Prize with another of a comparable value or with the Prize value in money if it is not possible to award it to the Winner as described in paragraph 4 above for any reason.

JUDGING

  1. All Electronic Entries received by the server hosting the http://kitchencontest.canadianliving.com website will be open for voting between Tuesday, December 1, 2009, and Friday, January 15, 2010. Visitors to this site will be allowed to vote once per day for their favourite entries between these dates. After the contest closing date, Friday, January 15, 2010, a Canadian Living Judging Panel (hereinafter referred to as the “Judging Panel”) will select, at their sole discretion, one (1) Winner based on the following criteria: number of votes received, the suitability of the kitchen for renovation, and quality of entries submitted. The entry that receives the largest number of votes will not necessarily be chosen as the Winner.
  2. The Winner will be announced at http://kitchencontest.canadianliving.com on Friday, January 22, 2010.
  3. The decisions of the Judging Panel regarding the selection of the Winner are final with respect to all aspects of the Contest. No correspondence will be entered into except with the Winner and individuals requesting a copy of Contest rules.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  1. To be declared winner, the Winner must respect the entry and eligibility conditions stipulated in this document. Failure to respect one or several of these conditions means the winner will be disqualified and another Winner will be chosen from all eligible entries.
  2. Limit of one prize per person.
  3. Transcontinental will contact the Winner by telephone and/or e-mail by Wednesday, January 20, 2010. In the event that Transcontinental cannot contact the Winner for whatever reason within forty-eight (48) hours following the selection of the Winner, Transcontinental will choose another Winner from all eligible entries.
  4. To claim his prize, a Winner must fill in and sign a Declaration of Compliance and a full Liability Release (hereafter “Form”) that will be sent to him by mail and/or courier and/or fax and/or e-mail by Transcontinental and return it filled in and signed within five (5) days of receiving it. In the event that the Form is not signed and returned within the time limit, Transcontinental reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to conduct or not as many draws as necessary to award the Prize. If Transcontinental decides not to conduct a new draw, the Prize will simply not be awarded.
  5. Upon receipt of the Form, Transcontinental will inform the Winner by e-mail and/or by mail and/or by phone and/or by messenger of all the details related to how the Winner will receive the Prize.
  6. The Prize will be delivered to the Winner between Monday, February 8, 2010, and Monday, May 10, 2010 inclusively. The Winner agrees to work with Home Depot between these dates to complete his or her kitchen makeover. Transcontinental retains the right to photograph all stages of the renovation in order to publish them in an upcoming issue of Canadian Living Magazine, if it chooses to in its sole discretion.
  7. In the event that it is not possible to deliver the Prize to the Winner, for whatever reason, the Prize shall become null and void. In such case, the Prize will not be redrawn and will simply not be awarded.
  8. Transcontinental, its respective companies and divisions and any other moral person of its corporate group, its affiliated broadcast distributors, advertising and promotional agencies and their respective shareholders, administrators, executives, employees and agents, as well as any contributor to the Contest, including Home Depot (hereafter called “Release recipients”) are not responsible for matters regarding the Prize or the Contest and provide no guarantee for either.
  9. The Prizes must be accepted as awarded and cannot be transferred without the prior written agreement of Transcontinental, substituted with another prize or exchanged in whole or in part for money. Should Transcontinental for reasons out of its control and not related to the Winner, not be able to award the prize as described in the present document, Transcontinental reserves the right to award a similar prize (or a portion of the prize) of equal value or, at its sole discretion, the value of the prize indicated in this present document (or a portion of the prize) in money.
  10. Transcontinental shall not be held liable in any case where its inability to act results from a fact or situation beyond his control or from a strike, lock-out or any other labour dispute in his facilities or in the facilities of the organizations or companies whose services are used in the course of holding this Contest.
  11. By entering this Contest, the Winner authorizes Transcontinental, if required, to use his name, photograph, place of residence, voice, image and (or) declaration regarding its prize for advertising purposes without any form of remuneration, in any medium whatsoever (print, broadcast, Internet, etc.). Moreover, the Winner agrees to permit his name and town of residence to be broadcast on television and (or) on the Contest Internet page without any form of remuneration.
  12. The Release recipients shall not incur any responsibility for incomplete or incomprehensible name and addresses from Contest entrants. Transcontinental reserves the right to reject any Entry Form that is incomplete, illegible or mutilated or that contains a human or mechanical error and to proceed with the selection of another Entry Form.
  13. Any Entry Form and any attempt at entering using electronic, computer or other means which are contrary to the spirit of the Contest or to the Contest rules (e.g., computer pirating, mass emailing, etc.) will be automatically rejected and may be referred over to the appropriate judicial authorities. Any automated entries will be noticed and rejected.
  14. The Release recipients are not in any way responsible for any problem including, but without being limited to, the technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, any other problem resulting directly or indirectly in a virus, bug or technical failure following the sending of e-mails to Transcontinental for any reason including, but without being limited to, traffic congestion on the Internet network or on the Web site or a combination of both. Transcontinental and Release recipients are not responsible for any damage done to computer equipment following entering the Contest. The Release recipients will not be held responsible for any damage or problem due to a lost of signal or a technical failure occurring during the broadcast and/or signal reception from any television channel. Transcontinental and other Release recipients are not responsible for any problem that could prevent the proper conduct of the Contest in accordance with the rules established herein including, but without restricting the generality of the above, or the postponement of the Contest promotion or of the Contest.
  15. Transcontinental reserves the right to modify or cancel the Contest without advance notice, subject to having obtained any required approval from Quebec’s Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux.
  16. The decisions made by Transcontinental are final and without appeal.
  17. For Quebec residents, any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a promotional contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the Régie des alcohols, des courses et des jeux only for the purposes of helping the parties reach a settlement.
  18. The Contest rules are available at Transcontinental’s offices located at 25 Sheppard Ave. W., Suite 100, Toronto, ON M2N 6S7 and on www.canadianliving.com
  19. In case of incompatibility between the English and the French version of the present Rules, the French version shall prevail.