Shop the Shores - Winter 2024/2025

Official Contest Rules: 

The Contest is conducted in Canada only (excluding the province of Quebec) and shall be construed and evaluated according to applicable Canadian law. No purchase is necessary. Participants must meet eligibility requirements described herein. Void in whole or in part where prohibited by law. Entry in this Contest constitutes acceptance of these Rules.  

To be entered into the weekly draws as well as the grand prize draw the participants must meet the following criteria.  

A. Contest Name: Shop the Shores (“Contest”)  

B. Contest Period: 6:00AM Eastern Time (“ET”) on December 2, 2024 and ends at 11:59PM ET on January 13, 2025 (the “Contest Period”). 

C. Contest Website: www.SaugeenShores.ca/Shop  

D. Contest Sponsor: Town of Saugeen Shores (“Contest Sponsor”)
Contact Email: evan.vatri@saugeenshores.ca   

Sponsor Address: 600 Tomlinson Dr. Port Elgin ON N0H 2C0  

E. Office Hours: 8:30a.m. – 4:30p.m. EST  

F. Who can enter: 

•  Legal residents of Canada outside Quebec.
• Contest is not open to minors: (refer to Section 2(a)). 

G. Social Media:  

Facebook @SaugeenShoreson 

Instagram @SaugeenShoreson  

e. No purchase required. See Eligibility above.  

f. During the Contest Period, the stamp cards will be available:  
(i.)at participating Saugeen Shores businesses. 

(ii.) By download on the Town website at www.SaugeenShores.ca/Shop. 

g. Complete the stamp card with 10 stamps from different participating businesses, and submit it in accordance with the accompanying instructions. Incomplete entry forms will not be accepted. Drop off locations for completed stamp cards are the Chamber of Commerce/Port Elgin Service Ontario, and Dizzy Bird Coffee in Southampton. Completed cards must be received before the end of business day the day before the draw date to be eligible to win.   

4. Prizes:  

Odds of being selected as a Winner are dependent on the total number of eligible entries received. Prizes must be accepted as awarded and are non-exchangeable, non-transferable, non-refundable and not redeemable for cash equivalent. A Winner is not entitled to the monetary difference between the actual Prize value and stated approximate Prize value, if any. Any unclaimed Prize will be forfeited and have no cash value. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to substitute a Prize of equal value in whole or in part for any reason.  

5. Winners: Winner(s) will be selected as follows:  

a. On the selection date at the selection location (noted above), the number of entrants equaling the number of Prizes available to be won per draw date will be selected by random draw from all eligible entries received during the Contest Period. The first entry drawn will be eligible to win the 1st Prize. If there is more than one Prize, the second entry drawn will be eligible to win the 2nd Prize and the third entry drawn will be eligible to win the 3rd Prize, etc. The odds of being selected as a potential Winner are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received by the Contest Sponsor during the Contest Period. Before being declared a Winner, each selected entrant shall be required to;  

(i.) Correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question to be administered during a pre-arranged telephone call or by e-mail, to comply with these Contest Rules and sign and return a release (described below).  

(ii.) Submit proof of local purchase by way of e-mail or in person. Information required includes, name and address of local business and date of purchase as shown on the receipt. 

b. The selected entrant(s) will be notified by telephone or email by the Contest Sponsor no later than the end of the Winner Notification Date. Each selected entrant must respond by telephone or email to the contact provided in the notification and the entrant’s response must be received by the Contest Sponsor by the date specified in the notification (“Response Period”). Any reference to “day” herein or in any Contest document, posting or notification, refers to a business day meaning any day that is not: a Saturday, Sunday or a day upon which the Contest Sponsor is not open for business and the end of the Business Day shall mean 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, in Saugeen Shores, Ontario on that Business Day. For the purposes of calculating the Response Period, the day upon which notification was made by the Contest Sponsor shall not be counted as part of the Response Period. If the selected entrant does not respond within the Response Period, he/she will be disqualified and will not receive a Prize and another entrant may be selected in the Contest Sponsor’s sole discretion. The Contest Sponsor is not responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of a selected entrant to receive notification or for the Contest Sponsor’s failure to receive a selected entrant’s response.  

c. If a selected entrant:  

(i.) cannot be located or contacted or does not reply to the Contest Sponsor’s notification within the Response Period;  

(ii.) has not complied with these Contest Rules;  

(iii.) does not correctly answer the mathematical skill-testing question, if applicable; or  

(iv.) declines the Prize;  

Then that person’s entry is disqualified and the Prize forfeited and the Contest Sponsor may, but is not obligated to, select another entrant from the remaining eligible entries received during the Contest Period (not including the entries chosen for the other prizes) for a chance to receive the prize.  

d. Winner(s) will be announced at the Winner Notification Location on the Winner Notification Date.  

e. Winner(s) may claim their Prize or the Contest Sponsor will distribute the Prize(s), as the case may be, using the Prize Claiming Method described above.  

6. Conduct: Contest Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual from the Contest and to ban that individual from any future contest of the Contest Sponsor if Contest Sponsor finds or believes such individual to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or, where applicable, the Contest website; to be acting in violation of the Contest Rules or in a disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass Contest Sponsor, Contest Sponsor’s agencies, other entrants or any other person. Any attempt by an entrant or any other person to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Contest Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law.  

7. Release of liability: The Contest Sponsor and its elected officials, its advertising, media buying and promotional agencies and their respective directors, officers, employees, suppliers, agents, sponsors, contractors, administrators, licensees, and representatives (collectively, “Contest Entities”) accept no responsibility for any injury, loss, or damage that the entrant, or any other person, may suffer in connection with the entrant’s, or any other person’s, participation in the Contest or any Contest-related activity and/or the entrant’s, or any other person’s, acceptance, use, or misuse of any Prize; any breach of the Contest Rules by the entrant or any other person; the conduct of the Contest; the operation of the website through which entrants may submit entries to the Contest; any alternate method of entering the Contest; or any third party claims in relation to the Contest (collectively, “Claims”). By entering the Contest, entrant irrevocably releases and indemnifies the Contest Entities from and against any and all Claims that the entrant may have against the Contest Entities and/or in relation to the Contest. Winner will be required to sign and return, within the time period determined by the Contest Sponsor, a declaration of compliance with these Rules and a full liability and publicity release and/or any other document required by the Contest Sponsor in relation thereto.  

8. Disclaimer and limitation of liability: The website through which the Contest is offered, and all software and hardware used to operate the website are made available for entrants to enter the Contest on an “as is” basis without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. There are no warranties that the Contest website or the software and hardware used to operate it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, that it is free of viruses, worms or other harmful components, that entries will be received or processed or that the Contest website or the software and hardware used to operate it are accurate, reliable or secure. In no event will the Contest Entities be liable for any lost or damaged data. None of the Contest Entities shall be responsible for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected entries, or for any failure, or for any problems or technical malfunction of any internet or telephone network or broadcast transmission during the Contest Period. Without limiting the release of liability provisions herein, and for greater certainty, the Contest Entities will not be liable for:  

(i) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Contest website users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of entries in the Contest;  

(ii) any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation of the Contest website or any transmission in connection with the Contest;  

(iii) any communications line failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries;  

(iv) any problems with, or technical malfunction of, any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, or failure of e-mail which may occur for any reason whatsoever, including technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination thereof; or  

(v) any injury or damage to entrants’ or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in this Contest.  

9. Social Media: If this Contest is being run through social media, each Entrant agrees:  

a. that such social media platform will not be liable whatsoever in the Entrant’s participation in this Contest and each Entrant completely releases such social media platform of any claim concerning such Entrant’s participation in this Contest. Each Entrant acknowledges that the Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, the social media platform;  

b. to comply with the respective social media platform’s terms concerning contests and promotions. 

10. Cancellation or modification of contest: If for any reason this Contest is, in the Contest Sponsor’s sole discretion, not capable of running as planned (including, without limitation, by reason of damage by computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, human error, fraud, technical limitation or failures, applicable law, unforeseen obstacles or any other causes which in the sole opinion of Contest Sponsor could corrupt, compromise, undermine or otherwise affect the administration, security fairness, integrity viability or proper conduct of the Contest), Contest Sponsor reserves the right in its sole and absolute discretion to modify these Rules and/or to modify or suspend all or any part of the Contest. Contest Sponsor further reserves the right to cancel or terminate this Contest at any time for any reason. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to select entrants to be eligible to win a Prize(s) from among all eligible entries received up to the time of any such cancellation, termination, modification or suspension, as applicable.  

11. Rules binding: By entering this Contest, each entrant acknowledges and agrees that the Contest Rules are legally binding. All decisions of the Contest Sponsor and any Contest judges, if applicable, are final and without appeal in all matters relating to this Contest and the awarding of a Prize. All entries shall become the property of the Contest Sponsor.  

12. Governing law: This Contest is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein.  

13. Personal information: All personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) collected in connection with this Contest will be used solely for purposes of administering this Contest and for publicity and promotional purposes relating to the Contest and for any consistent purposes. The entrant acknowledges that the Contest Sponsor is governed by the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Personal Information Act (“MFIPPA”) and that all Personal Information supplied in the entry form and all other information collected in the course of the Contest may be subject to public disclosure under MFIPPA. This Personal Information will not otherwise be sold or transmitted to third parties except to third-party agents and service providers in connection with the foregoing activities. Names of Winner(s) may be published by the Contest Sponsor. By entering the Contest each entrant grants his/her permission for the collection, use and disclosure of his/her Personal Information submitted to the Contest Sponsor for the foregoing purposes.  

14. Publicity: By participating in the Contest, each Winner agrees that his or her name, province or territory of residence, any statements made relating to the Contest and any photograph or other likeness of the Winner may be used by the Contest Entities for any and all commercial purposes in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter devised, without further permission or compensation, including, without limitation, in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to the Contest and/or future similar contests, except where prohibited by law.  

 
15. Copyright:  

a. Entrant agrees that all copyright in his/her completed entry form and in any material depicting the entrant’s likeness or other information about the entrant shall be vested in the Contest Sponsor and entrant hereby irrevocably assigns all of his/her worldwide intellectual property rights in and to such entry form and materials to the Contest Sponsor and waives all moral rights therein.  

b. Works: If the Contest includes the submission of Works, by providing the Work to the Contest Sponsor in connection with the Contest, each entrant shall retain all right, title and interest (including copyright) in and to the Work, and hereby grants to the Contest Sponsors a worldwide, gratuitous, irrevocable, and exclusive license to copy, use, modify, reproduce, display, adapt and transmit the Work for use in all media now known or hereafter devised in perpetuity beginning on the date of entry, including, but not limited to, in connection with the administration, promotion and exploitation of the Contest. The entrant hereby confirms that the Work is an original work, solely created by the entrant, and that no third party participated as an author, co-author, photographer or otherwise in the creation of the Work or any part thereof. The Contest Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any claims of infringement of rights to copyright, privacy and/or personality, and all such liability shall remain with the entrant. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right to exclude any Work on the basis of concerns relating to the rights of third parties, including but not limited to privacy, copyright, defamation, rights of personality, obscenity or hate speech, as determined by the Contest Sponsor in its sole discretion.  

16. Entrant’s Agreement: By entering the Contest, each entrant agrees to the foregoing Rules.