PASSPORT TO EUROPE CONTEST

THE PASSPORT TO EUROPE CONTEST (THE “CONTEST”) IS INTENDED TO BE CONDUCTED IN CANADA ONLY AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND EVALUATED ACCORDING TO APPLICABLE CANADIAN LAW. NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY. PARTICIPANTS MUST BE OF THE AGE OF MAJORITY IN THE PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AT THE TIME OF ENTRY. VOID IN WHOLE OR PART WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. ENTRY IN THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE CONTEST RULES (THE “CONTEST RULES”).

1. ELIGIBILITY.
To be eligible for this Contest, an individual must:

be a legal resident of British Columbia;

be nineteen (19) years of age or older at the time of entry; and

be legally able to travel internationally and have any and all necessary documentation as may be required for presentation to Canadian and/or International customs and airport personnel.

Employees of Canwest Publishing Inc. and Transat Holidays Inc. (collectively, the "Sponsors"), their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, related companies, advertising and promotional agencies, and the household members of any of the above, are not eligible to participate in the Contest.

The Sponsors shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Contest. Failure to provide such proof may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied to the Sponsors for the purpose of the Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate and in no way misleading. The Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant should such an entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.

2. CONTEST PERIOD.
The Contest begins at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (“PST”) on Sunday, February 1, 2009 and ends at 4:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (“PDT”) on Friday, April 3, 2009 (the "Contest Period") after which time the Contest will be closed and no further entries shall be accepted.

3. HOW TO ENTER.

(a) There is no purchase necessary to enter the Contest. Enter using any of the methods of entry outlined below. No entries will be accepted by any other means.

To enter by mail or in person:

obtain a Contest game board (“Game Board”) published in The Province each week during the Contest Period (a “Week’) on February 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, March 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 2009;

each Week, complete a Game Board with all five (5) Contest game pieces (“Game Pieces” and each, a “Game Piece”) published in The Province during the Week, Monday through Friday, during the Contest Period up to March 27, 2009;

for any Week during the Contest Period, submit the completed Game Board (with all five (5) correct full colour Game Pieces), along with your name, mailing address, work and home telephone number, email address and age at the time of entry, by mail to: P.O. Box 2000, Vancouver, BC V6B 4T1, or in person to: 200 Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C. (Main Promotions Counter) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., in each case, ensure that your submission is clearly marked as follows:

for Week 1, please mark to the attention of “Passport to Europe - Week 1”
for Week 2, please mark to the attention of “Passport to Europe - Week 2”
for Week 3, please mark to the attention of “Passport to Europe - Week 3”
for Week 4, please mark to the attention of “Passport to Europe - Week 4”
for Week 5, please mark to the attention of “Passport to Europe - Week 5”
for Week 6, please mark to the attention of “Passport to Europe - Week 6”
for Week 7, please mark to the attention of “Passport to Europe - Week 7”
for Week 8, please mark to the attention of “Passport to Europe - Week 8”

For a no purchase entry, clearly print your name, mailing address, work and home telephone number, email address and age at time of entry on a plain piece of paper together with a short essay on “The cultural difference between Europeans and North Americans” (minimum of one hundred (100) words) and submit it by mail to: P.O. Box 2000, Vancouver, BC V6B 4T1, or in person to: to 200 Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C. (Main Promotions Counter) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

(d) Limit of one (1) entry per person per Week. In the case of multiple entries, only the first eligible entry will be considered.

(e) All entries become the sole property of the Sponsors and none will be returned for any reason. Entries must be received no later than the end of the Contest Period. Entries will be declared invalid if they are late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, mutilated, forged, garbled or mechanically or electronically reproduced. No communication or correspondence will be exchanged with entrants except with those selected for a Prize.

(f) Entries submitted by mail must be received by the Sponsors no later than the end of the Contest Period, and must be in a separate outer envelope bearing sufficient postage. One completed entry ballot form per envelope.

4. PRIZES.

Prizes. There are eight (8) prizes (collectively, the “Prizes” and each, a “Prize”) in total, each one available to be won by one prize winner (each, a “Winner” and together, the “Winners”) per Week and, in each case, consisting of a trip for the Prize Winner and his/her guest (the “Guest”) to one of six (6) European destinations more particularly described on Schedule “A” attached hereto and based on the travel package described in connection with each destination. Each Prize will include:

round-trip economy airfare for Winner and Guest leaving together from the Vancouver International airport to the applicable destination; and seven (7) nights hotel accommodation at a hotel to be selected by Sponsors in their sole discretion for the weekly Winner and Guest based on double occupancy; and

a city excursion package (based on the terms and conditions for each package set forth on Schedule “A”).

Each Prize has an approximate value of five thousand Canadian dollars (CDN $ 5,000).

Winner is not entitled to monetary difference between actual Prize value and stated approximate Prize value, if any.

Each Winner may claim his/her Prize in Vancouver, British Columbia in April, 2009 once Winner has been successfully contacted and notified of his/her Prize and fulfilled the requirements set out herein.

Winner and his/her Guest must be available to travel within the periods specified in the applicable destination’s travel package as described on Schedule “A”. Departure dates are subject to availability at time of reservation. Should Winner and/or Guest be unable to travel on the dates and times designated by the Sponsors, the Prize will be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner. Winner and Guest will be responsible for transportation to and from originating airport, travel and medical insurance, travel documentation, airport improvement fees, taxes, gratuities, telephone calls, in-room charges and any other expense not explicitly included in the Prize.

Guests must comply with the Contest Rules and sign and return the Release (described below).

Prizes must be accepted as awarded and cannot be transferred, assigned, substituted or redeemed for cash, except at the sole discretion of the Sponsors. Any unused portion of a Prize will be forfeited and have no cash value. The Sponsors reserve the right, in its and their sole discretion, to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if a Prize (or any portion thereof) cannot be awarded for any reason.

5. WINNER SELECTION.

Eight (8) Winners shall be selected as follows:

On or about 12:00 noon PDT on Monday, April 6, 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, eight (8) entrants will be selected by random draw from all eligible weekly entries received during the Contest Period. Each entrant for each week shall be eligible to win only one (1) Prize. The odds of being selected as a potential winner are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received by the Sponsors. Before being declared a Winner, the selected entrant shall be required to 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 the Contest Rules and sign and return the Release (described below).

EACH SELECTED ENTRANT WILL BE NOTIFIED BY TELEPHONE OR E-MAIL NO LATER THAN TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2009 AT 12:00 NOON PDT AND MUST RESPOND WITHIN TWO (2) BUSINESS DAYS OF NOTIFICATION. Upon notification, the selected entrant must respond by telephone to the contact number provided in the notification, and the selected entrant’s response must be received by the Sponsors within two (2) business days of such notification. If the selected entrant does not respond in accordance with the Contest Rules, he/she will be disqualified and will not receive a Prize and another entrant may be selected in the Sponsors’ sole discretion until such time as an entrant satisfies the terms set out herein. The Sponsors are not responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of a selected entrant to receive notification or for the Sponsors to receive a selected entrant’s response.

If, as a result of an error relating to the entry process, drawing or any other aspect of the Contest, there are more selected entrants than contemplated in these Contest Rules, there will be a random draw amongst all eligible Prize claimants after the Contest’s closing date to award the correct number of Prizes.

6. RELEASE.
Each Winner and his or her Guest will be required to execute a legal agreement and release (“Release”) that confirms Winner’s and Guest’s: (i) eligibility for the Contest and compliance with these Contest Rules; (ii) acceptance of the Prize as offered; (iii) release of each of the Sponsors and their respective parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates and/or related companies and each of their employees, directors, officers, suppliers, agents, sponsors, administrators, licensees, representatives, advertising, media buying and promotional agencies (collectively, the “Releasees”) from any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in the Contest, participation in any Contest-related activity or the acceptance, use, or misuse of any Prize, including but not limited to costs, injuries, losses related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light, or from any and all claims of third parties arising therefrom; and (iv) grant to the Sponsors of the unrestricted right, in the Sponsors’ collective or individual discretion, to produce, reproduce, publish, broadcast, communicate by telecommunication, exhibit, distribute, adapt and otherwise use or re-use the Winner’s and Guest’s name, photograph, likeness, voice and biography, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, in connection with the Contest and the promotion and exploitation thereof. The executed Release must be returned within two (2) business days of the date indicated on the accompanying letter of notification or the selected entrant will be disqualified and the Prize forfeited.

7. INDEMNIFICATION BY ENTRANT.
By entering the Contest, entrant releases and holds Releasees harmless from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to the entrant or any other person, including personal injury, death, or property damage, resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of any Prize, participation in the Contest, any breach of the Contest Rules, or in any Prize-related activity. The entrant agrees to fully indemnify Releasees from any and all claims by third parties relating to the Contest, without limitation.

8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
The Sponsors assume no responsibility or liability for lost, late, unintelligible/illegible, falsified, damaged, misdirected or incomplete entries, notifications, responses, replies or any Release, or for any telephone, hardware or technical malfunctions that may occur, including but not limited to malfunctions that may affect the transmission or non-transmission of an entry. The Sponsors are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Contest. The Sponsors assume no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. The Sponsors are not responsible for any problems, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, on account of technical problems. The Sponsors are not responsible for any injury or damage to entrant related to or resulting from participating in this Contest. Entrant assumes liability for injuries caused or claimed to be caused by participating in the Contest, or by the acceptance, possession, use of, or failure to receive any Prize. The Sponsors assume no responsibility or liability in the event that the Contest cannot be conducted as planned for any reason, including those reasons beyond the control of the Sponsors, such as tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or corruption of the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest.

9. CONDUCT.
By participating in the Contest, each entrant agrees to be bound by the Contest Rules, which will be posted at the Contest Website and made available at 200 Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C. (Main Promotions Counter) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. throughout the Contest Period. Entrant further agrees to be bound by the decisions of the Sponsors, which shall be final and binding in all respects. The Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant found to be: (a) violating the Contest Rules; (b) tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Contest, the Contest Website, or any canada.com website; (c) violating the terms of service, conditions of use and/or general rules or guidelines of any canada.com property or service; and/or (d) acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSORS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES TO THE FULLPST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.

10. PRIVACY / USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.

(a) By participating in the Contest, entrant: (i) grants to the Sponsors the right to use his/her name, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address (“Personal Information”) for the purpose of administering the Contest, including but not limited to contacting and announcing the Winners; (ii) grants to the Sponsors the right to use his/her Personal Information for publicity and promotional purposes relating to the Contest, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, without further compensation unless prohibited by law; and (iii) acknowledges that the Sponsors may disclose his/her Personal Information to third-party agents and service providers of any of the Sponsors in connection with any of the activities listed in (i) and (ii) above.

(b) By opting-in on the ballot you consent to The Province’s disclosure of your Personal Information to Transat Holidays Inc. so that you may be contacted to notify you of promotional opportunities (such as special travel offers, discounts, or packages).

(c) By opting-in on the ballot you consent to The Province and any of its corporate affiliate’s use of your Personal Information to send monthly e-newsletters with special contests, offers, and promotional opportunities managed by The Province.

(d) The Sponsors will use the entrant’s Personal Information only for identified purposes, and protect the entrant’s Personal Information in a manner that is consistent with the Canwest Global Communications Corp. Privacy Policy at: http://www.canwestglobal.com/privacy.asp.

11. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
All intellectual property, including but not limited to trade-marks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source code, drawings, illustrations, slogans and representations are owned by the Sponsors and/or their affiliates. All rights are reserved. Unauthorized copying or use of any copyrighted material or intellectual property without the express written consent of its owner is strictly prohibited. CANWEST MEDIA is a trade-mark of Canwest Global Communications Corp., used under licence.

12. TERMINATION.
Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to terminate the Contest, in whole or in part, and/or modify, amend or suspend the Contest, and/or the Contest Rules in any way, at any time, for any reason without prior notice.

13. LAW.
These are the official Contest Rules. The Contest is subject to applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. The Contest Rules are subject to change without notice in order to comply with any applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws or the policy of any other entity having jurisdiction over the Sponsors. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the Contest Rules or the rights and obligations as between the entrant and the Sponsors in connection with the Contest shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the province of British Columbia including procedural provisions without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions that would cause the application of any other jurisdiction’s laws.

14. LANGUAGE DISCREPANCY.
In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between the terms and conditions of the Contest Rules and disclosures or other statements contained in any Contest-related materials, including but not limited to the Contest entry form, or point of sale, television, print or online advertising, the terms and conditions of the Contest Rules shall prevail, govern and control. 

 

 

Barcelona, Spain City Package includes:
round trip economy airfare from Vancouver, 7 nights consecutive accommodation at the Aston Hotel, buffet breakfast daily, round trip transfers between the hotel and airport and a one day Hop-On Hop-Off pass on the Barcelona Bus Touristic. Not included: personal expenses or departure taxes and airport improvement fees (approx. $ 356.75 per person). Terms and conditions: non refundable, non transferable, has no cash value, subject to Transat Holidays Italy, Spain & Greece 2009/2010 brochure terms and conditions, departure date is based on availability at time of reservation
 
Rome, Italy City Package includes:
round trip economy airfare from Vancouver, 7 nights consecutive accommodation at the Madison Hotel, buffet breakfast daily, round trip transfers between the hotel and airport and an Eternal Rome Excursion
Not included: personal expenses or departure taxes and airport improvement fees (approx. $ 366.50 per person). Terms and conditions: non refundable, non transferable, has no cash value, subject to Transat Holidays Italy, Spain & Greece 2009/2010 brochure terms and conditions, departure date is based on availability at time of reservation
 
Paris, France City Package includes:
round trip economy airfare from Vancouver, 7 nights consecutive accommodation at the Hotel Magellan, buffet breakfast daily, round trip transfers between the hotel and airport and a 1 hr cruise on the Seine River. Not included: personal expenses or departure taxes and airport improvement fees (approx. $ 399.75 per person) Terms and conditions: non refundable, non transferable, has no cash value, subject to Transat Holidays Classical Europe 2009/2010 brochure terms and conditions, departure date is based on availability at time of reservation
 
Madrid, Spain City Package includes:
round trip economy airfare from Vancouver, 7 nights consecutive accommodation at the Husa Moncloa, buffet breakfast daily, round trip transfers between the hotel and airport and a one day Hop-On Hop-Off pass on the Madrid Vision. Not included: personal expenses or departure taxes and airport improvement fees (approx. $ 356.75 per person). Terms and conditions: non refundable, non transferable, has no cash value, subject to Transat Holidays Italy, Spain & Greece 2009/2010 brochure terms and conditions, departure date is based on availability at time of reservation
 
London, England City package includes:
round trip economy airfare from Vancouver, 7 nights consecutive accommodation at the President Hotel, buffet breakfast daily, round trip transfers between the hotel and airport and the Essential London half day excursion. Not included: personal expenses or departure taxes and airport improvement fees (approx. $ 512.50 per person). Terms and conditions: non refundable, non transferable, has no cash value, subject to Transat Holidays Classical Europe 2009/2010 brochure terms and conditions, departure date is based on availability at time of reservation
  

Amsterdam, Netherlands City Package includes:
round trip economy airfare from Vancouver, 7 nights consecutive accommodation at the Hotel Ibis Amsterdam City West, buffet breakfast daily, round trip transfers between the hotel and airport , one day hop on hop off canal bus boat pass, half day tour of the town of Delft, tour of the Hague and candlelight and wine day cruise. Not included: personal expenses or departure taxes and airport improvement fees (approx. $ 424.00per person). Terms and conditions: non refundable, non transferable, has no cash value, subject to Transat Holidays Classical Europe 2009/2010 brochure terms and conditions, departure date is based on availability at time of reservation