The “Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre’s Dream. Build. Win. Deck Contest” contest (the "Contest") is intended to be conducted in Ontario only and shall be construed and evaluated according to applicable Canadian law. No purchase from Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre is necessary to participate. This Contest is open to new and existing Home Hardware consumers, Beaver Homes and Cottages, and PRO communications customers, who are residents of Canada. Open for both DIYers and professional contractors. Entrants must have reached age of majority in their province or territory of residence 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”).

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·     SPONSOR. The Contest sponsor represents Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre in St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

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Employees and their immediate families (including those with whom they are domiciled) of “Sponsor”, Home Hardware Store owners, and each of their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, governors, agents, their advertising and promotional agencies (collectively, the “Releasees”) are not eligible to enter the Contest. For purposes of this Contest, “immediate family members” shall include any such “immediate family member” residing in the same residence as the representatives and staff listed above.

 

The Sponsor 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. Any information and/or material submitted by you pursuant to this Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate, and in no way misleading. The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant should such an entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.

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CONTEST PERIOD. The Contest starts at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on March 4, 2024 and ends at 8:00 p.m. ET on October 31, 2024 (the “Contest Period”), after which time the Contest will be closed and no further Entry (defined below) shall be accepted. 

 

HOW TO ENTER.  Enter using the method of entry outlined below. No Entries will be accepted by any other means. To enter:

 

1) Submit one deck project on www.gardencityhomehardware.ca/deck-contest.

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2) Provide name, address of deck, background, or short story on the project, along with a minimum of 5 photographs and proof of construction in 2024 (materials receipt/invoice).

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ENTRY BONUS. All valid entries will receive a Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre $20 Gift Certificate. A valid entry must include the entrants name, address of deck, background or short story on the project, a minimum of 5 photographs and proof of construction in 2024. Entries without all of these requirements will not receive a gift certificate.

 

Entries must be completed and submitted by the entrant him/herself. 

 

An Entry shall constitute consent by the entrant to receiving e-mails or text messages from the Contest Sponsor featuring newsletters, promotions and other information.  Entrant will be able to unsubscribe from receiving such messages at any time. 

 

Entries will be declared invalid if they do not adhere to local building codes and safety standards, including railing heights, stair dimensions and other safety features. Entries must be received during the Contest Period. Entries will be declared invalid if they are late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, mutilated, forged, garbled or mechanically or electronically reproduced.

 

All entries consent to the photos being displayed in-store, online and in any publication that Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre deems appropriate. No communication or correspondence will be exchanged with entrants except with those selected for one of the four prizes. (Prizes as defined below.)  

 

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PRIZE.

o    GRAND PRIZE: One $1,000 Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre Shopping Credit

o    1st People’s Choice Award: One $500 Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre Gift Certificate

o    2nd People’s Choice Award: One $300 Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre Gift Certificate

o    3rd People’s Choice Award: One $100 Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre Gift Certificate

 

Prizes will be picked up in-store at Garden City Home Hardware Building Centre, located at 1380 4th Avenue, St.Catharines after the eligible winner has been successfully contacted and notified of his/her Prize and satisfactorily fulfilled the requirements set out herein.

 

Prize must be accepted as awarded and cannot be transferred, assigned, or substituted, except at the sole discretion of the Sponsor. Sponsor reserves the right, in its and its sole and absolute discretion, to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if a Prize (or any portion thereof) cannot be awarded for any reason, without liability.

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WINNER SELECTION, NOTIFICATION AND PRIZE CLAIM CONDITIONS. 

 

The GRAND PRIZE will be awarded to the best overall deck. The winner is selected by a panel of judges with expertise in design, construction, and sustainability.

 

The 1st People’s Choice Award, 2nd People’s Choice Award, and 3rd People’s Choice Award will be selected in a process. At the close of the contest, our panel of industry experts will select the top 10 deck projects as finalists. The finalists will be posted to www.gardencityhomehardware.ca, Facebook – www.facebook.com/GardenCityHH, and Instagram www.instragram.com/GardenCity_HomeHardware for voting from our community between November 4 - 15, 2024. All of the votes will be tallied and the project with the most votes will receive the 1st People’s Choice Award, the project with the 2nd most votes will receive the 2nd People’s Choice Award, and the project with the 3rd most votes will receive the 3rd People’s Choice Award.

 

At approximately 10:00 a.m. ET on December 2, 2024 (the “Draw Date”) at the head office of the Sponsor in Dunnville, Ontario. Sponsor will announce the winners of the four prizes from all of the valid entries received during the Contest Period.

 

The potential winners will be contacted by Phone or Facebook within three (3) days after the Draw Date at the information provided by the potential winner at entry, with further instructions on how to claim the Prize.  If Sponsor is unsuccessful in reaching the potential winner, for any reason whatsoever, the potential winner will be disqualified and Sponsor may (but is not obligated to) select another entrant (until such time as an entrant satisfies the terms set out herein) or cancel the Prize, all at Sponsor’s sole and absolute discretion. Sponsor is not responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of the potential winner to receive the Notification or for Sponsor to receive the potential winner’s response.

 

The odds of being selected as a potential winner depend on the total number of eligible Entries received by the Sponsor during the Contest Period.  Before being declared a winner, the selected entrant shall be required to: (i) correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a mathematical skill-testing question; and (ii) sign and return the Confirmation and Release (defined below).

 

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 among all eligible selected entrants after the Contest’s closing date to award the correct number of Prizes.

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·     RELEASE. Potential winner will be required to correctly answer a mathematical skill testing question, which will be set out in legal agreement and release (“Confirmation and Release”) that potential winner will be required to sign.  The Confirmation and Release confirms potential winner’s: (i) eligibility for the Contest and compliance with these Contest Rules; (ii) acceptance of the Prize as offered; (iii) release of  the Releasees from and against any and all liability for any loss, harm, damages, cost or expense arising out of participation in the Contest, participation in any Contest and/or Prize related activity or the acceptance, use, misuse, or delivery of any Prize, including but not limited to costs, injuries, losses related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of the Prize or any other 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 Sponsor the unrestricted right, in the Sponsor’s individual discretion, to produce, reproduce, publish, broadcast, communicate by telecommunication, exhibit, distribute, adapt and otherwise use or re-use the winner’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 Confirmation and Release must be promptly returned to Sponsor within the timeframe required, and the skill testing question must be correctly answered or the selected entrant may be disqualified and not eligible to win the Prize.

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·     INDEMNIFICATION BY ENTRANT. By entering the Contest, entrant releases and holds Releasees harmless from and against 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, including without limitation any claims of infringement of rights to copyright, privacy and/or personality.

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·     LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. Sponsor assumes no responsibility or liability for: (a) lost, late, unintelligible/illegible, falsified, damaged, misdirected or incomplete Entries, notifications, responses, replies or any Confirmation and Release, (b) any computer, online, software, 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, (c) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users or 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, (d) 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, (e) any problems, failures or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, providers, computer equipment, software, e-mail, players, or browsers, on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, at any website, or on account of any combination of the foregoing, (f) any injury or damage to entrant or to any computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials 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. Sponsor assumes 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 Sponsor, such as infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or corruption of the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest or the Contest Website.

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·     CONDUCT. By participating in the Contest, each entrant agrees to be bound by the Contest Rules. Entrant further agrees to be bound by the decisions of the Sponsor, which shall be final and binding in all respects. The Sponsor reserves the right, in its 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; (c) violating the terms of service, conditions of use and/or general rules or guidelines of any online Home Hardware 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 Sponsor reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including but not limited to criminal prosecution.

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​·     NO PURCHASE. Receive our no-purchase-necessary ballot by emailing info@gardencity.net.

 

·     PRIVACY / USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.

By participating in the Contest, entrant: (i) grants to the Sponsor the right to use his/her name, mailing address, and e-mail address (“Personal Information”) for the purpose of administering the Contest, including but not limited to contacting and announcing the winner; (ii) if a winner of a Prize, grants to the Sponsor the right to use his/her Personal Information for administrative, 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 Sponsor may disclose his/her Personal Information to third-party agents and service providers of the Sponsor in connection with any of the activities listed in (i) and (ii) above.

 

In addition, each entrant acknowledges that the method of entry for the Contest allows for him/her to sign up to receive e-mails or texts containing promotional information from the Contest Sponsor, and by so signing up each entrant has provided consent under the terms of Canada’s Anti-SPAM legislation for the Contest Sponsor to send such commercial messages.

 

The Sponsor 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 Home Hardware’s Privacy Policy at: https://www.homehardware.ca/privacy. Home Hardware’s Privacy Policy not only outlines its commitment to safeguarding Personal Information, but it also details how to opt-out of receiving marketing communications.

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·     INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. By participating in the Contest, entrant agrees that all of Sponsor’s intellectual property, including but not limited to trade-marks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source code, drawings, illustrations, slogans and representations used in relation to his Contest are owned by the Sponsor and/or its 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.

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·     TERMINATION. Subject to the jurisdiction of the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux in Quebec, Sponsor reserves the right, in its 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.

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·     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 Sponsor. 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 Sponsor in connection with the Contest shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the province of Ontario 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.

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·     DISCREPANCIES. 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 Entry Form, or point of sale, television, print or online advertising, the terms and conditions of the Contest Rules shall prevail, govern and control.