Random acts of kindness

How to participate
1. Sponsor: The sponsor of this contest is Suncor Energy Products Partnership (the “Contest Sponsor” or “Suncor”).
2. Eligibility: The 2024 Random Acts of Kindness Contest (“Contest”) is open to residents of Canada only:
  1. who have reached the age of majority in their province/territory of residence; and
  2. who are in compliance with the Contest Rules and Regulations (“Rules”), including, but not limited to, Rule 1.5
  3. employees and retirees of Suncor and its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, franchisees, agents, associates, dealers, representatives, advertising and promotional agencies;
  4. members of the immediate family (brothers, sisters, children, father, mother, spouse) of the individuals outlined in 1.2.3 and
  5. any person domiciled with the individuals outlined in 1.2.3 and 1.2.4.
3. Contest Period and Entry:
  Prize Entry by Submission: No purchase is necessary to win a Prize. Eligible Entrants will receive one (1) ballot for a Prize Draw in the Contest without making a purchase transaction by submitting their name, email address, name of the person they’re nominating, story, an image or video of that person and agree to allow Petro-Canada social channels to share the story and image. Limit of one (1) entry per email address (“App Entry”).
  Prize Entry Period for Entries: All eligible Entries from Eligible Entrants made between 12:00 a.m., Mountain Time, January 22 to 11:59 p.m., Mountain Time, February 4, 2024 automatically qualify for one(1) ballot into the Contest.
4. Contest Entry Restrictions: Equivalent of a maximum of one (1) ballot per qualifying Entry. No purchase is necessary to win the Contest Prize. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to reject any story submission which, in Contest Sponsor’s sole and absolute discretion:
  1. contains inappropriate or foul language or imagery (including, without limitation any derogatory, harmful, obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit, indecent, lewd, violent, abusive, profane, insulting, threatening, harassing, discriminatory, defamatory, hateful or otherwise objectionable language);
  2. disparages the Contest Sponsor or its products or any other Contest Entrant;
  3. is patently false or deceptive;
  4. contains any personal contact information or other personal information identifying any third party;
  5. was submitted using any robot, spider, offline reader, site search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device, tool, or process to in any way circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Contest Sponsor’s website or its contents, including with respect to any CAPTCHA displayed on such website; or
  6. is plagiarized or duplicative of an submission previously received.
5. Awarding of Prize: Prizes will be awarded to the selected Eligible Entrants whose contact information (email address/name) has been given at time of the enrolment in the Contest via the submission form on the contest landing page. Suncor or its agent will make commercially reasonable efforts to contact the potential winners via the contact information associated with the appliable method of entry. In the event of a discrepancy or dispute as to the identity of the Eligible Entrant associated with the winning entries, Suncor’s determination of the identity of such Eligible Entrant shall be final and binding.
Price
1. Prizes: There will be one grand prize winner and ten secondary prize winners. The individual who has been nominated for the grand prize will receive a $250 Petro- Canada gift card for themselves, and a $250 Petro-Canada gift card to be sent to the individual they have nominated (together, a “Grand Prize”). The individuals who have been nominated for the secondary prizes will receive a $25 Petro- Canada gift card for themselves, and a $25 Petro-Canada gift card to be sent to the individual they have nominated (together, a “Secondary Prize”). The selected winners will also have their story featured on our Petro-Canada Facebook and Instagram pages. The Prize must be accepted as awarded. No cash alternatives, substitutions or transfers of the Prize will be allowed. The Prize winner shall not be entitled to convert the credit for cash. Only one (1) Prize per person can be won during the Contest.
  
  Each Prize will be awarded within four (4) to six (6) weeks of the Prize Draw.
  
  Once a Prize has been awarded, the winner will have no further recourse against the Contest Sponsor.
2. Contest Draw: A panel of judges (See Rule 2.4) will select finalists from Eligible Entrants who will have a chance to win a Prize.
3. Odds: The odds of being selected to win a Prize depend on the total number of eligible entries received during the Contest Period.
4. Contest Prize Draw: A panel of judges consisting of Suncor employees will select five winners based upon the criteria of photo quality, creativity, and story. Judging will be completed by February 9, 2024. There will be three to five (3 to 5) Suncor employees that will serve as judges for the Contest. Each judge will rank their top five photos and story submitted during the Contest Period by Eligible Entrants.
  Each selected Eligible Entrant will be contacted by email by Suncor’s agency LintBucket Media. At least three (3) attempts to contact the selected Eligible Entrant by email will be made within the fourteen (14) days following the winner selection. If the Contest Sponsor is unable to contact the selected Eligible Entrant within fourteen (14) days following the Prize Draw, another Eligible Entrant will be selected by the panel of judges and the initial selected Eligible Entrant will be disqualified, his/her right to the Prize will be forfeited, and that selected Eligible Entrant will have no further recourse to Contest Sponsor, its affiliates, or agents or their respective directors, officers or employees.
5. There is a limit of one (1) prize per Eligible Entrant for the Contest.
6. No substitution for, or transfer of a Prize, will be allowed. The selected Eligible Entrant will have seven (7) days to return the Declaration and Release form upon receipt by registered mail or email requesting proof of delivery. If the selected Eligible Entrant does not do so, another entrant will be randomly selected for that Prize and the initial selected Eligible Entrant will be disqualified, his/her right to a Prize will be forfeited and that selected Eligible Entrant will have no further recourse towards Contest Sponsor or anyone involved in the Contest.
7. Unclaimed Contest Prize: In the event that a Prize remains unclaimed after the Contest Sponsor has made a reasonable effort (as outlined in Rule 2.4) to award the Prize, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right to abandon the process for awarding a Prize to the Eligible Entrants and, in such a case, at its sole discretion, may instead cancel the Prize or donate the Prize to a charitable organization of its choosing.
General rules
1. All Contest Prize claims are subject to verification by Contest Sponsor and/or their designated representatives. Entries made with multiple addresses, under multiple identities, through the use of any device or artifice to enter multiple times or entries that are in excess of the permitted number of entries for the Contest period(s) are automatically void.
2. By participating, each Eligible Entrant and the winner agree:
  1. to be bound by these Rules and the decisions of Contest Sponsor,
  2. to the collection and use of his/her personal information by Contest Sponsor for Contest related purposes,
  3. to release and hold harmless Contest Sponsor, their affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, and independent contractors, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, agents and representatives including advertising and promotion agencies, from any and all liability for any claims/damages whatsoever with respect to acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the Prize, and/or entry or attempt to enter the Contest,
  4. to permit Contest Sponsor to use his/her name, photograph, video, the details on his/her entry, city, province/territory of residence, the winner’s story on the prize and how they may use it, and/or declarations regarding the Prize for advertising or publicity purposes without any additional compensation, and
  5. for the potential Contest Prize winners, to each sign a Declaration and Release Form to this effect.
3. The decisions of Contest Sponsor in relation to this Contest will be final and binding on all Contest entrants, subject to what is otherwise provided in these Contest Rules.
4. Contest Sponsor shall not be responsible for incorrect or inaccurate transcription or registration of Contest entry information, technical malfunctions, lost / delayed / incomplete / interrupted / misdirected / stolen / illegible / deleted data / network transmissions, line failures of any telecommunication network, failure of computer equipment, software, websites, inability to access any online service or web site, inability to submit the Entry Form or any other malfunction or human or technical error, or any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in this Contest, or for late, lost, stolen, postage due, illegible, undelivered or misdirected entries.
5. By uploading a photo and story in the Random Act of Kindness entry form, the Eligible Entrant agrees that he or she:
  
  (a) automatically grants to Suncor, its subsidiaries, affiliates or authorized agents a worldwide, unlimited, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable and non-exclusive right and license to use, copy, display, transfer, adapt, edit, broadcast, transmit, communicate, publicly display, distribute the submitted photo and create compilations and derivative works from such photo and to use Eligible Entrant’s name, province and city of residence for purposes of promoting/advertising Suncor’s products, services and activities. In addition, Eligible Entrant warrants that all moral rights in connection with the submitted photo and works appearing in said photo have been waived;
  
  (b) declares and warrants that Eligible Entrant has all necessary rights, including copyright, to submit the photo for the purposes of the Contest and grants the rights specified in (a) above;
  
  (c) declares and warrants that the uploading of the photo and the use by Suncor of said photo, as specified in (a) above, does not infringe the rights of third parties;
  
  (d) declares and warrants that every recognizable person appearing on the photo has expressly consented to the uploading and use of said photo in connection with the subject promotion and by Suncor, its affiliates as specified in 3.5(a) above.
6. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, terminate, or suspend this Contest, at its sole discretion, in the event of a technical failure, computer virus or bug, unauthorized human intervention, fraud or any other occurrence or cause beyond its control that corrupts or adversely affects the administration, security, fairness or normal operation of the Contest.
7. If a selected Eligible Entrant is awarded a Prize due to a system error, malfunction or defect or human error, the Prize will be returned to the prize pool, to be re-awarded among entries eligible for the same Prize Draw.
8. Under no circumstances will the Contest Sponsor be required to award more prizes than indicated in these Rules or to award a Prize otherwise than in accordance with these Rules.
9. The Contest is subject to all Federal, Provincial and local laws, as well as the rules adopted in view of said laws. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of the Rules or the rights and obligations as between the entrant and Suncor in connection with the Contest shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the province of Ontario 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.
10. For a copy of the Contest Rules and Regulations, please write to:
  Petro-Canada Customer Service
  P.O. Box 2844, 150 - 6 Avenue S.W.
  Calgary, Alberta T2P 3E3
11. If a paragraph of these Rules is declared illegal, non-executable or null by a competent court, then this paragraph will be considered void, but all unaffected paragraphs will be applied within the limits of the law.
12. In case of any discrepancy between the French and English versions of these Rules, the English version shall prevail.
13. Ce document est disponible en langue française sur demande. This document is available in the French language upon request.
14. This Contest is not managed, endorsed, administered or sponsored by Meta Platforms, Inc or ByteDance Ltd. Any Contest entrant is providing his or her information to the Contest Sponsor and not to Meta Platforms, Inc or ByteDance Ltd. Any question, comment or complaint regarding the Contest must be directed to the Contest Sponsor and not to Meta Platforms, Inc or ByteDance Ltd. Meta Platforms, Inc and ByteDance Ltd and all its affiliates, directors, officers, agents and employees are not liable for any claims arising out of or in connection with the organization of this Contest. However, by participating in this Contest, each entrant agrees to abide by the terms and conditions of use, contracts, other policies and/or guidelines governing the Meta Platforms, Inc and ByteDance Ltd platform and releases the Contest Sponsor, any company, corporation, trust or other legal entity controlled by or affiliated with it, their advertising and promotional agencies, their employees, agents and representatives from and against any damage that could arise from the use of this platform.
15. The invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision of these Rules will not affect any other term or provision of these Rules; the remaining terms and provisions will continue in full force and effect. The invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision of these Rules in any particular jurisdiction will not affect its validity or enforceability in any other jurisdiction where it is valid or enforceable.

Random Acts of Kindness Contest

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