The MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival - The SAQ Wine and Dine Experience presented by Air France
The SAQ Wine and Dine Experience presented by Air France
The 12th edition will run from February 17 to February 27, 2011

SAQ CONTEST RULES, in connection with the The MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival's finest tables

Savour the Signature Experience
  1. HOW TO ENTER:
    1. Participants must enter the contest online at www.montrealenlumiere.com/saq_contest, between noon on November 24, 2009 and no later than midnight on February 28, 2010 (EDT). To access the online entry form, log on to the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival website. Go to the Wine and Dine Experience tab, click on "SAQ Contest" and fill out the entry form displayed on screen, giving your full name, telephone number, email address nad birth date. Certify that you have read and that you accept all the conditions stipulated in the Contest Rules by checking off (√) the box provided. Click on "Submit" to send in your contest entry form.
    2. Limit of entries: Entrants must meet all the conditions stipulated in these Contest Rules, failing which their entries will be disqualified. There is a limit of one (1) online entry per person.
    3. The promotional contest will be announced in the official SAQ Wine and Dine Experience program (100,000 copies) and in the SunLife Financial Performing Arts program (100,000 copies).
    4. The "SAQ Contest" is organized by the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival.
  2. DRAW:

    Subject to correctly answering the mandatory skill-testing question stipulated in clause 3 b) herein, the winners will be selected through a random draw that will take place on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at 400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1L4, for the purpose of awarding prizes in the order in which they are described in these Rules.

    The odds of winning a prize depend on the total number of valid online entries recorded (website).

  3. GENERAL RULES:

    Entrants must be authorized account holders of an email address in order to enter the contest.

    Prizes will have to be accepted as offered. There is a limit of one (1) prize per person per residence, and only one email address may be used per person. Prizes are not transferable and no substitutions may be made, nor are they either partially or totally convertible to cash. In the event that, for reasons beyond the control of the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival (FML) and of the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ), a prize cannot be awarded as described herein, the FML and the SAQ undertake to substitute a similar prize of equal or greater value without liability.

Prizes: The Société des alcools du Québec offers ten (10) four-person packages for a soirée
gastronomique at the Maison du Gouverneur.

Each package includes:

  • A gastronomic experience for four (4) people at the Maison du Gouverneur that will take place on May 7, 2010. (Date subject to change, at the discretion of the SAQ.)
  • The package includes a ten-course meal with tastings of rare prestige wines from the SAQ's Signature Wine Cellar.
  • An exclusive tour of the SAQ's Signature Wine Cellar and other cellars at the Maison du Gouverneur, in the company of Jessica Harnois, sommelier – manager, Courrier vinicole at the SAQ (approximate value of $1,020 per four-person package, before taxes).

To be declared prizewinners, the persons selected:

  1. Must be successfully contacted by the Contest Organizers within fifteen (15)  business days of the Draw;
  2. Shall each be required to correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, a timelimited mathematical skill-testing question that will appear on the Declaration and Release Form;
  3. Shall each be required to sign a Declaration and Release Form that they will receive by mail or fax and to return it to the Contest Organizers within fifteen (15) business days of receipt;
  4. Shall each receive their prize by mail within fifteen (15) business days of receipt, by the Contest Organizers, of their signed Declaration and Release Form, or by no later than April 15, 2010;
  5. Must be available on the day of the Maison du Gouverneur event.

Failure to comply with any of the aforementioned conditions shall result in the disqualification of the selected person, and a new draw for the prize will be held until a qualified winner has been declared.

The selected persons shall release the Société des alcools du Québec, L’Équipe Spectra, the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival, their employees, their affiliated companies and their respective representatives, from any liability the selected persons may incur as a result of their acceptance or use of their prize, and shall acknowledge that the only warranty applicable to the prize is the normal manufacturer’s warranty. In order to be declared winners and prior to obtaining their prizes, the selected persons shall undertake to sign a Declaration and Release Form to this effect.

  • By participating in this Draw, the winners consent to allow the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival and the Société des alcools du Québec to use, if required, their name, photograph, likeness, voice and/or statements regarding their prize, for publicity purposes and with no remuneration whatsoever.
  • The online entries are subject to verification by the Contest Organizers. Any online entries that are not compliant with the conditions set forth herein will be automatically rejected and will give no entitlement to a prize. Any person participating, or trying to participate in, this contest by a means contravening these Contest Rules and in a way that is prejudicial to the other participants (e.g. computer piracy, fraudulent use of one or more access codes, or the acquisition of such access codes by fraudulent means, or number of entries exceeding the allowable limit) will be automatically disqualified and may be reported to the competent legal authorities. The decisions made by the Organizers, mainly with respect to the eligibility or disqualification of an online entry, are final and without appeal.
  • The "SAQ Contest" is open exclusively to persons who reside in Canada and who have reached the age of majority in their province or territory of residence. No purchase is required. The "SAQ Contest" is not open to employees of the Société des alcools du Québec, L’Équipe Spectra, the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival, their franchises, affiliated companies, and respective promotional and advertising agencies; to any persons having taken part in the design, production or distribution of the contest material; or to the employees of the contest’s partner companies or anyone living in the same household.
  • The Contest Organizers accept no responsibility for any malfunction of any computer equipment, software or line of communication; for any loss or absence of a communication network; or for any transmission that is rendered defective, incomplete, or incomprehensible or that is deleted by any computer or network, and that may limit the possibility of, or prevent, a person from participating in the contest. Furthermore, the Contest Organizers accept no responsibility for any damage or loss that may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by the downloading of any software or the transmission of any information relating to participation in the contest.
  • The Contest Organizers reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the contest, in whole or in part, if any event or human intervention occurs that could corrupt or affect the administration, security, impartiality or conduct of the contest as provided for in these rules, and subject to the approval, if required, of the Régie des alcools des courses et des jeux du Québec.
  • In the event that the computer system cannot record all contest entries during the Contest Period for whatever reason, or if participation in the contest must be terminated, in whole or in part, before the ending date of the contest as provided in these rules, a random draw may be held at the discretion of the Contest Organizers from among the entries duly recorded during the Contest Period, or as the case may be, until the date of the event terminating participation in the contest.
  • Under no circumstances may the Contest Organizers be required to award more prizes than provided for in these rules or to award prizes otherwise than in accordance with these rules.
  • The Contest Organizers do not guarantee in any way that the contest website shall be accessible or functional without interruption during the Contest Period or that it shall be free of errors.
  • Any person selected to win a prize shall acknowledge that once he or she has received the letter confirming his or her prize from the Contest Organizers, the performance of the obligations related to the prizes becomes the sole and exclusive responsibility of the suppliers of the prizes. Prior to being declared a winner and to taking possession of his or her prize, the winner undertakes to sign a statement to that effect on the Declaration and Release Form.
  • The Contest Rules shall be posted on the website of the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival at www.montrealenlumieres.com from November 24, 2009 to February 28, 2010.
  • For Quebec residents, any litigation concerning the organization or conduct 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 solely for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.
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