MLT Aikins LLP (“MLT Aikins”) Alberta Employment Law Update 2024 Door Prize Contest (“CONTEST”)

The Contest offers you an opportunity to win a prize by attending the Alberta Employment Law Update 2024. By entering the contest, you accept and agree to be bound by these contest rules (“Contest Rules”). Please read the Contest Rules carefully before entering the Contest.

1. SPONSOR.

The Contest is sponsored and administered by MLT Aikins LLP (or “MLT Aikins”) located at Suite 2200 10235 – 101st Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 3G1. This Contest is not endorsed by any other parties unless specifically noted. Please contact MLT Aikins at marketingservices@mltaikins.com if you have any questions about this Contest.

2. ELIGIBILITY.

To be eligible for this Contest, you must at time of entry:

  1. be a resident of Alberta, Canada;
  2. be 18 years of age or older; and
  3. not be an employee, director, or officer of MLT Aikins or its affiliates, advertising and promotional agencies, agents or other entities involved with the Contest, or an immediate family member or person residing with any of the foregoing (collectively, “Promotion Entities“).

MLT Aikins may at any time require proof of identity and/or eligibility to participate in the Contest and any entrants deemed to be ineligible will be disqualified.

3. CONTEST PERIOD

The Contest starts at 8 a.m. on September 17, 2024, and ends at 1:55 p.m. on September 18, 2024 (the “Contest Period“). MLT Aikins’s computer system will be the official time-keeping device for the Contest. The Contest Period may be extended in the sole and absolute discretion of MLT Aikins. All entries must be received during the Contest Period.

4.  HOW TO ENTER.

  1. You can enter by attending the Alberta Employment Law Update 2024 event in Calgary, Edmonton or virtually.
  2. You may only enter the Contest once. Any attempts to enter multiple times will result in your disqualification from the Contest.
  3. Entries may not (and will be rejected and disqualified if they do) contain any material that is libelous, defamatory, profane or obscene, violate any applicable laws, or infringe on the intellectual property or other rights of third parties.
  4. MLT Aikins may, at any time, disqualify an entrant if MLT Aikins believes, in its sole discretion, that the entrant has breached these Contest Rules.
  5. All entries become the sole property of MLT Aikins and will not be returned for any reason and you waive any intellectual property or moral rights in your entry.
  6. Entries will be rejected and disqualified if they are late, illegible, incomplete, damaged, irregular, mutilated, forged, garbled or otherwise not incompliance with these Contest Rules.

5. PRIZES.

  1. There is a total of three Prizes to be won during the Contest Period.
  2. There are two wine and gourmet treats gift baskets and one complimentary registration to the Alberta HR Professionals 2025 event (each a “Prize”) to be awarded to three confirmed Prize winners (each a “Winner”).
  3. Prizes will be distributed within fifteen (15) business days after the Winner has signed and returned the Release (see below).
  4. Prizes must be accepted by Winners as awarded and cannot be transferred, exchanged, assigned, substituted or redeemed for cash. MLT Aikins may, in its sole discretion, substitute a prize of equal value.
  5. MLT Aikins is not responsible for any delayed, lost, damaged, or misdirected Prizes.

6. WINNER SELECTION AND RELEASE.

  1.  Draws will take place on September 17, 2024, in Edmonton, Alberta, and on September 18, 2024, in Calgary, Alberta (“Draw Date”) to select the Winners. The in-person winners will be selected by a game of “heads or tails” and the virtual winner by a random draw from all eligible entries. The odds of being selected as a Winner depend on the number of eligible entries received. No purchase is necessary to enter the Contest and making a purchase will not increase your odds of winning.
  2. Winners will be contacted within 24 hours of the Draw Date and will be required to correctly answer a skill-testing question and sign a Release that confirms Winners’ compliance with these Contest Rules, acceptance of the Prize, and release of the Promotion Entities.
  3. Winners must claim their Prize by completing and returning the Release within five (5) business days of being contacted. If no Release is received from a Winner within that time period, the process will be repeated to select a new Winner.

7. WAIVER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

By entering the Contest, you confirm the following:

  1. The Promotion Entities are not responsible or liable for:
    • any of your costs for participation in the Contest;
    • any incorrect, lost, late, illegible, falsified, damaged, misdirected or incomplete entries or any related communications, howsoever caused (e.g. human error, computer or other technical malfunction, or otherwise); or
    • any changes to or termination of the Contest.
  2. You release and hold harmless the Promotion Entities from, and agree to indemnify the Promotion Entities for, any and all claims and liability in any way related to your participation in the Contest.
  3. In no event will the Promotion Entities be liable for any special, incidental, punitive, or indirect damages of any kind (e.g. lost prizes), regardless of cause, and you waive any rights to claim any damages against the Promotion Entities.
  4. In the event the Promotion Entities are found to be liable to you for any reason in relation to this Contest, such liability will be limited to $10. You agree this represents a fair allocation of risk and that the Contest would not be possible otherwise.

8. CONDUCT.

You agree to comply with these Contest Rules at all times and to be bound by the decisions of MLT Aikins. MLT Aikins reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify at any time any entrant found to be in violation of these Contest Rules.

9. PRIVACY.

By entering the Contest, you consent to:

  1. the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information (including name, address, telephone number, and contents of entry) by MLT AIKINS for the purpose of advertising, promoting and administering the Contest in accordance with MLT Aikins’s Privacy policy; and
  2. MLT Aikins’s use without any compensation of your name and contents of entry in any advertising and publicity carried out by or on behalf of MLT Aikins in any media or format including for example social media and any website or broadcast.

10. TERMS OF USE.

This Contest is subject to MLT Aikins’s Terms of Use and you agree to the Terms of Use by participating in the Contest.

11. CHANGES TO CONTEST.

MLT Aikins may modify, amend, or terminate the Contest or Contest Rules at any time in MLT Aikins’s sole discretion without prior notice.

12. GOVERNING LAW.

All issues and questions concerning these Contest Rules shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Alberta, Canada, without regard to any choice of law or conflict of law rules and the parties consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Alberta.

13. SEVERABILITY.

If any provision of these Contest Rules is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be enforced to the extent permitted by law and the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of these Contest Rules.

14. COMPLETE RULES.

In the event of any discrepancy or inconsistency between these Contest Rules and any other documents or statements, these Contest Rules prevail.