Contest Description and Duration

The “VuePoint Pulse Surveys” contest is conducted by VuePoint IDS Inc. on the web at optiknow.ca/contests/ (English) and optiknow.ca/fr/sondages/ (French). The contest will be conducted from Feb 1, 2021 until December 31, 2021. Multiple “VuePoint Pulse” surveys will be available for eligible contest entrants during the contest period.

Eligibility

This contest is open to any person who resides in Canada who is 18 years of age or over and is legally eligible to fit and/or prescribe eyewear in Canada, and who completes any online VuePoint Pulse surveys. Persons may enter the contest by completing any one or more of the VuePoint Pulse surveys. One entry per VuePoint Pulse survey is allowed.

Surveys are open for a limited time window, which will be announced on the optiknow.ca/contests/ (English) web page (in French: optiknow.ca/fr/sondages/ . Entries made on any particular survey must be made before the close of the survey.  

This contest is not open to employees, representatives and agents of the contest organizers, their subsidiaries, advertising or promotion agencies, contest prize, material or services providers, and members of their immediate families (brothers, sisters, children, father, mother), legal or common-law spouses and any other persons domiciled with these employees, agents or representatives.

How to Enter

Enter the contest by:

Electronically completing and submitting any one of the VuePoint surveys available prior to December 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. local time Toronto (Ontario), links to which are available on the web site optiknow.ca/contests/ (English) and optiknow.ca/fr/sondages/ (French) and/or provided through other electronic means, including email and social media posts. Limit of one entry per email address per survey.

No purchase or sale is necessary.

Prizes

The following prizes are offered during the course of the survey period, Feb 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021

• Ten (10) prizes of a $25 each gift cards in total
• The number of prizes offered for each survey will be announced when the survey is launched
• Total value of all prizes is $250
• All currency is Canadian $

The odds of winning the contest are determined by the number of entries received.

Each entry is eligible to receive only one prize.

Draw

The winners will be drawn within 30 days of the end of the survey period among the entrants registered. The draws will take place at the offices of VuePoint IDS Inc. Names of the winners will be published on the website page and in other VuePoint Publications, Acceptance of the prize by the entrant also provides permission to publicize the winners’ names as indicated above.

Protection of Personal Information

Personal information, i.e. information regarding an individual which allows their identification (e.g. name, business address, personal email address, telephone number, home or personal cell), are valuable. VuePoint’s policy is to manage the collection, use, confidentiality and disclosure of personal information in accordance with applicable legal requirements, including the standards set out in the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Miscellaneous Conditions

To be declared a winner, the entrant selected must:

• Be reached by email and/or telephone by the contest organizers within the fifteen (15) days following the draw.

Any decision made by the contest organizers regarding any aspect of this contest is final and without right of appeal, subject to any decision made by the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux du Québec in connection with any question falling within its jurisdiction.

The prize must be accepted as it is described in these contest rules and is non-transferable, and may not be substituted for another prize or exchanged in part or in whole for cash.

In the event that, for reasons unrelated to the winners, the contest organizers are unable to attribute the prize as described in these contest rules, the right to award a prize of similar nature and equal value or, at their sole discretion, at the cash value of the prize as indicated herein is reserved by the contest organizer.

Refusal by any person whose name is drawn at random to accept a prize as awarded, according to these contest rules, releases contest organizers from any obligation involving this prize as it applies to said person.

The right to, at sole discretion of the contest organizers, to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend this contest, in whole or in part, in the event of the occurrence of any event or human intervention that could corrupt or affect the administration, security, impartiality or the normal operation of the contest as provided in these contest rules. The contest organizers, cannot be bound to award more than one prize or to award a prize other than in compliance with these contest rules.

By participating or attempting to participate in this contest, any person releases the contest organizers, their subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, employees, agents and representatives from any liability and any damages that could result from participating or attempting to participate in this contest.

By participating in this contest, the winning person authorizes the organizers and their representatives to use, if required, their name, photograph, image, declaration regarding the prize, place of residence and/or voice for advertising, with no form of compensation.
No communication or correspondence will be exchanged with the entrants (except for confirmation of entry) in this contest except with people selected for a prize.

For the purposes of these contest rules, the entrant is the person whose name appears on the entry ballot and the prize will be awarded to that person if they are selected and declared a winner.

Either the inability or failure of the winner to execute the Gift Card prize through the shall not be the responsibility of the contest organizer. In such case of inability or failure the contest organizer will have no further obligations to the winner or winners.

The English version of the contest rules shall be the final applicable version in all provinces, except Quebec, for which the French version shall be applicable.