«TIP FOR HEALTHY LOOKING SKIN» CONTEST FROM GARNIER

OFFICIAL RULES

1. The Garnier “TIPS FOR HEALTHY LOOKING SKIN” contest is brought to you by L’Oréal Canada Inc. (hereinafter contest sponsors). The contest is open in all of Canada at all participating retailers and starts on February 1st 2005 and closes on February 1st 2006 at 00h01 (ET).
   
   
2. Eligibility
   The contest is open to residents of Canada who have reached the age of 13 or older. Employees, representatives and agents of L’Oréal Canada Inc., its advertising and promotional agencies, affiliated and related companies, and members of the immediate family (parents, children, siblings and spouse, regardless of where they live) and household of such employees are not eligible.
   
   
3. If winner(s) is a minor, prizes will be automatically awarded to his/her parent or legal guardian, who will be asked to sign the appropriate legal documents.
   
   
4. How to Enter
   NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
   You may enter the contest by one of the following options;
   
   
5. Visit the contest website www.skinnaturals.caand click on the ‘Share your skincare tips and win’ menu item. An electronic entry form will appear on the screen. Fill out the entry form and submit your tip while making sure that all the mandatory fields are filled out. Once your tip is submitted, complete your entry by registering to the Garnier community by filling your name, surname, full address including postal code, e-mail address, birth date, phone number including the area code, gender and a password. Once filled, click the «Send» button, no later than February 1st 2006 at 00:01 HE.
   
   
6. LIMIT OF ONE (1) ENTRY BY PERSON OR BY ADDRESS OR BY E-MAIL, whether the inscription is made on the french website or english website. MULTIPLE ENTRIES FROM SAME PERSON OR ADDRESS OR E-MAIL SPONSORS WILL VOID ALL ENTRIES.
   
   
7. Prizes
   The PRIZES consists of 24 gift baskets of skin naturals products from Garnier, two (2) gift baskets every month, for a total retail value of CAN $2040.
   
   Each basket consists of skin naturals products of Garnier for a total approximate retail value of $85 CAN. The products are to be selected by Sponsor at its discretion for a minimum of three and a maximum of five, depending on the winner’s skin type.

   All shipping and products taxes are included. All other fees not mentioned above, such as insurance, tips, and any other expenses whatsoever are the responsibility of the winners.
   

8. Selection of Winners
   At approximately 6:00 p.m. (ET) on or about five (5) working days after the end of each month until the end of the contest, in Montreal, the judges, including the marketing agency of the Sponsor together with the Sponsor, will select two (2) the best Tips of the month from all eligible entries received before 11h59 pm of the last day of the preceding month. The odds of winning a prize will depend upon the total number of eligible entries received before the end of each month as well as the compelling nature of entrant’s statement.
   
   
9. Prize Claim
   In order to be declared a winner and be able to claim prize, each person which will have its name chosen will have to be reached by telephone or e-mail by the contest sponsors within five (5) days following draw and correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question to be administered by phone or e-mail.

   In the event that any one of the conditions mentioned herein is not respected, the selected participant’s entry will be void and a new selection will be conducted following the official contest rules until a new winner is selected.

10. Winner will be asked to fill out and sign a Declaration & Release Form and return it to contest sponsors, to the specified address, within ten (10) days following receipt of the document.
    
    
11. Upon reception of the Declaration & Release Form duly filled and signed by chosen participant, sponsors will either directly send the prize to the address provided on form or, sponsors will mail instructions to chosen participant with instructions on how to claim prize. In the case of a direct delivery to winner’s address, a 4 to 6 week delay following reception of the Declaration & Release Form applies.
    
    
12. General Terms and Conditions
    All information provided by participant must be complete and accurate. Sponsors will not be held responsible for any and all telephone problems, unclear voice mail messages, a late / incomplete / erroneously sent prize claim. For any and all incomplete, distorted, late and reproduced entry ballot, which will be annulled and will void eligibility for prize claim.
    
    
13. Contest Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual from the Contest and to ban the individual from any future contest of the Sponsor that it finds or believes to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or Contest Website; to be acting in violation of the Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person.
    
    
14. WARNING: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT OR ANY OTHER PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
    
    
15. Prize must be accepted as awarded. NO SUBSTITUTION OF PRIZES IS PERMITTED EXCEPT BY SPONSOR IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION. SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SUBSTITUTE ANY PRIZE WITH ANOTHER PRIZE OF EQUAL OR GREATER VALUE, IF A PRIZE CANNOT BE AWARDED AS DESCRIBED FOR ANY REASON. PRIZES ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE AND ARE NOT REDEEMABLE FOR CASH OR CREDIT, IN WHOLE OR IN PART.
    
    
16. Entrants agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules and by all decisions of the Sponsor, which are final in all matters pertaining to the Contest. Contest is subject to all applicable laws. By entering, participants release and hold harmless Sponsors, its affiliated and related companies and advertising, promotion agencies and all of their respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, agents, successors and assigns from any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the Contest or any prize won. Winners will be required to sign and return, within the time period indicated on the documents, a Declaration of Compliance with Contest Rules and a full Liability and Publicity Release and/or any other document.
    
    
17. By entering, you consent to Sponsor’s use, should you become a winner, of your name, place of residence and photograph or other likeness, and your testimony without further compensation or notice, for publicity, advertising or informational purposes in any media or format (including the Internet) in connection with the products, this Contest, or future similar contests. By entering, you declare that you have complied with the Contest Rules.
    
    
18. All entries become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned to entrants. If a selected entrant’s entry is an Internet entry, the selected entrant may be required to provide Sponsor with proof that the selected entrant is the authorized account holder of the e-mail address associated with the selected entry.
    
    
19. A list of winners will be available from April 1st 2005 to April 1st 2006 and will be posted on www.skinnaturals.ca
    
    
20. For the purpose of the present contest, the participant is considered to be the person whose coordinates appear on the contest entry form or ballot. It is this person whom will be asked to answer the mathematical skill-testing question. It is also the person to whom the prize will be awarded if all contest conditions are met. Sponsors reserve the right to request a piece of i.d. prior to prize remittance.
    
    
21. Limitations of Liability
    Without limiting the release in Paragraph 5 above, and for greater certainty, the Contest Entities will not be liable for: a) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Contest Website users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of entries in the Contest; b) any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation of the contest website or any transmission in connection with the Contest; c) any communications line failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries; d) any problems with, or technical malfunction of, any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, or failure of e-mail which may occur for any reason whatsoever, including technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination thereof; or e) any injury or damage to participants’ or to any other person's computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in this Contest. If the Contest is not capable of running as planned for any reason, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the reasonable control of the Contest Entities which corrupt or affect the administration, security or proper conduct of this Contest, Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to, without advance notice, terminate or suspend the Contest, in whole or in part, or modify it in any way, subject to the approval of the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux in respect of residents of Quebec.
    
    
22. By participating or attempting to participate in the present contest, all individuals release the contest organizers, their advertising and promotional agencies, their employees, agents and representatives from any damage that could be incurred due to their participation or attempted participation in the contest.
    
    
23. Quebec Residents:
    Any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity 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 only for the purposes of helping the parties reach a settlement.
    
    
24. The masculine gender is used in no discriminatory fashion, simply to facilitate composition.
    
    
25. Privacy
    The Contest Sponsor is collecting personal data about entrants for the sole purpose of administering this Contest. No further informational or marketing communications will be received by the entrant unless the entrant provides the Sponsor with explicit permission to do so as indicated on the entry form where it asks the user if they would like to receive additional communication from the Sponsor. Please see Garnier Privacy Policy at www.garnier.ca
    

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