Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited
Share Your Style Contest

Contest Rules

Contest Overview

Two Ways to Win

1. Participants can submit one “before” photo and up to four “after” photos of a room makeover completed within the past six months without the help of a professional interior designer. If participants used Benjamin Moore paint to complete their home redesign project, those paint colour(s) can be listed in the box provided on the entry page.

Canadians from across Canada who vote via the Share Your Style web site will determine ten finalists. A panel of expert judges, including Sharon Grech from Benjamin Moore will choose a final winner who will be awarded a prize package worth $10,000. The winning makeover will be featured on Citytv’s CityLine with Sharon Grech.

Participants who post photos of their home decorating project can vote for their favourite entries, including their own. Doing so will automatically enter them into a random draw for a $2,500 gift certificate for Benjamin Moore products, including all applicable taxes.

2. Participants who do not post photos of their home decorating project can vote for their favourite makeover projects. By voting, they are automatically entered into a random draw for a $2,500 gift certificate for Benjamin Moore products, including all applicable taxes.

Contest voting closes on July 31st

 

Prizing

Post your Photos and Win:

Participants who post before/after photos of an updated space, can win prizing worth $10,000:

  • A $5,000 room makeover from Benjamin Moore One prize will be awarded which will include a 1 hour colour consultation, Benjamin Moore paint and the services of a Benjamin Moore Painting & Decorating Services appointed professional painter to apply paint for the project. Total approximate retail value not to exceed ($5,000) Canadian funds, including all applicable taxes. Winner will have up to six months from the date of the draw to redeem their prize.
  • A TrueStream™ Laundry pair from LG Canada (retail value $3499.00)
  • The winning makeover featured on Citytv’s CityLine with Sharon Grech

 

Vote for Style and Win:

Participants who vote for their favourite projects are automatically entered into a random draw for:

  • Home improvement products and services from Benjamin Moore valued at $2,500.
  • A $2,500 gift certificate for Benjamin Moore products.

 

Rules and Regs

  • The contest sponsor is: Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited (hereinafter referred to as the “Contest Sponsor”). The Contest Period starts April 8, 2009 and ends July 31, 2009 (the “Contest Period”). This contest is open to all Canadians, aged eighteen (18) and over, including residents of Quebec. Employees of Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited, their partners, retailers, vendors and their immediate family members are not eligible to participate.

    In order to submit a room for judging or to vote for the submissions of others, each participant must register a personal profile on www.shareyourstylecontest.com.

    Participants must register and submit photos depicting ‘before’ and ‘after’ states of a recent room makeover completed within six moths of the contest start date. With their entry, participants can, but are not required to, submit the Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited paint colour and/or product used in the redesign projects. Participants consent to their entries being posted on a shared site for public viewing (www.shareyourstylecontest.com) and to allowing CityLine to shoot video and photos of the winning room to be featured on Citytv’s CityLine with Sharon Grech. To be eligible to win, the submitted room makeover must be a self-directed project, completed without engaging the services or assistance of a professional interior designer. Ten (10) finalists from across Canada will be determined by voters. A panel of expert judges that includes Benjamin Moore’s spokesperson, Sharon Grech, will choose a final winner. The judging decision is final.

    Contest will be closed to submissions, on July 17th, 2009, 11:59pm, which is two weeks before contest end date.
  • The winner must complete a standard declaration and release form and agreement for the use of his/her name and/or photograph and/or address (city only) and/or photos of the room for advertising, publicity, promotional and/or purposes in all media, without further compensation. Contest participants agree to abide by the contest rules, the decisions of the independent organization, and the decision of the expert panel of judges, which are final. Contest winners are required to sign a release in order to consent to having their home filmed and featured on an episode of Citytv’s CityLine.

    To Vote:
    Participants must register, then vote for their favourite room makeover (limit of one vote per project). All registered voters are entered into a random draw to win a Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited gift certificate worth $2,500, including all applicable taxes.

    Participants who submit a room for judging will be eligible to win prizing worth over ten thousand dollars ($10,000 CDN): five thousand dollars ($5,000 CDN) in paint and paint services from Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited, a TrueStream™ Laundry pair from LG Canada, and the chance for their home to be featured on Citytv’s CityLine with Sharon Grech. Participants are limited to submitting photos for one (1) project. Once a participant submits photos, no additional changes to their submission will be allowed. Participants who have submitted photos are eligible to vote for their favourite projects, including their own, and to be entered into the random draw to win a Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited gift certificate worth two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500 CDN). All participants are limited to one vote per project.

    Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited paint and paint services will be awarded in the form of a gift certificate and must be accepted as awarded. All prizes are non-transferrable. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize or portion of a prize with a prize of equal or greater value. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Contest Period. There is a limit of one prize per participant.

    Contest will be closed to voting, on July 31st, 2009, 11:59pm.
  • A random draw will be conducted by an independent organization from all eligible entries received during the Contest Period on or about 12 noon EST, August 18, 2009, in Toronto, Ontario. To be declared a winner, the selected participants must first correctly answer, unaided, a mathematical, skill testing question. Selected participant will be contacted using the information indicated in the records of the Contest Sponsor over a seven day period. If a selected participant cannot be reached within the seven days, a prize will not be awarded in respect of that selected entry and another contest entry will be randomly selected and so on until the prize has been awarded. In order to receive his/her prize, the winner must complete a standard declaration and release form and agreement for the use of his/her name and/or photograph and/or address (city only) and/or photos of the room for advertising, publicity, promotional and/or purposes in all media, without further compensation. Contest participants agree to abide by the contest rules, the decisions of the independent organization, and the decision of the expert panel of judges, which are final.

  • By entering this contest, each participant consents to the collection, use and distribution of his/her personal information (information that identifies a participant as an individual, such as home telephone number, home address) by the Contest Sponsor or its agents for the purpose of implementing, administering and fulfilling the contest in accordance with its privacy policy . Winners will be announced on Citytv’s CityLine and on the www.shareyourstylecontest.com web site at the conclusion of the contest. Winners will be notified via email using the information collected by the Contest Sponsor upon registration.

    Participant data and information provided to Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited may be used for marketing and research purposes but will not be shared with or sold to external parties. During the registration process, participants will be asked to opt-in to receive future marketing communications from Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited.
  • Participants agree to release, discharge and hold harmless Benjamin Moore & Co. Limited, and their respective employees, officers, directors, retailers, parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies, agents and representatives (the ‘Releasees’) from any and all injuries, liability, losses and damages of any kind resulting from their participation in the contest or their acceptance, use or misuse of the prize. The Releasees are not responsible for and shall not be liable for (a) any electronic, hardware or software program, network, Internet or computer malfunctions, failures, or difficulties of any kind, including without limitation, server malfunction or any human error which may occur in the processing of entries; (b) failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmissions; (c) lost, late, misdirected, incomplete or incorrect entries; (d) any condition caused by events beyond the control of the Releasees that may cause the promotion to be disrupted or corrupted; or (e) tampering, thefts, defects or typographical errors in materials. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to cancel or suspend the contest or any portion thereof should a virus, ‘bug’ or any other cause beyond the control of the Contest Sponsor corrupt the administration, security of proper play of the promotion. All entries, entry information and photos become the sole property of the Contest Sponsor. ‘Entrants’ includes heirs, successors, assigns, executors or administrators. Subject to applicable law, the Contest Sponsor reserves the right to terminate or amend this contest at any time, without notice to entrants, should any factor interfere with the proper conduct of this contest as contemplated by these rules. Contest is subject to all applicable Federal, Provincial and Municipal laws.
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