Giveaway Closed

The Back-to-School Giveaway (the “Contest”) is sponsored by Bestar (the “Sponsor”). Any person participating or attempting to participate in the Contest understands that their participation is subject to the present Contest Rules & Regulations and any participant agrees to be bound by the present Contest Rules & Regulations.   

1. Contest Period  

The Contest opens on August 31^st 2023 at 9 a.m. eastern time and closes on September 6^th , 2023 at 11:59 p.m. eastern time (the “Contest Period”).  

Contest closes at 11:59 p.m. (eastern time ) on September 6^th, 2023.  

2. Eligibility:   

This Contest is open to:  

• Residents of Canada who have reached the age of majority in their Province/Territory of residence, excluding residents whose postal codes begin with any of the following A0A, AOK, A0P, A0R, A2V, B3T, E5E, E5G, E5V, G0B, G0G, G4T, J0M, J0W, J0Y, J0Z, K0M, P0K, P0L, P0M, P0N, P0P, P0R, P0S, P0T, P0U, P0V, P0W, P0X, P0Y, P5N, P6A, P6B, P6C, P7A, P7B, P7C, P7E, P7G, P7J, P7K, P7L, P8N, P8T, P9A, P9N, R0B, R0L, R4L, S0M, T0H, T0P, T0V, T9J, V0E, V0H, V0N, V0P, V0R, V0T, V2J, V8K, X0E, X1A, X0A, X0B, X0C, X0E, X0G, Y1A, Y0A, Y0B, Y1A.    

Are not eligible for the Contest:   

• Sponsor’s employees, representatives, mandataries and agents,   

• a member of the Contest’s jury (if applicable),   

• any advertising and promotional agencies involved in the Contest, their affiliated and related companies and any of their employees, representatives, mandataries and agents.  

• any person with whom any person mentioned above is domiciled and any members of the immediate family (parents, siblings and spouse, children, regardless of where they live) and household of any person mentioned above.  

3.  Conditions for Entering the Contest  

No purchase is necessary in order to participate in this Contest. Only one entry per person will be accepted.  

To enter the Contest, an eligible person must comply to the following conditions inside the Contest Period and comply with all the Contest rules and regulations (the “Participant(s)”).  

To enter, the Contest and to become a Participant a person must:  

1.  Follow @bestarfurniture on Instagram;  

2.  like the Contest post on the Bestar Social Media account;  

3.  tag 3 friends in one comment on the Contest post.   

Limit of one (1) entry allowed per Instagram account.   

An entry must be made using the Participant’s personal Instagram account. Entries made by any other person, business, organization, or entity will be declared invalid.   

It is prohibited to use any device to automate the entry. Any attempt to manipulate the Contest will result in the Participant being disqualified.  

4. Description of Prize(s) and Prize(s) Approximate Retail Value:  

The Contest Prize consists of:  

One (1) 48W x 24D Electric Standing Desk with Assembled Mobile Pedestal in Black (the “Prize”). 

The product has an individual retail value of $916.99. 

 The Prize must be accepted as awarded and is not transferable and cannot be converted to cash.  

5. Prize Odds:  

The odds of winning the Prize depend on the number of entries received in accordance with these Contest Rules & Regulations; as the number of entries increase, the odds decrease.  

6. Selection of Winner:  

The Contest draw date is: September 7th, 2023 at 3:00PM (EST) in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

If needed, a new draw may be held in accordance with the present Contest Rules & Regulations.    

At the draw date, one winner will be selected by a random, computer-generated draw from all eligible Participants at the end of the Contest Period (the “Eligible Winner(s)”).  

7.  Prize Draw Procedures   

The Eligible Winner(s) will be reached via an Instagram direct message by the Sponsor or by its agent or its representative within three (3) business days following the draw date. 

In order to be declared a winner and be able to claim the Prize (the “Prize Winner(s)”), the Eligible Winner(s) has to: 

1. Answer the Instagram direct message from the Sponsor and provide a valid email address within three (3) business days following the Sponsor’s Instagram direct message. Upon reception of a valid email address, the Sponsor will then send a Declaration & Release Form to the provided email address within three (3) business days to the provided email;  

2. Fill and sign the Declaration & Release Form provided by the Sponsor and return it via an answering email to the Sponsor’s, within ten (10) business days following receipt of the Sponsor’s email.  

3. Correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a mathematical skill-testing question contained in the Declaration & Release Form;  

Before naming a Prize Winner(s), Sponsor reserves its right to verify and confirm to its sole discretion the eligibility of the Eligible Winner(s), including the completion of all the required fields in the Declaration & Release Form and the Eligible Winner(s)’s compliance with all the provisions of the present Contest Rules & Regulations.   

In the event that an Eligible Winner is found uncompliant to the present Contest Rules & Regulations by the Sponsor, the Eligible Winner(s)’s entry will be null and void. A new draw will be conducted in accordance with the present Contest Rules & Regulations and a new Eligible Winner will therefore be selected.  

The Prize Winner(s) will only be announced once the sponsor has confirmed to its satisfaction the Eligible Winner’s compliance with the present Contest Rules & Regulations.  

Once the Sponsor has confirmed to its satisfaction the Eligible Winner’s compliance with the present Contest Rules & Regulations the Sponsor will announce the Prize Winner(s) on the @bestarfurniture Instagram account.   

8. Prize Claim  

After having announced the Prize Winner, the sponsor will send the Prize in accordance with its Shipping and Return Policy, which is available at https://www.bestar.ca/shipping-and-return/, to the address provided by the Prize Winner in the Declaration & Release Form. 

Shipping fees may apply to claim the Prize, which the Prize Winner will have to pay. All purchases made by the Prize Winner with the Prize amount are subject to the Sponsor’s policies, including the Shipping and Return Policy above mentioned. Please refer to the said policy to see if your postal code is within an area for which shipping fees apply. 

9.  Limitation of Liability:  

Without limiting the release, and for greater certainty, the Sponsor will not be liable for: a) any print for typographical errors in Contest-related material; b) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Contest’s 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; c) any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay in operation of the Contest website, Contest page, or any transmission in relation with the Contest; d) any communications line failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries; e) any problems with, or technical malfunction of, any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, or failure of email which may occur for any reason whatsoever, including technical problems and/or traffic congestion on any website; or f) any injury or damage to participants’ or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating 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 Sponsor, which corrupt or affect the administration, security or proper conduct of this Contest, the 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.  

By participating or attempting to participate in this Contest, all individuals release the Sponsor, their organizers, their advertising and promotional agencies, their employees, agents, and/or representatives from any damage that could be incurred as a result of their participation or attempted participation in the Contest.  

10. General Terms & Conditions:  

For Quebec Residents only: 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 board only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.  

By entering, the participant declares that they have complied with the Official Contest Rules & Regulations.  

All information provided by the participant must be complete and accurate. The Sponsor will not be held responsible for any and all telephone problems, unclear voicemail / email / Instagram direct messages, a late / incomplete / erroneously sent prize claim. Any and all incomplete, distorted, late, and reproduced entries will be annulled and will void eligibility for Prize claim.  

The sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual from the Contest and to ban the individual from any future contest that it finds or believes to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest, Contest’s website, or Contest page; to be acting in violation of the Official Contest Rules & Regulations or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with intent to abuse, threaten or harass any person.  

Any attempt by any 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, the Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law.  

No substitution of prizes is permitted except by the Sponsor to its sole discretion. The 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.   

By participating or attempting to participate in this Contest, the participant agrees: a) that these Official Contest Rules & Regulations and Sponsor’s records of the draw or any other aspect of this Contest will be final and conclusive in all respects; and b) to release, discharge, indemnify and hold harmless the Sponsor, its affiliated and related companies and advertising, promotion agencies and/or all of their respective directors, employees, agents, officers, shareholders, successors from any liability, claims, demands, actions, damages, or causes of action whatsoever which they, their heirs, successors, assignees, executors, or administrators may now or from now on have directly or indirectly against them or any of them in respect of or relating to the Contest and/or the acceptance or use, improper use, or possession of any Prize.  

This Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Instagram. By participating in this Contest, the participant acknowledges that they release Instagram of all responsibility for this Contest.  

For the purpose of this Contest, the Participant is considered to be the person to whom the personal Instagram account belongs. It is this person who will be asked to answer the mathematical skill-testing question and fill out the Declaration & Release Form. It is also the person to whom the prize will be awarded if all Contest conditions are met. The Sponsor reserves the right to request a piece of identification prior to prize remittance.   

This Contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial, and municipal laws and is void where prohibited.  

11.  Privacy Policy:  

When entering the Contest, all entrants are asked to consent to the Sponsor’s privacy policy in order to obtain consent to the collection, use, retention and disclosure of their personal information by the Sponsor and any representatives or agents thereof for the purposes set forth in the privacy policy, including, in connection with the Contest, for the purpose of running the Contest and the awarding of the prizes. The foregoing is not intended to limit any other consent to the collection or use of personal information that may have been, or may in future be, provided by any entrant to the Sponsor, or any of the other Released Parties, if applicable. Personal information collected in respect of this Contest may be stored on a server or servers located outside of Canada.