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Related Links | +15 Xbox LIVE Contest OFFICIAL RULES 1. No purchase necessary. To be eligible to win, a participant must be a resident of Canada and age of majority in the province in which the participant resides. Any potential participant who is an employee of Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Canada Co. (“Microsoft”) or Best Buy Canada Ltd., and their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, service providers, content providers, agents, officers, and directors, (collectively, “Sponsors”) or anyone with whom such individuals are domiciled is ineligible to participate in the contest. 2. In addition, in order to enter in accordance with section 5(a), each participant must be an active Gold Level subscriber to the Xbox Live Online Gaming and Entertainment Service (The “On-line System) through the period of the contest and on the draw date (For complete details on how to become an Xbox Live Gold Level Subscriber visit http://www.xbox.com/live). 3. In addition, in order to enter in accordance with section 5(a) each participant must download the contest Gamer Pic from the Xbox Live Marketplace (“Gamer Pic”) at no cost. The Gamer Pic enters the participant into a draw for a prize. Participants who download the “ + 15 Gamer Pic” must also add or have 15 people or more on their Xbox LIVE friends list and play a game for the Xbox 360 with a friend in the Xbox Live Multiplayer mode. By downloading the Gamer Pic, the participant acknowledges that Microsoft will use the participant’s personal information to communicate with the participant about this Contest via text message through the message centre within the Xbox Live Dashboard. Please consult the Microsoft privacy policy at privacypolicy@microsoft.com for full details. Contact with participants will be by way of text messages through the On-line System and will concern only the Sponsor’s products and services, and this Contest. Information will not be shared with third parties. Only winners will be contacted. PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE GAMER PIC OR ENTER THIS CONTEST IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS COMMUNICATION AND THE TERMS OF THE PRIVACY POLICY. For a no purchase entry option follow the mail-in rules set out below. Participants must also read and agree to the terms and conditions for use of the On-line System before being permitted to enter the contest. 4. The contest opens at Midnight EST on January 15th, 2008, and closes at midnight on January 30th, 2008 (the “Contest Period”). 5. Eligible participants may enter the contest by one (1) of two (2) means: (a) Entering online by downloading the Gamer Pic from the Xbox Live Marketplace (see www.xbox.com/+15 for complete details); or (b) Obtaining an entry form by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: +15 on Xbox Live Contest Mail-in entry forms will not be distributed after the end of the Contest Period and must be received by noon EST on January 30th, 2008. Incomplete or late entries will not be accepted. The Sponsor takes no responsibility for lost, late, destroyed or misdirected entries. 6. Prizes: (a) At the end of the Contest Period, fifteen (15) random draws will be held to select fifteen (15) winners representing a winner for each day during the contest period. Each winner will receive one (1) $1,000.00 Gift card to BestBuy. Gift cards valid in Canada only. (b) A total of fifteen (15) potential winners will be selected by random draw on February 15th, 2008. The draws will be held at Microsoft at 1950 Meadowvale Blvd, Mississauga, ON L5N 8L9 by electronic selection. The chances of being selected depend upon the number of valid entries received each day during the Contest Period. 8. The selected participants from random draws will be notified by text message or e-mail with fourteen (14) days of the draw and, prior to being declared winners, will be required to correctly answer, unaided and without mechanical or electronic assistance, a time-limited, mathematical skill-testing question to be administered by telephone at a mutually convenient time 9. If a selected participant from a random draw is unable to correctly answer the skill-testing question, cannot be reached by telephone, text message or e-mail as set out above within 5 (five) business days of first attempted contact, or otherwise does not meet all of these Contest rules, his or her prize will be forfeited and another entrant will be drawn from the remaining eligible contestants General Contest Conditions 10. The prizes are non-transferable and no cash alternatives will be provided. The Sponsor reserves the right to substitute the prizes described above with prizes of equal or greater value. Only one (1) prize per selected entrant will be awarded. 11. By entering, all participants agree to abide by the official rules and decisions of the Sponsors which are final. All entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be returned. 12. To be declared a winner, a selected participant will be required to sign a declaration and release to: (a) confirm compliance with the official rules; (b) release the Sponsor from all liability; (c) accept the prize as awarded; and (d) consent to the use of the participant’s name, address, likeness and/or image for publicity purposes in all media. The Sponsor reserves the right, at its option, to publish any winner’s name, address (city and province only), photograph, likeness, voice or statement without further compensation to the winner. 13. The contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws and regulations. Void where prohibited. 14. No correspondence will be entered into with participants except the winner(s). 15. The Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction to or unauthorized alteration of the entries. The Sponsor is not responsible for (i) any problems or technical malfunctions or any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software; (ii) the failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by the Sponsor on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site; or (iii) any combination thereof, including any injury or related damage to participants or any other persons, whether computer-related or resulting from participation or downloading of any materials in this contest. The Sponsor reserves the right subject to the approval of the Régie des alcools des courses et des jeux to modify this contest if fraud or technical failures negatively affect the integrity of the contest. The Sponsor reserves the right subject to the approval of the Régie des alcools des courses et des jeux to cancel or suspend this contest should a virus, bug or other cause beyond the reasonable control of the Sponsor corrupt the security or proper administration of the contest. Any deliberate attempt to damage any website or undermine the legitimate administration of this contest may be a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, the Sponsor reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution. 16. By completing and submitting the entry form or entering this contest on-line, all entrants consent to the collection, use and distribution of their personal information by the Sponsor for the purposes of running the contest. No other use of entrants’ personal information shall be made by the Sponsor, except in accordance with the other provisions of these Rules and except as specified and consented to under the privacy policy. 17. By entering this contest, each entrant hereby acknowledges that he/she has read, understands and will comply with these contest rules in their entirety. 18. With respect to Québec residents and to entries originating within the Province of Québec, 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 purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement.
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