Purolator True North Small Business Grant Contest 2025

Purolator True North Small Business Grant Contest 2025 is sponsored by Purolator Inc.. Provides funding to Canadian small businesses to strengthen their local impact.

Purolator True North Small Business Grant Contest - 2025 Official Terms and Conditions (the “Terms”) Purolator True North Small Business Grant Contest - 2025 Official Contest Rules (the “Rules”) NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. THE CONTEST IS OPEN TO ALL LEGAL RESIDENTS AND ELIGIBLE SMALL BUSINESSES DOMICILED IN CANADA THAT FALL WITHIN THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS AS SPECIFIED IN THE TERMS BELOW.

VOID ELSEWHERE AND WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE CONTEST IF YOU DO NOT FALL WITHIN THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS BELOW.

Purolator True North Small Business Contest (the “Contest”) commences at 6:00:00 AM ET on September 10, 2025 and ends at such time the Grant and Finalist Winners (as defined in section 17 below) are publicly announced, or at 11:59:59 PM ET on March 31, 2026, whichever is earlier (the “Contest Period”).

The Contest consists of three (3) important time periods: Nomination submission period (the “Nomination Submission Period”): 6:00:00 AM ET on September 10, 2025 to 11:59:59 PM ET on November 5, 2025 All entries must be received by 11:59:59 PM ET November 5, 2025 (the “Entry Closing Time”). Entries submitted after the Entry Closing Time shall be void. Purolator Inc.’s servers will be the official time-keeping device for the Contest.

Entry evaluation and judging, and Grant Prize finalists and winner notification: November 6, 2025 up to March 24, 2026 Public announcement of Grant Prize winners: March 25 – March 31, 2026 The Contest is sponsored and administered solely by Purolator Inc. (“Sponsor” or “Purolator”) and is no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Visa®* as named in the prize list in sections 5 through 9 herein.

Purolator shall be solely responsible for the delivery of the Prizes (as defined in Section 10) of the selected qualified winners.

To be eligible to participate in the Contest as a nominator (the “Nominator”), individuals must be: (a) legal residents of Canada, who have reached the age of majority in their Province or Territory of residence at the time of entry, and enter the Contest as outlined in Section 13; and (b) owners, founders, employees, customers, partners, vendors, or other general supporters which includes Purolator Employees (as defined below), of the eligible nominated small business (the “SMB”) as set out in Section 3.

For the purposes of this Contest, a “Purolator Employee” is defined as an employee of Purolator Inc. (the “Sponsor” or “Purolator”).

A Nominator cannot be: (c) (i) Directors, or executives of the Sponsor; (ii) any employee of the Sponsor’s advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies involved in the development or execution of the Contest (the “Contest Administrator”) in any way; (iii) any persons or entities involved in administering or judging the Contest; and (iv) all persons with whom those specified in (c)(i)(ii) and (iii)above are domiciled or immediately related.

For the purposes of these Rules, two people are “immediately related” if one is the husband, wife, spouse, common-law partner, son, stepson, son-in-law, daughter, stepdaughter, daughter-in-law, sister, stepsister, sister-in-law, brother, stepbrother, brother-in-law, mother, stepmother, mother-in-law, father, stepfather or father-in-law of the other.

Grant Nominee Eligibility To be eligible to participate in the Contest as a grant nominee (the “Grant Nominee”), a small business must: (a) be based in Canada and legally licensed or registered to operate in Canada, and/or in a Province or Territory, as applicable; (b) have 50 employees or less; and (c) be in good financial standing (no petition in bankruptcy or insolvency) throughout the Contest Period including winner announcement, and be nominated into the Contest as set out in Section 13.

The Grant Nominee cannot have employees that are: (d) (i) employees, directors, officers, representatives and agents of the Sponsor; (ii) any employee of the Sponsor’s advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies involved in the development or execution of the Contest in any way; and (iii) any persons or entities involved in administering or judging the Contest.

Also, the Grant Nominee cannot have owners, founders, or main investors of a small business that are: (e) (i) employees, directors, officers, representatives and agents of the Sponsor; (ii) any employee of the Sponsor’s advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies involved in the development or execution of the Contest in any way; and (iii) any persons or entities involved in administering or judging the Contest; and iv) all persons with whom those specified in (f)(i)(ii) and (iii) above are domiciled or immediately related.

Thirteen (13) of the thirty-three (33) Finalist Prizes and two (2) of the five (5) Grant Prizes will be reserved exclusively for Purolator Customers (as defined below). For the purposes of these Rules, a “Purolator Customer” is defined as having a Purolator Business Account in good standing at the time of Contest Entry and the end of the Contest Period, and has made at least one shipment between November 5, 2024 to November 5, 2025.

Purolator may award more than two (2) Grant Prizes and more than thirteen (13) Finalist Prizes to Purolator Customers if selected as top scoring candidates as set out in Section 17. A Nominator or Grant Nominee must meet the eligibility requirements set out in these Rules from the time of entry until winner confirmation (if he/she/they becomes a winner).

Entrants are responsible for determining whether any policy prohibits them entering the Contest or receiving a Prize, or if any permissions are required from senior management of their business to enter or receive. Prizes and Odds of Winning There will be twelve (12) individual nomination prizes (a “Nomination Prize”) available to be won by eligible Nominators, each consisting of one (1) $500 (inclusive of HST) Visa* gift card.

Four (4) of the twelve (12) Nomination Prizes will be reserved exclusively for Purolator Employees, and will be awarded as a taxable benefit to the selected employees. There will be thirty-three (33) individual finalist prizes (a “Finalist Prize”) available to be won by eligible Grant Nominees, each consisting of one (1) $500 (inclusive of HST) Visa* gift card, and may include other benefits as determined by the Sponsor.

The Finalist Prizes will be allocated regionally: Newfoundland and Labrador Territories (Nunavut, Yukon, and Purolator reserves the right to change the regional allocation if there are no suitable finalist candidates in a region, as set out by the criteria in Section 18. Thirteen (13) of the thirty-three (33) Finalist Prizes will be reserved exclusively for Purolator Customers.

There will be five (5) individual grant prizes (a “Grant Prize”) available to be won by eligible Grant Nominees through the Contest. Two (2) of the five (5) Grant Prizes will be reserved for Purolator Customers. Each Grant Prize consists of: $25,000.

00 in cash, awarded to the SMB by cheque, money order or money transfer; $500 in Purolator shipping credits, and may include other benefits as determined by the Sponsor. The $500 in Purolator shipping credits will allow the winning Entrant to use a variety of Purolator services to ship packages up to the value of $500. The $500 in shipping credits cannot be converted into, or provided, in cash and expires two (2) years after issue.

All prizes are in CAD dollars and inclusive of HST. The approximate odds of winning a Prize depend on the total number of eligible Entries received by the Contest Closing Time. The total prizes consist of five (5) Grant Prizes, thirty-three (33) Finalist Prizes, and twelve (12) Nomination Prizes valued at a total of CAD $150,050.

00 (collectively, the “Prizes”). The Grant Prize Winners, Finalist Prize Winners, and Nomination Prize Winners (collectively, the “Winners”) must meet the corresponding eligibility requirements outlined in Sections 2-4 above. The Visa* gift cards available as Prizes, may not be exchanged for cash, are non-transferable, non-refundable, non-salable, and must be accepted as awarded.

The Visa* gift card awards are subject to the issuer’s gift card terms, conditions and restrictions. Recipients of Visa* gift cards, under this Contest, are solely responsible for all incidental costs and expenses associated with the gift card, including any service fees, not specifically referred to herein. Purolator reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to not cover any costs or expenses incurred by a winner under this Contest.

If a Contest winner does not utilize any part(s) of the award, then any such part(s) not utilized will be forfeited in their entirety and nothing will be substituted in its place.

All amounts and costs related to any Prizes, including but not limited to all income, sales, and other taxes (and the reporting thereof) imposed as a result of the award of a Prize, which are not expressly covered by the Sponsor are the responsibility of the individual winners.

It is the individual winners’ responsibility to understand and abide by any federal, provincial, territorial, local or foreign tax laws that may apply to receipt of a Prize. Cash Prizes may not be assigned or transferred to another person. If the Prize cannot be awarded due to circumstances beyond the control of Sponsor, a substitute prize of equal or greater retail value may be awarded.

Non-cash Prizes may not be redeemed for cash, sold, traded, used for commercial purposes or transferred. A person eligible to win a Prize must accept the Prize as awarded and may not transfer such Prize or substitute or exchange for, or apply the Prize’s value towards, cash or a higher cost or alternative prize.

All Prizes are non-refundable, cannot be replaced if lost or stolen and are provided on an “as is” basis, without any representation or warranty of any kind. The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to make substitutions of equivalent or greater kind or value in the event of the unavailability of all or part of a Prize or for any other reason whatsoever. Entry Requirements.

(No Purchase Necessary.)

This Contest involves Nominators submitting their information on a contest web page (“Contest Website”) together with their written contest submission, which shall consist of the Nominators’ description of the Grant Nominee’s business in relation to the short essays of “how the small business makes Canada stronger and why the small business should receive a grant” set out on the Contest Website (the “Submission(s)”) together comprising an entry (“Entry” or “Entries”).

The Contest can be entered in two ways. The first shall be by email invitation from Purolator to existing Purolator Customers. Purolator Customers with valid email addresses on file will receive an email from Purolator inviting them to enter into the Contest, and this email will link to the Contest Website, in English: https://cloud.

connect. purolator. com/small-business-grants and French: https://cloud.

connect. purolator. com/small-business-grants?

lang=fr To be eligible for one (1) of the twelve (12) Nomination Prizes, Purolator Customers or SMB Community members must have submitted a complete and unique (as determined by the Sponsor or administrators) nomination Entry through one of the methods listed above. Each individual who enters the Contest (the “Entrant”) agrees that their Entry is subject to the provisions of Section 20 below.

Submissions will become the property of Purolator. The Winners will be required to complete the Declaration and Release described in Sections 21-24 below. Limit of five (5) Entries per person during the Contest Period.

Each written Submission must be complete, unique, and be for a unique SMB. If any Entrant attempts to obtain more than the specified number of Entries, or duplicates Entries, or encourages others to duplicate Entries, the Sponsor may, in its sole and absolute discretion, disqualify the Entrant from the Contest and disqualify all of that Entrant’s entries. All Entries are subject to verification at any time.

The Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to require proof of identity and/or eligibility from any Nominator or Grant Nominee, which proof shall be in the form required by the Sponsor. Failure to provide proof of identity and/or eligibility to the satisfaction of the Sponsor within three (3) business days may result in disqualification.

How Prizes are Awarded for the Nomination, Finalist, and Grant Prizes There will be a total of twelve (12) random draws, one (1) for each Nomination Prize, allocated as follows: Eight (8) random draws (from among all eligible Entries, excluding Purolator Employees, received during the Contest Period; and Four (4) random draw from among all eligible Entries from Purolator Employees, received during the Contest Period.

The above noted draws will be made to select the potential Nomination Prize winners and will be held on or about 1:30:00 p. m. ET on November 19, 2025 at the office of Purolator Inc., 2727 Meadowpine Blvd.

, Mississauga, Ontario, L5N 8C7 (the “Nomination Prize Draw”), in accordance with the Rules. Purolator and the Contest Administrator reserve the right to reschedule the Nomination Prize Draw(s) at any time and for any reason without prior notice. Nomination Prize Winner Notification: The Nomination Prize Winners will be contacted by the Sponsor or the Contest Administrator by telephone or email by December 12, 2025.

In the event that the Sponsor or the Contest Administrator is unable to contact the selected Entrants by telephone or email after three (3) attempts within five (5) business days of the initial contact date, the Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify the selected Entrants and such Entrant will be deemed to have forfeited their entitlement to receive the Nomination Prize, at which time alternate Entrants will be awarded the Nomination Prizes.

Neither the Sponsor nor the Contest Administrator will be responsible for any failed attempts to contact selected Entrants. Through the Nomination Prize winner notification process, the potential Nomination Prize Winners must confirm their eligibility and indicate their willingness to accept the applicable Nomination Prize. The potential Nomination Prize Winner will then receive official notification via email.

No communications will be entered into other than with the potential Nomination Prize Winners. Due to the random nature of the Nomination Prize Draw, selected winners must complete a Declaration and Release pursuant to Section 21-24 herein, which includes correctly answering a multi-step mathematical skill-testing question without human, electronic, mechanical or other assistance.

Grant and Finalist Prizes A judging panel will award the Grant Prize to four (4) Grant Prize winners and the Finalist Prize to thirty-three (33) Finalist winners based on the winning Submissions and supplementary materials as determined in accordance with the Criteria and the process described below and in accordance with these Rules, including the verification requirements (the “Grant and Finalist Winner Selection”).

The Grant and Finalist Winner Selection will start from November 6, 2025 in Mississauga Ontario from all eligible Contest entries received during the Contest Period. The Sponsor shall officially and publicly announce the Grant and Finalist Prize Winners by email, any time starting after March 25, 2026.

The Competition will be judged in 3 phases: Phase 1: All nomination Submissions will be entered into a pre-screening process whereby all Submissions will be evaluated by a combination of AI software, a third party agency team and the Sponsor. The pre-screening process will evaluate Submissions based on Phase 1 Criteria. A minimum of thirty-three (33) entries will advance to Phase 2 of the adjudication process.

In the event of ties, the pre-screening panel will re-evaluate the tied Submissions to further narrow down the list to achieve the top Submissions. If an Entrant has concerns about the AI process and still wishes to participate, they may contact support@purolator. com .

Phase 1 Criteria: Submissions will be evaluated on the following criteria: Impact, Business Model & Values: 60% Entrants will be eliminated if the Submission is not complete, does not follow the requested theme, or does not have a positive brand tone, as determined by the Sponsor.

Phase 2: The Contest Administrator will contact the nominated SMBs of a minimum of thirty-three (33) of the top scoring Submissions from Phase 1 to confirm their interest, participation, and advancement in the Contest.

In the event that the Sponsor or the Contest Administrator is unable to contact the selected SMB after three (3) attempts within five (5) business days of the initial contact date, the Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify the selected SMB and will be deemed to have forfeited their candidacy for the Grant Prize.

Upon confirmation of participation, Phase 2 candidates (the “Candidate(s)”) will be required to submit supplementary material (“Supplementary Material”), as requested by the Contest Administrator and/or the Sponsor, in order to qualify for advancement in Phase 3 which may include More information about their small business including but not limited to the number of employees, current financial status information, and a declaration of eligibility Pre-recorded video presentation, interview, or live interview on topics related but not limited to, “What would you like the judges to know about your business?

”, “How would the grant funds be used to grow your business? ”, and “What challenges has your small business faced? ”.

In the event that the Candidate is unable to provide Supplementary Materials in the timeframe allotted, the Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify the selected Candidate and will be deemed to have forfeited their candidacy for a Grant or Finalist Prize.

Phase 2 Criteria: Submissions and Supplementary Materials for each Candidate will be evaluated by a Third party agency team and the Sponsor based on the following criteria: Impact, Business Model & Values: 60% Candidates will be eliminated if the Submission and Supplementary Materials are not complete, does not follow the requested theme, or does not have a positive brand tone, as determined by the Sponsor.

Phase 3: The Contest Administrator will consolidate evaluations and compile a list of up to twelve (12) top scoring Candidates (based on scores from Phase 2) which will be presented to the final judging panel comprised of individuals from the community and the Sponsor.

Submissions and supplementary materials for each Candidate will be evaluated based on the following criteria: Impact, Business Model & Values: 60% During the Phase 3 judging period from February 11 to 24, 2026, all scores for each Candidate will be added together and the five (5) Candidates with the highest scores will be declared a Grant Prize winner (“Grant Prize Winner”).

In the event of ties, the judges will each cast 1 vote, and the Submission with the most votes will be declared a Grant Prize Winner. The remaining top Candidates from Phase 2 will be ranked in order of scoring, be declared as a Finalist Prize Winner (“Finalist Prize Winner”), and used as alternate winners for the Grant Prize in declining order, if necessary.

Grant Prize Winner Notification: The Grant Prize Winners will be contacted by the Sponsor or the Contest Administrator by telephone or email by March 9, 2026.

In the event that the Sponsor or the Contest Administrator is unable to contact the selected Candidates by telephone or email after three (3) attempts within five (5) business days of the initial contact date, the Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify the selected Candidates and such Candidates will be deemed to have forfeited his/her entitlement to receive the Prize, at which time alternate Candidates will be awarded a Grant Prize.

Neither the Sponsor nor the Contest Administrator will be responsible for any failed attempts to contact selected Candidates.

If the chosen Grant Winners are not Purolator customers, then a Purolator representative shall have until March 31, 2026 to contact them to ask them whether or not they will become a Purolator account holder; if a Grant Prize Winner would like to be eligible to receive the second portion of the Grant Prize, the $500 in Purolator shipping credits, they shall have ten (10) days of being notified as the selected Winners, to apply to become a Purolator account holder, and shall provide Purolator their account number or the second part of the prize will not be awarded to the Grant Prize Winners.

If the first alternate Candidate is disqualified as the Grant Prize Winner, another alternate potential Grant Prize Winner will be selected from among the remaining eligible Candidates, through a process similar to the one that selected the original potential Grant Prize Winner, subject to these Rules.

Through the Grant Prize Winner notification process, the potential Winner must confirm his/her/their/its small business’s eligibility and indicate his/her/their/its willingness to accept the applicable Grant Prize on behalf of their small business. The potential Grant Prize Winner will then receive official notification via email. No communications will be entered into other than with the potential Grant Prize Winners.

Finalist Prize Winner Notification: The Finalist Prize Winners will be contacted by the Sponsor or the Contest Administrator by telephone or email by January 27, 2026.

In the event that the Sponsor or the Contest Administrator is unable to contact the selected Candidates by telephone or email after three (3) attempts within five (5) business days of the initial contact date, the Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify the selected Candidates and such Candidates will be deemed to have forfeited his/her entitlement to receive the Prize, at which time alternate Candidates may be awarded a Finalist Prize.

Neither the Sponsor nor the Contest Administrator will be responsible for any failed attempts to contact selected Candidates By participating in the Contest, each Entrant and Candidate agrees to be bound by these Rules and by the interpretation of these Rules by the Sponsor, and further warrants and represents that his/her/their/its Submission or Supplementary Material: is original to the Entrant and Candidate and that the Entrant and Candidate have all necessary rights in and to the Submission (and all components thereof – e.g. music, images, etc.) to participate in the Contest; does not violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation; does not contain any reference to or likeness of any identifiable third parties, unless consent has been obtained from all such individuals and their parent/legal guardian if they are under the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence; will not give rise to any claims of infringement, invasion of privacy or publicity, or infringe on any rights and/or interests of any third party, or give rise to any claims for payment whatsoever; and is not defamatory, trade libelous, pornographic or obscene, and further that it will not contain, depict, include, discuss or involve, without limitation, any of the following: Consumption or promotion of illegal drugs; Explicit or graphic sexual activity, or sexual innuendo; Crude, vulgar or offensive language and/or symbols; Derogatory characterizations of any ethnic, racial, sexual or religious groups; Content that endorses, condones and/or discusses any illegal, inappropriate or risky behaviour or conduct; Personal information of individuals; including, without limitation, telephone numbers and addresses (physical or electronic); Negative comparisons or solicitations for products or services of Nominees and Sponsors Any identifiable third party products, trade-marks, brands and/or logos, other than those of Sponsor; And only those of Nominee with permission or consent of Nominee.

For example, any clothing worn and/or products appearing in your video must not contain any visible logos, trade-marks or other third party materials (note: all identifiable third party products, trade-marks, brands and/or logos must be blurred out so as to be unrecognizable) unless there is consent of the owner of the intellectual property; Conduct or other activities in violation of these Terms; and/or Any other content that is or could be considered inappropriate, unsuitable or offensive, all as determined by the Sponsor in its sole discretion.

The Sponsor or Third party agency (the “Reviewer(s)”) may initially screen each Submission. Any Submission that the Reviewer deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the terms and conditions set forth in these Rules will not be posted or submitted for entry into the Winner Selection.

Before being confirmed as a Winner of one (1) of the five (5) Grant Prizes, one (1) of the thirty-three (33) Finalist Prizes, or one (1) of the twelve (12) Nomination Prizes, the potential Grant Prize, Finalist Prize, and Nomination Prize Winners must each complete and return, within five (5) business days of the initial contact date, a Declaration and Release Form (the “Declaration and Release”), which (among other things): confirms compliance with these Rules; acknowledges acceptance of the Prize as awarded; in relation to the Nomination Prizes, contains a time-limited, multi-step mathematical skill-testing question which must be correctly answered by the selected Nomination Prize winners; releases the Sponsor and their affiliates and each of its and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, successors and assigns (collectively, the “Releasees”) from any and all liability in connection with this Contest, the potential Winner’s participation therein and the awarding and use/misuse of the Prize or any portion thereof or participation in any Prize-related activity; confirms the potential Winner’s consent to the publication, reproduction and/or other use of his/her/their/its/its name, company name, company website, company address, voice, statements about the Contest and/or photograph and/or other likeness without further notice or compensation, in any publicity or advertisement carried out by or on behalf of the Sponsor in any manner whatsoever, including, without limitation, print, broadcast, mobile and the internet (“Promotion(s)”); authorizes the Sponsor to modify the Submission for the purposes of the Promotions; and Additional Rules and Restrictions If a potential Grant Prize, Finalist Prize, Nomination Prize, or Voter Prize Winner fails to return the properly executed Declaration and Release within the specified time period, the Sponsor may, in its sole and absolute discretion, disqualify them, thereby forfeiting any and all rights to a Prize.

In the event of such a disqualification, an alternate potential Grant Prize, Finalist Prize, or Nomination Prize Winner, will be selected from among the remaining eligible entries, through a process similar to the one that selected the original potential Grant Prize, Finalist Prize, or Nomination Prize Winner, subject to these Rules.

If a selected potential Grant Prize, Finalist Prize,, or Nomination Prize Winner; do not meet the eligibility requirements, do not complete and return the Declaration and Release, are unable or unwilling to accept the Prize as offered or elects to decline the Prize, they will be disqualified and an alternate potential Grant Prize, Finalist Prize,or Nomination Prize Winner; will be selected from among the remaining eligible entries, through a process similar to the one that selected the original potential Grant Prize, Finalist Prize, or Nomination Prize Winner; subject to these Rules.

Any disqualified Winner will not receive any alternate prize, substitution or compensation. Upon satisfaction of all requirements of these Rules, including, without limitation, receipt of the completed Declaration and Release, the final Grant Prize, Finalist Prize, Nomination Prize, and Voter Prize Winners will be contacted to make Prize delivery arrangements.

The $25,000 cash and $500 shipping credit prizes will be delivered to the Grant Prize Winners at the latest by April 30, 2026. Additional Terms and Restrictions By participating in this Contest, Entrants and Candidates agree to abide by and be bound by these Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and the Contest Administrator, which shall be final and binding on all Entrants and Candidates in all matters relating to this Contest.

In the event an Entrant or Candidate wins a Prize and is later found to be in violation of these Rules, he/she/they will be required to forfeit the Prize or to reimburse Sponsor for the stated value of the Prize if such violation is discovered after winner has used the Prize. False, fraudulent or deceptive entries or acts shall render Entrants and Candidates ineligible for the Prize.

Proof of sending (regardless of method) is not proof of receipt by the Sponsor or Contest Administrator. Incomplete, altered, mutilated or garbled entries will be disqualified.

The Releasees are not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, garbled, stolen, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible or damaged entries, or for entries submitted in a manner that is not expressly allowed under these Rules, or for any entry not submitted or received due to any technical error or failure, unauthorized human intervention, inaccurate capture or mis-entry of any required information, the effects of hackers, the failure of any electronic equipment, computer transmissions and/or network connections or any other reason beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control; all of which will be disqualified.

The Releasees are not responsible for mechanical, technical, electronic, communications, telephone, computer, hardware or software errors, malfunctions or failures of any kind, including, without limitation: failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed transmission of online entries, traffic congestion on telephone lines, the Internet or at any website or lost or unavailable network connections which may limit an online Entrant's or Candidate’s ability to participate in the Contest, and any injury or damage to Entrant’s, Candidates, or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in or downloading any information necessary to participate in the Contest.

Entrants and Candidates are restricted to use of ordinary and typical computer equipment and internet access use in respect of the Contest. The Releasees are not responsible for the cancellation or postponement of any component of this Contest or any associated programs and materials.

The Releasees are not responsible for any other errors of any kind, whether computer, technical, typographical, printing, display, human or otherwise, relating to or in connection with the Contest.

The Releasees are not responsible for typographical or other errors in the offer or administration of this Contest, including, without limitation, errors which may occur in connection with the printing, display or advertising of this Contest, these Rules, administration or execution of the Contest, the conducting of the prize selection, the cancellation of any element of a Prize, the processing of entries or in the selection or announcement of a Prize or Prize winner.

Each Entrant must submit a Nomination entry and participate in the Contest on his/her/their/its own behalf. Any entry submitted on behalf of another individual, on behalf of a group or organization, or using another person’s email address, name or other personal information will be disqualified and ineligible to claim a Nomination Prize.

Each Candidate must submit Supplementary Material and participate in the Contest on his/her/their/its small business’s behalf. Any entry submitted on behalf of another individual, on behalf of a group or organization, or using another person’s or organization’s email address, name or other personal information will be disqualified and ineligible to claim a Grant Prize.

Any attempt by any Entrant to obtain more than the specified number of entries by using (or attempting to use) multiple