Contest Rules

ROBIN’S SIP SCRATCH WIN – MARITIMES EDITION ™ PROMOTION – OFFICIAL RULES

PROMOTION DESCRIPTION. The SIP TO WIN™ promotion at Robin’s Donuts ® provides participants with the chance to win prizes instantly at participating Robin’s Donuts locations. The promotion begins February 7, 2024, and is scheduled to end March 16, 2024, or when distribution supplies last. No purchase necessary. Each person who participates in the promotion fully and unconditionally agrees to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of Merrick Franchising Ltd. (“Sponsor”), whose decisions shall be final and binding in all respects.

1. ELIGIBILITY. The promotion is open only to legal residents of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. There is no age limit to participate in the promotion or to redeem Robin’s Donuts food items that are prizes in the promotion. Non-food prizes won by a person who is not of the legal age of majority (“Minor”), however, will be awarded only in the name of his or her parent or legal guardian on behalf of the Minor. Persons in any of the following categories are NOT eligible to participate or win prizes in the promotion: (a) any person who is a director, officer, employee, agent or franchise owner of Sponsor, prize suppliers, or any of their respective divisions, parent, subsidiary, or affiliated companies, franchisees, or service agencies, or independent contractors of any of the above organizations; (b) individuals engaged in the development, production or distribution of materials for the promotion; and (c) persons who are immediate family members of any person in any of the preceding categories, regardless of where they live, or who reside in the same household, whether related or not, as any person in any of the preceding categories. The transfer of promotion materials by any person in any of the preceding categories to an eligible person is prohibited.
   
2. HOW TO OBTAIN SIP TO WIN PROMOTIONAL CARD. Promotional Scratch Cards can be obtained as follows, while distribution supplies last:
   a. In Restaurant. At participating Robin’s Donuts locations, receive a scratch card with a purchase of any Medium, Large and Extra-Large Hot Drink.
   b. Mail In. Scratch Card may be obtained without a Robin’s purchase by mailing, postage prepaid, a self-addressed stamped envelope (“SASE”) with your name, complete address, including postal code, legibly hand-printed to: Robin’s Donuts SIP SCRATCH WIN Promotion, P.O..Box 29. Winsloe, PEI. C1E 1Z2. Participants may submit as many requests as desired, but only one request (SASE) per outer envelope mailed separately will be fulfilled. Requests sent in business reply envelopes will NOT be honored. Photocopies or mechanically reproduced requests will not be honored. One (1) game cup rim will be mailed in response to each mail-in request received in accordance with the foregoing instructions, while supplies last. Mail-in requests must be received no later than March 8, 2024
   
3. HOW TO PLAY. To play the promotion, obtain a Scratch Card as described in Rule 2. To reveal if the card is a potential winner, scratch the indicated circle. If the card reveals the description a prize identified in these Official Rules, then the participant is the potential winner of the prize indicated, subject to verification of the scratch card and the participant’s compliance with these Official Rules.
   
4. HOW TO REDEEM.
   a. Instant Win Prizes. Instant win Robin’s Donuts FREE Coffee prizes may be redeemed at any participating Robin’s Donuts location in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Such instant win food prizes are subject to verification upon presentation and are not valid in combination with any other offer or discount. Instant win prizes must be presented for redemption before the food order is placed. Participating Robin’s restaurants reserve the right to substitute a menu item of equal or greater value for the prizes specified.
   
   b. Cash Prizes. Potential winners must contact 1(902)367-4142. A winner release form will be mailed. Please return signed winner release form along with the winning tab to Robin’s Donuts SIP TO WIN “MARITIMES EDITION”, P.O. Box 29. Winsloe, PEI. C1E 1Z2 for verification. Participants should not show or give any potential winning cup to any Robin’s Donuts employee.
   
   c. All Prizes. A participant is not a winner of any prize until the winning scratch card and the participant’s compliance with these Official Rules have been verified (a) by Sponsor for non-food prizes; and (b) at a participating Robin’s Donuts location for Robin’s Donuts food prizes. If any potential winner declines a prize or is found to be ineligible, or if he/she fails to comply with these Official Rules, such potential winner will be disqualified and will forfeit the prize he or she otherwise might have received.
   
5. REDEMPTION DEADLINES.
   a. Instant Win Prizes. All Free Coffee prizes must be redeemed at a participating Robin’s Donuts location on or before March 31,2024.
   
   b. $1,000 Cash. All winning cups must be received for verification and redemption on or before March 31, 2024.
   
   c. All Prizes. All claims received after the redemption deadlines are VOID and will be ineligible for prizes.
   
6. PRIZE DETAILS.
   All stated values of prizes are the approximate retail value (“ARV”). Stated odds of winning are as of the commencement of the promotion. Approximately 70,025 winning scratch tickets will be distributed. Overall odds of winning a prize are approx. 1 in 10. 700,000 scratch tickets in total for this contest have been produced. Free Hot Beverage, 70,000, Cash Prize for $1000, 25 tickets.
   
   a. Food Prizes:
   FREE COFFEE (ARV $2.07 – $2.47). 70,000 prizes are available to be won. Overall Odds of winning are approximately 1 in 10.
   
   b. Non-Food Prizes:
   $1,000 Cash. 25 Prizes available to be won. Overall odds of winning are approx. 1 in 28000

7. PRIZE RESTRICTIONS.
   a. Restrictions Applicable to All Prizes. Cash, won by a Minor will be awarded only in the name of such Minor’s parent or legal guardian on behalf of the Minor. Prizes pictured in point-of-sale, online, television and print advertising, promotional packaging, and any other materials, are for illustrative purposes only. Actual prize(s) may vary from the prize(s) pictured. All details and other restrictions of prizes will be provided to the applicable prize winner upon award of the prize. Prizes will be awarded only if a participant fully complies with these Official Rules. Prizes must be accepted as awarded. No refunds, cash alternative or substitution of any prize will be provided, except Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if any prize cannot be awarded as described due to unavailability for any reason. All taxes (including, without limitation, federal and provincial taxes) on or connected with any prize are the sole and exclusive responsibility of respective winners, unless expressly stated otherwise.
   
   b. Instant Win Coffee prizes have no cash value and may be redeemed at any participating Robin’s Donuts location in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
   
8. MISCELLANEOUS.
   a. General Rules Governing Participants and Winners. Winners will be required, as a condition of winning and redeeming a prize, to correctly answer, unaided, an arithmetical skill-testing question, and to sign a declaration of eligibility and liability release, and a publicity release. Failure to do so will result in disqualification and forfeiture of the stated prize. If a prize winner or guest makes any false statements in any document referenced above, the winner will be required to promptly return to Sponsor upon demand his or her prize(s) or, at Sponsor’s option, the cash equivalent of the prize(s) based on the ARV published in Rule 6. The submission of winning cups for verification and redemption is solely the responsibility of each participant. Participants assume all risk of loss, damage, destruction, delay and misdirection of promotion cups. Sponsor is not responsible for incomplete, illegible, misdirected, late, lost, damaged, stolen, or postage-due submissions of winning cups, which may be judged void; for any technical malfunctions, failures, or difficulties, printing errors, clerical, typographical or other error in the offering or announcement of any prize or in any prize notification documents; or for any errors of any kind, whether human, mechanical, clerical, electronic, or technical in nature; or for the incorrect or inaccurate capture of information, or the failure to capture any information. Proof of mailing winning cups does not constitute proof of delivery. Winning cups submitted become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned. Once verified, an eligible winner will receive the prize indicated on his or her winning cup. By participating in the promotion and redeeming a prize, each winner hereby releases and agrees to hold Sponsor, its successors, assigns, franchisees, parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, local corporate advertising cooperatives, advertising and promotion agencies, and all of their respective directors, officers, employees, representatives, agents (collectively the “Promotion Entities”) and all prize suppliers from and against any and all costs, injuries, losses or damages of any kind, including, without limitation, death and injury, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, to participation in the promotion or any promotion-related activity, or the receipt, use or misuse of any prize. Participants waive the right to assert as a cost of winning any prize, any and all costs of verification and redemption or travel to redeem said prize and any liability and publicity which might arise from redeeming or seeking to redeem said prize. By submitting potential winning cups, each verified winner hereby agrees and grants to the Promotion Entities the right, but not the obligation, to the use of his or her name, voice, and likeness, and any statements made by or attributed to such winner in any and all media, without notice, review or approval, in perpetuity, for advertising and promotional purposes in connection with the promotion and other promotions without further compensation, and releases the Promotion Entities from any liability with respect thereto.
   
   b. Background Check. If Sponsor so elects, non-food prize winners may be required to submit to a confidential background check to confirm eligibility and help ensure that the use of any such person in advertising or publicity for the promotion will not bring Sponsor into public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule or reflect unfavourably on the promotion, the Promotion Entities or any supplier of prizes for the promotion.
   
   c. Disqualification/Force Majeure. It is the participant’s responsibility to ensure that he or she has complied with the conditions contained in these Official Rules. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual who is found to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the promotion; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; or to be acting in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner, or with the intent to disrupt or undermine the legitimate operation of the promotion; or with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person. Sponsor reserves the right, without prior notice and at any time, to terminate the promotion, in whole or in part, or modify, suspend or extend the promotion in any way, if it determines, in its sole discretion, that the promotion is impaired or corrupted or that fraud or technical problems or malfunctions have destroyed or severely undermined the proper play, integrity and/or feasibility of the promotion or any component thereof. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if, by reason of printing or other error or for any other reason, more winning cups are printed, distributed or received than the number of any type of prize set forth in these Official Rules, the winners, or remaining winners, as the case may be, of the advertised number of prizes available in the prize category in question may be selected in a random drawing from among all persons making purportedly valid claims for such prize(s). Only the type and quantity of prizes described in these Official Rules will be awarded. Any prizes that are not claimed in accordance with these Official Rules will not be awarded. In the event that Sponsor is prevented from continuing with the promotion as contemplated herein by any event beyond its control, then Sponsor shall have the right to modify, suspend, extend or terminate the promotion.
   
   d. Disclaimer of Warranties. The Promotion Entities make no warranties, and hereby disclaim any and all warranties, express or implied, concerning any non-food prizes furnished by third parties in connection with the promotion. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such prizes are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, and Sponsor hereby disclaims all such warranties, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
   
   e. Invalidity/Headings/Modification. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these Official Rules shall otherwise remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein. Headings used in these Official Rules are solely for ease of reference, and shall not be deemed to affect in any manner the meaning or intent of these Official Rules or any provision hereof. These Official Rules cannot be modified or amended in any way except in a written document issued in accordance with law by a duly authorized representative of Sponsor. In particular, Robin’s Donuts restaurant employees or managers are not authorized to modify or amend these Official Rules.
   
   f. Governing Law. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules or the rights and obligations of the participant or Sponsor in connection with the promotion shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Prince Edward Island. This promotion is subject to all applicable laws.