Working with numbers is often a thankless task. Accountants, bookkeepers, and other accounting professionals analyze, file, advise, and compile…it's exhausting! Show accountants and bookkeepers some love this Accountant & Bookkeeper Appreciation Week by sending along an eCard telling them what kind of 
STAR you think they are.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
1. Eligibility: Intuit Accountant & Bookkeeper Appreciation Week Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") is open only to legal residents of Canada who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Employees of Intuit Canada ULC, ePrize, LLC, and their parent and affiliate companies as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible. Subject to all applicable federal, state, provincial, municipal, territorial and local laws and regulations. Void in Quebec and where prohibited. Participation constitutes entrant's full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor's and Administrator's decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Winning a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein.
2. Sponsor: Intuit Canada ULC, 7008 Roper Road, Edmonton (AB) T6B 3H2, Canada. Administrator: ePrize, LLC, One ePrize Drive, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069, U.S.A.
3. Timing: The Sweepstakes begins on November 27, 2009 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("ET") and ends on December 6, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the "Promotion Period"). Sponsor's computer is the official time-keeping device for the Sweepstakes.
4. How to Enter: During the Promotion Period, visit www.appreciationweek.ca and follow the links and instructions to select an eCard you would like to send to your accountant and/or bookkeeper (the "Recipient"). After you (the "Sender") have elected to send your eCard to a Recipient, this Recipient will gain one (1) entry into the Grand Prize Sweepstakes. Each Recipient must agree to the Sweepstakes rules and regulations, as noted on the eCard he/she receives, before gaining any associated Sweepstakes entries. In the event that the Recipient you have sent an eCard to is selected as the potential Grand Prize winner and completes all required paperwork within the specified period of time as outlined below in Section 5, you will be named the potential First Prize winner. You may only send an eCard to persons with whom you have an existing relationship. You may not send an eCard to yourself, and you may only send an eCard to the same person one (1) time during the Promotion Period. Limit: Each Sender may only enter one Recipient entry per specific email address per day during the Promotion Period. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. Any attempt by any entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple/different email addresses, identities, registrations and logins, or any other methods will void that entrant's entries and that entrant may be disqualified. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification. In the event of a dispute as to any registration, the authorized account holder of the email address used to register will be deemed to be the registrant or player. The "authorized account holder" is the natural person assigned an email address by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted address. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.
5. Drawings: Administrator is an independent judging organization whose decisions as to the administration and operation of the Sweepstakes and the selection of the potential winners are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes. Administrator will randomly select the potential Grand Prize Sweepstakes winner and corresponding First Prize winner from all eligible entries received during the Promotion Period, on or around December 16, 2009. Each potential winner will be notified by email. Each potential winner (parent/legal guardian if winner is a minor in his/her place of residence) will be required to sign and return to Sponsor, within ten (10) days of the date notice or attempted notice is sent, a Declaration of Compliance in order to claim his/her prize. Each potential winner will be required to correctly answer a time-limited skill testing question without any assistance in order to be eligible to receive a prize. If the question is answered incorrectly, the prize will be forfeited. Upon verification of the Grand Prize winner, Administrator will notify the corresponding First Prize winner for verification. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, or fails to sign and return the Declaration of Compliance within the required time period, potential winner forfeits prize. Potential winners must continue to comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules, and winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements. In the event that a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, Sponsor will award the applicable prize to an alternate winner by random drawing from among all remaining eligible entries. Only three (3) alternate drawings will be held, after which the prize will remain un-awarded. Prizes will be fulfilled approximately 8-10 weeks after the conclusion of the Sweepstakes.
6. Prizes: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE AWARDED TO A RECIPIENT: $10,000 CAD awarded in the form of a cheque made out to the winner. Approximate Retail Value ("ARV"): $10,000. ONE (1) FIRST PRIZE AWARDED TO A SENDER: $1,000 CAD awarded in the form of a cheque made out to the winner. ARV: $1,000 CAD. For all Prizes: Prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be made except as provided herein at the Sponsor's sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for one of equal or greater value if the designated prize should become unavailable for any reason. Winner is responsible for all taxes and fees associated with prize receipt and/or use. Odds of winning a prize depend on the number of eligible entries received during the Promotion Period. Limit: One (1) Prize per person. Total ARV of all prizes: $11,000 CAD.
7. Release: By receipt of any prize, winner agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Administrator, and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize suppliers, and each of their respective parent companies and each such company's officers, directors, employees and agents (collectively, the "Released Parties") from and against any claim or cause of action, including, but not limited to, personal injury, death, or damage to or loss of property, arising out of participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize.
8. Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Sweepstakes constitutes winner's consent to Sponsor's and its agents' use of winner's name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions and/or hometown and province for promotional purposes in any media, worldwide, without further payment or consideration.
9. General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Sweepstakes, or any part of it, if any fraud, technical failures or any other factor beyond Sponsor's reasonable control impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Sweepstakes, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Sweepstakes or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any other promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Sweepstakes may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law. Sponsor's failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.
10. Limitations of Liability: The Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by entrants, printing errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes; (2) technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines or network hardware or software; (3) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Sweepstakes; (4) technical or human error which may occur in the administration of the Sweepstakes or the processing of entries; (5) late, lost, undeliverable, damaged or stolen mail; or (6) any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from entrant's participation in the Sweepstakes or receipt or use or misuse of any prize. If for any reason an entrant's entry is confirmed to have been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, entrant's sole remedy is another entry in the Sweepstakes, provided that, if it is not possible to award another entry due to discontinuance of the Sweepstakes, or any part of it, for any reason, Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may elect to hold a random drawing from among all eligible entries received up to the date of discontinuance for any or all of the prizes offered herein. No more than the stated number of prizes will be awarded. In the event that production, technical, seeding, programming or any other reasons cause more than the stated number of prizes as set forth in these Official Rules to be available and/or claimed, Sponsor reserves the right to award only the stated number of prizes by a random drawing among all legitimate, un-awarded, eligible prize claims.
11. Disputes: Except where prohibited, entrant agrees that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Sweepstakes or any prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (Southern Division) or the appropriate Michigan State Court located in Oakland County, Michigan, U.S.A.; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Sweepstakes, but in no event attorneys' fees; and (3) under no circumstances will entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim, indirect, punitive, incidental and consequential damages and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the entrant and Sponsor in connection with the Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules (whether of the State of Michigan or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of Michigan.
12. Entrant's Personal Information: Information collected from entrants is subject to ePrize, LLC's Privacy Policy http://www.eprize.com/privacy-policy and Sponsor's Privacy Policy http://www.intuit.ca/en/intuit/privacy_index.jsp.
13. Winner List: Winner List requests will only be accepted after the promotion end date (listed above) and no later than April 16, 2010. For the Winner List, send an email with subject line: "Intuit Accountant & Bookkeeper Appreciation Week Sweepstakes, Winner List Request," to WinListRequests@eprizefulfillment.com.
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