If a contest will be open to Quebec residents, there are separate requirements including filing requirements, translation of rules and advertising, the payment of a duty and in some cases providing security.
The main elements of a Canadian contest are generally short and long contest rules setting out the rules for the contest, a winner release form (which is particularly important in higher risk promotions, such as trip contests), review of draft creative materials before a contest is launched to ensure that they are not false or misleading and, if the sponsor wants to use entrant information for e-mail or other electronic marketing, complying with the consent and other requirements of CASL (Canadian Anti-Spam Law).
Canadian Contest/Sweepstakes
Legal Services
Our Canadian contest/sweepstakes law services include advice in relation to the application of the Competition Act and Criminal Code to promotional contests, CASL (anti-spam law) advice where electronic marketing will be used (e.g., entrant e-mails collected for later marketing), drafting short and long contest rules and statutory disclosures, reviewing draft contest marketing and advertising materials for advertising law compliance, drafting winner releases, compliance with the misleading advertising provisions of the Competition Act, compliance with social media platforms’ terms of use and drafting co-sponsor and influencer agreements (e.g., where there are multiple sponsors or prize sponsors or influencers or other third parties are involved in the marketing or administration of the promotion).
For more information see: Contests, Contests & CASL, Contest Law FAQs, Contest Precedents/Forms, Canadian Contest Law Tips and Contests & Social Media Rules.
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CONTEST RULES/PRECEDENTS
Do you need contest rules/precedents
for a Canadian contest?
We offer many types of Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents and forms (i.e., Canadian contest/sweepstakes law precedents to run common types of contests in Canada). These include legal precedents for random draw contests (i.e., where winners are chosen by random draw), skill contests (e.g., essay, photo or other types of contests where entrants submit content that is judged to enter the contest or for additional entries), trip contests and more.
Also available are individual Canadian contest/sweepstakes precedents, including short rules (“mini-rules”), long rules, winner releases and a Canadian contest law checklist.
The following are the Canadian contest/sweepstakes precedents, forms and checklists that we offer:
- Canadian Random Draw Contest Package
- Canadian Skill Contest Package
- Short Rules (Random Draw Contest)
- Short Rules (Skill Contest)
- Long Rules (Random Draw Contest)
- Long Rules (Skill Contest)
- Winner Release Form
- Canadian Contest Law Checklist
- Facebook “Like” Random Draw Contest Package
- Trip Contest: Random Draw Contest Package
- Trip Contest: Skill Contest Package
- Winner Releases For Trip Contests (Winner & Guest Release)
- Guidelines For Consumer Generated Content Contests
- Canadian Random Draw Contest Package (Including Quebec)
- Contest Indemnification/Influencer Agreement
- Facebook and Instagram Language for Canadian Contest Rules
For more information and to order, see: Contest Precedents and Contest Precedents II.
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SERVICES AND CONTACT
We are a Toronto based competition and advertising law firm offering business and individual clients efficient and strategic advice in relation to competition/antitrust, advertising, Internet and new media law and contest law. We also offer competition and regulatory law compliance, education and policy services to companies, trade and professional associations and government agencies.
Our experience includes advising clients in Toronto, across Canada and the United States on the application of Canadian competition and regulatory laws and we have worked on hundreds of domestic and cross-border competition, advertising and marketing, promotional contest (sweepstakes), conspiracy (cartel), abuse of dominance, compliance, refusal to deal and pricing and distribution matters. For more information about our competition and advertising law services see: competition law services.
To contact us about a potential legal matter, see: contact
For more information about our firm, visit our website: Competitionlawyer.ca
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
