Intuit #TaxesDone Contest OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.

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1 Intuit #TaxesDone Contest OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. 1. ELIGIBILITY: The Intuit #TaxesDone Contest (the Promotion ) is open only to legal residents of Canada (excluding residents of Quebec) with legal Canadian citizenship and physically residing in Canada who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry. Employees of Intuit Inc., its promotional partners and agencies, and any of their parent companies and affiliate companies as well as the immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings and children) and household members of each such employee are not eligible to participate or win a prize. The promotion is subject to all applicable provincial, municipal, territorial and local laws and regulations. It is void where prohibited by law. 2. SPONSOR: Intuit Canada ULC, 5100 Spectrum Way, Mississauga, Ontario, L2W 5S2 Canada. Administrator: Marden-Kane, Inc., 1055 Franklin Ave., Suite 300, Garden City, NY11530USA. 3. AGREEMENT TO OFFICIAL RULES: Participation in this Promotion constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to these Official Rules and Sponsor s and Administrator s decisions. These decisions are final and binding in all matters related to this Promotion. Receipt of a prize is contingent upon fulfilling all applicable requirements set forth herein. 4. TIMING: The Promotion begins on March 13, 2014 at 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time ( ET ) and ends on April 30, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET (the Promotion Period ) which is further divided into seven (7) Entry Periods (each an Entry Period ) as defined in the Entry, Judging and Prize Chart (the Chart ) below. Sponsor s computer is the official time-keeping device for the Promotion. ENTRY AND PRIZE CHART (the Chart ) ENTRY PERIOD START 12:00:00 AM END 11:59:59 PM WINNER NOTIFICATION NUMBER OF PRIZE WINNERS/PRIZE 1 Thursday 3/13 3/19 3/21 2 Thursday

2 3/20 3/26 3/28 3 Thursday 3/27 4/2 4/4 4 Thursday 4/3 4/9 4/11 5 Thursday 4/10 4/16 4/18 6 Thursday 4/17 4/23 4/25 7 Thursday 4/24 4/30 5/2 Grand Prize Winner (Determined from Finalist Prize Winners) Monday 5/5 1 Grand Prize Winner $5, cash All dates are All times are Eastern Time Zone. 5. HOW TO ENTER: We want to see your personal reaction/expression or that of your family/friends when you find out what you are getting back or owe on your taxes. Take a photo (which must contain a least one human face) that demonstrates your reaction to your taxes and submit it to our Instagram or Twitter account (the Entry ). There are two (2) ways to submit you photo entry: [1] INSTAGRAM: 1. Instagram users must 2. Photo must include the following hashtag #TaxesDoneCA 3. Before entering the Contest via Instagram, the Photos Are Private option in the account settings on your Instagram account must be set to OFF. [2] TWITTER: 1. Twitter user must 2. Photo must include the following hashtag #TaxesDoneCA To enter the Contest you need to be a registered user of either Instagram ( Instagram ) or ( Twitter ) or log into your Instagram or Twitter account. If you do not have an account, go to the Instagram application and download it to you smart phone mobile device

3 or to create one. Instagram and Twitter accounts are free. By submitting your information and creating an account, you agree to the Instagram or Twitter terms of use and privacy notice. If you do not agree to these terms of use and privacy notice, you cannot create an Instagram or Twitter account, or participate in this Contest. By uploading your Photo, you agree that your Photo conforms to the Guidelines and Content Restrictions as defined below and that Sponsor, in its sole discretion, may remove your Photo and disqualify you from the Promotion if it believes that your Photo fails to conform to the Guidelines and Restrictions. Content Restrictions: The Photo must not contain material that violates or infringes another s rights, including but not limited to privacy, publicity, copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights; Participant must have permission from all individuals displayed in the Photo to use their image and/or likeness in the Photo and to grant the rights set forth herein and if requested, participant must be able to provide such permissions in a form acceptable to Sponsor; The Photo must not disparage or embarrass Sponsor, Administrator or any other person or party affiliated with the promotion and administration of this Promotion; The Photo must not feature brand names or trademarks of others; Photo may contain Intuit s mark in Photo solely for the purpose of this Contest; The Photo must be created solely by participant; The Photo must not contain material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene hateful, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous; The Photo must not contain anything that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; and The Photo must not contain material that is unlawful, in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations in any jurisdiction where Photo is created. If your Photo meets all of the above Guidelines and Content Restrictions, you will receive one (1) Contest entry into the applicable Entry Period. Limit: You may upload a maximum of two (2) Photos per Participant during each Entry Period. Photos received in excess of the stated limit will be void. Photos generated by script, macro or other automated means are void. If requested, participant must be able to provide permissions from others featured in the Photo in a form acceptable to Sponsor. Uploading a Photo constitutes participant s consent to give Sponsor a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, create derivative works from, and display such whole or in part, on a

4 worldwide basis, and to incorporate them into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes. If requested, participant will sign any documentation required for Sponsor or its designees to make use of the non-exclusive rights participant is granting to use the Photo and optional photo. Released Parties (as defined in Section 10, below) are not responsible for lost, late, stolen, damaged, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, garbled, delayed or misdirected Photos, all of which will be void. In the event of a dispute over the identity of any potential winner, the entry will be declared made by the authorized account holder of the account used for entry, and potential winner may be required to provide identification sufficient to show that he/she is the authorized account holder. Each potential winner may be required to show proof of being an authorized account holder. 6. CONTEST JUDGING: A panel of qualified judges selected by Sponsor will use the objective criteria listed below. The judging panel will select the highest-scoring Photos from among all eligible Photos received by the dates listed in the Chart in Section 4 above: Finalist Judging: Once an Entry Period has closed all eligible Entries received by the close of that Entry Period will be scored based on the following judging criteria*: Focus (20%); Lighting (20%) Subject (20%) Composition (20%); and Impact and Creativity (20%) In the event that not enough qualified entries are received Sponsor reserves the right to select less than 14 Finalists. Grand Prize Judging: All eligible Finalists Photo will be scored based on the above judging criteria to determine one (1) Grand Prize winner*. *In the event of a tie, the Winner(s) will be determined based on whichever Entry received the highest score in the impact/creativity category from the judging criteria. In the event of a tie in impact/creativity judging criteria, the Entries will be re-judged by a different panel of judges. 7. WINNER NOTIFICATION:

5 If you are selected as a winner from your Instagram Entry: The Sponsor will contact potential Prize Winner via direct message to the potential Prize Winner s Instagram Account with a photo that will have winner messaging. The potential Prize Winner will be required to respond to the direction in the photo message within 24 hours with full contact information. If you are selected as a winner from your Twitter Entry: The Sponsor will contact potential Prize Winner via private message to the potential Prize Winner s Twitter Account. The potential Prize Winner will be required to respond to the direction in the message within 24 hours with full contact information. Winners will be notified on or around the dates listed in the Chart in Section 4 above and will be required to sign and return a Declaration of Compliance, Liability and (and where not prohibited) a Publicity Release, which must be received by Administrator by fax or within two (2) days of the date the document is sent or attempted to be sent, in order to claim the prize. If a potential winner cannot be contacted, fails to execute and return the Declaration of Compliance, Liability and Publicity Release or provide their mailing address within the required time period, does not comply with these Official Rules, the potential winner forfeits the prize. If a potential winner is disqualified for any reason, the prize may be awarded to a runner-up, if any, in Sponsor s sole discretion. Only three (3) alternate winners may be determined, after which the applicable prize will not be awarded. Without limiting the generality of these Official Rules, each winner shall irrevocably grant, transfer, convey and assign to Sponsor the entirety of the rights in and to the Photo and all renewals and extensions of copyright, and the right to secure copyright registrations thereto in perpetuity including, without limitation, the rights to use the Photo for any and all purposes in any and all media whether now known or hereafter developed, on a worldwide basis, in perpetuity. Each winner accepts and acknowledges that Sponsor shall not be obligated to use the Photo and that Sponsor in its sole discretion shall have the right to refrain from using the Photo. Sponsor shall not incur any liability whatsoever to the extent Sponsor chooses to refrain from any exploitation of its rights hereunder. Each winner will indemnify Sponsor, Released Parties (as defined in Section 10, below) and any licensee of Sponsor against all claims, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and legal expenses) arising out of any breach of these terms. 8. PRIZES: ONE (1) GRAND PRIZE (awarded to the top scoring Finalist): $5, CAD. Prize awarded in the form of a check or a wire transfer to the winner s bank account. Retail Value ( RV ) is $5, CAD. FOURTEEN (14) FINALIST PRIZES: a copy of Prize awarded as a product code to download single instance of TurboTax Online Premier on Turbotax.ca website. Approximate Retail Value ( ARV ) is $70.00 CAD each. Total ARV of all prizes is: $5, CAD.

6 Limit: One (1) prize per eligible Participant. Prizes will be fulfilled within 8-10 weeks. The prizes are non-transferable and no substitution will be permitted unless Sponsor, in its sole discretion, determines otherwise. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute a prize for one of comparable or greater value, at its sole discretion. All taxes and any expenses not expressly provided for in these Official Rules are solely the responsibility of the recipient. 9. PUBLICITY: Acceptance of any prize shall constitute and signify each winner s agreement and consent that Sponsor and its designees may use the winner s name, likeness, photo, Photo, and/or prize information in connection with the Promotion for promotional, advertising or other purposes, worldwide, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, including the Internet, without limitation and without further payment, notification, permission or other consideration, except where prohibited by law. Sponsor and its designees, shall have the right to edit, exploit, adapt, distribute, post, and create derivative works of, in whole or in part, and in combination with other materials, in any manner, for any advertising, promotional, trade, commercial or other purposes in any and all media, now or hereafter devised, worldwide, in perpetuity, and without further payment or consideration, notification or permission. 10. RELEASE: By participating in the Promotion and/or accepting a prize, the Participant agrees to release and hold harmless Sponsor, Administrator and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, distributors, advertising/promotion agencies, and prize suppliers/partners, 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 Promotion or receipt or useor misuse of a prize. 11. GENERAL CONDITIONS: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Promotion, or any part of this Promotion, if any fraud, technical failures, human error or any other factor impairs the integrity or proper functioning of the Promotion, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. If terminated Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, determine the winners from among all non-suspect, eligible Photos received up to time of such action using the judging procedure outlined above. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the Photo process or the operation of the Promotion or to be acting in violation of the Official Rules of this or any other promotion or in an unsportsmanlike or disruptive manner and void all associated Photos. Any attempt by any person to deliberately undermine the legitimate operation of the Promotion may be a violation of criminal and civil law, and, should such an attempt

7 be made, Sponsor reserves the right to seek any and all remedies available 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. 12. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY: Released Parties are not responsible for: (1) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by participant, printing, typographical or other errors or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Promotion; (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 Photo process or the Promotion; (4) printing, typographical, technical, computer, network or human error which may occur in the administration of the Promotion, the uploading, the processing or judging of Photos or votes or the tabulating of votes, the announcement of the prizes or in any Promotion-related materials; (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 participant s participation in the Promotion or receipt or use or misuse of any prize (including any travel/activity related thereto). Released Parties are not responsible for misdirected or undeliverable Photos or for any technical problems, malfunctions of computer systems, servers, providers, hardware/software, lost or unavailable network connections or failed, incomplete, garbled or delayed computer transmission or any combination thereof. Released Parties are not responsible for any unauthorized third party use of any Photo. 13. DISPUTES: If any provision of these Official Rules is invalid under the law, rules or regulations of any jurisdiction in Canada, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provision. Except where prohibited, you agree that: (1) any and all disputes, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Promotion or prize awarded shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, and exclusively by the United States District Court for the Long Island District of New York or the appropriate New York State Court located in Nassau County, New York; (2) any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering this Promotion, but in no event attorneys fees; and (3) under no circumstances will you be permitted to obtain awards for, and you hereby waive 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 participant and Sponsor in connection with the Promotion, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to any choice of law or

8 conflict of law rules (whether of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction), which would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York. 14. PARTICIPANT S PERSONAL INFORMATION: Participant is providing information to Sponsor and not to Instagram or Twitter. Information collected from persons participating in this promotion is subject to Sponsor s Terms of Usehttps://privacy.intuit.com/cpi/do/home and Privacy Policyhttp://about.intuit.com/privacy/ as well as Administrator s Privacy Policyhttp:// Each participant expressly agrees to the use of his/her personal information for such purpose. The Released Parties will not sell, share or otherwise disclose information collected in any manner with third parties, other than those parties necessary to fulfill the above purposes, unless participant has given his prior express consent to receive additional information from the Released Parties or a third party. Participants, please note that participants data will be transferred outside of each eligible country to the United States. By participating in the Promotion, participants expressly agree to such transfer. 15. WHO WON: To request the name of the winner, send an with the subject line: TaxesDoneCA to winners@mkpromosource.com. Requests must be received no later than May 30, The list will be sent when the winners verified Marden-Kane, Inc. All rights reserved. Participants are hereby authorized to copy these Official Rules on the condition that it will be for the participant s personal use only. This Contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram or Twitter, and their names and logos are registered trademarks of each.