CONTEST RULES
«  LA VENTE DU MILLION  »
From February 17 to April 27, 2025 

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. The "La Vente du Million" contest (the "Contest") is offered by Groupe BMTC inc., doing business under the name “Tanguay” ("Tanguay"). Your participation in the Contest constitutes your full and unconditional acceptance of these Contest Rules, including the decisions, which are final, of Tanguay on all matters relating to the Contest. The following contest is open exclusively to natural persons having the legal age (namely 18 years or older for the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and 19 years or older for the province of New Brunswick) residing in the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick (collectively, the "customer(s)" or "entrant(s)" or "you"). Enter only if you are a resident of the provinces of Quebec, Ontario or New Brunswick.

1. How to enter

   The contest begins on Monday, February 17, 2025 at 00:01 a.m. Eastern Time and ends on Sunday, April 27, 2025, at;

   • 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time in the twenty-five (25) Tanguay and Tanguay l’Entrepôt stores and at the Maurice Tanguay Signature store (collectively the "Stores"); and
   • 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time at tanguay.ca, tanguaylentrepot.ca and at tanguay.ca/fr/maurice-tanguay-signature/ (collectively the "Websites");
     
     (the “Contest Period”).

   
   There are two (2) ways to enter the contest:

   1. Purchases in stores and on websites:
      1. All customers who make a minimum purchase of one hundred dollars ($100.00) or more before taxes during the Contest Period, in one of the Stores or on one of the Websites will be issued a draw coupon number that will be printed directly on their invoice for each full one hundred dollar ($100.00) increment. For example, for a purchase of one hundred and eighty dollars ($180.00) before taxes, only one draw coupon number will be printed.
      2. In the event that the customer purchases Tanguay, Tanguay l’Entrepôt or Maurice Tanguay Signature gift cards in one of the Stores or through one of the Websites, in accordance with subparagraph 1.1.1. above, draw coupon numbers will be issued at the time of gift card purchase. Draw coupon numbers will not, however, be issued upon use of the same gift cards purchased during the Contest Period for merchandise, even if such use occurs during the Contest Period. In the event that a customer is in possession of gift cards purchased prior to the commencement of the Contest Period and wishes to pay for purchases made during the Contest Period, with said gift cards, draw coupon numbers will be issued in accordance with the conditions set forth in subparagraph 1.1.1.
      3. Draw coupon numbers issued upon the purchase of gift cards purchased during the Contest Period, will be automatically cancelled by Tanguay if said gift cards are used by the customer to pay any balance due on a merchandise purchase made during the Contest Period.
      4. Draw coupon numbers will not be issued to any person who is not a natural person purchasing gift cards.
      5. Nothing in these rules shall prohibit the issuance of a draw coupon number to a customer in accordance with these rules, when the customer uses a gift card(s) to pay the purchase price for personal use, if the gift card(s) was previously issued in the name of a legal entity during the Contest Period, and transferred to a customer (as the legal entity did not receive a draw coupon).
      6. All draw coupon numbers issued in accordance with the foregoing are recorded in the computer system at Tanguay's head office.
      7. In addition, a draw coupon will only be issued to the customer when the purchase contract is recognized as valid by Tanguay and when it is confirmed that the conditions for down payment and/or credit approval have been met in accordance with Tanguay's internal requirements. A minimum deposit of 14.975% of the purchase price before taxes and applicable eco-fees will be required to validate the customer's purchase contract. All contracts concluded following public or private bids will be excluded from the contest. Service department repair invoices are excluded from the Contest.
      8. If a purchase is cancelled or modified, the draw coupon numbers issued for that purchase will be cancelled in Tanguay's computer system from the last number entered for the original sales contract. Example: A customer purchases merchandise for one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) before taxes. Such customer complies with the invoice validity condition and is issued ten (10) draw coupons numbered 100 001 to 100 010. The same customer returns the following week and makes a change that modifies such customer’s purchase from one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) to eight hundred dollars ($800.00). Tanguay's computer system will then invalidate the draw coupon numbers 100 010 and 100 009. In the event that one of these draw coupon numbers was drawn at random, it will be rejected during verification and another coupon number will be drawn at random.
   2. Other participant (no purchase necessary):
      1. Finally, the Contest is also open to any natural person who wishes to enter (hereinafter referred to as the "Other Entrant"), subject to the conditions set out below. To do so, the Other Entrant must, during the Contest Period, complete the online form available at the following hyperlink: click here. The Other Entrant must complete the online form with a written request of a minimum of one hundred (100) words, stating the individual’s full name, residential address, date of birth and the reasons why such individual wishes to enter the Contest. Upon receipt of the completed online form from the Other Entrant, Tanguay will send an acknowledgement of receipt to the Other Entrant’s email address. If Tanguay determines, in its sole discretion, that the online form request satisfies each of the foregoing requirements, Tanguay will send the Other Entrant a written confirmation by email with a single draw coupon number. No draw coupon shall be issued to an Other Entrant whose written request for participation does not meet the foregoing requirements.
2. Prize
   1. The ten (10) finalists drawn pursuant to Section 3 will each receive a Tanguay gift card worth five thousand Canadian dollars ($5,000.00 CAD) (the “Weekly Prize”), and one of these finalists will win one million Canadian dollars ($1,000,000.00 CAD) in the final draw (the "Million Grand Prize").
3. Draw (designation of finalists and winners)
   1. Weekly Prizes will be drawn from all draw coupon numbers received up to the previous Sunday. Draw coupon numbers will be accumulated from week to week until the last finalist is drawn. The ten (10) Weekly Prize draws will take place on the following dates and times:

      Monday, February 24, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	1st finalist
      Monday, March 3, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	2nd finalist
      Monday, March 10, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	3rd finalist
      Monday, March 17, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	4th finalist
      Monday, March 24, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	5th finalist
      Monday, March 31, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	6th finalist
      Monday, April 7, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	7th finalist
      Monday, April 14, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	8th finalist
      Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	9th finalist
      Monday, April 28, 2025, 9 a.m. EST:	10th finalist

   2. The Million Grand Prize draw will take place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, live on TVA's Salut Bonjour Week-end program.
   3. Each Weekly Prize winner will be assigned a number in the order of their winning a Weekly Prize during the Contest Period. Eg: February 24, 2025 draw = 1, March 3, 2025 draw = 2, etc. Each Weekly Prize winner is then assigned a single number until the very end of the draw. The Million Grand Prize draw will be conducted as follows:
      • Ten (10) balls numbered 1 to 10 are inserted into the lottery ball machine.
      • The balls rotate in the lottery ball machine for 1 minute.
      • The first ball will fall. The number of the ball corresponding to the number of the Weekly Prize winner will determine the 1st of 3 finalists for the Million Grand Prize (a “Finalist”). This is followed by 2 more balls to determine the second and the third of the 3 Finalists.
      • The verifiers keep the 3 balls of the 3 Finalists.
      • The verifiers empty the lottery ball machine of the remaining balls and place them in the case.
      • The verifiers insert the 3 balls of the 3 Finalists.
      • The lottery ball machine spins for 1 minute.
      • The first ball to fall and corresponding with the number of one of the Finalists determines the overall winner of the Million Grand Prize.
   4. In the event of a major news story forcing the broadcaster to mobilize its staff to cover this event, the big draw will then be conducted off-air under the supervision of LEMIEUX NOLET S.E.N.C.R.L. This decision remains at the broadcaster’s production team’s discretion.
   5. Prior to obtaining each Weekly Prize or the Million Grand Prize, and as an essential condition for being officially declared winner and obtaining the prize, each potentially winning person must correctly answer, within a prescribed time limit, a mathematical skill-testing question. Following a correct answer to the mathematical skill-testing question, the participant will be officially declared a winner. A winner will only be eligible to win a prize if such winner has met all of the evaluation criteria listed above.
   6. The eleven (11) draws will be conducted under the supervision of the firm: LEMIEUX NOLET S.E.N.C.R.L.
   7. Winners will be contacted pursuant to Section 4.5.
4. General regulations
   1. The total value of the prizes is one million fifty thousand Canadian dollars (CAD$1,050,000.00).
   2. The Million Grand Prize winner will have thirty (30) days following the Million Grand Prize draw date to claim their prize, i.e. until June 3, 2025. If the winner of the Million Grand Prize does not claim the prize within such thirty (30) day period, the winner shall be deemed to have forfeited the Million Grand Prize.
   3. By entering this contest and accepting a prize, winners consent to the use by Tanguay and its representatives, if required, of their name, photograph, likeness, image, statements and/or voice, without compensation and without restriction, except where prohibited by law, to inform all media that they are the winners or finalists of the Contest.
   4. Prizes must be accepted as described in these rules and cannot be substituted for another prize at the request of the winners. The prize will be awarded to the holder of the winning draw coupon number corresponding to the name and address indicated on the invoice associated with that same draw coupon number or the no-purchase request for participation associated with such draw coupon.
   5. Tanguay will make a reasonable effort to contact the winners of the Weekly Prizes. This will involve attempts to reach the winner by telephone within the first forty-eight (48) hours following the winner’s selection. Winners must respond to Tanguay within forty-eight (48) hours of the first telephone call. If a winner cannot be contacted or does not respond within such forty-eight (48) hour period, they will be deemed to have forfeited the prize.
   6. If a winner refuses or fails to meet the requirements contained herein or is found to have violated these rules in any way, or is deemed ineligible to receive a prize for any reason, the winner will be disqualified and will be deemed to have forfeited the prize. Any participant who does not meet the eligibility conditions contained herein must inform Tanguay as soon as that participant is contacted.
   7. The Contest is not open to employees, agents, mandataries and/or representatives of Tanguay, distribution companies, or companies affiliated with Tanguay, advertising agencies, or any party involved in the Contest or, respectively, any person with whom such employee, agent, mandatary and/or representative resides or any member of his or her immediate family. For the purposes of these rules, "immediate family" means any person residing at the same address as such employee, agent, mandatary and/or representative or who has a family relationship with such employee, agent, mandatary and/or representative, whether living in the same household or not.
   8. If a winner is disqualified or deemed to have forfeited a prize, Tanguay will, to the extent possible, hold a new draw within forty-eight (48) hours of the winner’s disqualification or forfeiture of such prize.
   9. Tanguay will not be held responsible for incomplete or incomprehensible contact information on the part of participants. Tanguay reserves the right to reject any draw coupon or no-purchase request for participation that is illegible, mutilated, or contains a human or mechanical error. Facsimiles will not be accepted. Prizes are not transferable at any time. Tanguay reserves the right to modify or cancel the contest without notice. Tanguay is not responsible for lost, stolen, misappropriated, misplaced, defaced, destroyed or forgotten draw coupons.
   10. Contest rules are available in all Stores, on the Websites and at Tanguay's head office located at 7200, rue Armand-Viau, Québec (Québec) G2C 2A7.
   11. Tanguay's decisions regarding the Contest are final and without appeal. This contest is subject to all applicable municipal, provincial, and federal laws and regulations.
   12. Odds of winning the Contest depend on the total number of draw coupons issued by Tanguay for the Contest.
   13. The following actions are prohibited and will automatically disqualify entrants: (i) use of any method to artificially increase the odds of winning; (ii) non-compliance with these rules; and (iii) any other action that, in Tanguay's sole discretion, compromises the integrity or proper conduct of the Contest.
   14. Released Parties (as such term is defined below) are not responsible for any manner of action, cause of action, claim or demand, loss or injury, use or misuse of a prize, use of entries by Tanguay, suit, debt, covenant, contract, including legal fees and expenses, whatsoever in connection with an entrant's participation in the Contest, in connection with the acceptance by the entrant of a prize as awarded, and/or from receiving or downloading any material from Tanguay’s servers or from any other Internet web site, regardless of whether the material was prepared by Tanguay, or a third party. The Released Parties are not responsible for: (i) electronic transmissions or entries that are lost, late, stolen, incomplete, illegible, damaged, garbled, destroyed, or misdirected; (ii) any problems or technical malfunctions, errors, omissions, interruptions, deletions, defects, delays in operation of transmission, communication failures, destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries, no matter the cause; (iii) failed or unavailable hardware, network, software or telephone transmissions; (iv) damage to entrants’ or any person’s computer and/or its contents; (v) any entries submitted in a manner that is not expressly allowed under these rules; (vi) incorrect or inaccurate entry information whether caused by entrants or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest, or (vii) any other causes beyond Tanguay’s reasonable control that jeopardize the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Contest. All incomplete or non-conforming entries will be disqualified.
   15. BY PARTICIPATING IN THE CONTEST, YOU AGREE TO RELEASE, INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD TANGUAY, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, AGENTS, PARENT COMPANIES, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, ADVERTISING AGENCIES, PROMOTION AGENCIES, FULFILLMENT AGENCIES, LEGAL ADVISORS AND/OR ANY OTHER PROMOTION PARTY (COLLECTIVELY THE "RELEASED PARTIES"), HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL LOSSES, DAMAGES, COSTS, EXPENSES, LIABILITIES, CLAIMS AND ACTIONS OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, PROPERTY DAMAGE, PERSONAL INJURIES AND/OR DEATH, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, COUNSEL FEES AND COURT COSTS) ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTEST, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE EXECUTION OR ADMINISTRATION OF THE CONTEST, YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEST, THE ACCEPTANCE, POSSESSION, USE, NONUSE, OR MISUSE OF ANY PRIZE, OR PARTICIPATING IN OR TRAVELING TO ANY CONTEST-RELATED ACTIVITY EVEN IF CAUSED BY THE NEGLIGENCE OF THE RELEASED PARTIES. THIS RELEASE AND WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE AS BROAD AS THE LAW ALLOWS AND SHALL SURVIVE THE TERMINATION OR EARLIER EXPIRATION OF THE CONTEST.
   16. ANY ATTEMPT BY ANY PERSON TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEB SITE OR OTHERWISE CORRUPT THE CONTEST OR TO UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, TANGUAY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO DISQUALIFY, PROSECUTE AND SEEK DAMAGES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
   17. The Contest is void where prohibited by law and is subject to all applicable Canadian federal, provincial, territorial, municipal and local laws. This Contest shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the province of Quebec including all issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these rules, rights and obligations between entrants and Tanguay, and procedural provisions, without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules. Any dispute shall be adjudicated by the courts of the judicial district of Quebec City, province of Quebec.
   18. BY ENTERING THE CONTEST, YOU AGREE THAT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW: (A) ANY AND ALL DISPUTES, CLAIMS AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THE CONTEST, OR ANY PRIZE AWARDED, WILL BE RESOLVED INDIVIDUALLY, WITHOUT RESORT TO ANY FORM OF CLASS ACTION; AND (B) YOUR REMEDIES ARE LIMITED TO A CLAIM FOR MONEY DAMAGES (IF ANY) AND YOU IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO SEEK INJUNCTIVE OR EQUITABLE RELIEF.
   19. All intellectual property associated with the Contest and/or Tanguay, including but not limited to trademarks, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source codes, images, drawings, illustrations, slogans and representations are owned by Tanguay. All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying or use of any of the Tanguay’s intellectual property without the express written consent of Tanguay is strictly prohibited.
5. Privacy Policy

   Tanguay will collect personal information about Contest participants and would-be participants for the purpose of running the Contest and for internal market research purposes. Any participant may request to cancel their entry in the Contest at any time by sending an e-mail to serviceweb@tanguay.ca. No personal data will be transmitted, sold or made available to any third party, except:

   • if you give us permission;
   • when in good faith we believe the law requires it;
   • to our affiliated companies, provided that such companies and their respective agents, advisors, and employees use such information only for the purposes described in the rules;
   • to our respective service providers and agents, for data processing purposes, or to our respective advisors and promotional and marketing agencies, provided that such service providers, agents, advisors, and promotional and marketing agencies use such information only for the purposes described in these rules; and
   • in compliance with our Privacy Policy.

   Tanguay may combine statistical information with third-party data without disclosing personally identifiable information. Tanguay may share aggregate information with business partners, branded establishments, participating sponsors, and advertisers; however, this information will not be of a personal nature.