2025 TORONTO BLUE JAYS™ DISTRICT DROPS SMS PROGRAM SURVEY CONTEST (the “Contest”)
OFFICIAL RULES
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
1. SPONSOR: The sponsor of this Contest is Rogers Blue Jays Baseball Partnership, located at One Blue Jays Way, Suite 3200, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1J1 (“Sponsor”), owner of the Toronto Blue Jays™ Major League Baseball team (the “Team”).
Tim Hortons Advertising and Promotion Fund (Canada) Inc. (“Tim Hortons”) is a prize supplier for the Contest only, and is not a sponsor of the Contest. Any questions, comments or complaints regarding the Contest (including the prizes) must be directed to the Sponsor.
2. ELIGIBILITY:
(a) The Contest is open only to residents of Canada, excluding the Province of Quebec, who are of age of legal majority in the province/territory in which they reside at the time of entry.
(b) The following individuals and their household members (whether or not related) are not eligible to enter the Contest: employees, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives, successors and assigns of each of (i) Sponsor, (ii) the other MLB Entities (defined below), (iii) each of their respective parents, affiliated companies, and subsidiaries, and (iv) any and all other companies associated with the Contest. The “MLB Entities” shall mean the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball (the “BOC”), its Bureaus, Committees, Subcommittees and Councils, MLB Advanced Media, L.P. (“MLBAM”), Major League Baseball Properties, Inc., The MLB Network, LLC, the Major League Baseball Clubs (the “Clubs”), each of their parent, subsidiary, affiliated and related entities, any entity which, now or in the future, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Clubs or the BOC, and the owners, general and limited partners, shareholders, directors, officers, employees and agents of the foregoing entities.
(c) Sponsor shall have the right at any time to require proof of identity and/or eligibility to enter the Contest. Failure to provide such proof may result in disqualification. All personal and other information requested by and supplied for the purpose of the Contest must be truthful, complete, accurate and in no way misleading. Sponsor reserves the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant should such an entrant at any stage supply untruthful, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading personal details and/or information.
3. HOW TO ENTER:
(a) The Contest period begins at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on Monday, December 15, 2025, and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 (the “Contest Period”).
(b) Limit of one (1) Entry per person/email address, per Contest Period regardless of the method of entry. By way of illustration, if two (2) or more otherwise eligible persons share a single email address, only one (1) of them may enter the Contest during the Contest Period. If one (1) person has two (2) or more email accounts, that person may enter the Contest only once during the Contest Period and only the first Entry received from such person during such Contest Period will be considered.
(c) There are two (2) ways to enter: (i) by completing a Club survey, or (ii) via email. No other method of entry will be accepted.
(A) Via Club Survey: During the Contest Period, click the Sponsor Contest survey link contained in the Sponsor Contest survey text message circulated to you during the Contest Period to access the online Contest survey (the “Survey”). Complete the Survey as instructed, including all required information, and submit the completed Survey. By successfully transmitting a completed Survey as directed, you will receive one (1) entry into the Contest,
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(B) Via Email: If you do not wish to enter the Contest via submission of a Survey, you may send an email to tbjcontest@bluejays.com during the Contest Period that (I) has as its subject line “Toronto Blue Jays District Drops Survey Contest”, (II) includes a maximum fifty (50) word description stating why you would like to enter the Contest, and (III) includes your full name, address, city, province, postal code, age and day and evening telephone numbers (the “Email Entry”). By successfully submitting an Email Entry as directed, you will receive one (1) entry into the Contest.
Each Survey or Email Entry that is fully completed, complies with the foregoing requirements and is submitted in accordance with the instructions set forth above is referred to as an “Entry”. Incomplete entries will be deemed void.
(d) MLBAM’s computer shall be the official clock of the Contest with respect to Entries submitted online. Free access to the Internet is available at most public libraries. Entrants are solely responsible for Internet connectivity, software and/or hardware that may be required in order to create and/or submit any Entry.
(e) By entering this Contest, each entrant consents to the collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information for the purposes and in the manner described herein. All information submitted by entrants via the Survey or on bluejays.com is being collected by MLBAM and is subject to, and will be treated in a manner consistent with, MLBAM’s Terms of Use accessible at: mlb.com/tou and Privacy Policy accessible at: mlb.com/privacy. Information submitted by entrants via the Survey or on bluejays.com will be provided to Sponsor and treated in accordance with Sponsor’s Privacy Policy available at www.bluejays.com/privacy, subject to the entrants’ stated preferences from time to time. Online entrants may be given the option to receive commercial electronic messages (e.g., emails) and/or other communications from MLBAM and/or Sponsor; however, eligibility to participate in the Contest is not dependent upon an entrant’s consent to receive such messages and communications and consenting to receive such messages and communications will not impact an entrant’s chances of winning. All information submitted by entrants via email is being collected by Sponsor, and will be treated in accordance with Sponsor’s Privacy Policy, available at www.bluejays.com/privacy, subject to the entrants’ stated preferences from time to time.
(f) All information submitted by entrants offline is being collected by Sponsor. All such information will be treated by Sponsor in accordance with Sponsor’s Privacy Policy available at www.bluejays.com/privacy. Sponsor’s treatment of information is subject to each entrant’s stated preferences from time to time.
4. CONTENT RESTRICTIONS: By entering the Contest and submitting an Entry via submission of a Survey or an Email Entry, each entrant represents and warrants that their Entry (including, without limitation, the Survey responses) does not include any of the following content (the “Content Restrictions”): (a) pornography, adult-oriented content or any other sexually-explicit material; (b) materials relating to lotteries or gambling; (c) explicit language or content, images of violence, or promotion of illegal activities; (d) content in violation of intellectual property rights or laws, including without limitation content displaying trademarks or logos owned or licensed by third parties (without having obtained the requisite consent); (e) libelous, defamatory, disparaging, tortious or slanderous materials; (f) content that denigrates, disparages or reflects negatively on any of the Released Parties (defined below), or the game of baseball; (g) tobacco, e-cigarettes, alcohol or drugs; (h) dangerous stunts; (i) real weapons of any kind including, but not limited to, guns, knives or projectiles; (j) material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, age or any other basis protected by law; (k) content showing identifiable individuals who have not consented to the use of their images (if individuals are under the legal age of majority, entrants represent that they have obtained a signed release from the parent(s) or legal guardian(s)); (l) personal information of individuals, including without limitation names and addresses, without the consent of those individuals; (m) audio and/or visual content owned by any third party (e.g., recorded music; pre-produced video, etc.); (n) material that is unlawful, or otherwise in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations in any province where the Entry is created; and (o) any other content that is or could reasonably be considered to be inappropriate, unsuitable, or offensive, including, without limitation individuals who appear to be (I) intoxicated or otherwise inebriated, or (II) wearing apparel that displays offensive imagery or displays the trademarks and/or logo of a sports team other than the Team. Any Entry that does not comply with the foregoing, as determined in the sole discretion of the Sponsor will be disqualified and eliminated from consideration.
5. PUBLICATION, LICENCE, RELEASE, AND INDEMNIFICATION: In the event that an entrant enters the Contest via submission of a Survey or an Email Entry, by entering the Contest and submitting an Entry, each entrant: (a) represents and warrants that their Entry (including the contents contained in any Survey) is an original work of authorship and that they own all right, title and interest in and to the Entry as of the date of submission or has all necessary rights, authorizations, and/or assignments (including assignment of copyright, if applicable) to submit it and the express permission of all individuals and the rights necessary to use all content and materials embodied in the Entry and to submit the Entry for possible use as provided herein; (b) represents and warrants that their Entry does not violate the MLBAM Terms of Use accessible at mlb.com/tou or infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, rights of privacy, publicity or other intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity; (c) grants to the Sponsor, MLB, and other MLB Entities and each of their respective designees the perpetual, unlimited, and irrevocable right and licence to use, license, edit, modify, duplicate and/or create derivative works from their Entry (including the contents contained in any Survey) throughout the world and in perpetuity, including, but not limited to, the right for the Sponsor, MLB, and other MLB Entities and each of their respective designees, as applicable, to publish, display, broadcast, distribute, reproduce, perform, create derivative works from, summarize, aggregate and otherwise use and exploit the Entry via the Internet or any other interactive media, in stadium, on television, in print and/or any other media currently existing and hereafter developed and without limitation and without payment of any compensation or notice of any kind to the entrant or their heirs and successors, (i) on its own or as part of any audiovisual or other production; (ii) to advertise any products, programming or services of the MLB Entities or for any other advertising, marketing, publicizing or promotional purposes and in any materials related thereto; and/or (iii) for any other purpose whatsoever; (d) releases in perpetuity the Released Parties (defined below) from any claims, demands, losses and liabilities of any nature arising out of or in any way connected with the Entry, and the use thereof as permitted hereunder, including, but not limited to, claims of false endorsement or infringement of intellectual property rights, rights of personality, publicity or privacy; and (e) agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each of the Released Parties (defined below) from and against any claim or action brought by a person whose consent was not obtained by the entrant or by any person claiming its intellectual property rights, including, without limitation, copyright, moral rights (including rights of integrity, attribution and anonymity), trademark rights, or its personality or privacy rights, are infringed by reason of the use by the Sponsor, MLBAM, other MLB Entities or any of their respective designees of the Entry or any part thereof as contemplated by these Official Rules. By entering the Contest, each entrant confirms that they waive all moral rights in respect of their Entry. Nothing herein will obligate the Sponsor, MLBAM or the MLB Entities to make any use of any of the rights set forth herein.
6. PRIZE DESCRIPTION: Ten (10) prizes will be awarded during the Contest Period. Winners will each receive one (1) prize consisting of one (1) fifty-dollar (CAD $50) Tim Hortons gift card, such gift card to be subject to the terms and conditions associated with its use. The total retail value of each prize is CAD $50. Any difference in value will not be awarded. Limit of one (1) prize per person.
7. PRIZE CONDITIONS:
(a) Any and all Contest prizes must be accepted as awarded and may not be transferred, resold, commercially traded, assigned, or redeemed for cash except at Sponsor’s sole and absolute discretion. Sponsor reserves the right to substitute any stated prize (or portion thereof) with an alternate prize of comparable or greater value at their sole and absolute discretion, for whatever the reason. Prizes may not be exactly as advertised, and except as expressly warranted herein, any prize is provided “as is” without further warranty of any kind.
(b) All prize details will be determined in the sole discretion of Sponsor. Some restrictions may apply. Any unused portion of the prize will be forfeited. Each winner must be of age of legal majority in their jurisdiction of residence, unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Each winner is fully responsible for any and all applicable federal, provincial, and municipal taxes (including income and withholding taxes).
(c) Any and all additional costs and expenses associated with prize acceptance and use not specified herein as being provided, including, but not limited to, travel and health insurance, transportation costs (including transportation, lodging, meals, gratuities and other expenses incurred by the winners (and any guests) in claiming, accepting and/or using the prize are the sole responsibility of each individual winner.
8. RANDOM DRAW: At approximately 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday, January 16, 2026 (the “Draw Date”), a Sponsor representative will select by random draw ten (10) potential winners from among all eligible Entries received during the Contest Period.
Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible Entries received during the Contest Period.
9. NOTIFICATION: Each potential winner selected in accordance with the previous section will be notified as follows:
(a) If the Entry submitted by the potential winner was submitted via a Survey or www.bluejays.com, the potential winner will be contacted by a Sponsor representative by telephone at the telephone number indicated in their Entry to determine if they are eligible in the sole discretion of the Sponsor representative.
(b) If the Entry submitted by the potential winner was submitted via an Email Entry, the potential winner will be contacted by a Sponsor representative by telephone at the telephone number indicated in their Entry to determine if they are eligible, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor representative.
In the event that any potential winner does not respond to such notification within two (2) business days, incorrectly answers the skill testing question (described in more detail below), as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion or declines a prize for any reason, they will be disqualified, the prize will be forfeited and, at Sponsor’s discretion and time permitting, an alternate potential winner may be randomly selected from among all remaining eligible Entries received during the Contest Period.
10. DECLARING A WINNER:
(a) To be declared a winner and claim the prize awarded, the potential winner must (i) be eligible according to these Official Rules, (ii) correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a time limited mathematical skill testing question which will be administered by telephone at a mutually agreeable time, and (iii) sign a duly completed Liability and, except where prohibited by law, Publicity Release form, and any other documentation as may reasonably be required by Sponsor, and return same to Sponsor by the date specified on the applicable documentation.
(b) If all required documents are not properly executed and returned within the specified period of time, or the potential winner otherwise fails to comply with these Official Rules, a disqualification will result and the prize will be forfeited and, at Sponsor’s sole discretion and time permitting, an alternate potential winner may be randomly selected from among all remaining eligible Entries received during the Contest Period.
11. WAIVER OF LIABILITY/PUBLICITY RELEASE:
(a) By participating in the Contest and submitting an Entry, each entrant (i) agrees to be bound by these Official Rules, including all Entry requirements, (ii) agrees that the decisions of Sponsor are final and without appeal, (iii) remises, releases and forever discharges Sponsor and the other MLB Entities, each of their respective parents, affiliated companies and subsidiaries, any and all other companies associated with the Contest (including Tim Hortons and other contest prize suppliers and suppliers of materials or services related to the Contest), and all of their respective employees, directors, officers, shareholders, agents, representatives, successors and assigns (collectively, the “Released Parties”) from any and all actions, causes of actions, suits, debts, dues, accounts, claims, damages, liability, losses, harm, costs or expenses, including, without limitation, any and all liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to the entrant or any other person, including personal injury, death, or property damage, arising out of, or in any way related to, directly or indirectly, the Contest, including without limitation the entrant’s participation in the Contest, any breach of these Official Rules, the awarding, receipt, possession, use and/or misuse of any Contest prize (or any portion thereof), and any travel or activity that is related to the receipt or use of any Contest prize, and/or the violation or infringement of any intellectual property rights or of any publicity, personality or privacy rights, and agrees to fully indemnify the Released Parties from any and all claims by third parties relating to the foregoing.
(b) By accepting a prize, each winner authorizes Sponsor, MLBAM, the other MLB Entities and each of their respective designees to use in any related publicity, such winner’s name, city and province/territory of residence, photograph, image, likeness, voice, and any statements they may make regarding such prize for advertising and promotional purposes worldwide in perpetuity and in any form of media now or hereafter devised worldwide (including the Internet), without limitation and without additional compensation or consideration, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law; and waives any rights that may exist in respect of materials produced pursuant to the foregoing.
12. GENERAL CONTEST TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
(a) The Released Parties are not responsible for (i) stolen, late, incomplete, illegible, inaccurate, misdirected, lost, misrouted, scrambled, damaged, delayed, undelivered, mutilated, postage-due or garbled entries, transmissions, email or mail; (ii) lost, interrupted or unavailable network, cable, satellite, server, Internet Service Provider, website, or other connections including those through and/or by any website; (iii) availability or accessibility or miscommunications or failed computer, satellite, telephone, cable transmissions, lines, or technical failure or jumbled, scrambled, delayed, or misdirected transmissions or computer hardware or software malfunctions, failures or difficulties; (iv) failures or malfunctions of phones, phone lines or telephone systems; (v) any error, omission, interruption, defect or delay in transmission, processing, or communication; (vi) non-delivery of any communication or Entry; (vii) misdirected, blocked, or delayed email notifications; (viii) printing, typographical or other errors appearing within these Official Rules, in any Contest-related advertisements or other materials; (ix) any other errors, problems or difficulties of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, network, computer, telephone, mail, typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Contest, including, without limitation, errors or difficulties which may occur in connection with the administration of the Contest, the processing of Entries, the announcement of any prize in any Contest-related materials, or the cancellation or postponement of any Major League Baseball game, event or exhibition; (x) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by website users, tampering, hacking, or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest; or (xi) any injury or damage to the computer of any entrant or other person related to or resulting from participating in this Contest or downloading materials from or use of any website.
(b) Persons who tamper with or abuse any aspect of the Contest or website or attempt to undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest by cheating, deception or other unfair playing practices, or intend to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other entrant or Sponsor’s representatives or who are in violation of these Official Rules, as solely determined by Sponsor, will be disqualified and all associated Entries will be void. Any attempt to deliberately damage the content or operation of this Contest is unlawful and subject to legal action by Sponsor, MLBAM and/or their respective agents. Sponsor shall have the sole right to disqualify any entrant for violation of these Official Rules or any applicable laws relating to the Contest, and to resolve all disputes in their sole discretion. The Released Parties (i) make no warranty, guaranty or representation of any kind concerning any prize, and (ii) disclaim any implied warranty. The failure of Sponsor or MLBAM to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. All disputes will be resolved in the Province of Ontario under applicable Ontario and Federal laws.
(c) Sponsor and MLBAM reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel, suspend or otherwise modify the Contest (or any portion thereof) and/or to amend these Official Rules at any time and in any way, without prior notice, for any reason, including, but not limited to incidents where a virus, bug, unauthorized human intervention, or other causes corrupt the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper operation of the Contest (or any portion thereof). In the event of cancellation, Sponsor may elect to identify winners and award the prizes by way of random drawing from among all non-suspect, eligible Entries received in connection with the Contest Period up to the time of such cancellation.
(d) CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS CONTEST OR UNDERMINE THE CONTENT OR LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, SPONSOR WILL DISQUALIFY ANY ENTRANT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTEMPT, AND SPONSOR, MLBAM AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AGENTS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES (INCLUDING LEGAL FEES) AND OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
(e) All online Entries must include a valid email address or the entrant. In the event of a dispute as to the identity or eligibility of any potential winner based on an online Entry, the winning Entry will be declared made by the Authorized Account Holder (defined below) of the email address submitted at the time of entry, provided such Authorized Account Holder is eligible according to these Official Rules. A potential winner may be required to provide proof, upon request of Sponsor, that they are the applicable Authorized Account Holder, the sufficiency of such proof to be determined in the absolute discretion of Sponsor. The “Authorized Account Holder” is defined as the natural person to whom the applicable Internet Service Provider or other organization (such as a business or educational institution) has assigned the email address for the domain associated with the submitted email address.
(f) The Contest is subject to all applicable federal, provincial and municipal laws, rules and regulations.
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