Households within the study area who complete the full survey are eligible for entry in a prize draw. The study area includes all households within the Okanagan Travel Survey. One (1) householder (the primary contact) over the age of 18 will be asked if he or she wishes to enter the prize draw. Households participating in the survey have the option to decline entry in the prize draw.
Employees of R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. or their family members may participate in the survey but are not eligible to be included in the prize draw. Employees of the City of Kelowna, City of Vernon, Regional District of Central Okanagan, City of West Kelowna, District of Lake Country, District of Peachland and Westbank First Nation and the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure may participate in the survey and are eligible to enter into the prize draw, with the exception of the Okanagan Travel Survey project team staff, who, if they participate in the survey, will be excluded from the prize draw.
Odds of winning are approximately 1 in 48 (depending on the final number of completed household surveys, and the number of households that elect to enter the prize draw.)
Winners will be selected entirely at random, within two months of completion of all survey data collection and after R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. has confirmed the valid surveys are complete (anticipated mid-January 2019). Only one prize will be awarded per household. Winners will be contacted at the telephone number the entrant provided or confirmed during the survey process as the appropriate phone number to contact them at for the purpose of the contest, to inform them that they have won a prize, and the type of prize won, and to arrange for the prize to be sent to them. Successful completion of the Okanagan Travel Survey, which is a detailed multi-step survey, is considered to be the skill-testing element required for eligibility to win a prize.
It is the sole responsibility of the contest entrant to provide a phone number at the time of the survey that he/she can be reached at in the future for the purpose of the prize draw. If the contact information provided/confirmed by the winner as the appropriate phone number to contact them at about the prize draw is no longer valid, or if the winner's contact is valid but he/she is unable to be contacted and does not return phone messages within two weeks of the first contact attempt, the winner will be considered to have withdrawn from the contest, and a new winner may be randomly selected from the remaining pool of eligible entrants. If the prize winner declines to accept the award, a new winner may be randomly selected from the remaining pool of eligible entrants.
Prize winners who decline their prize may elect to have the value of their prize donated to a local charity instead. Donations will be made to either the United Way North Okanagan or the United Way Central Okanagan, depending on the location of the prize winner’s residence. R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. will set a final deadline for all contest prize winners to register to claim their prizes. After the final prize claim deadline expires, R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. will donate the value of unclaimed and declined prizes to the charities noted above, and provide confirmation of the donations to the client agencies leading the 2018 Okanagan Travel Survey.
The prize draw will be administered entirely by R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. including collection of contact information of entrants, random selection of winners, and distribution of prizes. R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. may be contacted at 858 Pandora Avenue, Victoria BC V8W1P4 or at 1-800-665-5848 for information about the status of the contest. Contact information collected for the purposes of the prize draw will only be accessible by the staff at R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. for the purposes of administering the prize draw selection and will not be used for any other purpose. Please review R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd’s privacy policy at http://www.malatest.com/Privacy.htm for details on our information management practices. For more information on the survey, please visit: http://www.okanagantravelsurvey.htm Participant Inquiries and General Inquiries: Phone 1.855.319.2887 Toll-Free