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Get to know your library with a graduate student library tour and be eligible for a $75 swag bag.

Sign up for a graduate student library tour. Then respond in the Libraries' Instagram contest post with THREE (3) things that you remember from the tour. Follow the UVic Libraries and UVic Graduate Students' Society (GSS) Instagram accounts to qualify.

Must be a UVic graduate student in good standing (a winner will need to show their V number which GSS staff will use to verify if they are a UVic grad student).

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Only currently registered UVic graduate students are eligible. One entry per UVic graduate student.

UVic Libraries Graduate Student Library Tour Instagram Contest Rules:

  1. Contest is sponsored by the University of Victoria as represented by its (UVic Libraries and Graduate Students’ Society) (“UVic”).
  2. Contest is open to all individuals who are residents of Canada, excluding Quebec, who meet all of the following requirements: are currently registered UVic Graduate students.
  3. Contest opens on September 20 at 7:30 am and ends on September 30 at 5 pm.
  4. Entrants must submit a ballot to be entered into the contest.
  5. There is a limit of one entry per eligible entrant.
  6. The random draw for the prize will take place at October 1 on noon.
  7. The selected entrant will be contacted by direct message using the contact information provided on the Instagram post. If the selected Entrant cannot be contacted within 5 days following the first attempt at contact, or if the selected entrant declines the prize, another random draw will occur and the prize will be awarded to another entrant.
  8. The selected entrant must correctly answer a time-limited, skill-testing mathematical question to be awarded the prize.
  9. Entrants agree that their name may be announced on UVic's website and other associated media sites if they are selected as the winner of the draw.
  10. Prize. There will be a Grad House gift card of $50, library mug ($15), and library bag ($10). Value is: $75.
  11. Prize is non-transferable and must be accepted as awarded. Prize is not convertible to cash.
  12. The odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.
  13. UVic will use personal information collected from entrants to administer the contest. UVic will not share personal information relating to entrants with any third parties, except as may be required by law. UVic will not attempt to contact any entrants for any other purpose than as set out in these terms and conditions unless the entrant has consented to receive relevant communications from UVic or as otherwise allowed under applicable laws.
  14. UVic reserves the right to amend these contest rules or to terminate the contest at any time without any liability to any entrant.
  15. UVic assumes no liability for any loss, damage or injury, including but not limited to lost, stolen, delayed, damaged, misdirected, late, destroyed, ineligible or incomplete entries.
  16. The decisions of UVic in relation to this contest will be final and binding on all entrants.
  17. UVic assumes no liability for any loss, damage or injury, including but not limited to: (i) lost, stolen, delayed, damaged, misdirected, late, destroyed, ineligible or incomplete entries; (ii) loss, theft or damage to software or computer or telephone data, including but not limited to any breach of privacy; (iii) fraudulent calls or communications; (iv) inability of any person to participate in the contest herein for any reason including mistaken addresses on mail or e-mail, technical, computer or telephone malfunctions or other problems with computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, or software, congestion on the internet or at any website, or any combination of the foregoing; (v) damage to any computer, including as a result of participating in the contest herein; or (vi) prizes that cannot be awarded or accepted.
  18. By entering this contest, each entrant agrees to release and hold harmless the University of Victoria, Instagram, Facebook, and any of their representatives, agents, successors, assigns, employees, officers, and directors from any liability, illness, injury, death, loss, litigation, claim, or damage that may occur, directly or indirectly, whether caused by negligence or not, from: (i) such entrant’s participation in this contest and/or his/her acceptance, possession, use, or misuse of any prize or any portion thereof; (ii) technical failures of any kind, including but not limited to the malfunction of any computer, cable, network, hardware, or software, or other mechanical equipment; (iii) the unavailability or inaccessibility of any transmissions, telephone, or Internet service; (iv) unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Promotion; (v) electronic or human error in the administration of the Promotion or the processing of entries.
  19. This contest is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram.