Advocis 2025 Official Renewal Contest Rules

PFA Designation

THE CONTEST IS CONDUCTED IN CANADA ONLY (EXCLUDING THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC) AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND EVALUATED ACCORDING TO APPLICABLE CANADIAN LAW. PARTICIPANTS MUST MEET ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS DESCRIBED HEREIN. VOID IN WHOLE OR IN PART WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. ENTRY IN THIS CONTEST CONSTITUTES ACCEPTANCE OF THESE RULES.

A. Early Advocis Membership Renewal Contest (“Contest”)

B. Contest Period: 10 a.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on November 11, 2025 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on November 27, 2025 ( the “Contest Period”)

December 16, 2025: One winner selected by random electronic draw.

C. Contest Website: https://advocis.ca/

D. Contest Sponsor: Advocis, The Financial Advisors Association of Canada (“Contest Sponsor”)
Privacy Policy: https://www.advocis.ca/privacy-policy/ 
Mailing Address: 10 Lower Spadina Ave, Toronto, ON M5V 2Z2

E. Office Hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET
Online: Yes (“Online Contest”)

F. Who can enter: Legal residents of Canada outside Quebec.
Minors: No
Other: No

G. Type: Random draw, with selected entrant required to successfully respond to a skill testing question.

H. Prize(s):

  1. Number of Prizes: One (1)
  2. Prize details: New Apple Watch Series 11 (the “Prize”)
  3. Description: One Apple Watch Series 11
  4. Monetary Value: $549 CAD
  5. Exclusions: Winner Selection Date/Time: 3 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”) on or around December 16, 2025. (the “Selection Date”)
  6. Winner Selection Location: Toronto, Ontario
  7. Prize Winner(s) (each a “Winner”) will be notified on or around: January 6, 2026 (the “Winner Notification Date”)
  8. Winners will be notified by: Email
  9. How to claim prize and date/time to claim: Winners will have until January 30, 2026 to respond and claim their prize (the “Response Deadline”). Winner will be required to return the signed Confirmation and Release and correctly answer the skill-testing questions by the Response Deadline in order to successfully claim their Prize. (“Prize Claiming Method”)

Entry must include: Contestant name, active cellphone number, Advocis member ID number in good standing and an available email address.

I. Contact: Send questions and requests for a copy of these Rules to Contest Sponsor at its address written above.

1. CONTEST PERIOD: Winner will be selected from all eligible entries received during the Contest Period after which the Contest will be closed and no further entries will be accepted.

2. ELIGIBILITY:

  1. Eligibility is conditional on agreement and compliance with these Rules of the Contest.
  2. The following are ineligible to enter: The Contest Sponsor’s elected officials, directors, officers, employees, suppliers, agents, sponsors, contractors, administrators, licensees and other representatives of the Contest Sponsor, and of its advertising or promotional agencies, and any member of their respective immediate families or households. 
  3. Only one entry per person.

3. HOW TO ENTER:
November 11 – 27, 2025

Option 1: Renew your Advocis 2026 Membership online 

  1. Complete your Advocis 2026 membership renewal online including payment 
  2. Complete and submit the survey provided during the Advocis Membership Renewal process

Option 2: No purchase necessary

  1. Restricted to Advocis members only. Mail in ballot by emailing info@advocis.ca with the subject line “Renewal Contest Entry”. Include name, email address, cell phone number and Advocis member ID# in the body of your entry.

4. PRIZES:

  1. Odds of being selected as a Winner are dependent on the total number of eligible entries received. Prizes must be accepted as awarded and are non-exchangeable, non-transferable, non-refundable and not redeemable for cash equivalent. A Winner is not entitled to the monetary difference between the actual Prize value and stated approximate Prize value, if any. Any unclaimed Prize will be forfeited and have no cash value. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to substitute a Prize of equal value in whole or in part for any reason.

5. WINNER: Winner will be selected as follows:

  1. On the Selection Date in Toronto, Ontario, one (1) eligible entrant will be selected. The odds of being selected as a potential Winner are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received by the Contest Sponsor during the Contest Period. Before being declared a Winner, the selected entrant shall be required to comply with these Contest Rules and sign and return a Confirmation and Release and successfully answer a skill testing question.
  2. The selected entrant will be notified in the manner set out above by the Contest Sponsor no later than the end of the Winner Notification Date. The selected entrant must respond by email, to the email provided in the notification, and the selected entrant’s response must be received by the Contest Sponsor by the Response Deadline. If the selected entrant does not respond within the Response Deadline, he/she will be disqualified and will not receive a Prize and another entrant may be selected in the Contest Sponsor’s sole discretion. The Contest Sponsor is not responsible for the failure for any reason whatsoever of a selected entrant to receive notification or for the Contest Sponsor’s failure to receive a selected entrant’s response.
  3. If a selected entrant:
    1. cannot be located or contacted or does not reply to the Contest Sponsor’s notification by the Response Deadline;
    2. has not complied with these Contest Rules;
    3. or declines the Prize;

    then that person’s entry is disqualified and the Prize forfeited and the Contest Sponsor may, but is not obligated to, select another entrant from the remaining eligible entries received during the Contest Period for a chance to receive the prize. The Contest Sponsor reserves the right to not select another entry or award a prize if any of the events occur.

  4. Winner will be announced by the Contest Sponsor in whatever form and at whatever time the Contest Sponsor deems, in its sole discretion.
  5. Winner may claim his/her/their Prize or the Contest Sponsor will distribute the Prize, as the case may be, using the Prize Claiming Method described above.

6. CONDUCT: Contest Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to disqualify any individual from the Contest and to ban that individual from any future contest of the Contest Sponsor if Contest Sponsor finds or believes such individual to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or, where applicable, the Contest website; to be acting in violation of the Contest Rules or in a disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass Contest Sponsor, Contest Sponsor’s agencies, other entrants or any other person. Any attempt by an entrant or any other person to deliberately damage any website or undermine the legitimate operation of the Contest is a violation of criminal and civil laws and should such an attempt be made, Contest Sponsor reserves the right to seek damages from any such person to the fullest extent permitted by law.

7. RELEASE OF LIABILITY: The Contest Sponsor and its elected officials, its advertising, media buying and promotional agencies and their respective directors, officers, employees, suppliers, agents, sponsors, contractors, administrators, licensees, and representatives (collectively, “Contest Entities”) accept no responsibility for any injury, loss, or damage that the entrant, or any other person, may suffer in connection with the entrant’s, or any other person’s, participation in the Contest or any Contest-related activity and/or the entrant’s, or any other person’s, acceptance, use, or misuse of any Prize; any breach of the Contest Rules by the entrant or any other person; the conduct of the Contest; the operation of the website through which entrants may submit entries to the Contest; any alternate method of entering the Contest; or any third party claims in relation to the Contest (collectively, “Claims”). By entering the Contest, entrant irrevocably releases and indemnifies the Contest Entities from and against any and all Claims that the entrant may have against the Contest Entities and/or in relation to the Contest. Winner will be required to sign and return, within the time period determined by stated in the Contest Sponsor, a declaration of compliance with these Rules and a full liability and publicity release and/or any other document required by the Contest Sponsor in relation thereto.

8. DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: The website through which the Contest is offered, and all software and hardware used to operate the website are made available for entrants to enter the Contest on as “as is” basis without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. There are no warranties that the Contest website or the software and hardware used to operate it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, that it is free of viruses, worms or other harmful components, that entries will be received or processed or that the Contest website or the software and hardware used to operate it are accurate, reliable or secure. In no event will the Contest Entities be liable for any lost or damaged data. None of the Contest Entities shall be responsible for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected entries, or for any failure, or for any problems or technical malfunction of any internet or telephone network or broadcast transmission during the Contest Period. Without limiting the release of liability provisions herein, and for greater certainty, the Contest Entities will not be liable for: (i) any incorrect or inaccurate information, whether caused by Contest website users or by any equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest or by any technical or human error which may occur in the processing of entries in the Contest; (ii) any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation of the Contest website or any transmission in connection with the Contest; (iii) any communications line failure, theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries; (iv) any problems with, or technical malfunction of, any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, or failure of e-mail which may occur for any reason whatsoever, including technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination thereof; or (v) any injury or damage to entrants’ or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in this Contest.

9. CANCELLATION OR MODIFICATION OF CONTEST: If for any reason this Contest is, in the Contest Sponsor’s sole discretion, not capable of running as planned (including, without limitation, by reason of damage by computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, human error, fraud, technical limitation or failures, applicable law, unforeseen obstacles or any other causes which in the sole opinion of Contest Sponsor could corrupt, compromise, undermine or otherwise affect the administration, security fairness, integrity viability or proper conduct of the Contest), Contest Sponsor reserves the right in its sole and absolute discretion to modify these Rules and/or to modify or suspend all or any part of the Contest. Contest Sponsor further reserves the right to cancel or terminate this Contest at any time for any reason. Contest Sponsor reserves the right to select entrants to be eligible to win a Prize(s) from among all eligible entries received up to the time of any such cancellation, termination, modification or suspension, as applicable.

10. RULES BINDING: By entering this Contest, each entrant acknowledges and agrees that the Contest Rules are legally binding. All decisions of the Contest Sponsor and any Contest judges, if applicable, are final and without appeal in all matters relating to this Contest and the awarding of a Prize. All entries shall become the property of the Contest Sponsor.

11. GOVERNING LAW: This Contest is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein.

12. PERSONAL INFORMATION: All personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) collected in connection with this Contest will be used solely for purposes of administering this Contest and for publicity and promotional purposes relating to the Contest and for any consistent purposes. The entrant acknowledges that the Contest Sponsor is governed by (“Privacy Legislation“) and that all Personal Information supplied in the entry form and all other information collected in the course of the Contest will be used in compliance with Privacy Legislation. This Personal Information will not otherwise be sold or transmitted to third parties except to third-party agents and service providers in connection with the foregoing activities. Name of Winner may be published by the Contest Sponsor. By entering the Contest each entrant grants his/her/their permission for the collection, use and disclosure of his/her/their Personal Information submitted to the Contest Sponsor for the foregoing purposes.

13. PUBLICITY: By participating in the Contest, the Winner agrees that his or her name, province or territory of residence, any statements made relating to the Contest and any photograph or other likeness of the Winner may be used by the Contest Entities for any and all commercial purposes in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter devised, without further permission or compensation, including, without limitation, in any advertising or broadcasting material relating to the Contest and/or future similar contests, except where prohibited by law.

14. COPYRIGHT: Entrant agrees that all copyright in his/her/their completed entry form and in any material depicting the entrant’s likeness or other information about the entrant shall be vested in the Contest Sponsor and entrant hereby irrevocably assigns all of his/her/their worldwide intellectual property rights in and to such entry form and materials to the Contest Sponsor and waives all moral rights therein.

15. ENTRANT’S AGREEMENT: By entering the Contest, each entrant agrees to the foregoing Rules.