2024 Terms and Conditions

ZENSURANCE “SMALL BUSINESS GRANT” PROMOTION

ZENSURANCE SMALL BUSINESS GRANT promotion (referred to herein as the “Promotion”) is sponsored and operated by ZENSURANCE Brokerage Inc. (referred to herein as “Sponsor” or “ZENSURANCE”). The following are the Official Rules and Regulations (the “Rules”) for the Promotion. Adherence to these Rules is mandatory for any entry and participation in the Promotion to be considered valid.

  1. START AND CLOSING DATES:

The Entry Period (the “Entry Period”) for the Promotion begins on September 3, 2024, at 10:00 am, Eastern Daylight Time (“EDT”) and ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT on November 8, 2024. A shortlist of ten (10) businesses will be selected on or before November 15 2024, shortlist businesses will be required to submit additional content on or before November 22, 2024, and the winner(s) will be announced on November 29, 2024.

  1. HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

No purchase necessary. Making a purchase will not in any way increase or otherwise impact your chances of selection as the winner of the Promotion. Any existing Zensurance customer or new applicant for insurance coverage/s through Zensurance, on the designated SMALL BUSINESS GRANT linked web pages, that requests a quote for an insurance product by completing and submitting an online application will be eligible, or any entrant that simply visits the SMALL BUSINESS GRANT linked web pages may enter. Entrants must follow us on one (1) social media channel, engage with 1 social media post from #Zensurance or #ZensuranceGrant2024, and complete the mandatory submission form on the Zensurance SMALL BUSINESS GRANT web page, and provide the following:

  1. First, Last Name
  2. Email contact.
  3. Business Name*
  4. Business telephone number*
  5. Business Website*
  6. A brief submission explaining how $10,0000 could help your business.

*optional requirements

Shortlisted businesses must additionally provide the following: 

  1. One (1) video each, one minute or less, explaining how the funds will be used if they win the Promotion. 

Winner(s) Must Provide: 

  1. Three videos (3) (shortlist video included in total), a testimonial about their business, and how they plan to use the winnings; 
  2. A Q&A with a Zensurance employee for a blog article; 
  3. Five (5) co-branded social media posts within a year of the win announcement;
  4. One photo for social media of the winning oversized novelty cheque. 
  1. What are we looking for? Entrant’s business story, their business dreams, positive impact of their business, a plan for how they will spend the SMALL BUSINESS GRANT money. Quotes must be requested no later than 11:59:59 PM EDT on November 8, 2024. No responsibility or liability is assumed for lost, late, incomplete, stolen, misaddressed, misdirected, or for any computer, telephone, cable, network, satellite, electronic or hardware or software malfunctions, failures, connections, traffic congestion, labour unrest, or unauthorized human intervention, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry or other information, or the failure to capture any such information.

7) No other form of participation is accepted.

8) You must provide ‘express consent’ (click a box during the submission process) to receiving electronic messages and communications from Zensurance, and the prompt will read (or something similar): I agree to Zensurance keeping me informed by commercial electronic messaging with business news, advice and exclusive offers, tailored to my business from time to time. You can stop receiving these messages at any time by clicking ‘unsubscribe’ in any of our emails.

  1. ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible for this Promotion, you must be a budding entrepreneur and/or the owner of a small business (“participant”), for-profit, not-for-profit and social enterprises are eligible, or an employee of an eligible business with written permission from the owner, president or chief executive officer of the business, and fit the following criteria:

1) be a revenue-generating Canadian business with 1-100 employees;
2) the company must have a business bank account that is not used for any personal expenditure.
3) the company must not have annual revenue exceeding one million dollars ($1,000,000).

  1. RESTRICTIONS ON ELIGIBILITY AND ENTRY

THE PROMOTION IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW, RULE OR REGULATION and is not open to residents of QUE, YT, NT, NU. Only one entry per business, please do not attempt to enter via multiple entrants or persons, as this may end up in disqualification from the Promotion. The entrant to the Promotion must be a resident of Canada who has reached the legal age of majority in their province/territory of residence at the time of entry. Employees, representatives, contractors or agents (and those with whom such persons are domiciled, whether related or not) of the Sponsor, its affiliates, advertising/promotion agencies and any other individual(s), entity or entities involved in the development, implementation, administration, judging or fulfillment of the Promotion are not eligible to participate in the Promotion.

  1. WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT AND PUBLICITY

A shortlist of ten (10) entries will be selected by a panel of judges on November 15, 2024, from the entries that are deemed legitimate by Zensurance. We will ask the shortlist to provide another video of themselves in context at their business and approve a short write up about themselves to include in promotional materials, on the program landing page and on all social media channels used by Zensurance at their sole discretion. The Promotion is intended to continue annually, and further publicity could arise on a recurring basis for in subsequent years, allowing for continuing publicity benefit(s) to your business.

The winner of the Promotion will be chosen by a internal panel of judges that will consider, amongst other criteria, the following factors to evaluate submissions:

  1. Entrant’s business story,
    ii. Their dreams and goals for their business,
    iii. Positive impact of their business, and
    iv. A thought out plan for the use of the grant money

There will be only one winner selected, and that business will receive a ten-thousand-dollar ($10,000) grant (the