Official rules for the "Facebook EPA and Holcim July 2022" promotion

This Regulation (hereinafter the “Regulation”) aims to establish, define, and limit the terms and conditions of the promotion to be carried out by FERRETERÍA EPA S.A., legal entity identification number 3-101-354271, who shall hereinafter and for the purposes of this Regulation be referred to as “The Organizer” and/or “Ferretería EPA”.
The provisions herein shall be mandatory for the Participants (see definition of Participant below) in said Promotion. Participation in the Promotion implies the Participant's acceptance to respect these rules and procedures, which are final regarding the Promotion and are known and accepted as such. Any violation of said rules and/or procedures established for the Promotion will imply the immediate exclusion of the Participant, without any liability on the part of Ferretería EPA S.A.

ARTICLE ONE: GENERAL PROVISIONS AND NAME OF THE PROMOTION.
The name of this Promotion shall be “FACEBOOK EPA-HOLCIM JULY 2022”, which shall hereinafter and for the purposes of this Regulation be referred to as the “Promotion”.
The Regulation of the Promotion will be disseminated on the Ferretería EPA website, without prejudice to Ferretería EPA S.A. freely choosing any other additional advertising medium to promote it.
The purpose of this Regulation is to establish, regulate, limit, and clarify the guidelines and/or conditions under which the Promotion, which belongs to and is sponsored by Ferretería EPA S.A., will be governed.
The Promotion will be governed by the following rules and conditions. By the mere act of participating in the Promotion, the Participants unconditionally accept all the rules expressed in this Regulation, including those clauses that limit the liability of the Organizers which have been duly informed to the Participant. Likewise, they agree to submit to the decisions of the organizers in any matter related to the promotion, which will be duly informed and communicated through the same means of advertising to all Consumers.

ARTICLE TWO: DURATION OF THE PROMOTION
This Promotion is for a limited time, as follows:

July 6, 2022, to July 9, 2022. Therefore, the term of its validity shall be limited to the dates indicated above.

ARTICLE THREE: PURPOSE OF THE PROMOTION
To participate and be a beneficiary of this Promotion, it is necessary for the Participant to know and accept in advance all the conditions, requirements, and limitations established in this Regulation, which may be explained in a general manner by the Promotions Manager of Ferretería EPA at the email address promociones@cr.epa.biz, duly identified upon the inquiry of any interested follower. Any violation of this Regulation and/or the procedures, mechanics, and systems of application of the Promotion will imply the immediate exclusion of the Participant from the Promotion and the revocation of any right or prize granted by this Regulation.
During the validity period of this Promotion, duly delimited in the previous Article of this Regulation, those interested in participating in the Promotion may do so in the manner described in the following articles.
The purpose of the Promotion is to offer fans and/or followers of the Official Ferretería EPA Facebook Profile (https://www.facebook.com/epacostarica), without the need to make any type of purchase in any of the Ferretería EPA stores during the Promotion's validity period, the benefit of being selected as the winner of the prize that is the subject of this Promotion, in accordance with the mechanics indicated below. The Participant (see definition of Participant in Article Four of this Regulation) must at all times accept the terms and conditions of this Regulation.
The Promotion is designed to take place solely through the official “EPA Costa Rica” profile on the Facebook page, specifically: (https://www.facebook.com/epacostarica). In this sense, only those who are followers of the aforementioned profile may participate; therefore, any person who is not a follower of the aforementioned profile will not be able to participate for the purpose of being a beneficiary of the prize. To establish the required limitations, all interested persons must become followers via a “like” before and/or during the validity period of this Promotion.

ARTICLE THREE-A: PROMOTION MECHANICS
In addition to the above, the promotion will be conducted as follows:

The participant must comment on the post by answering the following question: What project have you done with Holcim cement?

The above must be done during the validity period established above in Article Two. Participants have the possibility of winning simply by having entered and having completed the requirements for their participation. As a limitation for all Participants, they may make one (1) or more comments; however, only one (1) entry will remain in the draw for the purpose of being selected in this Promotion.
Ferretería EPA S.A. reserves the right to require the Participant to provide any additional document or personal information necessary to apply to the Promotion. In accordance with the regulations herein, during the validity period of this Promotion, Participants who wish to participate in the draw will do so in accordance with the mechanics expressed in this Regulation.

ARTICLE FOUR: DEFINITIONS AND PARTICIPANTS
The following terms defined below, as well as the definitions used in this Regulation, shall have the meaning established with the understanding that said meaning shall be applicable to both the singular and plural forms thereof.
1. “Client or Participant” means any natural person who participates in the Promotion with the limitations indicated in this Regulation, who must be a follower of the indicated Facebook Profile.
2. “Point of Sale” for this dynamic means the physical Ferretería EPA stores.
3. “Personal Data” means that if chosen as a winner, they must send to the EPA Costa Rica profile via private message to participate and be subject to this Promotion, which are (i) Full Name (first and last names); (ii) Valid and up-to-date personal identification number, duly recognized by the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica; (iii) Phone numbers; (iv) Email address, in compliance with the legal provisions established by the “Law for the Protection of the Individual against the Processing of their Personal Data”, which will be used solely for the purpose of locating the Winner.
4. Promoter: A company hired by Ferretería EPA S.A. to provide advisory and management services for the Promotion, in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Regulation; in this case, named Interaction.
5. Prize: In this Promotion, there is 1 winner and a single type of prize and/or benefit, described below:

Prize:

In this promotion, 1 type of prize will be awarded. The winner will be selected randomly from among the participants who meet the requirement mentioned in Article Three of this Regulation; the prize will be:

1 (one) gift card for ¢100,000 redeemable at any physical Ferretería EPA store.

The Promotion is aimed at Clients, Followers of the Official Profile, and Final Consumers of Ferretería EPA S.A. Therefore, manufacturers, distributors, resellers, and other persons considered as such, and who are part of the commercial sector as well as the production chain of Ferretería EPA, may not participate in this Promotion. Likewise, collaborators and representatives of the Organizer who are eventually incorporated and identified during the Promotion, nor collaborators of Overseas Logistics Operations S.A. (OLO) and Credix World S.A. up to the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, may not participate in the Promotion.

ARTICLE FIVE: DRAW PROCEDURE AND PRIZE COLLECTION.

Once the promotion has ended, information will be collected from participants who meet the requirements and have participated during the promotion's validity period.

The winners of the prizes indicated in this Regulation will be selected from among all those who have participated. The random draw will take place on July 11, 2022, at the central offices of Ferreterías EPA, and will be conducted by those in charge of the Marketing Department. An Act/Affidavit must be drawn up before 2 witnesses, stating the names of the winning Participants and their respective substitutes; in total, 1 substitute will be selected. This information may also be presented before a Notary Public so that they may attest to compliance with the requirements and the Promotion process through the drawing up of a Notarial Act, in accordance with this Regulation. The organizer reserves the right to modify the aforementioned draw date for convenience, provided that the chances of being selected for each participant are not altered.

Then, the correct participation of the selected winner will be verified. In case they do not comply, the selected person is discarded and the first substitute is verified following the same protocol, and so on until the substitute winners are exhausted. In the event that the entry meets all the requirements, the winner will be contacted via private message to the “EPA Costa Rica” Facebook page and will have a period of two (2) business days once the message is sent to report and send their personal data (full name, identification number, phone, etc.), in order to contact the selected winner by phone within a maximum period of three (3) business days. In case of not locating the selected person within a maximum of 3 call attempts during this period, the next corresponding substitute winner will be contacted following the same protocol, and so on until the substitute winners are exhausted. Once all winners are confirmed, the announcement of the winners will be made. The winner will be announced from July 22, 2022, provided that everything mentioned above in this article has been verified; otherwise, the organizer reserves the right to modify the announcement date until all necessary data for publication are correctly verified. The winner will be announced only via the “EPA Costa Rica” Facebook page in a wall post.

After the aforementioned Draw has been carried out and the respective favored person and/or winner of the prize has been identified, in accordance with the previous Articles of this Regulation, once the winner has been contacted following the procedure by an EPA representative, the place, date, and time for delivery, as well as collection of the corresponding Prize, will be indicated. In this sense, the winner must sign a receipt for their prize, as well as a liability release document for Ferretería EPA S.A. where all the limitations and conditions that the Prize grants will be expressed, releasing the Sponsor from all liability for the use and/or consumption thereof. Likewise, the selected winner may not claim or request any additional expense from Ferretería EPA S.A. generated by the collection of the Prize, such as transport or the cost associated with it in case they do not have the necessary means to transport and/or install it in the place they freely decide.

If the conditions established in this Regulation are not met or if it is impossible to carry out the necessary data verification of the official winner, a substitute winner will be automatically chosen, and data verification and prize delivery will proceed taking into account the specifications of this Regulation.

The Winner must collect their Prize within a period no longer than 1 calendar month from the moment they are contacted by Ferretería EPA S.A. collaborators, during the hours, days, and at the place established to collect the previously agreed-upon Prize.

Failure to do so will result in the loss of the right to the prize, and they will not be able to claim damages and/or losses from Ferretería EPA S.A. resulting from the loss of the Prize. Said Prize CANNOT be transferred under any circumstances to a relative, spouse, child, or third party, given that the purpose of the promotion is for the fan and/or follower who made the comment and presented the valid identity card to be the beneficiary of the Prize. Likewise, the selected Participant freely and spontaneously authorizes Ferretería EPA S.A. to use their image and name rights in promotional campaigns and any type of advertising carried out by Ferretería EPA S.A., without being able to request any remuneration for it.

In the event that the Prize has been accepted, but for any circumstance the Participant refuses to receive it or to finish the respective paperwork for formalization, the winner will lose their right to the Prize. A Notarial Act of these circumstances will be drawn up at the discretion of the Organizer. The granting of any of the prizes will be conditional on compliance with each and every one of the applicable laws and regulations, as well as compliance with the provisions of this Regulation. The organizer reserves the right to disqualify and/or demand the return of the prizes granted to those participants who directly or indirectly breach the terms and conditions previously established herein. If the winner does not demonstrate their willingness to accept these conditions, the organizers will not assume any type of responsibility, exonerating them from the obligation to allow participation and the delivery of a prize or benefit.

ARTICLE SIX: IMAGE USE AND FINAL PROVISIONS.
In order to be able to make the results of the Promotion public, at the decision and discretion of the Organizer, the participants who are favored with any of the Prizes of this Promotion expressly authorize the Organizer so that their project, name, and image appear in publications and other advertising media and, in general, in all disclosure material for activities subsequent to the Promotion, such as delivery and receipt of the prizes, without this implying remuneration or additional compensation, nor claims for image rights. Therefore, by participating, they adhere to the regulations of this Regulation, and cannot refuse the disclosure of their information and image rights.
It is recorded that all illustrations and/or photographs used corresponding to the prize in the publications of this Promotion correspond to the reality of what is offered and promoted by Ferretería EPA. If a selected Participant does not appear to redeem their prize within the period indicated in this Regulation, it will be considered a voluntary waiver of their right to claim the prize. The selected Participant shall have no right to any claim or compensation, not even partially, which each Participant accepts by voluntarily adhering to participation in the promotion. Should this situation occur, the Organizer is authorized to select a substitute winner as appropriate.
Ferretería EPA, S.A. will collect certain confidential information from the Participant, including but not limited to their personal data in accordance with the provisions of the “Law for the Protection of the Individual against the Processing of their Personal Data” and its Regulation. Therefore, at the moment of selection as a Winner or favored person, the Participant must sign all documents that the Organizer determines, to authorize Ferretería EPA, S.A. to collect and, in general, use their data for the purpose of successfully communicating as the winner of the Promotion.
Likewise, in special cases that warrant it, at the decision of the Sponsor, a Notarial Act will be drawn up of these circumstances, attesting to any fact not foreseen in this Regulation.
In the event that they are the Winner and for whatever reason, whether they do not meet the restrictions and conditions regulated herein, or by their own will do not accept the Prize, they will not be able to claim any indemnity sum or a consolation prize from the Organizer, as it is not regulated by this Promotion.
The Promotion and the Participants are subject to the requirements, conditions, and restrictions of this Regulation.
In the event of any situation of fortuitous event or force majeure, Ferretería EPA S.A. may suspend the Promotion in whole or in part, without any liability being generated by said suspension.
Ferretería EPA S.A. will not be responsible for the collateral expenses that carrying out the formalities to make this Promotion effective implies for the Participant. These collateral expenses refer to: cost of calls, preparation of documents, copies, transport costs, among others.
Ferretería EPA S.A. reserves the right to suspend the benefits of this Promotion in those cases in which it is determined that the benefits thereof have been applied through deception, fraud, or other illegal activity.
The mechanics of this Promotion, as well as the Intellectual Property derived from it, are the exclusive property of Ferretería EPA S.A.
The liability of Ferretería EPA S.A. ends with the delivery of the corresponding Prize to the favored Participant; therefore, the organizer is responsible solely for the delivery of the prize indicated in this Regulation.
The winner of the prize will be responsible for the use and enjoyment they give it.
The Organizer will not be responsible for eventual human interventions not authorized by third parties to computer systems or similar that alter the development of the promotion; therefore, in case such a situation is detected, said Promotion will be suspended.
For more information or inquiries about this Regulation, Participants may send a private message to the EPA Costa Rica profile. This Regulation will be available in its entirety for the knowledge and information of the general public and consumers on the official Facebook page of Ferretería EPA S.A. (EPA Costa Rica) during the validity of this promotion. For the purposes of communicating this Regulation in promotional material, the following captions will be established: “Restrictions and conditions apply according to the “FACEBOOK EPA-HOLCIM JULY 2022” Promotion Regulation.”