1. Sponsor
The Hello Pearl Good Morning Photo Contest (the "Contest") is run by Provera Care Incorporated, operating as Hello Pearl, 2150 Winston Park Dr Unit 203 PMB #3024, Oakville, Ontario L6H 5V1 (the "Sponsor"). No purchase or payment is necessary to enter or win.
2. Contest Period
The Contest starts at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) on October 27, 2026 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on November 30, 2026 (the "Contest Period"). The Sponsor's server is the official clock for the Contest.
3. Who can enter
The Contest is open to legal residents of Canada, excluding Quebec, who are at least 18 years old and have reached the age of majority in their province or territory of residence when they enter. Employees and contractors of the Sponsor, and the members of their immediate families and households, are not eligible. The Sponsor uses the birth year given on the entry form to confirm eligibility and may ask any potential winner for proof of age and residence.
4. How to enter
Fill in the entry form at hellopearl.app/photo-contest with your full name, email address, birth year, city or town, and province or territory, and upload one image. Joining Hello Pearl is not required to enter or win. You may submit up to three (3) entries in total during the Contest Period, one image per form. Entries beyond three will not be considered. Entries must be received before the Contest Period ends. Late, incomplete or unreadable entries, and entries made by automated means, are void.
5. Entry requirements
Each entry must:
- be an original photograph taken by you, or a photograph or scan of original artwork you created;
- not be created, generated or materially altered with generative artificial intelligence tools. Standard edits such as exposure, colour, cropping, straightening and dust removal are allowed;
- be in landscape orientation, at least 3000 pixels wide, in JPG or PNG format, and no larger than 10 MB;
- not show any identifiable person, and not include logos, trademarks, visible text, borders or watermarks;
- not have been sold or exclusively licensed to anyone else, and not infringe anyone's rights, including copyright, privacy and publicity rights;
- be suitable for a general audience.
The Sponsor may ask any entrant for the original, unedited file (such as a RAW file) to confirm these requirements, and may disqualify any entry it believes, acting reasonably, does not meet these rules.
6. Judging
After the Contest Period, a panel chosen by the Sponsor will score all eligible entries out of 100 points on three criteria: Feeling, how well the image makes a morning better (40 points); Craft, its light, focus and composition (30 points); and Fit, how well it works as a background behind on-screen text on phones and tablets (30 points).
Minimum standard: to win any prize, an entry must score at least 70 out of 100 points. The eligible entry with the highest total score that meets the minimum standard will be the potential Grand Prize winner. Ties are broken by the highest Feeling score, then by a vote of the panel. If no eligible entry meets the minimum standard, the Grand Prize will not be awarded.
The panel may also choose up to twenty (20) additional eligible entries that meet the minimum standard as Gallery Picks. The Sponsor is not required to choose any Gallery Picks. The panel's decisions are final.
7. Prizes
Grand Prize (1):
- one (1) Apple iPad mini (Wi-Fi, 128 GB, colour chosen by the Sponsor), approximate retail value $849 CAD;
- one (1) $100 CAD gift card for Harvey's or Swiss Chalet, the winner's choice, subject to the card issuer's terms and conditions;
- a Hello Pearl Plus plan for one (1) Circle chosen by the winner, free of charge for the life of that Circle, meaning for as long as the Circle stays active on Hello Pearl and the Sponsor offers the Hello Pearl service (approximate retail value $150 CAD per year); and
- inclusion of the winning image in the Hello Pearl photo gallery, credited to you.
The Plus plan is subject to the Hello Pearl Terms of Service, has no cash value and cannot be sold or transferred, except that the winner may choose which Circle receives it. If the Sponsor changes its plans, the Sponsor will provide a plan with equal or greater features at no charge. The Grand Prize is awarded only if an eligible entry meets the minimum standard in Section 6.
Gallery Picks (up to 20): inclusion of the image in the Hello Pearl photo gallery, credited to you in the app and on hellopearl.app. Gallery Picks have no cash value.
The prize must be accepted as awarded and cannot be transferred or exchanged for cash. If the stated prize is unavailable, the Sponsor may substitute a prize of equal or greater value. Limit of one Grand Prize per person. The odds of winning depend on the number and quality of eligible entries received.
8. Your copyright, credit and our licence
You keep the copyright in your image. By entering, you grant the Sponsor a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to display and reproduce your image on hellopearl.app and the Sponsor's social media channels to run and promote the Contest, during the Contest Period and for six (6) months after it ends.
If your image is chosen as the Grand Prize winner or a Gallery Pick, you also grant the Sponsor a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual licence to use, reproduce, display, resize and crop the image within the Hello Pearl app and in materials that promote the Hello Pearl app. The Sponsor will not sell your image or license it to anyone else as a stand-alone image. You waive your moral rights only as far as needed to allow resizing and cropping.
We credit you. Whenever the Sponsor shows your image, in the Hello Pearl app, on hellopearl.app or on its social media channels, it will credit the image to you, using your name or the credit you give in the "Credit me as" field of the entry form.
9. Winner selection and notification
The potential Grand Prize winner and Gallery Picks will be contacted by email on or about December 10, 2026. To be declared a winner, the potential Grand Prize winner must (a) correctly answer, without help, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question, and (b) sign and return a declaration and release confirming eligibility, compliance with these rules and acceptance of the prize, within five (5) business days of being notified. If a potential winner cannot be reached within five (5) business days, does not meet these conditions or is found ineligible, the Sponsor may select the next highest scoring eligible entry. Winners will be announced on or about December 15, 2026. The iPad mini and gift card will be shipped to an address in Canada (excluding Quebec), and the Plus plan applied to the winner's chosen Circle, within thirty (30) days of confirmation.
10. Publicity
By accepting a prize, the winner agrees that the Sponsor may use their name, city, province or territory and winning image to announce the winners, without further compensation, where permitted by law.
11. Privacy
The entry form asks for your name, email address, birth year, city or town, province or territory and, if you choose to give it, your mobile number. We use this information to run the Contest, confirm eligibility, contact entrants and award prizes, as described in our Privacy Policy.
We will only send you the Hello Pearl newsletter, text messages, or a link to join Hello Pearl if you tick the matching box on the entry form. Each is optional and does not affect your chances of winning. You can unsubscribe from emails using the link in every email, and from text messages by replying STOP.
12. Release and limits
By entering, you release the Sponsor and its directors, officers, employees and agents from any liability related to the Contest or the prize, to the extent permitted by law. The Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete or corrupted entries or for technical failures.
Subject to applicable law, the Sponsor may cancel, suspend or modify the Contest if fraud, tampering, technical failure, widespread entries that break these rules (such as AI-generated images), or any other cause beyond the Sponsor's reasonable control affects the fairness or proper running of the Contest. If the Contest is cancelled, the Sponsor may award the prizes from eligible entries received up to that time, judged under Section 6. Any change to these rules will be posted on this page.
13. General
These rules are governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply in Ontario. This Contest is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Apple Inc. iPad mini is a trademark of Apple Inc. Harvey's and Swiss Chalet are trademarks of their respective owners, which are not involved in this Contest. Questions? Reach us through Contact us at the bottom of this page.
Ready to enter?
Up to three photos, always credited to you. Win an iPad mini, a $100 gift card and Plus for life. Entries close November 30, 2026.