Privacy Policy

Quick answer: This site runs no analytics, sets no cookies, and has no accounts, forms, ads, or reader database. This policy explains exactly what happens when you read Vancouver Biztech, in plain terms.

This policy applies to the Biztech network, which publishes Canada Biztech, Calgary Biztech, Edmonton Biztech, Toronto Biztech, and Vancouver Biztech. Each edition is covered by its own copy of this policy, because the editions do not all collect the same things. This copy describes Vancouver Biztech at vancouverbiztech.com.

What Does Vancouver Biztech Collect?

Nothing that identifies you.

Vancouver Biztech has no accounts, no login, no newsletter, no comment system, and no forms of any kind. There is nothing on this site that asks you for your name, email address, phone number, or company. We hold no database of readers.

This edition also runs no analytics. There is no Google Analytics tag, no advertising cookie, no retargeting pixel, no social media tracker, and no fingerprinting script. Other editions in the Biztech network do run analytics, and each edition’s own policy states exactly what it uses.

What Cookies Are Used?

None.

This site sets no cookies at all. It does store a colorTheme value in your browser’s local storage when you choose light or dark mode. That value stays in your browser, is never transmitted anywhere, and is not a cookie. Clearing your browser storage removes it.

What Does the Server Record?

Like any web server, the server hosting this site processes standard request information in order to deliver a page to you, including your IP address and the page requested. This is a technical necessity of how the web works. It is not a tracking system. These records are not used to build reader profiles, are not combined with any other source, and are not shared.

Do You Need to Opt Out?

There is nothing to opt out of on this edition, because nothing is tracking you. If you would like to be certain, a content blocker or a browser with tracking protection will confirm that no analytics or advertising requests are made from these pages.

What We Never Do

To be specific, on every edition of the Biztech network:

• We do not sell, rent, or trade any data about you. There is no data to sell.
• We do not run advertising networks or accept behavioural advertising.
• We do not use retargeting pixels from Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, or anyone else.
• We do not build reader profiles or score readers for commercial value.
• We do not share data with the companies and software vendors covered in our articles.
• We do not accept payment to change what an article says. Commercial relationships that could affect coverage are disclosed on the page where they apply, as described in our editorial policy.

Links to Other Sites

Articles link out to vendor documentation, source code repositories, government pages, and other third-party sites. Once you follow a link, you are on that operator’s site and their privacy practices apply. We have no control over and take no responsibility for what other sites collect.

Your Rights in Canada

The federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and provincial legislation including Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act, give you rights over personal information an organization holds about you, including the right to know what is held, to access it, and to ask for corrections.

Those rights are worth stating clearly here: we hold no personal information about you. There are no accounts, no forms, no mailing list, and no reader database on any edition of the Biztech network. There is no file with your name on it, so there is nothing for us to retrieve, correct, or delete.

The one place data about your visit exists is inside Google Analytics on the editions that run it. That data is not identifiable to us, and the practical controls over it sit with you and with Google, through the opt-out mechanisms listed above and through Google’s own privacy controls.

If you believe an organization has mishandled your personal information, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada accepts complaints and explains the process.

Children

The Biztech network publishes business technology guidance for people making purchasing decisions at work. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of majority.

Changes to This Policy

When this policy changes materially, the reviewed date at the top of the page changes with it, and the substance of the change is noted on our corrections page. We do not quietly revise policies.

Contacting Us

A dedicated privacy contact address for the Biztech network is being established and will be published here once it is live.

In the meantime, the practical controls described in this policy are all self-serve and work without contacting anyone: analytics opt-out, cookie clearing, content blockers, and Google’s own account controls. Because no edition holds a reader database, there is no access or deletion request that could only be fulfilled by contacting us.

Corrections to any article can be raised through the process on our corrections page.