PRIVACY POLICY

Your privacy is important to the Vancouver Analytics Board . This Policy explains how the Vancouver Analytics Board collects, uses, discloses, and retains your information.

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Your Consent

When you provide Vancouver Analytics Board with your personal information, you consent to Vancouver Analytics Board's collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as otherwise permitted by law.

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Personal Information

"Personal information" means information about an identifiable individual that allows someone to identify or contact you, including, for example, your mailing address, telephone number, or e-mail address.

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How Vancouver Analytics Board Collects Your Personal Information — You may be asked to voluntarily provide your personal information to Vancouver Analytics Board anytime you are in contact with Vancouver Analytics Board, including when you sign up for membership. In those circumstances you can choose not to provide certain requested personal information, but then you may not be able to participate in Vancouver Analytics Board membership events, use our services or access or use certain features of the website.

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How Vancouver Analytics Board Uses Your Personal Information — Vancouver Analytics Board uses your personal information for various purposes in connection with our relationship with you for the provision of our services, including: (a) to contact and correspond with you regarding your membership and your use of Vancouver Analytics Board services, (b) to provide you with information regarding Vancouver Analytics Board 's announcements, promotions, upcoming events and new services; (c) to facilitate participation in Vancouver Analytics Board events; (d) to process and respond to your specific suggestions, comments, inquiries and requests, and to otherwise administer  Vancouver Analytics Board's relationship with you; (e) to personalize and improve your experience with  Vancouver Analytics Board; (f) to administer and facilitate your participation in sweepstakes, contests, and promotions; (g) to create and manage your account; and (h) to develop, deliver, and improve  Vancouver Analytics Board's events, services and advertising.

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Vancouver Analytics Board may also develop a confidential profile for you, which will be used to provide services to you and facilitate your interactions with the Vancouver Analytics Board.

Vancouver Analytics Board may combine your personal information collected through various sources, including information collected at  Vancouver Analytics Board 's events and through Vancouver Analytics Board's websites, and information obtained from other sources.

Vancouver Analytics Board may use personal information to create non-personal information, as defined in the next section, and may then use, disclose, transfer, and retain the non-personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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Non-Personal Information

Vancouver Analytics Board also creates and collects "non-personal information" - information that is not associated with or linked to your personal information, including personal information that has been aggregated or otherwise anonymized so that it no longer relates to an identifiable individual.

Vancouver Analytics Board may use, disclose, transfer and retain non-personal information for any purpose and in any manner whatsoever.

If non-personal information is combined with personal information, then the non-personal information will be treated as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.

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Cookies and Other Technologies

Vancouver Analytics Board's websites, online services, e-mail messages, and advertisements may use "cookies" and other similar technologies, such as web beacons, pixel or gif tags, and action tags. Those technologies collect information that assists  Vancouver Analytics Board to improve services, advertising, customer communications and events.

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For example, Vancouver Analytics Board may use information collected through cookies and similar technologies to recognize the user of  Vancouver Analytics Board's websites and supplement our confidential profile for that user, determine a user's general location to tailor the website content to that user's location, track use of the websites, offer personalized web page content, information and advertisements, and otherwise facilitate and improve the website experience. You may choose to decline or disable cookies if your web browser permits, but doing so may affect your ability to access or use certain features of  Vancouver Analytics Board's websites. Information about how Google uses cookies and how you can limit or disable certain kinds of cookies on your personal computer or mobile device is available here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

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Vancouver Analytics Board may use web beacons, pixel or gif tags, and action tags to confirm that e-mail messages have been delivered and opened. You may opt-out of receiving e-mails in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information provided by cookies may be collected and processed by  Vancouver Analytics Board or by its third party service providers, including Google and Facebook.

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Do Not Track

Vancouver Analytics Board does not respond to do not track signals.

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Disclosure of Personal Information

Suppliers and Service Providers —  Vancouver Analytics Board may disclose your personal information to Vancouver Analytics Board's suppliers and service providers to provide services to Vancouver Analytics Board, to assist  Vancouver Analytics Board to use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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For example, Vancouver Analytics Board engages service providers to help operate Vancouver Analytics Board's websites, and e-mail services and to analyze information collected through the websites, and e-mail (including through cookies and other similar technologies).

Vancouver Analytics Board requires its suppliers and service providers to agree to use your personal information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them, and to protect the privacy of your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

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Third Party Partners

For some of our Services, we may make some information, such as the name of our users, their mailing address, phone number, email address -- and in certain circumstances their employer's name, company size and other industry data -- available to third party providers of goods and services, for example, when such information is provided in connection with events, webcasts, white papers or other sponsored downloads. While many customers appreciate the communications, they receive from the third-party providers of goods and services to whom we provide lists of our customers, if you no longer wish to receive messages from individual providers, follow the unsubscribe link and instructions at the bottom of the provider's message or contact the third-party provider directly to be removed from their list.

Others

Vancouver Analytics Board may disclose your personal information as required by legal disclosure obligations under applicable law, including to comply with a subpoena, warrant or court or arbitral order, or litigation disclosure obligations.  Vancouver Analytics Board may also disclose your personal information if  Vancouver Analytics Board reasonably believes disclosure is necessary or appropriate in connection with national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance.  Vancouver Analytics Board may also disclose your personal information as otherwise required by law, or authorized by law in connection with a legal investigation, or if Aritzia reasonably believes the disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect and enforce  Vancouver Analytics Board's legal rights, interests and remedies or protect the business, operations or customers of  Vancouver Analytics Board or other persons.  Vancouver Analytics Board has no control over, or responsibility or liability for, the further use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information disclosed in those circumstances, and the further use, disclosure, and retention of the disclosed information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

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For example, Vancouver Analytics Board may disclose information to law enforcement authorities or other businesses and organizations in connection with the detection, prevention and prosecution of activities that  Vancouver Analytics Board  reasonably believes to be unlawful, and the disclosed information may include personal information of the individuals suspected of involvement in unlawful activities.

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Retention, Location, and Protection of Personal Information

Vancouver Analytics Board retains your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or such longer retention period as may be required or permitted by applicable law.

Vancouver Analytics Board will store and process your personal information in Canada, the United States, and other countries. The laws of other countries regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of personal information may be different from the laws of Canada and the United States, and their laws may be different from the laws of your country. The disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy may result in your personal information being transferred outside of Canada, the United States, or your country.

Vancouver Analytics Board employs reasonable safeguards - including administrative and technical - appropriate to the sensitivity of the personal information in its possession or under its control in order to protect that information from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, disposal, or similar risks. While Vancouver Analytics Board uses reasonable efforts to protect your information, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, and therefore, Vancouver Analytics Board cannot guarantee absolute security of your personal information.

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Accuracy and Access to Personal Information

You can help Vancouver Analytics Board maintain the accuracy and completeness of your information by notifying Vancouver Analytics Board of any changes to your personal information.

You may request access to your personal information and information about Vancouver Analytics Board's collection, use, disclosure, and retention of that information by sending your request to Vancouver Analytics Board's Chief Privacy Officer at one of the addresses noted below. Subject to applicable exceptions and limitations prescribed by law, you will be given reasonable access to your personal information, and will be entitled to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and to have it amended as appropriate.

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Other Matters

Business Contact Information — To the extent permitted by law, the provisions of this Privacy Policy concerning personal information do not apply to information (such as your name, position or title, business address, business telephone number, business fax number, and business e-mail address) that enable you to be contacted at a place of business.

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Personal Information of Children — Vancouver Analytics Board does not knowingly collect personal information from children who are under 13 years of age. Please immediately contact Vancouver Analytics Board's Chief Privacy Officer at one of the addresses noted below if you believe that Vancouver Analytics Board has unintentionally collected personal information from a child under 13 years of age. If Vancouver Analytics Board learns that it has inadvertently collected the personal information of a child under 13 years of age, Vancouver Analytics Board will use reasonable efforts to delete that information from its systems (except to the extent that retention of the personal information is required or permitted by applicable law).

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Other Websites/Online Services — Vancouver Analytics Board's website and online services may contain links to other websites or online services. When you use those links you are contacting another website or service. Vancouver Analytics Board has no responsibility or liability for, or control over, those other websites or service or their collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information. Please refer to the privacy policies and Terms of Use that apply to those other websites or online services.

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Policy Changes — Vancouver Analytics Board may change this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version of this Privacy Policy on Vancouver Analytics Board's website at www.vancouveranalyticsboard.com. Vancouver Analytics Board's collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information will be governed by the version of this Privacy Policy in effect at that time. Your continued dealings with Vancouver Analytics Board subsequent to any changes to this Privacy Policy will signify your consent to the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information in accordance with the changed Privacy Policy. Accordingly, you should check the "Last updated" date of this Privacy Policy (at the bottom of the page) and review any changes since the last version.

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Unsubscribing to Newsletters and Messages — You may Vancouver Analytics Board from Vancouver Analytics Board's electronic newsletters and similar messages by using the applicable self-service unsubscribe procedure (for example, by responding to an email with UNSUBSCRIBE). From time to time, Vancouver Analytics Board may use your personal information to communicate with you regarding important matters, such as information about  updates to Vancouver Analytics Board's Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use that govern Vancouver Analytics Board's websites. Because that information is important, you may not opt out of receiving these communications.

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Contacting Vancouver Analytics Board's Chief Privacy Officer — If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact Vancouver Analytics Board's Chief Privacy Officer by e-mail at: cpo@vancouveranalyticsboard.com

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English Language — You and Vancouver Analytics Board have each expressly requested and required that this Privacy Policy and all other related documents be drawn up in the English language. 

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Notices to You — You consent to Vancouver Analytics Board sending you emails (to the email addresses you provide to Vancouver Analytics Board) regarding this Policy and related matters.