The event organiser, AVANGUARD BUSINESS CONSULTANTS INC., has the legal responsibility to tell ticket buyers and event attendees how their personal information will be collected and used. You can find their Privacy Policy below or contact them to request it.
AVANGUARD BUSINESS CONSULTANTS INC.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
Introduction
This is the Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) for Avanguard Business Consultants Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Avanguard”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). This Privacy Statement was last updated in April 6, 2026. For more detail on Avanguard’s operations, please see www.avanguardbc.com.
Avanguard understands that your privacy is important. Avanguard is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information. This Privacy Statement only applies to the personal information you provide or as you access and use materials on avanguardbc.com or other Avanguard websites, including Avanguard subscription pages or other Avanguard websites or apps that post a link to this Privacy Statement (collectively, the “Site”) as well as personal information that you submit to Avanguard in response to a request for information or other outreach from Avanguard.
Depending on your relationship with Avanguard, additional or different privacy statements may apply to you. For our privacy practices in connection with the personal information of job applicants, potential candidates for employment, and participants of our optional recruiting programs and events, or personal information collected via our recruiting websites, please see our Recruitment Privacy Policy. For our privacy practices in connection with the personal information we obtain from your access to and use of our tools and solutions and the research and development thereof, please see our Solutions Privacy Statement.
If you are a Canadian resident, please see the Canadian Addendum at the end of this Privacy Statement for further details on how we handle your personal information and how to exercise your rights.
Changes to This Privacy Statement
Avanguard may, in its discretion, amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. To ensure you are able to remain informed, changes to our Privacy Statement will be reflected here.
Personal Information That We Collect
Account, registration, subscription, and marketing
Avanguard collects information from you when you create your account or register for certain pages for the Site, request copies of publications, subscribe for email newsletters and press releases, seek additional information regarding our services, and for marketing communications (via emails, social media platforms) from Avanguard based on your consent where required.
Personal information that we collect includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, employment information that may identify you (such as company, job title, or position), IP address, geo location, subject areas of interest, and/or demographic information.
If you do not provide such information, you may not be able to create an account or register for certain pages for the Site, request copies of publications, subscribe for email newsletters and press releases, or seek additional information regarding our services.
Events and surveys
Avanguard collects information if you register for conferences and other Avanguard-sponsored events, and/or take part in surveys run by Avanguard. Personal information that we collect includes names, email addresses, employment or education information that may identify you (such as company, job title, or position), dietary preferences, IP address, unique personal identifiers, subject areas of interest, and/or demographic information.
Visitors to our offices and security systems
Avanguard collects information from you when you visit our offices. Visitors are often required to sign in at reception, and we may collect personal information from you, including your name, email address, and government-issued ID. We may capture certain personal information in and immediately outside our offices, including audio, images, and footage on CCTV or other audio, video, and related security or monitoring systems.
How we might use your personal information
The purposes and uses of your personal information will depend on the use of the Site and the personal information provided. We process your personal information:
- For the purposes of safeguarding the legitimate business interests pursued by Avanguard. This includes: Communicating with you and managing your requests in relation to your account, registration, subscriptions to Avanguard newsletters, publications, events and survey participations
- Tailoring your experience at the Site with relevant Avanguard materials
- Understanding the Site’s user population, identifying subject areas of interest, and determining whether the Site is designed to work with the device settings of a majority of our visitors
- Measuring and improving the effectiveness of Avanguard marketing programs across different channels
- Improving our web content and navigation
- Informing you about updates to the service and notifying you about other products and services offered by Avanguard that may be of interest to you, including information regarding publications and events and track email engagement activity for internal use only.1
- Managing access to, operating, and maintaining our facilities and infrastructure
- Promoting security and safety of individuals, exercising our property rights, preventing and investigating criminal offenses, and asserting, exercising, or defending legal claims
- Aggregating, anonymizing, or de-identifying data, and collecting, using, or disclosing such data for our business purposes.
Where personal information is provided in connection with tools, diagnostics, or analytical models, such information may be used to generate outputs and improve such tools, subject to appropriate safeguards.
On the basis of your consent where required. Insofar as you have granted us consent to the processing of personal information for specific purposes, the lawfulness of such processing is based on your consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time. For compliance with a legal obligation. This includes anti-fraud and anti-money laundering measures as well as tax and social security requirements.
In accordance with applicable Canadian privacy laws, including PIPEDA and other applicable provincial privacy laws, personal information may be collected, used, and disclosed with consent, whether express or implied as permitted by law, subject to applicable legal exceptions. Individuals may have the right to request access to and correction of their personal information and may withdraw consent, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice.
Avanguard complies with the Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). Where required under applicable law, Avanguard obtains consent before sending commercial electronic communications and provides recipients with mechanisms to withdraw such consent.
Where applicable, Avanguard also complies with enhanced privacy requirements under Quebec’s Law 25, including obligations relating to transparency, data protection, and individual privacy rights.
How We Might Disclose Your Personal Information
The third parties with whom we may need to disclose personal information to help us provide services and products to you and to run our Site include:
- Our subsidiaries or affiliates
- Our advisors
- Our third-party service providers who process information on our behalf to help run some of our internal business operations including email distribution, IT services, Site security, marketing and events services, and security providers
- To the third parties listed in our cookie consent managers.
- Our business partners for publications and events co-organized by Avanguard and them
- Law enforcement bodies in order to comply with any legal obligation or court order
Avanguard may disclose your contact information in response to inquiries by bona-fide rights owners in connection with allegations of infringement of copyright or other proprietary rights arising from information that you have posted on the Site or otherwise provided to Avanguard
We may also disclose your personal information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, financing transaction, merger, sale, joint venture, partnership, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
Because Avanguard is a global organization, we may need to transfer personal information which is collected on the Site or through other means as described under this Privacy Statement across the Avanguard group of companies or to third parties listed above to help operate our business efficiently. These arrangements may involve your personal information located in various countries around the world where Avanguard and such third parties maintain and store personal information in systems and applications where privacy laws differ.
The personal information is only accessible by authorized persons or vendors who are bound by privacy requirements, and we only make these arrangements or transfers where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect personal information held in that country. In addition, the Site may be viewed and accessed anywhere in the world including countries that may not have laws regulating the use and transfer of personal information.
Personal information may be transferred to, stored, or processed outside Canada. By using the Site, you acknowledge and consent to such cross-border transfers, storage, or processing, subject to applicable legal safeguards.
Avanguard limits the collection of personal information to that which is necessary for the identified purposes.
Retention of Your Personal Information
Avanguard retains your personal information for so long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
- The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide services to you
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject
- Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position
Use or Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
We do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information outside of the following purposes: (1) performing our services, (2) detecting security incidents, (3) resisting malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions, (4) ensuring physical safety, (5) for short-term transient use, including certain non-personalized advertising, (6) maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, or providing similar services, and (7) verifying and maintaining the quality or safety of a service or product or improving, upgrading, or enhancing a service or product. Accordingly, we do not provide the right to limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information under the applicable law.
Personal information will not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with consent or as required or permitted by law.
Privacy Rights
If you are a Canadian resident, you, subject to applicable law of the province in which you reside, have the following rights regarding your personal information:
The right to know:
- Whether we are processing your personal information
- The categories of personal information we collected about you
- The categories of sources from which we collected such personal information
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information about you
- The categories of third parties to whom we disclosed your personal information
- The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you
The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal information
The right to have your personal information deleted, subject to certain exemptions
The right to obtain a copy of your personal information
The right to opt-out of: (1) the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information; (2) targeted advertising; or (3) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects; although please note Avanguard does not engage in such profiling.2
The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights
If you are a Canadian resident, to exercise your rights regarding your personal information, contact us via info@avanguardbc.com or, where applicable, through the contact details provided in the “Contact Us” section. We will verify and respond to your request consistent with applicable law, taking into account the type and sensitivity of the personal information subject to the request. We may need to request additional personal information from you in order to verify your identity and protect against fraudulent requests. If you make a request to delete, we may ask you to confirm your request before we delete your personal information.
In connection with certain Sites, you may opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information or “targeted advertising” described above by sending certain browser enabled opt-out signals, such as the Global Privacy Control. You may learn more about how to set the Global Privacy Control through publicly available resources. Alternatively, in connection with certain Sites, you may opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information or “targeted advertising” described above by visiting the cookie consent manager and changing settings to only utilize essential cookies.
Where applicable under Canadian law, including PIPEDA and relevant provincial legislation, individuals may also have the right to:
- Request access to their personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- Withdraw consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of personal information, subject to legal or contractual restrictions
- Lodge a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or applicable provincial authority
Business contact information is collected and used solely for the purpose of communicating or facilitating business relationships and is not considered personal information in certain circumstances under applicable law.
Authorized Agents
If an agent would like to make a request on your behalf as permitted under applicable law, the agent may use the submission methods noted in the section entitled “Privacy Rights”. As part of our verification process, we may request that the agent provide, as applicable, proof concerning their status as an authorized agent. In addition, we may require that you verify your identity as described in the section entitled “Privacy Rights” or confirm that you provided the agent permission to submit the request.
Appeal Process
If you have made a privacy rights request to Avanguard and believe your request was denied by Avanguard, you can exercise your right to appeal the results of your request by using the submission methods noted in the section entitled “Privacy Rights”. Please use the same email address that you used to submit the initial privacy rights request when you submit your request to appeal, and please add “Request to Appeal” in the subject line of the email. If you do not use the same email address, we cannot link your request to appeal to your initial privacy rights request. If your appeal is unsuccessful, depending upon the jurisdiction in which you reside, you may have the right to raise a concern or lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.
Cross-Border Data Transfer
Personal information may be transferred to, stored, or processed outside Canada. By using the Site, you acknowledge and consent to such transfers, subject to applicable legal safeguards.
Marketing
If, at any time, you prefer not to receive further marketing communications from us in any or all forms you will have the ability to unsubscribe from such communications by means of a link provided in every email that is sent to you by us. When subscribing to Avanguard email newsletters, you are given the opportunity to select which promotions, news, and information you would like to receive at the time of sign up, and you will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from such communications.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Avanguard may use cookies and other tracking technologies on this Site and in our communications with you. A “cookie” is a small amount of data sent from a web server to your browser and stored on your device. Cookies and other tracking technologies allow us to operate the Site and our services, remember your preferences, collect information about how you use our Site and our services, and provide you with content that may be of interest. With most internet browsers, you can erase cookies from your device, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your device. Please refer to your browser instructions or you can visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ which will give you more information. Please be advised that certain sections or functionalities of the Site may be inaccessible to you if your browser does not accept cookies. We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals.
Security Processes
Avanguard has in place appropriate technological and operational security processes designed to protect personal information. Only authorized employees and contractors will have access to any personal information provided by you, and that access is limited by need. Each employee or contractor having access to any personal information is obligated to maintain its confidentiality. Although we take steps that are generally accepted as industry standard to protect your personal information, Avanguard cannot guarantee that your personal information will not become accessible to unauthorized persons and Avanguard cannot be responsible for any actions resulting from a breach of security when personal information is supplied over the internet or any public network.
In the event of a breach of security safeguards involving personal information that poses a real risk of significant harm, Avanguard will notify affected individuals and applicable regulatory authorities in accordance with applicable law.
Links to Others Websites
This Site contains links to other websites not operated by Avanguard.
Avanguard is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non-Avanguard websites to which we link from the Site. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting other websites and sites not governed by our Privacy Statement. We cannot control the content or security of such websites. We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred by a user as a result of visiting such websites. No links are intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of that other website.
Compliance With Law
Avanguard may be compelled to surrender personal information to legal authorities if presented with a court subpoena or similar legal or administrative order, or as required or permitted by the laws, rules and regulations of any nation, province, state, or other applicable jurisdiction. Also, in the event of a violation of the terms and conditions of use of the Site or a violation of any restrictions on use of materials provided in or through the Site, we may disclose personal information to our affected business partners or legal authorities.
Your Rights
Depending on where you reside, you may have the following rights in accordance with applicable data privacy laws. You have a right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and details of how we use that information. If any of the personal information held about you is incorrect or out of date, you have the right to amend or rectify such personal information. You also have the right to request that we erase your personal information, stop processing your personal information, restrict the processing of your personal information, and provide your personal information in a portable format. Where processing of personal information is based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent to such processing. This may not apply if there are other legal justifications to continue processing. You also may have a right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.
If you would like to exercise any of your data protection rights, please contact the appropriate data protection point of contact in the “Contact Us” section of this Privacy Statement. Please note that we may need you to prove who you are before we can act on your request.
Children
Avanguard understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy. This Site is not designed for and does not intentionally target or solicit to children 18 years of age and younger.
Contact Us
For further questions, or to exercise any of your data protection rights, you may contact our privacy officer, who is responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable privacy laws and handling requests relating to personal information:
Privacy Officer
Avanguard Business Consultants Inc.
Email: info@avanguardbc.com