Privacy policy.

Challenge Ventures is a division of Octoco Inc. (“Challenge Ventures”, “we”, “us”). This policy explains what personal information we collect through www.challenge.ventures, how we use it, and the choices you have. We handle personal information in line with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), as applicable.

Information we collect

• Information you give us. When you send an enquiry or complete the Readiness Check, we collect the details you enter, such as your name, work email, organization, role, sector, timeline, message and your readiness answers and score.
• Website usage. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views and measure site performance. It does not use cookies or local storage and does not track you across other websites.
• Technical data. Our hosting provider and font provider process standard technical information, such as IP address and browser type, to deliver pages securely.

How we use it

• To respond to your enquiry and arrange a scoping call.
• To send you the results or follow-up you asked for.
• To keep a record of our business relationship in our customer relationship management (CRM) system.
• To understand, in aggregate, how the website is used so we can improve it.

We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not use it for advertising.

Service providers

We use trusted providers to run this website and our business: Netlify (website hosting and form handling), folk (CRM), Cloudflare (analytics), Google Fonts (typography) and our email provider. These providers may store or process information outside Canada, including in the United States, where it may be subject to the laws of those jurisdictions.

Consent and choices

By submitting a form you consent to us using your information as described here. You can withdraw consent, ask to see the information we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it at any time by emailing togaranko@challenge.ventures.

Retention and security

We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes above or as required by law, and we use reasonable safeguards to protect it. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.

Contact

Privacy questions or requests: Tom Ogaranko, Managing Director, togaranko@challenge.ventures, 780 994 8076. Challenge Ventures, a division of Octoco Inc., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.