This is a website owned and operated by the Vancouver Economic Development Commission. Our intention is to provide an informative tool for those interested in Vancouver as a business destination and as a means of promoting VEDC's business development activities. We recognize that visitors to our site may be concerned about the information they provide to us and how we treat that information. VEDC is committed to honouring our visitors' privacy preferences.

In general, when you visit our web site and access information you remain anonymous. We do not require you to register or provide personal information to us to view our site.

For each visitor to our web site, our web server does not automatically recognize information regarding the domain or email address. However, we do collect aggregate information on what pages visitors access or visit and information volunteered by the visitor, such as poll or survey information.

When you supply your name and email address to subscribe to our email distribution list, we do not gather that data for any other use and that information is not shared with any other person or business.

The information we collect is used for internal review and is then discarded, used to improve the content of our website and is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes. If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending email to us and telling us that you do not want to receive e-mail from our organization.

Links to Third Party Sites

We provide links to third party sites on selected topics that we feel may be useful for your research. Since we do not control those websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party sites.

How You May Use Our Materials

You may use, copy and distribute the materials found on this web site, excluding photography, for non-commercial, informational purposes only. All copies that you make of the material must bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice located on the site which pertain to the material being copied. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right in the material or the products, services, processes or technology described therein. All such rights are retained by Vancouver Economic Development Commission and/or any third party owner of such rights.

Photography on this website is drawn from a number of sources, free and licensed. Please contact us if you are interested in a particular photograph, and we will be pleased to provide sourcing information.

For Further Information

If you have any questions or concerns that are not addressed by our Privacy Policy, please direct your inquiry to our Information & Privacy Officer at info@vancouvereconomic.com