Privacy & Security Consulting in Surrey

Surrey is one of BC's largest cities and among the fastest-growing in the country, home to a diverse commercial economy that spans light manufacturing, technology, health services, professional services, financial firms, and retail. The scale and diversity of that economy means privacy and security obligations show up in many forms simultaneously: employee data programs, customer data governance, vendor management requirements, and the security controls that enterprise clients, insurers, and regulated-industry partners increasingly require as a condition of doing business. For most private-sector organizations here, BC's Personal Information Protection Act — PIPA — is the governing law, enforced by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. PIPA applies in place of PIPEDA for most commercial activity in the province, and the OIPC BC enforces it on its own terms.

Organizations that operate interprovincially, handle data crossing provincial or national borders, or fall into federally regulated categories — banks, telecommunications companies, airlines — remain subject to PIPEDA in addition to PIPA. For Surrey's technology sector, which commonly serves clients across Canada and increasingly in the United States, understanding exactly which data flows are governed by which law is foundational work. Building a compliance program that addresses both frameworks without conflating them requires more than adapting a generic template; it requires someone who has done this work across BC's specific regulatory context.

Privacy Horizon works with Surrey-area organizations to build privacy and security programs that are operational, well-documented, and designed to hold up under scrutiny. We offer Virtual Privacy Officer services for organizations that need designated privacy leadership without a full-time hire, Virtual CISO engagements for organizations building security governance alongside privacy compliance, policy development grounded in PIPA's actual requirements, coaching for executives and managers, M&A privacy due diligence for acquisitive organizations, and custom training for client-facing and operations teams. Our approach starts with your actual situation — not a generic framework — and ends with a program that your team can run with confidence.