Privacy & Security Services in Calgary

Calgary's economy — shaped by energy, engineering, financial services, and an expanding technology sector — generates and moves significant volumes of personal information. Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act, known as PIPA, is the province's own private-sector privacy law and the primary framework most Calgary businesses must meet. It is recognized as substantially similar to federal PIPEDA, which means provincial PIPA generally governs day-to-day commercial activity in Alberta. But PIPEDA does not disappear: it continues to apply to federally regulated businesses such as banks, airlines, and telecommunications companies, and to personal information that crosses provincial or national borders.

That dual-framework reality is something many Calgary organizations underestimate. An energy company moving operational data between Alberta and the United States, or a financial services firm regulated federally, faces both regimes at once. Getting clarity on which law applies — and where each one requires something the other does not — is the first step toward building a compliance posture that actually holds.

Privacy Horizon provides Calgary businesses with the full range of privacy and security services they need, starting with a clear-eyed assessment. Our Privacy Impact Assessments and gap analyses are grounded in Alberta's PIPA requirements, covering consent obligations, access rights, mandatory breach notification to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta, and the safeguards the Act expects. Where federal PIPEDA also applies to your operations, we bring both frameworks into a single, practical picture.

Beyond the initial assessment, we build out compliance programs that reflect how your organization actually works — your vendor relationships, your data flows, your technology stack. We help you establish the policies, contracts, and internal controls that regulators expect to see, and we train your staff so that compliance is something your team understands and maintains, not just a set of documents that sit on a shelf. For organizations that want ongoing support without a full-time hire, our senior advisory service provides access to experienced privacy counsel on the cadence that suits you.