Excela Associates

Privacy Consulting Services

Please be advised that Excela is not taking on any new projects at this time.

Excela Associates provides a full slate of services to assist its clients in planning, developing and implementing effective strategies to protect privacy, manage personal information and comply with privacy legislation. We can identify risks associated with inappropriate or inadequate privacy practices and provide solutions to deal with them. If you need a Canadian privacy consultant, you need look no further than Excela Associates. The top menu provides more information about our consultants and services.

Excela can advise on any aspect of privacy protection. We offer the services of highly qualified experts in privacy and information management. Our consultants are all senior practitioners with many years of experience.

Sound privacy administration is just good business, regardless of your business sector, but it is also a matter of law. Canada has privacy legislation covering the public and private sectors nation-wide, both federally and provincially. There are few organizations in Canada that are not subject to privacy legislation.

The federal government has tabled a draft Consumer Privacy Protection Act. While it will be some time before any new Act comes into force, and there may well be amendments before that happens, it would be worthwhile to review the draft legislation with an eye to what might be required for eventual compliance. The proposed new legislation is significantly different than the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), which it will replace, and potentially more rigorous.

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) imposes strict privacy requirements on any organization doing business with EU residents.  The regulation, which is more  prescriptive than any other privacy law, requires that subject organizations take specific actions for compliance, which may require modifications to existing business processes.  Excela can assist Canadian organizations in preparing for GDPR compliance.