Privacy Policy

International Institute for Business Development Global Ltd. and International Institute for Business Development, USA Inc. Last Updated: May 13, 2026 International Institute for Business Development Global Ltd. and International Institute for Business Development, USA Inc., operating as IIBD (“IIBD,” “we,” “our,” or “us”), respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit www.iibd.com, contact us, sign up for our newsletter, access our content, or otherwise interact with us.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information.

Information you provide to us

When you use our website or communicate with us, you may provide:
  • Contact information, such as your name and email address.
  • Inquiry information, such as the message you submit through our Contact Us page.
  • Newsletter information, such as your name and email address when you sign up for our newsletter.
  • Report access information, such as your email address if you provide it to access a report or other content.
  • Business communications, such as information you provide when you email us or communicate with our team.

Information collected automatically

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, embedded content providers, or other service providers. This may include:
  • IP address;
  • browser type;
  • device type;
  • pages visited;
  • referring website;
  • date and time of visit;
  • interactions with website content.
We currently do not use active Google Analytics tracking, but we may use analytics or similar website tools in the future. We may also use third-party services such as Vimeo and, potentially, YouTube or similar embedded content providers.

2. How We Use Personal Information

We use personal information for the following purposes:
  • To respond to Contact Us inquiries.
  • To follow up with you about your request.
  • To qualify sales leads.
  • To provide support.
  • To send newsletters and other informational communications.
  • To send limited promotional communications.
  • To provide access to reports, resources, or other content.
  • To understand and improve our website and services.
  • To maintain business records.
  • To protect our website, systems, and users.
  • To comply with legal obligations.
For newsletter communications, we use opt-in consent, double opt-in confirmation, and unsubscribe links. You may unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email or contacting us at info@iibd.com.

3. Contact Us Submissions

If you submit a Contact Us form, we collect your name, email address, and message. We use this information to respond to your inquiry, qualify sales leads, provide support, and maintain business records. Contact Us submissions may be received through email, including Outlook, and may also be stored in our CRM. Access is limited to IIBD employees who need the information for business purposes. We do not automatically add Contact Us submitters to our newsletter list.

4. Newsletter Signups

If you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your name and email address. We use this information to send informational updates and limited promotional communications. We use Sendy to manage newsletter communications. We may track email opens, clicks, and other engagement information to understand how recipients interact with our emails. You may unsubscribe at any time. After you unsubscribe, we may retain your email address on a suppression list to help ensure that we do not send you further newsletter emails.

5. Reports and Gated Content

If you provide your email address to access a report or other gated content, we may use your email address to send or provide access to that content and to follow up with you. We do not sell or share report leads with sponsors, partners, or co-authors.

6. Cookies, Analytics, and Embedded Content

Our website may use cookies or similar technologies that help the website function, remember preferences, support embedded content, or understand website performance. We may use third-party services on our website, including video providers such as Vimeo and potentially YouTube in the future. These providers may collect information about your device, browser, IP address, and interactions with embedded content, depending on their own settings and privacy practices. We may also use third-party fonts, content delivery networks, hosting providers, form tools, CRM tools, email tools, analytics providers, or similar service providers.

7. How We Share Personal Information

We may share personal information with service providers that help us operate our website and business, including:
  • website hosting providers;
  • form providers;
  • CRM providers;
  • email and newsletter providers;
  • analytics providers;
  • video and embedded content providers;
  • IT, security, and business operations vendors.
These service providers may process personal information on our behalf. We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, retargeting, custom audiences, or lookalike audiences. We may use LinkedIn or similar sources for business development or contact enrichment in connection with B2B sales and relationship management. We may also disclose personal information if required by law, legal process, or to protect our rights, users, business, or systems.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to respond to inquiries, maintain business records, manage newsletter subscriptions, support sales and customer relationships, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements. Some records, such as Contact Us submissions, CRM records, newsletter records, and report-access records, may be retained indefinitely unless deletion is requested and we are legally or operationally able to delete them.

9. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. These include limiting access to personal information, using reputable hosted service providers, and using account security measures such as multi-factor authentication where appropriate. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. International Visitors and Data Transfers

IIBD operates in Canada and the United States, and our website may be accessed globally. If you visit our website or provide information from outside Canada or the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in Canada, the United States, or other countries where we or our service providers operate. Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws in your location.

11. Your Privacy Choices

You may:
  • unsubscribe from newsletter or marketing emails using the unsubscribe link in our emails;
  • contact us to ask questions about this Privacy Policy;
  • request that we review, correct, or delete personal information associated with you, where required by applicable law.
To make a privacy request, contact us at: info@iibd.com We aim to respond to privacy requests within 5 business days. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under applicable privacy laws.

12. California Notice at Collection

This section applies to California residents to the extent California privacy law applies to IIBD. We may collect the following categories of personal information:
Category Examples Purposes
Identifiers Name, email address, IP address Responding to inquiries, newsletter delivery, business development, website operations
Internet or electronic activity information Website interactions, browser/device information, email engagement Website improvement, email engagement analysis, security
Professional or business information Company-related information you provide or business contact context B2B relationship management, sales qualification, support
Communications content Messages submitted through Contact Us forms or emails Responding to inquiries, support, business records
We collect this information directly from you, automatically through the website, from service providers, and from business sources such as LinkedIn. We use this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We retain it for as long as reasonably necessary for those purposes. We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

13. EU/UK Visitors

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we process personal information based on one or more of the following legal bases:
  • Consent, such as when you sign up for our newsletter.
  • Legitimate interests, such as responding to business inquiries, maintaining B2B relationships, improving our website, and protecting our business.
  • Performance of a contract or pre-contractual steps, such as responding to requests related to our services.
  • Legal obligations, where we need to comply with applicable laws.
Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain processing of your personal information, and to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. You can contact us at info@iibd.com to exercise these rights.

14. Canadian Visitors

For Canadian visitors, we collect, use, and disclose personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. You may contact us at info@iibd.com with questions or requests regarding your personal information.

15. Children’s Privacy

Our website is intended for business professionals. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last Updated” date above. Your continued use of the website after an update means the revised Privacy Policy applies.

17. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us at: International Institute for Business Development Global Ltd. International Institute for Business Development, USA Inc. Operating as IIBD Email: info@iibd.com