Privacy Notice
League of Innovators
Last updated: August 19, 2026
The short version
We are the League of Innovators, a Canadian charity that runs free entrepreneurship programs for people aged 15 to 30. To do that, we collect some information about you. This page explains what we collect, why, who sees it, and what you can ask us to do with it.
We do not sell your information.
Applying to a program does not put you on a marketing list. That is a separate choice you make yourself.
Who we are
League of Innovators is a federally incorporated Canadian not-for-profit and a charity registered with the Canada Revenue Agency, charity number 836468363RR0001.
Our mailing address is 100 - 111 5th Ave E, Vancouver, BC, V5T 4L1.
This notice covers three websites we operate:
loi.ac
joinnorthouse.ca
yeyawards.com
It also covers the programs we run under the League of Innovators name, including Labs, Boost, Launch It, our awards programs, and North House.
It does not cover our staff and contractor records, which are handled separately under our internal policies.
What we collect, and why
If you just visit one of our websites. Basic technical information that comes with any web request, such as your approximate location, browser, and the pages you looked at. We use it to keep the sites working and to understand which pages people find useful.
If you fill in a form or contact us. Your name, email, and whatever you write in the message. If you are asking about a program, we may also collect your city, your age, and a short description of what you are building.
If you apply to a program or enter our awards. More detail, because we have to make selection decisions. This falls into two kinds.
Information we need to assess eligibility and fit: your age, province or region, contact information, education or employment status, information about your venture or idea, and your answers to the application questions.
Optional questions about identity and background: we sometimes ask about things like gender, ethnicity, or newcomer status so we can understand and report on who our programs actually reach. These questions are optional, and choosing not to answer will not affect your application, unless the information is genuinely required to determine eligibility for a specific program, award category, or funding stream. Where that is the case, we say so on the form itself.
If someone nominates you for an award. Our awards accept nominations from third parties, which means someone may give us your name and contact details before you know anything about it. When that happens we contact you promptly, tell you who nominated you and what they told us, and ask whether you want to take part. If you do not, we delete what we hold. We do not use nomination information for anything else.
If you are accepted into a program. Attendance, participation in sessions, work you submit or present, feedback you give us, and progress updates on your venture. We use this to run the program and to understand whether it works.
If you sign up for our newsletter or an event. Your name and email, and for events, sometimes dietary or accessibility needs so we can accommodate you.
If you use North House. Booking and membership information, and if you pay us, billing details. Our payment provider handles card details. We do not see or store your full card number.
If you donate. Your name, contact information, and donation amount, which we need in order to issue a tax receipt and to meet our reporting obligations to the Canada Revenue Agency.
Marketing is a separate choice
You can apply to a program, enter an award, attend an event, or use North House without joining our mailing list. We ask about that separately, and saying no has no effect on anything else.
If you do subscribe, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send.
Cookies and tracking
Our websites use cookies and similar technologies to make the sites work and to understand how they are used.
Where we use technology that could identify, locate, or build a profile of you, we tell you and give you the choice to turn it off.
If you are under 18
Our programs start at age 15, so a good number of the people we work with are minors.
We do not require a parent or guardian to sign off on every application. If you are old enough to understand what information we are collecting and what we will do with it, you can make that decision yourself, and we write our forms so that the explanation is actually understandable.
We do take extra care with information about people under 18. We collect the minimum we need, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not use it to build profiles.
For some things we will ask a parent or guardian first. That generally means anything optional or higher-profile, such as featuring you in a promotional story, video, or interview, or connecting you with a sponsor or partner. We will tell you when we are doing this and why.
You, or your parent or guardian, can contact us at any time with questions about your information.
Who else sees your information
Mentors, coaches, and judges. If you are in a program or entered in an award, the people working with you or assessing your entry see what they need in order to do that. They are required to keep it confidential.
Sponsors and partners. We do not provide sponsors or partners with applicant lists or participant contact information simply because they support LOI. This includes sponsors whose name appears on an award category. Where we think an introduction might be genuinely useful to you, we ask your permission first, and you can say no with no effect on your place in a program or your standing in an award.
Funders and government. We report on our programs to funders and to the CRA. Those reports use aggregate numbers, not your name, unless you have separately agreed to be named in a story.
Our service providers. We use third-party providers to operate our websites, forms, applications, databases, communications, events, community platforms, file storage, automation, and payments. They only get the information they need to do that job, and they are not permitted to use it for their own purposes.
When the law requires it. If we are legally obliged to disclose something, we will, and we will tell you unless we are prohibited from doing so.
Information stored outside Canada and outside Quebec
Some of our service providers process or store information outside Canada, including in the United States. If you live in Quebec, this also means your information may be processed outside Quebec.
Information processed in another country may be subject to the laws of that country, which can include access requests by that country’s authorities.
Before we send personal information to a provider outside Canada, we assess the protection it will receive there. We remain responsible for your information while our providers hold it on our behalf, and we require them to protect it under contract.
Photos, video, and founder stories
We publish founder stories. It is a large part of how we show the programs work and how we attract the funding that keeps them free. But it is your call, and being in a program is not by itself consent to be featured.
Featured content. If we want to use you in a founder profile, a testimonial, an interview, a headshot, or a promotional video, we ask you specifically, and we tell you where it will appear, whether that is our websites, our newsletter, social media, the annual Impact Report, a grant application, or a sponsor report.
Event photography. At events we photograph and sometimes film the room, and people can end up in the background. We say so when you register and we put up signage on the day. If you would rather not appear, tell us or tell the photographer and we will work around you.
Changing your mind. Email us and we will stop using your story or image in anything new, and remove it from our own websites and channels.
There are limits to what we can undo, and we would rather be straight with you about them. Anything already printed, already downloaded, or already shared by someone else is outside our control, and search engines and archive sites sometimes keep copies of pages after we take them down. We will do what we can.
If you were under 18 when we published something, you can ask us to take it down at any point after you turn 18, and we will.
How long we keep things
We keep personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose we collected it for, to maintain appropriate program and alumni records, or to meet our legal, accounting, and reporting obligations.
When information is no longer needed, we securely delete it or strip out anything that identifies you and keep only anonymous statistics.
Your rights
You can ask us to:
Show you what we hold about you, and tell you how it has been used and who it has been disclosed to.
Correct it, if it is wrong or incomplete.
Delete it, or stop a search engine from linking to it, where it is no longer needed for the purpose we collected it or where keeping it causes you serious harm. Some limits apply, for example where we are legally required to keep a record such as a donation receipt.
Give you a copy of the information you gave us, in a common electronic format you can reuse.
Stop using it, by withdrawing your consent. If withdrawing consent means we cannot keep you in a program, we will tell you that clearly before you decide.
Answer your questions about how we handle personal information, or hear a complaint about it.
Decisions about who joins our programs and who wins our awards are made by people on our team and by our judges, not by software.
We respond to requests within 30 days.
Keeping your information safe
We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the information we hold, including access controls, account security measures, and multi-factor authentication where appropriate. We limit who on our team can see what, and we review access when someone joins or leaves.
If personal information is lost, or accessed or disclosed without authorization, we investigate, take steps to contain it, and notify you and the relevant privacy regulator where there is a real risk of serious harm.
Who is responsible
Our Privacy Officer is Rob Ironside, CEO.
Privacy Officer
League of Innovators
100 - 111 5th Ave E, Vancouver, BC, V5T 4L1
If you are not satisfied
Tell us first. We would rather fix it directly, and most things are a misunderstanding we can sort out quickly.
If we cannot resolve your concern, you can contact:
the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia at oipc.bc.ca
the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec at cai.gouv.qc.ca, if you live in Quebec
Changes to this notice
If we change something significant, we will update the date at the top and, where the change affects you directly, tell you by email.