Who we are
X-Roads Technology Partners Inc.("we", "us", "X-Roads") is a Canadian advisory firm based in Victoria, BC. You can reach us at [email protected].
What we collect
This site has no contact form and collects nothing directly. There are exactly two ways to reach us, and each is described below. We do not buy or sell personal information.
If you email us, we receive whatever you choose to put in that email. It arrives in Gerry Lalonde's mailbox and nowhere else.
If you book a call, you do so through TidyCal, an external scheduling service. The name, email address, and any answers you give in that booking are collected by TidyCal, not by this website, and are handled by TidyCal's privacy policy.
Cookies and analytics
We use a single optional analytics cookie (Google Analytics 4) to understand how visitors find and use the site. Analytics are only enabled if you accept cookies on our consent banner. If you decline, no tracking cookies are set and no analytics data is collected from your session.
We do not use advertising cookies. We do not run remarketing or retargeting.
How we use your information
Email you send to [email protected] goes straight to Gerry Lalonde, who reads and replies personally. Bookings are used to hold the meeting and to prepare for it. We do not share your information with any third party for marketing purposes, and we do not add you to a mailing list.
Your rights under PIPEDA
Under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to request corrections or deletion. Email [email protected] with the subject "Privacy request" and we will respond within 30 days.
AI Policy
X-Roads Technology Partners builds and maintains this website with help from AI tools. Here is what that means in practice:
- Site content. Some copy on this site was drafted with the help of AI tools and reviewed by a human before publication. Every factual claim about Gerry, his career, and the firm has been verified against public sources.
- AI crawlers. We allow major AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and others) to index this site's public pages. There is no form or submitted information on this site for them to reach.
- What you send us. Anything you put in an email to Gerry, or in a booking, is not used to train AI models, not stored in a public database, and not shared with any third party.
- Our use of AI in client work. For client engagements, Gerry uses AI tools selectively to accelerate research and analysis, but every recommendation and deliverable is reviewed and signed off by him personally. AI does not replace operating experience.
A separate dedicated AI Policy page exists for AI agents and crawlers that look for one.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as our practices evolve. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent revision.