Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy outlines the information that is collected and how it is used. For the purposes of this policy all references to “company” refer to HMS Construction, Inc hereinafter referred to as “Company” or “We”.

Our website, www.hmsconco.com (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website. Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Cookies

When you visit our website it can be necessary to store and/or read certain data from your device by using technologies such as cookies.

Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies, we get insights into the usage of our website for making informed decisions regarding the website and marketing purposes.

Our site uses Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity technologies to collect anonymized statistical and behavioral data from consenting site visitors through tools such as, but not limited to: session recordings, heatmaps, session duration, pages per session, engagement rate, and information on the source of traffic to our website.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy: policies.google.com

Microsoft Clarity Privacy Policy: microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement

Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes, as fully defined below. Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

Browser and Device based Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. You do have the right to opt-out and to object against the further use of non-functional cookies.

Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

- You may submit a request for access to the data we process about you;

- You may object to the processing of your personal data;

- You may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you;

- You may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer relevant, or to ask to restrict the processing of the data.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you. State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. We do not sell or share personal information to third parties for monetary consideration; however, we may disclose certain personal information to third parties under circumstances that might be deemed a “sale” or ”Sharing” for residents of California (CPRA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Delaware (PDPA), Iowa (CDPA), Nebraska (DPA), Nevada (NRS 603A), New Jersey (DPL), New Hampshire (DPA), Virginia (CDPA), Utah (UCPA), Texas (TDPSA), Oregon (OCPA) and Montana (MCDPA). We respect and understand that you may want to be sure that your personal information is not being sold or shared. You may request that we exclude your personal information from such arrangements, or direct us to limit the use and disclosure of possible sensitive personal information, by contacting us at privacy@eciusa.com. You may need to provide additional identifying information before we can process your request.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Information We Collect about You and How We Collect It

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or other personal information category collected (“personal information”);

- That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or

- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

- Directly from you when you provide it to us.

- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website or submitting information through our Website as may be available now or in the future.

- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

- Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
· Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
· Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

The information we collect automatically may or may not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

- Speed up your searches.

- Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies) A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Web Beacons Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity.

Children’s Privacy

Our website is not designed for children, we do not knowingly collect information from any person under the age of 13. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@eciusa.com.

Use of Information

PII is used as necessary to offer employment, solicit business and provide services including, but not limited to the following:

- To present our website and its content to you

- Internal administrative and auditing purposes

- Business proposals and service offerings, including improving our services

- Notices of promotions, accolades, or marketing

- Tracking of time, location, or activities for billing purposes

- Fulfill audit requests, insurance requirements or other such agency, client, or contract requirements

- Maintain secure data and premises access

- Any other lawful activity involved in the ordinary course of business

Please note that these examples are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive.

Information Sharing

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. Information may be shared for the purposes of employment, marketing, or to provide professional services among other business-related activities. We may also share this information with any subsidiaries, licensees, suppliers, distributors, affiliates, assigns, successors, or others as necessary during the regular course of business. We may also disclose information to comply order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

PII is not sold for any reason.

California Privacy Rights

If you are an individual, who is a California resident, California law provides you with the following rights:

Shine the Light

California Civil Code section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, allows California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about their personally identifiable information, if any, that we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year, if at all. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared such information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request to crystal.kuntz@eciusa.com

Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine the Light” requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. Please also note that under California law, we are only required to respond to a consumer request once during any calendar year.

As stated in our Privacy Notice, we do not sell any of your personal information to third parties for their use in direct marketing, advertising, or promotion of their products or services.

“Do Not Track”

This is a privacy setting that you may set in your web browsers. If turned on, this setting directs websites, analytics companies, ad networks, plug in providers, and other web services you encounter while browsing, to stop tracking your activity. At this time, we do not respond to “Do Not Track” browser settings or signals.

California Consumer Privacy Act

California Civil Code section 1798.100–1798.199 provides you with the following rights:

Right to know your collected personal information. You may ask us to identify the (i) categories of personal information we collected about you in the past 12 months; (ii) the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; (iii) the business or commercial purpose for collecting the information; (iv) the categories of third parties with whom the Company shares the personal information; and (v) the specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you.

Right to know your disclosed personal information. You may ask us to state (i) whether we have disclosed any of your personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the prior 12 months; (ii) list the categories of personal information that we have disclosed, if any, to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the prior 12 months.

Right to request deletion of personal information. Subject to legal exceptions, you may ask us to delete your personal information.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any rights you have under the Consumer Privacy Act.

If you are a California resident and want to exercise any right under the Consumer Privacy Act, you may do so by:

Filling out the form at hmsconco.com/contact-us/
Contacting us at privacy@eciusa.com

Please be advised that if you submit such a request, we will first need to verify your identity.

Please note that under California law, we are only required to respond to such request from the same individual no more than twice in a 12–month period.

CCPA Notice for Job Applicants and Workers

For the purposes of this policy all references to “company” refer to Electrical Consultants, Inc., EPC Services Co, ECI, and EPCS. Our company collects and uses personal information for hiring, human resources, employment, benefit administration, health and safety, and business-related purposes. Below are the categories of personal information we collect:

Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Category D: Commercial information.
Category E: Biometric information.
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
Category G: Geolocation data.
Category H: Sensory data.
Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
Category J: Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.

Why we collect Personal Data and how we use it

Personal data is used as necessary to offer employment, solicit business and provide services including, but not limited to the following:

Internal administrative and auditing purposes
Business proposals and service offerings
Notices of promotions, accolades, or marketing
Tracking of time, location, or activities for billing purposes
Fulfill audit requests, insurance requirements or other such agency, client, or contract requirements
Maintain secure data and premises access
Any other lawful activity involved in the ordinary course of business