The following is our privacy policy.  As you will read, we do not intend to share your information.  However, if you have any concerns whatsoever, please call us to discuss your case at 573-874-4190.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

Eng and Woods is committed to protecting your privacy.  This Privacy Policy describes the personal information (defined below) Eng and Woods (“Eng and Woods,” “us,” “we” or “our”) collects through your interactions with the Eng and Woods website (https://www.engandwoods.com/) (the “Site”), and how we collect, use, safeguard, and disclose that information.  This Privacy Policy also applies through your requests for our services offerings through the Site (“Services”), and when we collect personal information in connection with recruitment and pre-employment activities.  This Privacy Policy does not govern our collection of personal information through any other website or other means, other than through the Site. By using the Site and Services, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, Eng and Woods is a controller (i.e., responsible party) of your personal information when we administer the Site and Services directly on our own behalf. You can access specific topics in this Privacy Policy by clicking on the relevant links below:

1. Personal Information We Collect
2. Sources of Personal Information
3. Use of Personal Information
4. Personal Information We Disclose
5. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
6. California Shine the Light Law
7. Information Storage and Security
8. Data Retention
9. Children’s Privacy
10. External Links
11. Updates to this Privacy Policy
12. Contact Information

1. Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we collect or receive about you depends on how you interact with us.  “Personal information” refers to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you.  We collect or receive the following types of personal information about users of the Site and the Services:

• Contact Information/Identifiers, including name, email address, postal address, phone number, business contact information, or other similar identifiers.
• Demographic Information, including age and gender, some of which may include characteristics of protected classifications under state or federal law.
• Device Information and Other Unique Identifiers, including device identifiers, internet protocol (IP) address, or similar unique identifiers.
• Internet or Other Network Activity, including browsing or search history, information collected through cookies (please see “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies“) and information regarding your interactions with our websites, mobile applications, emails, or advertisements.
• Geolocation Data, including information that permits us to determine your location, such as if you manually provide location information or enable your mobile device to send us precise location information.
• Job Applicant Data: Name, gender, age, date of birth, email address, mailing address, telephone number, social media profiles, and in certain instances, identification documents, residency and work permit status, social security number (which may also be considered sensitive personal information) or other taxpayer/government identification number. This data also includes any professional qualifications, prior employment history, education history, additional information included in curriculum vitae, and references, as well as notes collected by interviewers and other professional assessment information.  If we offer you a job, we may collect additional background information, such as credit history and eligibility information (as permitted by law).

The provision of the personal information outlined above is generally voluntary, but in certain instances, we will not be able to process your request for our Services or, where applicable, consider you for employment without the requested information.

2. Sources of Personal Information

We collect your personal information in the following ways, pursuant to applicable law:

• Directly from You, when you use our Site or Services, or when you contact us.
• Through Our Use of Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies, when you visit our Site, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with us.  We or third parties we work with automatically collect certain information using technologies such as cookies, web beacons, clear GIF, pixels, internet tags, web server logs, and other data collection tools. For more information, please visit “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.”
• Other Sources, including publicly available sources.

3. Use of Personal Information

Eng and Woods collects and uses your personal information to operate the Site and deliver the Services you have requested. More specifically, we use personal information collected for the following business purposes:

• To communicate with you and respond to your questions and feedback;
• To process your request for Services through the Site;
• To enable you to access and use our Site;
• To understand what resources you use, if any, and to connect you to additional resources at your request;
• To send marketing and promotional materials, including information relating to the Services;
• To conduct research and analytics related to our Sites and Services;
• To manage our business operations, perform our obligations, and exercise our rights under any agreement with your organization;
• For other purposes with your consent, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law;
• To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim;
• To consider individuals for employment opportunities and manage onboarding procedures, as well as to administer and improve our recruitment process;
• To evaluate our progress in achieving our diversity hiring goals, to ensure equal opportunity monitoring and reporting, to meet obligations, including providing workforce accommodations and for disability and workplace safety tracking administration;
• To ensure the technical functions of our network, including to detect, investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including fraudulent transactions, attempts to manipulate or violate our policies, procedures, and terms and conditions, security incidents, and harm to the rights, property, or safety of Eng and Woods and our users, clients, employees, or others;
• To improve and customize the content and layout of the Site; or
• To develop new Services.

4. Personal Information We Disclose

In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose information in the following situations, as permitted by applicable law:

• Service Providers. We work with third parties that provide services on our behalf.  Such services may include website hosting, marketing, and website usage analytics.  We may disclose personal information and non-personal information with these third parties for the purpose of enabling them to provide these services.
• Consent. We may disclose personal information in accordance with any consent you provide.
• Government agencies, regulators, and professional advisors. We may disclose personal information or any information collected through this Site or Services if we are required to do so by law or pursuant to legal process, in response to a request from government officials or law enforcement authorities, as necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of illegal activity, to comply with our legal obligations, and defend our legal interests.
• Certain Transactions. We may disclose or transfer personal information or any information collected through the Site or Services to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
• Social Media Platforms and Networks: Our Site may have features such as, plugins, widgets, or and other tools made available by third parties that may result in information being collected or disclosed between us and the third party.  The third party’s use of your information is not governed by this Privacy Policy.
• De-identified or Aggregate Information. We may aggregate and anonymize information you provide to us in such a way as to ensure it will no longer be identifiable to you.  This data may be used for statistical, analytic, and administrative purposes, including analyzing our website traffic and trends, or tailoring our Services. We may disclose anonymized or aggregated data at our discretion, in accordance with applicable laws.

5. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Eng and Woods and our third-party providers set and use cookies and similar tracking technologies (collectively “Cookies”) on the Site to store and manage user preferences, enable content, and gather analytic and usage data.  This Cookies Policy provides information about how we use Cookies, and how you can control and manage them. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on a computer or other device and is used to identify the user or device and to collect information.  Cookies are typically assigned to one of three categories, depending on their function and intended purpose: Essential Cookies, Analytics Cookies, and Advertising Cookies. We use the following types of cookies on the Site:

Cookie Type	Description
Essential Cookies	These are cookies that the Site needs in order to function, and that enable you to move around and use the Site and features. Without these essential cookies, the Site will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to and we may not be able to provide the Site or certain services or features you request.
Analytics Cookies	Analytics cookies allow us to understand more about how many visitors we have to our Site, how many times they visit us, and how many times a user viewed specific pages within our Site. Although analytics cookies allow us to gather specific information about the pages that you visit and whether you have visited our Site multiple times, we cannot use them to find out details such as your name or address. We use Google Analytics. For more information about Google Analytics, please refer to “How Google Uses Information From Sites or Apps that Use Our Services,” which can be found at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, or any other URL Google may provide from time to time. To access and use the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
Advertising Cookies	Depending on your location and in certain circumstances, Eng & Woods may work with third-party online or mobile advertising providers that use cookies to help us manage our online and mobile advertising. We (or an advertising provider acting on our behalf) may place these cookies on your computer or device to display our ads on these providers’ platforms. The information collected from these cookies may also allow us to analyze the effectiveness of our advertising.

You can manage Cookies in your web browser (for example, Edge, Explorer, Chrome, Safari, etc.) settings, and you always have the choice to change these settings by accepting, rejecting, or deleting cookies.  If you choose to change your settings, you may find that certain functions and features will not work as intended on the services.  Cookie settings are slightly different depending on the browser used, so to manage Cookies, you should refer to the program documentation and the relevant settings within your particular browser. We understand that you may want to know more about Cookies.  Here are some useful resources that provide detailed information about types of Cookies, how they are used, and how you can manage your Cookie preferences: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” (DNT) or similar feature that signals to websites that a visitor does not want to have his/her online activity and behavior tracked. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and there is currently no industry consensus for how to recognize or respond to a DNT signal. For these reasons, Eng and Woods does not currently respond to DNT signals.

6. California Shine the Light Law

Residents of the State of California may ask us to provide them with a list of the types of personal information that we have disclosed during the preceding year to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, and the identity of those third parties. If you are a California resident and would like such a list, please contact us at the email address provided below. For all such requests, please indicate “CA Shine the Light” in the subject field of your request. You must also include your full name, email address, street address, city, state, and zip code.

7. Information Storage and Security

We employ reasonable security precautions to help protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information provided on or through the Site.  However, no method of transmitting or storing data is completely secure.  As a result, although we strive to protect personal information about you, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us through or in connection with the Site.  If you have reason to believe that personal information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately by contacting us in accordance with the last section below.  In the event of a breach that we are required by law to inform you of, we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.

8. Data Retention

We retain information about you and your use of our Site for as long as is needed to fulfill our legitimate business purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.  The specific periods for which we keep information about you vary depending on the nature of the information, why we need it, and whether the personal information is de-identified. We also consider the minimum necessary retention period prescribed by applicable laws, recommended by industry standards, and stated in contracts and other legal obligations.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our Site and Services are not intended for persons under 13 years of age.  If we learn that we have collected personal information from persons under 13 through our Site or Services, we will take appropriate steps to delete this information.

10. External Links

The Site may contain links to various websites that we do not control.  When you click on one of these links, you will no longer be transacting business through the Site.  Third party websites maintain their own privacy policies, and we do not exercise any control over any of the third party websites that may be linked to the Site.  If you visit a website that is linked to the Site, you should consult that website’s privacy policy before providing any personal information.  Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites, and we are not liable for their misuse of personal information about you.

11. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices, technology, legal requirements, and other factors.  When changes are made to this Privacy Policy, they will become effective immediately upon posting.  We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for the latest information on our information processing practices.  To the extent that our Privacy Policy changes in a material way, the Privacy Policy that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent (express or implied) to the new Privacy Policy where and as required by applicable law.

12. Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please use the below information to contact us: Eng and Woods 1000 West Nifong Boulevard Building 7, Suite 201 Columbia, Missouri 65203 Email: [email protected] This Privacy Policy includes an “effective” and “last updated” date.  The effective date refers to the date that the current version took effect.  The last updated date refers to the date that the current version was last substantively modified. Effective Date. May 31, 2024 Last Updated Date. May 31, 2024