Effective Date: October 20, 2020
Last Updated: July 21, 2026
Columbia Consulting Engineers, PLLC (“CCE,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information of our clients, website visitors, job applicants, employees, consultants, and prospective candidates.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit our website, submit an inquiry, apply for a position, express interest in an employment or consulting opportunity, or communicate with our recruiting, human resources, or business teams.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with CCE, we may collect the following categories of personal information:
Contact Information
Your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, and general geographic location.
Professional and Employment Information
Your résumé, employment history, educational background, professional licenses, certifications, technical qualifications, project experience, professional references, work authorization information, availability, compensation expectations, and other information relevant to employment or consulting opportunities.
Communications Information
Information contained in emails, telephone calls, voicemail messages, website inquiries, application materials, interview communications, and SMS or text-message conversations.
Website and Technical Information
When you visit our website, we or our service providers may automatically collect limited technical information, such as your Internet Protocol address, browser type, device type, referring website, pages visited, and approximate date and time of access.
2. Sources of Personal Information
We may collect personal information:
- Directly from you;
- Through our website, employment applications, candidate forms, or other opt-in forms;
- Through recruiting platforms, applicant-tracking systems, professional networking websites, and job boards;
- From employment agencies, recruiters, referrals, professional contacts, or references;
- From publicly available professional sources; and
- From service providers that support our recruiting, communications, website, or business operations.
Obtaining a mobile telephone number from a résumé, job board, recruiting platform, referral, or publicly available source does not, by itself, constitute consent to receive SMS messages from CCE.
3. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
- Review and evaluate candidates for employment and consulting opportunities;
- Identify candidates who may be qualified for current or future opportunities;
- Communicate with individuals who have expressed interest in CCE;
- Schedule interviews, screenings, meetings, and onboarding activities;
- Provide application, interview, assignment, or employment-status updates;
- Respond to website inquiries and requests for engineering services;
- Manage client engagements and engineering consulting operations;
- Maintain recruiting, employment, and business records;
- Protect the security and integrity of our website and systems;
- Prevent fraud, misuse, or unauthorized activity; and
- Comply with legal, contractual, regulatory, and professional obligations.
4. SMS and Mobile Text Messaging
CCE may offer an SMS text-messaging program for individuals who wish to receive recruitment- and employment-related communications.
Types of Messages
SMS messages may include:
- Information about current or future employment or consulting opportunities;
- Interview and screening requests;
- Interview confirmations and scheduling updates;
- Application-status updates;
- Requests for additional candidate information;
- Onboarding or assignment-related communications; and
- Responses to questions submitted to our recruiting or human resources teams.
Consent and Opt-In
CCE sends SMS messages only when the recipient has affirmatively consented to receive them through a documented opt-in method, such as:
- Selecting a separate, unchecked SMS-consent checkbox on a website or application form;
- Providing written consent on an employment or candidate form;
- Submitting an authorized SMS keyword; or
- Providing another clear and documented form of consent.
Providing a mobile telephone number to CCE does not, by itself, constitute consent to receive SMS messages. Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of employment, consideration for employment, submitting an application, or purchasing any goods or services.
This Privacy Policy describes how we handle information but does not, by itself, constitute consent to receive SMS messages.
Message Frequency
Message frequency varies depending on your application, recruiting status, interview activity, or ongoing communications with CCE.
Message and Data Rates
Message and data rates may apply depending on your wireless carrier and mobile-service plan.
Opting Out
You may withdraw your consent and stop receiving SMS messages at any time by replying STOP to a message from CCE.
After you submit an opt-out request, you may receive one final message confirming that you have been unsubscribed. CCE will honor reasonable requests to revoke SMS consent as required by applicable law.
You may also request removal from SMS communications by contacting us using the information in Section 12 below.
Help and Support
Reply HELP to a CCE text message for assistance, or contact us at:
Email:
in**@cc*****.com
Telephone: 917-301-2940
Wireless carriers are not responsible for delayed or undelivered messages.
5. How We Disclose Personal Information
We do not sell or rent personal information.
We may disclose personal information in the following limited circumstances:
Service Providers
We may provide information to trusted service providers that assist us with website hosting, applicant tracking, recruiting, email, data storage, cybersecurity, business administration, or communications. These providers are permitted to use the information only as necessary to provide services to CCE and are expected to protect it appropriately.
Clients and Business Partners
When appropriate for a potential assignment or engagement, we may provide a candidate’s résumé, qualifications, or professional information to a client, prime consultant, joint-venture partner, or other business partner. We will do so in connection with legitimate employment, staffing, proposal, or project needs.
Legal and Safety Requirements
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process;
- Protect the rights, property, or safety of CCE, our employees, our clients, or others;
- Investigate suspected fraud, misconduct, or security incidents; or
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Business Transactions
Information may be disclosed as part of a merger, reorganization, financing, acquisition, transfer of assets, or similar business transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.
6. Mobile Information and SMS Consent Records
CCE does not sell, rent, or share mobile telephone numbers, SMS opt-in information, or SMS consent records with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
Mobile information and SMS consent records may be disclosed only:
- To technology and communications providers that help CCE deliver SMS messages;
- To service providers that maintain consent, suppression, and opt-out records;
- When necessary to protect CCE’s rights or systems; or
- When required by applicable law or legal process.
These service providers may use mobile information only to provide services on behalf of CCE and not for their own independent marketing purposes.
7. Cookies and Website Analytics
Our website may use cookies or similar technologies that support website functionality, security, traffic measurement, and performance analysis.
You may be able to restrict cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functions.
8. Data Security
CCE uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, acquisition, disclosure, alteration, loss, misuse, or destruction.
However, no website, electronic transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use care when sending sensitive information electronically.
9. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Evaluate candidates for current or future employment or consulting opportunities;
- Maintain recruiting, employment, client, and business records;
- Provide requested services or communications;
- Maintain SMS consent and opt-out records;
- Resolve disputes and enforce agreements; and
- Satisfy legal, regulatory, contractual, insurance, and professional obligations.
Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information and the purpose for which it was collected.
10. Your Choices and Privacy Requests
Subject to applicable law, you may ask CCE to:
- Provide information about the personal information we maintain about you;
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
- Update your contact or recruiting preferences;
- Delete certain personal information;
- Withdraw SMS consent; or
- Stop contacting you regarding employment opportunities.
Some information may need to be retained for legal, recordkeeping, security, contractual, or compliance purposes.
To submit a request, contact us using the information provided in Section 12.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our website, engineering services, recruiting activities, and SMS program are not directed to children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16 through these services.
12. Contact Us
For questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your communication preferences, contact:
Columbia Consulting Engineers, PLLC
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Email:
in**@cc*****.com
Telephone: 917-301-2940
Website: ccengrs.com
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, services, or legal obligations.
When we make changes, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Policy. Material changes will be communicated through our website or by another appropriate method when required by applicable law.