Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 16, 2026
Last Updated: July 22, 2026

Nichols Consulting Engineers, Chtd. (“NCE,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit https://www.ncenet.com/ or otherwise communicate with us through the website.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the NCE website. It does not necessarily apply to information collected through NCE’s client engagements, employee systems, or other services that are governed by separate agreements or notices.

1. Information We Collect

The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with the website.

Information You Provide to Us

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide through website forms, email, telephone, or other communications, including:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Telephone number

  • Company or organization

  • Job title

  • The subject and content of your inquiry

  • Project or service interests

  • Any other information you choose to submit

Website form submissions may be delivered to NCE by email and stored within the website’s WordPress and Gravity Forms systems.

Please do not submit confidential, sensitive, or legally protected information through a general website contact form unless NCE specifically requests it.

Careers and Applicant Information

NCE’s careers page displays employment opportunities through an embedded recruiting platform provided by ADP Workforce Now.

When you view a job listing, begin an application, or submit applicant information through that service, ADP and NCE may collect information directly from you. This may include:

  • Contact information

  • Employment history

  • Education

  • Résumé or curriculum vitae

  • Professional qualifications

  • References

  • Work authorization information

  • Other information included in an application

ADP’s own privacy notice and terms may also apply to information collected through its platform.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the website, we and our service providers may automatically collect technical and usage information, such as:

  • Internet Protocol address

  • Browser type and version

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • Approximate geographic location

  • Referring website

  • Pages viewed

  • Links clicked

  • Date and time of access

  • Time spent on the website

  • Cookie and consent preferences

  • Other website interaction and diagnostic information

This information may be collected through cookies, pixels, tags, server logs, analytics tools, and similar technologies.

2. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember visitor preferences, maintain security, understand website use, and improve website performance.

The website may use the following categories of cookies.

Essential and Functional Cookies

These cookies support website security, basic functionality, consent preferences, and administrative features. They may include cookies associated with:

  • Cloudflare

  • WordPress

  • Complianz

  • Website security and session management

Some WordPress cookies are used only when an authorized administrator or editor is logged into the website and are not ordinarily placed for general website visitors.

Analytics Cookies

The website uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website. Google Analytics may collect information such as visited pages, device information, approximate location, referral source, and website interactions.

Google Analytics cookies identified during review included:

  • _ga

  • _ga_3JFYJXE0Q5

The website also uses Google Tag Manager to manage website tags and related measurement technologies.

For visitors subject to the website’s U.S. consent configuration, analytics may operate unless the visitor opts out through the cookie preference controls. Visitors can change their preferences at any time.

Consent Preference Cookies

Complianz may place cookies to remember whether a visitor accepted, rejected, or otherwise configured cookie preferences. These may include cookies such as:

  • cmplz_banner-status

  • cmplz_functional

  • cmplz_statistics

  • cmplz_preferences

  • cmplz_marketing

Cloudflare Cookies

Cloudflare may place security-related cookies, including __cf_bm, to identify and mitigate automated traffic and protect the website from malicious activity.

Managing Cookies

You can use the website’s cookie banner or cookie preference controls to review or change your cookie choices.

You can also configure your browser to block or delete cookies. Blocking some cookies may affect website operation or functionality.

For more detailed information, please review our Cookie Policy or use the cookie preference controls available on the website.

3. Website Review and Feedback Tools

During website development, maintenance, or client review, NCE or its website service provider may temporarily use Userback or a similar website feedback tool.

These tools may collect information submitted by an authorized reviewer, together with technical information such as:

  • Page URL

  • Browser and device information

  • Screen resolution

  • Screenshots or annotations

  • Feedback comments

  • Console or diagnostic information

Userback is intended for authorized client and website review and is disabled for ordinary public visitors.

4. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Respond to questions and requests

  • Communicate about NCE’s services

  • Evaluate potential projects or business relationships

  • Route inquiries to the appropriate NCE office or team member

  • Manage website form submissions

  • Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website

  • Understand website traffic and visitor interaction

  • Diagnose technical problems

  • Prevent fraud, abuse, and security threats

  • Manage recruiting and employment applications

  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

  • Enforce applicable agreements and website terms

NCE does not currently use website form information to send routine newsletters or marketing emails. If NCE begins offering marketing subscriptions, we may update this Privacy Policy and provide appropriate subscription and opt-out controls.

5. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients.

Service Providers

We may disclose information to companies that perform services on our behalf, such as:

  • Website hosting providers

  • Website developers and maintenance providers

  • Security and content-delivery providers

  • Analytics providers

  • Form and database providers

  • Recruiting and applicant-tracking providers

  • Information technology providers

  • Professional advisers

These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services or as otherwise permitted by law and their agreements with us.

Within NCE

We may disclose information among NCE offices, personnel, and affiliated operations when reasonably necessary to respond to an inquiry, evaluate a project, recruit employees, or operate the business.

Legal and Compliance Disclosures

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

  • Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or governmental request

  • Protect the rights, property, or safety of NCE, our employees, our clients, website visitors, or others

  • Investigate fraud, security incidents, or suspected illegal activity

  • Enforce agreements or protect legal rights

Business Transactions

Personal information may be disclosed or transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction.

6. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

NCE does not sell personal information for money.

NCE also does not knowingly share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as that term is defined under applicable state privacy laws.

We may disclose limited technical or usage information to analytics and website service providers for the operational purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Depending on the law that applies, certain uses of analytics or advertising technologies may be treated as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising even when no money is exchanged.

Visitors may manage analytics cookies through the website’s cookie preference controls.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

  • Respond to and maintain records of inquiries

  • Evaluate potential projects or relationships

  • Maintain business and operational records

  • Complete recruiting processes

  • Protect website and network security

  • Resolve disputes

  • Enforce agreements

  • Satisfy legal, accounting, insurance, or regulatory obligations

Website form submissions are delivered to NCE by email and stored within the website’s WordPress and Gravity Forms systems. These entries are generally retained indefinitely unless the individual requests deletion or NCE determines that the information is no longer needed.

Applicant information submitted through ADP Workforce Now may be retained according to NCE’s recruiting needs, legal obligations, and the provider’s applicable settings and policies.

Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information and the reason it was collected.

8. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no internet transmission, website, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use care when deciding what information to transmit electronically.

9. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you reside and the law that applies, you may have the right to request (if applicable) that we:

  • Confirm whether we process your personal information

  • Provide access to personal information we maintain about you

  • Correct inaccurate personal information

  • Delete certain personal information

  • Provide a portable copy of certain personal information

  • Restrict or object to certain processing

  • Opt out of the sale of personal information

  • Opt out of sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising

  • Opt out of targeted advertising

  • Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information

  • Provide information about categories of information collected and disclosed

  • Review or appeal a decision concerning a privacy request

NCE will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.

These rights are not absolute. We may deny or limit a request when permitted by law, including when information must be retained to comply with a legal obligation, complete a transaction, protect security, exercise legal rights, or fall within another legal exception.

Submitting a Request

To submit a privacy request, contact:

Email: admin@ncenet.com

Mail:
NCE
Attn: Privacy Request
300 E. 2nd Street, Suite 1210
Reno, NV 89501
United States

Please describe your request and provide enough information for us to identify relevant records.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Verification may require confirming information already associated with you. We will use verification information only to evaluate and respond to the request.

Where permitted by law, you may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We may require proof of the agent’s authority and may also need to verify your identity directly.

10. Global Privacy Control and Preference Signals

Where required by applicable law and supported by our systems, NCE will process recognized browser-based opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, as a request to opt out of applicable sale, sharing, or targeted-advertising activities for the browser or device sending the signal.

Because NCE does not currently sell personal information or use it for cross-context behavioral advertising, these signals may not materially change how the website processes information.

11. Third-Party Websites and Services

The website may contain links to or embedded content from third-party websites and services, including:

  • ADP Workforce Now

  • Recruiting and application platforms

  • Client or employee portals

  • Mapping or social media services

  • Professional organizations

  • External project or informational resources

NCE does not control the privacy, security, or data-handling practices of third parties. Information you provide directly to a third party is governed by that party’s privacy notice and terms.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party websites and services before providing personal information.

12. Children’s Privacy

The website is intended for a general business and professional audience and is not directed to children under 13.

NCE does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the website. If we learn that a child under 13 has provided personal information through the website, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

13. United States Audience

The website is operated for a United States audience. If you access the website from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

NCE does not currently direct the website’s services or marketing activities specifically toward residents of the European Union, European Economic Area, or United Kingdom.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, services, or legal requirements.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of the policy. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or by other appropriate means.

15. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or NCE’s privacy practices, contact:

NCE
Attn: Privacy
300 E. 2nd Street, Suite 1210
Reno, NV 89501
United States

Email: admin@ncenet.com
Telephone: (775) 329-4955
Website: https://www.ncenet.com/