Privacy Notice

HNTB (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Notice is provided to describe the personal information we collect, how we use it, with whom we share it, and the choices available regarding our use of personal information on https://www.hntb.com (the “Site”). We also describe the measures we take to protect the security of the information and how to contact us about our privacy practices.

Updates to this Notice

We will post changes to our privacy practices on this page and encourage you to review this page when you use our Site to stay informed. If we make changes that materially alter your privacy rights, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make.  If you disagree with the changes to this Privacy Notice, you should discontinue your use of the Site.

Children’s Privacy

The Site is not directed to or intended for use by minors. Consistent with the requirements of the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), if we learn that we received any information directly from a child under age 13 without his or her parent’s verified consent, we will use that information only to inform the child (or his or her parent or legal guardian) that he or she cannot use the Site.

Personal Information We Collect

Information You Provide Us

We collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, and phone number when you contact us, sign up to receive publications from us, or otherwise interact with us on our Site. Job applicants may also provide additional information, such as education and career information as part of their job applications on HNTB’s careers page.

Information We May Automatically Collect

When you visit the Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, internet protocol (IP) address, time zone, and some of the Cookies (defined below) that are installed on your device using Cookies and similar technologies. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we may collect information about the individual web pages or services that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site.

Cookies & Similar Technologies

We use cookies (small, often encrypted, text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device) and similar technologies (“Cookies”) to provide Site and help collect data. This section explains how we use Cookies to collect information about the way you use our Site and how you can control them.

How We Use Cookies

We use Cookies to track how you use our Site by providing usage statistics. Cookies also are used to deliver our information (including updates) and allow account authentication to you based upon your browsing history and previous visits to the Site. Information supplied to us using Cookies helps us to provide a better online experience to our visitors and users and send marketing communications to them, as the case may be.

While this information on its own may not constitute your personal information, we may combine the information we collect from Cookies with personal information that we have collected from you to learn more about how you use our Site to improve it.

Types of Cookies

We use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them). To make it easier for you to understand why we need them, the Cookies we use on our Site can be grouped into the following categories:

  • Strictly Necessary: These Cookies are necessary for the Site to work properly. They include any essential authentication and authorization Cookies for our Site.
  • Functionality: These Cookies enable technical performance and allow us to remember the choices you make while browsing our Site, including any preferences you set. They also include sign-in and authentication Cookies and IDs that enable you to return without additional sign-in.
  • Performance/Analytical: These Cookies allow us to collect certain information about how you navigate the Site and services running on your device. They help us understand which areas you use and what we can do to improve them.
  • Targeting: These Cookies are used to deliver relevant information related to our Site to an identified machine or other device (not a named or otherwise identifiable person), which has previously been used to visit our Site. Some of these types of Cookies on our Site are operated by third parties with our permission and are used to identify advertising sources that are effectively driving customers to our Site.

Other Similar Technologies

Our Site may use other technologies such as web beacons to help deliver Cookies on our Site and count users who have visited those websites. We also may include web beacons in our promotional email messages or newsletters to determine whether you open and act on them, as well as for statistical purposes.

In addition to standard Cookies and web beacons, our services also can use other similar technologies to store and read data files on your computer. This is typically done to maintain your preferences or to improve speed and performance by storing certain files locally.

How to Control and Delete Cookies

Cookies can be controlled, blocked or restricted through your web browser settings. Information on how to do this can be found within the Help section of your browser. All Cookies are browser specific. Therefore, if you use multiple browsers or devices to access websites, you will need to manage your Cookie preferences across these environments.

Find out how to manage Cookies on popular browsers:

If you are using a mobile device to access the Site, you will need to refer to your instruction manual or other help/settings resource to find out how you can control Cookies on your device.  For more information about Cookies, and how to disable Cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note: If you restrict, disable or block any or all Cookies from your web browser or mobile or other device, the Site may not operate properly, and you may not have access to our services available through the Site. We shall not be liable for any impossibility to use the Site or degraded functioning thereof, where such are caused by your settings and choices regarding Cookies.

Third-Party Analytics Providers

We use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers (“Analytics Providers”) to collect information about how you use our Site. Analytics Providers use Cookies in order to collect demographic and interest-level information and usage information from users that visit the Site, including information about the pages where users enter and exit the Site and what pages users view on the Site, time spent, browser, operating system, and IP address. Analytics Providers use the information they collect from the Site and other websites to share with us and other website operators’ information about users including age range, gender, geographic regions, general interests, and details about devices used to visit the Site and other websites and purchase items.

For more information regarding Google’s use of Cookies, collection and use of information, see their privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en The Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On is available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect from you in the following ways:

  • To provide and maintain our Site;
  • To review and process your job applications;
  • To process your inquiries on our contact us page;
  • For the performance of a contract and the development, compliance and undertaking of any contract you may have with us;
  • To personalize your experience on the Site;
  • To manage your requests;
  • To communicate with you;
  • To screen for and investigate potential risks and fraud in our systems;
  • To optimize our Site;
  • To comply with legal obligations; and
  • To establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties unless we provide you with advance notice. We share your personal information with third party service providers who allow us to run the Site and deliver our products and services to you.

We may share your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights. We may also disclose your personal information as part of a corporate business transaction such as a merger or acquisition, divestiture, sale of company assets, or in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership. In these cases, personal information could be transferred to third-parties as a business asset. We may also share information with banks and similar entities for purposes of transferring loans in connection with your device financing.

Privacy Technology Practices

Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers have incorporated “do not track” features to enable users to make privacy and security choices. By using these settings, your browser may send a signal to our Site not to collect tracking information. Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

Data Security

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information. Depending on the circumstances, we may hold your information in hard copy and/or electronic form. For each medium, we use technologies and procedures to protect personal information. We review our strategies and update as necessary to meet our business needs, changes in technology, and regulatory requirements.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials for the services.  We will treat access to the Site through your account credentials as authorized by you.  Unauthorized access to password-protected or secure areas is prohibited and may lead to criminal prosecution.  We may suspend your use of all or part of the Site without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security.  If you believe that information you provided to us is no longer secure, please notify us immediately using the contact information provided below.

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 Site. 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 Site.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as we have a business relationship with you. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Site to you;
  • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
  • Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

We may retain your account information and order information for our records for up to seven years after your last transaction. We reserve the right to retain anonymized and aggregate information indefinitely.

Additional Disclosure For California Residents

This section outlines data privacy rights afforded to California residents and certain disclosures that are required by the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA).

Your Right to Know and Delete

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal data over the past 12 months. Once we receive and validate your request, we will include a list of your personal data that may have been disclosed and the categories of third parties the information may have been disclosed to.

You may request that we delete any of your personal data that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will review your request. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is proper and necessary or if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies under applicable law.

If your request is approved, we will delete or deidentify the relevant information and will direct our service providers to take similar action.

Exercising Your Rights to Know, Delete or Correct

To exercise your rights to know or delete described above, please submit a request by either:

  • Calling us at (+1) 888-400-4682
  • Emailing us at HRSC@hntb.com

Only you, or your authorized representative may make a request to know or delete related to your personal data. We may ask for your name, email address and account information to verify your identity or your authorized representative’s identity.

You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period. We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt, unless we require an extension. If we reasonably require an extension we will inform you of the reason and extension period.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your data rights.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Shine the Light Law

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of the information you provide through the Site to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us by sending an email to HRSC@hntb.com with subject line “Shine the Light.”

Summary of Data Disclosed to Third Parties

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we may have disclosed personal information for a business purpose to the categories of third parties indicated in the chart below. We do not “sell” or “share” your information as those terms are defined in the CCPA.

Personal Information Category Examples of Information Category Business Purpose Disclosures Category of Third-Party Recipients
A: Identifiers. A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers Account processing; invoice and payment processing; product and services recommendations Data Analytics Providers; advertising networks; Operating Systems & Platforms; Social Networks; Billing and Payment Processors
B: California Customer Records personal information categories. A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories Account processing; invoice and payment processing; product and services recommendations Data Analytics Providers; advertising networks; Operating Systems & Platforms; Social Networks; Billing and Payment Processors
C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information) None N/A
D: Commercial information. Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies Product and services recommendations Data Analytics Providers; advertising networks
E: Biometric information. Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints None N/A
F: Internet or other similar network activity. Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement Product and services recommendations Advertising Networks; Data Analytics Providers; Operating Systems & Platforms
G: Geolocation data. IP address based location information and GPS data Product and services recommendations Service providers; advertising partners; analytics partners and other parties you may authorize
H: Sensory data. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information None N/A
I: Professional or employment-related information. Current or past job history or performance evaluations None N/A
J: Non-public education information. Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records Visa sponsorship Immigration attorneys and USCIS
K: Inferences drawn from other personal information. Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes None N/A

Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, please contact us by e‑mail at HRSC@hntb.com or by mail at the address above.