Last Updated August 14, 2025
We at RSE Consulting respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to explain how we collect, use, share, and protect the personal information you provide to us when you access our website, engage our consulting services, or interact with us on social media, as well as your own rights to the information we collect.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. We will alert you to any changes to this Policy by changing the “last updated” date at the top of this Policy. Any changes become effective immediately upon publication on our website, and you waive specific notice of any changes to the Policy by continuing to use and access our site(s). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically when you use our website for any purpose or engage with us on social media. You are deemed to have accepted any changes to any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of our website after the revised Privacy Policy is posted.
INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT
We collect a variety of information from you when you visit our website, engage our services, or interact with us on social media. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you are specifically consenting to our collection of the data described below, to our use of the data, to the processing of this data, and to our sharing of the data with third party processors as needed for our legitimate business interests. The information we collect may include:
Personal Data: Personal Data is information that can be used to identify you specifically, including your name, business address, email address, telephone number, organization name, job title, or demographic information like your industry sector or geographic location. You consent to giving us this information by providing it to us voluntarily on our website or any mobile application. You provide some of this information when you register for events, request consultations, or download resources from our website. You may also provide this information by participating in various activities associated with our site, including responding to blogs, contacting us with questions, or participating in community engagement programs. Your decision to disclose this data is entirely voluntary. You are under no obligation to provide this information, but your refusal may prevent you from accessing certain services or resources from our website.
Derivative Data: Derivative data is information that our servers automatically collect about you when you access our website, such as your IP address, browser type, the dates and times that you access our website, and the specific pages you view. If you are using a mobile application, our servers may collect information about your device name and type, your phone number, your country of origin, and other interactions with our application.
Professional Data: Professional data includes information about your organization, industry sector, economic development interests, and specific consulting needs. We collect this information to better understand your requirements and provide tailored economic development solutions.
Financial Data: Financial data is data that is related to your payment method for our consulting services, such as credit card or bank transfer details. We collect financial data in order to process payments for consulting services, workshops, or events. We store limited financial data. Most financial data is transferred to our payment processors, and you should review these processors’ Privacy Policy to determine how they use, disclose and protect your financial data.
Social Networking Data: We may access personal information from social networking sites and apps, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or other professional networking sites, which may include your name, your social network username, location, email address, professional title, organization, profile picture and any other public information. If you do not want us to access this information, please go to the specific social networking site and change your privacy settings.
Mobile Device Data: If you use our website via a mobile device or app, we may collect information about your mobile device, including device ID, model and manufacturer, and location information.
Event and Program Data: When you register for our events, workshops, or community programs, we may collect additional information such as dietary restrictions, accessibility needs, or specific areas of interest related to economic development.
Other data: On occasion, you may give us additional data in order to participate in surveys, provide testimonials, or engage in our community impact assessments. You will be prompted for this information and it will be clear that you are offering this kind of information in exchange for participation in such activities.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
Your information allows us to offer you consulting services, facilitate public-private partnerships, deliver workforce development programs, and customize your interaction with our company and our website. We generally store your data and transmit it to a third party for processing. However, to the extent we process your data, we do so to serve our legitimate business interests (such as providing you with economic development solutions and connecting you with relevant stakeholders).
Specifically, we may use the information and data described above to:
Create and administer your account; and
Deliver consulting services and project deliverables to you; and
Facilitate connections with relevant stakeholders and partners; and
Correspond with you about projects and initiatives; and
Process payments for services or event registrations; and
Contact you about new programs, workshops, or partnership opportunities that align with your interests; and
Share relevant economic development resources and research; and
Interact with you via social media and professional networks; and
Send you newsletters or updates about regional economic development initiatives; and
Request feedback on our services and community impact; and
Notify you of updates to our service offerings and programs; and
Coordinate stakeholder engagement and public-private partnerships; and
Administer event registrations and workshop participation; and
Generate reports and evaluation metrics for economic development programs; and
Compile anonymous statistical data for economic research and community impact assessment; and
Assist government agencies and nonprofit partners as necessary; and
Analyze trends to improve our consulting services and community programs.
WHY WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We may share your information with third parties in certain situations. In particular, we may share your data with third party processors as needed to serve our legitimate business interests, which include facilitating economic development initiatives, coordinating public-private partnerships, delivering workforce development programs, and connecting stakeholders for community impact. The legal basis for our disclosure of your data is both your Consent to this Privacy Policy and our own right to protect and promote our legitimate business interests.
The following are specific reasons why we may share your information.
Third Party Processing: We may disclose your information to third parties who assist us with various tasks, including payment processing, event management, email delivery, project collaboration tools, and data analysis for economic impact assessment. We may not always disclose these third-party processors if not required by law.
By Law: We may share your data as required by law or to respond to legal process, including a subpoena, or as necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of others. This includes sharing information with government agencies for economic development reporting requirements.
To Protect Our Company: We may use your information to protect our company, including to investigate and remedy any violations of our rights or policies. We may also disclose your information as reasonably necessary to acquire and maintain insurance coverage, manage risks, obtain financial or legal advice, or to exercise or defend against legal claims.
Project Partners and Stakeholders: To facilitate economic development projects and public-private partnerships, we may share relevant information (excluding Financial Data) with project partners, including government agencies, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and private sector partners participating in our initiatives. We will only share information necessary for project coordination and with your consent.
Community Partners: We may share limited information with community partners and stakeholders involved in workforce development, regional collaboration, and economic development initiatives, always with appropriate confidentiality measures in place.
Grant Funders and Sponsors: When our projects are supported by grants or sponsorships, we may be required to share aggregate data or anonymized information with funders for reporting and evaluation purposes.
We may also employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include providing technical assistance, project coordination, stakeholder engagement, and marketing assistance. These other companies will have access to your data only as necessary to perform their functions and to the extent permitted by law.
Advertisers: We may use third party advertising companies to run and manage our ads, to produce ads that appears when you visit our Website or mobile app. These companies may use information about your visit to our website and other websites that are contained in web cookies (as described below) to offer you personalized advertisements about economic development resources and services that might interest you. We cannot control the activities of such other advertisers or web sites. You should consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party advertisers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.
Other Third Parties: We may share information with professional service providers, such as evaluation consultants, data analysts, or communication specialists, for the purpose of improving our services and measuring community impact. If we do so, we will make reasonable efforts to inform You if required by law.
Sale or Bankruptcy: In the event that our company is sold, goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, your information may be an asset that is transferred to a third-party successor. Such a successor is not bound by our Privacy Policy and may have its own. You will be notified in the event our Company is sold, goes out of business or enters bankruptcy.
Professional Networks: If you participate in our stakeholder engagement activities, workshops, or networking events, other participants may have access to your name, organization, and professional interests to facilitate meaningful connections and collaborations.
Online postings: When you post comments on our blog, participate in online forums, or share testimonials, your posts may be viewed by others, and we may distribute your comments outside the website with your permission.
External Links: Our website may include hyperlinks to partner organizations, government resources, and other economic development websites not controlled by us. We suggest you exercise caution when clicking on a hyperlink. Although we use reasonable care in including a hyperlink on our own web page, we do not regularly monitor the websites of these third parties, are not responsible for any damage or consequences you suffer by using these hyperlinks. We are not bound by the Privacy Policies of any third-party website that you access by a hyperlink, nor are they bound by ours. We encourage you to read the Policies of those third-party websites before interacting with them or making purchases. They may collect different information and by different methods than we do.
Other purposes: We may disclose your personal data as necessary to comply with any legal obligation or to protect your interests, or the vital interests of others or our company.
TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies, Log Files and Web Beacons: Like many other Web sites, we make use of log files. These files merely log visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
We also use cookies –small text files sent to us by your computer – and web beacons to store certain information. We may use cookies to authenticate your identity, to determine if you are logged onto our website, for personalization, for security, for targeted advertising, or for analysis of the performance of our website and services. For example, cookies allow us to recommend resources to you based on what you have viewed on our site in the past. We use cookies that are not specific to your account but unique enough to allow us to analyze general trends and use, and to customize your interaction with our website.
Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. In addition, when you first encounter our website, you will be asked to “consent to cookies.” If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. However, this may affect your ability to use or access features on our website. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. What Are Cookies? By continuing to use our website and not disabling cookies on your browser, you are consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
In addition, we may use third-party software to post advertisements on our website or mobile app to oversee marketing or email campaigns or manage other company initiatives. These third-party software instances may use cookies or similar tracking technology. We have no control over these third parties or their use of cookies. For more information on opting out of interest-based ads, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
WEBSITE ANALYTICS
We may partner with third-party analytic companies, including Google Analytics. The analytic companies may also use cookies or other tracking technologies to analyze visitors’ use of our website or mobile app to determine the popularity of the content, and better understand online activity. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, in order to access our website, you must consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party analytic companies. You should review their Privacy Policy and contact them directly if you have questions. If you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
PROCESSING YOUR INFORMATION
For the most part, we do not process your information in-house, but give it to third-party processors for processing. For example, when processing event registrations or workshop payments, we use third-party processors. So, in many instances, it will be necessary for us to transmit your information to a third-party processor, as we do not have the capability to perform these functions. More detail on third party processing is provided below.
However, we may, from time to time, process your data internally. The legal basis for this processing is both your consent to the processing, and our need to conduct our legitimate business interests. Our purposes in processing this information, if we do, is to deliver consulting services, facilitate economic development initiatives, coordinate stakeholder engagement, maintain project records, fulfill contractual obligations, comply with grant reporting requirements, and protect the rights and interests of our company, our clients, and the communities we serve. We may process the following data:
Data associated with your account, such as your name, organization, email address and professional information.
Data about your engagement with our services, including project participation, event attendance, and resource utilization.
Data related to your professional profile, such as your organization type, industry sector, and economic development interests.
Data that you provide us in the course of engaging our consulting services or participating in our programs.
Data that you post on our website, such as comments, testimonials, or program feedback.
Data that you submit to us when you make an inquiry regarding our services or economic development initiatives.
Data related to your transactions with us, including engagement of our consulting services or registration for events and workshops. This information may include contact details and payment information.
Data that you provide to us when you subscribe to our newsletters or economic development updates, including your email address and contact information.
Data that you submit to us via correspondence, such as when you email us with questions or project inquiries.
Project-related data necessary for delivering consulting services and measuring economic impact.
Any other data identified in this policy, for the purpose of complying with our legal obligations, grant requirements, or to protect the vital interests of you or any other natural person.
INTERNATIONAL DATA
Our website is hosted by servers located in the U.S. Therefore, if you reside in the European Union, some of your data will be transferred internationally to those servers. Transfers will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the EU-US Privacy Shield. More information on the Privacy Shield can be found at: https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome.
We use website hosting servers and third-party processors located in the United States and Canada, which have received an Adequacy Determination from the European Commission, meaning that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect data once it is transferred to that country.
DATA RETENTION
We retain personal data as long as it is needed to conduct our legitimate business purposes, comply with our legal obligations, meet grant reporting requirements, or until you ask us to delete your data. For consulting projects, we may retain project-related data for the duration required by professional standards and contractual obligations. Data gathered for economic research and community impact assessment may be retained in anonymized form for longitudinal studies. Data that is no longer needed by us for any of the purposes listed above will be permanently deleted.
You may request that we delete your data at any time. However, note that we cannot control the retention policies of third parties. If you wish to have any third parties, including those to whom we’ve transmitted your data, delete that data, you will need to contact those third parties directly. You may request from us a list of all third parties to whom we have transmitted your data.
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal data and keep your information secure. We use recognized online secure payment systems and implement generally accepted standards of security to protect against personal data loss or misuse. However, no security measure is foolproof, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against interception or misuse. We cannot guarantee complete security of any information you transmit to us.
By consent to this Privacy Policy, you acknowledge that your personal data may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of your data by other parties.
We will notify you of promptly any known breach of our security systems or your data which might expose you to serious risk.
CHILDREN
This website or mobile app is not designed for use by children under age 16, and we do not knowingly solicit personal data from anyone under age 16. If you are under age 16, do not access or use our website or related products or services. If you become aware that we have collected data of anyone under the age of 16, please contact us so that we may delete that data.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have certain rights with respect to your personal data, as outlined below. Note that we may charge you a reasonable fee for actions that you ask us to take with respect to your data. In addition, we reserve the right to request that you provide us with evidence of your identity before we take any action with respect to the exercise of your data rights. Further, your rights may be restricted or nullified to the extent they conflict with our compelling business interests, the public interest, or the law. To exercise any of the rights outlined below, please contact us at info@rseconsult.com.
Update Account Information: You have the right to update, change or delete any information you have provided to us.
Confirm Personal Data and Its Use: You have the right to request that we confirm what data we hold about you, and for what purposes. You also have the right to confirmation of whether we process your data or deliver your data to third-party processors, and for what purposes. We will supply you with copies of your personal data unless doing so would affect the rights and freedoms of others.
Change Consent: You have the right to change your consent to our use of your information. In such cases, we may require you to delete your account with us, and you may not have full access to our website.
Request a Copy of Data: You have the right to request a digital copy of the data that we hold about you. Your first request for a copy of your personal data will be provided free of charge; subsequent requests will incur a reasonable fee.
Transfer Your Data: You have the right to request that we gather and transfer your data to another controller, in a commonly used and machine-readable format, unless doing so would cause us an undue burden.
Delete All Data: You have the right to request that we delete all data that we hold about you, and we must delete such data without undue delay. There are exceptions to this right, such as when keeping your data is required by law, is necessary to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information, is required for compliance with a legal obligation, or is necessary for the exercise or defense of legal claims. Such a request may result in a termination of your account with us, and you may have limited or no use of our website.
Emails And Communications: You may opt out of receiving future email correspondence from us by checking the appropriate box when you register for the account or engage our services. You may change your communication settings by contacting us at info@rseconsult.com.
Marketing Communications: You may opt out of receiving any third-party marketing communications or having your personal information used for marketing purposes. You may do this by contacting us at info@rseconsult.com.
Processing: You may, in some circumstances restrict the processing of your data, such as when you contest the accuracy of your data or when you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. When processing has been restricted, we will continue to store your data but will not pass it on to third party processors without your consent, or as necessary to comply with legal obligations or protect your rights or those of others or our company. In addition, you may opt out of any processing of your data altogether. Note however that doing so may result in the termination of your account and loss of access to our website.
Complaints: You have the right to complain to a supervising authority if you believe we are misusing your data or have violated any of your rights under this Privacy Policy or applicable law.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
The State of California has established its own unique regulations that apply to California residents. If you reside in California, you have the right to obtain from us, once per year and free of charge, information regarding what information we disclose to third party marketers, and the names and addresses of each third party to whom we disclose your data. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please use the contact information listed below.
If you are a California resident and under the age of 18, you have the right to request that we remove any data that you publicly post on our website. To request removal of your data, please use the contact information listed below. Note that while we will remove your data that is publicly posted on our website, we may not be able to completely remove that data from our systems.
Newsletter Privacy
We offer the opportunity for you to volunteer certain information to us that is used for email communications about economic development initiatives, workshops, and partnership opportunities. This information includes, but is not limited to, your name, email, organization, and areas of interest. You will have an opportunity to unsubscribe from any future communications via email, but we reserve the right to maintain a database of past email subscribers. We reserve the right to use this information as reasonably necessary in our business and as provided by law. Your information will be shared with reasonably necessary parties for the ordinary course of conducting our business. We do not ever sell your information to third-parties.
Severability
If any part of these Terms, Conditions and Privacy Policy is deemed unlawful and/or unenforceable, all other provisions contained herein will remain in full force and effect.
Entire Agreement
The information contained herein constitutes the entire agreement between site users and our company relating to the use of this website.
Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms, Conditions and Privacy Policy are governed by and construed in accordance with United States law. Any dispute arising out of or related to the information contained herein is subject to adjudication in the state of Texas, USA.
Contact Information
Email: info@rseconsult.com
Website: www.rseconsult.com