Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 8/5/26
This Privacy Policy describes the data handling practices of Reid Middleton (or “us”, “we”, or “our”) in connection with our website reidmiddleton.com (the “Site”).
This Privacy Policy is divided into the following sections:
- What personal information we collect;
- How we use your personal information;
- With whom we may share your personal information;
- Legal Bases for processing your personal information;
- Storage and security of your information;
- Your Privacy Rights, Choices and Disclosures;
- Users outside the United States;
- Links to other sites;
- Privacy Policy updates; and
- Contact Information.
1. Personal Information We Collect or Process
(a) Information automatically collected. When you visit our Site, we may send one or more “cookies” to your computer or other devices. A “cookie” is a small data file that is sent to your web browser and placed on the hard drive of your computer when you access a website. We use cookies to improve the quality of your visit to our Site. Our Site does not utilize any tracking cookies or other technologies in connection with targeted advertising.
We use Google Analytics, which uses Cookies to identify the frequency of use of certain areas of our Site and to identify preferences. For more information regarding how Google collects, uses and shares your information, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. Google will use this information to analyze your use of the Site, compile reports on activity for us, and perform further services associated with Site and Internet use. You can deactivate Google Analytics using a browser add-on if you do not wish the analysis to take place. You can download the add-on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
(b) Information Voluntarily Provided. We also collect information that you provide to us voluntarily, including in the following situations:
- When you sign up sign up for our newsletter or marketing communications.
- When you inquire about a teaming opportunity.
- When you contract for our products and services.
- When you upload comments to us via the Site.
- When you contact us by phone, email or our contact forms.
In connection with the foregoing, the information collected may include name, title, affiliation, email address, physical address and phone number.
If you inquire about a career with us, we will collect personal information about you, which may include name, contact information, and the information contained on any uploaded documents (i.e., resume and cover letter). We will use the information for recruitment and evaluating candidates. In an effort to comply with requirements regarding government recordkeeping, reporting, and other legal obligations which may apply, we also invite you to complete, on a voluntary basis, an applicant data survey. Failure to provide information will not subject you to any adverse personnel decision or action. The survey requests additional information (voluntary) regarding referral sources, gender, veteran status, ethnicity, and whether you have a disability.
From time to time our interactions with you will be conducted over the telephone or video conference, and such telephone calls and video conferences may be recorded.
Social Media. We operate social media pages on third party networks and have social media icons on our Site. When you visit or link to our social media pages, data is processed both by us and the applicable social media provider. Social media providers are unaffiliated with us, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of social media providers. Social media providers have their own terms of use and privacy policies, and we encourage you to review those policies whenever you visit their websites or interact with their platforms.
(c) Third-Party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information falling within one of the categories identified above that we obtain from other sources, such as:
- Public sources, such as government agencies, public records, social media platforms, and other publicly available sources.
- Data providers, such as information services and data licensors.
- Service providers that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Site.
- Business transaction partners. We may receive personal information in connection with an actual or prospective business transaction. For example, we may receive your personal information from an entity we acquire or are acquired by, a successor, or assignee or any party involved in a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, and/or in the context of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
(d) The use of our Site is not intended for the use of children. We do not knowingly collect information from users of our Site under the age of 13 and/or their internet usage.
2. How We Use Your Personal Information
We use the personal information we collect as follows:
- For general business purposes, including managing your relationship with us, responding to enquiries and requests, and administrative purposes.
- Process payments for our products and services.
- To send you marketing communications.
- To evaluate applicants and fill employment positions.
- To evaluate teaming opportunities.
- To provide, maintain, and protect our Site and assure the integrity of our platform.
- Provide the information you request.
- To monitor the performance of our Site and improve your user experience.
- To satisfy legal obligations and compliance requirements under applicable laws and regulations, including government recordkeeping and reporting requirements.
- To protect and defend Reid Middleton’s and our users’ rights and property.
- For other purposes that we tell you about when you provide information about yourself to us.
- For other legitimate business and lawful purposes.
We may obtain your written consent from time to time in electronic form by using online agreements or other acknowledgements on the Site, including for any other contemplated uses of your personal information not addressed in this Privacy Policy. Please read all online agreements carefully before accepting them.
3. With Whom We Share Personal Information
We may share your personal information with and among our current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.
We share your personal information with third parties who perform services on our behalf, including without limitation our hosting provider, other technology providers, payment processors, and professional advisors.
We may disclose information if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary by law or the legal process, to protect and defend our or others’ interests or property, or to enforce agreements you enter into with us.
We may share your data with a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, liquidation or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock with such third party.
We may share information with other third parties with your consent.
We may share aggregated and de-identified information with third parties for analytical, research or other similar purposes.
4. Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information
We rely on the following legal grounds to process your personal information:
Consent. Some uses of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy are subject to your consent, such as marketing communications and employment applications. To withdraw your consent, please contact us at webmanagement@reidmiddleton.com.
Performance of a contract. We need to collect and use your personal information to enter into and perform contracts with you.
Legitimate Interests. We may use your personal information for our legitimate interests to provide our Site and to improve our services, the Site and the content contained on the Site. We may use technical information as described in this Privacy Policy and use personal information for our marketing purposes consistent with our legitimate interests and any choices that we offer or consents that may be required under applicable law.
Compliance with Legal Obligations. We may use your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, such as in connection with recalls.
5. Storage and Protection of Your Personal Information
We retain the personal information we collect for so long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected and to perform our contractual and legal obligations. We will retain personal information required to comply with privacy requests, as required by law, in order to resolve disputes, or to enforce our agreements. We may also retain copies of your personal information for disaster recovery purposes, to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for our legitimate business purposes.
Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, we store email addresses until the user requests to have their information deleted.
We take reasonable administrative, physical and technical precautions to protect your personal information and communications between us. This includes, when required or as we deem appropriate and feasible under the circumstances, dual authentication, encryption and written commitments from third parties that may have access to your information that they will protect the information with reasonable safeguards.
No Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security of your information, and we are not responsible for processes and networks that we do not control. Users assume the risk of security breaches and the consequences resulting from them. Please be careful in deciding what information you send to us via email or over the Internet.
6. Your Rights, Choices and Disclosures
(a) General. We are committed to facilitating the exercise of your rights granted by the laws of your jurisdiction and to which we are subject, which may include the right to request the correction, modification or deletion of your personal information and the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information (as applicable). We will do our best to honor your requests subject to any legal and contractual obligations. If you would like to make a request, contact us at webmanagement@reidmiddleton.com with “Data Rights Request” in the subject line.
Subject to local law, you may have additional rights under the laws of your jurisdiction regarding your personal information, such as the right to complain to your local data protection authority and the right to appeal our decision regarding a data access request.
You may opt out of receiving email marketing communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link on the communication or contacting us at webmanagement@reidmiddleton.com. Some non-marketing email communications may not be subject to a general opt-out, such as communications about transactions, disclosures to comply with legal requirements, and other support-related information.
Section (b) below describes the rights of those individuals located in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another jurisdiction that has adopted laws substantially similar to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Section (c) describes the rights of residents of California (or another jurisdiction that has adopted laws substantially similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act.
(b) Your European Privacy Rights and Choices. If you are located in the European Union, the United Kingdom or another jurisdiction that has adopted laws substantially similar to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), your privacy rights include the following:
- Transparency and the right to information. Through this Privacy Policy we explain how we use and share your information. However, if you have questions or need additional information you can contact us any time.
- Right of access, correction, restriction of processing, erasure. You may contact us to request information about the personal data we have collected from you and to request the correction, modification or deletion of such personal information, which requests we will do our best to honor subject to any legal and contractual obligations.
- Right to withdraw your consent at any time. When we process your personal data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw it at any time.
- Right to object at any time. You have the right to object at any time to receiving marketing or promotional materials from us by either following the opt-out instructions in commercial e-mails or by contacting us, as well as the right to object to any processing of your personal data based on your specific situation. In the latter case, we will assess your request and provide a reply in a timely manner, according to our legal and contractual obligations. Some non-marketing communications are not subject to a general opt-out, such as communications about transactions and disclosures to comply with legal requirements.
- Right to data portability. You have the right to data portability of your own personal data by contacting us.
- Right not to be subject to an automated decision, including profiling. We do not make automated decisions using your personal data that may negatively impact you.
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. If you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes your privacy rights according to GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the member state of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement.
(c) California Disclosures. California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures. If you are a resident of California (or another state that has adopted laws substantially similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”)), you have the right:
- To request the categories of personal information (including sensitive personal information if applicable) we have collected about you;
- To request the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
- To request the business or commercial purpose of collecting, selling or sharing personal information;
- To request the categories of third parties with whom we share or sell personal information;
- To request the categories of personal information about you that we have disclosed for business purposes;
- To request the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
- To know the length of time we retain your personal information;
- To request deletion of your personal information;
- To request the correction of any inaccurate data;
- To opt out of the sale or sharing of your information (if applicable);
- To limit the use of sensitive personal information (if applicable); and
- To not be discriminated against for exercising any of your rights.
In the last 12 months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we have not sold or shared (as defined under CCPA) consumers’ personal information.
Please see the chart below regarding the categories of data we may have collected or received in the 12 months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Policy from Consumers in connection with providing our Website and to whom we may have disclosed the information for business purposes.
| Personal Information Category | Source of Personal Information | Purpose for Collecting the Personal Information | To whom we disclose the Personal Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers such as a name, address, unique personal identifier, email, phone number | Information you provide to us; Information we collect automatically; Information collected from third party providers. | For general business purposes. See Sections 1 and 2 above | See Section 3 above |
| Information described in 1798.80(e) (and not otherwise addressed in this table), including bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information | Information you provide to us We do not ask for this information, but we may have access to it if volunteered by you. | To process payments for our services. See Sections 1 and 2 above | See Section 3 above |
| Protected Classifications under California and federal law, including gender, age and citizenship. | Information you provide to us on a voluntary basis in connection with a job application. | See Section 1(b) above | See Section 3 above |
| Commercial information such as records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, purchase histories and tendencies | We do not collect this information on the publicly available Site, but we do collect it on an offline basis. | See Sections 1 and 2 above | See Section 3 above |
| Biometric information | We do not collect this information | – | – |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browsing history and search history and interactions with an advertisement. | Information you provide to us; Information we collect automatically | See Sections 1(a), 1(b) and 2 above | See Section 3 above |
| Geolocation data that is sufficient to identify a precise physical location. | We do not collect this information. | – | – |
| Sensory data, such as audio, electronic, visual, or other similar information. | Information you provide to us if you consent to an audio recording or a videoconference. | See Section 1(b) above | See Section 3 above |
| Professional or employment-related information | Information you provide to us if you inquire about a career. | See Section 1(b) above | See Section 3 above |
| Education Information | Information you provide to us if you inquire about a career. | See Section 1(b) above | See Section 3 above |
| Inferences about preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | Other than in the context of Site analytics and employment considerations described above, we do not collect this information. | – | – |
Any sensitive data we collect is used only for a business purpose and not for the purposes of inferring characteristics of a consumer.
Our contact information is listed at the bottom of this policy. You may also submit a request via our Contact Form Here (scroll to the blue “Contact Us” link to access the form). Please enter your request in the comments and details field. The form requests your name and email address. If this information is insufficient to verify your identity and assess your privacy request, we may need to ask for additional information. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a CCPA privacy request.
California “Shine the Light” Information-Sharing Disclosure: California residents may request a list of all third parties with respect to which we have disclosed any information about you for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes and the categories of information disclosed. If you are a California resident and want such a list, please send us a written request by email to webmanagement@reidmiddleton.com with “California Shine The Light Rights” in the subject line.
California Do Not Track Disclosure: Our Site does not respond to Do Not Track browser signals.
7. Users Outside the United States
The Site is hosted and administered in the United States. If you are visiting the Site from outside the United States, your country may have laws or regulations governing personal information collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws. By visiting our Site, you are consenting to the transfer of your information from your jurisdiction to the United States.
8. Links to Other Sites
Our Site may contain links to other websites for your convenience or information. These websites may be operated by companies unaffiliated with us, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those websites. Linked websites may have their own terms of use and privacy policies, and we encourage you to review those policies whenever you visit the websites.
9. Privacy Policy Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our information practices, and any such amendments shall apply to information already collected and to be collected. Your continued use of the Site after any changes to our Privacy Policy indicates your agreement with the terms of the revised Privacy Policy. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically and especially before you provide personal information to us. The date of the last update of the Privacy Policy is indicated at the top of this Privacy Policy. We will also communicate changes as required by applicable law.
10. Questions and Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at webmanagement@reidmiddleton.com or by mail to
Reid Middleton
728 134th St SW, Suite 200
Everett, WA 98204.