Privacy Policy

 Continental Cregar's, LLC is a contracted vendor of Oakland University, In accordance with Oakland University guidelines, we strive to respect the privacy of our website visitors because your privacy is important to us. Using the Internet should be a pleasant experience, and we want to help you make it enjoyable. This privacy statement describes what information we collect and how that information is protected and used with those ideas in mind.

Information Gathered
Websites you visit may gather information about you. Sometimes you are asked to supply information such as your name, address or email address. Other times processes built into the website gather information. We may ask you for information to answer a request that you have submitted to our website. An example would be your name and address for mailing or emailing services, employment information, or general information. Information sent to us via Web data entry may be read, filed, stored, forwarded, responded to or printed by our staff members for the purpose of answering and tracking your request. In some cases, we may outsource the collection of information, such as with event sales or employment applications, and your information may be read, filed, stored, forwarded, responded to or printed by employees of a third-party vendor providing services under contract with the university. You may be asked to enter your name, address, telephone number, email address or other information on our website. This information may be kept and used for future communications.

Google Analytics
We may also use Google Analytics to collect site usage data and to analyze overall usage of the site. Google Analytics uses cookies to track user sessions so that it can collect data about how users navigate the site. The data collected never includes names, usernames, or email addresses. We are working towards anonymizing all IP addresses that are collected. However some individual IP addresses are currently collected on some of our systems, but they are not associated with individual users. You may prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser. Google has more detailed information on how your data is being utilized.

Collection of Other Information
Most information we gather does not identify you personally. We automatically collect information such as the type and identity of the Internet service provider you are using, your Internet protocol (IP) address, the time spent on the website, or the navigation path you took on the website. We use the gathered information to improve application performance, navigation, flow and content of the website to provide you with the best possible information service.  We may gather personally identifiable information when you are using your personal services.

Special Disclosure Cases
We may disclose user information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Oakland University's rights or property, other Oakland University users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. We reserve the right to use information to  identify visitors who threaten our service, site, customers or others. We may disclose information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

E-Commerce Transactions
Some of our website features may use applications to collect data to facilitate an e-commerce transaction. We use an outside service with an approved banking relationship to process credit card transactions. All credit card information is encrypted and only the information needed to complete a transaction history is stored on our secure server. Payment card data are not stored in our systems and servers.

Public Forums, Directories, Chat Rooms and Mail Lists
This privacy statement does not protect you when you use public forums. As a service to our users, we may offer directories, chat rooms, bulletin or message boards, or mailing list groups for our website visitors. Any information shared in a directory, chat room, bulletin board, or other posting or online discussion is public information and may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties that do not adhere to this privacy statement.

Other Links
This website may contain destination links to other independently run websites for Oakland University student groups or organizations and to some third-party sites outside the "pattifinnegans.com" domain. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such websites. These destination links are provided only for your convenience, and as such, you access them at your own risk. Any information you reveal on any such site is not subject to this privacy statement, therefore, you should consult the privacy policies of each site you visit. However, we wish to ensure the integrity of our website and its destination links, so any comments pertaining to any sites accessed through destination links on our website are greatly appreciated.

Security
We will  treat your personal information as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. This website has information security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Despite these security measures, we do not represent or warrant that personal information will be protected against loss, misuse or alteration by third parties.

Privacy Policy Changes
We may change this privacy statement at any time by posting revisions to our website. Your use of the website constitutes acceptance of the provisions of this privacy statement and your continued usage after such changes are posted constitutes acceptance of each revised privacy statement. If you do not agree to the terms of this privacy statement or any revised statement, then please exit the website immediately.

Reporting Personal Privacy Issues
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, your personal information, the practices of this website or your interaction with this website, please contact us using the "Contact Us" page on this website.