Privacy Policy

We recognize that you may be concerned about our use and disclosure of your personal information. Your privacy is very important to us, and the following will inform you of the information that we, Carrigan Painting, may collect from you, and how it is used. By using our websites, https://www.carriganpainting.com, https://blog.carriganpainting.com and https://www.carriganarchives.org you are accepting the practices described in this policy.

We may collect non-personal information, such as a domain name and IP Address. The domain name and IP address reveals nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed our site. We may also collect information about the type of Internet browser you are using, operating system, what brought you to our Website, as well as which of our Web pages you have accessed.

Additionally, if you communicate with us regarding our Website or our services, we will collect any information that you provide to us in any such communication.

Information submitted through contact forms, estimate request forms, or email communications may include names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and project-related information voluntarily provided by visitors.

We may contact you via email in relation to the services we offer, or changes to this privacy policy.

We use the collected information primarily for our own internal purposes, such as providing, maintaining, evaluating, and improving our services and Website, fulfilling requests for information, and providing client support.

Our websites may use analytics and advertising services provided by third parties including Google, Microsoft/Bing, Meta/Facebook, and similar platforms. These services help us understand how visitors use our websites, measure advertising effectiveness, and improve our content and services.

These systems may collect information such as pages visited, approximate geographic region, browser type, device information, referral sources, and interactions with our websites. This information is generally aggregated and is not used by us to personally identify visitors.

Advertising platforms may use cookies, tracking pixels, or similar technologies to help deliver relevant advertisements and measure campaign performance.

You may disable cookies through your browser settings or use privacy tools and browser extensions to limit tracking.

We follow generally accepted U.S. industry standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

If we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. Our websites use HTTPS encryption to help protect information transmitted through our websites.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only the owner of Carrigan Painting and management have access to your information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

We use "cookies" on our sites. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to enter your information more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Our websites, including The Carrigan Archives, may contain photographs and documentation from completed projects, active jobsites, and restoration work. These images are intended to showcase craftsmanship, construction methods, restoration processes, and educational information related to our trade.

When publishing project photographs, we make reasonable efforts to protect homeowner/client privacy. Images may be edited, cropped, or modified to remove or obscure family photographs, personal documents, addresses, license plates, security information, or other identifying details whenever practical.

The focus of our project photography is the work itself, including painting, plaster repair, drywall repair, restoration, and related construction processes — not the individuals who occupy the property.

We do not intentionally publish sensitive personal information about clients, homeowners, or occupants.

We will not sell or otherwise provide the information we collect to outside third parties for the purpose of direct or indirect mass E-Mail marketing.

We will disclose personal information and/or an IP address, when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Cooperate with lawful investigations or legal requests
• Protect the rights, safety, or property of our websites and business
• Prevent misuse, fraud, spam, or unauthorized access involving our websites

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example through E-Mail, discussion boards, or social media - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online.

This Website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Pages on our websites may include embedded content such as videos, maps, images, or social media posts from third-party platforms. Embedded content behaves similarly to visiting the third-party website directly and may collect data according to that platform’s own privacy policies.

By using this Website, you consent to the collection and use of information as specified above. If we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page. We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our websites, services, or legal requirements. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Continued use of our websites after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at (716) 697-3560 or via mail Attn: Privacy Officer, 12303 Rapids Rd, Akron NY 14001.

We permit access to publicly available content on our websites by search engines, accessibility technologies, and AI systems for indexing, summarization, and citation purposes.

Any reproduced or AI-generated summaries referencing our content should include attribution and a link to the original source at https://www.carriganpainting.com.

The use of our original content, images, written material, or media assets for AI model training, large-scale dataset collection, long-term storage, or commercial redistribution is not permitted without prior written permission.

All original website content, photographs, branding, and written materials remain the intellectual property of Carrigan Painting unless otherwise noted.

This AI policy applies equally to human users, automated systems, and third-party AI agents.