What Information We Collect
We collect the following categories of information in order to provide products and services to you, to communicate with you, to enhance our products, services and operations, and for other operational, legal and compliance purposes:
We do not knowingly collect or disclose personal information from children under the age of 16 without parental or guardian consent. If a child under the age of 16 has provided us with personally identifiable information, we ask that a parent or guardian contact us so that the information can be deleted.
We collect different types of information about you from a number of sources, including information you provide to us, information we automatically collect, information we obtain from other sources (specified below) and information we derive or infer about you.
You may choose to provide us with information when you interact with us. Examples include:
We collect information by automated means online and offline. When you use our websites or mobile applications, Lowe's and our partners may collect certain information by using Cookies and Other Technologies. If you choose to connect your mobile device to our free in-store Wi-Fi, we may collect your device usage information. When you visit our store or call our customer care hotline, we may collect audio or video information.
We collect the following information via automated means:
We use your personal information for various business or commercial purposes, including fulfilling products and services, communicating with you, supporting and enhancing our business functions and for other legal, compliance and security purposes.
We may use your identification information, commercial information, online activities, geolocation information, audio/video, geolocation and other personal information to provide products and services to you, such as:
We may use your identification information, commercial information, online activities, characteristics of protected class information under state or federal law (e.g., gender), inference and preference, audio/video, professional or employment-related information, education information, geolocation and other personal information to facilitate and tailor our outreach to you, such as:
We may use all categories of information we collect listed above to enhance our products, services and operations:
We may use identification information, commercial information, online activities, geolocation, audio/video and other personal information for legal, compliance, fraud prevention and security purposes:
We share your personal information with unaffiliated entities (companies outside the family) with your proper implied or express consent. Specifically, we share your personal information to conduct business with service providers and business partners, comply with legal requirements and transfer our business.
We may disclose your personal information to companies that provide various services to us in areas, such as installation, repair, warranty, order processing and fulfillment, information technology, marketing, customer service, data analytics, research and enhancement, fraud prevention, legal, compliance and risk management. These companies may need access to information about you in order to perform their functions but are generally not authorized to use the information we disclose to them for any other purpose.
In limited cases, we may disclose information about you to a third party who may also use the information for their own specific purposes. For instance, we may provide your information to a supplier in connection with product warranty or safety issues, with a business partner who is jointly providing or promoting a product or service to you, or with a social media or online advertising technology company to serve tailored commercial information to you.
We may disclose information about you (1) if we believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (2) as we deem appropriate or necessary in response to requests by government agencies, such as law enforcement authorities or tax authorities; (3) when we believe disclosure is appropriate or necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Lowe's, our customers or others, including to prevent physical, financial or other harm, injury or loss or to collect debt you owe; or (4) in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual unlawful activity.
We reserve the right to transfer personal information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including, without limitation, in the event of a reorganization, dissolution or liquidation).
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed and intended to protect personal information against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. Despite these safeguards, due to inherent uncertainty in the use of the internet and information systems and the potential for unlawful attacks by third parties, we cannot guarantee that the use of our systems, websites or applications will be completely safe or secure.
Information we collect and use may be transferred, stored and accessed globally to support our operations. We retain information for as long as it is needed or useful to provide and improve our 8 products and services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
When required by law, you may request to exercise your privacy rights including access, delete or restrict certain use or sharing of your personal information. When we are not legally required to do so, we strive to comply with reasonable requests, but there may be a delay in responding to such requests. For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.
You may access or modify your account profile information and view your order history when you log into your account.
To stop receiving marketing emails, you may click on the "Unsubscribe" link in any marketing email you receive from us and update your preferences on the resulting webpage. To provide products and services, we may continue to send transactional emails.
Text messages. We may send text messages with your proper consent. To stop receiving marketing text messages from please reply STOP to the marketing text message. Please note this preference will only apply to the phone number in receipt of the text.
Push notifications. To opt-out from push notifications, please adjust the permissions in your mobile device. This opt-out does not apply to in-app notifications.
Geolocation and in-store location. To stop collecting precise location information by our mobile applications, please adjust your mobile device setting.
Uninstall Lowe's applications. You may uninstall application by following your standard uninstallation process in your mobile device.
To stop the collection of information via in-store Wi-Fi, disconnect from the in-store Wi-Fi network.
We do not process or respond to “Do Not Track" signals from your browser or other mechanisms that enable consumer choice regarding the collection of personal information about one's online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.
Cookies refer to small packets of data that websites send to your computer or other internetconnected devices, our business partners use them for different purposes. These technologies can uniquely identify your browser and log information, such as your device type, system and browser information, IP address, system language, location and your interactions with the site. Like other websites, we need some essential cookies for our website to function properly. We also use some functional cookies to pre-populate your log-in ID to make it easier for you, or to help us remember where you left off when you shopped, so you do not have to restart all over again. We may use browser cookies, flash cookies and other types of local storage.
Lowe's and our business partners also use cookies with other technologies, such as tags, beacons or pixels. They allow us to count visitors to our webpages, evaluate the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or recommend relevant products and services to you when you browse social media or other websites. We think these technologies create meaningful interactions with you and are helpful, but you can let us know that you prefer otherwise by opting-out from these advertising cookies and technologies by clicking here. You can find more information and options in Interest-Based Advertising and Other Targeted Advertising section.
We may also use third-party web analytics services in our online services, such as those of Google Analytics, to help us analyze how users use our online services.
We collect data about your activities on our websites and applications for use in providing tailored advertising, and we may share information about activities on our websites with advertising networks administered by third parties. These ad networks track your online activities over time and across websites by collecting information through automated means, and they use this information to show you advertisements that are tailored to your individual interests. As a result, you may see certain ads on other websites based on prior activities on our websites and vice versa. We may also combine information about your online activities with your activity in a Lowe's store using our mobile applications.
We may also utilize third-party services that may allow us to associate your prior Lowe's online or in-store transaction data, operating system, user-agent string, IP address, internet browser, installed fonts and similar information with an anonymous ID, which can then be used to target advertising to you on other websites and online platforms. These services may use anonymous IDs that do not contain any personal information or otherwise identify you.
To provide you with a consistent shopping experience, we may also associate various devices you utilize (e.g., smartphones, tablets and desktop computers) by using the information we collect about you. We may combine information we collect from your devices with other information we have about you, such as your Lowe's account information, your interaction with our sites, apps and services and your transaction history.
The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has created guidance for online advertisers and provided a mechanism for such advertisers to comply with users' choices regarding interestbased ads. To learn more about ad networks, including how to opt-out of interest-based ads, click here.
Our online services may include social media features (e.g., a Facebook “Like" button). These features are connected to third parties and may allow such third parties to collect certain information, such as your IP address and which pages you visit on our websites. These social media features are not operated by. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policies of the company providing the features.
Our websites may link to other websites for your convenience and information. For instance, they may link to websites of product suppliers, manufacturers and service providers. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any website that we do not control and that does not point to this Privacy Statement.