Lowe’s U.S. Privacy Statement

Table of Contents

What Information We Collect

What Are the Sources of Your Information

Why We Collect Your Information

How We Share Your Information

Your Privacy Rights and Choices

How to Submit Privacy Request(s)

Notice of Financial Incentive Programs/Loyalty Programs

Your Privacy Right Under the California Shine the Light Act

How We Protect Your Information

How We Retain Your Information

Other Important Considerations

Automated License Plate Recognition (“ALPR”) System Usage and Privacy Policy

Scope

Updates

How to Contact Us

Lowe’s Privacy Request Portal

Effective Date: 1/10/2024

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This Privacy Statement applies to your interaction with Lowe’s as a prospective, current or former Lowe’s customer, visitor or business partner. It describes how Lowe’s collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information from and about you, along with choices you can make about such information. This Privacy Statement is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations.

We collect the following categories of personal 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:

• Identification information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, alias, address, phone number, email address, payment information, login and access credentials, signatures, or other identifiers. We may also collect online identifiers, such as your IP address, when you browse our websites or use our applications.
  
  
• Commercial information, such as products or services you purchased or considered purchasing.
  
  
• Online activities information, such as browsing history, search history, and other information when you interact with our websites, applications, and advertisements. We, and our third-party partners, may also use analytics tools to collect information about your keystroke activity and rhythms, mouse movements, scrolling and clicks when you use our websites or mobile applications.
  
  
• Geolocation data, including precise geolocation data if you allow our application to collect it for purposes such as helping you locate the nearest Lowe’s store or alerting our stores when you are on the way to pick up your orders, or for analytic purposes.
  
  
• Audio, electronic, video or image information, such as audio or video recording when you call or virtually connect with us, video monitoring via mounted or mobile cameras in the store or at the parking lot when you come to our stores, or photos taken when we are working on your project to document progress or completion. When legally permitted, after detecting a security incident to investigate, we may also use image scan technology on images we previously captured of an individual(s) suspected of being responsible for a security incident to aid our investigation and prosecution. Our cameras may capture license plate information when permitted in certain states.
  
  
• Professional or employment-related information, such as information about you as representatives of our customers and business partners, in connection with our services and the operation of our business, including business contact information, job title, company name, and office visitor access information, where applicable.
  
  
• Protected class information under state or federal laws, such as age, gender, and family status.
  
  
• Education information, such as when you respond to a customer survey.
  
  
• Inferences or preferences we learn or infer about you.
  
  
• Sensitive Personal Information, such as precise geolocation, race and ethnicity information, and payment card information when permitted by law. For instance, with your consent, we use precise geolocation to calculate your arrival time for in store product pick up, so the products are ready for you upon your arrival. Where permitted by law, we use the information to prevent, detect, protect against, or respond to security incidents, identity theft, fraud, and illegal activities. We may collect government-issued ID for certain types of transactions.
  
  
• Other personal information, if it identifies, relates and can be reasonably associated with or linked to you (or your household), such as photos you upload, or measurement data or floorplan data generated when using Lowe’s measurement services or through measurement technologies, such as the Lowe’s Measure Your Space or floor/kitchen visualization features.

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 personal information, we ask that a parent or guardian contact us so that the information can be deleted.

For more information about how we retain your information, please see the “How We Retain Your Information” section below. 

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. 

Information You Provide 

You may choose to provide us with information when you interact with us. Examples include:

• Identification information. You may provide your contact information in case we need to reach out to you. You may also set up your login and access credentials when creating or accessing your Lowe’s online account. To complete transactions, we collect your payment information. We may need your government-issued ID information or date of birth for certain types of special transactions.
  
  
• Commercial information. You may provide or generate commercial information regarding your Lowe’s purchases, returns, exchanges, warranties, and rebates.
  
  
• Audio, electronic, video or image information. You may provide audio, video or photo to us, such as uploading a photo about your home improvement project or submitting a claim.
  
  
• Protected class information under state or federal law or other sensitive personal information.  For example, you may provide your protected demographic information, including age, gender, race and ethnicity and marriage and family status, when you complete a survey from us.
  
  
• Sensitive Personal Information. We may collect government-issued ID for certain types of transactions to verify your identity and for fraud prevention purposes. We may obtain your government-issued ID information when you return a product without a valid receipt. When legally permitted, and if you would like to expedite the ID verification process during the self-checkout, you may choose to digitally scan your driver’s license or state-issued ID when applying the military discount, using a Lowe’s merchandise card issued during the no-receipt return process or renting equipment. We access your first and last name to verify your identity for military discount. We access your ID number and state information to verify your identity for using Lowe’s merchandise card issued during the no-receipt return process. We will not save the information obtained by the scan. You are not required to consent to the scan to proceed with these transactions. On the self-checkout screen, you can also call for an associate who will manually verify your identity.
  
  
• Your preferences and inferences. You may let us know your preferences in a survey, contest, promotion or sweepstakes, or any other contents you submit, such as product reviews. 
  
  
• Professional or employment-related information. You may also provide other professional or employment-related information when you respond to our surveys.
  
  
• Education information. You may provide education information in surveys. 
  
  
• Other personal information, such as your medical and insurance information, if you submit a claim to us.

Information We Collect by Automated Means 

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.

As described under the “What Information We Collect” section, through automated means, we collect geolocation data and audio, electronic, video, or image information, online activities, and identification information (e.g., your IP address, device ID, cookie ID, mobile advertising identifier or pixel identifier).

Information We Collect from Other Sources

• Identification information. We may collect your contact information from Lowe’s affiliates, acquired businesses, business partners, public sources or other individuals, such as through “Refer a Friend” programs or if someone purchases a product and asks that it be delivered to you.
  
  
• Commercial information. We may obtain your commercial information, such as your purchase history, from Lowe’s affiliates, acquired businesses or business partners. If you save a primary address in your Lowe’s online account, we may obtain and display publicly available information about your property to help you make home improvement decisions easier. Such information may include your property size, number of rooms and the year it was built.
  
  
• Inferences or preference information about you, protected class information under state or federal laws, sensitive personal information, professional or employment-related information, education background, and geolocation information. We may collect inferences or preference information about you from business partners, such as data suppliers and data analytics or survey vendors. We may use such information to conduct aggregated analyses of our customer composition, and we may collect your interest and preference information to recommend products or services that may interest you. We may also learn about your preferences from public sources, such as information you submit in a public forum (e.g., a customer review).

Information We Generate or Derive

• Inferences or preference information about you. We may generate or derive some information about you through manual or automated means based on other information we collect. For instance, we may analyze your information and infer your shopping preferences to provide tailored recommendations to you. We may also conduct analyses based on aggregated or de-identified information. We may connect information we collect about you from the means described above if we can identify you as a Lowe’s customer, so that we can provide a personalized experience regardless of how you interact with us.

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. 

Fulfill Products, Services and Transactions

We may use your identification information, commercial information, online activities, geolocation information, audio/video, geolocation, sensitive personal information, and other personal information to provide products and services to you, such as:

• Provide and deliver products and services, fulfill your orders and transactions, and manage returns and exchanges
• Process, record, and track your purchases, payments, returns, warranties, and rebates
• Process payment
• Create and manage your account registrations or benefit or reward program enrollment, such as your MyLowe’s account or Lowe’s Pro Business account
• Conduct and administer contests, surveys, and sweepstakes
• Provide you with in-store navigation and mapping services and help you find store locations near you
• Fulfill benefits associated with your membership or other use of our products and services
• Identify and verify your identity when needed to provide you with products and services or access to our systems

Facilitate Customer Communication and Outreach 

We may use all of the categories of information described under “What Information We Collect” section to facilitate and tailor our outreach to you, such as:

• Communicate with you through various channels with transactional or promotional information, such as transaction confirmation and reminder, newsletters, coupons, and other messages
• Evaluate and respond to your requests, inquiries, and applications
• Administer programs for product reviews and surveys as submitted by you and other customers

Enhance Our Products, Services and Operations

We may use all of the categories of information described under “What Information We Collect” section to enhance our products, services and operations, such as:

• Conduct research and internal analytics, develop new products and services, perform market research and data analytics, and analyze our products, services, websites, and applications
• Customize your experiences in our stores and online, including customized advertisements and offers
• Determine and manage the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing
• Administering our websites and applications, and perform accounting, auditing, billing, reconciliation, and collection activities

Comply with Legal, Compliance, Law Enforcement and Security Requirements

We may use identification information, commercial information, online activities, geolocation, and audio, electronic, video, image and other personal information for legal, compliance, fraud prevention and security purposes, such as:

• Comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, industry standards and our policies and terms, such as our Terms and Conditions of Use
• Assist law enforcement and respond to regulatory inquiries
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity

We share your personal information with unaffiliated entities (companies outside the Lowe’s 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.

Product or Service Providers and Business Partners

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, and legal, compliance and risk management. We may also disclose your personal information to product suppliers for purposes such as post-sale services or recalls. 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 vendor that offers additional product warranty coverage, to a business partner who jointly provides or promotes a product or service to you, to a loyalty program partner that offers additional benefits to you, or to a social media or online advertising technology company to serve targeted advertising about products and services available at Lowe’s to you. 

Legal, Enforcement, Security and Investigation

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.

Sale or Transfer of Business or Assets

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).

Categories of Personal Information Disclosed for Business Purposes

We disclose all of the categories of personal information described under “What Information We Collect” section for business purposes, including fulfilling products, services and transactions, facilitating customer communication and outreach, enhancing our products, services and operations, and complying with legal, compliance, law enforcement and security requirements. Examples of the types of vendors we disclose personal information to for these purposes include analytics and research vendors, installation, repair and warranty services companies, order processing and fulfillment vendors, fraud prevention, legal, compliance and risk management vendors, information technology vendors, financial institutions, and marketing and advertising vendors.

Categories of Personal Information Shared with Third Parties 

We share your personal information with digital advertising partners for purposes including online targeted marketing and measuring the effectiveness of such marketing. Certain digital advertising partners combine the information into a customer profile. We may also disclose your information to our business partners who may use it for additional purposes relevant to our products or services (e.g., joint marketing, joint product/services offering).

• Opt-out Preference Signals. You may also institute opt-out preference signals such as the Global Privacy Control for requests to opt-out from “sale” or opt-out from sharing of personal information for targeted advertising (on the browsers and/or browser extensions that support such signals). The opt-out applies to your browser and not to you as an individual.
  
  
• Appeal. To appeal a decision to not take action on your privacy right request, please click the “Your Existing Requests” tab in the Lowe’s Privacy Request Portal.
  
  
• Authorized Agent. You may designate an agent to submit privacy requests on your behalf, but for your protection, we may need to verify your identity directly with you before fulfilling certain requests, and we will deliver your personal information directly to you (if requested). We need your agent’s contact information, and your agent needs to have your information ready when submitting the request.
  

How to Know If My Information Has Been Disclosed for Direct Marketing Purposes: Subject to certain limitations under California Civil Code § 1798.83, if you are a California resident and have an established business relationship with us, you may ask us to provide you with (i) a list of certain categories of personal information that we have disclosed to certain third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and (ii) the identity of certain third parties that received personal information from us for their direct marketing purposes during that calendar year. To make such a request, please contact us as follows:

Privacy Office – California Privacy Rights
1000 Lowe’s Blvd., NB6LG
Mooresville, NC 28117

Additional Privacy Choices 

In addition to the rights described above, we also make the following privacy choices available:

Lowe’s Online Account

You may access or modify your online account profile information and view your order history when you log into your online account on Lowes.com. 

Email

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. You can also email customercare@lowes.com with the phrase “REMOVE FROM NEWSLETTER LIST” in the subject line. To provide products and services, we may continue to send transactional emails. 

Mobile

Text messages. We may send text messages with your proper consent. To stop receiving marketing text messages from Lowe’s, please reply STOP to the Lowe’s 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 Lowe’s 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 Lowe’s application by following your standard uninstallation process in your mobile device. 

Interest-Based and Other Targeted Advertising

You can adjust your cookie preference by visiting the Lowe’s Privacy Statement here. Essential and functional cookies cannot be disabled nor can the tool be used to block cookies on third-party websites linked from our website. You can also opt-out of receiving online, interest-based and other targeted advertising from the DAA program’s Consumer Choice page here. 

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.

Do Not Track

We do not process or respond to “Do Not Track” signals from your browser 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. For more information about how we respond to other opt-out preference signals such as the Global Privacy Control, please refer to the “How to Submit Privacy Request(s)” section above.

Cookies and Other Technologies

Cookies refer to small packets of data that websites send to your computer or other internet-connected devices. Lowe’s and 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 login 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. We, and our third-party partners, may also use analytics tools to collect information about your keystroke activity and rhythms, mouse movements, scrolling and clicks when you use our websites or mobile applications.

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 below. 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 to help us analyze how users use our online services.

Interest-Based Advertising and Other Targeted Advertising

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 a pseudonymized ID, which can then be used to target Lowe’s advertising to you on other websites and online platforms.

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 interest-based ads. To learn more about ad networks, including how to opt-out of interest-based ads, click here.

We may use automated license plate readers (ALPRs) where permitted by law and in accordance with this Privacy Statement. ALPR systems are high-speed, computer-controlled camera systems that can automatically capture still images of a vehicle’s license plate number that come into view, along with the corresponding location, date and time (collectively, “ALPR Data”).

Purposes. We use ALPR systems for safety and security, fraud prevention and asset-protection purposes.

Authorized Users; Training; Owner of ALPR Systems. Select associates in Lowe’s Asset Protection, Information Technology, Global Security, Legal and Facilities departments are authorized to use or access the ALPR systems. Associates who have access to ALPR Data undergo training on the proper access and use of the ALPR systems and the collection and use of ALPR Data in compliance with applicable laws and regulations and this ALPR Policy. Lowe’s is the custodian and owner of the ALPR systems and select associates in Lowe’s Asset Protection department are responsible for implementing the requirements in this ALPR Policy.

Monitoring. For the security of ALPR Data and to comply with applicable laws and this ALPR Policy, we will maintain and periodically review our ALPR systems access records, including to verify that only authorized users have access to ALPR Data.

Sharing of ALPR Data. ALPR Data will not be sold, shared or transferred to other persons outside of Lowe’s, except we may share ALPR Data with (i) our service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as to provide ALPR system maintenance and improvement, (ii) law enforcement upon appropriate request and solely in connection with criminal investigations, and (iii) other third parties in order to protect the safety, security and rights of our customers, associates and visitors and to comply with legal requirements, processes and obligations.

Accuracy of ALPR Data; Retention. To ensure the accuracy of ALPR Data and identify and correct ALPR Data errors, we will periodically compare recorded license plate readings against license plate images captured by our ALPR systems and will correct errors when identified. We will retain ALPR Data for 90 days or for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it. We will regularly delete ALPR Data when we determine that retention of ALPR Data is no longer necessary, but we reserve the right to retain ALPR Data to comply with legal requirements or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

When we use the term “personal information” in this Privacy Statement, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to an individual. It does not include aggregated or deidentified information that is maintained in a form that cannot reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular individual. Where we maintain de-identified data, we will maintain and use the data in de-identified form and not attempt to re-identify the data except as required or permitted by law. 

The Privacy Statement covers the privacy practice of Lowe’s Companies, Inc. and its U.S. operating subsidiaries and affiliates (“Lowe’s”), except as outlined below. It applies to personal information about a prospective, current or former Lowe’s customer, visitor or business partner.

In some cases, we may provide additional details about privacy practices specific to a particular operation or location. For example, some of our websites may provide additional privacy details unique to that website, or some stores may post additional privacy details specific to that store or an event.

This Privacy Statement does not apply to:

• Lowe’s job applicant-related and employment-related records.
• Your interactions with third parties or their websites that are linked to or accessible from Lowe’s websites or that are operated by unaffiliated parties, even though the website may contain references to Lowe’s. The information collection, use and sharing practices are governed by the respective privacy notices at the bottom of the sites.
• Credit-related products (such as Lowe’s-branded credit cards), which are covered by the issuing banks’ privacy notices.

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Statement or if you would like us to update the information we have about you or your preferences, please contact us as indicated below.

Privacy Office
1000 Lowe’s Blvd., NB6LG
Mooresville, NC 28117
privacy@lowes.com

This Privacy Statement may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our information practices or relevant laws. We will post a notice on Lowes.com and other websites that point to this Privacy Statement to notify you of any substantive changes to the way we collect and use information. We will indicate at the top of the Privacy Statement when it was last updated.