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Lowe’s U.S. Job Applicant Privacy Statement (the “Privacy Statement”) describes how Lowe’s Companies, Inc. and its U.S. operating subsidiaries and affiliates (“Lowe’s”, “we”, “our”, “us”) collect, use, share, and protect personal information related to job applicants in an employment context. It also contains other important privacy disclosures, such as choices you can make with regard to your personal information, how we may update the Privacy Statement, and how you can contact us.
THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT IS NOT A CONTRACT AND DOES NOT CREATE ANY LEGAL RIGHTS OR OBLIGATIONS.
We do not knowingly collect 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.
For more information about how we retain personal 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 personal information you provide to us, personal 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 provide identification information, protected class information under state or federal laws, professional or employment-related information, education information, sensitive personal information, inferences or preferences, and other personal information described under “What Information We Collect” section during job application process with Lowe’s.
Information We Collect by Automated Means
We collect audio, electronic, video or image information and online activities information described under “What Information We Collect” section by automated means online and offline.
Information We Collect from Other Sources
We may obtain certain information about you from other businesses, such as social networks (e.g., LinkedIn) background checks, references or updated contact information. We may also obtain information from public sources, such as information you submit in a public forum. We may also obtain information about you from Lowe’s affiliates. We may also obtain potential job applicant information from recruitment business partners.
Information We Generate, Derive, or Infer
We may generate personal information about you, such as assigning a job applicant ID to you. We may also derive or infer information about you, such as information related to any assessment you may take as part of the interview screening process upon hire.
We use the personal information we collect from you for a range of business purposes, including to:
We disclose your personal information outlined above for business purposes to service providers or, to other third parties at your direction for the purposes described below:
Within Lowe’s
We share personal information relating to you within our family of companies for recruiting purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Statement.
Service Providers
We may disclose your personal information to companies or agents that provide services to us, such as information technology vendors, recruiting agencies vendors providing hosting and travel services, and vendors that help us manage application processes. At your direction, we may provide your contact information and government ID to business partners that provide travel and accommodation services in the recruitment process. These providers may need access to information about you in order to perform their functions and are not authorized to use the information for any other purpose.
Public Disclosure
With your consent, we may publicly disclose comments about your recruitment experience that you are willing to share to enhance our recruitment program.
Legal, Enforcement, Security, and Investigation
We may disclose personal 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 debts 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
Categories of Personal Information Sold or Shared With Third Parties
We share your personal information with digital advertising partners for purposes including serving you with relevant job-related advertisements and recommendations on roles based on your interactions with Lowe’s Career site and third-party sites. We do not sell your personal information for money but this recruiting practice may be considered a “sale” or a “share” for cross-context behavioral advertising under CA law.
If you are a California resident, you may be able to exercise the right to know, access, delete, or correct your personal information, or opt-out from or limit certain types of processing activities (subject to certain limitations at law). Below are additional details about the privacy rights above:
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those purposes allowed under the California Privacy Rights Act and its implementing regulations and we have not used or disclosed your sensitive personal information except for those purposes in the preceding 12 months. Examples of the permitted purposes include using the sensitive personal information reasonably expected by an average job applicant for employment related purposes, such as to protect security, integrity, and safety, and to prevent fraud, malicious and illegal actions.
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.
We will retain information we collect from you for as long as necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, or any other notice provided at the time of data collection. However, if necessary, we may retain personal information for longer periods of time, until set retention periods and deadlines expire, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, tax, and accounting requirements set by a legislature, regulator, or other government authority.
To determine the appropriate duration of the retention of personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information and if we can attain our objectives by other means, as well as our legal, regulatory, tax, accounting and other applicable obligations.
Where required, we will dispose of or deidentify the information we collect when we no longer need it for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Statement or any other notice provided at the time of data collection, in accordance with Lowe’s retention policies and procedures, or, if this is not possible (for example, because personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will protect the personal information until deletion or deidentification is possible.
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 within the context of the individual’s role as a job applicant. 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 related to job applicants in an employment context.
In some cases, we may provide additional details about privacy practices specific to a particular operation or location. Any such additional terms supplement or amend this statement, but only with respect to the matters governed by such separate disclosures.
This Statement does not apply to:
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Statement or if you would like us to update information we have about you, please contact us as indicated below.
Privacy Office
1000 Lowe’s Boulevard, 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 Corporate Privacy Resource Center 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 the date the Privacy Statement was last updated at the top of the Privacy Statement.