Cookie policy
Lowe's Foundation ("Lowe's", "we", "us", "our").
Updated January 2024.
Our website ('Lowe's') uses cookies. We use cookies for many reasons, for example to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
This Cookie Policy describes:
- what cookies are;
- our use of cookies;
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, smart phone, tablet or other electronic device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device's hard drive and some cookies may collect personal data about you. You can find more general information about cookies at: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our use of cookies
We want you to understand the different types of cookies that are used on our website. We use a variety of types of cookies for the following purposes:
- Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies strictly necessary for the performance of our website, for example cookies that enables website content to be delivered securely and efficiently.
- Optional or non-essential cookies, which could include cookies used for various purposes (see table of cookies below) such as Performance Cookies: these cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Functionality Cookies: these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). Targeting and Marketing Cookies: these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website. We may also show you advertising on our website based on your browsing patterns on other websites that we have obtained from our advertising partners.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
First Party Cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration* | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| __CookieConsentV300 | A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. | Session | Strictly necessary |
| __cf_bm | To read and filter requests from bots. | A few seconds | Strictly Necessary |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is set on a user’s browser to assign them a unique ID in addition to identifying them through their IP address. Without this cookie, visitors to a site will be recognized as the same user if they share the same IP, and any data collected will be shared for all users with that IP. | End of session | Strictly Necessary |
*Duration means the period that our cookies are installed on your device.
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, which are not controlled by the cookie manager. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.
Third Party Cookies
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration* | More information |
|---|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Stores user privacy preferences related to YouTube, such as consent choices. Often part of compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR. | 5 months | targetting cookies |
| YSC | Used to track a user's interaction with embedded YouTube videos. Typically set on pages with embedded YouTube video and expires when the session ends. | 0 days | targetting cookies |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Likely used for secure authentication or experimental features rollout. This is often associated with Google A/B testing or configuration delivery. | 5 months | targetting cookies |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with embedded YouTube videos and also used as a unique identifier for tracking purposes. | 5 months | targetting cookies |
| PREF | to store user preferences | marketting cookies |
The cookie manager will not be able to control the loading of these third-party cookies. To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you must contact the relevant third party or opt-out at browser-level to manage the use of these types of cookies.