About Us & Our Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 2006

We believe we are the best one-stop web shop and your number one free & educational resource link on the Internet. Helping you find the best goods and services on the Internet is our number one goal. We provide you with good informative selections from a myriad of informational resources along with a selection of vendors to provide quality goods and services to ensure that you get the best the best deals on the Internet. We are focused on giving the individual the many resources that are out there to assist in making informative decisions, along with helping the small and large business entrepreneurs expand their business with pure honesty and hard work.

Not only do we encourage it, but we also try to separate the good from the not so good in all areas of the arena. We encourage all to shop around and do their Due Diligence before making any decisions in reference to any goods or services anywhere.

We believe that the links that are placed on our site has the very best to offer. As we find and select what we think are the cream of the crop, or the very best out there, we will offer that link to our consumers by placing it on our web site. If that link proves to be otherwise we will remove it from our site.

Consumers who have experience any good or bad interactions with any goods or services provided by any of our vendors or affiliates are encouraged to send us an email with a brief description of their experience to feedback@lowescompany.com. This feedback will help us to further scale up or scale down our vendors and affiliates to improve our offerings to our visitors.

Education is a key tool to prevent consumer injury and we believe we are the number one educational resource link on the Internet.

You're in good company with Lowescompany.com

Lowescompany.com strives to offer its visitors the many advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience.We do not collect any Personally Identifiable Information (your name, email address, street address, telephone number etc.). Please note this policy applies only to Lowescompany.com on-line and does not impact information collected or used by our affiliates or through other means.

How our partners gather information from users.

How our partners may collect and store information depending on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. You can visit many pages on their site without providing any information. Other pages may prompt you to provide information, such as when you register for access to portions of their site, sign up for membership, request certain features (e.g., newsletters, news updates and other products), sign up for a newspaper subscription or make a purchase. You may also provide information when you participate in sweepstakes and contests, voting and polling activities, message boards and chat rooms and other interactive areas of their site.

Most Web sites, also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to their visitors. For example, they may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use "cookie" technology. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our site. As they adopt additional technology, they may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide them with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but doing so may limit your ability to access certain portions of the site or may require you to re-enter your user name and password. Additionally they may not be able to customize the site's features according to your preferences.

What they do with the information they collect.

They must use your information only as permitted by law. Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. As one example, they may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive. Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with other advertisers and business partners, but cannot be used to contact you individually.

They also collect information to enhance your visit and deliver more individualized content and advertising. For example, they may use Personally Identifiable Information collected to communicate with you regarding our Terms of Service and privacy policy, products and services offered by Lowescompany.com and other affiliates and partners, administration of sweepstakes and contests, processing e-commerce transactions and other topics they think you might find of interest.

If and when Personally Identifiable Information collected by Lowescompany.com will only be used for purposes including but not limited to site administration and troubleshooting. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (our Web hosting service for example) may access such information.

As we continue to develop our business, we may merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets. We may disclose information in response to a court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, and/or whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary to give such information to law enforcement authorities. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases.

Your choice to opt out.

The quality news and information on Lowescompany.com is not supported by advertising revenue or a controlled program of email marketing. Our advertising and promotional partners may email you about services, features, products, special offers and unique content they believe might interest you. If you prefer not to receive email communications sent directly from our advertisers or promotional partners, you will be given an opportunity to decline.

Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements.

Lowescompany.com expects its partners, advertisers and third-party affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. However, third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a Lowescompany.com page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through Lowescompany.com you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web sites, advertisements, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. Lowescompany.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Through features available on our site, third parties may use cookies or other technology to gather information. Lowescompany.com does not control the use of this technology or the resulting information and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

Please be careful and responsible whenever you are on-line. Should you choose to voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on our site, such as in message boards, chat areas or in advertising or notices you post, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Lowescompany.com and this policy.

Children.

Lowescompany.com does not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe Lowescompany.com has any information from or about anyone under 13, please contact us at the address listed below.

Contacting us.
We can be reached by contacting:
Lowescompany.com
5115 Pine Heights Drive
Atlanta, GA 30324
Email: feedback@lowescompany.com

Changes to this policy.

Lowescompany.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.

In the event case of any conflict between the terms of this policy and the terms of any electronic or machine readable privacy policy (for example, a P3P electronic privacy policy), the terms of this written policy shall control.

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