Privacy & Security

 

PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: January 12, 2023

 

The following Privacy Policy describes LL Flooring, Inc.’s (“we,” “us,” or “our”) privacy practices. This Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you interact with us through our retail stores, call center, applications that run on mobile devices and tablets, and websites, including llflooring.com (collectively, the "Services"). By visiting our Services, or otherwise providing your personal information to us, you consent to the information practices described in this Policy.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES LL Flooring COLLECT?

Generally, we collect the following categories of personal information:

HOW DOES LL Flooring USE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION IT COLLECTS?

We use your personal information to:

HOW DOES LL Flooring COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We collect your personal information through various means, including when you directly provide information to us and when we automatically collect information about you through your use of our Services. In some instances, you may be able to choose what information to provide, but sometimes we require certain information from you to use features of the website or apps.

            Information You Provide Directly

While shopping or otherwise using our Services, we may ask that you provide certain information about yourself. For example, we request personal information when you set up an account online, purchase products or services, schedule delivery or installation, join a frequent buyer program, participate in a sweepstakes, promotion or survey, contact LL Flooring with a question or concern, submit a review, or participate in other activities we offer through the Services.

Information We Collect from Others

Our service providers may collect personal information on our behalf in the course of providing their services to us. We also may obtain your personal information from our parent, subsidiary, and sister companies. In some circumstances, we obtain personal information about you from business partners, resellers, data brokers, and other third parties, some of which may sell the information to us. To understand your rights and choices regarding personal information collected by other companies, please consult the privacy policies of the businesses that you interact with.

Some features of our Services may allow your friends and family to share your personal information with us. For example, when someone shares a product with you through the Service or ships a product to you, they may provide us with contact information, commercial information, and other information in order to do so.

Information We Collect Automatically

In addition to information you provide to us, we and our agents, vendors, and consultants (collectively “service providers”) collect information automatically when you use our Services. Examples of the types of personal information that may be collected automatically include:

Cookies and other Technologies

We use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as pixels/web beacons) to collect and store information about your interactions with our website, including information about your browsing behavior. Our website also supports third-party cookies placed by our service providers, affiliates, and advertising partners.

Cookies are small files that a website transfers to your device through a web browser that enable the site’s or a third party’s systems to recognize your device and capture and remember certain information. Web beacons (also known as tracking pixels) are tiny graphics embedded invisibly on a webpage or in an email that may be used to deliver or communicate with cookies, to count users who have visited certain pages, and to understand usage patterns. In general, our website uses cookies and other tracking technologies as follows:

Cookies vary in how long they last. “Session cookies” terminate shortly after you terminate your internet session. “Persistent cookies” are stored on your device until a set expiration date. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies on our website.

If you do not want to have cookies placed on your device, you should set your browser to refuse cookies before accessing our website. Please review your browser’s Help menu for instructions, or visit www.allaboutcookies.org for more information. Please note that, if you disable all cookies, some features of our website may not function properly.

Third Party Advertising Service Providers

We may share your personal information with third-party companies for advertising purposes, including to serve advertisements across the Internet, track your activity and interests over time on our Services and on third party websites and mobile applications; and to identify the different device(s) you use to access our Services. These third-party companies may collect your personal information automatically when you use our Services using the technologies outlined above (see “Cookies and Other Technologies”). These third-party companies also may possess or obtain information about you from your interactions directly with the third-party companies, with other websites, mobile applications, or companies that they work with, or from your interactions with advertisements the third-party companies display to you.

You can manage third-party advertising preferences for some of the third parties we work with to serve advertising across the Internet by utilizing the choices at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. Additional options for opting-out of interest-based advertising can be found at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. To learn about the data Google Ad Services collects or to opt out, please visit here. Pinterest users may also opt out of online behavioral advertising through their Pinterest personalization settings.

Analytics

Our Services use analytics technology, including Google Analytics, to understand how users interact with the Services, improve our web experience, and better market our products. These analytics services use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect information about how you use the Services. Personal information collected by these analytics services (e.g., your IP address and other usage information) may be transmitted to and stored by these service providers on servers in the U.S. (or elsewhere). 

You may exercise choices regarding the use of cookies from Google Analytics by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

We use service providers to help us analyze website visitors’ online activity on our Services through session replay technologies to help us understand and analyze how visitors use our Services, and to improve the Services. These technologies may collect the following types of information, among others: IP address; device type (unique device identifiers); browser information; geographic location; and preferred language. Our use of these services may involve the disclosure of information about website visitors.

Do Not Track

Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference signal that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. Currently, our webites do not respond to DNT mechanisms.

HOW DOES LL Flooring SHARE MY INFORMATION?

We share the categories of personal information we collect as follows:

Social Features and Our Services

Certain functionalities on our services permit interactions that you initiate between our services and certain third-party services, such as third-party social networks (“Social Features”). Examples of Social Features include: enabling you to send content such as contacts and photos between our services and a third-party service; “liking” or “sharing” our content; logging into our services using your third-party service account; and otherwise connecting our services to a third-party service (e.g., to pull or push information to or from our services). If you use Social Features, information you post or provide access to may be publicly displayed on our services or by the third-party service that you use. Similarly, if you post information on a third-party service that references us (e.g., by using a hashtag associated with us or our affiliates in a tweet or status update), your post may be used on or in connection with our services or otherwise by us and/or our affiliates. Also, both we and the third party may have access to certain information about you and your use of our services and any third-party service.

HOW DO I CHANGE MY MARKETING PREFERENCES?

If your information is currently being used to send you marketing communications, you can opt-out at any time. All marketing email and direct mail communications from LL Flooring, such as hot deals or special offers, tell you how to stop receiving them.

To opt-out of receiving marketing communications from LL Flooring and/or third-party marketers: Follow directions on a marketing email or direct mail communication; call 1-800-366-4204; send an email with your current contact information to optout@llflooring.com; or send a request with your current contact information to:

LL Flooring

Attn: Marketing Privacy Manager

4901 Bakers Mill Lane

Richmond, VA 23230

If you send an email or letter request, please be sure to include your full name, address, phone number and email address and indicate specifically what type of marketing communications you wish to stop receiving. This will ensure we identify you correctly in our systems and accurately process your opt-out request.

Please note that if you opt out of marketing communications, you may still receive business-related communications such as order confirmations, product recall information or other administrative communications.

HOW DO I CHANGE MY TEXT/SMS MESSAGING PREFERENCES?

You have the choice to opt-in to receiving text messages and alerts on the mobile phone number(s) you share with us. You do not have to opt-in to text messages and alerts to use and enjoy our products or services. If you opt-in, standard text messaging charges may apply. You may choose to opt-out from our text messages and alerts at any time. To directly opt-out, send us a text message from your mobile phone with the word STOP, STOP ALL, END, QUIT, CANCEL or UNSUBSCRIBE, and we will unsubscribe you from text communications.

HOW CAN I UPDATE OR CHANGE MY INFORMATION?

LL Flooring wants your information and preferences to be accurate and complete. We provide several different methods for you to update or change the information associated with your account. If you've created an account on llflooring.com, you can update your information after logging into your account. If you don’t have an account, please call: 1-800-366-4204; send a request to CustomerCare@llflooring.com; or send a request to:

LL Flooring

Attn: Customer Care

4901 Bakers Mill Lane

Richmond, VA 23230

HOW DOES LL Flooring SECURE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Whether you are shopping online, by phone or at a LL Flooring retail store, we have industry standard security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, unauthorized access and alteration of the personal information under our control. Such measures include commercially reasonable administrative, technical and physical protections and safeguards. However, there is no perfect security, and we cannot guarantee your personal information will always remain secure. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any credentials used to access your account with us. If you suspect any unauthorized activity associated with your account, please report that activity to us immediately

DOES LL Flooring COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

The Services are not directed at children and we do not seek or intend to collect information from children who are under the age of 18. If we learn that someone under 18 has submitted personal information to us, we will take reasonable measure to delete such information from our databases and to not use such information for any purpose (except as necessary to protect the safety of a child or as otherwise required or permitted by law). If you become aware that a minor has submitted personal information to us, please contact us.

PRIVACY INFORMATION FOR THE LL Flooring CREDIT CARD

The LL Flooring credit card is issued by Synchrony Bank, and is subject to Synchrony’s privacy policy. For more information, please click here.

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California residents can learn more about their privacy rights here.

VIRGINIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

This section supplements the other parts of our Privacy Policy, and provides additional information for Virginia consumers, including how to exercise their rights under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”).

  1. Additional Information about Certain Data Uses

Targeted Advertising. We may process your personal information for targeted advertising (as the term is defined in the VCDPA).

Sales of Personal Information. We do not sell personal information (as the term is defined in the VCDPA).

  1. Making a Privacy Rights Request

If you are a resident of Virginia, you have the right to submit certain requests relating to your personal information as described below. To exercise any of these rights, please email us at customercare@llflooring.com. Please note that we will need to authenticate your identity before your request can be processed. For authentication, you will be asked to log into your account or to provide 2-3 pieces of personal information that we will match against our records.

Right to Access and Data Portability. You have the right to confirm whether we are processing your personal information, to access your personal information, and to obtain a copy of personal information you provided to us in a portable format.

Right to Correct. You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in your personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and our purposes for processing it.

Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete your personal information.

Right to Opt Out. You have the right to opt out of the following uses of your personal information: (a) targeted advertising; (b) the sale of personal information; and (c) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

Right to Appeal. Sometimes we are unable to process requests relating to your personal information, in which case, your request will be denied. If you are a resident of Virginia whose privacy rights request has previously been denied by us and you believe we denied it in error, you may appeal for reconsideration of your request using our webform.

Please note that if you make a privacy rights request, we will retain the personal information submitted in connection with your request for recordkeeping purposes.

PRIVACY INFORMATION FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS

Nevada residents may opt-out of the “sale” of “covered information” to third parties, including but not limited to name, address, social security number, telephone number, email address, and other information through which a person may be contacted. Our uses of your personal information are not sales under Nevada law. If you have any questions or if you would like to receive notice by email in the event we should engage in “sales” of personal information under Nevada law in the future, please email us at CustomerCare@llflooring.com.

VISITORS FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

Our Services and this Privacy Policy are directed to residents of the United States. If you access our Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, and that the data protection and other laws of the United States may not be as comprehensive as those in your country.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be updated and revised from time to time without notice, and we will post the updated policy with the effective date of the change. Personal Information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of collection. You should check this Policy periodically to review any changes.

IS THERE A WAY TO CONTACT LL Flooring WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY?

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or would like to contact us for any reason, you can do the following:

Call 1-800-366-4204;

Send an email to CustomerCare@llflooring.com; or

Send a letter to:

LL Flooring

Attn: Marketing Privacy Manager

4901 Bakers Mill Lane

Richmond, VA 23230