This Cookie Policy explains how TIAA Financial Services, located at 225 W Wacker Dr #1200, Chicago, IL 60606, USA, uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
At TIAA Financial Services, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency in our data practices. This Cookie Policy is an integral part of our overall Privacy Policy, which can be found here.
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. Cookies enable websites to remember your actions and preferences (such as login details, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
There are two main types of cookies:
TIAA Financial Services uses cookies for a variety of purposes, including:
Here's a breakdown of the specific types of cookies you might encounter on the TIAA Financial Services website:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Performance | 2 years |
| _gid | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Performance | 24 hours |
| PHPSESSID | Used to maintain user session information. | Essential | Session |
| cookieconsent_status | Records user's cookie consent preferences. | Functionality | 1 year |
This table provides information about the cookies used on the TIAA Financial Services website, including their names, purposes, types, and durations.
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. These cookies are set by a domain other than that of the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies are subject to the respective third-party’s own privacy policies.
For example, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having your activity on our Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the mechanisms provided by your web browser. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
To manage cookies directly in your browser, follow these links for popular browsers:
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last revised.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
TIAA Financial Services
Privacy Department
225 W Wacker Dr #1200
Chicago, IL 60606, USA
Email: privacy@tiaafinancialservices.com
Phone: (312) 555-0100