How we can use your personal information

Interacting with TD online

When you interact with TD online or in our apps, we collect, use and disclose your information to deliver our services, improve and personalize your experience, prevent fraud and customize how we advertise on third party websites and apps.

Use of web based and tracking tools

We, and third parties that we select, use certain technologies and tracking tools on our websites and apps to deliver our service, improve and personalize your experience and prevent fraud. As one example, we use cookies. Cookies are snippets of data stored by a web browser (For example, Chrome, Safari or Firefox web browsers). We also use pixels, beacons, Software Development Kits (SDKs) and other technologies. We call these "web based tools".

Essential web based tools

We use essential web based tools to provide the functionality and security of your online and mobile experience, and to help us detect, prevent and investigate fraud. For example, this allows us to remember your language preferences and provide a secure connection.
These tools may collect information about your usage of our website and apps, including your typing and cursor patterns while you are using our secure sites and apps.
You can't opt-out of the use of but you may be able to disable the ability for your browser to accept them. If you disable them, some of our websites might not work properly and you may not get the best experience. For example, you will not be able to access our secure websites. This is because we use these tools for security purposes on our secure

Non-essential web based tools

Performance

We, as well as third parties we select, collect and use non-essential web based tools to tell us about the performance and usage of our sites and apps. These tools help us to understand which pages you go to most often and if you encounter errors or performance issues. These tools also help us measure and analyze the traffic on our online services by establishing statistics and traffic volumes (e.g., pages visited or features used).
Targeting

We, as well as third parties we select, collect and use your online browsing and activity on our websites and apps to better understand your interests and provide you with personalized content and offers. This may also include information about the products or services you are applying for.

This information may be used by those third party companies in accordance with their respective privacy policies.

This information may also be used to build a profile of your interests, to personalize your content and present you with relevant offers, including on third party sites.

When you log in to our secure sites, we may associate this online browsing activity with your customer profile. This may include your current or past use of our TD websites and apps.

You may review a list of third parties and their privacy policies by using the Manage Online Experience link.

You have choices about how we use non-essential web based tools. To update your preferences, use the Manage Online Experience link

If you adjust your browser settings to refuse web based tools, you may still receive generic TD ads. However, they will not be based on your preferences or the products and services that you hold with us

Personalization of TD content

You can make choices about how we use Web Based Tools to personalize on our websites. Use the Ad Choices & Personalization link. It is available at the bottom of our websites. Here is a list of our websites.

If you adjust your browser settings to refuse Web Based Tools, you may still receive generic TD ads. However, they will not be based on your preferences or the products and services that you hold with us.

Online Advertising

We subscribe to the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. These principles promote consumer awareness and choice about how organizations use consumer information for online behavioural advertising.

TD and our third party service providers may use Web-Based Tools to tailor TD advertising to you on both TD and third-party websites. We use Web Based Tools to track which of our ads you interact with on TD websites and on the websites of companies who help us advertise. This helps us to provide ads that are more relevant to you.

You can view a list of our third-party service providers access their privacy policies, and update your choices about our interest-based advertising on TD and the third-party websites through our Ad Choices & Personalization Centre.

We may collect and use information about your relationship with us to help decide which ads or offers to present to you and to identify other people with similar interests on the websites of companies who help us advertise. For example, we may match your masked contact information with social media or other sites and, if you are a member of that site, use it to show you or others with similar interests our ads. Those sites may track how you interact with our ads. We won't do this if you have opted out of receiving marketing from TD or have opted out of relationship based ads with your social media or webmail sites.

You can view your settings and opt-out of receiving relationship-based ads by updatingyour settings on your social media or webmail sites

We advertise on search engine results pages. Search engines may use several factors to decide which ads to place, including your search terms and browsing history.

You can opt-out of interest-based search engine advertising. Just select the notification icon after the URL within the ad text to adjust your settings. You may still see our generic TD-branded ads after you opt-out. These are not based on your interests or browsing.

We place surveys on third-party websites. When you respond to an online survey, we may use your answers or any opinions or information that you volunteer to improve our products or services or to contact you.

Our mobile apps

If you use a TD mobile app, we collect and use your information to deliver and improve our mobile app services, help us understand how our users use our apps, authenticate you, keep the TD mobile app secure and prevent fraud.

We advertise to you on third party apps. To do this, we use your device identifier. For example: Apple’s Identifier for Advertiser (IDFA), or Google Advertising ID (AAID).

If you click on one of our ads on a third-party app, we may use Web Based tools such as your device identifier. We use them to track how effective our advertising is. We also use them to deliver ads that may be relevant to you in the future.

You can opt-out of our interest-based advertising shown to you on third-party apps. You can use the TRUSTe tool. It is available at: http://preferences.truste.com/truste/4. Or you can refer to the advertising settings of your mobile device. If you opt-out, you may still see some of our generic TD-branded ads on third-party apps.

Find below the type of information we collect on our mobile apps and how we use it:

Financial information (including transactional data) and other information you provide through our apps or you have allowed our apps to obtain

How we use this information:

To give you certain services through our apps.

Geolocation: If enabled, the approximate physical location of your device.

Mobile Country Code: A three digit number that indicates the country in which your mobile device is registered. For example, 302 is the mobile country code for Canada.