A Cookie is a small file containing certain pieces of information that a website creates when you visit the site. Cookies can track how and when you use a site, and which site you visited immediately before, and they can store that information about you.

There are two common types of cookies, "session cookies" and "persistent cookies". Session cookies store information only for the length of time that you are connected to a Web site - they are not written onto your hard drive. Once you leave the Web site, the originator of the cookie no longer has the information that was contained on it.

TD Bank Financial Group uses session cookies as an additional security feature for EasyWeb Internet banking and TD Waterhouse WebBroker. For example, when you login to EasyWeb and are authenticated through your login id and password, a cookie will store the identification number of your browser. Throughout your session, the session cookie acts as a type of digital signature to identify your current session to the Web Server.

The EasyWeb server will monitor the number of your browser to ensure that, at all times during your session, we are dealing with you.

We also use session cookies to track your visits within our site. We use that information to determine the type of information that you are looking for in our site and to improve our site. We use information about the site you visited immediately prior to our site to assess the viability of links to our site that we have created on third party sites.

The information stored in "persistent cookies" is written onto your hard drive and remains there until the expiry date of the cookie. TD Bank Financial Group uses persistent cookies to store non-sensitive information that you are aware of and have agreed to. For example, if you choose the option on our login screen to remember your Connect ID or Access Card number for EasyWeb or WebBroker, the system will remember and automatically input your logon id each time you use the service.