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Privacy Policy
NOTICE OF TIAA-CREF
PRIVACY POLICY
Please read this carefully. It provides information about the privacy policy of TIAA-CREF
Tuition Financing, Inc., TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services, LLC, and
Teachers Personal Investors Services, Inc. (together referred to as “TIAA-CREF”). The
TIAA-CREF privacy policy concerns nonpublic personal information (“personal
information”) that TIAA-CREF may have about current and former Account Owners in
the Mississippi Affordable College Savings Program (the “Program”).
TIAA-CREF may collect personal information about you from various sources. That includes
personal information that you give on: the Application; Program forms; and interactive tools. It
may also include personal information about your participation in the Program, such as your
Investment Options. TIAA-CREF may also obtain certain of your personal information from
third parties, such as consumer reporting agencies.
We use your personal information to effect your investment in the Program and to effect related
services. When you complete the Application, you may opt to receive information about other
financial products and services offered by TIAA-CREF and its affiliates. If so, your personal
information may be shared with these affiliates so that they can mail you their materials
(“affiliate materials”). These affiliates include: insurance companies; broker-dealers;
investment companies; investment advisors; and a trust company. Your personal information
also is available to the Board in its role as Trustee.
TIAA-CREF limits access to your personal information to those employees who must know it to
provide Program-related services. TIAA-CREF may also give your personal information to
service providers: who process your transactions; mail you Program documents and affiliate
materials; or enhance your Program benefits.
We protect your personal information by physical, electronic and procedural safeguards as
required by federal and state laws.
TIAA-CREF does not disclose your personal information to any other person outside of the
Program, unless you consent or it is permitted under applicable federal and state laws. TIAA-CREF
may also disclose your personal information if it is allowed or required by its contract
with the Board. With your consent or if allowed by law, we will provide your personal
information to the financial advisor you designate.
NOTICE ABOUT ONLINE
PRIVACY
Safeguarding your
online personal information is something that the Mississippi Affordable
College Savings Program (the "Program") takes very seriously. Personal
information provided to the Program is not sold or bartered. In addition,
the personal information provided by you online through the Program Web
site is not revealed to any person or organization outside of TIAA-CREF
Tuition Financing, Inc., its affiliates and subcontractors, its parent
company, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA), and
the Board of Directors of the College Savings Plans of Mississippi (and its
staff) unless:
- Proper
authorization or direction from you to do so has been received,
- It is permitted
by law, or
- It is necessary
to do so in order to enable service providers to perform work on
behalf of the Program.
Personal Information Provided By You Through
Online Enrollment, Account Access, and Online Transactions
When you visit the
Program Web site, you can go to pages that are open to the general public
or log onto secure pages to enroll in the Program, access information about
your Account, or conduct certain transactions on the Account. Once you have
opened an Account in the Program, access to the secure pages of the Program
Web site is permitted only after you have supplied your Social Security
Number or Taxpayer Identification Number and Personal Identification Number
(PIN). This information serves to verify your identity, so that only you
can access your Account and initiate transactions through the Program Web
site.
The following
categories of personal information will be requested from you if you choose
to enroll in the Program or access your Account online: (1) your name and
your Beneficiary's name; (2) complete physical address information; (3)
telephone numbers; (4) your gender; (5) Social Security Numbers or Taxpayer
Identification Numbers for yourself and your Beneficiary; (6) your date of
birth and your Beneficiary's date of birth; (7) depending on your method of
contribution, certain banking information; and (8) at your option, your
relationship to the Beneficiary and your e-mail address.
The Program is committed
to protecting your privacy online. When you enter personal data into the Program
Web site (including your Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification Number and your PIN) to enroll or access your Account online, you will log into secure pages where we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol for protecting information. SSL has been universally accepted on the Internet for authenticated and encrypted communication between clients and servers. In
addition, all online enrollment or Account transaction data that you send
to us and we confirm back to you, is sent over an encrypted SSL connection
protected with a mechanism for detecting tampering -- that is, for
automatically determining whether the data has been altered in transit. This
generally means that the data sent is encrypted and can only be decrypted by
our Web server. Your data is stored on a secure server behind our firewall,
which works to restrict access to your data from outside the server.
To use this section of
the Program Web site you need a browser that supports encryption and dynamic
Web page construction. We strongly recommend Netscape navigator version 4.0
or higher, or Microsoft Internet version 4.0 or higher.
To help ensure the
confidentiality and integrity of your information:
- Do not share your PIN,
Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification Number with anyone.
- Call the Program's
toll-free number at 1-800-486-3670 if you suspect any willful misuse of this
site.
If you provide personal
information to effect transactions on the Program Web site, a record of the
transactions that you have performed while on the site is retained by the
Program.
Although we do not use
cookies on the Program Web site at this time, we may install cookies on the site
in the future to measure marketing results for the Program. Any cookies that we
may use on the Program Web site would not collect, use or store personally
identifiable information about any visitor to the site.
Other
Personal Information Provided By You
On The Program Web Site
If you decide not to
enroll online and you want to request Program materials to be mailed to you,
or you want to subscribe to the Program e-mail newsletter, you can click on
another section of the Program Web site (i.e., the Request Enrollment Kit page
of the Enroll Today section) to provide your name, mailing address and e-mail
address, respectively. The personal information that you provide on that page
of the site will be stored and used to market the Program more effectively.
Although that page of the Program Web site does not use SSL encryption protocol,
your information will be safeguarded in accordance with federal and state
privacy laws and industry norms.
How to
Change Personal Information That You Provide Online
If you need to inform us
of changes or corrections to personal information that you have provided through
online enrollment or online Account transactions, please follow the instructions
in the Account Access section
of the Program Web site, or download and complete an Account Services form and
mail it to the address provided on the form.
If you have provided us
with mailing or e-mail information in order to request mailing of an enrollment
kit or to subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, you will not be able to review
and correct that information online. However, if you want to request another
enrollment kit or re-subscribe to the e-mail newsletter, and your mailing or
e-mail information has changed, you can go to the Enroll Today section of the
Program Web site and click on the Request Enrollment Kit
link to enter your new e-mail and/or mailing address.
Changes To
Our Privacy Policy
The Program periodically
reviews its privacy policies and procedures and reserves the right to amend
them. If we amend some portion of our privacy policies, we will continue our
commitment to keeping your personal information secure. We will notify you of
any changes to our privacy policies by posting them on the Program Web site
and, if a material change affecting Account Owners is made, we will give Account
Owners written notice of that change.
Effective date: 7/1/04.
©
2007
TIAA-CREF
Tuition Financing, Inc.
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