Intuit keeps your financial and tax data for as long as they determine is necessary for business and legal purposes, with no fixed deletion timeline disclosed for most data types.
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The absence of specific retention periods for sensitive financial data like SSNs and tax returns means your data may remain in Intuit's systems for extended periods, increasing the window of exposure to breach or secondary use.
Interpretive note: Specific retention schedules by data type are not visible in the truncated document; the policy language cited reflects common Intuit policy language but exact wording may differ in the full published version.
The updated privacy statement no longer describes a specific opt-out procedure for advertising cookies that was previously available. The prior version stated users could 'opt out of having your personal information used or disclosed for these purposes by sliding the toggle to No and clicking Save My Choices', but this mechanism and accompanying language are no longer present in the updated disclosure. The updated terms also no longer explicitly state that IP addresses and device identifiers may be shared with advertising partners, removing prior transparency about what data types are disclosed. You should review TurboTax's main Privacy Policy to determine if opt-out mechanisms exist elsewhere or what the current data-sharing practices are.
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View change record →Your tax data, income records, and Social Security number may be retained by Intuit indefinitely until they determine it is no longer needed, with the policy not specifying fixed retention windows for most sensitive data categories.
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"We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our products and services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When we no longer need your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it.Excerpt from TurboTax's Privacy Statement
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The absence of specific retention periods for sensitive financial data like SSNs and tax returns means your data may remain in Intuit's systems for extended periods, increasing the window of exposure to breach or secondary use.
Your tax data, income records, and Social Security number may be retained by Intuit indefinitely until they determine it is no longer needed, with the policy not specifying fixed retention windows for most sensitive data categories.
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