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Yahoo! Privacy Policy |
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Yahoo! takes your privacy seriously.
Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.
NOTICE: Click
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What This
Privacy Policy Covers
- This policy covers how Yahoo! treats
personal information that Yahoo! collects and receives, including
information related to your past use of Yahoo! products and services.
Personal information is information about you that is personally
identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and
that is not otherwise publicly available.
- This policy does not apply to the practices
of companies that Yahoo! does not own or control, or to people that Yahoo!
does not employ or manage. In addition, some companies that Yahoo! has
acquired have their own, preexisting privacy policies which may be viewed on
our acquired
companies page.
- Yahoo! participates in the Safe Harbor
program developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Union.
To view our certification, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Safe
Harbor Web site. For more information about Yahoo!'s participation in
the Safe Harbor program, please visit our Safe
Harbor details page.
Information
Collection and Use
General
- Yahoo! collects personal information when
you register with Yahoo!, when you use Yahoo!
products or services, when you visit Yahoo! pages or the pages of
certain Yahoo! partners, and when you enter promotions
or sweepstakes. Yahoo! may combine information about you that we have
with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
- When you register we ask for information
such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation,
industry, and personal interests. For some financial products and services
we might also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information
about your assets. When you register with Yahoo! and sign in to our
services, you are not anonymous to us.
- Yahoo! collects information about your
transactions with us and with some of our business partners, including
information about your use of financial products and services that we offer.
- Yahoo! automatically receives and records
information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP
address, Yahoo! cookie
information, and the page you request.
- Yahoo! uses information for the following
general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill
your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you,
conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external
clients.
Children
- When a child under age 13 attempts to
register with Yahoo!, we ask the child to have a parent or guardian create a
Yahoo!
Family Account to obtain parental permission.
- Yahoo! does not contact children under age
13 about special offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's
permission.
- Yahoo! does not ask a child under age 13 for
more personal information, as a condition of participation, than is
reasonably necessary to participate in a given activity or promotion.
Information
Sharing and Disclosure
- Yahoo! does not rent, sell, or share
personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies
except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your
permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We provide the information to trusted
partners who work on behalf of or with Yahoo! under confidentiality
agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help
Yahoo! communicate with you about offers from Yahoo! and our marketing
partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to
share this information.
- We have a parent's permission to share
the information if the user is a child under age 13. Parents have the
option of allowing Yahoo! to collect and use their child's information
without consenting to Yahoo! sharing of this information with people and
companies who may use this information for their own purposes.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders,
or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend
against legal claims.
- We believe it is necessary to share
information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential
threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Yahoo!'s
terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if
Yahoo! is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event,
Yahoo! will notify you before information about you is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- Yahoo! displays targeted advertisements
based on personal information. Advertisers (including ad serving companies)
may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet
the targeting criteria—for example, women ages 18-24 from a particular
geographic area.
- Yahoo! does not provide any personal
information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted
ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to
the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you
meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
- Yahoo! advertisers include financial
service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and
mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines,
and software companies).
- Yahoo! works with vendors, partners,
advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and
categories of business. For more information regarding providers of products
or services that you've requested please read our detailed reference
links.
Cookies
- Yahoo! may set and access Yahoo! cookies
on your computer.
- Yahoo! lets other
companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access
their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is
subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other
companies do not have access to Yahoo!'s cookies.
- Yahoo! uses web
beacons to access Yahoo! cookies inside and outside our network of web
sites and in connection with Yahoo! products and services.
Your Ability to
Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
General
- You can edit your Yahoo!
Account Information, including your marketing
preferences, at any time.
- New categories of marketing communications
might be added to the Marketing Preferences page from time to time. Users
who visit this page can opt out of receiving future marketing communications
from these new categories or they can unsubscribe by following instructions
contained in the messages they receive.
- We reserve the right to send you certain
communications relating to the Yahoo! service, such as service
announcements, administrative messages and the Yahoo! Newsletter, that are
considered part of your Yahoo! account, without offering you the opportunity
to opt out of receiving them.
- You can delete your Yahoo! account by
visiting our Account
Deletion page. Please click
here to read about information that might possibly remain in our
archived records after your account has been deleted.
Children
- Parents can review, edit, and delete
information relating to their child's Yahoo! account using tools offered by Yahoo!
Family Accounts.
- If a parent chooses not to allow us to
further collect or use a child's information, parents enrolled in Yahoo!
Family Accounts can delete their child's account by signing into that
child's account and then visiting our Account
Deletion page. Please click
here to read about information that might possibly remain in our
archived records after your account has been deleted.
Confidentiality
and Security
- We limit access to personal information
about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact
with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to
do their jobs.
- We have physical, electronic, and procedural
safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal
information about you.
- To learn more about security, including the
security steps we have taken and security steps you can take, please read Security
at Yahoo!.
Changes to this
Privacy Policy
- Yahoo! may update this policy. We will
notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal
information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in
your Yahoo! account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and
Suggestions
- Yahoo!
is TRUSTe-certified. This certification applies to all English-language
sites under the Yahoo.com domain. If you feel that your inquiry has not been
satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe,
an independent privacy organization. TRUSTe serves as a liaison with Yahoo!
to resolve your concern.
- If you have questions or suggestions, please
complete a feedback
form or you can contact us at:
Yahoo! Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
(408) 349-5070
Effective
Date: November 22, 2006