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Yahoo! takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to
learn more about our privacy policy.
NOTICE:
Click here for important information about safe surfing from
the Federal Trade Commission.
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, certain Yahoo! associated companies such as
Inktomi,
Overture, and
Altavista
have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by
clicking on the links.
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
may also ask for your address, Social Security number, and
information about your assets. Once 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 that he or
she have a parent or guardian create a
Yahoo! Family Account to obtain parental permission.
- Yahoo! will
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 nonaffiliated 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 on 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
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 may 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
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