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Privacy Policy
Yahoo! Privacy Policy
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Yahoo! takes your privacy seriously. Please read the
following to learn more about our privacy policy. |
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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.
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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.
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Yahoo! participates in the
Information Collection and Use
General
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yahoo! automatically receives and records information from your
computer and browser, including your IP address, Yahoo! cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and
the page you request.
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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
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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.
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Yahoo! does not contact children under age 13 about special offers
or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.
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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
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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:
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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.
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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.
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We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to
establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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
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Yahoo! may set and access Yahoo! cookies on your computer.
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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.
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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
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You can edit your Yahoo! Account Information, including your marketing preferences, at any time.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Parents can review, edit, and delete information relating to their
child's Yahoo! account using tools offered by Yahoo! Family Accounts.
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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
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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.
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We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that
comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.
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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
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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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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.
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If you have questions or suggestions, please complete a feedback form or you can contact
us at:
Yahoo! Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
(408) 349-5070
Effective Date: November 22, 2006
