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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.
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 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.
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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
on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address,
Yahoo! cookie information, 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 that he or she have a parent or guardian create
a Yahoo! Family Account to obtain parental permission.
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Yahoo! will 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
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:
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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 on 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).
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
General
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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 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.
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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
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
(408) 349-5070
