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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
