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Yahoo! Chat

Yahoo! Chat allows you to chat with people all over the world. In order to use Yahoo! Chat, you must be a registered Yahoo! user.

Information Collection and Use Practices

  • Using Yahoo! Chat, you have the ability to post personally identifiable information about yourself in a chat room.
  • During your participation in a chat session, your Yahoo! ID or alias that you are chatting under is visible to other users. An alias consists of a name and some information that you show in a profile to other chatters.
  • When a user clicks "Who's Online," they can view the information you entered into your profile.
  • Yahoo!'s practice is not to archive the contents of user-posts in chat rooms. Yahoo!'s practice is to archive the content of celebrity chats. For celebrity chats, only the questions and celebrity answers are archived.
  • Yahoo!'s practice is to not use any information submitted through Yahoo! Chat for any marketing purposes.

Information Sharing and Disclosure Practices

  • If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Practices Regarding Your Ability to Update or Delete Information

  • Once you have posted a message using Yahoo! Chat, it is not possible to edit or delete that message.

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