Yahoo! Privacy and Cookie Policy

Yahoo! takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy and cookie policy.

What this Privacy and Cookie Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers Yahoo!'s treatment of personally identifiable information that Yahoo! collects and receives when you are on the Yahoo! site, and when you use Yahoo!'s services and personally identifiable information that Yahoo!'s business partners share with Yahoo!.
The policy also gives information about cookies; Yahoo! and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may disable such cookies.
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.
This privacy policy incorporates, where applicable, any additional guidance about our privacy practices relating to particular products or services that can be found under the section "More about Yahoo! Privacy" on the top left of this page.
Find out more information about Yahoo! data storage and data transfer .

Information Collection and Use

General

Yahoo! collects personally identifying information when you register for a Yahoo! account, when you use certain Yahoo! products or services, when you enter promotions or sweepstakes and when you visit Yahoo! pages or the pages of certain Yahoo! partners outside the branded Yahoo! network of websites.
When you register with Yahoo!, we ask for your name, email address, birth date, gender, post code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with Yahoo! and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
Yahoo! also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, Yahoo! cookie information and the page you requested.

Yahoo! uses information for the following general purposes: to personalise the advertising and content you see, based on the details given by you at registration and your activity at Yahoo!, fulfil your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Should you not wish to receive personalised advertisements while on the Yahoo network and/or on the Yahoo distribution network through which we distribute ads, you may need to disable cookies and/or opt out of off-network targeting. Please see section on Cookies below for more information. Please note, it is not possible to disable the cookie which is associated with your Yahoo account therefore, if you choose to log-in you may still see personalised ads.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Yahoo! will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.
Yahoo! may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:
- We have your consent to share the information;
- We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
- We need to assist merchants on Yahoo! Shopping/Kelkoo to track visits to and business at their stores;
- We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Yahoo! to provide a product or service to you; (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have any right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us.); or
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, or to any legitimate request by authorities with which we must comply.
- Yahoo! may transfer information about you if Yahoo! acquires, or 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! may set and access Yahoo! cookie on your computer.
Yahoo! allows other companies that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to 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 our cookies within our network of web sites, in connection with Yahoo! products and services and to track your activities on our advertisers websites.

To find out more about how we use cookies and how to disable cookies, click here.

Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences

Yahoo! gives you the ability to edit your Yahoo Account Information and preferences at any time, including whether you want Yahoo! to contact you about specials, new products and for customer feedback.
You may request deletion of your Yahoo! account by visiting our Account Deletion page, verifying your password once more and confirming your choice to terminate the account. Please click here to read about what information may possibly remain in our archived records after your account has been deleted.

Posting on publicly accessible areas

A publicly accessible area is any area of Yahoo! that is accessible by the general public and may be indexed by search engines.
Yahoo! offers you the opportunity to post, submit and exchange content and information on publicly accessible areas, such as Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Message Boards and Yahoo! Answers.
You should exercise caution if you choose to disclose personally identifiable information in a publicly accessible area. Remember that this information may remain indefinitely in the publicly accessible area of the Service. Also, depending on the particular Service, other users may also be able to view two or more of your individual postings collectively.
You are solely responsible for any personally identifiable information that you disclose and disseminate on publicly accessible areas.
If you have a concern about any personally identifiable information you have posted on any publicly accessible areas and are unable to delete or edit it, please refer your query to Customer Care.

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 our legal obligations 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 amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

Questions or Suggestions

If you have questions or suggestions complete a feedback form.
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.