Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! Mail is a free web-based email service. In order to use Yahoo! Mail, you must be a registered Yahoo! user. This Privacy Policy applies to the newest version of Yahoo! Mail. To see the Privacy Policy for previous versions of Yahoo! Mail, please click here.
Information Collection and Usage Practices
- Premium services, such as Mail Plus, are available for a fee.
- When you sign up for premium services, you will be asked to enter your credit card information. Yahoo! takes your security seriously and takes reasonable steps to protect your information. We use industry-standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to encrypt the transmission of your credit card and other information used when ordering premium services.
- Billing
- To view, edit or cancel Yahoo! premium services that you have ordered, please visit Yahoo! Premium Services Account Information. It includes information about services to which you currently subscribe, payment scheduling and payment history.
Personally Relevant Experiences
- Yahoo! provides personally relevant product features, content, and advertising (not for BT Yahoo! users), and spam and malware detection by scanning and analysing Mail, Messenger, and other communications content. Some of these features and advertising will be based on our understanding of the content and meaning of your communications. For instance, we scan and analyse email messages to identify key elements of meaning and then categorise this information for immediate and future use.
- Please read our FAQ to learn more.
- This information may also be used for interest-based advertising (not for BT Yahoo! users). To learn more, you can visit Yahoo!’s control tool for interest-based advertising.
- Yahoo! Mail may include interactive mail features from 3rd parties as well. Your personally identifiable information is not directly shared with the 3rd party without your consent.
Message Search and Access
- Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger now share a common search platform. You may now elect to archive Yahoo! instant messages along with Yahoo! Mail messages and search them together (including Voice Mail, SMS, and more).
- Messages stored on Yahoo! servers in this manner are accessible from any computer system or device able to access Yahoo! Mail or the latest versions of Yahoo! Messenger.
- Yahoo! may scan and analyse instant messages you elect to archive in order to provide personally relevant product features, content, and advertising, and spam and malware detection.
Information Sharing and Disclosure Practices
- Yahoo! Mail includes IP addresses in outgoing mail message headers, as specified by standard Internet protocol.
- When users click on the Spam and Not Spam buttons, information is sent to Yahoo!'s anti-spam team or other spam compliance service providers for review, and aspects of these messages may be shared with the sender to reduce spam. See our spam FAQ for more information.
Practices Regarding Your Ability to Update or Delete Information
Other
This page describes current Yahoo! practices with respect to this particular service. This information may change as Yahoo! revises this service by adding or removing features or using different service providers. To find out how Yahoo! treats your personal information, please visit our Privacy Policy.
