Web Beacons

Webpages and HTML emails may contain a small snippet of code called a web beacon. In their simplest form, web beacons allow a website to transfer or collect information through a graphic image request. Websites may use web beacons and cookies for many purposes, including site usage analytics, advertising auditing and reporting, and content and advertising personalization.

Yahoo!’s Practices Regarding Web Beacons

Yahoo! may collect information through web beacons about your web browsing activities such as the address of the page you are visiting, the address of the referrer page you previously visited, the time you are viewing the page, your browsing environment and your display settings. We may use the information we collect through web beacons:

• To understand traffic patterns and the number of visitors to the branded Yahoo! network of websites, websites within the Yahoo! Network Plus, and other non-Yahoo! websites that we partner with.
• To understand how you use and interact with Yahoo! products and services.
• To improve Yahoo! products and services.
• To optimize your browsing experience.
• To provide anonymous individual and/or aggregate auditing, research, modeling and reporting for our advertisers and other partners. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with our advertisers and other partners as part of these services.
• To offer Yahoo! Web Analytics.
• To provide you relevant advertising and content.
• To determine which email messages sent by Yahoo!, or its agent, were opened and to note whether a message was acted upon.

Your Choices Regarding Yahoo!’s Use of Web Beacons

• If you would rather not receive interest-based advertising and content provided by Yahoo!, or to remove yourself from Yahoo!’s analytics services, please visit our opt-out tool.
• You can visit the Network Advertising Initiative to see other companies that offer opt outs and to use other tools to manage your opt-out choices.

Other Companies’ Web Beacons on Yahoo!

• In addition to Yahoo! using web beacons on our network of websites, we allow certain Third Parties to include their own web beacons within our webpages. These companies use of web beacons is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Yahoo! Privacy Policy.