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Privacy Policy for SBC Yahoo! Service Users
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Yahoo! takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn
more about our privacy policy.
NOTICE: Click
here for important information about safe surfing from the Federal
Trade Commission.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
- This policy covers how Yahoo! treats personal information
that Yahoo! collects and receives when you use the SBC Yahoo! service,
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.
- 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. In addition, certain Yahoo! associated companies such
as Inktomi, Overture,
and Altavista
have their own privacy statements which can be viewed by clicking on
the links.To learn more about SBC's treatment of personal information
please read the SBC
Privacy Policy.
Information Collection and Use
General
- Yahoo! collects personal information when you establish an
SBC Yahoo! account, when you use SBC
Yahoo! products or services, when you visit SBC Yahoo! pages or the
pages of certain 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.
- 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 create an SBC Yahoo! account and sign in to
our services, you are not anonymous to us.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- When a child under age 13 attempts to create an SBC Yahoo!
account, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian create a SBC Yahoo! Family Account
to obtain parental permission.
- Yahoo! will not contact children under age 13 about special
offers or for marketing purposes without a parent's permission.
- 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 collected in connection with your use of the SBC Yahoo!
service 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:
- 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.
- 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 SBC and Yahoo! to jointly collect and use their child's
information without consenting to the sharing of this information with
other people and companies who may use this information for their own
purposes;
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal
process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against
legal claims;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Advertisers on the SBC Yahoo! site 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).
- Yahoo! works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other
service providers in different industries and categories of business.
For more information regarding providers of products or services that
you've requested please read our detailed reference links.
Cookies
- Yahoo! may set and access Yahoo! cookies on your computer.
- Yahoo! lets
other companies that show advertisements on some SBC Yahoo! 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.
- 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
- You can edit your
SBC Yahoo! Account Information, including your
marketing preferences, at any time.
- 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.
- Yahoo! reserves the right to send you certain
communications from Yahoo! relating to the SBC Yahoo! service, such as
service announcements, administrative messages and the SBC Yahoo!
Newsletter, that are considered part of your SBC Yahoo! account,
without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
- You can delete your SBC 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
- Parents can review, edit, and delete information relating
to their child's SBC Yahoo! account using tools offered by SBC Yahoo!
Family Accounts.
- If a parent chooses not to allow us to further collect or
use a child's information, parents enrolled in SBC 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
- We limit access to personal information about you to SBC
and Yahoo! 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 federal regulations to protect personal information
about you.
- Your SBC Yahoo! Account Information is password-protected.
- In certain areas Yahoo! uses industry-standard SSL
encryption to protect data transmissions.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
- 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 SBC Yahoo!
account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Questions and Suggestions
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