How does Yahoo use your Yahoo Search and AOL Search data?

How do you manage your Yahoo Search and AOL Search data?

Visit your Search preferences to manage your Search experience, including safe search, and whether or not you see personalised Search results.

To see and manage what you’ve searched for in the past, visit your Search History:

Residents in Europe can request that certain URLs be blocked from Yahoo Search results in certain circumstances. You can submit your request here.

NOTE: if you wish to request that URLs be blocked from AOL Search results, you must contact Microsoft, via this form.
 

How does Yahoo share your Yahoo Search and AOL Search data?

To learn more about the data collection and use practices by these search partners, please visit Our Partners page.
 

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• You must be a logged-in, registered user to post a comment on user reviews. When you comment, your profile is linked to that content and your display name and profile photo are visible to other users.
• Comments that you post will be publicly displayed along with your Yahoo ID or chosen nickname, and your profile picture or avatar.
• You can also delete a comment that you have posted by selecting the ‘delete’ option next to the comment that you wish to remove.
• You can check your comments on the ‘My comments’ tab next to the commenting streams.
• If you do post comments or reviews, please use common sense and good judgment when posting or sharing your personal information with others. Be aware that any personal information you choose to submit can be read, collected, used by others or used to send unsolicited messages to you. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to post on our Products.

When you use OneSearch, we will use your data in accordance with the OneSearch Privacy Policy.

When you sign up for Subscription Products, you will be asked to provide your payment information. We will use this information to complete the transaction and activate your Subscription Product.

Yahoo takes your security seriously. We use industry-standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to encrypt the transmission of your payment information and other information used when ordering Subscription Products.

To view, edit or cancel your Subscription Products, please visit our Help Pages for more information.

How does Yahoo use your Media data?

• When you visit our Media Products, we collect your data, including:
  • information you provide to us directly
  • your browsing activity
  • your location
  • items you watched
  • items you like and follow
  • media you consume
  • searches you carry out
• We use this data to understand your interests and provide you with personalised ads, articles, videos and other content that we show you on our Products and Services.
• You can make suggestions and provide feedback in our Media Products. We will use this information to improve our Products.

How does Yahoo share your Media data?

• Comments you make in our Media Products are public and may include your name, nickname, avatar, image and/or contact information associated with your account.
• You may share articles, videos, and other content using our email or other social media sharing features. When using these features, your name, user profile/name, and/or email address may be visible to the recipient(s).
• When you complete a form to receive more information (for example, quotes, travel services, or real estate services) from our partners, your information will be shared with, or in some cases collected directly by, these partners as described on those forms. To learn how they use your information, please review their respective privacy policies. They are solely responsible for their use of this information.
• Some features on our Media Products are provided by Partners that collect information from our Media Products, or from services associated with our Products but hosted by the partner.
• We analyse and store information about the content you provide, such as photos, attachments and other communications. For example, when included as part of your images, we may collect information relating to your camera, camera settings or EXIF data. This information allows us to maintain our Products secure and improve their features and functionality.

How does Yahoo use your Yahoo Answers data?

Yahoo collects information about your activity in Yahoo Answers, including specific questions, answers, comments and votes. Some of the information we collect may constitute your personal information.

How does Yahoo share your Yahoo Answers data?

When you engage in certain activities on Yahoo Answers, for example, when you ask, answer or comment on message posts, these activities will automatically be assigned or linked to either your Yahoo User ID or any nickname you wish. Your activities will be tied to the name you select. You may change this name at any time and the name linked to all previous activity will be changed as well.

All questions, answers, and comments that you post can be viewed by anyone visiting the Yahoo Answers site or visiting partner sites that include Yahoo Answers content.

When enabling user-to-user emails in Yahoo Answers, your Yahoo User ID and email address are not shared.

You can post anonymously on Yahoo Answers and the posts will appear as anonymous to the public.  As noted above, we will automatically assign or link your post to your Yahoo User ID or your chosen nickname.  Yahoo will share Yahoo Answers content and associated IDs:

• to investigate, prevent, detect or prosecute criminal offences, infringement of our Terms of Service or violations of third parties’ rights
• to protect our users and their data
• to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims

How can you update or delete your Yahoo Answers data?

• You can see your activity and watchlist, edit your preferences, find your profile and change your settings using My activity.
• You can add details to or delete questions you’ve asked for as long as the question is open.
  • Once the question has been resolved, you cannot make changes or delete your content. However, if you asked the question, you can make yourself anonymous within the product settings.
• Questions, answers, comments or nicknames can be removed at any time by Yahoo  if we determine that they violate our Terms. 
  • If your account is deactivated, your content will remain (including photos and videos), but your nickname and profile picture will be anonymised. If you wish to have content removed, you will need to contact the Yahoo Customer Care team.

Yahoo Finance and AOL Finance offer a wide variety of financial resources, from live market coverage, to trading and stock quotes and personalised finance content and tools.

How does Yahoo share your Media data?

• Yahoo Finance and AOL Finance have relationships with partners who provide tools that are linked to these products. When you use these tools, our partners collect information from you directly.
• Yahoo Finance and AOL Finance have other partners with whom we share certain information collected from you, for example when you use tools such as mortgage calculators. We do not share information that, on its own, can be used to reasonably identify or contact you (such as your name or email address). We may share pseudonymous information, including demographic information.
• Yahoo is not responsible for the privacy policies of sites or tools that are linked from Yahoo Finance or AOL Finance.

How does Yahoo use your Yahoo Shopping data?

• We use your Yahoo Shopping queries and Yahoo Shopping browsing history to customise your experience and provide you with ads that may be of more interest to you. Visit Your Privacy Controls to learn more about your ability to manage your data.

How does Yahoo share your Yahoo Shopping data?

• When you make a purchase from a merchant listed on Yahoo Shopping, you are interacting directly with that merchant.
• Each merchant is solely responsible for its use of your personal and order information. Visit their privacy policies to learn how they use your personal information.

My Yahoo enables you to personalise the news feeds, articles and other web services that interest you. You must be a registered Yahoo user to customise My Yahoo.

How does Yahoo use your data when you use My Yahoo?

• My Yahoo modules allow you to interact with web services provided by Yahoo and third parties.
• When you use a module to access third-party services such as YouTube, Yahoo will collect information about how you interact with that module to improve My Yahoo and personalise your services. The provider of the third-party service may collect information based on your interaction, which collection and use is in accordance with its privacy policy.

How can you manage My Yahoo?

• You can remove a module by clicking the gear symbol in the bottom corner of the module and selecting ‘Remove’.

Yahoo Sports gives you access to coverage from major publishers in one single destination. We tackle sports from every angle, the raw emotion and what really makes players tick.

How does Yahoo use your Yahoo Sports data?

In season-long Fantasy sports leagues, your email address is visible to others in the league by default. You can change this setting in each league.