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Yahoo! Ad Network

  • Ad network or exchange
  • Publisher

"Yahoo! Inc. (www.yahoo.com) is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Please visit the Yahoo! Privacy Center to learn more about Yahoo!'s commitment to privacy across its diverse products and services."

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Domains

  • adrevolver.com
  • bluelithium.com
  • dapper.net
  • flickr.com
  • overture.com
  • yahoo.com
  • yimg.com

Data Collection

    • Browser cookies
    • IP addresses
    • Flash cookies

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Industry affiliations and oversight

Opt Out

  • This company offers an opt out (not verified to stop tracking)
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Do Not Track

  • This company does not honor Do Not Track

Policies

http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/

  • Anonymity
  • You may not be anonymous (identity and activities may be connected)
"Yahoo! collects personal information when you register with Yahoo!, when you use Yahoo! products or services, when you visit Yahoo! pages or the pages of certain Yahoo! 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 might also ask for your address, Social Security number, and information about your assets. When you register with Yahoo! 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 from your computer and browser, including your IP address, Yahoo! cookie information, software and hardware attributes, 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."

  • Sharing
  • Any info may be shared subject to confidentiality agreements
"Yahoo! does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated 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.

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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."

  • Boundaries
  • No use of gov't IDs, financial and insurance numbers, current location or health info
As an NAI member, this network has agreed to obtain consumer consent before using:

- Social Security Numbers or other Government-issued identifiers
- Insurance plan numbers
- Financial account numbers
- Information that describes the precise real-time geographic location of an individual derived through location-based services such as through GPS-enabled devices
- Precise information about past, present, or potential future health or medical conditions or treatments, including genetic, genomic, and family medical history

(2008 NAI Principles)

  • Deletion
  • No deletion requirement
Privacy statement does not state if or when information is deleted. As an NAI member, this network has agreed "to retain data collected and used for [advertising] activities only as long as necessary to fulfill a legitimate business need, or as required by law." (2008 NAI Principles)

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