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Perch Privacy Policy -Website/Yahoo! Geocities |
The following privacy policy is from
Yahoo!, the webspace provider of this website through it's Yahoo!
Geocities operations, and from Network 54, our forum provider.
To see the privacy statement for this
website, scroll down.
To see the privacy statement for the
forum, click here.
YAHOO PRIVACY POLICY
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, 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.
Information Collection and Use
General
- 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 may also ask for your address, Social Security
number, and information about your assets. Once 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 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
register with Yahoo!, we ask that he or she have a parent or guardian
create a
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 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 Yahoo! to collect and use their child's
information without consenting to Yahoo! sharing of this information
with 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.
- Yahoo! advertisers 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).
Cookies
- Yahoo! may set and access Yahoo!
cookies on your computer.
- Yahoo! lets
other companies that show advertisements on some of our 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
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.
- We reserve the right to send you
certain communications relating to the Yahoo! service, such as service
announcements, administrative messages and the Yahoo! Newsletter, that
are considered part of your Yahoo! account, without offering you the
opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.
- You can delete your 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 Yahoo! account using tools offered
by Yahoo! Family Accounts.
- If a parent chooses not to allow us to
further collect or use a child's information, parents enrolled in 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 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 Yahoo! Account Information is
password-protected.
- In certain areas Yahoo! uses
industry-standard SSLencryption 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 Yahoo! account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
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