You are responsible for account activity; forgotten-password data may be lost
You are responsible for all activity on or through your account and are told to keep your password confidential and not reuse it with other services. Without prejudice to statutory rights, if you forget your password and cannot otherwise validate your account to Yahoo, you acknowledge the account may be inaccessible and its data may not be retrievable.
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You are responsible for all activity that happens on or through your account. To protect your account, keep your password confidential. Do not reuse your account password with other services. Without prejudice to your statutory rights, if you forget your password and otherwise cannot validate your account to Yahoo, you acknowledge and agree that your account may be inaccessible to you and that all data associated with the account may not be retrievable.
data: identifiers · purpose: security
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Yahoo disclaims any guarantee of data security, reliability or fitness
Yahoo says no data transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be secure and expressly disclaims warranties to that effect. It also makes no commitments about the content within or linked from the Services, support, specific functions, security, reliability, quality, accuracy, availability or ability to meet your needs.
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YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT NO DATA TRANSMISSION OVER THE INTERNET OR INFORMATION STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CAN BE GUARANTEED TO BE SECURE, AND WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THAT EFFECT. WE MAKE NO COMMITMENTS, PROMISES OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES OR CONTENT LINKED FROM THE SERVICES, THE SUPPORT WE PROVIDE FOR THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF THE SERVICES, THE SECURITY OF THE SERVICES, OR THE SERVICES’ RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS, PROVIDE CERTAIN OUTPUTS OR ACHIEVE CERTAIN RESULTS.
purpose: security
Security & Safeguards · Permission or license
Yahoo may run small test charges on your card to check it for fraud
Yahoo may take steps to verify the validity of credit card information you provide, including debiting amounts less than $1.00 (or the local-currency equivalent) and immediately crediting them back. You authorize it to do so for verification and anti-fraud purposes.
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We may take steps to verify the validity of the credit card information you provide to us, including debiting amounts less than $1.00 (or equivalent depending on your local currency) from your credit card and then immediately crediting it back. You authorize us to do so for verification and anti-fraud purposes.
data: payment · purpose: security
Security & Safeguards · Company practice
EU Digital Services Act: restrictions Yahoo may apply to Search, comments, Mail
To meet the EU Digital Services Act, Yahoo describes restrictions it may impose on certain Services for users in the EU, to address illegal content or content violating its Community Guidelines. For Yahoo Search these include algorithmic restriction of adult or illegal content, dereferencing results under EU privacy law, inserting warning labels and law-enforcement contact information to dissuade engagement with illegal or harmful content, human review of blocked autocomplete suggestions, and referring illegal-content complaints to Microsoft Bing. For user comments they include human review and removal, disabling the comment function for repeated violations, and algorithmic detection. For Mail they include action on notices about illegal or violating email content and terminating accounts after human review for repeated violations or security compromise. For all Services it includes acting on EU Member State authorities’ removal orders.
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The EU Digital Services Act (‘DSA’) requires us to provide users in the European Union with details of any restrictions we may impose on the use of certain Services. These restrictions enable us to take action to address content on our Services that is illegal and/or in violation of our Community Guidelines.
Use of algorithmic tools to restrict the visibility of search results containing adult content in certain cases, including where users are identified as under 18 years;
Use of algorithmic tools to restrict the visibility of search results containing illegal content;
Dereferencing of search results in order to uphold an individual’s rights under EU privacy law (known as the ‘Right To Be Forgotten’);
Use of algorithmic tools to insert additional content within certain search results, including warning labels and law enforcement contact information, to dissuade a user from engaging with illegal and harmful content;
Use of human review to block the display of certain suggested search terms to ‘autocomplete’ a user’s typed-in query where the suggested search terms would contain prohibited words or phrases in violation of Yahoo’s Community Guidelines; and
Referring complaints about illegal search content to Microsoft Bing, the search engine that generates Yahoo’s general algorithmic and advertising search results.
Taking action in response to notices from individuals or entities about user comments on our Services that are illegal or in violation of our Community Guidelines, including using human review to restrict visibility of or remove user comments, and disabling access to the user comments function on our Services for repeated violations; and
Using algorithmic tools to detect, identify and address content contained in user comments on our Services that is illegal or in violation of our Community Guidelines.
Taking action in response to notices from individuals or entities about email content on the Services that is illegal or in violation of our Community Guidelines, including terminating an individual’s email account after their account has been used for repeated violations following human review; and
Taking action in response to credible reports that an email account or accounts are being used in a way that compromises the security of our Services (including email accounts associated with spam, scam advertisements, ransomware and malware), including terminating email accounts following human review.
Taking action in response to EU Member State authorities’ orders to remove illegal content.
Qualifications & exceptions
Stated for users in the European Union; the text says the DSA requires these details for EU users.