Please read this policy to understand what information Yahoo! (including Overture Services Australia Pty Ltd.) collects, how we use it, and what choices you have regarding the use and sharing of your information when using the Yahoo! Search Marketing (YSM) sites (the “Sites”). The Sites include sites that are branded "Yahoo! Search Marketing" including those at http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com.au For more information on Yahoo!'s other privacy policies please read the Yahoo! Privacy Policy.

What this policy covers
This policy covers business contact information, such as name, email address, telephone number and address and other work-related information, that visitors provide to YSM online on publicly available Sites (where advertiser login is not required). If you are a business enrolled in advertiser programs that are subject to the Advertiser Master Services Terms and Conditions, Insertion Order(s) or other advertising or marketing agreements (collectively, "Advertising Agreement"), please refer to your Advertising Agreement to learn more about how Yahoo! may use information about your business. The terms of such business agreements supersede the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

Types of information we collect and how we use it
The following describes what information Yahoo! collects from visitors to the Sites as well as outside the Yahoo! network of web sites, and how we may use it:

  1. Email addresses and related information
    There may be opportunities for visitors to the site to sign-up to receive email communications. Visitors may subscribe by providing an email address and other requested information. Recipients of email marketing messages will have the opportunity to unsubscribe from future messages via the link(s) provided within the message.
  2. Search
    The Yahoo! Search Marketing web sites offer web search functionality to visitors. Anonymous cookies are used on the site in connection with the search functionality.
  3. Cookies and web beacons on YSM websites
    Yahoo! accesses Yahoo! domain cookies and may use Yahoo! web beacons when you visit the sites or other sites on the Yahoo! domain. Yahoo! and certain partners working on behalf of Yahoo!, also use web beacons on the sites. Yahoo! may share site usage information about visitors to the Sites with third-party advertising companies for the purpose of targeting and measuring the effectiveness of our Internet advertisements on this site and other sites. For this purpose, Yahoo! and these third-party advertising companies note some of the pages you visit on our sites through the use of web beacons.

    The information collected by these third-party advertising companies through the use of these web beacons is not personally identifiable. For more information about our third-party advertisers, including how to opt out of their targeting programs, please visit their sites: Omniture (207.net), Doubleclick, Commission Junction and Performics. In addition to the above, Yahoo!'s email delivery vendor may employ web beacons and cookies within HTML email messages sent on our behalf and on the Sites. The use of cookies and web beacons described above help Yahoo! to measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use the Sites.
  4. YSM cookies and web beacons outside the Yahoo! network of web sites
    Yahoo! Search Marketing offers advertisers tools that allow them to better understand the performance of their online marketing campaigns. For more information about these tools and the web beacons and cookies used, please read the Yahoo! Search Marketing Tools Privacy Statement.
  5. Promotions and sweepstakes
    From time to time, Yahoo! may sponsor or host promotions and sweepstakes where we collect information. Use and sharing of this information will be disclosed in promotion and sweepstakes rules or on the page where you sign-up.
  6. IP addresses and information specific to your computer
    Yahoo! logs IP information when you visit our sites, including the Sites. In addition to this information, Yahoo! collects information that your computer's browser automatically reports to us such as information about your operating system and browser version.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
Yahoo! does not rent, sell or share personally identifiable information about visitors to the Sites. However, Yahoo! may share this information with selectedpartners, vendors, agents or others who work on our behalf, in order to provide products or services you've requested, or when we have your permission. In addition, Yahoo! may share 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! may (for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy) disclose information about you to its group companies or joint ventures worldwide including subsidiaries of Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! may (for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy) also transfer information about you to a jurisdiction, including the United States of America, which may not provide the same level of protection for that information as your jurisdiction. Although Yahoo! takes steps to protect information in its possession, the nature of the Internet is such that information may flow over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed and used by unauthorised persons. Please note that we may also share information in the event that we are asked to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims, or as otherwise permitted by law.

Other
Yahoo! may update this policy. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by placing a prominent notice on this site.

The Sites are not targeted at children and are not intended for use by children under the age of 13.

Yahoo! is not responsible for the practices or policies, or content, of web sites other than the Sites or other sites with the Yahoo! domain, including site which link from the Sites or other sites with a Yahoo! domain. The treatment of information by those other sites may not adhere to this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or about information which is held by us, please contact us at the following:

Yahoo! Search Marketing
Legal Department
Pier 8/9, 23 Hickson Road
Millers Point NSW 2000
Australia
Email: au-legalpoc@au.yahoo-inc.com

Effective Date: 24 January, 2006

Yahoo! Search Marketing Tools Privacy Statement

Yahoo! Search Marketing offers advertisers tools that allow them to better understand the performance of their online marketing campaigns. To use these tools, an advertiser adds Yahoo! Search Marketing Tools web beacons to their web sites. These web beacons are electronic files served by perf.overture.com that enable us to collect anonymous information from visitors to the advertiser's sites via cookies. These web beacons collect only anonymous non-personally identifiable information and the URL of the web page where the web beacon is located. We maintain data separately for each advertiser.

The data collected are used to create aggregate reports for our advertising clients. No individual level data is shared by Yahoo! Search Marketing with the advertiser and no such data is shared between different advertisers. For example, we can report to an advertiser that X% of the visitors to its web site had previously viewed an advertisement to its site, and that Y% of those visitors also successfully completed a registration or purchase process later during that same visit.

Except as noted in this privacy statement, information collected from online forms on advertiser web sites is not shared or passed to Yahoo! Search Marketing by our advertisers. Each advertiser is responsible for the privacy practices of its own web sites and we encourage you to read those policies to understand how each advertiser collects and uses information on its sites.

Opt-out
If you choose, you may opt-out from Yahoo! Search Marketing using information collected with web beacons and cookies outside of the Yahoo! network of web sites. Cookies will need to be enabled for the opt-out to function.

Note: This opt-out applies to a specific browser rather than a specific user. Therefore you will need to opt-out separately from each computer or browser that you use. Additionally, the opt-out only applies to cookies used by au.perf.overture.com and not all cookies set by au.overture.com.

For more information about how Yahoo! uses information supplied on Yahoo! Advertising Solutions web sites, please read the Yahoo! Advertising Solutions Privacy Policy.

For more information on Yahoo!'s other privacy policies that apply to subscribers and users of other Yahoo! products and services please read the Yahoo! Privacy Policy.