Yahoo! Auctions
Yahoo! Auctions
Yahoo! Auctions is an online auction service that provides a marketplace for buyers and sellers to find one another and conduct business. In order to bid on or sell merchandise using Yahoo! Auctions, you must be a registered Yahoo! user.
Information Collection and Use Practices
- The first time you place an item up for bid as a seller, or when you engage in multiple auctions as a bidder, Yahoo! will ask you to verify your Yahoo! account with a credit card. In addition to your credit card information, Yahoo! asks for your name, email address, and zip code. You will not be charged a fee for this verification.
- All sellers are required to verify their credit card by signing up for a Yahoo! Wallet. Yahoo! uses this information to help prevent misuse of Yahoo! Auctions.
- The credit card stored in your Yahoo! Wallet is used to bill you on a monthly basis for any applicable listing fees, and we reserve the right to bill your credit card when your account total reaches $100.
- When you bid on an item on Yahoo! Auctions, you must enter the amount of your bid and your password. This bid will be publicly available in the auction bid history along with your Yahoo! ID or alias that you are bidding under.
- In the Question & Answer section of each auction, bidders can submit questions for the seller. These questions, the answers, and your Yahoo! ID or alias will be visible to the public.
- When an auction has successfully closed, buyers and sellers are invited to rate one another. All ratings for a buyer or seller are publicly displayed under the "Ratings" tab of a user's Auction Profile. Both parties (the party that was rated as well as the party that did the rating) are identified with their Yahoo! IDs and with a link to the auction that they transacted within the rating itself.
- If you file a claim, we ask you to fill out a complaint form that asks for information including your name, address, and email address. We use this information to send you and the seller involved in the claim an email encouraging each party to resolve the dispute. The email will contain a link to the complaint that you file. We populate the seller's Yahoo! ID and email address into the complaint form and the seller is responsible for forwarding this information to cynoSure Financial Inc. We also store this information for you so that you may access your claim and send it to cynoSure Financial Inc. in the event that you escalate your claim.
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The Neighborhood Watch feature allows users to voice opinions about auctions that do not belong on our auction site. We use this information to decide which auctions should be removed. When you submit a Neighborhood Watch report, we ask for your Yahoo! ID. This information is not visible to the public.
- When you create an Auctions Alert, Yahoo! asks you to define what you wish to be alerted about (bids, new auctions in certain categories, etc.) and asks for an email address where your alert should be sent. You can modify or delete alerts at any time from the alerts section of Yahoo! Auctions or from Yahoo! Alerts.
- When you use the "Email to a Friend" link, Yahoo! will prefill a form with the name and email address we have for you in our records. You enter the email address for the person you want to receive the notice. Yahoo! will use that email address to transmit your message and not for any marketing purpose.
- When you submit a testimonial about your experience on Yahoo! Auctions, we will ask for your name, email address, Yahoo! ID, and information about your experience. If you indicate that we may quote you, your name and experience may be shared with others, and you may be contacted about your experience.
Information Sharing and Disclosure Practices
- When an auction has been completed, Yahoo! will transmit the contact information of the winning bidder to the seller and vice versa so that the parties can complete the transaction.
- If you are involved in a claim, Yahoo! may share certain personal information and transactional information with cynoSure Financial Inc. in order to help facilitate the investigation and resolution of the claim. cynoSure Financial Inc. may only use this information to process claims and may not use this information for any other purpose.
Practices Regarding Your Ability to Update or Delete Information
- You can edit or delete your Auction settings by clicking on the "Options" link within Yahoo! Auctions.
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This page describes current Yahoo! practices with respect to this particular service. This information may change as Yahoo! revises this service by adding or removing features or using different service providers. To find out how Yahoo! treats your personal information, please visit our Privacy Policy.
