YahooMail, which has now merged with AOL to form OATH, part of Verizon, can allow others, including and most likely, cyber criminals who are out to hack your digital life, to permanently have your yahoo email address; and there is nothing you can do about it. Except get off their service as quickly as possible or don’t start to use them in the first place

Even though Yahoo has now been merged they have kept the terms and conditions, which some on the internet have called a privacy nightmare, largely the same.

The first part is the same as all other FREE email and social media companies, and that is that everything you put, send or receive belongs to you, BUT, you grant them a sublicense to do with your data whatever they please.

The second part is more worrying and that is the fact that, if, for any reason, your account is terminated; including because you didn’t have enough activity on it for a given length of time, which remains unspecified in the terms and conditions, so as they determine it, then they can and will make your username (email address) available for anyone else to register.

If you don’t have enough activity on your account, like those who just use email occasionally or those who just use it for recovery purposes, e.g., you set it as the backup email account if you can’t get in to your Facebook, Twitter, Amazon account, etc.; then you risk having your account terminated and someone else registering it. A cybercriminal, who is sitting watching you and notices that your account has been terminated, can register that account and then reset all your passwords. Then you will lose access to your Twitter or Facebook account and in some cases your PayPal, Bank or Amazon account where your credit card numbers are stored. Now in some countries you may have some protection if this happens but in many you will not and even if you do they typically take around 3 to 6 months to give you any money back, not to mention the hassle of having to change your bank account and credit cards and re-setup your accounts. Avoid all of this and get yourself a proper email account. If you are paying for your email to a reputable company then there is little chance that they are going to use your information to make money (even free services are not free, you pay one way or another) and they are more likely to want to look after you as a client.

Below is the link to the OATH YahooMail Terms and Conditions in full. It has been said that they are the same ones for all their services, and that may be true, although they state there may be other policies, these are the ones that you agree to when you sign up for YahooMail, which is the subject of this article.

https://policies.oath.com/us/en/oath/terms/otos/index.html

And here are the bits we were talking about above:

Look at section 6b – What you give them:

IP Ownership and License Grant. Except as otherwise provided in the specific Oath product terms or guidelines for a Service, when you upload, share with or submit content to the Services you retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content and you grant Oath a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable license to (a) use, host, store, reproduce, modify, prepare derivative works (such as translations, adaptations, summaries or other changes), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, and distribute this content in any manner, mode of delivery or media now known or developed in the future; and (b) permit other users to access, reproduce, distribute, publicly display, prepare derivative works of, and publicly perform your content via the Services, as may be permitted by the functionality of those Services (e.g., for users to re-blog, re-post or download your content). In some of the Services, there may be specific terms or settings allowing a different scope of use of the content submitted in those Services. You must have the necessary rights to grant us the license described in this Section 6(b) for any content that you upload, share with or submit to the Services.

And Section 7d – What happens when your account is terminated:

Subject to any statutory rights you might have, if your account is terminated, access to your username, password and all related information, files and content associated with your account may be terminated and your username may be recycled for use by others. If the Service is a paid service, please consult Oath’s payment terms which can be found here.

One last important note; if you are reading this thinking well, luckily I use Gmail or Hotmail (LiveMail) or some other free email provider then remember this. They own the server, they own the domain name, and they can charge whatever they like, which may well be nothing at the moment. ALL of the social media and free email companies that we have looked at have similar terms and conditions as far as you Intellectual Property (IP) goes. They can always add the section that says they can reuse your email address if they choose to. They owe you nothing.

Stay Safe

CritchCorp Computers Ltd

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Chat Program Early Testing Phase Promotional Offer – FINISHED

Terms used

We will use the following terms in this document with their relevant values:

• Chat Program – This is the website chat program that we are using at the time you visit the website.
• Promotional Code – This is the code you received when you were in the chat session.
• Valid dates – This is the dates that the code will be valid, from 16th June 2018 until 31st July 2018; although we reserve the right to change the end date as needed.
• Trial Websites – These are the websites we are trialling the new chat software on, currently: cc-computers.com & yesDomains.co.uk, no other website or domain is valid.

What is it about?

We are trialling a new Chat Program on our Trial Websites and as a thank you for helping us to determine how good it is we will give qualifying visitors a Promotional Code.

What do you have to do?

We will offer to anyone who visits our Trial Websites, at a time when we are active on the Chat Program, engages with us for at least 2 minutes and actively communicates with at least 2 messages with replies, a Promotional Code.

When are you active in the Chat Program?

There are no set times or days when we will be active during the testing phase. It is mostly expected but not guaranteed that we will be there mostly during the day on working days; however we will also be doing test out of normal hours and at weekends. If you want to test out the chat program and get the free Promotional Code then you will need to visit the sites until you find we are online.

How do we use the Promotional Code?

To use the Promotional Code, go to www.cc-computers.com/shop or shop.cc-computers.com, which are the same place and select one of the qualifying products or services (see below) and then, when prompted enter the Promotional Code giving to via the chat program, if you have selected a product or service that is included it will tell you that it has been successfully applied otherwise it will tell you that it has been applied but no qualifying products were found.

What can the Promotional Code are used for

The Promotional Code can be used on yesDomains.co.uk to get 50% off any new webhosting product that is included (see below). This can be used only once per customer. It is available to new and existing customers on new orders only. It is valid for 50% off the first month only. Only once per customer and on only one new qualifying product or service.

What can I use the Promotional Code with (Included items)

• Any Feature Rich Hosting Account
• Just Email
• Cloud Services
• Weebly Website Builder products
• Generic CMS and Mobile Apps
• Any Less Spam account
• Any SiteLock product
• True Seal website seals (Including setup fees)
• Secure Online Backup
• Bundle Deals and Special Offers

What is not included (Excluded items)

• All Telephony products and services (Including, but not limited to: All PSTN, ISDN & SIP lines and related products and services)
• All Broadband and leased line products and services
• All fax to email products and services
• All SMS products and services
• All SSL (TLS) certificates and related products and services
• Dedicated server and Cloud (VPS) servers

We reserve the right to add or remove items from each list at any time without prior notice.

This offer is now finished.